DAILY GK: 26 JUNE 2021
1.GOA
BECOMES FIRST RABIES-FREE STATE IN INDIA
• Goa
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant announced that Goa became the First Rabies-Free
State in India as it has not reported a single rabies case in the last three
years.
• A
central government grant project, “Mission Rabies” played a major role in
control of rabies.
2.RELIANCE
INDUSTRIES MEETING HELD VIRTUALLY
• The
44th Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2021
of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India’s largest company by market capitalization
was conducted virtually.
• During
the event, RIL made several key announcements they are:
• RIL
to invest INR 75,000 in Clean Energy Business
• Reliance
Jio to partner with Google Cloud to launch 5G services in India
• Chairman
of Saudi Aramco Yasir Al-Rumayyan to join RIL Board as Independent Director
• RIL
is set to invest in setting up India’s 1st Carbon Fibre manufacturing unit
3.MEETING
OF SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARIES OF SCO
• India’s
National Security Advisor (NSA) attended the 16th meeting of Security Council
Secretaries of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) held at Dushanbe,
Capital of Tajikistan.
• The
meeting was chaired by Tajikistan (Chairmanship of SCO in 2021).
• India
proposed an action plan against Pakistan-based Terrorist groups as part of the
SCO Framework.
4.IIM
BANGALORE RANKED BEST IN INDIA
• The
Post Graduate Programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) of the Indian
Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) ranked the best in India in the ‘QS
Executive MBA Rankings 2021’ of QuacquarelliSymonds(QS).
• Globally,
it holds the 39th spot, became the only Indian institute to feature in the list
of the top 100. In the Asia-Pacific category, IIMB holds the 10th spot, leading
the B-school brigade from India.
5.
INDIA’S BANK CREDIT-TO-GDP RATIO INCREASED TO 56.075% IN 2020
• As
per the data of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the bank
credit-to-GDP ratio of India in 2020 rose to a 5-year high of about 56.075
percent (whereas in 2016 the ratio was at 59 percent)
• The
incremental credit growth in FY21 was about 5.56 percent (at Rs 109.51 lakh
crore), which was the lowest recorded growth in 59 years (whereas in FY 1962 it
was at 5.38 percent), in FY20, credit growth was at a 58-year-low at 6.14
percent.
• The
total outstanding bank credit in 2020 stood at $1.52 trillion.
6.WORLD
BANK APPROVED $125 MILLION PROGRAM TO SUPPORT KERALA
• The
World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a $125 million program
under the ‘Resilient Kerala Program’ to support Kerala’s preparedness against
natural disasters, climate change impacts, and COVID-19.
• Resilient
Kerala Program is a part of a programmatic series of World Bank-financed
operations in the state.
• At
the heavy monsoons of 2018, One-sixth of the state’s population – about 5.4
million people – were affected while 1.4 million were displaced, especially in
the Pamba River Basin.
7.DRDO
SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FIRES ‘NIRBHAY’
• Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired the
nuclear capable subsonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ from the Integrated Test
Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Odisha.
• It
is India’s 1st indigenously developed cruise missile.
• ‘Nirbhay’
is designed and developed in India by the Aeronautical Development
Establishment (ADE) which comes under DRDO.
• The
Missile has a range of 1000 kms and is capable of reaching speeds of 0.6 – 0.7
Mach.
8.WORLD’S
FIRST GENETICALLY MODIFIED RUBBER PLANTED IN ASSAM
• World’s
first genetically modified (GM) rubber sapling was planted at the Rubber
board’s Sarutari research farm on the outskirts of Guwahati, Assam.
• It
is developed by the Kerala-based Rubber Research Institute of India (RRII),
under the Rubber Board through long years of research in its Biotechnology
laboratory.
9.WORLD
VITILIGO DAY 2021 – 25TH JUNE
• The
World VitiligoDay(WVD) also known as the Vitiligo Awareness Day is annually
observed across the globe on 25th June to create awareness about Vitiligo, a
rare skin disease that affects around 1 to 2 % of the global population.
• The
day also marks the death anniversary of American singer Michael Jackson, “King
of Pop”, who was also diagnosed with vitiligo.
• Michael
Jackson passed away on 25th June 2009.
• Every
year the WVD is hosted by a different city and the 2021 World Vitiligo Day is
hosted by Jakarta, Indonesia which will act as the 2021 Campaign headquarters.
10.TRITON
ELECTRIC VEHICLE TO SET UP MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN TELANGANA
• US-based
electric vehicles major Triton Electric Vehicle Pvt. Ltd has entered into a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Telangana government for setting up
of a manufacturing unit for electric vehicles in Zaheerabad,Telangana.
