DAILY GK: 11 SEP 2021
1.NIRF
RANKINGS 2021 FOR HEIS
• Union
Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Ministry of Education (MoE) released the 6th NIRF
(National Institutional Ranking Framework) Rankings 2021 of Higher Educational
Institutes (HEIs) of India in 11 categories from New Delhi.
• The
ranking has been topped by IIT Madras, Tamil Nadu in the overall category which
is followed by IISc Bengaluru, Karnataka at 2nd and IIT Bombay, Maharashtra at
3rdplace.
• All
India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi retains top slot in
Medical for the 4th consecutive year.
2.‘MAIN
BHI DIGITAL 3.0’ CAMPAIGN
• Ministry
of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in association with the Ministry of
Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) launched the “Main Bhi Digital
3.0” -A special Campaign for Digital Onboarding and Training for street vendors
under Pradhan Mantri Street Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme on
the pitot based in 223 cities in the country.
3.INDIA
PARTICIPATED IN A MILITARY EXERCISE ZAPAD 2021
• 14
days long, Russia’s Multi Nation Exercise Zapad 2021 is conducting from 3rd to
16th September at Nizhniy in Russia.
• Indian
Army took part in ‘ZAPAD 2021’ with 200 personnel mainly from the Naga Regiment
participated as an all ‘Arms Combined Task Force’ for the exercise, which is
one of the theatre levels exercises of the Russian armed forces.
4.ONEWEB
& HUGHES NETWORK SYSTEM SIGNED MOU
• Bharti
group backed OneWeb and United States (US) company Hughes Network System has
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a collectively hosted session at
Satellite 2021 in Maryland, US for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service in
US and India.
• It
is a strategic agreement for distributing satellite service networks in India
to large enterprises, small and medium businesses, government, telecoms and
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the rural and remote parts of the country.
5.GOVERNORS
OF PUNJAB, TAMIL NADU, NAGALAND AND UTTARAKHAND APPOINTED
• Ram
Nath Kovind, President of India has appointed new governors for 4 states –
Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Nagaland and Uttarakhand.
• The
following appointments will take effect from the date they assume changes in
their respective offices.
• Banwarilal
Purohit, Governor of Tamil Nadu who has been holding the additional charge of
Governor of Punjab has been appointed as regular Governor of Punjab.
• Ravindra
Narayan Ravi (RN Ravi), Governor of Nagaland has been appointed as the Governor
of Tamil Nadu.
• Prof.
Jagdish Mukhi, Governor of Assam, has been given additional charge to discharge
the functions of the Governor of Nagaland in addition to his duties until
regular arrangements are made.
• Lieutenant
General (retired) Gurmit Singh, former Deputy Chief of Army Staff has been
appointed Governor of Uttarakhand.
6.DRDO
HANDED OVER MRSAM TO IAF
• Defence
Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) handed over the first deliverable
Firing Unit (FU) of Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM)/”Barak-8″
System to Indian Air Force (IAF) at Air Force Station, Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.
• MRSAM
(IAF) is an advanced network centric combat Air Defence System developed by
DRDO in collaboration with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and PPP (Public
Private Partnership) in Indian industry.
• The
Union Ministers Rajnath Singh and Nitin Jairam Gadkari inaugurated a 3-km
emergency landing strip or Emergency Landing Facility (ELF) at Satta-Gandhav
stretch on National Highway 925 in Barmer, Rajasthan for IAF planes.
• NH-925
is India’s first national highway to be used as ELF of IAF aircraft.
7.‘ORCA’-
WORLD’S LARGEST PLANT CAPTURING CARBON DIOXIDE FROM AIR
• The
World’s Largest Plant to Capture Carbon Dioxide(CO2) from air, ‘Orca’ Starts
Operating in Iceland.
• The
Plant will suck in CO2 and store it underground in the form of rock.
• It
was started by a Swiss startup Climeworks AG in partnership with Icelandic
carbon storage firm Carbfix.
• The
plant can capture up to 4,000 tons of CO2 per year.
8.WORLD
SUICIDE PREVENTION DAY 2021 – SEPTEMBER 10
• World
Suicide Prevention Day(WSPD) is annually observed across the globe on September
10th to create awareness about suicide prevention across the world.
• The
day also aims to address self-harm and suicide through preventative action.
• The
theme of WSPD 2021 is “Creating hope through action”, a reminder that there is
an alternative to suicide and aims to inspire confidence and hope in everyone.
