DAILY GK 20,21 MAY
1.
POP-UP AIRPORT AIR ONE – WORLD’S FIRST AIRPORT FOR DRONES
& FLYING CARS OPENED IN UK
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The Coventry City
Council and Urban-Air Port Limited, United Kingdom (UK) based Start-up
parterened to set up the world’s first Urban airport Pop-up Air-One, for
electric drones and flying cars in the city of Coventry, England.
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The Pop up Air-One
airport is designed to be fully autonomous and to integrate with electric
vehicles to create a completely sustainable public transport network.
2.
INDIAN NAVY & DRDO SUCCESSFULLY TEST-FIRES FIRST NAVAL
ANTI-SHIP MISSILE
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The Indian Navy in
association with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
successfully test fired the first indigenously developed air launched Naval
Anti-ship missile from a Seaking 42B Helicopter at the Integrated Test Range
(ITR) in Balasore, Odisha.
3.
HANSA-NG – INDIA’S FIRST INDIGENOUS TRAINER AIRCRAFT
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The Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL)
designed and developed, ‘HANSA-NG’ the new generation two seater flying trainer
aircraft was successfully completed in-flight engine relight test
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Test held at the
Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) facility of Defence Research Development
Organisation (DRDO) at Challakere, Chitradurga district of Karnataka.
4.
GLOBAL FOOD POLICY REPORT (GFPR)2022
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The International Food
Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) released ‘Global Food Policy Report (GFPR)2022- Climate Change & Food
Systems’ stating the number of Indians at risk from hunger is expected to be
73.9 million by 2030 i.e. an increase by 23%; and 45 million by 2050.
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With Climate Change
(CC) effect, this number will change to 90.6 million in 2030, and 44.9 in 2050.
5.
NATGEO INSTALLED WORLD’S HIGHEST WEATHER STATION ON MT.
EVEREST
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The National Geographic
Society has installed the ‘World’s highest weather station’ on Mount Everest at
an altitude of 8,830 metres to automatically measure various meteorological
phenomena. It was installed a few metres below the Summit point of 8,848.86
metres as the snow and ice on the summit are not suitable for fixing the
equipment.
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NatGeo Installed the
World’s Highest Weather Station on Mt. Everest.The weather station is powered by Solar energy.
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China has flown an
airship named Jimu No.1 over Mt Everest at a record height of 9,032 metres in
order to study the Atmospheric Composition Data and the Water vapour
transporting process from the surface.
6.
WORLD METROLOGY DAY 2022 – 20TH MAY
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World Metrology Day (WMD)
is annually observed across the globe on 20th May to create awareness
about the Metrology, the science of measurement and its application. The day
highlights the use of Metrology in scientific fields, innovation, industries,
trading and other fields.
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The theme for World Metrology Day 2022 is “Metrology in the
Digital Era”
