DAILY GK 16-17 AUG 2020
1. DEF MINISTER RAJNATH SINGH LAUNCHED
INDIGENISATION PORTAL SRIJAN
·
Final
day of Atma Nirbhar Week celebration (Atmanirbharta Saptah) between August
7-14, 2020 of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and to boost Atmanirbhar Bharat
Abhiyan (self-reliant India movement), Union Defence Minister (Raksha Mantri)
Rajnath Singh virtually launched Department of Defence Production (DPP)
portal SRIJAN as a part of “opportunities for Make in India in
Defence”.
·
This
portal provides information about defence equipment and items which are being
imported currently or are going to be imported by the Defence Public Sector
Undertakings (DPSUs)/Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)/ Service Headquarters (SHQs)
so that they can be taken up for indigenisation by Indian companies that can
design, develop and manufacture as per their capability or through joint
venture with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
2. EU
LAUNCHES NIRMANSHREE
·
European
Union has launched project ’Nirmanshree’ for enhancing the women skill towards
housing construction sector. This is the first-of-its-kind sustainable housing
on a large scale in India with 1-million-euro.
·
The
project will be implemented in Beed and Osmanabad districts of Maharashtra and
the Dhenkanal and Jajpur districts of Odisha.
3. RBI’s DIVIDEND OF RS 57,128 CRORE TO
CENTRAL GOVT
·
The
584th meeting of the Central Board of RBI under
the Chairmanship of Governor Shaktikanta Das approved the
transfer of Rs 57,128 crore in surplus as dividend to
the Central government for the accounting year 2019-20.
·
The
board decided to maintain the Contingency Risk Buffer at 5.5%.
·
RBI
in 2019 had transferred a record payment of Rs 1.76 lakh crore(trillion) which
included Rs 1.23 lakh crore as dividend and about Rs 52,637 crore of
excess provisions identified as per the revised Economic Capital Framework
(ECF).
4. ‘SARABHAI CRATER’ AFTER VIKRAM
SARABHAI
·
Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced that
Chandrayaan-2 has captured images of the Moon by Terrain Mapping Camera – 2
(TMC-2) and named one of the craters as ‘Sarabhai Crater’ after
Indian astrophysicist Dr. Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai.
·
Vikram
Ambalal Sarabhai’s 100th birth century was observed on 12th of August,
2020.
·
Also Indian
Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru & ISRO developed
a sustainable process for making brick-like structures named “Space
Bricks” on the surface of the moon.
·
The
process uses the lunar soil, bacteria and guar beans to make the space brick.
5. BOOK “A BEND IN TIME: WRITINGS BY
CHILDREN ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC”
·
A
book titled “A Bend in Time : Writings by Children on the COVID 19 Pandemic”
was released in July 2020, the introduction of which is written by
award-winning children’s author Bijal Vachharajani.
·
The
book is published by Talking Cub (children’s imprint of
Speaking Tiger).The book showcased the emotions and thoughts of children and
young adults, from across the country and social groups, about the greatest
global crisis in recent times: the COVID-19 pandemic.
