DAILY GK : 9 FEB 2021
1. INDIA’S 1ST EVER
GEOTHERMAL PROJECT
• UT Administration of Ladakh, Ladakh
Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC)-Leh and Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation (ONGC) Energy Centre have signed a MoU to establish India’s 1st
ever Geothermal Field Development Project in Puga Village of Eastern Ladakh (UT
Ladakh).
• ONGC Energy Centre will be the
implementing agency of the project.
• Puga shows geothermal activity in the form
of hot springs, mud pools, sulphur and borax deposits.
2. POSTAGE STAMPS ON
DIAMOND JUBILEE OF GUJARAT HIGH COURT
• PM Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the
event organised to mark the Diamond Jubilee of the Gujarat High Court and
unveiled the commemorative Postage Stamps to mark the completion of 60 years of
establishment of the High Court of Gujarat on May 1 2020.
• The event which was scheduled to take
place in 2020 was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. AEPL ENTERS INTO A
FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH MIG
• Aviatech Enterprises Pvt Ltd (AEPL), a
Crown group company entered into a ‘framework agreement’ with Russian Aircraft
Corporation MiG, where AEPL will be the
in-country authorised partner for RAC MiG to provide post-warranty product
support to Mikoyan-Gurevich(MiG)-29K and
MiG-29KUB fighter jets, associated systems,
Ground Support Equipment (GSE) and Special to Type Test Equipment (STTE)
in the inventory of the Indian .
• Currently Indian Navy has around 40
MiG-29K (single seat) and MiG-29KUB (double seat) aircraft in its fleet.
4. INDIA’S NOMINAL GDP
GROWTH TO RISE TO 17% IN FY22: MOODY’S
• Moody’s in its report titled ‘Government
Policy – India: Budget provides broad support; fiscal consolidation prospects
still weak’ has increased India’s nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth
at 17% for FY 22 from earlier 14.3%.
• This forecast is higher than 14.4% estimated in the Union
Budget 2021-22.
5. NEW ACTING CHIEF OF
CBI
• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Praveen Sinha, 1988 batch
IPS officer of Gujarat Cadre, currently serving as the Additional Director of
Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI), as the acting Chief of CBI.
• He succeeds Rishi Kumar Sukla who retires
on 3rd February 2021 after a 2-year stint.
• CBI was established as The Special Police
Establishment (SPE) in 1941, it was renamed as Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI)
in 1963.
6. BELLATRIX AEROSPACE
IS BUILDING A ‘SPACE TAXI’ FOR SATELLITES
• In a reforming development, the Bengaluru,
Karnataka based Bellatrix Aerospace is building a vehicle that will work as a
“taxi in space” to ferry small satellites into multiple orbits.
• It will be big development for global
operators to reduce time and costs.
• The space startup’s vehicle is expected to
launch to low earth orbit in 2023 on the Vikram rocket of Skyroot Aerospace, a
Hyderabad-based rocket startup.
7. BOOK TITLED, ‘BY
MANY A HAPPY ACCIDENT: RECOLLECTIONS OF A LIFE’
• Former Vice President of India Mohammad
Hamid Ansari has authored a book titled ‘By Many a Happy Accident:
Recollections of a Life’.
• The book is published by Rupa
Publications.
• It describes the unplanned happenings that
took place in the life of M. Hamid that
changed his way from his deferred fancy for academia to professional diplomacy
and then co-opted in public life and became the Vice President of India for 2
consecutive terms.
