DAILY GK: 1 MAR 2021
1.INDIA TO RECONSTRUCT
25 HEALTH POSTS IN NEPAL
• India signed 4 Memorandum of
Understanding(MoU) with Nepal to reconstruct 25 health post in Dhading district
and Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal at a cost of Nepali Rupees(NRs) 530
million(About Rs.33 Crore).
• The Central Building Research Institute
(CBRI)-Roorkee, a premier institute of India in the field of
earthquake-resilient reconstruction will provide technical assistance for the
reconstruction.
2.FINO PAYMENTS BANK
BECAME SCHEDULED COMMERCIAL BANK
• Reserve Bank of India(RBI) announced that
Fino Payments Bank Limited has been included in the Second Schedule to the RBI
Act, 1934.
• With this inclusion, Fino Payments bank gets
the status of scheduled commercial bank.
3.FIRST HEALTH
INSURANCE PLAN WITH UPTO 100% PREMIUM RETURNS
• Aditya Birla Health Insurance Company
Limited (ABHICL), Health Insurance
subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited, has announced India’s first initiatives
of upto 100% health insurance premium returns and other products with upgrades
under the new version of its Flagship product ‘Activ Health Policy’.
4.RUPEE CO-OPERATIVE
BANK BANKING LICENSE EXTENDED
• Reserve Bank of India(RBI) extended banking
license to Rupee Co-operative Bank Ltd., Pune, Maharashtra till May 31, 2021.
• The co-operative bank was placed under the
directions of RBI from the close of business on February 22, 2013.
• Lastly, the validity of the direction was
extended till February 28, 2021
5.FRANCE’S 1ST
HYDROGEN-BASED STEEL MAKING PLANT
• United Kingdom based Liberty Steel Group
which is owned by Indian-origin metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has signed MoUs
with 2 European companies namely Luxembourg based ‘Paul Wurth’ & Germany based
‘SHS’ (Stahl-Holding-Saar) to set up France’s 1st Hydrogen-based steel making
plant.
• Liberty Steel Group is part of the
diversified GFG Alliance, which has a presence in India.
6.BOOK -“ADVANTAGE
INDIA: THE STORY OF INDIAN TENNIS”
• Anindya Dutta, a banker turned author,
penned a new book titled “Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis”, a
chronicle of Indian Tennis.
• Advantage India is a well-researched
account of the journey of Indian tennis, with a special section on the Doubles
game and on women’s tennis in India.
• The book is published by Westland
publications.
7. ‘STATE OF TERROR’
MYSTERY NOVEL
• Former United States Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton is co-writing a mystery novel called ‘State of Terror’ with
Louise Penny, a Canadian author.
• It will be jointly released by Clinton’s
Publisher, Simon & Schuster & Louise Penny’s St. Martin’s Press.
8.NATIONAL PROTEIN DAY
2021
• The National Protein Day is annually
observed across India on 27th February to create and raise awareness about the
importance and health benefits of Protein.
• The theme of the National Protein Day 2021
is ‘Powering with Plant Protein’,
9.3RD LICENSED
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT OF UP
• Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) has given 4C license to Kushinagar Airport, Kushinagar district, Uttar
Pradesh(UP) to operate international flights.
• With this, the airport has become the 3rd
licensed International Airport of UP after Chaudhary Charan Singh International
Airport in Lucknow, and Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in
Varanasi.
• It is the 87th airport in India.
