DAILY GK: 6,7 APRIL 2021
1.“SANKALP
SE SIDDHI” A VILLAGE & DIGITAL CONNECT DRIVE
• Tribal
Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) under the
Ministry of Tribal Affairs(MoTA) has launched “Sankalp se Siddhi” a Village
& Digital Connect Drive.
• Sankalp
se Siddhi – It is a 100-day drive which
is starting from April 2021, which aims to cover a total of 1500 villages in
the country (around 100 villages in each region) in the next 100 days by making
150 teams (10 in each region from TRIFED & State Implementation
Agencies/Mentoring Agencies/Partners).
2.NATIONAL
POLICY FOR RARE DISEASES, 2021
• Harsh
Vardhan, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare approved the ‘National
Policy for Rare Diseases 2021’.
• The
policy aims to address the high cost of treatment for rare diseases with
increased focus on indigenous research.
• The
policy has categorised rare diseases into three groups.
• Provision
of upto INR 20 Lakhs under the Umbrella Scheme of RashtriyaArogyaNidhi (RAN)
for rare diseases which require a one-time treatment.
3.KOSOVO’S
7TH PRESIDENT
• Kosovo’s
Parliament elected VjosaOsmani-Sadriu as its new president for a five-year
term.
• She
became the nation’s seventh president and its second female leader in the
post-war period by succeeding HashimThaci.
• Kosovo
became independent from Serbia after North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)’s intervention.
4.NEW
MISSION DIRECTOR OF ATAL INNOVATION MISSION
• Dr
Chintan Vaishnav will replace Ramanathan Ramanan to become the new Mission
Director of Niti Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) from mid-April 2021.
• Ramanathan
Ramanan is the 1st mission director of AIM since June 2017.
5. WORLD’S FIRST COVID-19 VACCINE FOR ANIMALS
• Russia
has registered the world’s first vaccine for animals Carnivac-Cov against
COVID-19, by agricultural regulator Rosselkhoznadzor.
• Russia
already has three coronavirus vaccines for humans, Sputnik, EpiVacCorona and
CoviVac.
6.2021
MIAMI OPEN
• The
2021 Miami Open (also known as Miami Masters, presented by Itau) took place at
Hard Rock Stadium, Miami, USA.
• It
is a Hard Court Tournament.
Category Winners Runners-up
Men’s Singles Hubert
Hurkacz (Poland) Jannik Sinner (Italy)
Women’s Singles Ashleigh Barty
(Australia) Bianca Andreescu (Canada)
7.JAPANESE
NOBEL LAUREATE ISAMU AKASAKI PASSED AWAY
• Isamu
Akasaki, one of the winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics passed away at
the age of 92 in Nagoya, Japan.
• He
won the Nobel prize for the invention of the world’s first efficient blue
LED(Light Emitting Diode).
• He
was born on 30 January 1929 in Chiran, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
• The
invention of the efficient blue LED’s has contributed to the bright and
energy-saving white LED light sources, known as LED Lamps.
8.INDIA’S
FIRST UNION ENVIRONMENT MINISTER PASSES AWAY
• Digvijaysinh
Zala, India’s first Union Minister of Environment and Member of the Legislative
Assembly(MLA) from Wankaner, Gujarat passed away at the age of 88 in Morbi,
Gujarat.
• He
was born on 20th August 1932 in Wankaner, Gujarat.
• Digvijaysinh
Zala was the head of the erstwhile princely state of Wankaner, Gujarat.
• He
served as the first Environment Minister of India from 1982 to 1984 after the
Ministry was established under Prime minister Indira Gandhi in November 1980.
9. NATIONAL MARITIME DAY 2021
• The
National Maritime Day(NMD) is annually observed across India on 5th April, to
create awareness about intercontinental commerce and the economy.
• 2021
marks the celebration of the 58th Edition of the National Maritime Day.
• The
first edition of the National Maritime Day was observed on 5th April 1964.
