DAILY GK: 12 JUNE 2021
1. ALL INDIA SURVEY ON HIGHER EDUCATION 2019-20 REPORT
• Union
Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ released the report of All
India Survey on Higher Education 2019-20 (AISHE 2019-20).
•
AISHE Report is released annually by the
Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education.
• The
report states that in the last five years from 2015-16 to 2019-20, there
was a growth of 11.4% in student
enrolment.
• The
rise in female enrolment in higher education during the period is 18.2%.
2.
INDIA’S EXPORT GROWTH OF AGRICULTURE DURING FY 2020-21
• India’s
export of agriculture and allied products (including marine and plantation
products) increased by 17.34 percent to USD 41.25 Billion during 2020-21 (in
INR terms the increase was 22.62 percent).
• Exports
during 2020-21 amounted to INR 3.05 lakh crore compared to INR 2.49 lakh crore
during 2019-20.
• India’s
Agricultural & Allied Imports for 2020-21 stood at USD 20.67 billion
compared to USD 20.64 billion in 2019-20.
3.
INDIA’S FIRST CENTER FOR DIGITAL HEALTH
• The
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has established the Koita Centre
for Digital Health (KCDH), India’s first of its kind Center for Digital Health
with the contribution from the Koita Foundation.
• KCDH
will collaborate with government organisations, healthcare technology companies
and Healthcare NGO’s
4.
3 MH-60 ROMEO HELICOPTERS FROM THE US DELIVERY
• Indian
Navy is set to receive the first set of 3 MH-60 Romeo helicopters, a multi-role
helicopter from the United States of America (USA) in July 2021.
• India
and the US have signed a deal of over Rs 15,157 crore (2.13 billion USD) to
procure 24 MH-60 Romeo helicopters from Lockheed Martin in 2020.
• The
MH-60 Romeo helicopters are equipped with multi-mode radars and night-vision
devices along with Hellfire missiles, torpedoes and precision-guided weaponry.
5.
70TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDIA-GERMANY TIES
• Foreign
Secretary Harsh V Shringla released a commemorative postage stamp to mark the
70th anniversary of India-Germany diplomatic relations.
• India
announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic
of Germany on 7 March 1951.
6.
COURSERA’S GLOBAL SKILLS REPORT 2021
• As
per the ‘Global Skills Report 2021’ released by Coursera, India has been ranked
67th overall globally.
• Switzerland
topped the rankings followed by Luxembourg & Austria.
• The
report is based on performance data of about 77 million learners (from across
100 countries) on the platform collected since the onset of the pandemic.
• It
benchmarks skills proficiency across 3 categories – Business, Technology and
data science.
OVERALL RANK COUNTRY
1 Switzerland
2 Luxembourg
3 Austria
7.
APO’S ASIA PACIFIC PRODUCTIVITY CHAMPION OF 2020
• Dr.
Rupinder Singh Sodhi (RS Sodhi) is Managing Director(MD) of Gujarat Cooperative
Milk Marketing Federation(GCMMF), Ltd., (AMUL) was honoured with the Asia
Pacific Productivity Champion 2020, the regional award of Asian Productivity
Organization (APO), Tokyo, Japan.
• The
award recognises India’s enhanced productivity and efficient milk supply chain
in the world.
8.
TOI-1231 B : A COOLER EXOPLANET
• A
Team of International Astronomers, discovered an exoplanet located 90
light-years away from Earth which has a Cooler atmosphere (57 Celsius) and has
the possibility of having water clouds.
• The
exoplanet called “TOI-1231 b”, orbits an M-type, dwarf star in 24 days.
• TOI-1231
b, with almost the size of Neptune, was discovered using NASA’s (National
Aeronautics and Space Administration) Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
(TESS).
9.
AMARTYA SEN AUTHORS NEW BOOK – “HOME IN THE WORLD”
• Nobel
laureate Amartya Sen, authored a new book titled “Home in the World” which is
set to be published by Penguin Random House in July 2021.
• he
book describes the early life of Amartya Sen and explores the idea of ‘home’.
10.
US SENATE NAMED FIRST MUSLIM-AMERICAN AS FEDERAL JUDGE
• The
US Senate has approved the historic nomination of Pakistani-American Zahid
Quraishi to the District Court in New Jersey, making him the first Muslim
federal judge in the country’s history.
• As
many as 34 Republicans joined the Democrats in confirming the first-ever
Muslim-American as a federal judge.
11.
PEN PINTER PRIZE 2021
• Tsitsi
Dangarembga, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean writer, has won the PEN Pinter
Prize in 2021.
• The
annual award is given to an author who, the website specifies, must have “a
significant body of plays, poetry, essays, or fiction of outstanding literary
merit, written in English.”
