DAILY GK 1,2,3 NOV
1.
FOUNDATION STONE OF C-295
TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURING FACILITY IN VADODARA, GUJARAT
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The Prime Minister (PM) of India Narendra
Modi laid the foundation stone of C-295 Transport Aircraft Manufacturing
Facility in Vadodara, Gujarat which will be set up by India’s Tata Advanced
Systems Ltd (TASL) and Spain’s Airbus Defence and Space.
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This is the first project of its kind in
which a military aircraft (C-295) will be manufactured in India under
technology transfer by the private sector.
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This
aircraft can be used for civilian purposes as well.
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The C-295 will replace IAF’s Avro-748
planes aircraft in service.
2.
‘DEFEXPO 2022′ HELD IN
GANDHINAGAR, GUJARAT
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In order to boost the defence sector, Prime
Minister (PM) Narendra Modi inaugurated the DefExpo 2022 (12th
edition), India’s “biggest ever” defence exhibition, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat
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Data Patterns (India) Limited, a
Chennai based provider of defence and aerospace electronics systems, received
the ‘Raksha Mantri Award for Excellence for 2021-22′ from
the Defence Minister.
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Currently, the aerospace and defence industry
is worth around Rs. 80,000 crore, with the private sector contributing more
than Rs. 17,000 crore.
3.
UNSC ADOPTS DELHI
DECLARATION
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The Government of India, for the first time,
hosted the special two-day meeting of the United Nations Security Council’s
Counter(UNSC)-Terrorism Committee (CTC) on countering the use of new and
emerging technologies for terrorist purposes.
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Meeting
was hosted by the Ministry of External Affairs(MEA was held in Mumbai,
Maharashtra and New Delhi
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During
the meeting, the non-binding document, known as The Delhi Declaration on
countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes was
adopted in New Delhi
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EAM S
Jaishankar announced that India will contribute USD 500000(half a million) to
the United Nations Trust Fund for Counter-Terrorism
4.
MOU SIGNED FOR UPGRADATION
TO PM-SHRI SCHOOLS
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India’s 13 states and 3 Union Territories (UTs) along
with the KendriyaVidyalayaSangathan (KVS) and
NavodayaVidyalayaSamiti (NVS) have signed an memorandum
of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of
Education (MoE) to upgrade their schools under the Pradhan Mantri Schools For Rising India
(PM-SHRI) scheme.
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The PM SHRI is a scheme under the MoE
initiated for the development of more than 14,500
schools across India towards quality education and cognitive development of
students
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Each
state will have an upper limit of two schools per block including, one elementary and one Secondary
or Senior Secondary.
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The scheme of PM SHRI schools is implemented
as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with a total project cost of Rs 27,360 crore, out of which, Rs. 18,128 crore will be the centre’s
share for the period of 5 academic sessions (2022-23 to 2026-27).
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The
schools under the scheme will be developed as Green schools that
incorporate environment-friendly aspects such as solar panels and LED lights,
nutrition gardens with natural farming, waste management, plastic-free, water
conservation and harvesting.
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Selection process – PM
Shri schools will be selected through Challenge Mode, by
self-applying on the online portal, which will open 4 times a year (once every
quarter), for the 1st two years after the implementation of the
scheme.
5.
ARUNACHAL PRADESH FISH
MUSEUM AT TARIN
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Arunachal Pradesh will
establish a fish museum, the first-of-its-kind in
the North-East region (NER)
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This
project will be built at a financial
outlay of Rs 43.59 crore in the current
financial year (FY23) as the first instalment.
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The fish
museum would be a part of the India’s
first Integrated Aqua Park (IAP), sanctioned by the
Union Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying (MoFAHD) at Tarin (Ziro)
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The IAP
was sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana
(PMMSY), with a financial outlay of Rs
50 Crores, with a Central share of Rs 45.11 Crores.
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Arunachal PradeshChief
Minister (CM) – Pema Khandu
6.
INDIA,MOZAMBIQUE&TANZANIATRILATERAL
MILITARY EXERCISE
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The
Indian Navy is represented by the guided missile frigate, Indian Naval
Ship(INS) Tarkash
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The
exercise includes a harbour phase and sea phase.
7.
NEW PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL
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Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva, Former Brazilian President and Leftist
leader, has been elected as the new President of Brazil after defeating the
current President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Lula da
Silva secured 50.83% of the votes, whereas, Jair Bolsonaro managed to get 49.17% votes.
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He
co-founded the Workers’ Party in 1980 and contested as its Presidential
candidate in 1989.
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BrazilCapital- BrasÃlia,Currency- Brazilian
real
8.
NEW DIRECTOR OF ICAR-SBI
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The Indian Council of Agricultural
Research-Sugarcane Breeding Institute (ICAR-SBI) (Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu)
appointed Dr G Hemaprabha, as the 1st woman Director of ICAR SBI, the
111-year-old institution which was established in 1912.
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She was
appointed up to 2024 on the recommendations of the Agricultural
Scientists Recruitment Board, New Delhi, Delhi, under the Ministry of
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (MoA&FW).
9.
7TH FIFA U17 WOMEN’S
WORLD CUP 2022
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The 7th edition of FIFA (Federation
Internationale de Football Association) U-17 Women’s World Cup was hosted by
India at 3 cities of Bhubaneswar (Odisha) in Kalinga Stadium; Margao, Goa in
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium; and Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra in DY Patil
Stadium
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The
tournament title was clinched by Spain
by defeating Colombia 1-0.
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Mascot: Ibha , an Asiatic lioness is a lion
subspecies that survives in India only Ibha means one with good vision or
judgement in Khasi, a language spoken primarily in the state of
Meghalaya.
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Slogan: Kick Off The Dream
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It was
the second time that India hosted a FIFA tournament, after the men’s 2017 FIFA
U-17 World Cup
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India,
Morocco and Tanzania made their debuts in the tournament.
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The All
India Football Federation (AIFF), Union Ministry for Education (MoE) and the
FIFA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to broadbase football across
various schools in India through the Football for Schools
programme.
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It is a program run by FIFA and UNESCO to
contribute to the development, education and empowerment of around 700 Million
children worldwide.
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Under
this, 25 million students will be trained and 700 Navoday Vidyalayas will be the nodal agency for football in India.
10. 2022 YONEX FRENCH
OPEN BADMINTON TOURNAMENT
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Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty from
India have won the Yonex 2022 French Open Super 750 title against
Chinese Taipei’s Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han in the men’s doubles category,
held at Stade Pierre de Coubertin, Paris, France
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They have become the first
Indian pair to win a Super 750 tournament.
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Men’s Singles- Viktor
Axelson (Denmark) beating Dane Rasmus Gemke
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Women’s Singles- He Bingjiao (China)
defeating Spain’s Carolina Marin
11. MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS
2022 MEXICO CITY GRAND PRIX
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Red Bull’s double world champion and the
Dutch driver Max Verstappen won the 2022 Mexico
City Grand Prix to set a Formula One (F1) record of 14 victories from a single
season and also scored the most points in the season.
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Mercedes’s Lewis Hamilton(United Kingdom)
finished second
12. NATIONAL
UNITY DAY (RASHTRIYAEKTADIWAS) 2022 – OCTOBER 31
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National Unity Day or RashtriyaEktaDiwas is
annually observed across India on 31st October to mark the birth anniversary of
the “Iron Man of India” Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai
Patel, who is endeared as ‘Sardar’.
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he first deputy Prime Minister and Home
Minister of Independent India.
13. WORLD
CITIES DAY 2022 – OCTOBER 31
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United Nations (UN)’s World
Cities Day (WCD) is annually observed across the world
on October
31 to promote the international community’s interest in
global urbanization
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The
theme of World Cities Day 2022 is “Better City,
Better Life: Act Local to Go Global”.
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Better City, Better Life is the general theme of World Cities
Day which remains constant every year.
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The global observance of World Cities Day 2022 is organised
in Shanghaiunder the theme (Sub Theme or theme of WCD
2022 ) “Act Local to Go Global
14. VIGILANCE
AWARENESS WEEK 2022 – 31ST OCTOBER TO 6TH NOVEMBER
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Vigilance Awareness Week is
annually observed across India during the week in which the birth anniversary of
SardarVallabhbhai Patel falls (the week on which 31st
October falls).
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The week is observed by the Central Vigilance
Commission(CVC)
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Vigilance Awareness Week 2022 is
marked from 31st October to 6th November 2022.
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The
theme of Vigilance Awareness Week 2022 is “Corruption
Free India For A Developed Nation” (Bhrashtaachaar Mukt Bhaarat –
VikasitBhaarat).
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Central Vigilance
Commissioner– Suresh N Patel
15. INDO-PACIFIC
ENDEAVOUR NAVY EXERCISE
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Royal Australian Navy ships HMAS
Anzac arrived in Visakhapatnam for
participating in the 3rd edition of ‘Indo-Pacific
Endeavour (IPE) 2022’ exercise with the Indian Navy (IN).
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IPE 2022 is one of Australia’s key regional
engagement initiatives that will make 14-country visits and return to Southeast Asia and
the Northeast Indian Ocean,
16. NORTH
INDIA’S FIRST DATA CENTRE INAUGURATESAT GREATER NOIDA
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Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister (CM) of Uttar
Pradesh (UP), inaugurated North
India’s first hyper-scale data centre, ‘Yotta D1,’ of
Yotta Infrastructure Solutions, in Greater Noida, UP.
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The
3,00,000 square feet data centre was built with an investment of around Rs
1,500 crore and operationalized in a record-breaking 20 months.
17. IT
DEPARTMENT LAUNCHES HARIT-AAYKAR INITIATIVE
The Income Tax Department (IT Department) launched HARIT (Hariyali
Achievement Resolution by Income Tax) Aaykar initiative
on the occasion of National Unity Day to increase greenery and create a micro
forest.
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Under the
HARIT Aaykar initiative, the IT Department resolves to increase the greenery by
planting trees and creating micro forests in and around IT Department’s
buildings and other public areas.
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The 1st
of such micro-forest was inaugurated by Nitin Gupta, Chairman of the Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT),
at Bharopal, Punjab, near the India-Pak border.
18. RENEW
COMMITS TO BE NET-ZERO FIRM BY 2040
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ReNew Energy Global PLC announced its ESG
(environmental, social, and governance) targets including a commitment to
achieve net-zero by 2040 through its sustainability report for 2021-22
titled ‘Partnering for transition, progressing sustainably,
prospering together’.
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It aims to reduce GHG (greenhouse gases)
emissions by 29.4% by 2027 and a net-zero target of reducing GHG
emissions by 90 per cent across all scopes by 2040.
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The 2040 commitment is 30 years ahead of
India’s 2070 target and more ambitious than net-zero targets of many global
energy companies.
19. RBI
LAUNCHES PILOT PROJECT OF DIGITAL RUPEE IN WHOLESALE SEGMENT
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has commenced
its first pilot project to implement Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
or Digital Rupee (e₹) in the Wholesale
Segment (e₹-W) for secondary trade in government securities
(G-secs) beginning on November 1, 2022.
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A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or
Digital Rupee is a digital version of currency notes issued by a central bank.
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The
Indian CBDC, which will be known as “(e₹)”, is a digital
version of the Rupee and may be exchanged one-for-one for fiat currency.
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The RBI
has designated 9 banks to participate in the digital
rupee wholesale (e₹-W) pilot project.
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The nine
banks are State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of Baroda (BoB), Union Bank of India
(UBI), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank, IDFC First Bank, and
HSBC.
20. 2022 AP7: NEW POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS ASTEROID DISCOVERED
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The 1.5 kilometer(0.9 mile)
wide asteroid, named 2022 AP7, was discovered in an area normally
difficult to spot objects due to the glare from the Sun.
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2022 AP7 takes five years to
go round the sun once.
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At present the asteroid
remains several million kilometers away from Earth
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In September, NASA collided
a spacecraft with an asteroid in a bid to change its trajectory.
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The test mission was a
preparation for any such situation where an asteroid might threaten the Earth.
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Astronomers have discovered
at least 30,000 asteroids near the Earth, and have named them “Near Earth
Objects” (NEOs) which will not threaten the earth for the next 100 years.
