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Uttarakhand is ready to start ‘Waste to Energy’ initiative

July 16, 2020
waste to energy
  • An initiative titled ‘Waste to Energy’ will be launched by Uttarakhand very soon.
  • The main objective of this initiative is to convert waste generated in the state to electricity.

China successfully launches APSTAR-6D telecommunication satellite

July 16, 2020
APSTAR-6D
  • China successfully sent a commercial telecommunication satellite, known as APSTAR-6D, into a planned orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
  • The APSTAR-6D telecommunication satellite was launched by a Long March-3B carrier rocket. It was developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), a subsidiary of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
  • The geostationary satellite, APSTAR-6D is the first satellite of China’s global, high-throughput broadband satellite communication system that will form a space-wide Internet communication network covering the whole world, similar to GPS.

National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to provide a credit support to Bengal in Coronavirus Crisis

July 16, 2020
NABARD
  • To fight with the COVID-19 pandemic, National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to provide a credit support of Rs 1,607 crore to West Bengal.
  • The help was provided through state cooperative banks, regional rural banks and micro-finance institutions.
  • Of the total credit flow, Rs 145 crore was given under the Rural Infrastructure and Development Fund (RIDF) to boost infrastructure in the country-side during the pandemic.

A Project worth Rs 44 lakhs is launched by NABARD in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

July 16, 2020
NABARD
  • In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, NABARD has launched development projects worth rupees 44 lakhs in order to strengthen the concept of Atmanirbhar Bharat through rural entrepreneurship.
  • It includes the formation and development of Self-Help Groups, SHGs. The skill development of SHGs members will be taken up to promote rural entrepreneurship at the micro-level.
  • NABARD will conduct 385 village-level programmes and provide training to leaders of newly Shri Shripad Naik inaugurated the conference on Defence Manufacturing Technologies and Aerospace.

HSBC to set up IFSC Banking Unit at GIFT city in Gandhinagar

July 16, 2020
HSBC
  • HSBC- the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited is to set up the IFSC Banking Unit at Gujarat International Finance Tec City, GIFT city in Gandhinagar Gujarat.
  • This development marks a major milestone for HSBC in India, which has been present in the country for more than 160 years.

Google will acquire 7.7 percent stake in Jio Platforms

July 16, 2020
google jio
  • Google will acquire a 7.7% stake in Jio Platforms worth Rs 33,737 crore.
  • For Google, this is the “first and biggest investment” from the recently announced $10-billion India fund by its CEO Sundar Pichai.
  • The two companies will jointly develop an operating system for an entry-level smartphone that will support 5G and target India’s 350 million feature-phone users.

Mukesh Ambani is now the world’s 6th richest man

July 16, 2020
Mukesh Ambani
  • Mukesh Ambani surged past Silicon Valley tech titan Elon Musk as well as Alphabet co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to become the world’s sixth-richest person.
  • The chairman of Reliance Industries, whose wealth surpassed Warren Buffett’s last week, is now worth $72.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

To help teachers to run online classes, Google partners with CBSE

July 16, 2020
google
  • Google announced that it is partnering with CBSE, an Indian schooling body, to help 1mn teachers run online classes by year end.
  • Google will help teachers from 22,000 schools across India to conduct classes online through tools such as YouTube, Google Classrooms, and GSuite.
  • These tools will be available in eight Indian languages including Hindi & Gujarati.

AAI & BEL signs MoU for co-operation in the civil aviation sector

July 16, 2020
AAI & BEL
  • Airports Authority of India (AAI) has entered into an MoU with Navratna defence PSU Bharat Electronics (BEL).
  • Objective of this MoU is to provide a platform for both the companies to collaborate and support each other to address the emerging global opportunities in the airport business, including those in the Asia Pacific region.
  • The MoU would provide for synergy between the two organisations in their respective domains, leading to mutually beneficial solutions in the field of aviation.

Hockey Legend Ashok Kumar to be Conferred with Mohun Bagan Lifetime Achievement Award

July 16, 2020
Ashok Kumar
  • Ashok Kumar will be conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award by city’s iconic club Mohun Bagan on the occasion of its foundation day in a virtual ceremony in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Besides the 1975 gold, the 70-year-old Kumar had also won bronze (1971) and silver (1973) medals in World Cups, besides a bronze medal in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Brett Lee appointed as the brand ambassador of SportsAdda

July 16, 2020
  • SportsAdda has appointed Australian cricket legend Brett Lee as its brand ambassador.
  • As ambassador, Lee will be conducting a host of fun activities including contests, quizzes, Q&As, bowling masterclasses, and giveaways that will feature exclusively on the SportsAdda app, website, and social handles.

Stephen King’s new book ‘If It Bleeds’ released in India

July 16, 2020
  • Stephen King is back with his new book titled, If It Bleeds which is published by Hachette India, the story centers around a bomb at Albert Macready Middle School.
  • It is a sequel to his bestselling work, The Outsider, which featured Holly Gibney of the Finders Keepers detective agency on her first solo case.

Former Australia skipper Mile Jedinak announces retirement from Football

July 16, 2020
  • Former Australia skipper and Crystal Palace midfielder Mile Jedinak announced his retirement from football at the age of 35.
  • Jedinak who earned 79 caps for the Socceroos and led them to the 2015 Asian Cup title, had said he hoped to continue playing after being released by Aston Villa last year.

HRD Minister launches ‘world’s most affordable’ Covid-19 test kit developed by IIT Delhi

July 16, 2020
  • Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Minister of State for HRD Sanjay Dhotre have launched the most affordable COVID-19 test Kit.
  • It has been produced by IIT Delhi and manufactured by New Tech Medical Devices.
  • COROSURE is one of the companies which has received the non exclusive license from IIT Delhi for the probe free RT-PCR based COVID-19 test kit.

Poba Forest Reserve in Dhemaji to be upgraded to wildlife sanctuary

July 16, 2020
poba tiger reserve
  • As per the announcement made by the state’s Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Poba Forest Reserve, a biodiversity hotspot located in Dhemaji of Upper Assam, will soon be upgraded to a wildlife sanctuary.
  • Poba Reserve Forest declared in 1924 with an area of 10,522 hectares is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna.

World Day for International Justice is observed on 17th July

July 17, 2020
International Justice
  • Every year on July 17, World Day for International Justice is observed all around the world. The aim of the day is to promote international criminal justice and as a way of supporting the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
  • The aim of this day is to unite everyone who wants to support justice as well as promote victims rights. It is to help prevent serious crimes and those that put the peace, security and well-being of the world at risk.

Government launches implementation guidelines for Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund

July 17, 2020
  • The guidelines for Animal Husbandry Infrastructure Development Fund (AHIDF) launched by Union Minister of fisheries, Husbandry, and Dairying.
  • The fund will help to increase milk production to 330 million tonnes by 2024.
  • The Government of India is planning to increase milk processing up to 40%.
  • The AHIDF will facilitate the incentivization of investments to establish infrastructure for dairy and meat processing.
  • Under Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, Rs 15,000 crores were approved by the Union Cabinet for AHIDF.
  • The GoI is to set up a credit guarantee fund of Rs 750 crores to achieve the targets in the dairy sector. This is to be managed by NABARD

Maharashtra starts ‘Healthcare Service At Your Doorstep’ initiative in Nashik

July 17, 2020
  • In Maharashtra, cases of Covid-19 are raging in the Nashik district as well. However, to curb the further spread of the disease, the government has initiated a measure “HEALTHCARE SERVICE AT YOUR DOORSTEP”.
  • As many as 556 squads have been formed and they have been tasked to trace the COVID-19 positive patient.
  • The initiative taken by the state’s public health department and district administration to deploy 556 squads in predominantly tribal villages of Nashik is yielding positive results in containing the spread of Covid-19.

Anji Khad bridge, Indian Railways’ 1st cable-stayed rail bridge, announced

July 17, 2020
Anji Khad bridge
  • The Railways Minister Piyush Goyal has announced, India’s first cable-stayed Railways bridge “Anji Khad Bridge” to connects Katra and Reasi in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).
  • This bridge being developed by Konkan Railway Corporation Limited (KRCL).
  • This bridge is as a part of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project.
  • The USBRL project also involves the Chenab river bridge.
  •  The Chenab Bridge once completed, will become the world’s highest rail bridge.

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