👌👌 Current Affairs of 2 September 2020👌👌
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
MoD
inked Contracts Worth Rs 2580 Cr with Indian Companies for Supply of Pinaka
Regiments to Indian Army
·
Acquisition
Wing of Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed contracts with Bharat Earth Movers
Ltd. (BEML), Tata Power Company Ltd. (TPCL) and Larsen & Toubro (L&T)
for supply of Six Pinaka Regiments to the Regiment of Artillery of the Indian
Army at an approximate cost of Rs. 2580 Crores.
·
About
Ministry of Defence (MoD):
Union Minister- Rajnath Singh (Constituency– Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)
Minister
of State (MoS)– Shripad Yesso Naik
Coal
Ministry organised Webinar on Coal Gasification and Liquefaction
·
webinar on
Coal Gasification and Liquefaction was organized by Ministry of Coal and Mines
which was addressed by Union Minister of Coal and Mines Pralhad Joshi along with Anil Kumar
Jain, Secretary, Coal and Dr Vijay Kumar (VK) Saraswat, Member NITI (National Institution for
Transforming India) Aayog.
·
The webinar
was attended by around 700 delegates from Government of India, Coal India
Limited (CIL) and the coal sector.
Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh Launched Life Insurance Scheme for More than 10000
Cantonment Employees
·Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched “Chhavni COVID: Yodha
Sanrakshan Yojana” a group life insurance scheme through the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), for more than 10000 employees working in the 62
military cantonment areas across India.
About Ministry
of Defence:
Union Minister– Rajnath Singh
Minister
of State– Shripad Yesso Naik
About LIC:
Chairman– M R Kumar
Headquarters– Mumbai, Maharashtra
INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Japan
extends Emergency Loan of JPY 50 Billion for India to Fight Covid-19 Pandemic
·
Japan extended
an Emergency Support Loan of up to 50 Billion Japanese Yen (Approximately
Rs 3, 500 Crore) to help India’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.
·
This is the
largest amount of financial assistance announced by any country to support
India’s response to the Covid-19 crisis.
About Japan:
Capital – Tokyo
Prime
Minister – Shinzo Abe (He announced his
retirement on August 28 but will remain in the post until a successor is chosen)
India-Japan-Australia
to Launch Resilient Supply Chain Initiative in the Indo-Pacific region
·
Japan and
Australia agreed to launch a trilateral Supply Chain Resilience Initiative
(SCRI) in the Indo-Pacific region.
BANKING
& FINANCE
European
Investment Bank to Invest € 650 Million in Kanpur’s 1st City Metro Line
·
The European
Investment Bank (EIB) will invest 650 million euro(€) in the construction of Kanpur’s(Uttar Pradesh) 1st city metro line.
·
The 32.4 km
urban rail line, with 18 elevated and 12 underground stations is EIB’s 2nd biggest operation outside the European
Union(EU) till date.
·
It is the 2nd metro rail project supported by the EIB in
Uttar Pradesh(UP).
About EIB:
President– Werner HOYER
Headquarters– Luxembourg
“Fraud
& Risk Management in Digital Payments” Report Released: PayPal & DSCI
The Report, “Fraud & Risk Management in Digital Payments” has been jointly developed by
The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)’s Data
Security Council of India (DSCI) and PayPal Payments Pvt. Ltd. (PayPal).
About DSCI
Headquarters– Noida, Uttar Pradesh
CEO– Rama Vedashree
APPOINTMENTS
& RESIGNATIONS
Pramod
Chandra Mody gets 6 Months Extension as Chairman of CBDT
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC),
Government of India (GoI), has approved the extension of the
re-appointment of Pramod Chandra Mody as Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT) for 6 months
About Central Board of Direct Taxes
It is a statutory authority which functions under the Central Board of Revenue Act, 1963. It frames policy for the Income-Tax Department. It functions under the Department of Revenue of the Ministry of Finance
NOTE:
WHAT IS STATUTORY AUTHORITY?
THE AUTHORITY WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED BY an Act of Parliament or state legislatures and set up by the government to consider the data and make judgments in some area of activity.
It consists of a Chairman and 6 Members,
namely:
i.Member (Income Tax & Revenue)- Satish Kumar(S.K.) Gupta
(Addl. Charge)
ii.Member (Legislation)- Ms. Seema Khorana Patra
iii.Member (Administration)- Prabhash Shankar
iv.Member (investigation)- Pramod Chandra Mody (Addl. Charge)
v.Member (Tax Payers Service-TPS & system)- Satish Kumar(S.K.)
Gupta
vi.Member (Audit & Judicial)- Krishan Mohan(K.M.) Prasad
Hemant
Khatri assumed charge as CMD of Hindustan Shipyard Limited; Succeeds Rear
Admiral L V Sarat Babu
Retired Commodore Hemant Khatri succeeds Rear Admiral L V Sarat Babu
(Retd) and assumed charge as the Chairman and Managing director(CMD) of Hindustan Shipyard
limited(HSL), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, is a Miniratna public sector undertaking (PSU) of the Ministry of Defence.
Previously he was serving as the Director of Strategic Projects HSL.
SCIENCE
& TECHNOLOGY
CSIR-CMERI
Developed & Installed the World’s Largest Solar Tree in Durgapur
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research – Central Mechanical
Engineering Research Institute (CSIR – CMERI) developed the world largest Solar
Tree with customisable features for application in different locations and
installed it in the residential colony of CMERI at Durgapur, West Bengal.
he annual capacity of the tree to generate clean and green power is
around 12000 to 14000 units.
About CSIR-CMERI:
Director– Prof.(Dr.) Harish Hirani
Location– Durgapur, West Bengal
Indian
Railways develops ‘MEDBOT’ to deliver food, medicines to COVID-19 patients
Indian Railways has developed a remote-controlled medical trolley named
‘MEDBOT’ to deliver food, medicine to COVID-19 patients.
BOOKS
& AUTHORS
Bollywood
Filmmaker Karan Johar Authored a Children’s Book “The Big Thoughts of Little
Luv”
·
Bollywood
Filmmaker Karan Johar authored a children’s picture book titled “The Big Thoughts of Little
Luv” inspired by his Twins Yash and Roohi. The book will be published by Juggernaut Books.
·
The book
narrates the story of the twins Luv and Kusha and features the challenges faced by the parents and
the difference imposed between the boys and girls by the parents while raising
them
IMPORTANT
DAYS
National
Nutrition Week 2020- 1st September to 7th September
National Nutrition Week (NNW) is an annual nutrition event observed in India during the First week of September from 1st
September to 7th September.
STATE
NEWS
· Odisha CM launched two
Citizen-Centric Mobile app – Ama Sahar And Swachha Sahar Odisha on Local Self
Government Day
MHA
notifies ‘Rules of Transaction of Business’ for the UT of Jammu &
Kashmir
STATIC GK based on Current Affairs
1.
Bhitarkanika
National Park is located in which state?
1) Punjab
2) Andhra Pradesh
3) Odisha
4) Karnataka
Answer-3) Odisha
Explanation:
Odisha’s Bhitarkanika National Park is the second largest
mangrove ecosystem in the country.
Tarapur
Atomic Power Station is located in which state?
1) Gujarat
2) Maharashtra
3) Arunachal Pradesh
4) Uttarakhand
5) Haryana
Answer-2) Maharashtra
Explanation:
Tarapur Atomic Power Station is located in Tarapur, Palghar,
Maharashtra, India. It was the first commercial nuclear power station built in
India.
The
banker to every Indian’ is the tagline of which bank?
1) State Bank of India
2) Punjab National Bank
3) Canara Bank
4) United Bank of India
Answer-1) State Bank of India
Explanation:
The taglines of State Bank of India are The banker to every
Indian; With you all the way; Purely banking nothing else; The nation banks on
us.
Taj
Mahal is located in which state?
1) Arunachal Pradesh
2) Punjab
3) Maharashtra
4) Gujarat
5) Uttar Pradesh
Answer-5) Uttar Pradesh
Explanation:
Taj Mahal is located at mausoleum complex in Agra, western
Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is situated in the eastern part of the
city on the southern (right) bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River. Agra Fort (Red
Fort), also on the right bank of the Yamuna, is about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of
the Taj Mahal.
Who
is the present governor of Maharashtra?
1) Acharya Devvrat
2) Jagdeep Dhankhar
3) Draupadi Murmu
4) Anil Baijal
5) Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Answer-5) Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Explanation:
Ram Nath Kovind, President of India recently appointed Satya
Pal Malik, Goa Governor as the Governor of Meghalaya. Meanwhile, Maharashtra
Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari was given the additional charge as Governor of
Goa. Satya Pal Malik replaced Tathagata Roy who completed his 5-year term by
serving as governor of Tripura for 3 years and remaining in Meghalaya.
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