Daily Current Affairs- 14 Auguust 2021

Daily Current Affairs- 14th Auguust 2021

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Headlines/One-Liners

1. Delhi launched 33 faceless transport services in Delhi

2. PM Narendra Modi launches PMUY 2.0

3. UP launches Rashtriya Swasthya Sevak Abhiyan

4. Maharashtra Announced Rajiv Gandhi Award for excellence in IT Sector

5. Indore Declared as 1st Water Plus City of India

6. One of the World’s Highest Mobile ATC tower in Ladakh built by the Indian Air Force

7. 2021 Census to be India’s 1st-ever digital Census

8. India-Singapore Foreign Office Consultations

9. India & US sign MoU to Improve Weather and Monsoon forecasts

10. Agritech Start-up Arya Tie-up with SBM Bank India

11. SIDBI Launched ‘Digital Prayaas’ App

12. Gajendra Singh & Anjani Kumar Tiwari Appointed as a members of PNGRB

13. England’s James Anderson overtakes Anil Kumble as 3rd Highest wicket-taker in Test

14. New book- “Zohra! A Biography In Four Acts”

15. New Book- ‘How the Earth Got Its Beauty’

16. Former Indian Hockey Player Gopal Bhengra passes away






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National News

Delhi launched 33 faceless transport services in Delhi

• Delhi launched the state transport department’s 33 ‘faceless’ services

• This will enable people to get various transport-related documents online along with obtaining an e- learning licence by undertaking online test using Aadhaar authentication.

• With this, Delhi has become the first Indian state to bring all transport-related services online, thereby saving people’s time and money.

• All the faceless applications will be processed within a period of seven days.

• These include renewal of driving license, transfer of ownership, fresh permit from goods and passenger vehicles, learning licences, duplicate registration certificate, international driving permit, change of address, hypothecation termination, among others.

PM Narendra Modi launches PMUY 2.0

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana 2.0 Scheme from Mahoba district of Uttar Pradesh.

• Under PMUY 2.0, an additional 10 million LPG connections will be provided to the beneficiaries.

• PMUY is a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG). It was launched on 1st May 2016 in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh by Prime Minister, Narendra Modi.

• Tagline – “Swachh Indhan, Behtar Jeevan”. It is implemented by MoPNG.

• Financial assistance of ₹1,600 per household given by the centre to eligible households

• Under PMUY 1.0, a target of providing 8 Crore Free LPG Connections to the deprived households was set and achieved.







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UP launches Rashtriya Swasthya Sevak Abhiyan

• Uttar Pradesh has launched the Rashtriya Swasthya Sevak Abhiyan in Lucknow by launching the Health Warrior Portal.

• Under the campaign, Health workers will be trained to fight COVID-19.

• It is a follow up to the national campaign ‘Rashtriya Swasthya Swayamsevak Abhiyan’

• The Rashtriya Swasthya Swayamsevak Abhiyan (National Health Volunteer

Campaign) was launched to train health volunteers across India to fight COVID-19.

• Under the campaign, a target was set to train 4 lakh health volunteers across 2 Lakh Indian villages through the programme and train 4 lakh health volunteers across India.

Maharashtra Announced Rajiv Gandhi Award for excellence in IT Sector

• Maharashtra has introduced the Rajiv Gandhi Award for excellence in IT, named after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, to recognise the firms that excel in the Information Technology Sector in Maharashtra.

• The Maharashtra IT Corporation Limited has been appointed as the nodal agency of the award.







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Indore Declared as 1st Water Plus City of India

• The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has declared Indore, Madhya Pradesh, the cleanest city of India, as the 1st ‘water plus’ city of India.

• Indore received the 1st Swachh Certification of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Water Plus from the MoHUA under the Swachh Survekshan 2021(SS2021).

• Water Plus is one of the parameters under the SBM Urban (along with ODF (Open Defecation Free) Plus, ODF Double Plus) that is

used to test the cleanliness of cities.

• The certification of SBM Water Plus is valid for 6 months and the certification process needs to be carried out every 6 months.

• Surat, Gujarat also received the SBM Water Plus certification, it became the 1st city in Gujarat to receive that.

One of the World’s Highest Mobile ATC tower in Ladakh built by the Indian Air Force

• One of the world’s Highest Mobile Air Traffic Control towers has been built by the Indian Air Force in the Nyoma area of Ladakh

• Main purpose of ATC is to control the operation of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters in the East Ladakh region.







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2021 Census to be India’s 1st-ever digital Census

• Minister Home Affairs stated that the 16th Indian Census will be India’s 1st-ever Digital Census.

• Data for the Census 2021 will be collected through mobile Apps and will be uploaded on the portal directly.

• It will be conducted in 18 languages and English. The 2011 Census was conducted only in 16 languages.

• For the 1st time the information of household headed by transgender community

will be collected as a new category under Third Gender.

• The Data will be made available by 2024-25.

• During the Union Budget 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allocated INR 3,768 Crore for the 2021 Census.

• The first synchronous census in India was held in 1881 by W.C.Plowden, Census Commissioner of India.

• The first census of Independent India was conducted in 1951.

• Censuses are conducted under Census of India Act,1948.

Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India (RGCCI):

• Registrar General and Census Commissioner – Vivek Joshi

• Headquarters – New Delhi







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MoU & Partnerships

India-Singapore Foreign Office Consultations

• The 15th round of Foreign Office Consultation between India & Singapore took place virtually. The Indian side was led by Riva Ganguly, Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs

About Singapore:

• President – Halimah Yacob

• Currency – Singapore dollar

India & US sign MoU to Improve Weather and Monsoon forecasts

• India’s National Institute of Ocean Technology & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of US have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Monsoon data analysis and cooperation to improve weather forecasts in the region.

National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT):

• Director – G.A.Ramadass

• Headquarters – Chennai

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

• Administrator – Richard W. Spinrad

• Headquarters – Washington DC







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Agritech Start-up Arya Tie-up with SBM Bank India

• Agritech start-up and India’s 1st Post Harvest Solutions Platform, Arya Collateral Warehousing Services Private Ltd made a partnership with State Bank of Mauritius-India for commodity financing.

State Bank of Mauritius-India

• MD & CEO – Sidharth Rath

• Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra

Banking & Finance

SIDBI Launched ‘Digital Prayaas’ App

• Small Industries Development Bank of India has launched the programme ‘Digital Prayaas’ an App based end to end digital lending tool platform to sanction loans to entrepreneurs from low income group

• The post sanction documentation such as e-signing and e-stamping of the documents will also be done digitally through the App.

• SIDBI also partnered with a major aggregator BigBasket to on board its delivery partners across the country and provide loans

to the youths of the urban areas at an affordable interest rate for the purchase of environment friendly e-vehicles (e-Bikes and e-Vans).

• Chairman & Managing Director – Sivasubramanian Ramann

• Headquarters – Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh







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Appointments & Resignations

Gajendra Singh & Anjani Kumar Tiwari Appointed as a members of PNGRB

• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has appointed Gajendra Singh, Former Director of GAIL (India) Ltd, and Anjani Kumar Tiwari, Director(Finance) of GAIL (India) Limited as the members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board

• Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is a statutory body constituted under The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006.

• Headquarters– New Delhi

Sports

England’s James Anderson overtakes Anil Kumble as 3rd Highest wicket-taker in Test

• England Fast Bowler James Anderson overtook India’s Anil Kumble tally of 619 wickets to become the 3rd Highest Wicket-Taker in Test Cricket.

• Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan (800) & Australia’s Shane Warne (708) are leading wicket takers in Test Cricket.







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Books & Authors

New book- “Zohra! A Biography In Four Acts”

• Shri Ritu Menon has authored a new book titled “Zohra! A Biography In Four Acts”.

• Zohra Mumtazullah Khan from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has starred in various Television series and films like Neecha Nagar (1946) Doctor Who(1963), Jewel in the Crown(1984)

• The government of Maharashtra has honoured her with the Kalidas Samman in 2001.

• Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition (co-authored with Kamal Bhasin).

• Out of Line: A Personal and Political Biography of Nayantara Sahgal.

• From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence against Women in India (co-authored with Kalpana Kannibiran).

New Book- ‘How the Earth Got Its Beauty’

• Sudha Murty, Chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, has authored a new children’s book titled “How the Earth Got Its Beauty”







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Obituary

Former Indian Hockey Player Gopal Bhengra passes away

• Former Indian Men’s Hockey Team player Gopal Bhengra passed away in Ranchi.

• He was part of the 1978 Men’s Hockey World Cup held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.







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