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current affairs and GK facts for your upcoming exams.
Daily
Current Affairs Guru's current affairs today section provides latest and
important daily current affairs 2020-2021 for different competitive exams like-
UPSC, IAS/PCS, Banking, IBPS, Railway, SSC, OPPSC, OSSC, RPSC, BPSC, MPPSC,
TNPSC, MPSC, KPSC, OSSSC and so on.
Current affairs is an important section of competitive
exams. Aspirants who are preparing for the upcoming exams in 2021 must be well
prepare with this section. Keep reading current affairs and GK facts for your
upcoming exams.
1. MC Mary Kom: appointed chairman of the Champions and
Veterans Committee
✔️ Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom was elected as the
chairman of the 'Champions and Veterans' committee of the International Boxing
Association (AIBA).
✔️ The panel was formed by the World Association last year.
✔️ 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Mary Kom was elected to the
post after voting on the board of directors of AIBA.
✔️ This star boxer has been the brand ambassador of the
world body on several occasions.
2. Udaipur, Tripura: Udaipur Science Center inaugurated
✔️ The Governor of Tripura, Ramesh Bais inaugurated the
Udaipur Science Center in Udaipur, Tripura.
✔️ The Udaipur Science Center has been developed at a cost
of Rs 6 crores which is jointly funded by the Ministry of Culture, Government
of India as well as the Department of Science and Technology & Environment
of Tripura, along with it the National Council of Science Museums (National
Council of Science Museums-NCSM) has been established science centers in all
the North Eastern states.
✔️ Science centers play an important role in developing a
scientific temperament in society and a culture of innovation among the common
people, especially among the students.
✔️ The NCSM and the Ministry of Culture play an important
role in spreading scientific awareness.
✔️ The Udaipur Science Center is the 22nd science center
developed by the NCSM and handed over to the state governments under the scheme
of the Ministry of Culture for the promotion of science culture.
✔️ NCSM will open 4 more science centers in different parts
of India during 2021.
3. Arunachal Pradesh: Deputy Chief Minister presented the
state budget
✔️ Arunachal Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Chouna Mein, who
is also the Finance Minister, presented the state budget 2021-22 on 3 March
2021.
✔️ The state has reduced the fiscal deficit from 2.28
percent in the last financial year to 2.19 percent this time.
✔️ The government will initiate a major project to develop
three model villages on a pilot basis in the Indo-Tibet China border areas.
4. Gujarat: Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel presented
the budget
✔️ In Gujarat, Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel presented
the budget for the year 2021-22 at the state assembly in Gandhinagar on 3 March
2021.
✔️ There is a total outlay of Rs 2,27,029 crore in the
budget.
✔️ This is the largest outlay of the state budget so far in
Gujarat.
✔️ Nitin Patel has also announced a record allocation of Rupees 11,323 crore for health and family
welfare.
5. Jharkhand: Finance Minister Dr. Rameshwar Oraon
presented the state budget for 2021-22
✔️ Finance Minister Dr. Rameshwar Oraon in Jharkhand
presented the budget for the year 2021-22 in the state assembly in Ranchi on 3
March 2021.
✔️ Compared to the 2020 budget, the budget has a total of
Rs 91,277 crore, with an increase of over Rs 7,100 crore.
✔️ The budget includes revenue expenditure of Rs 75755.01
crore and capital expenditure of Rs 15521.99 crore.
6. Anpreet Vohra: Appointed as the High Commissioner of
India to Australia
✔️ Senior diplomat, Manpreet Vohra has been appointed as
the next High Commissioner of India to Australia.
✔️ Vohra, a 1988 batch Indian Foreign Service-IFS officer,
is currently India's ambassador to Mexico.
✔️ They can take over soon.
✔️ Vohra's appointment comes at a time when
India-Australia relations are advancing rapidly and both countries are
strengthening cooperation, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
7. CSMT: The First station to get IGBC Gold Certification
✔️The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Railway Station of
Central Railway, is the first railway station in Maharashtra to be awarded Gold
Certification as per the rating of Green Building Council of India (IGBC).
✔️ Central Railways has implemented various green
initiatives in its region.
✔️ The rating system promotes national priorities such as
energy efficiency, water conservation, etc.
8. World Bank: Launched $ 100 Million Guarantee Scheme
for Solar Rooftop Projects
✔️ The World Bank plans to launch a $ 100 million credit
guarantee scheme to boost India's rooftop solar program, which has not gained
enough traction.
✔️ The scheme will allow micro, small and medium
enterprises (MSMEs) to avail concessional loan financing for setting up rooftop
solar units.
✔️ The State Bank of India (SBI) and the Ministry of MSME
as well as the World Bank's plan to accelerate the adoption of rooftop solar
units will help MSME to use about $ 1 billion in loans.
✔️ This arrangement will be beneficial for firms that often
do not meet the lending criteria of banks and other financial institutions,
with their financial crisis aggravated by the covid-19 epidemic.
9. Railway Minister: Kotdwar-Delhi Junction-Kotdwar
Siddhbali Jan Shatabdi Special Train gets green signal
✔️ Railway Minister Piyush Goyal flagged off the
Kotdwar-Delhi Junction-Kotdwar Siddhbali Janshatabdi special train on 3 March
2021 through video conferencing.
✔️ The electrification of Kotdwar-Delhi route is almost
complete.
✔️ The train will connect Kotdwar with the national
capital.
✔️ Pilgrims is visiting the Siddhbali temple will benefits
from improved connectivity.
10. SBI Mutual Funds: First Overseas Fund Launched
✔️ State Bank of India (SBI) Mutual Fund has launched its
first foreign offering on 1 March 2021.
✔️ A fund named SBI International Access - US Equity is an
open-ended fund of fund scheme investing in the FOF Mutual Fund Scheme / ETF,
which invests in the US markets, which are domiciled overseas.
✔️ The plan will typically invest 95–100 percent of its net
assets in the Amundi Fund - the US Pioneer Fund (including ETF), which invests
primarily in the US markets.
✔️ Recently, Karnataka has launched the country's first
'Engineering Research and Development' (ER&D) policy.
✔️ Under this policy, multi-national corporation (MNC)
entities other than Bengaluru urban district will be offered 50% reimbursement
of rent up to Rs 2 crore.
✔️ To promote innovation, the government will fund colleges
for various projects and will also bear the cost of developing
industry-oriented courses in colleges and universities.
12. Government amended the Insurance Ombudsman Rules 2017
✔️ The Government of India has notified comprehensive amendments
to the Insurance Ombudsman Rules, 2017, to better address the grievances of the
insured in a timely, cost-effective and fair manner, regarding the shortcomings
of the insurance service.
✔️ This will help in facilitating the resolution of
complaints regarding deficiencies in insurance services in a timely,
cost-effective and fair manner.
✔️ The Lokpal system was administered by the Executive
Council of Insurance Companies. Now its name has been changed to Insurance
Ombudsman Council.
✔️ Earlier, the scope of complaints to the Lokpal was
limited to disputes only, but has now been extended to include deficiencies in
service on behalf of insurers, agents, brokers and other middlemen.
13. Indigenously developed "Spectrograph"
established in Nainital
✔️ Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational
sciences-ARIES, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Indian Scientists, Nainital
designed and developed a low-cost optical spectrograph as the ARIES - Devastal
Phant Object Spectrograph and Camera (ADFOSC) is.
✔️ It is installed on the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope
(DOT) in Nainital district of Uttarakhand.
✔️ The ADFOSC spectroscope is the largest spectroscope of
its kind in the current astronomical spectrograph in India.
✔️ The ADFOSC spectrograph can detect distant caesars and
galaxies, supermassive black-holes around galaxies, and sources of blurred
light from the region around cosmic explosions in a very young universe.
✔️ Until now, spectroscopes were imported from abroad at a
high cost.
✔️ The 'Made in India' optical spectrograph is about 2.5
times less expensive than imported spectroscopes and can find sources of light
with a photon-rate as low as 1 photon per second.
✔️ ARIES is an autonomous institute of the Department of
Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.
✔️ It is the largest reflecting telescope in India as well
as Asia.
14. Elon Musk has topped in Hurun's Global Rich List 2021
✔️ The 10th edition of the Hurun Global Rich List 2021 was
released, comprising 2,402 companies and 3228 billionaires from 68 countries.
✔️ The report showed that despite the COVID-19 epidemic,
the world added 8 billionaires every week in 2020 and 421 in a year, bringing
their total number to a record 3,288.
✔️ During the period under review, the total wealth of all
billionaires worldwide increased by 32 percent, adding $ 3.5 trillion, with
their total wealth reaching $ 14.7 trillion.
15. The entire railway network will be fully electrified
by 2023
✔️ The entire railway network of the country will be fully
electrified by 2023, while all railway networks will run on renewable energy by
2030.
✔️ This was stated by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal while
addressing the Marine India Summit-2021.
✔️ He also mentioned that the capacity of India's major
ports has almost doubled in six years.
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