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Vaccine Festival: COVID-19
Vaccination Campaign
✔️ Prime
Minister Narendra Modi recently appealed to the Chief Ministers of the states
to organize "Tika Utsav".
✔️ Tika Utsav is
a festival.
✔️ It is to be
held between April 11, 2021 and April 14, 2021.
✔️ The main
objective of this festival is to get more and more people vaccinated.
✔️ It will also
focus on the zero dissipation of the COVID-19 vaccine.
✔️ Currently,
three states are receiving the maximum COVID-19 dose.
✔️ They are
Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
✔️ COVAXIN and
COVISHIELD are the two major COVID-19 vaccines, currently administered in
India.
Netra Kumannan: The first
Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics
✔️ 23-year-old
Netra Kumannan from Chennai qualified for the Olympics by securing the top
position in the laser radial event of the Asian qualifier being played in Oman.
✔️ After earning
a spot in the Laser Radial event for the Tokyo Games, Netra Kumannan became the
first Indian woman sailor to qualify for the Olympics.
Bihar: 50 km journey will
be free for Divyang
✔️ Bihar
Transport Corporation will provide free travel up to 50 km in its buses for
disabled people and 50% discount on further travel
✔️ Transport
Corporation will provide them unique ID to avail this facility.
✔️ In order to
check the misuse of the facility, it has been decided to make it available only
to 40% disabled persons.
Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy: Starting a Production Linked Incentive Scheme
✔️ Proposal for
'National Program on High Efficiency Solar PV (Photo Voltaic) Module', a
Production Promotion Scheme (PLI) in High Efficiency Solar PV (Photo Voltaic)
Module of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has been approved.
✔️ It aims at
manufacturing capacity of Giga Watt (GW) scale in high-efficiency solar PV
modules.
✔️ The capacity
of integrated solar PV manufacturing plants will increase by 10,000 MW.
✔️ About 30,000
people will get direct employment and 1,20,000 people will get indirect
employment.
India: Achieved ₹ 150
trillion in bank deposits
✔️ Banks in
India achieved ₹ 150 trillion in deposits.
✔️ The deposit
touched ₹ 100-trillion in September 2016 and crossed ₹ 50-trillion in February
2011.
✔️ According to
data released by the Reserve Bank of India, the outstanding bank deposits stood
at Rs 21.13 trillion on 26 March, the last side of the financial year.
✔️ This is an
increase of 11.3% over the same period in 2020.
First Indo-US online
cricket tournament
✔️ To
commemorate the growing trade relations between the two countries, an Indo-U.S.
Cricket eSports competition was organized.
✔️ The event was
live-streamed on 8 April 2021.
✔️ Sixteen
players from India and the US competed in a five-over format on 'Real Cricket'
20 ', a mobile cricket gaming platform.
✔️ The US
finalist defeated the Indian player by 13 runs.
Ministry of Tourism: will
organize promotional programs
✔️ The Ministry
of Tourism will organize a mega tourism promotion program of "Tapping the
Potential of Kashmir: Humiliation Day in Paradise" in Srinagar from 11-13
April 2021.
✔️ Jammu and
Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will address the delegates at the
inauguration of the event.
✔️ Many
interesting events will be part of the ceremony, including a technical visit to
Tulip Gardens for delegates.
Ramesh Pokhriyal:
"Nanosnifer" launched
✔️ The Union
Minister of Education, Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank', launched the world's first
microsensor-based explosive trace detector (ETD), dubbed the
"NanoSniffer".
✔️ ETD is
developed by Nanosnife Technology, an IIT Bombay incubated startup.
✔️ It is being
marketed by Vihant Technologies, a spin-off of startup IIT Delhi-based critical
solutions.
✔️ It is a 100%
Made in India product in terms of research, development and manufacturing.
✔️ Affordable
equipment will reduce the country's dependence on imported explosive trace
detector devices.
✔️ This device
can detect explosives in less than 10 seconds.
L&T Company: Wins EPC
Order from Saudi Arabia
✔️ The
manufacturing subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has won a major
contract to set up a 1.5 GW solar plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
✔️ It has won a
contract with the consortium of ACWA Power.
✔️ The project
is considered to be the largest solar plant in Saudi Arabia.
✔️ It is one of
the largest plant in the world.
✔️ The project
will be spread over 30.8 square kilometers of land.
SBI MF: First mutual fund
company to cross Rs 5 lakh crore AAUM
✔️ SBI Funds
Management Private Limited has informed that it has become the first mutual
fund house in India to cross the average assets under management (AAUM) at Rs 5
lakh crore.
✔️ SBI MF has
seen a 35% growth during FY 2020-21, with an average AUM rising from Rs 3.73
lakh crore to Rs 5.04 lakh crore.
✔️ The company,
which is a joint venture between India's largest lender, State Bank of India
and Europe's largest asset manager, Amundi.
✔️ The SIP book
of the fund house has increased from Rs 1,180 crore to Rs 1,382 crore as
compared to the previous year, registering a growth of 17%.
Carnival Cinema: Entered
Arunachal Pradesh
✔️ Carnival
Cinema has announced its entry into Arunachal Pradesh and aggregation in Assam
through a strategic branding partnership with Louis Entertainment.
✔️ The company
aims to find opportunities in places like Naharlagun, Morigaon, Dhemaji and
Barpeta.
✔️ As part of
the deal, it will provide standard operating procedures for ongoing theaters,
onscreen and off-screen advertising support and more.
Indian Army officer Bharat
Pannu breaks 2 Guinness World Records
✔️ Bharat Pannu,
the Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army, has earned two Guinness World
Records for his fastest single cycling feat since October 2020.
✔️ The first record
was made when Lieutenant Colonel Pannu cycled from Leh to Manali (a distance of
472 kilometers) on October 10, 2020, in just 35 hours and 25 minutes.
✔️ Lieutenant
Colonel Pannu set a second record by making the 5,942 km long 'Golden
Quadrilateral' route, which connects Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata in 14
days, 23 hours and 52 minutes.
Former Madhya Pradesh
minister Mahesh Joshi passed away
✔️ Senior
Congress leader and former Madhya Pradesh minister Mahesh Joshi died in April
2021.
✔️ A three-time
MLA, was first elected to the state assembly in 1967 from Indore-1
constituency.
✔️ He was
subsequently elected twice from Indore-3 assembly constituency.
✔️ He became the
Minister of State in the year 1985.
Prince Philip II's husband
Prince Philip dies
✔️ Prince Philip
II's husband Prince Philip has passed away.
✔️ The
99-year-old Prince died a few months before his 100th birthday in June.
✔️ He retired
from public duties in 2017 at the age of 96.
✔️ He was the
longest serving royal comrade in British history, having been in favor of Queen
Elizabeth II for decades.
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