Daily Current Affairs: September 11, 2021

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Important Days

National Forest Martyrs’ Day – 11 September

• National Forest Martyrs’ Day is observed on 11 September to pay tributes to those who laid down their lives in order to protect the jungles, forests and wildlife across India.

National News

Union Government virtually inaugurates seven food processing projects as a part of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’

• The Union Food Processing Industries Minister Pashupati Kumar Paras and the Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Prahlad Singh Patel virtually inaugurated seven food processing projects in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu to benefit farmers, processors and consumers of respective regions and adjoining areas.

Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launches the ‘Medicines from the Sky’ project               

• Union Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia and Telangana Minister K. T. Rama Rao has launched the ‘Medicines from the Sky’ project to send medicines to primary health care centres using drones at Vikarabad in Telangana.
• It is an initiative of the Government of Telangana led by the emerging technologies wing of the state IT department in association with the World Economic Forum, NITI Aayog and HealthNet Global.

PMGDISHA campaign was launched for 100 per cent digital literacy in rural areas

• The Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) campaign was launched under the PMGDISHA scheme, a flagship digital literacy scheme of the Union Government for rural areas to make all the digital villages 100 per cent digital literate

State News

Indian Air Force’s first emergency landing field on a national highway was inaugurated in Rajasthan               

• Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the first stretch of a national highway to be developed as an Emergency Landing Field (ELF) for the Indian Air Force on NH-925 at the Gandhav Bhakasar section, south of Barmer in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan                   

• Capital: Jaipur
• Chief Minister: Ashok Gehlot
• Governor: Kalraj Mishra
• National Parks: Desert National Park, Keoladeo Ghana National
• Park, Mukundra Hills National Park, Ranthambhore National Park, Sariska National Park

International News

India and Denmark discuss cooperation against climate change

• Danish Climate, Energy and Utilities Minister Dan Jorgensen, on his visit to India, discussed general bilateral cooperation in the areas of environment and climate change with Union Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav.
• They also discussed on the joint action plan to take forward the green strategic partnership in the environment sector.

Denmark

• Capital: Copenhagen
• Currency: Danish Krone

Banking & Economy

Asian Development Bank and India sign a $112 million loan to improve water supply infrastructure in Jharkhand

• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India signed a $112 million loan to develop water supply infrastructure and strengthen the capacity of urban local bodies (ULBs) for improved service delivery in Jharkhand.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

• Founded: 19 December 1966
• Headquarters: Mandaluyong, Philippines
• President: Masatsugu Asakawa

Jharkhand

• Capital: Ranchi
• Chief Minister: Hemant Soren
• Governor: Ramesh Bais

SBM Bank and Lendingkart partner to offer overdraft facilities to MSMEs

• SBM Bank India has tied up with fintech player Lendingkart for providing working capital and offer overdraft facilities to 1 lakh customers of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) through the Lendingkart platform.

Appointments

Sardar Iqbal Singh was appointed as the Chairman of the National Commission for Minorities                     

• Former Punjab-cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) Sardar Iqbal Singh Lalpura was appointed as the Chairman of National Commission for Minorities replacing Ghayorul Hasan.

Comptroller and Auditor General of India G. C. Murmu was elected as the Chairman of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI)

• India’s Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Girish Chandra Murmu was elected as the Chairman of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) assembly for a three-year term from 2024 to 2027.

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani resigns                               

• Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani submitted his resignation from his post to Governor Acharya Devvrat after being in power for five years.

Gujarat                        

• Capital: Gandhinagar
• Governor: Acharya Devvrat
• National Parks: Blackbuck National Park, Vansda National Park, Gir Forest National Park, Marine (Gulf of Kachchh) National Park

Science and Technology

Co-WIN develops a new Application Programming Interface to check the vaccination status of an individual                            

• Co-WIN has developed a new Application Programming Interface (API) called ‘Know Your Customer’s or ‘Client’s Vaccination Status – KYC-VS’ to check an individual’s status of vaccination through Co-WIN.
• If the response of Co-WIN is 0 means the person is not vaccinated while a response of 1 means the person is partially vaccinated and a response of 2 means the person is fully vaccinated.

China successfully launches the earth observation satellite Gaofen-5 02                          

• China has successfully launched a new earth observation satellite Gaofen-5 02, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre into space to improve China’s hyperspectral observation capacity of the atmosphere, water and land.

China

• Capital: Beijing
• Currency: Renminbi
• President: Xi Jinping

Obituary

Kashmiri writer Aziz Hajini passed away             

• Aziz Hajini, a well-known writer and former secretary of the Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture and Languages, passed away at the age of 64.

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