The event marks an important milestone towards the creation of One Nation One Gas Grid. It has been built by GAIL (India) Limited. It will carry natural gas from the LNG Regasification Terminal at Kochi. The pipeline will supply environment-friendly PNG.
It has transportation capacity of 12 Million Metric tonn per day
He will also dedicate National Atomic Timescale(generates IST with an accuracy of 2.8 nanosecond) & Bhartiya Nirdeshak Dravya to the nation and also lay the foundation stone of the National Environmental Standards Laboratory.
Theme of conclave: Metrology for the Inclusive Growth of Nation
The day commemorates the birth anniversary of Louis Braille, the man who invented the braille language. The day aims to raise awareness about Braille- a form of communication and written language for people who are blind and visually challenged.
Louis Braille was a French educator who invented braille in 1809
COVISHIELD- Pune-based Serum Institute of India has sought approval for its version of the vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.COVAXIN-Bharat Biotech company which is developing in collaboration with National Institute of Virology,Pune.
Neither Covishield nor Covaxin has completed phase-3 trials
The Nation’s first indigenously developed DNA vaccine candidate against COVID-19, ZyCoV-D has been approved by DCGI for the conduct of Phase III clinical trials. It has supporte by National Biopharma Mission under BIRAC & Department of Biotechnology, GOI
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council formed : 2014
The Indian army has ordered new fast patrol boats for the surveillance of water bodies in the mountains, including Pangong Tso, in eastern Ladakh in where it has been locked in a border row with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
Shri Radha Krishna Mathur Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zhong’s net worth has soared $70.9 billion this year to $77.8 billion, making him the 11th richest person in the world. Zhong, vaccine magnate & founder of China’s largest bottled water company Nongu spring.
Zhong Shanshan popularly known as ‘Lone Wolf’.
According to the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways five ports are Mumbai, Chennai, Deendayal, Paradip, and Kolkata (including Haldia).Enterprise business system (EBS) is being implemented at five major ports with a project cost of about Rs 320cr.
Major ports in the country have an installed capacity of 1,534MT
TRIFED under Ministry of tribal Affairs has formulated a proposal in which it will collaborate with Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) & India Post to implement a successful marketing and logistic intervention for promoting the NER.
Tribal Co-operative Marketing Federation of India formed in 1987
L&T said the engineering, procurement, construction & commissioning (EPCC) contract is for setting up a dual feed cracker unit (DFCU) for Rajasthan RefineryProject at Barmer. DFCU is the biggest EPCC contract awarded in the country to date in this sector
LTHE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro
Operations to extinguish the fire were carried out byNagaland Police, NDRF,SDRFetc..The fire broke out in the Dzukou range in Southern Angami region of the district.The scenic Dzukou valley, a tourist hot spot in Nagaland, is located in the Dzukou range.
Nagaland CM:Neiphiu Rio; Governor:RN Ravi
The National Capital Region Transport (NCRTC), which is executing India's first RRTS project, has awarded the contract to the Chinese firm, Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Company Limited (STEC) to construct a 5.6-km underground stretch.
Rapid Rail corridor connecting Delhi, Ghaziabad, Meerut.
The bill requires the USAID to award at least 50% of scholarships under a Pakistan-based higher education scholarship program to Pakistani women from 2020 to 2022.Bill requires USAID to consult with & leverage investments by the Pakistani private sector
United States Agency for International Development formed in1961
Food Safety and Standards Authority of Indiaannounced that all edible refined oils, vanaspati, bakery shortening, margarines, vegetable fat spreads and mixed fat spreads may only contain 3% or less trans fats by Jan 2021 & 2%or less by Jan 2022.
Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils(PHVOs) source of trans fat
Benefit of Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP) scheme will be extended to all export goods from January 1, 2021. Under the scheme, the embedded central, state and local duties or taxes will get refunded and credited in an exporter.
RoDTEP scheme will replace the popular Merchandise Exports.