Online platform Oliveboard partnered with ECGC (Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India) body to launch a pre-examination training (PET) for marginalised aspirants before the upcoming ECGC PO exam. PET will target students from SC/ST backgrounds.
ECGC PO exam is scheduled for 14th March 2021.
India’s first-ever diesel tractor converted to CNG was launched. The conversion carried out by Rawmatt Techno Solutions & Tomasetto Achille India will help farmers increase their income, by lowering costs, & help to create job opportunities in rural India.
CNG is a clean fuel with the lowest carbon & pollutant content.
Govt allocated Rs. 500 crore for National Beekeeping & Honey Mission (NBHM) for 3 years. NBHM aims for overall promotion & development of scientific beekeeping in India to achieve the goal of ‘Sweet Revolution’ which is implemented via National Bee Board.
World Bee Day is celebrated on May 20.
South Korea plans to build an 8.2GW offshore wind farm in Jeonnam province by 2030. This will be the world's biggest offshore wind power complex as it seeks to become carbon neutral by the year 2050. The project will cost a total of $43.2 billion.
Hornsea 1 (1.2GW) in Britain is currently the world’s largest.
As per the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar, Chinese New Year celebrates beginning of a new year. New Year began on February 12, 2021. 2021 is a year of the Ox. It will be a Metal Ox year. This festival is celebrated by China & other Asian countries.
The day marks the first new moon of the lunisolar calendars.
Meghalaya Police signed an MoU with the State Bank of India in connection with the implementation of e-challan within the jurisdiction of the Shillong Traffic Police. Imposing penalties on violators of traffic and generating challan will be done digitally.
Shillong is the capital of Meghalaya.
Odisha's Health and Family Welfare Department announced to construct a COVID-19 Warrior Memorial in Bhubaneswar to recognise sacrifice and service rendered by COVID-19 warriors. Biju Patnaik Park in Bhubaneswar is the site selected by the state government.
Odisha Capital: Bhubaneswar.
CM: Naveen Patnaik.
Goa became the 6th State to successfully undertake Urban Local Bodies (ULB) reforms stipulated by the Dept of Expenditure, Min of Finance. It has become eligible to mobilise additional financial resources of Rs. 223 crore through Open Market Borrowings.
Goa Capital: Panaji
CM: Pramod Sawant
PNB inked a pact with Indian Oil Corp to provide up to Rs 2 crore to the oil company's dealers. It will benefit dealers with credit facilities at lower interest rates, nil margin, & with minimum/zero collateral requirements through PNB e-Dealer scheme.
IOCL Chairman: S M Vaidya
HQ: New Delhi
NDB committed $100 million to India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund’s (NIIF) Fund of Funds. Envisioned in the Union budget 2015, NIIF was launched as an alternative investment fund in December 2016 with a target corpus of ₹40,000 crore.
In August, NIIF’s FoF received investment from the ADB.
RBI in exercise of its powers under Section 35A of Banking Regulation Act, 1949, put restrictions on withdrawals from Independence Co-op Bank Limited because of its present liquidity position. However, 99.89% of the depositors are covered by DICGC scheme.
The restrictions will remain in force for a period of 6 months.
SIDBI, along with the Confederation of Women Entrepreneurs of India, launched a campaign to give a fillip to the government’s Stand Up India scheme. The mega campaign - Swavalamban Sashakt is a 20 webinar series aimed at creating awareness about SUI scheme
The scheme has now been extended up to FY2025.
An MoU was signed between Hindustan Shipyard Ltd, Visakhapatnam & Goa Shipyard Limited to undertake repair & construction of Indian Navy or Coast Guard ships on the eastern seaboard to take advantage of their bigger drydock & draught available.
This will enable GSL to take repairs of much bigger ships.
According to India Ratings and Research India’s real GDP will grow at 10.4 per cent in FY22, after a 7.8 per cent contraction in the pandemic-impacted FY21. The agency expects headline retail inflation to cool down to 4.3 per cent in FY22.
India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) is headquartered in Mumbai.
Life Insurance Corp. of India saw its claim settlement ratio deteriorate marginally in FY20 to 96.6% from 97.7% in FY19. The life insurance industry in total paid 8.46 lakh claims on individual policies, with a total pay-out of Rs 18042 crore in the FY20.
Max Life had the highest claim settlement ratio at 99.2%.
Unfinished is a memoir by Priyanka Chopra. Described as a collection of personal essays, stories and observations, it chronicles important moments in her life and her 20-year-long career, such as working as an actress-producer & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
The book was released by Penguin Random House.
Turn Around India: 2020- Surmounting Past Legacy, a book on creating economic awareness among masses authored by R.P. Gupta was launched by Jual Oram. It provides a viable option for reviving Indian economy for creating new jobs and enlarging public income
It is published by the Himalaya Publishing House.
Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council launched a job portal Saksham that will conduct skills mapping exercises of workers as per requirements of MSMEs. It also launched a seaweed cultivation mission on TIFAC's 34th Foundation Day.
TIFAC is a think-tank under the Dept of Science and Technology.
Nigerian-American economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was poised to become the 1st African and first woman to lead the embattled World Trade Organization after her South Korean rival Yoo Myung-hee withdrew and the United States reversed its previous opposition.
Brazil’s Roberto Azevedo resigned from the post in August 2019.
Manasa Varanasi, an engineer from Telangana, has bagged the VLCC Femina Miss India World 2020 title. Haryana’s Manika Sheokand was declared VLCC Femina Miss Grand India 2020 while Uttar Pradesh’s Manya Singh crowned VLCC Femina Miss India 2020 Runner Up.
Varanasi will represent India at the 70th Miss World pageant.
National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO), under Ministry of Science & Technology organised 3 days 40th INCA International Congress in Kolkata. INCA is the only professional body of cartographers and geospatial technologists, founded in 1979.
Indian National Cartographic Association is located in Hyderabad
The Navy’s largest war game, the biennial Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise (TROPEX-21), with the participation of all its operational units as well as those of the Army, Air Force and the Coast Guard has completed the weapon work-up phase.
Current Chief of Naval Staff (CNS): Admiral Karambir Singh.
Darwin Day 2021 was celebrated on February 12 to mark the 212th birth anniversary of Charles Darwin. Darwin studied many types of animals and plant specimens, which led to him writing his theory of evolution and natural selection.
Scientific Literature of Darwin: "On the Origin of Species".
