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Ministry of Education launched YUVA- Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors. It is an Author Mentorship program to train young and budding authors below 30 years.
YUVA is a part of the India@75 Project to bring to the fore the perspectives of the young generation of writers on themes like Unsung Heroes, Freedom Fighters, Unknown, and Forgotten Places.
YUVA - Young, Upcoming and Versatile Authors
RBI released its Annual Report 2020 – 21, a statutory report of its Central Board of Directors for the transition period of 9 months (July ’20 - Mar ’21). According to the report, the balance sheet of RBI increased by 6.99% and RBI’s gains from foreign exchange transactions rose by 69%. RBI’s income decreased by 10.96% and expenditure decreased by 63.10%.
In 2020-21, bank frauds in terms of value (₹1 lakh & above) decreased by 25%.
The Reserve Bank of India imposed a penalty of Rs 10 crore on HDFC Bank in relation to irregularities found in its auto loan portfolio. This is one of the largest penalties imposed by the regulator on a bank in recent times.
The irregularities were linked to the marketing and sale of third-party non-financial products to the bank’s customers.
Mount Nyiragongo erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Mount Nyiragongo is one of several volcanoes near the DRC's border with Rwanda and Uganda. Its last major eruption, in 2002, killed 250 people and displaced thousands.
Nyiragongo and nearby Nyamuragira are together responsible for 40 percent of Africa's historical volcanic eruptions.
Mount Nyiragongo is located inside Virunga National Park.
US President has released his first annual budget - a $6tn spending plan that includes steep tax increases for wealthier Americans. The bumper proposal would include huge new social programs and investment in the fight against climate change. But it needs approval from Congress.
Under the plan, debt would reach 117% of GDP by 2031, surpassing levels during World War Two.
Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-ravaged Syria. Standing against him were former state minister Abdallah Salloum Abdallah and Mahmud Merhi, a member of the opposition.
Syria:
Capital: Damascus
Currency: Syrian pound
Emmy Award-nominated choreographer Suresh Mukund recently became the first Indian to win the 10th Annual World Choreography Award 2020. Earlier Suresh and his team Kings United had won the American dance reality show World of Dance Season 3.
Tamil Nadu Govt announced that ₹ 5 lakh would be deposited on the account of each orphaned child & would be given to the child with interest when the child attains 18 years of age.
Families who have been left with single parents due to Covid to be given an immediate benefit of ₹ 3 lakh. It also plans to pay ₹3000 per month to relatives who have custody of the orphaned.
Tamil Nadu:
Capital: Chennai
Governor: Banwarilal Purohit
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy sanctioned 19,000 solar streetlights (SSLs) to J&K. The SSL project has the central financial support of Rs 42.06 crore against the total project cost of Rs 47.84 crore. The remaining is provided by the UT.
The installation of these SSLs shall help in saving 8.4 units of energy annually resulting in a saving of Rs 61.32 lakhs annually.
Jammu and Kashmir has become the first UT to provide relief to COVID affected. SASCM/Saksham Scheme was launched to provide special pension and scholarships to COVID victims’ families.
Under this, the surviving spouse & one eldest surviving member of the affected families will receive a special monthly pension of ₹ 1000 through DBT.
Govt of Karnataka assisted by USAID & Skoll Foundation-supported COVIDactionCollab (CAC) introduced a city-wide sewage surveillance system in Bangalore that will help track coronavirus at an early stage
Precision Health Platform in Bengaluru, the 1st of its kind in Asia, will test sewage from both sewered and non-sewered waste water to identify clusters of new infections.
CAC - India-wide collaborative of networks working to provide COVID-19 relief.
Convergence Energy Services Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Energy Efficiency Services Limited signed an agreement with Goa Energy Development Agency for installation of solar PV-based home lighting systems for remote villages in Goa
CESL will install and maintain solar PV systems for 5 years under the Remote Village Electrification programme of the Government of Goa
Goa:
Capital: Panaji
Governor: Bhagat Singh Koshyari
CM: Pramod Sawant
Director General of Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF Kuldiep Singh has been given additional charge of Director General of National Investigation Agency, NIA.
Mr. Singh will hold the additional post after 31st or this month after superannuation of Y C Modi.
USA’s NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot to the moon in late 2023. The rover named Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will search for ice and other resources on the lunar surface.
VIPER will also be using the first headlight on a lunar rover to aid in exploring the permanently shadowed regions of the moon.
NASA is headquartered in Washington D.C., USA.
Scientists of NEERI have developed a 'Saline Gargle RT-PCR Method' for testing COVID-19 samples. The method is non-invasive and so simple that the patient can themselves collect the samples. They can also get the results within three hours. This method is also environmental-friendly. NEERI is located in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
NEERI stands for National Environmental Engineering Research Institute.
Eminent educationist and former vice-chancellor of Anna University M. Ananthakrishnan passed away. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Anna University for two terms and was chairman of the Board of Governors of the IIT, Kanpur.
He received several awards, including Padma Shri in 2002 & the Order of Scientific Merit from the President of Brazil in 1996.
He also served as chief science officer in the United Nations in New York.