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CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE (July 2020 to 10Th January 2021) (For IBPS PO, SBI PO, IBPS RRB Officer Scale I and Office Assistant 2020 MAINS EXAMINATIONS) CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE (July 2020 to 10th January 2021) (For IBPS PO, SBI PO, IBPS RRB Officer Scale I and Office Assistant 2020 MAINS EXAMINATIONS) January-2021 President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Dr. ICMR successfully cultures new UK strain of Justice S. Muralidhar as Chief Justice of Odisha Coronavirus. No country has yet reported High Court and Kumari Justice Hima Kohli as successful isolation and culture of the UK-variant Chief Justice of Telangana. Justice Pankaj Mithal of SARSCoV-2. will be Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir and TRIFED (Tribal Cooperative Marketing Ladakh High Court and Justice Sanjib Banerjee, Development Federation of India) signs MoU with Chief Justice of Madras. DAY-NRLM to boost livelihoods of SHG Women Defence Ministry has signed a contract with & Tribal Populations. Bharat Electronics Limited for procurement of 10 The International Financial Services Centres Lynx U2 Fire Control systems for frontline Authority (IFSCA) became an associate member warships of Indian Navy. of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The Union government has selected actuarial firm The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India Milliman Advisors for ascertaining the embedded (FSSAI) has capped the amount of trans fatty value of Life Insurance Corporation of India, acids (TFA) in oils and fats to 3% for 2021 and 2% ahead of its initial public offer. by 2022. New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson has Malayalam Poet and lyricist Anil Panachooran overtaken Australia’s Steve Smith and India passed away. captain Virat Kohli to be the No. 1 Test batsman Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar to head 51st in the world in the latest ICC rankings. IFFI''s International Jury. Michael Kindo, a member of India’s 1975 hockey Cabinet approves signing of Memorandum of World Cup winning and the 1972 Olympics bronze Cooperation between India, Japan on partnership winning teams, passed away. in 'Specified Skilled Worker’. Leon Mendonca became India’s 67th chess Alan Burgess, the world's oldest first-class Grandmaster by winning his third and final norm cricketer, has died aged 100 years and 250 days. in a tournament in Italy. Indian-American Raj Iyer has taken over as the The appointments committee of the Union cabinet first Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the U.S. has approved giving an extension of one year to Army. ISRO chairman K Sivan. Elon Musk has overtaken Amazon.com Inc. V.K. Yadav, Chairman & CEO, Railway Board, founder Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person. Ministry of Railways has been conferred with the Fashion designer Satya Paul, who reinvented the prestigious “Eminent Engineer Award for the Year saree for contemporary women through his brand, 2020’ by the Institution of Engineering and passed away. Technology (IET). The Union Law Ministry has notified the Slovakian tennis player Dagmara Baskova was appointment of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia as the banned for 12 years for match-fixing offenses. new Chief Justice of Gauhati High Court. New kids book "Vahana Masterclass" launched by Twitter permanently suspends US President Italian Writer Alfredo Covelli. Donald Trump's account. Soma Mondal has taken over as the new Madhavsinh Solanki, Former Union Minister &3 Chairman of Steel Authority of India Limited time CM of Gujarat Passed Away. (SAIL). She is the first-ever women-head of the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency body. Ltd (IREDA) virtually signed a Memorandum of 1 Understanding (MoU) with NHPC Limited Lt. Gen. Konsam Himalay Singh Authored a Book (formerly known as National Hydroelectric Power Titled ‘Making of a General & A Himalayan Echo’. Corporation), to provide its technical expertise for Neil Sheehan, an American Journalist and Pulitzer developing renewable energy projects for the next Prize-Winning Author Passed Away. 5 years. The Reserve Bank of India has approved the re- PNB Collaborates with IIT Kanpur &FIRST to Set appointment of Vishakha Mulye as an Executive up Fintech Innovation Centre at IIT Kanpur Director of the ICICI Bank. Campus. CBoI Signs MoU with NABFOUNDATION to Provide Working capital for SHGs to Undertake ‘My Pad My Right’ Project. December-2020 The Union environment minister, Prakash Odisha Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik has Javadekar has released a report titled the ‘Status announced that India’s biggest hockey stadium is of Leopard in India 2018’. The States of Madhya being set up in Rourkela city of Odisha. Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra recorded NITI Aayog has launched indigenously developed the highest leopard estimates at 3,421, 1,783, and India’s first Digital Asset Management and 1,690 respectively. Storage platform, called ‘DigiBoxx’. The 9th edition of Sustainable Mountain The Ministry of Agriculture has declared Development Summit (SMDS) held in Dehradun, Lakshadweep as India’s first Union Territory to Uttarakhand. become 100 per cent organic. The UN Women and Kerala government have The historical fort cities of Gwalior and Orchha in collaborated to establish India’s first Gender Data Madhya Pradesh have been included in the list of Hub. UNESCO’s world heritage cities under its The Consulting firm PwC India has collaborated with World Heritage Cities Programme. the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and YuWaah (Generation Unlimited in India) to upskill Steel, Dharmendra Pradhan launched India’s first 300 million young Indians over the next 10 years. indigenously developed ‘100 Octane premium Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the petrol’ through video conferencing. It has been Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya developed by Indian Oil Corporation Limited Yojana (AB-PMJAY) SEHAT scheme. The main (IOCL) at its Mathura refinery in Uttar Pradesh. aim behind the scheme is to extend health Prime Minister Narendra Modi has flagged off the insurance coverage to all residents of Jammu and country’s first-ever fully-automated driverless train Kashmir. service on the Magenta Line of the Delhi Metro. The Central Government has set up an Apex The Union Cabinet approved revised guidelines Committee for the Implementation of the Paris for Direct-to-Home (DTH) broadcasting services, Agreement (AIPA) for achieving its goals under allowing 100 per cent foreign direct investment the global deal. R P Gupta will be the head of this (FDI) as well as increasing the licence period to committee. 20 years. Union Minister of Defence, Rajnath Singh has Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation inaugurated the advanced Hypersonic Wind stone of the 30,000 megawatt (MW) capacity Tunnel (HWT) test facility of the DRDO in hybrid renewable energy park in Kutch district of Hyderabad, Telangana. Gujarat. It will be the largest renewable energy Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Dr Harsh park of its kind in the world. Vardhan inaugurated the meteorological centre India’s first pollinator park with over 40 species of (MC) of the India Meteorological Department at butterflies, honeybees, birds and insects has been Leh in Ladakh. developed over four acres at Haldwani, India’s first Lithium refinery is soon going to be set Uttarakhand. up in Gujarat. Manikaran Power Limited, one of India’s first hot air balloon wildlife safari in a tiger the country’s largest power trading and renewable reserve was launched in the Bandhavgarh Tiger energy company will invest around `1,000 crore Reserve by Madhya Pradesh forest minister Vijay to set up this refinery. Shah. 2 HDFC Bank is the top-ranked company among New Zealand has declared a “climate emergency” the 100 Banking, Financial Services and and promised to make its public sector carbon Insurance (BFSI) companies in the country, as per neutral by 2025. the BFSI Movers and Shakers 2020 report by The Reserve Bank of India has cancelled the Wizikey. ICICI Bank and State Bank of India (SBI) banking licence issued to Subhadra Local Area are ranked second and third, respectively. Bank Ltd., Kolhapur, Maharashtra to carry on India was placed at the 111th spot out of 162 banking business in India. countries in the 2020 Human Freedom Index. The The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to first three spots have been bagged by New set up an Automated Banknote Processing Centre Zealand, Switzerland and Hong Kong. (ABPC) in Jaipur for the receipt, storage and American media personality and reality TV star, dispatch of currency notes. Kylie Jenner has been crowned the highest-paid The Reserve Bank of India has announced that celebrity of 2020 by Forbes. the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system According to the report released by the United will be made available round the clock on all days Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India of the year with effect from 00:30 hours on has been dropped two spots to 131 among 189 December 14, 2020. countries in the 2020 Human Development Index. The six-member Monetary Policy Committee of Norway topped the index, followed by Ireland, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), headed by Switzerland, Hong Kong and Iceland. Sonu Sood has topped the first-of-its-kind ’50 Governor Shaktikanta Das, has decided to Asian Celebrities in The World’ 2020 list, maintain the status quo on policy rate amid sticky published by UK based Eastern Eye newspaper. rate of inflation. India is ranked at 10th place in the ‘Climate • The repo rate under the liquidity adjustment Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2021’. facility (LAF) has been kept unchanged at The Nongpok Sekmai Police Station in Manipur 4.00%. topped the list of best police stations in India. • The reverse repo rate under the LAF has been Chairperson of HCL Technologies, Roshni Nadar kept unchanged at 3.35%. Malhotra has topped the list of wealthiest women • The marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and in India, according to the second edition of ‘Kotak the Bank Rate have been kept unchanged at Wealth Hurun–Leading Wealthy Women’ report.
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