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ace current affairs@santhosh sir July 17 to 23. 2021 • N. santhosh reddy • Faculty of Ace engineering academy

• [email protected] current affairs@santhosh sir Pegasus-NSO GROUP- ISRAEL A leak of a list of over 50,000 phone numbers believed to have been identified as those of people of interest by clients ace current affairs@santhosh sir of NSO since 2016 became available to Paris-based media nonprofit organisation Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International • Pegasus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology.

• It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and is one of the 88 constellations recognised today. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • With an apparent magnitude varying between 2.37 and 2.45, the brightest star in Pegasus is the orange supergiant Epsilon Pegasi, also known as Enif, which marks the horse's muzzle. Product linked incentive scheme • The duration of the scheme will be five years, from 2023-24 to 2027-28. The five categories of specialty steel which have been chosen in the PLI Scheme are: Coated/Plated Steel Products High Strength/Wearace resistant current affairs@santhosh Steel sir Specialty Rails Alloy Steel Products and Steel wires Electrical Steel • With a budgetary outlay of ₹6322 crores, the scheme is expected to bring in investment of approximately ₹40,000 crores and capacity addition of 25 MT for speciality steel.

• It is expected that the speciality steel production will become 42 million tonnes by theace end current of 2026 affairs@santhosh-27. sir

• Speciality steel has been chosen as the target segment because out of the production of 102 million tonnes steel in in 2020-21, only18 million tonnes value added steel/speciality steel was produced in the country. • The National Farmers Welfare Program Implementation Committee would act as a project monitoring unit for the implementation of  PM-Kisan Yojana,  Kisan Maandhan Yojana, ace current affairs@santhosh sir  Agriculture Infrastructure Fund and  other schemes of the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare. BHARTIYA PRAKRITIK KRISHI PADHATI (BPKP) • Government is implementing Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Padhati (BPKP) as a sub scheme of Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana (PKVY) since 2020-21 for the promotion of traditional indigenous practices.

• Under BPKP, financialace currentassistance affairs@santhosh of Rs 12200/ha sir for 3 years is provided for cluster formation, capacity building and continuous handholding by trained personnel, certification and residue analysis. Gaon pradhans • Assam Cabinet announced that Gaon Buras (village headman), village-level functionaries of the district administration, will henceforth be called ‘Gaon Pradhans’.

ace current affairs@santhosh sir ace current affairs@santhosh sir • Of them 128 birds were in , 10 in Kutch district of Gujarat and a few in Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Pakistan is also believed to host a few GIBs. • Due to the species’ smaller population size, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has categorised GIBs ace current affairs@santhosh sir as critically endangered, thus on the brink of extinction from the wild. ladakh • The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of an Integrated Multi-purpose infrastructure Development Corporation for the Union Territory of Ladakh. • The authorized share capital of the Corporation will be Rs.25 crore and recurring aceexpenditure current affairs@santhosh will be around sir Rs. 2.42 crore per year. • The Union Cabinet has given its approval of the formation of a Central University in Ladakh. This project cost for the formation of this university will be Rs 750 crore. First green hydrogen plant • IOC, India’s largest oil firm will build the country’s first ‘green hydrogen’ plant at its refinery in Mathura. • This decision has been undertaken with the view of preparing for a future to cater to the growing demands cleaner forms of

energy. ace current affairs@santhosh sir Tripura-agar policy • Tripura government has launched a draft named Tripura Agar Wood Policy 2021 and a target has been set up of doubling the plantation by the year 2025. • Currently, there are over 50 lakh agar trees in the state. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • Tripura government has plans to export 1,500 kg of Agar oil and 75,000 kg of Agar chips in the year 2021-22 WTO- COVID VACCINE

• Production remains highly centralised as about 75 per cent of this year’s vaccines appear set to come from five WTO members – India, Germany, US, France and China.

ace current affairs@santhosh sir amlex • To increase the life of medical oxygen cylinders three fold, the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar has developed a first-of-its-kind Oxygen Rationing Device – AMLEX • AMLEX supplies a required volume of oxygen to the patient during inhalation and trips when the patient exhales CO2. This process saves oxygen which otherwiseace unnecessarily current affairs@santhosh get wasted sir Adarsh smarak • These Three monuments of Andhra Pradesh are – Monuments at Nagarjunakonda, District Guntur,

– Budhhist Remains at Salihundam, District Srikakulam, and

ace current affairs@santhosh sir – Veerabhadra Temple at Lepakshi.

• Further, Fort at Gandikota has been included in the Adopt-a- Heritage scheme of Ministry of Tourism, which is PPP mode. Beta titanium alloy • Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has indigenously developed a ‘High Strength Metastable Beta Titanium Alloy’ containing Vanadium, Iron and Aluminium, Ti- 10V-2Fe-3Al (non-ferrous near-beta titanium alloy) on industrial scale for applicationsace in current aerospace affairs@santhosh structural sir forgings. ace current affairs@santhosh sir New shepard • The spacecraft lifted off from a private launch site near Van Horn, Texas. The capsule reached a maximum altitude of around 107km before starting its descent, parachuting down to a soft landing in the West Texas desert 11 minutes later.

• Bezos blasted off withace hiscurrent brother affairs@santhosh Mark and sir two history-making passengers: 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Funk, the oldest person to fly in space, and Oliver Daemen, an 18-year-old Dutch student who is the youngest ever to fly in space. Bird flu • On July 21, an 11-year-old boy died of H5N1 avian influenza in . This is the first recorded death due to the bird flu in India this year. In January, bird flu was confirmed in several states with thousands of birds, including migratory species, being found dead.ace current affairs@santhosh sir ETHANOL BLENDING  The Notified National Policy on Biofuels – 2018, provided an indicative target of blending 20% ethanol in petrol by 2025 Ethanol Blending has Improved from 1.53% during Ethanol Supply Year 2013-14 to 7.93% ongoing ESY 2020-21 Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has published a Notification dated June 02, 2021,ace wherein, current affairs@santhosh it has been stated sir that OMCs shall sell ethanol blended petrol with percentage of ethanol upto 20% as per BIS Specifications in the whole of India and Union Territories and shall come into effect from April 01, 2023. E-100 pilot projects has been launched at Pune city by Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) on June 05, 2021. ace current affairs@santhosh sir Indian institute of heritage The government has decided to set up the ‘Indian Institute of Heritage’ at Noida, Gautam Buddha Nagar. The Institute is being set up as Deemed to be University by integrating  Institute of Archaeology (Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya Institute of Archaeology), School of Archival Studies under National Archives of India, New Delhi, ace current affairs@santhosh sir the National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property (NRLC), Lucknow, National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation and Museology (NMICHM) ,New delhi Academic Wing of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi. Startup India Showcase • Startup India Showcase is an online discovery platform for the most promising startups of the country.(104 startups)

• These innovations span across various cutting-edge sectors such as Fintech, EntrepriseTech, Social Impact, HealthTech, EdTech, among others. ace current affairs@santhosh sir

• Ecosystem stakeholders have evaluated, nurtured, and supported these startups.

• These startups are solving critical problems and have shown exceptional innovation in their respective sectors. orphans • The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an estimated 1.5 million (15 lakh) children facing the loss of a parent or a caregiver (a grandparent or other older relative in their home), including over a million who lost one or both parents, according to a global study to be published in The Lancet ace current affairs@santhosh sir

• Mexico (1.41 lakh) and Brazil (1.30 lakh) have the highest number of children who have lost a primary caregiver, followed by India • The estimates for India indicate an 8.5-fold increase in the numbers of children newly orphaned in April 2021 (43,139) compared to March (5,091) • Globally, from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021, the study estimates that 11.34ace lakh currentchildren affairs@santhosh lost a primarysir caregiver (at least one parent or custodial grandparent). • Including other co-residing grandparents (or other older relatives), the total is 15.62 lakh children, of whom over 1 million (10.42 lakh) lost one or both parents. Unesco - liverpool

Previously, only two sites have lost their heritage status: The Arabian Oryx Sanctuary in Oman in ace current affairs@santhosh sir the year 2007, and the Dresden Elbe Valley in Germany in the year 2009 Liverpool-unesco • The decision was made following a secret ballot by the UNESCO Committee at a meeting in China. UNESCO had previously warned that the developments, including the new Everton FC stadium, had resulted in a “serious deterioration” of the historic site. • The city was awardedace the current much affairs@santhosh-coveted title sir in 2004 in recognition of its historical maritime history and architectural impact UNESCO’S ‘HiStOriC UrbaN LaNdSCapE’ project • Six cities of South Asia, including Ajmer and in India are already involved in this project.

• Orchha and Gwalior have been included as the 7th and 8th cities ace current affairs@santhosh sir

The cities will be jointly developed by UNESCO, Government of India and by focusing on their historical and cultural improvement. NORD STREAM2 • The US and Germany reached a deal on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline – which significantly increases Europe’s energy dependence on Russia– under which Berlin will respond to stop Moscow should the latter use the strategically critical gas system as political leverage. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • In 2015, the Russian energy major Gazprom and five other European firms decided to build Nord Stream 2, valued at around $11 billion. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • The 1,200-km pipeline will run from Ust-Luga in Russia to Greifswald in Germany through the Baltic Sea, and will carry 55 billion cubic metres of gas per year.

• The under-construction pipeline will run along with the already completed Nord Streamace current 1 system, affairs@santhosh and the twosir together will supply an aggregate of 110 billion cubic metres of gas to Germany per year.

• The pipeline falls in the territory of EU members Germany and Denmark, and is about 98% complete. Project 75-india • Under Project 75-India, the Government has issued a tender of Rs 50,000 crores to build six conventional diesel-electric submarines. • The tender has been issued to Larsen and Toubro and ace current affairs@santhosh sir Mazagon Dockyards Limited. Akash(ng)-surface to air missile • The missile system has been developed by Defence Research and Development Laboratory, Hyderabad in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories.

• The new version of the Akash missile (Akash-NG) can strike targets at a distance of aroundace current60 km affairs@santhosh and fly at a speed sir of up to Mach 2.5.

• the New Generation Akash Missile will prove to be a force multiplier for the air defence capability of the Indian Air Force. ace current affairs@santhosh sir WISA WOODSAT • The European Space Agency (ESA) has planned to put the world’s first wooden satellite, WISA Woodsat, on Earth’s orbit by the end of this year • It will be launched to space by the end of 2021 with a Rocket Lab Electron rocketace from current the affairs@santhosh Mahia Peninsula sir launch complex in New Zealand. • WISA Woodsat is a 10x10x10 cm nano satellite built up from standardised boxes and surface panels made from plywood NEA SCOUT • Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, or NEA Scout, is a small spacecraft, about the size of a big shoebox.

ace current affairs@santhosh sir NEA • CubeSats are miniaturized spacecraft with great potential for space-based science, exploration, engineering support, Earth observation, and relay communication • The NEA Scout -- roughly the size of a large shoebox -- will be propelled by a solarace sail current measuring affairs@santhosh 925 sirsquare feet, or 86 square meters • It will also be America’s first interplanetary mission using a special solar sail propulsion. Mh-60r helicopters • Indian Navy accepted the first two of its MH-60R Multi Role Helicopters (MRH) from US Navy in a ceremony held at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego on 16 Jul 21. • MH-60R helicopters manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corporation. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • 24 of these helicopters are being procured under Foreign Military Sales from the US Government. • Romeo anti-submarine helicopters Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile

ace current affairs@santhosh sir mpatgm • Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight tested indigenously developed low weight, fire and forget Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM)

• The missile is incorporatedace current with affairs@santhosh state-of- sirthe-art Miniaturized Infrared Imaging Seeker along with advanced avionics.

The man-portable missile is launched using a tripod is designed for a maximum range of 2.5 km with a launch weight of less than 15 Kg. ROMEO ANTISUBMARINE HELICOPTER

ace current affairs@santhosh sir World fastest train • The new maglev transportation system made its public debut in the coastal city of Qingdao, China’s east Shandong province.

Launched in October 2016, the high-speed maglev train project saw the development of a magnetic-levitation train prototype with a designed top acespeed current of affairs@santhosh 600 kms per sir hour in 2019, and conducted a successful test run in June 2020. S-500 anti missile system • Russia announced that the S-500 is the most advanced anti- missile system in the world and is expected to have a range of 600km. • This missile system is also capable of countering attacks from the space. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • This missile system was test fired in the Kapustin Yar training ground and live fire exercises were conducted. NB DRIVER • Researchers at IIT Madras have developed an AI tool called NBDriver (neighbourhood driver) for use in analysing cancer- causing mutations in cells

ace current affairs@santhosh sir UTTRAKHAND RIVER • The Director General, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), Shri Rajiv Ranjan Mishra chaired the 36th Executive Committee meeting of NMCG and approved new projects for rejuvenation of 6 polluted river stretches in . • The project shall coverace thecurrent 6 affairs@santhoshpolluted river sir stretches in the Kumaon region. • These 6 Rivers are Bhela, Dhela, Kichha, Kosi, Nandhore, Pilakhar and Kashipur. KISAN SARATHI • In order to facilitate farmers to get ‘right information at right time’ in their desired language, a digital platform namely ‘Kisan Sarathi’ was launched jointly by Minister for Agriculture with Minister for Electronics and Information Technology .

• with the digital platform,ace current the affairs@santhoshfarmers can interactsir and avail personalised advisories on agriculture and allied areas directly from the respective scientists of KrishiVigyan Kendra (KVKs). INSTITUTE OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN AYURVEDA (ITRA) • MoU was signed between Jamnagar based Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda (ITRA) under Ministry of Ayush and the Government of Gujarat. • Through this MoU all the institutions functioning in the Ayurveda

campus in Jamnagar acehave current been affairs@santhosh brought under sir the umbrella of ITRA, the only institution under the Ministry of Ayush that has been accorded the status of Institute of National Importance (INI). AMAZON FOREST • The Amazon forests in South America, which are the largest tropical forests in the world, have started emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of absorbing carbon emissions. • Changes in Amazon are being driven by factors such as deforestation, wildfires, and climate change. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • According to study, four areas were emitting 410 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year. Emissions were the result of fires, often set intentionally by humans. • Four regions absorbed roughly 120 million metric tons of carbon. Thus, sections of Amazon were giving off 290 million metric tons as net emission • RE-WILDING OF WILD ANIMALS • The recent attempt of Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) to reintroduce into the wild an abandoned nine-month-old cub named Mangala after rearing it in ‘captivity’ for two years has once again brought the controversial concept of ‘re-wilding’ of abandoned or injured animals under the lens. ace current affairs@santhosh sir KANWAR

ace current affairs@santhosh sir  In the Gangetic plains, the water is taken from sites such as , Gaumukh and in Uttarakhand, in , and Prayagraj, Ayodhya or Varanasi from .

 The water is used by theace current pilgrims affairs@santhosh to worship sir lingas at shrines of importance, include the 12 , or at certain specific temples such as the Pura Mahadeva and Augharnath Temple in Meerut or even in the devotee’s own village or town.  The Kanwar Yatra is a pilgrimage organised in the Hindu calendar month of Shravana RIGHT TO SPEED TRAIL • The main aim of the Right to Speedy trial is to inculcate Justice in the society. • It was first mentioned in that landmark document of English law, the Magna Carta. • In India, it is coveredace under current Articleaffairs@santhosh 21 which sir declares that “no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to the procedure laid by law.” PAYMENT SYSTEM DATA • The Reserve Bank of India has so far barred three foreign card payment network companies — Mastercard, American Express and Diners Club — from taking new customers on board over the issue of storing data in India.

• By the RBI circular on Storage of Payment System Data dated April 6, 2018, all system providers were directed to ensure that within six months the entire dataace (full current end affairs@santhosh-to-end transaction sir details, information collected or carried or processed as part of the message or payment instruction) relating to payment systems operated by them is stored in a system only in India. SCHOOL INNOVATION AMBASSADOR TRAINING PRG • Union Education Minister and Tribal Affairs Minister will jointly launch the ‘School Innovation Ambassador Training Program’ for 50,000 School Teachers on 16th July 2021 • The innovative and one of its kind training program for School Teachers , aims at trainingace current 50,000affairs@santhosh school sir teachers on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, IPR, Design Thinking, Product development, Idea generation etc. MEKEDATU DAM • Mekedatu, meaning goat’s leap, is a deep gorge situated at the confluence of the rivers Cauvery and its tributary Arkavathi. • The project aims to store and supply water for drinking purposes for the Bengaluruace current affairs@santhoshcity. Around sir400 megawatts (MW) of power is also proposed to be generated through the project. KERALA-TRNASPERSONS POLICY • The year 2018 the state authorities had sanctioned two seats reserved only for transpersons in all programs that are run by universities and affiliated schools in the State. This decision was taken to empower the transgender population of Kerala • The authorities of theace statecurrent ofaffairs@santhosh Kerala have sir removed the upper age limit for transgender college students of the state who are seeking admission to numerous educational programs available in the State universities and its affiliated schools. WORLDS FASTEST TRAIN-MAGLEV A maglev bullet train that can reach speeds of 600 kilometers per hour (373 miles per hour) has made its debut in Qingdao, ace current affairs@santhoshChina. sir

Developed by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation, it's considered the world's fastest train ace current affairs@santhosh sir PASSEX- UK INDIA NAVY • For the first time, United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 2021 which is led by HMS Queen Elizabeth is having complex maritime interactions with the Indian Navy. • In a two-day bilateral Passage Exercise (PASSEX) the Indian Navy along with the Royal Navy will be conducting various close ace current affairs@santhosh sir quarter manoeuvring and multi-ship, sea, air and sub-surface maritime exercises. • This maritime exercise will help both the navies to amplify their cooperation and interoperability. • The combined forces will include 2 submarines, 10 ships, about 20 aircrafts and around 4,000 personnel. FIT FOR 55% BY 2030

The European Commission unveiled its 'Fit for 55' package of revised climate and energy laws on 14 July - aiming to align key EU policies with the new 55-percent net-emissions ace current affairs@santhosh sir reduction by 2030 G20 E&E MINISTERS TALKS • With forest fires raging in the Russia and USA and severe floods devastating parts of Western Europe, on July 22 and 23, 2021, energy and environment ministers from the Group of 20 countries are holding talks at Naples in Italy. ace current affairs@santhosh sir • 11th Mekong- Ganga Cooperation • The MGC initiative was launched in the year 2000 with the aim of boosting cooperation in tourism, connectivity and culture and other range of areas. This initiative comprises of six countries, they are:

• India, Myanmar, Cambodia,ace current affairs@santhosh Laos, Thailand sir and Vietnam. • On July 21, 2021, while addressing the 11th Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) meeting, S Jaishankar India’s External Affairs Minister Participated New quad • United States of America, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan, have made a principle agreement to establish a new quadrilateral diplomatic platform with the primary aim to enhance regional connectivity. This QUAD group was announced by the administration of Biden ace current affairs@santhosh sir UN TAX COMMITTEE • Rasmi Ranjan Das, a Joint secretary of the Finance Ministry has been appointed to the UN tax committee as a member for the term period 2021 to 2025. • Rasmi Ranjan Das is Joint Secretary – (FT&TR-I), Central Board

of Direct Taxes, Departmentace current affairs@santhosh of Revenue, sir Ministry of Finance. peru • Pedro Castillo has been announced as Peru’s new president- elect, six weeks after a polarising vote in which, Keliko Fujimori, Castillo’s right wing rival, had alleged electoral fraud.

ace current affairs@santhosh sir TAIWAN • Using the name “Taiwan,” Taiwan’s government will set up its first office in Europe, in the Baltic nation of Lithuania. The Taiwan government has come up with this decision as it seeks to strengthen its diplomatic presence across the globe with the ever increasingace pressure current affairs@santhosh from Beijing. sir Olympic games • Tokyo -2020 • Paris -2024 • Los Angeles-2028 • Brisbane -2032 ace current affairs@santhosh sir • Australia’s Brisbane will be the host of the 2032 Olympics and Paralympics after receiving approval from the executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). • Brisbane becomes the third Australian city to host the Games after Sydney in 2000 and Melbourne in 1956. ace current affairs@santhosh sir UN EQUATOR PRIZE • The UNDP Equator Prize was started from 2002. • These two communities will win a prize amount of 10,000 USD. • The winners from India will join a network of 255 communities that have received the Equator Prize from over 80 countries. Out of the ten winnersace globally,current affairs@santhosh the two Indian sir winning organizations from are the Snehakunja Trust= karnataka Aadhimalai Pazhangudiyinar Producer Company Limited.=TN