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Ace deep learn 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 India 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 Rajasthan, 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 Delhi. 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: