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Current Affairs 2020-2021 Online Today Current Affairs for Competitive Exams - Current Affairs 2020-2021 Online Nagaland govt bans use of flex banners • The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike will conduct Begging and Hawking children • Nagaland govt has totally banned the use of flex identification survey in the eight zones of the banners, boards and posters by departments, municipal corporation area. institutions and agencies during functions or • It will collate information on children selling programmes in government offices with vanity items near traffic signals and those who are immediate effect. school dropouts in slums. • Flex banners/ boards/ posters are made up of • The officials have been asked to rehabilitate them Poly-Vinyl-Chlorides (PVC), a plastic polymer, or make arrangements for the education of such which is a non-biodegradable material. children. • If burned, it releases harmful toxins and gets bio- accumulated. Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network Trinamool Congress MLA Silbhadra Datta resigns • J&K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has launched the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence • In West Bengal, Silbhadra Datta, Trinamool Network, eVIN. Congress MLA from Barrackpore constituency has • It has been launched in order to rationalize resigned from all party posts. vaccine flow and distribution. • The move comes a day after Suvendu Adhikari, • Metadata Collection of Cold Chain Points, CCPs one of the closest aides of Chief Minister Mamata and uploading of data in eVIN cloud server has Banerjee, formally quit the party. been completed. • TMC MLA Jitendra Tiwari also resigned from his • A total of 20 Vaccine Logistics & Cold Chain post as chief of the administrative board of Managers, VCCMs have been appointed in each Asansol Municipal Corporation on 17 Dec'20. district. Home Affairs Ministry bans NSCN (K) Agriculture Processing Centre at Kurbathang • Union Ministry of Home Affairs, MHA has • In Ladakh, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development declared National Socialist Council of Nagaland Council, LAHDC Kargil CEC Kargil Feroz Ahmad (Khaplang), NSCN(K) along with all its factions, Khan laid the foundation stone of Agriculture wings and front organisations as an unlawful Processing and Marketing Centre, Kurbathang on association under sections of Unlawful Activities 18 Dec'20. (Prevention) Act, 1967. • He later inaugurated training and awareness • NSCN (K) has been involved in 104 violence camp for farmers and self-help groups. incidents resulting in killings of 7 security forces • personnel and 6 civilians. The centre will come up at a cost of Rs. 2.5 crores. BBMP to conduct a survey Webinar and expo between India and Maldives 1 | P a g e • A webinar and expo between India and Maldives • United States has banned China's top chipmaker were held on 17 Dec 2020. SMIC from using American technology. • The theme of the webinar was ‘Joint Indo • The company illustrates the risks of China using Maldives High Level Defence Engagement’. US technology to modernize its military. • It was organised under the aegis of Department of • Dozens of Chinese companies, including SMIC and Defence Production, Ministry of Defence through drone maker DJI, have been added to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Commerce Department's Entity List, which Industry. effectively cuts them off from US suppliers and • This webinar is the part of Aero India 21 series of technology. webinars. Relaxation from condition of fumigation 4th Bilateral JWG meeting held • In the light of public concern over high prices of • Fourth Bilateral Joint Working Group, JWG onion, the Dept of Agriculture and Farmers meeting between the Narcotics Control Bureau Welfare has decided to extend the relaxation NCB India and the National Narcotics Board BNN, from the condition of fumigation and additional Indonesia was held on 17 Dec 2020. declaration on Phytosanitary Certificate for • The Indian delegation was led by Director imports up to 31st January 2021. General, Narcotics Control Bureau, Rakesh • Consignments of imported onions which arrive in Asthana. Indian ports without fumigation would be • The 5th India -Indonesia Bilateral Joint Working fumigated in India by the importer. Group Meeting on Drug Control Cooperation will 2-day Annual Summit of OPPI be held in India in 2021. • Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister D.V. Piyush Goyal addressed CII's Session Sadananda Gowda inaugurated the 2-day Annual • Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal Summit of the Organisation of Pharmaceutical addressed CII's Session on Post-Brexit UK and Producers of India, OPPI in New Delhi on 17 Dec India, along with Secretary of State for 2020. International Trade for the UK, Ms Liz Truss, on 17 • He conferred the lifetime achievement and Dec 2020. special recognition awards during the summit. • Both sides have agreed to work together in many • He informed that the contribution of the Indian sectors like education, health, environment, pharmaceutical sector has been reinforced during easier movement of people, large investment the pandemic. flows. DRDO Awards Ceremony held PMs of India and Vietnam to hold a summit • Defence Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated • PM Narendra Modi will hold Virtual Summit with eminent scientists for their contribution and the Prime Minister of Vietnam Nguyen Xuan Phuc services to the nation at the DRDO Awards on 21 Dec'20. Ceremony on 18 Dec 2020. • During the Summit, the two leaders will exchange • He also handed over a model of Astra MK-1 BVR views on wide-ranging bilateral, regional and air to air missile to Indian Air Force Chief, Indian global issues and provide guidance for the future Maritime Situational Awareness System to the development of India-Vietnam comprehensive Navy chief and the Border Surveillance System to strategic partnership. Army Chief. • This will be the 1st such virtual summit of PM Indian Railways develops National Rail Plan Modi with an ASEAN country. SMIC banned from using American technology 2 | P a g e • Indian Railways has come up with a Draft National in the campus of National Institute of Solar Rail Plan. Energy, Gurugram Haryana. • A long term strategic plan called the National Rail • The Centre of Excellence will focus on creating a Plan has been developed to plan infrastructural pool of highly skilled trainers and assessors for capacity enhancement along with strategies to further training to increase the employability of increase the modal share of the Railways. candidates in the field of electricity, automation • It will be a common platform for all future and solar energy sectors. infrastructural, business and financial planning of R Cluster production starts the Railways. • Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has announced the President of India Gold Medal distributed start of production from the R Cluster, an ultra- • Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances deep-water gas field in block KG D6 off the east and Pensions, Dr Jitendra Singh addressed the coast of India. valedictory function of 95th Foundation Course at • R Cluster is located about 60 km from the existing Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of KG D6 Control & Riser Platform (CRP) off the Administration on 18 Dec'20. Kakinada coast. • He distributed the President of India Gold Medal • It is the first of the three deep-water gas projects and Certificate for the Best Officer Trainee. in block KG D6 being developed by RIL and BP to • He also laid the foundation stone of Govt Primary come onstream. School at Charleville, Mussoorie. Nitin Gadkari unveils eco-friendly Vedic Paint India, ADB sign 4.21 million dollar project • The Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium • The Govt of India and the Asian Development Enterprises Nitin Gadkari introduced the soon-to- Bank (ADB) have signed a 4.21 million dollar be-launched `Vedic Paint` made of cow dung. project readiness financing (PRF) facility. • To boost the rural economy and generate an • It has been signed for the preparation of additional income for farmers, Vedic Paint will be infrastructure development projects to improve launched through the Khadi and Village Industries urban amenities and develop tourism Commission. infrastructure in Tripura. • It will come in distemper and emulsion forms and • This is ADB’s first PRF facility for a state in the will dry in just four hours. northeastern region of India. RBI extends restrictions on PMC Bank PM addresses at ASSOCHAM Foundation Week • Reserve Bank of India extended restrictions on • PM Modi delivered the keynote address at crisis-ridden Punjab and Maharashtra Co- ASSOCHAM Foundation Week 2020 on 19 operative (PMC) Bank by three months till 31 Dec'20 through video conferencing. March 2021. • He also presented the ASSOCHAM Enterprise of • In September 2019, the Reserve Bank of India had the Century Award to Mr Ratan Tata, who superseded the board of the multi-state urban received the award on behalf of the TATA Group. cooperative bank. • ASSOCHAM was established in 1920. • The central bank appointed A K Dixit as the new • ASSOCHAM has emerged as the fountainhead of administrator of the bank in September 2020. knowledge for Indian industry. Inauguration of paddy straw briquetting plant Centre of Excellence for Skill Development • Punjab CM Amarinder Singh virtually inaugurated • Skill India has established the first Centre of a paddy straw briquetting plant in Patiala. Excellence for Skill Development in Power Sector 3 | P a g e • The plant has a briquetting capacity of 100 tonnes Satellite will be launched on PSLV C51 in February per day. 2021. • The plant has been set up at village Kulburchan in • Along with Anand, two more satellites under the Patiala district, at a capital cost of Rs 5.50 crore, space reform are going to be launched - one by by Punjab State Council for Science and Space Kidz India and another by a university Technology in collaboration with private partner consortium called UnitySat. Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Pvt. Ltd. PETA India's hottest vegetarian celebrities Chinese spacecraft brings 1st lunar samples • Sonu Sood and Shradha Kapoor bagged the top • China's Chang'e-5 probe successfully touched spot to be named the People for the Ethical down on Earth on17 December 2020, bringing Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s hottest star.
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