www.gradeup.co 1 | P a g e www.gradeup.co Monthly Digest July-2021 Dear readers, This Monthly GK Digest is a complete docket of important news and events that occurred in a month of ‘July-2021’. This file is important for, Defence exams. Important News – India 1. India’s rank in the Global Startup Ecosystem Index 2021 April, and the number of removals stood at 59,350. The by Startup Blink is 20th. new IT rules require significant social media Note: The country was in the 17th spot in 2019 and slid intermediaries (SSMIs) such as Google, Facebook, etc. to six spots down in 2020 and stood at 23. Like last year, publish a monthly report on the action taken on user the US, the UK, Israel, Canada and Germany are in the complaints that they have received. top five spots. The report has a score for each location, 6. The Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial which is calculated as the sum of three parameters — Management (AJNIFM) has signed an MoU with quantity, quality and business environment. Microsoft for a strategic partnership to build an AI and 2. In July 2021, flagship programme of government of emerging technologies Centre of Excellence at AJNIFM. India, Digital India has completed six years of its Note: The collaboration seeks to explore the role of implementation. cloud, AI and emerging technologies for transforming Note: The vision of Digital India programme is to and shaping the future of public finance management in transform India into a digitally empowered society and India. The Centre of Excellence will serve as a central knowledge economy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi body for research, AI scenario envisioning and tech led had launched this ambitious programme on 1st July innovation. AJNIFM and Microsoft will jointly explore ,2015. The Digital India journey in the past 6 years has use cases of emerging technologies in finance and centred around empowerment, inclusion, and digital related areas, across central and state ministries and transformation. It has positively impacted all aspects of public sector enterprises. the lives of Indian citizens through Aadhaar, Direct 7. The Central Government funded for setting up a new Benefit Transfer, Common Services Centres, DigiLocker Vaccine Testing Laboratory in National Institute of and mobile-based UMANG services. Animal Biotechnology in Hyderabad. 3. From Cochin port the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Note: The funds have been sanctioned for the Waterways launched the maiden voyage under the laboratory from PM- Cares Fund. It will be set up at Green Freight Corridor-2. National Institute of Animal Biotechnology in Note: MoS Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the first Hyderabad and will be under Department of voyage under the service, which is operated by Biotechnology. It is a big step towards development of Mumbai-based Round the Coast Pvt Ltd. The newly Pharmacy sector in Hyderabad. launched service will connect Cochin with Beypore- 8. According provisional statistics of 2020-21 released by Azhikkal and later Kollam ports in Kerala. the coal ministry, in FY 2020-21, Chhattisgarh 4. NPCI has curated the Financial Literacy Textbook for registered highest coal production. students of Class VI that was introduced by the Central Note: According to the data released, India’s total coal Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) recently. production registered a marginal decline of 2.02% to Note: The National Payments Corporation of India 716.084 million tonnes during the last fiscal year. The (NPCI) has curated the book. This book will be used for country had produced 730.874 million tonnes (MT) of a newly introduced elective subject ‘Financial Literacy’. coal in FY’20. Of the total production of 716.084 MT, It will enable students to have an understanding of basic 671.297 MT was non-coking coal and the remaining financial concepts at a preliminary stage of their 44.787 MT was coking coal education. 9. NIPUN Bharat project has been launched by the 5. Google social media giant has published its first Ministry of Education to create an enabling transparency report under the new Information environment to ensure universal acquisition of Technology (IT) Rules 2021. foundational literacy and numeracy, so that every child Note: It has published the report for April 2021. Google achieves the desired learning competencies by 2026-27. received a total of 27,762 complaints for the month of 2 | P a g e www.gradeup.co Note: Aim: to create an enabling environment to ensure Indo Pacific. Addressing the event, Secretary (East) in universal acquisition of foundational literacy and the External Affairs Ministry, Riva Ganguly Das spoke numeracy, so that every child achieves the desired about promoting trade facilitation in the Indo-Pacific learning competencies by 2026-27. It will be through improved cross border linkages and trade implemented by the Department of School Education infrastructure. and Literacy and will be set up at National- State- 15. ISRO has given its nod to the Parliamentary Standing District- Block- School level. Committee on Education to provide technical assistance 10. World’s third-largest cricket stadium will come up in for satellite TV classrooms in the country to bridge the Jaipur. learning gap due to COVID-induced lockdown. Note: The stadium will be constructed in Chomp village on Jaipur-Delhi highway. It will be constructed in two Note: ISRO scientists appeared before the PSC for phases and construction work for both phases will take Education and made a detailed presentation about the 5-years to complete. Two largest stadium: Narendra proposed satellite TV classroom for students. ISRO Modi Stadium in Motera and Melbourne Cricket emphasized that it is ready to provide satellite rights to Stadium in Australia. states to start satellite TV class rooms. 11. The Ministry of Tourism has signed a Memorandum of 16. Under the chairmanship Puneet Dalmia the govt has Understanding (MoU) with Yatra to strengthen the set up a 25-member a Development Council for Cement country''s hospitality and tourism industry. Industry that will suggest ways to eliminate waste, Note: The primary objective of the MoU is to provide obtain maximum production, improve quality, reduce extensive visibility to accommodation units, which have costs and promote standardization of products. self-certified themselves on SAATHI on the OTA Note: The committee will suggest ways to eliminate platform. The MoU also outlines both parties to waste, obtain maximum production, improve quality, encourage units to register on NIDHI and thereby on reduce costs and promote standardization of products. SAATHI and encourage the local tourism industry with It will also recommend measures for securing the full appropriate safeguards for curbing the spread of utilization of the installed capacity and for improving COVID-19. the working of the industry, particularly of the less 12. The Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture located efficient units. The council would also work for in Bhubaneswar that has developed Online Course standardization of accounting and costing methods and Mobile App Matsya Setu, launched by the union minister practice. for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Giriraj 17. DRDO has launched a regular MTech programme in Singh. Defence Technology in association with All India Note: The app has been developed by the ICAR-Central Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to impart Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar. It is necessary theoretical and experimental knowledge, skill being funded by the National Fisheries Development and aptitude in various defence technology areas. Board, Hyderabad. The online course app aims to Note: This MTech defence technology programme can disseminate the latest freshwater aquaculture be conducted at any AICTE affiliated institutes or technologies to the aqua farmers of the country. universities, IITs, NITs or private engineering institutes. 13. Ministry of Co-operation has been created by the Institute of Defence Scientists and Technologists (IDST) Union Govt separately for the realizing the vision of will provide support to the institutes for conducting this ‘Sahkar se Samriddhi’. programme, which can be conducted in online as well as Note: This Ministry will provide a separate offline formats. administrative, legal and policy framework for 18. Bengaluru City Railway Station has become the first strengthening the cooperative movement in the railway station in India with a movable freshwater country. It will help deepen co-operatives as a true tunnel aquarium. people based movement reaching upto the grassroots. A Note: The aquarium has been opened by the Indian co-operative based economic development model is Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited very relevant where each member works with a spirit of (IRSDC) in collaboration with the HNi Aquatic Kingdom, responsibility. the report added. The aquarium is based on the concept 14. CII has organized the first edition of the Indo Pacific of Amazon River and is one-of-its-kind, promising to be Business Summit in partnership with External Affairs a visual treat and a passenger’s delight. Ministry. 19. The Union ministry of science & technology has set up a Note: The event saw participation from Ambassadors concentrated solar thermal (CST) based test rig facility and High Commissioners of various countries across the in Hyderabad. 3 | P a g e www.gradeup.co Note: The facility can help the solar industry test the state-owned power major has an installed capacity capability and performance of solar thermal of 66 GW across 70 power projects with an additional components like solar receiver tubes, heat transfer 18 GW under construction. fluids, and concentrating mirrors. The facility has been 24. Hyderabad based Startup incubator ‘T-Hub’ has set up by the International Advanced Research Centre launched a new program called ‘AIC T-HUB Foundation’ for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), an with Atal Innovation Mission with an aim to support autonomous institute of the Department of Science & deep tech startups in the field of life science & Technology (DST).