Today Current Affairs for Competitive Exams - Current Affairs 2021-2022 Online IFFCO gives order for its 2nd Oxygen plant Assam government is setting up three covid care centres in and around Guwahati with 1405 bed Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited, capacities. IFFCO has given an order for its 2nd oxygen plant 255-bed covid care centre at Kahikuchi , 400 bed in Aonla, Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh to fulfill the centre at Sarusajai and 750-bed temporary demand of medical grade oxygen in the country. hospital including 200 bed ICU is coming up at It will give free oxygen to hospitals in the nation’s Khanapara. service. The state government has increased the testing, The medical oxygen plant with a capacity of 130 tracing and vaccination along with increasing Cubic meters per hour will commence by 30th infrastructure. May 2021. 2nd phase of ‘Kill Corona Campaign’: MP Processed food products exports grow over 26% In MP, the 2nd phase of the Kill Corona Campaign India’s processed food products exports have is being conducted in rural areas of all districts witnessed a growth of over 26% from April to from 24 April 2021 till May 9, 2021. February in the last financial year (2020-2021). The state government has also launched a new The total value of export of processed products initiative 'Yog se Nirog' programme. was 43,798 crore rupees during this period. The aim of the programme is to boost the mental The major processed food products exported and physical health of the Covid patients living from India include pulses, processed vegetables, in home isolation and Covid Care Centres. fruits and juices, groundnuts, cereals preparations, etc. Chhattisgarh govt to deduct 1 day salary Govt extends deadline for Vivad Se Vishwas The Chhattisgarh government will deduct one day salary of officers and employees for April 2021 for The government has extended certain timelines in contribution to the Chief Minister Relief Fund in order to give relief to taxpayers in difficult COVID order to help the needy people of the state times. affected by corona infection. It has extended the deadline for making payment About 600 medical officers and staff nurses have under the tax dispute resolution scheme Vivad Se been given special training for the ICU and Vishwas by two months till the 30th of June 2021. ventilator management as well as the use of The time limit for passing of any order for oxygen therapy devices. assessment or reassessment under the Income Tax Act has been extended till 30th June 2021. Oxygen manufacturing plant at Kolavada Assam govt setting up three covid care centres Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated an oxygen manufacturing plant at Kolavada village in Gandhinagar on 24 April 2021. 1 | P a g e He informed that it is better compared to other An emergency financial power of Rs 5 crore has states as Gujarat is an industrial state. been delegated to Director Generals Medical The PM CARES fund has approved 100s of plants Service of Army, Navy, and Air Force and Rs 3 for oxygen production across India. crore to Major General and its equivalent rank. Out of these, Gujarat will get 11 plants which will 84% reduction in malaria cases in India be operational soon. The country has witnessed 84% reduction in US to boost public climate finance malaria cases in 2020 as compared to 2015. The US will boost public climate finance to help Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan poor countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions declared this while chairing the Reaching Zero and adapt to a changing climate. forum on malaria elimination. The US administration released its climate finance Over 83% reduction in deaths has also been plan in tandem with a new goal to cut emissions reported in 2020. by 50%-52% from 2005 levels. Every year, 25th April is observed as World US International Development Finance Malaria Day. Corporation will also change its development The theme 2021 is Reaching the Zero Malaria strategy to include climate for the first time. target. Japan declares three months emergency DRDO to set up COVID hospital in Ahmedabad Japan has declared a state of emergency in Tokyo, Another dedicated 1200 bed Covid hospital will Osaka, Kyoto, and Hyogo from April 25, 2021, be set up at Gandhinagar in Gujarat. after a recent surge in COVID-19 cases. It will be set up at Helipad ground in Gandhinagar Announcing the emergency till 11th May 2021, and will have 600 ICU beds. PM Yoshihide Suga informed that the emergency It will be set up by DRDO in collaboration with is intended to be short and intensive. Tata Trust. It is to stop people from travelling and spreading A 900 bed dedicated Covid hospital has already the virus during Japan’s Golden Week holidays. been set up by DRDO and Gujarat Government at Gujarat University Convention and Exhibition DPIIT sets up a control room Centre in Ahmedabad Department for Promotion of Industry and National Panchayati Raj Day: 24 April Internal Trade, DPIIT has set up a Control room to monitor the issues of internal trade, National Panchayati Raj Day is celebrated on April manufacturing, delivery, and logistics of essential 24. commodities. On this day, work done by the Panchayat leaders In the event of any manufacturing, are recognized and appreciated. transportation, distribution, wholesale companies In 1993, the 73rd Constitutional Amendment facing difficulties in transportation, information came into force institutionalizing the Panchayati can be given at numbers- 011 - 23062383 and Raj system. 23062975. Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh Emergency financial powers given to AFMS declared the first National Panchayati Raj Day in 2010. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has sanctioned delegation of emergency financial powers to Justice N V Ramana takes oath as 48th CJI Armed Forces Medical Services, AFMS to fight the Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana took oath as recent surge in COVID-19 cases across the the 48th Chief Justice of India on 24 April 2021. country. 2 | P a g e President Ram Nath Kovind administered him the Scientists have discovered one of the smallest oath of office at a brief ceremony held at the black holes on record and the closest one to Earth Rashtrapati Bhavan. found as of 24 April 2021. He succeeds Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde who The blackhole is about three times the mass of demitted office on 23 April 2021. our sun, which measures tiny for a black hole. Justice Ramana will have a tenure of nearly 16 This black hole is 1,500 light years away from months as the Chief Justice. Earth, still inside the Milky Way galaxy. The researchers have dubbed it as “The Unicorn”. Centre to airlift 23 oxygen generation plants 25 new Remdesivir production sites approved The Defence Ministry has decided to airlift 23 mobile oxygen generating plants from Germany The Centre has approved 25 new manufacturing amid an acute shortage of medical oxygen due sites for production of anti-viral drug Remdesivir to a massive surge in coronavirus case. since 12th of April 2021. The each plant will have a capacity to produce 40 The production capacity of drug Remdesivir has lit of oxygen per minute and 2,400 lit every hour. now ramped up from 40 lakhs vials per month to The plants will be deployed in the Armed Forces around 90 lakhs vials per month. Medical Services hospitals for treating COVID-19 This will make production of Remdesivir to reach patients. the target of three lakh vials per day soon. 4chan founder Chris Poole leaves Google Centre to provide 5 kg free food grains Chris Poole, the founder of controversial online The centre will provide 5 kg of food grains free-of- forum 4chan, has left Google after five years of cost to around 80 crore Pradhan Mantri Garib service. Kalyan Anna Yojana (PM-GKAY) beneficiaries Poole had joined Google in 2016 as a product during May and June 2021 amidst the second manager. wave of COVID-19 cases. Poole launched 4chan in 2003 and sold it to The central gov will spend Rs 26,000 crore for this internet entrepreneur Hiroyuki Nishimura in scheme. 2016. The government had announced PM-GKAY in 4chan was the controversial forum, became March 2020 when the first nationwide lockdown infamous for hosting hackers and sharing explicit was imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. images. RBI restricts American Express, Diners Club Chithra Thomas: HR head for Tesla India The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has restricted The US-headquartered electric vehicle giant Tesla American Express and Diners Club International has hired Chithra Thomas as its human resources Ltd. from adding new domestic customers from 1 (HR) lead in India. May'21 for not complying with data storage rules. Thomas has joined Tesla after spending over six American Express Banking Corp. and Diners Club years at Reliance Retail, where she was vice International Ltd. are payment system operators president and head of HR for the company’s e- authorized to operate card networks in the commerce initiative Ajio.com. country under the Payment and Settlement Tesla has earlier appointed Manuj Khurana as Systems Act, 2007. Policy and Business Development head for India PM to launch distribution of e-property cards operations. PM Modi will launch the distribution of e- Closest black hole to Earth discovered property cards under the SWAMITVA scheme on 24 April 2021. 3 | P a g e In a virtual event over 4 lakh property owners will million (around USD542 million) 4.5-year bond in be given their e-property cards. the Australian dollar kangaroo market. SVAMITVA (Survey of Villages and Mapping with The 7-year bond has a coupon of 1.5 per cent Improvised Technology in Village Areas) scheme payable semi-annually and a maturity date of May was launched by PM Modi on 24th April 2020 to 4, 2028.