Current affairs notes on November 11-17

1.National Education Day on November 11, the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to honor his contributions to education in India. He served as the first Minister of Education of independent India. Azad was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1992 for his contributions towards the field of education.

2. India is likely to press Biden Administration for early restoration of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade privilege for India. It is a U.S. trade program designed to promote economic growth in the developing world by providing preferential duty-free entry for up to 4,800 products from 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories. The objective of GSP was to give development support to poor countries by promoting exports from them into the developed countries.

3. Jharkhand government has passed a resolution to send the Centre a letter to recognise Sarna religion and include it as a separate code in the Census of 2021. It is believed that 50 lakhs tribal in the entire country put their religion as ‘Sarna’ in the 2011 census, although it was not a code.

4. The government has brought “Over the Top” (OTT) platforms or video streaming service providers under the ambit of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. This will give the government control over the OTT platforms, which were unregulated till now. Currently, there is no law or autonomous body governing digital content. An “over-the-top” media service is any online content provider that offers streaming media as a standalone product.

5. Madhya Pradesh’s Panna National Park has been declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The UNESCO’s recognition cited PTR as a critical tiger habitat.The idea of the biosphere reserve was initiated by UNESCO in 1974 under the MAB with the objective of obtaining international cooperation for the conservation of the biospheres. Launched in 1971, UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an Intergovernmental Scientific Programme that aims to establish a scientific basis for the improvement of relationships between people and their environments. The first of India’s reserves to make it to UNESCO’s list was Tamil Nadu’s Niligiri Biosphere Reserve in 2000. Ken-Betwa river interlinking project will be located within the tiger reserve.

6. India has made significant progress in its vaccination coverage to prevent child pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths. India has also completed the “100-day agenda” — an unprecedented national scale-up of rotavirus vaccine. This landmark vaccine expansion will help protect 26 million children born each year against life-threatening cases of rotavirus diarrhoea.

7. India and ASEAN countries said they would explore ways to increase trade between them despite India’s exit from the 15-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership is a free trade agreement originally devised to consist of 16 countries across the Asia-Pacific region. The pact looks to drop tariffs and duties between the members so that goods and services can flow freely between them.

8. Indian Navy’s fifth Kalvari-class Diesel Electric attack submarine INS Vagir was launched recently at Mazgaon Dock in Mumbai. This class of submarines have Diesel Electric transmission systems and these are primarily attack submarines or ‘hunter-killer’ type which means they are designed to target and sink adversary naval vessels.They can be used in anti-warship and anti-submarine operations, intelligence gathering and surveillance and naval mine laying.

9. 2018 report on “Vital statistics of India based on the Civil Registration System”: The report was published recently by the Registrar-General of India. It throws light on Sex Ratios of various states in the country. State with best Sex Ratio: Arunachal Pradesh (1084). Worst: Manipur (757).

10. The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally adopted Ariel. Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey) will be launched in 2029. Ariel is the first mission of its kind dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures of hundreds of exoplanets.

11. PM Narendra Modi unveils `Statue of Peace` in Rajasthan. To mark the 151st Birth Anniversary celebrations of Jainacharya Shree Vijay Vallabh Surishwer Ji Maharaj.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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