EXAM RELATED CURRENT AFFAIRS AND STATIC GK :-
1) The Narendra Modi government has created a new Ministry of Cooperation with an aim to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country.
➨The ministry will work to streamline processes for 'ease of doing business' for cooperatives and enable development of multi-state cooperatives (MSCS).
2) Venudhar Reddy, an Indian Information service, IIS Officer of 1988 batch today took charge as Director General of All India Radio.
➨Mr Reddy earlier served as Joint Secretary in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management under the Finance Ministry.
✸All India Radio :-
Owner - Prasar Bharati
Launch date - 23 July 1927
Headquarters - Sansad Marg, New Delhi
Motto - Bahujanahitaya Bahujanasukhaya
3) Singapore-based Ascendas India Trust, which develops IT and logistics parks in India. it will invest an estimated Rs 1,200 crore to develop the first phase of its first data centre project in the country.
➨The project is located at Airoli, a growing data centre hub in Navi Mumbai.
▪️Maharashtra :-
Shani Shingnapur Temple
Siddhivinayak Temple
Shri Saibaba Sansthan Temple
4) Indian Naval Ship (INS) Tabar, the Navy’s Talwar-class Russian built frigate, has just concluded a two-day naval exercise with the Italian Navy in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
➨Labelled “Maritime Partnership Exercise”, INS Tabar participated in the military exercises with along with a front line frigate of the Italian Navy, the ITS Antonio Marceglia (F 597).
▪️Ministry of Defence :-
➨Headquarters - New Delhi
➨Founded - 15 August 1947
➨Navy day - 4 December
➨Chief of Defence Staff (CDS):- General Bipin Rawat
➨ Chief of the Navy Staff - Admiral Karambir Singh
5) The Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education has launched National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (NIPUN Bharat).
➨▪️Ministry of Education :-
➨Formed :- 15 August 1947
➨Headquarters :- New Delhi
➨India had the Ministry of Education since 1947. In 1985, Rajiv Gandhi government changed its name to Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and with the public announcement of newly drafted "National Education Policy 2020" by the Narendra Modi government, Ministry of Human Resource Development was renamed back to Ministry of Education.
6) E-commerce giant Amazon has launched its first Digital Kendra in India in Surat, Gujarat.
➨ Amazon Digital Kendras are brick and mortar resource centers that will provide micro small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) the opportunity to learn about the benefits of e-commerce.
▪️Amazon :-
Founder - Jeff Bezos
Founded - 5 July 1994
Headquarters - Seattle, Washington, United States
7) Bengaluru Police has started a new facility allowing traffic violators to pay fine in cashless mode. The city police said Bengaluru residents will be able to pay fine through PayTM electronic wallet mode.
▪️Karnataka:-
CM :- Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa
Governor :- Thawarchand Gehlot
Formation :- 1 November 1956
Language :- Kannada
Port :- New Mangalore Port
8) The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced a special assessment scheme for Class 10 and 12 board exams for the 2021-22 academic session. The board exams for the 2021 batch will now be held in two terms with 50 percent of the syllabus in each term.
9) Marking a significant step towards worldwide visibility for Ayurveda-based clinical trials, five portals and four publications were launched by Ministry of Ayush.
➨He launched the Clinical Trials Registry-India (CTRI) portal pertinent to Ayurveda Dataset along with AMAR, RMIS, SAHI and e-Medha portals at a virtual event.
▪️Ministry of AYUSH :-
Founded - 9 November 2014, India
Headquarters - New Delhi
10) A book titled ‘The Fourth Lion: Essays for Gopalkrishna Gandhi’ has been released.
➨It has been authored by Venu Madhav Govindu and Srinath Raghavan.
11) Indian neuroscientists will map the brains of people who either recovered from covid-19 or were asymptomatic to the disease to understand the reasons behind rising cases of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder among such patients.
12) Union minister Nitin Gadkari declared himself the "Brand Ambassador'' of Khadi Prakritk Paint, a paint made of cow dung.
➨The minister was inaugurating the new automated manufacturing unit of the brand which has been hailed as the country's first and only paint made from cow dung. It has been set up on the campus of Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute (KNHPI), Jaipur, which is a unit of Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
13) Authorities in Bihar's Valmiki Tiger Reserve (VTR) have started planning for conservation of vultures after 150 of the birds were sighted recently in the protected area.
✸Bihar CM - Nitish Kumar
➭ Governor - Phagu Chauhan
➭Mangala Gowri Temple
➭Mithila Shakti Peeth Temple
➭Valmiki National Park
14) Veteran actor Dilip Kumar has died at the age of 98. He leaves behind a legacy of films that spanned six decades, and gave Hindi cinema some of its most enduring classics.
15) The Cochin International Airport Limited rolled out ‘Operation Pravaah’, a multifaceted infrastructure programme scoping to integrate flood mitigation projects already initiated by CIAL with District Administration and various local self governments.
➨Phase 1 of Operation Pravaah will be completed in the last week of July, while the second phase incorporates major construction activities including the construction of a regulator-cum-bridge (RCB) on the mouth of the Chengal Canal for Rs 20.40 crores.
16) Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB) has firmed up its plans to set up a Gujarat International Maritime Arbitration Centre (GIMAC) at Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) in Gandhinagar.
➨A memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed by GMB-backed Gujarat Maritime University with the International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA).
▪️Gujarat:-
➨ CM :- Vijay Ramniklal Rupani
➨Governor :- Acharya Devvrat
➨Nageshwar Temple
➨Somnath Temple
STATIC GK:-
Minister Ministry
Rajnath Singh Defence minister
Amit Shah Home & Co-operation minister
Nitin Gadkari Road and transport
Nirmala Sitharaman Finance and corporate affairs
Narendra Singh Tomar Agriculture and Rural Development
Dr. Esn Jaishankar Foreign Minister
Arjun Munda ST Welfare
Smriti Irani Women and Child Development
Piyush Goyal Commerce,industry,consumer affairs, Food & Public Distribution & Textiles
Dharmendra Pradhan Education and Skill Development
Prahlad Joshi Parliamentary Affairs, Coal and Mining
Narayan Rane Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Sarbananda Sonowal Minister of Ports, Waterways and AYUSH
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Minority Affairs
Dr. Virendra Kumar Social Justice and Empowerment
Giriraj Singh Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
Jyotiraditya Scindia Civil Aviation
Ramchandra Prasad Singh Steel
Ashwini Vaishnav Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology
Pashupati Kumar Paras Food processing industry
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Water Power
Kiren Rijiju Minister of Law and Justice
Raj Kumar Singh Electricity, new and renewable energy
Hardeep Singhpuri Petroleum Natural Gas, Housing and Urban Affairs
Mansukh Mandaviya Health, Family Welfare, Chemicals & Fertilizers
Bhupendra Yadav Enviroment, Forest, Climate Change, Labor and Employment
Mahendra Nath Pandey Minister Of Heavy Industries
Purushottam Rupala Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
G Kishan Reddy Culture, Tourism and Development of North Eastern region
Anurag Singh Thakur Information & Broadcasting, Youth Affairs & Sports