Current Affairs 31st December 2020| Current Affairs News

 

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Uttarakhand: India’s first pollinator park comes up at Haldwani

• The country’s first pollinator park with over 40 species of butterflies, honey bees, birds and insects has been developed over four acres at Nainital’s Haldwani.
• Developed by the research wing of the Uttarakhand Forest Department, the colourful park was inaugurated by renowned butterfly expert Peter Smetacek.
• Objective of the Park : The objective behind developing the park is to conserve various pollinator species, create awareness among people in general about the importance of conservation of these species and to promote further research on various aspects of pollination, including threat to habitat and impact of pollution on pollinators.
• There are at present 40 species of pollinators at the park.

Current Affairs 30th December 2020| Current Affairs News

 

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PM Modi dedicates to nation section of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor in UP

• On December 29, 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation the ambitious New Bhaupur-New Khurja section of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor in Uttar Pradesh through video conference.
• Governor of Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel also attended the function through video conferencing.
• The 351-kilometre New Bhaupur- New Khurja section of EDFC is built at a cost of 5,750 crore and most of its part passes through Uttar Pradesh.
• The section will decongest the existing Kanpur-Delhi main line and will enable Indian Railways to run faster trains.
• The Prime Minister also inaugurated Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor’s Operation Control Centre at Prayagraj.
• This will act as the command centre for the entire route length of the EDFC.

About UP:

• Capital : Lucknow
• Governor : Anandiben Patel
• Chief Minister : Barasingha

Current Affairs 29th December 2020| Current Affairs News

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World celebrates 1st International Day of Epidemic Preparedness 

• The first ever International Day of Epidemic Preparedness is being observed on December 27, 2020.
• The United Nations General Assembly called on all its member states and other global organisations to mark December 27 every year as the International Day of Epidemic Preparedness in order to advocate the importance of global partnership against epidemics.
• The UNGA called on nations to observe the day “in accordance with national contexts and priorities” through education and awareness-raising activities.
• Aim : The International Day of Epidemic Preparedness aims to promote international awareness and action on the prevention of, preparedness for and partnership against epidemics

About United Nations :

• Headquarters : New York
• Secretary General : Antonio Guterres

About UNGA:

• President : Volkan Bozkir
• Headquarters : New York

Current Affairs 27th & 28th December 2020| Current Affairs News

 

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India’s 1st tiger reserve hot air balloon safari launched in Madhya Pradesh

• India’s first hot air balloon wildlife safari in a tiger reserve was launched in the world famous Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve by Madhya Pradesh forest minister Vijay Shah.
• The activity will be restricted to the buffer area and people can watch tigers, leopards, Indian sloth bears and other wild animals from a height.
• It is the first in any tiger reserve in the country.
• The service is being operated by Jaipur-based Sky Waltz.

About MP:

• Capital : Bhopal
• Chief Minister : Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Current Affairs 26th December 2020| Current Affairs News

 

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Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot Launches Swachhata Abhiyan

• Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Thaawarchand Gehlot launched a Mobile Application Swachhata Abhiyan in the presence of Ministers of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Shri Ram Das Athawale and Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar in New Delhi.
• It Provides the authorities concerned details of any insanitary latrine or manual scavenger.
• This would help in rehabilitating all manual scavengers and replace insanitary with sanitary ones.
• As per the 2011 census, insanitary latrines is the main reason for manual scavenging.

FASTag to be mandatory for all vehicles in country from new year

• Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that FASTag is being made mandatory for all vehicles in the country from new year.
• FASTag will be enforced from 1st of January, 2021. Enumerating its benefits,it is useful for the commuters as they will not need to stop at toll plazas for cash payments.
• It will also save time and fuel.
• FASTag was launched in
• The Ministry had issued a notification last month making FASTag mandatory by  1st of January 2021 in old vehicles also sold before 1st December, 2017.

Current Affairs 25th December 2020| Current Affairs News

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Good Governance Day 2020: Observed on December 25

• Good governance is celebrated annually on 25 December, the anniversary of the birth of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• Good governance Day was founded in 2014 to honour Mr Vajpayee by raising awareness among the citizens of government accountability.

About Atal Bihari Vajpayee:

• Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an Indian statesman who served three terms as the Prime Minister of India, first for a term of 13 days in 1996, then for a period of 13 months from 1998 to 1999, followed by a full term from 1999 to 2004.
• He was also noted as a poet and a writer.
• The administration of Narendra Modi declared in 2014 that Vajpayee’s birthday, 25 December, would be marked as Good Governance Day.
• In 2015, he was conferred India’s highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, by the President of India.

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SBI PO Prelims Admit Card 2020 Download : PO Prelims Admit Card Out

 Details in the SBI PO Prelims Admit Card:

The admit card holds the following details:

Roll number/user ID	Password
Name and address of candidates	Registration number
Venue code	Venue of examination
Date of examination	Reporting time
Space for affixing photograph	Scanned images of photograph and signature
Space for Left thumb impression	Candidate’s signature Space
Space for invigilator’s signature	Exam day guidelines

SBI PO Prelims 2020 Admit Card: Important documents required during exam

• SBI PO Call letter
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• Photocopy of Photo Identity proof.
• Passport Size photographs (Two)

IDBI SO Recruitment 2021: Apply Online Activated for Specialist Officer Notification

 IDBI SO Recruitment 2021

Name of an Organization –  Industrial Development Bank of India

Recruitment Name – IDBI Specialist Officer Recruitment 2021

Job Role – Manager ( Grade B), Assistant Manager (Grade A), AGM (Grade C), and                    DGM (Grade D)

Job Location – Various Locations

IBBD SO Vacancy 2021:

IDBI has released SO recruitment 2021 notification for 134 vacancies. IDBI also released the entire vacancy split up for Specialist Officer Recruitment along with post wise and category wise split up. Candidates can check the vacancy based on their eligibility and category and apply for the post.

Name of the Post	General	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	PWD	Total
DGM (Grade D)	7	1	0	2	1	05	11
AGM (Grade C)	23	8	3	14	5		52
Manager ( Grade B)	127	9	4	16	6		62
Assistant Manager (Grade A)	06	1	0	02	0		09
Total	61	16	7	30	6		134

 

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List of Vice-Presidents of India: Check all the Vice-Presidents

 List of Vice-Presidents of India

After independence, a total of 13 individuals have been selected for the post of Vice-President. The first vice president of independent India was Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. He took the oath on 13th May 1952 at Rashtrapati Bhawan. Given below is a list of vice-presidents of India from 1950-2020 in a tabular format:

S.No.	List of Vice-Presidents of India	Term of office
1.	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan	13 May 1952 – 12 May 1957 13 May 1957 – 12 May 1962
2.	Zakir Hussain	13 May 1962 – 12 May 1967
3.	V. V. Giri	13 May 1967 – 3 May 1969
4.	Gopal Swarup Pathak	31 August 1969 – 30 August 1974
5.	B. D. Jatti	31 August 1974 – 30 August 1979
6.	Mohammad Hidayatullah	31 August 1979 – 30 August 1984
7.	R. Venkataraman	31 August 1984 – 24 July 1987
8.	Shankar Dayal Sharma	3 September 1987 – 24 July 1992
9.	K. R. Narayanan	21 August 1992 – 24 July 1997
10.	Krishan Kant	21 August 1997 – 27 July 2002
11.	Bhairon Singh Shekhawat	19 August 2002 – 21 July 2007
12.	Mohammad Hamid Ansari	11 August 2007 – 11 August 2012 11 August 2012 – 11 August 2017
13.	Venkaiah Naidu	11 August 2017 – Incumbent

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Current Affairs 24th December 2020| Current Affairs News

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National Consumer Rights Day 2020: Observed on Dec 24

• National Consumer Rights Day is observed on December 24, every year in India.
• The Consumer Protection Act 1986 came into effect on this day.
• The theme of the National Consumer Day is The Sustainable Consumer. The theme is in view of the urgent need for action to approach the worldwide crisis, global temperature change and biodiversity loss.

Aim of the act:

• The main objective of the Consumer Protection Act is to provide consumers with effective safeguards against different types of exploitation such as defective goods, unsatisfactory services, and unfair trade practices.

Significance:

• This day provides an opportunity for individuals to highlight the importance of the consumer movement and the need to make every consumer more aware of their rights and responsibilities.

Important Awards In India: Check the Specifications

 Introduction to Important awards in India:

These important awards in India are given by authoritative institutions to celebrate the outstanding achievements or performances of individuals in their respective fields. The category of important awards in India comprises many awards covering fields like defense, medicine, cinema, sports, business, etc. Here we will talk about a few of them which are of utmost national pride:

1. Gallantry award
2. Civilian awards
3. National Sports awards
4. Dada saheb phalke award

Gallantry Award

The gallantry awards are of the utmost honor bestowed to the bravest of brave personnel of the defense forces. These are awarded to signify the courage shown by the warriors during difficult times.  

The distribution of the gallantry awards along with their peculiar details is given below:

• Param Vir Chakra
• Mahavir Chakra
• Vir Chakra
• Ashok Chakra
• Kirti Chakra
• Shaurya Chakra

The Param Vir Chakra, Mahavir Chakra, and Vir chakra were designed after independence. The gallantry awards are given twice a year on republic day and independence day. Ashok Chakra, Kirti Chakra, and Shaurya chakra were designated in 1952. Colonel N. J. Nair is the only soldier to be awarded both the Kirti Chakra and the Ashok Chakra.

How are awardees selected?

The awardees are selected through the following process:

• The process starts with the name of the candidate provided by the unit to which personnel belongs.
• All the nominated candidates’ names are presented to the supreme commanders at the headquarters of the force.
• The selection of the awardees is done on the combined recommendation of the defense forces and the ministry of defense. 
• The list of awardees is finalized by the committee.

Important Awards In India – Param Vir Chakra

Word ‘Param’ means ‘Ultimate’ and ‘Vir’ means ‘Brave’ which translates to the Ultimate Brave. It is the supreme gallantry award of our country. It is a wartime award given to persons who have shown extreme courage during wartime i.e. in presence of an enemy. The Param Vir chakra was designed by Savitri Khanolkar and the first recipient of the award was Major Somnath Sharma.

Current Affairs 23rd December 2020| Current Affairs News

 

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National Farmers Day 2020: Observed on December 23

• Kisan Diwas or National Farmers Day is observed on December 23 across the country to praise the farmers as they are the spine of India.
• The day was chosen to honour the birth anniversary of the fifth Prime Minister of India, Choudhary Charan Singh. He was born on December 23, 1902.
• He brought farmer-friendly policies and worked towards the welfare of the farmers
• The day was first celebrated in

Significance: 

• To promote awareness to help and reward farmers for their contribution to society Farmers day is celebrated every year.
• National Farmers Day is celebrated every year especially in those states which are actively engaged in farming such as Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh among others.

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Dharmendra Pradhan Dedicates Bengal’s First Oil And Gas Reserve To Nation

• Union Petroleum & Natural Gas Minister, dedicated West Bengal’s first oil and gas reserve, Bengal Basin, to the nation.
• He stated production from the petroleum reserve in Ashoknagar, about 47 km from Kolkata, has started with the extracted oil being sent to Haldia refinery of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).
• The Bengal Basin is explored and owned by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), and It is the eight producing basin of India by ONGC.
• ONGC Limited commenced the production of crude oil from the Asokenagar-1 well, Bengal Basin in 24 Paragana district of the state on 20 December 2020.
• The first proven reserve of oil and gas in the state was discovered in 2018.

The other seven are :

• Krishna-Godavari (KG),
• Mumbai Offshore,
• Assam Shelf,
• Rajasthan,
• Cauvery,
• Assam-Arakan Fold Belt
• Cambay

About ONGC:

• Headquarters : Delhi
• CEO : Shashi Shanker
• Founded : 14 August 1956

SBI SO Recruitment Notification 2021 | Apply Online Link Activated for Specialist Officer Vacancies

 SBI SO Recruitment Notification 2021:

The SBI SO recruitment notification 2021 is out. The State Bank of India has released the official notification for the recruitment of candidates for various Specialist Officer (SO) cadres. Here we have added complete details regarding the SBI SO recruitment notification 2021. So check the essential details regarding SBI SO notification 2021. After checking your eligibility, submit your SBI SO recruitment notification 2020-2021 online application before the last date. As the SBI SO salary 2021 and career growth opportunities will be huge, don’t miss this golden chance. Use the SBI SO syllabus 2021 pdf and prepare well for the exam.

Current Affairs 22nd December 2020| Current Affairs News

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National Mathematics Day 2020: Observed on December 22

• National Mathematics Day is celebrated every year on December 22 across the nation to recognise and celebrate the works of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
• The former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on February 26, 2012, declared December 22 as the National Mathematics Day to mark the mathematician’s birth anniversary.
• 2020 ensures 133rd birth anniversary of Ramanujan.

Achievements :

• In 1916 he was awarded the Bachelor of Science degree.
• In 1917 he was elected to the London Mathematical Society.
• In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his research on Elliptic Functions and theory of numbers.
• The same year in October he became the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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New electricity rules give consumers across India the right to 24×7 supply

• Government Notifies New Electricity Rights of Consumers Rules, 2020 to give consumers the right to 24×7 supply.

IB ACIO 2021 Recruitment Notification: Check Apply Online Link & Official Notification

 

IB ACIO 2021 Recruitment Notification

Name of an Organization – Intelligence Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs

Recruitment Name – IB ACIO Recruitment 2020-21

Job Role – Assistant Central Intelligence Officer Grade-2

Job Location – Any location

IB ACIO Vacancy 2021:

This time the Ministry of Home Affairs, Intelligence Bureau has notified the IB ACIO 2021 Recruitment notification vacancy of about 2000. Further details are given below. The number of vacancies is provisional and liable to change.

S.No	Category	Vacancy
1	UR	989
2	EWS	113
3	OBC	417
4	SC	360
5	ST	121
	Total	2000

 

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Current Affairs 20th & 21st December 2020| Current Affairs News

 

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International Human Solidarity Day 2020: Observed on Dec 20

• International Human Solidarity Day is celebrated every year on December 20.
• According to the UN website, the day celebrates unity in diversity throughout the world and serves as a reminder to governments to respect their commitment to international agreements and raise public awareness.
• International Human Solidarity Day also reiterates the importance of solidarity in removing poverty.
• The day was proclaimed by the United Nations’ (UN) General Assembly on December 22, 2005.
• According to the United Nations Millennium Declaration, solidarity is one of the fundamental values that are essential for healthy international relations.

About Solidarity

• Solidarity is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one.

History of International Human Solidarity Day : 

• The General Assembly, on December 22, 2005, by resolution 60/209 recognized solidarity as one of the fundamental and universal values in the twenty-first century. Therefore, proclaimed December 20 of each year as International Human Solidarity Day.