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Exams - Current Affairs 2021 Online
Flood reporting system launched in Assam This was stated in a report by the
International Energy Agency (IEA).
An online flood reporting and information
New renewable energy capacity in 2020 rose
management system has been launched on in
by 45% to 280 gigawatts (GW) in 2020, the
Assam, which faces severe floods every year.
largest year-on-year increase since 1999,
The online system developed jointly by even though there were supply chain
Assam State Disaster Management Agency disruptions.
and UNICEF will replace the existing manual
flood control mechanism. Indian cold chain logistics likely to grow 20%
Daily flood reporting between May 15 and
India’s cold chain sector is expected to grow
October 15, 2021 has been made mandatory
at over 20 percent CAGR by 2025, according
in Assam.
to JLL.
Outlook for aviation industry upgraded This is due to its transformation from
conventional cold storage to modern storage
Moody's has upgraded its outlook for the space.
global airlines industry to "positive" from
As per JLL, there is an opportunity for
"negative".
organized cold storage or ‘palettized’ cold
The ratings agency expects steady vaccine storage in tier-I cities like Mumbai, Delhi-NCR,
rollouts across geographies to drive a Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, and
rebound in commercial air travel. Hyderabad.
In terms of domestic air travel, Moody's noted
that China, the United States and Australia AstraZeneca gives 80% lower death risk
are leading the recovery.
AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine's one
CSC, HDFC Bank launches chatbot 'Eva' dose results in an 80% less risk of death from
the disease, according to Public Health
HDFC Bank and Common Services Centres England.
(CSCs) have launched chatbot ‘Eva’ on CSCs Protection against death from the Pfizer-
Digital Seva Portal. BioNTech vaccine rises from approximately
It will support the Village Level Entrepreneurs 80% after one dose to 97% after two doses in
(VLEs) in providing banking services for the its new analysis.
last mile rural consumers. 2 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
Through it, VLEs will learn about the products reduces the risk of hospitalization by 93% for
and services offered by the HDFC Bank. the over 80s.
They will also be able to access training
content to become a Business Seminar on social infrastructure financing
Correspondent.
The Department of Economic Affairs and the
Global renewable energy grew at fastest pace New Development Bank (NDB) will jointly
organize a virtual seminar on “Social
Renewable energy grew at its fastest pace in Infrastructure Financing and Use of Digital
two decades in 2020, led by China, and will Technologies” on May 13, 2021.
continue to grow in the next two years.
1|Page This is a part of the economic and financial Recovered employees can also enroll
cooperation agenda under the Indian BRICS themselves voluntarily as donors.
Chairship, 2021. The site is also hosting external links for
Ajay Seth, Secretary, Economic Affairs will suppliers of oxygen cylinders and Remdesivir.
make the inaugural address.
NASA spacecraft begins journey to Earth
Flipkart to open 5 fulfilment centres
A NASA spacecraft began the long journey
Flipkart will strengthen its grocery supply back to Earth on 10 May 2021.
chain infrastructure across the country and The trip to Earth for the robotic prospector,
add over 800,000 sq. ft of space through five Osiris-Rex, will take two years.
new fulfillment centers over the next three Osiris-Rex reached asteroid Bennu in 2018
months. and spent two years flying near and around it,
With this additional infrastructure, the before collecting rubble from the surface last
marketplace will bring ease of online grocery fall.
shopping to more users across the country. The spacecraft holds between a half pound
Flipkart Grocery offers over 7,000 products and 1 pound of mostly bite-size chunks.
across 200 categories.
Twitter donates USD 15 millon for Covid relief
Punjab National Bank launches share sale
Twitter has donated USD 15 million to help
Punjab National Bank has launched a so- address the COVID-19 crisis in India which is
called qualified institutional placement (QIP) battling the second wave of the deadly
offer to raise as much as Rs1,800 crore from pandemic.
institutional investors. The amount has been donated to three non-
This is the second time the bank has hit the governmental organizations – Care, Aid India,
market to raise funds from institutional and Sewa International USA.
investors in the last six months. While CARE has been given USD 10 million,
It raised Rs 3,788 crore in December 2020 Aid India and Sewa International USA have
through a QIP. received USD 2.5 million each.
US Treasury launches access to $350 billion China reports population growth closer to zero
The U.S. Treasury has launched access to China's population growth is falling closer to
$350 billion in COVID-19 aid for state, local, zero as fewer couples have children.
tribal and territorial governments. The population rose by 72 million over the
It has released rules for allowable uses and a past decade to 1.411 billion in 2020,
prohibition on tax cuts by recipient states. according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
States with seasonally adjusted The annual growth averaged 0.53%,
unemployment rates that are now 2 decelerating from the previous decade.
percentage points above levels in February Chinese leaders have enforced birth limits
2020 can receive all of the funds they are due since 1980 to restrain population growth.
immediately.
Starcom appoints Niti Kumar as COO
Bank of Baroda launches microsite
Media agency Starcom has appointed Niti
Bank of Baroda has launched a micro-website Kumar as the Chief Operating Officer (COO)
that will serve as an emergency networking with immediate effect.
platform for all employees amid the 2nd wave Before joining Starcom, Kumar was serving
of COVID-19. as Senior Vice President at Penguin Random
The microsite will offer vital data, including a House India.
network of plasma donors to employees.
2|Page She has worked in leadership roles at woman member in the Assembly, and the
GroupM (managing partner North and East at oldest woman minister.
Mediacom) and Mudra Communications She had been a minister in the first
(office head, media, Delhi and Kolkata). democratically elected Communist
She is also a TEDx speaker. Government of 1957 in Kerala.
Harley-Davidson launches brand 'LiveWire' Over 1 lakh MTs of food grains distributed
Harley-Davidson Inc has launched an all- Over one lakh MT of food grains has been
electric motorcycle brand "LiveWire". distributed to over 2 crore beneficiaries by 12
Named after Harley's first electric motorbike, states and UTs so far under Pradhan Mantri
which was unveiled in 2019, the "LiveWire" Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana- PMGKAY-3.
division is slated to launch its first branded The Department of Food and Public
motorcycle in July 2021. Distribution started implementation of the
LiveWire also plans to innovate and develop scheme for two months, May and June 2021
technology that will be applicable to Harley- by providing an additional quota of free-of-
Davidson electric motorcycles in the future. cost foodgrains at a scale of 5 kilograms per
person per month.
Puducherry becomes ‘Har Ghar Jal’ UT
Gautam Thakur in RBI’s Advisory Committee
Puducherry has become the ‘Har Ghar Jal’
Union Territory by ensuring that every rural Gautam Thakur, the Chairman of Saraswat
home gets a household tap connection. Bank has been nominated to a Select
It has now become the fourth state or UT after Committee of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
Goa, Telangana, and Andaman and Nicobar as an Advisor Member.
Islands to provide assured tap water supply to RBI has set up the second Regulations
every rural home under Jal Jeevan Mission. Review Authority (RRA) to review the
All 1.16 lakh rural households in Puducherry regulatory prescriptions internally.
have a tap water supply now. The Committee which is to be headed by S.
Janakiraman, MD of SBI would initially
Monthly stipend for MBBS students: J&K function for a period of one year from May 1,
In J&K, a monthly stipend shall be paid to the 2021.
final year MBBS students who would render China’s emissions exceed all developed worlds
services in various Covid hospitals across the
UT. China emits more greenhouse gas than the
A monthly stipend of Rs 5,000 shall be paid to entire developed world combined, according
all such final year MBBS students, under to new research from Rhodium Group.
Covid-19 Emergency Response Package The research by Rhodium Group says China
(ECRP) of National Health Mission (NHM) emitted 27% of the world's greenhouse gases
J&K. in 2019.
It will be given to those who work for at least The US was the second-largest emitter at
100 days for Covid care. 11% while India was third with 6.6% of
emissions.
KR Gouri Amma passes away China's emissions more than tripled over the
Veteran Communist leader and the leader of previous three decades.
Janadipathya Samrakshana Samiti (JSS), India Covid variant is of global concern: WHO
K.R. Gouri Amma passed away in May 2021.
She has been the longest-serving woman The World Health Organzation on 10 May
legislator in the Kerala Assembly, the oldest 2021 designated the B.1.617 variant first
3|Pageidentified in India as a 'variant of global Vinesh Kalra, India's Consul General in the
concern'. Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, passed away in
The predominant lineage of B.1.617 was 1st Kabul on 10 May 2021.
identified in India in December 2020. He is the first Indian diplomat serving
The WHO Foundation is launching a overseas who has died after being infected
"Together for India" appeal to raise funds to with Covid-19.
purchase oxygen, medicines and protective Kalra had served in various Indian missions
equipment for health workers. abroad, including Muscat, Hanoi, Pretoria,
Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
Free treatment to Mucormycosis patients
Daniel Smith: Interim U.S. envoy to India
The patients of Mucormycosis will be treated
free of cost under Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan The Biden administration announced the
Arogya Yojana of the Maharashtra appointment of Daniel Smith, the Director of
government. the Foreign Service Institute, as the new
Due to the expensive treatment of the interim Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy
disease, the patients will be treated free of in New Delhi.
cost in 1000 hospitals in the state. The position of US Ambassador to India had
Mucormycosis, a fungal infection, has been been lying vacant since January 20, 2021,
observed in a number of Covid-19 when Biden was sworn in as the 46th
patients with uncontrolled diabetes and president of the United States.
prolonged ICU stay.
‘Miyon ka Bara’ station in Jodhpur renamed
NITI Aayog and Mastercard release a report
The name of Miyon ka Bara railway station in
NITI Aayog and Mastercard on 10 May Rajasthan’s Jodhpur has been changed to
2021 released a report titled ‘Connected Mahesh Nagar.
Commerce: Creating a Roadmap for a Earlier, in Aug 2018, the name of the village
Digitally Inclusive Bharat’. was officially changed from Miyon ka Bara to
The report identifies challenges in Mahesh Nagar after residents complained.
accelerating digital financial inclusion in India The residents had complained that they were
and provides recommendations for making unable to get matrimonial matches for their
digital services accessible to its 1.3 billion children as the name gave an impression that
citizens. it is inhabited by Muslims.
The report recommends to strength the
Snapdeal launches Sanjeevani platform
payment infrastructure.
Centre issues advisory on fungal infection Snapdeal has opened its platform to help
families of patients suffering from covid to
Centre has issued an advisory on the connect with potential plasma donors, through
management of fungal infection among its new platform, Sanjeevani.
corona patients. The Sanjeevani platform can be accessed
The evidence-based advisory for screening, via website and mobile app.
diagnosis and management of the disease It allows patients and donors to register
was released by the Indian Council of Medical themselves with their mobile numbers and
Research and Health Ministry. email IDs, while providing relevant information
In an advisory, it also said the fungal infection like blood group, location, etc.
mainly affects people who are on medication
Jose J Kattoor: New Executive Director of RBI
that reduces their ability to fight pathogens.
Consul Gen. of India in Mazar-e-Sharif dies
4|Page The Reserve Bank of India has appointed The Interpol has launched a mobile phone
Jose J Kattoor as Executive Director (ED) app that will help identify the stolen cultural
with effect from 4 May 2021. property, reduce smuggling and increase the
He will look after Human Resource possibility of recovering stolen works and
Management Department, Corporate Strategy artefacts.
and Budget Department, and Rajbhasha The ID-Art app enables users to get mobile
Department. access to the Interpol database of stolen
Before being promoted as ED, Kattoor was works.
heading Bengaluru Regional Office of the RBI The app’s users can immediately cross-check
as Regional Director for Karnataka. if an object is among the over 52,000 items
registered as stolen.
New book by Kalki Koechlin
RBI to conduct SLTRO of Rs 10,000 crore
Actor Kalki Koechlin is making her debut as
an author with an illustrated non-fiction book The RBI will conduct the first auction for
on motherhood, special long-term repo operations (SLTRO) of
Titled "Elephant In The Womb", the book Rs 10,000 crore for Small Finance Banks
illustrated by Valeriya Polyanychko will be (SFBs) on May 17, 2021.
published under 'Penguin's' imprint in 2021. It will provide further support to small
Penguin Random House India (PRHI) is the business units, micro and small industries,
publisher of the book. and other unorganized sector entities
The book talks about pregnancy and adversely affected during the pandemic.
parenting for mothers and expectant mothers. The facility will be available till October 31,
2021.
David Attenborough: COP26 People’s Advocate
Sundar Pichai joins steering committee
Britain has tasked naturalist David
Attenborough to tackle the issue of climate Three Indian-American CEOs Sundar Pichai
change as its People’s Advocate ahead of the from Google, Punit Renjen from Deloitte, and
United Nations Climate Change Conference Shantanu Narayen from Adobe have joined
(COP26) in November 2021 in Glasgow, the steering committee of the Global Task
Scotland. Force on Pandemic Response.
Britain holds the presidency of the conference The committee is overseeing an
for 2021. unprecedented corporate sector initiative to
He has also been invited to address world help India successfully fight COVID19.
leaders and the public at the Glasgow The task force is supported by Business
summit. Roundtable.
Babar Azam: ICC Men's Player of the Month CovAid portal set up for real-time monitoring
Pakistan captain Babar Azam has won the The NITI Aayog has set up a dedicated portal
International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's – CovAid – for tracking all aid coming via
Player of the Month award for April 2021. missions or by individual organizations.
He has been awarded for his performances in It will help individuals and organizations to do
the three-match One-Day International (ODI) end-to-end tracking till the ultimate
and four-match T20I series against South beneficiary.
Africa. A detailed SOP (standard operating
Australia's wicketkeeper/batter Alyssa Healy procedure) has been laid out to ensure that
was named the ICC Women's Player of the the states with high active cases receive
Month for April 2021. supplies on a priority basis.
Interpol’s app to protect cultural property National Technology Day: 11 May
5|Page National Technology Day is celebrated every On May 11, 1998, India conducted three
year on May 11. successful nuclear tests at the Indian Army's
It celebrates the achievements and Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan under
contributions of Indians to science and Operation Shakti.
technology. The theme for the year 2021 is “Science and
Technology for a Sustainable Future”.
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