Today's current affairs in English ( 30 june 2021)
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DRDO successfully tests new
generation nuclear
👉 A
new generation nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-P (Prime) was successfully test-fired by
the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on 20
june 2021.
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“Agni-P is a new generation advanced variant of Agni class of missiles.
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range capability between 1,000 and 2,000 km,
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test was conducted from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam island off the coast of Odisha,
Balasore
👉 DRDO,
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
Telangana CM announces ₹1,000 crore scheme for Dalit Scheme
Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao
announced the launch of an exclusive scheme for the uplift of Dalits in the
state with a budgetary allocation of ₹1,000
crore.
NERAMAC, which was seen
in the recent stimulus package, is associated with which sector?
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman announced that the North Eastern Regional Agricultural Marketing
Corporation (NERAMAC) is to be revived with a package of Rs 77.45 crore.
Credit guarantee scheme
worth Rs 1.1 lakh crore
Covid-affected sectors with Rs 50,000 crore
healthcare sector. Rs. 23,220 crore more is
earmarked for public health with emphasis on paediatric care.
Aatmanirbhar
Bharat Rozgar Yojana
16.5 lakh people have benefited from the Aatmanirbhar
Bharat Rozgar Yojana (ABRY)
The scheme has been introduced to incentivise creation
of new employment
This scheme being implemented through the Employees
Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
Atmanirbhar Bharat Rojgar Yojana at
an expenditure of Rs 1,584 crores
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NEIA got
financial support for overseas project exports
NEIA Trust promotes exports by extending risk covers to the credit given by EXIM Bank
National Export Insurance
Account (NEIA) was set up by the Government of India to facilitate medium and
long-term exports, which could not be covered by ECGC.
This will enable it to
underwrite Rs. 33,000 crore of project exports.
The Government has
announced to provide additional corpus to NEIA over the next 5 years.
Centre extends Attorney General KK Venugopal's tenure 30 June 2022
Venugopal, who will turn 90 on 6th September this year, is the
oldest person to serve on this post.
15th Attorney General (AG) for India, senior
lawyer KK Venugopal will continue on the constitutional post till 30 June 2022
Centre
has extended his tenure by another year.
With this extension, Venugopal will complete 5 years as AG next
year.
recipient of both Padma Vibhushan and the Padma
Bhushan
Policymaker's Journal: From New Delhi to Washington D.C.
This book charts the
course of Kaushik Basu’s career over seven years, as he moved out of
the cloisters of academe to the frenetic world of policymaking
first in India as Chief
Economic Adviser to the Indian Government and after that as Chief Economist at
the World Bank in Washington D.C.
GSMA schedules MWC 2021 to be held
Bharti Airtel chief
Sunil Mittal, Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash were
also expected to attend the global event early in this year.
WhatsApp appoints “Manesh Mahatme” Head of
Payments in India
WhatsApp Payments head has been named and he is Manesh
Mahatme, a former Amazon senior executive.
India is WhatsApp's
biggest market and competes with players like Paytm, Google Pay, Walmart-owned
PhonePe and Amazon Pay.
WhatsApp's vision of
digital and financial inclusion in India, revealed an official statement.
In 2018, WhatsApp had
started testing its UPI-based payments
service in India
International Asteroid Day 2021
This year's
International Asteroid Day marks the 113th anniversary of the largest recorded
asteroid impact that took place near the Tunguska River in Russia’s
This day is observed to inspire, engage
and educate the people about asteroids opportunities and risks.
What are Asteroids?
According to the NASA, asteroids are
"rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our Solar System
about 4.6 billion years ago".
There are currently 1,097,106 known
asteroids. Asteroids are different from meteors, which are small bodies of
matter that appear as a streak of light when entering the Earth's atmosphere.
Turkey and Azerbaijan began joint military
drills in Baku
Turkey and Azerbaijan began joint military drills in Baku,
deploying tanks, helicopters and drones in an effort to improve the two
countries' combat interoperability.
The drills, named "Mustafa
Kemal Ataturk - 2021"
involving up to 600 personnel, around 40 tanks and armoured
vehicles, and seven helicopters.
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