04.08.21 Daily [Uttar Pradesh] UPPSC Current Affairs

A government spokesman claimed on Saturday that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanaths progressive information technology (IT) policy and consistent efforts to attract investments to this sector over his four-year regime had started yielding results. He said the most illustrious industrialists of the country and abroad were lining up to seize the opportunities before them in Noida and the chief minister had directed officials to extend all possible help to the investors planning to set up data centres in Noida.

Last year, Microsoft, Adani Group, MAQ, Hiranandani Group, Netmagic Services, STT Pvt Ltd and Agarwal Associate Ltd also submitted their proposals to the government. Acting promptly on their proposals, the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority allotted 60,000 square metres to Microsoft in Sector 145. Microsoft will establish its Software park and data centre on the land at an estimated cost of Rs 1,800 crore, providing EMPLOYMENT to more than 3,500 people.

Similarly, Noida authority allotted a plot of 34,275 square metres to Adani Group at a prime location in Sector-62 of and 39,146 square metres to Adani Enterprises in Sector-80 of Noida. The group will set up a world class data centre on this plot at the cost of Rs 2,500 crore, which will provide jobs to 2,350 people. Besides, Noida authority allotted a plot of 16,350 square metres to MAQ India Pvt Ltd, which is one of the world’s leading IT and information technology enabled services (ITES) companies. The company will set up an IT project at a cost of Rs 250 crore on the land in Sector-145, he said.

Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana:

Coverage: Senior voters, happiness to BPL class and full of any of the age-related disability/infirmity Low vision, disability, Loss of teeth and locomotive incapacity.

A Samajik Adhikarita Shivir for distribution of aids and helpful devices to Divyangjan beneath the ADIP theme and to Senior voters beneath the Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana was unionized by the Ministry of Social and authorisation, Government of India.

Key Points:

The Government of India has accorded sanctions to Team CLAW to steer a team of individuals with disabilities to scale Siachen ice mass and make a replacement record for the most important team of individuals with disabilities.

This is the land record expedition a part of Operation Blue Freedom Triple World Records being undertaken.

Triple Elemental World Records could be a series of world records being tried by the team in 2021 of collectives of individuals with disabilities achieving nice feats toward land, in air and underwater.

PV Sindhu, a 26-year-old badminton player, has turned out to be the first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals after defeating ‘He Bingjiao’ of China.

Highlights:

Sindhu defeated ‘He Bingjiao’ via 21-13, 21-15 in the Women‘s singles bronze medal match at Tokyo Olympics 2020.

She is the 1st Indian girl to win Olympic silver and the first Indian girl to finish on the podium two instances at the Olympics.

At the Rio Olympics, Sindhu had won women’s singles badminton silver in her Olympics debut.

The ISRO-NASA joint mission NISER (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, aimed at making international dimension of land floor adjustments using superior radar imaging, is proposed to be launched in early 2023.

dual-band (L-band and S-band) radar imaging mission with the functionality of full polarimetric and interferometric modes of operation to have a look at minor adjustments inland, vegetation and cryosphere.

NASA is creating L-band SAR and related structures, whilst ISRO is creating S-band SAR, spacecraft bus, the launch automobile and associated launch Services. The essential scientific goals of the mission are to enhance the perception of the influence of local weather trade on Earth’s altering Ecosystems, land and coastal processes, land deformations and cryosphere. NISER is one of the integral collaborations of the ISRO and NASA. India and the U.S. had agreed upon this mission in then-President Barack Obama’s go-to India in 2015.

The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is marked once a year within the initial week of August, between one to seven August, to lift awareness on the importance of breastfeeding for mothers and infants.

Highlights:

The theme of the planet Breastfeeding Week 2021 is “Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility”. The annual week is organized by WABA, the UN agency and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund since 1991. Breastfeeding provides each kid with the most effective potential to begin in life. It delivers Health, biological process and emotional advantages to each youngster and mother. And it forms a part of a property food system. However, whereas breastfeeding could be an action, it’s not continually simple. Mothers would like support each to urge started and to sustain breastfeeding.