6TH JULY
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PM MODI INAUGURATED CO-WIN GLOBAL CONCLAVE
PRESIDENT APPOINTED NEW GOVERNORS FOR 8 STATES
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION LAUNCHED ‘NIPUN BHARAT’
ARMY INDUCTED BRIDGING SYSTEM BY DRDO
INDIA’S FLAG BEARERS AT TOKYO OLYMPICS
PM MODI INAUGURATED CO-WIN GLOBAL CONCLAVE
- The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi inaugurated and addressed the CoWin Global Conclave, virtually.
- The global meet was participated by representatives from 142 countries.
- The Conclave was jointly organized by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW), Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and National Health Authority (NHA) with an objective to extend the Co-WIN platform as a digital public good to the world.
- About the Conclave: India has offered its indigenously developed cloud-based CoWIN platform to be made open-source so that it is available to any and all countries.
- The CoWin Global Conclave served as a platform to share India’s learnings and experiences with regards to planning, strategizing and executing the world’s largest vaccination drive through Co-WIN.
(SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES)
PRESIDENT APPOINTED NEW GOVERNORS FOR 8 STATES
- President of India, Ram Nath Kovind has appointed new Governors for eight states.
- The new governors have been appointed for states including Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Goa, Tripura, Jharkhand, Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh.
- While some of the current governors have been transferred to new states, in some others new appointments have been made.
Complete list of new governors:
- Karnataka ———— Thawarchand Gehlot
- Madhya Pradesh ——— Mangubhai Chhaganbhai Patel
- Mizoram —————- Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati
- Himachal Pradesh ———— Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar
- Goa —————– P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
- Tripura ————— Satyadev Narayan Arya
- Jharkhand —————— Ramesh Bais
- Haryana ————— Bandaru Dattatraya
(SOURCE: THE HINDU)
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION LAUNCHED ‘NIPUN BHARAT’
- Union Minister for Education, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has launched NIPUN Bharat programm The aim of the NIPUN programme is that every child in India gets foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) by the end of Grade 3, by 2026-27.
- NIPUN stands for National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy.
- This Mission, which has been launched under the aegis of the centrally sponsored scheme of Samagra Shiksha, will focus on providing access and retaining children in foundational years of schooling; teacher capacity building; development of high quality and diversified Student and Teacher Resources/Learning Materials; and tracking the progress of each child in achieving learning outcomes.
- To help this scheme achieve its objective, teachers will play an important role.
- In view of the challenges of in-service teacher training across the different stages of school education, NCERT has designed an innovative integrated programme of teacher training, now, popularly known as NISHTHA (National Initiative for School Heads‟ and Teachers‟ Holistic Advancement).
(SOURCE: INDIAN EXPRESS)
KVIC LAUNCHED ‘PROJECT BOLD’
- KVIC (Khadi and Village Industries Commission) has launched Project BOLD (Bamboo Oasis on Lands in Draught), a first-of-its-kind exercise, to create bamboo-based green patches in arid and semi-arid land zones.
- It is the first of its kind exercise in India which was launched from the tribal village Nichla Mandwa in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
- Under the project, 5000 saplings of special bamboo species i.e. Bambusa Tulda and Bambusa Polymorpha have been planted over 16 acres approx. of vacant arid Gram Panchayat land.
- Why bamboo: Bamboo grows very fast and can be harvested within 3 years. They are famous for conserving water and reducing water evaporation from the land, making it perfect to grow in arid regions.
- Bamboo are a group of woody perennial evergreen plants. Although it appears like a tree, taxonomically, it is grass. In India, North-eastern states grow around 70% of the country’s total bamboo production.
- KVIC Founded: 1956
- KVIC Headquarters: Mumbai
- KVIC Chairperson: Vinai Kumar Saxena
(SOURCE: JAGRAN JOSH)
ARMY INDUCTED BRIDGING SYSTEM BY DRDO
- The Army inducted the first production lot of 12 Short Span Bridging System (SSBS)-10m, designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in association with Larsen & Toubro Limited, the production agency.
- The SSBS-10m plays a crucial role of bridging the gaps up to 9.5m as a single span providing a 4m wide, fully decked roadway, ensuring faster movement of the troops.
- About the SSBS-10m: The project involved the development of two prototypes of 5m SSBS on Tatra 6×6 chassis and another two prototypes of 10m SSBS on Tatra 8×8 re-engineered chassis.
- This bridging system is compatible with the Sarvatra bridging system (75 m), where the last span required covering gaps less than 9.5 m. The DRDO has developed a range of bridges for the Army that have already been inducted.
(SOURCE: THE PRINT)
INDIA’S FLAG BEARERS AT TOKYO OLYMPICS
- MC Mary Kom, the six-time world boxing champion, and Manpreet Singh, the men’s hockey team skipper, will be India’s flag-bearers at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, announced Indian Olympic Association (IOA).
- Bajrang Punia, a silver medallist at the 2018 World Wrestling Championships, will be the flag-bearer at the closing ceremony on August 8.
- In a first, India is having two flag-bearers — one male and one female — at the upcoming Tokyo Games to ensure “gender parity”.
- The IOA has communicated the decision in this regard to the Organising Committee of the Games.
(SOURCE: TIMES OF INDIA)
WORLD ZOONOSES DAY: JULY 6TH
- World Zoonoses Day is held every year on July 6 to raise awareness of the risk of zoonotic diseases.
- Zoonoses are infectious diseases (virus, bacteria and parasites) that can spread from animals to humans, and vice versa, either with direct contact with animals or indirectly, vector-borne or food-borne.
- It was on July 6, 1885, when Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against Rabies virus, which is a zoonotic disease.
- World Zoonoses day was observed after Louis Pasteur, a French biologist successfully administered the first vaccine against Rabies virus, which is a zoonotic disease.
- We remembered this day every year to raise awareness against Zoonotic disease.
(SOURCE: JAGRAN JOSH)