3RD AUGUST
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MYANMAR’S MILITARY CHIEF DECLARED HIMSELF AS PM
UNION MINISTRY OF SCIENCE RELEASED ‘BIOTECH-PRIDE’
1ST CITY TO ACHIEVE 100% COVID VACCINATION
HDFC LAUNCHED ‘DUKANDAR OVERDRAFT SCHEME’
OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM: TEAM OF SPECIAL FORCE
ITALY’S M. JACOBS WINS GOLD IN MEN’S 100m
ISRO-NASA JOINT MISSION ‘NISER’
MYANMAR’S MILITARY CHIEF DECLARED HIMSELF AS PM
- The Chief of the Myanmar military, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has taken over as the interim prime minister of the country.
- He is also the Chairman of the State Administration Council (SAC) which has been performing the duties of the government in Myanmar, after the February 01, 2021 coup, which overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s ruling party.
- This SAC has been reformed as the caretaker government of Myanmar in order to perform the country’s duties fast, easily and effectively.
- Min Aung Hlaing is also been the commander-in-chief of Defence Services of Myanmar since March 2011. Hlaing has pledged to hold elections by 2023.
- Myanmar Capital: Naypyitaw.
- Myanmar Currency:
(SOURCE: THE PRINT)
UNION MINISTRY OF SCIENCE RELEASED ‘BIOTECH-PRIDE’
- The Union Ministry for Science & Technology has released “Biotech-PRIDE (Promotion of Research and Innovation through Data Exchange) Guidelines”.
- The Biotech-PRIDE Guidelines have been developed by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT).
- The guidelines are aimed at providing a well-defined framework and guiding principle to facilitate and enable sharing and exchange of biological knowledge, information and data.
- The guidelines will be implemented through the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC). The exchange of information will help in promoting research and innovation in different research groups across the country.
- These guidelines do not deal with the generation of biological data but are an enabling mechanism to share and exchange information and knowledge generated as per the existing laws, rules, regulations and guidelines of the country.
- Union Minister for Science & Technology: Jitendra Singh.
(SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES)
1ST CITY TO ACHIEVE 100% COVID VACCINATION
- Bhubaneswar has become the first Indian city to achieve 100 percent COVID-19 vaccination. The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) had launched a massive vaccination drive against Covid-19.
- This milestone is credited to the BMC running 55 centres at all times for vaccines.
- BMC has a record of around nine lakh people who are above 18 years of age in the city.
- Which includes around 31 thousand healthcare workers, 33 thousand front-line workers. 5 lakh 17 thousand people are in the age group of 18 to 44 years. Three lakh twenty-five thousand people are above 45 years of age.
- Chief Minister of Odisha: Naveen Patnaik and Governor is Ganeshi Lal.
(SOURCE: JAGRAN JOSH)
HDFC LAUNCHED ‘DUKANDAR OVERDRAFT SCHEME’
- HDFC Bank announced the launch of an overdraft facility for small retailers in partnership with CSC SPV. Known as ‘Dukandar Overdraft Scheme’.
- The scheme by HDFC Bank is aimed at helping shopkeepers and merchants ease their cash crunch.
- According to the bank, retailers operating for a minimum of three years are eligible for the scheme by providing six months bank statement from any bank.
- HDFC Bank will approve an overdraft limit from a minimum of Rs 50,000 to a maximum of Rs 10 lakhs based on the statements.
- Importantly, HDFC Bank won’t seek collateral security, business financials, and income tax returns from retailers who apply for the scheme.
- Headquarters of HDFC Bank: Mumbai, Maharashtra.
- MD and CEO of HDFC Bank: Sashidhar Jagdishan.
- The tagline of HDFC Bank: We understand your world.
(SOURCE: FINANCIAL EXPRESS)
OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM: TEAM OF SPECIAL FORCES
- The government of India has accorded sanctions to Team CLAW to lead a team of people with disabilities to scale Siachen Glacier. It will be a new world record for the largest team of people with disabilities.
- This expedition is being undertaken as part of ‘Operation Blue Freedom’. It aims to shatter the common perception of pity, charity, and inability associated with people with disabilities and recreate it to one of dignity, freedom, and ability.
- About the Operation Blue Freedom: Operation Blue Freedom was launched in 2019 by CLAW Global, a team of former Special Forces Operatives of the Indian Army and the Indian Navy.
- The Operation is a social impact venture aimed at rehabilitating people with disabilities through adaptive adventure sports.
- Moreover, their focus is also to ‘design and implement sustainable large-scale employment solutions’ for people with disabilities, especially in the ‘Environment conservation and Sustainability’ space.
(SOURCE: INDIAN EXPRESS)
ITALY’S M. JACOBS WINS GOLD IN MEN’S 100m
- Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs outshone a field of unusual suspects to claim a shock Olympic gold in the men’s 100 metres, breaking retired Jamaican star Usain Bolt’s 13-year hold on the blue-riband event.
- American Fred Kerley took silver in a personal best of 9.84 with Canada’s Andre de Grasse repeating his bronze of 2016 in 9.89, also a new best.
- In the women’s category: Elaine Thompson-Herah led a Jamaican sweep in the women’s 100 meters at the Tokyo Summer Games, capturing gold in an Olympic-record time of 10.61 seconds.
- Thompson-Herah’s time was also the second-fastest women’s 100 of all time. Veteran teammate Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce took the silver in 10.74 seconds while Shericka Jackson, also of Jamaica, was third in 10.76. Teahna Daniels of the U.S. was seventh in 11.02.
(SOURCE: LIVE MINT)
ISRO-NASA JOINT MISSION ‘NISER’
- The ISRO-NASA joint mission NISER (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite, aimed at making global measurement of land surface changes using advanced radar imaging, is proposed to be launched in early 2023.
- It is a dual-band (L-band and S-band) radar imaging mission with the capability of full polarimetric and interferometric modes of operation to observe minor changes in land, vegetation and cryosphere.
- NASA is developing L-band SAR and associated systems while ISRO is developing S-band SAR, spacecraft bus, the launch vehicle and associated launch services.
- The major scientific objectives of the mission are to improve understanding of the impact of climate change on Earth’s changing ecosystems, land and coastal processes, land deformations and cryosphere.
- NISER is one of the crucial collaborations of the ISRO and NASA. India and the U.S. had agreed upon this mission during then-President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2015.
- ISRO Chairman: K.Sivan.
- ISRO Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka.
- ISRO established: 15 August 1969.
- NASA administrator: Bill Nelson.
- Headquarters of NASA: Washington D.C., United States.
- NASA Founded: 1 October 1958.
(SOURCE: JAGRAN JOSH)