Current Affairs 2021: Economy & Environment from July Week2
- 1A2-Monetary Policy: RBI allows retail investors to open Retail Direct Gilt Account (RDG Account) with the RBI they can directly purchase the G-sec, State development loans, Sovereign gold bonds- without requiring an intermediary Mutual fund. this will help deepening the G-Sec market with greater participation of retail investors. [ RDG / ]
- Bio-Diversity: Elephant reserves in Chhattisgarh: 1) Lemru is a planned elephant reserves in Chhattisgarh to prevent human-animal conflict in the region, with elephants moving into Chhattisgarh from Odisha and Jharkhand. Its area was then proposed to be 450 sq km. 2) Badalkhol Tamorpingla, the other elephant reserve measuring 1048.30 sq km. [ ]
Current Affairs 2021: Science technology from July Week2
- 6-Corona: GuillainBarré syndrome = rare neuro-logical disease. Johnson & Johnsons coronavirus vaccine can lead to an increased risk of this disease.
- 6-Corona: India Patient Zero – A 21-YEAR-OLD from Kerala’s Thrissur district, who was India’s first recorded case of Covid-19, has again tested positive for the virus. She was not vaccinated. Lesson? Corona antibodies are not permanent ( )
- 6-Corona: Ultraviolet UV-C Disinfection Technology, developed by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). It is essentially an air duct system to disinfect the air in auditoriums, large conference rooms, class-rooms, malls etc. It will be installed in the Parliament building. ( /- CSIR )
- Space-Tech: Indian female astronaut: Sirisha Bandla, vice president of Richard Bransons Virgin Galactic, became the third woman of Indian origin after NASA astronauts Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams to fly to space. [ ]
- Space-Tech: Space tourism / suborbital flight: Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and five others undertook a brief trip to the edge of space, taking off on the VSS Unity spaceship to an altitude of 85 km from Earth before returning. Such a trip is called a suborbital flight. Amazons Jeff Bezos also planned similar trip on the Blue Origin spacecraft. Such a trip allows space travellers to experience a few minutes of weightlessness. At Bransons Virgin Galactic, around 600 people have already paid deposits for tickets that are priced up to $250,000 (Rs 1.86 crore).[ / 85 ]
- Robotics: Robotics: Italian Companies using robots such as ABB2, Quantek2 etc for carving sculptures from Marbles.
Current Affairs 2021: persons and places in news from July Week2
- Places-in-News: Port: Jawaharlal Nehru Port or JNPT in Mumbai is facing problems of congestion. So, the Gujarat government has been planning to develop a port in Valsad regions Nargol to address the problem of shipping infrastructure deficit in the region.
- Books-Authors: Amartya Sens new book: Home in the World”. He won Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. He teaches at Harvard University.
- Death: Death: Dr Panayambally Krishnakutty Warrier renowned Ayurveda practitioner from Kerala
- Death: Death: Cricketer Yashpal Sharma from 1983 World Cup. ( )
- Sports: Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open in February, the French Open in June. Finally won Wimbledon title for a sixth time in July- by defeating Matteo Berrettini of Italy [ ]
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