Daily Current Affairs – 13 September, 2021

Modern History Acharya Vinoba Bhave Syllabus : GS 1/Personalities In News The Prime Minister paid tribute to Vinoba Bhave on his birth anniversary. About  Vinayak Narahari Bhave was born in 1895 in a high-caste Brahman family. He abandoned his high school studies in 1916 to join Gandhi’s ashram (ascetic community) at Sabarmati, near Ahmedabad.  Gandhi’s […]

In News Recently, the Prime Minister recalled Swami Vivekananda’s famous speech at the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893. About On September 11, 1893, Swami Vivekananda delivered his famed speech at the ‘Parliament of the World’s Religions’, garnering a full two-minute standing ovation and the moniker of ‘cyclonic monk of India’. He introduced […]

In Context India’s first indigenously designed High Ash Coal Gasification Based Methanol Production Plant successfully demonstrated facility to create methanol from High Ash Indian Coal. About Due to the high ash percentage of Indian coal, most internationally accessible technology did not cater to the Indian demands. Therefore, the BHEL R&D centre at Hyderabad began working […]

In News  Recently, the Vice-President of India paid floral tributes to Mahakavi Subramania Bharati to mark the death centenary of the poet and freedom fighter. Who was Subramanya Bharati? He was an outstanding Indian writer of the nationalist period and is regarded as the father of the modern Tamil style. He is also known as […]

In News Recently, the inaugural “2+2” Ministerial-level meeting was held between India and Australia in New Delhi. Key Highlights Indo- Pacific Cooperation: The foreign and defence ministerial talks are taking place amid renewed efforts by the Quad member countries to expand cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region. The important partnership between India and Australia is based […]

In News Recently, researchers have created a system that restrains populations of mosquitoes that infect millions each year with debilitating diseases.  Precision-guided sterile insect technique (pgSIT) It alters genes linked to male fertility—creating sterile offspring—and female flight in Aedes aegypti, the mosquito species responsible for spreading diseases including dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika.  It uses […]

In News Prime Minister Narendra Modi is soon expected to launch the National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID. Earlier MOU in this context  MOU between NATGRID & National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) NATGRID has signed a memorandum of understanding(MoU) in July 2020 with the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to access the centralised online database on […]