July Current Affairs Notes

 PM inaugurates 750-MW solar power project in Rewa district, Madhya Pradesh

-PM  inaugurated the 750-MW solar power project in Rewa district via video conferencing

-The Rewa solar project, Asia’s largest solar project, is the first solar project in the country to break the grid parity barrier.

-Delhi Metro will use 24% of the electricity produced from it & rest for MP

- Govt organisations which buy solar cells & modules will buy made in India only.

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KUAIZHOU 11 

-China’s 19th launch of 2020, the Kuaizhou-11 rocket failed and both the satellites it was carrying were lost.

-Kuaizhou, meaning “fast ship” in Chinese, known as KZ-1

-Both satellites were built by Changguang Satellite Co. Ltd

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APACHE AH-64E ATTACK HELICOPTERS

-Boeing has handed over the last of the five AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to the Indian Air Force (IAF), completing the contract for 22 Apaches.

- Apaches were deployed at the Leh air base

-In March, Boeing handed over the last five of the 15 CH-47F(I) Chinook heavy-lift helicopters to the IAF.

-Boeing’s joint venture in Hyderabad, Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited, has been producing aero-structures for the AH-64 Apache helicopter for both the U.S. Army and international customers.

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ASEEM ( AtmaNirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer Mapping)

- Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched the artificial intelligence (AI)-based AtmaNirbhar Skilled Employee-Employer Mapping or ASEEM portal

- portal was launched by Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship.

- 20 lakhs migrant workers under the GKRA (Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojana)plus 1.2 crore candidates trained under PMKVY 2.0(Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana) to the portal

-  aims at accelerating India’s journey towards recovery by mapping skilled workforce and connecting them with relevant livelihood opportunities

-developed by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)along with Better Place

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Labour Ministry notifies draft on minimum wages

-The Union Labour and Employment Ministry published the draft rules framed for the implementation of the Code on Wages Act, 2019

- guarantees minimum wages to all, defines how the wages will be calculated and prescribes a national floor wage for all States.

-The Draft Code on Wages Central Rules, 2019 was placed on the website of the labour ministry on November 1 for public consultation

-government has asked stakeholders to raise objections and offer suggestions within a period of 45 days.

- Net intake of 2,700 calories per day, 66 meters cloth per year per family, housing rent expenditure as 10% of food & clothing expenditure are some of the factors that would determine the fixation of the national minimum wage.

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Chhattisgarh organises India's first e-Lok Adalat

- e-Lok Adalat is being held in Chhattisgarh on Saturday to ensure the administration of justice continues via virtual hearings conducted through video conferencing.

-Chief Justice P R Rajendra Menon and State Legal services Authority chairman Justice Prashant K Mishra conceptualized and the former inaugurated it 

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Jharkhand govt signs MoU with HDFC Bank for digital payment solutions

- HDFC bank will provide digital payment solutions to the transport department of Jharkhand. 

- The traffic police will be equipped with POS machines to collect traffic- related penalties

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UP startup policy aims 100 incubators and 10,000 startups

-UP cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to the Uttar Pradesh Startup Policy 2020

-chaired by UP Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath

- expected to generate 150,000 employment and self employment opportunities

-New Startup Policy, which will be applicable for five years from date of notification, to corporatize more than 10,000 startups at an incubation hub in Lucknow.

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Avg global temperature can rise by 1.5°C in next 5 years: WMO

-World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is based in Geneva, Switzerland

-WMO in its report “Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update for 2020-24”,  said the annual global temperature is likely to be at least 1 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial levels

-Countries under 2015 Paris Agreement had agreed to try and limit average global temperature rise to below 2°C by the end of the century

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WHO sets up panel to probe Coronavirus response

-launched an independent panel to review its response to the pandemic

-”Independent panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response”

- will be headed by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, jointly with 2 others  "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

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Country of origin tag a must : Paswan to e-tailers

-Consumer Affairs Minister Shri Ram Vilas Paswan

- consumers to know “country of origin” for informed choice while pushing “Made in India”

-The dept. for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) held a second meeting on the matter attended by close to 30 e-commerce players.

-Ministry in its reminder invoked the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.

-Under the rules make it mandatory for all manufacturers to declare the package name & address of the manufacturer, common & generic name of commodity, net quantity, month & year of manufacturing, MRP and consumer care details.

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Chennai to come up with ‘plasma bank’, after Delhi

-Chennai will soon have the country’s second ‘plasma bank’ at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH)

-establish the facility at a cost of ₹2 crore.

-State govt obtained approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO)

- to take up the trial of convalescent plasma therapy for patients with moderate COVID-19

-TN Health Minister C. Vijayabaskar

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Iran drops India from Chabahar rail project, cites funding delay

-Iran inaugurated the track laying process for the 628 km Chabahar-Zahedan line, which will be extended to Zaranj across the border to Afghanistan. 

-IRCON(Indian Railways Construction Ltd) had signed MoU with Iranian Railways in 2016, as a part of a Trilateral agreement between Iran, Afghanistan and India.

- China is likely to ink the deal for 25years

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Navy Completes Operation Samudra Setu

- Indian Navy said it has completed Operation Samudra Setu, which began on May 5,2020 by bringing nearly 4,000 Indians back home from three countries

-5repatriation trips were done by ships to Male in Maldives,

2 were done to Bandar Abbas in Iran and 1 went to Colombo in Sri Lanka under the operation

-Indian Naval Ships Jalashwa (Landing Platform Dock), and Airavat, Shardul and Magar (Landing Ship Tanks) participated in this operation which lasted over 55 days.