Daily Current Affairs 12 April 2022 | WBCS, WBPSC, WBP

By Sumit Mazumder|Updated : April 12th, 2022

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Daily Current Affairs 12.04.2022

Important News: India

State Energy and Climate Index Round- 1

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Why in News?

  • NITI Aayog has launched the State Energy & Climate Index (SECI)-Round I on 11th April 2022.

Key Points

  • Gujarat, Kerala, and Punjab have been ranked as the top three performers in the category of larger states.
  • Goa, emerged as the top-performing state in the smaller states category, followed by Tripura, and Manipur.
  • Among UTs, Chandigarh, Delhi, and Daman & Diu/Dadra & Nagar Haveli are the top performers.
  • The State Energy & Climate Index Round-I will help initiate a dialogue with the states on the energy sector so that many required policy improvements can be made.
  • The State Energy & Climate Index Round-I ranks the states’ performance on 6 parameters, namely, (1) DISCOM’s Performance (2) Access, Affordability and Reliability of Energy (3) Clean Energy Initiatives (4) Energy Efficiency (5) Environmental Sustainability; and (6) New Initiatives.
  • The parameters are further divided into 27 indicators. Based on the composite SECI Round I score, the states and UTs are categorized into three groups: Front Runners, Achievers, and Aspirants.

Source: PIB            

MoU signed between UIDAI and ISRO for technical collaboration

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Why in News

  • A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Unique Identification Authority Of India (UIDAI), Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), New Delhi and National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO, Hyderabad, for technical collaboration.

Key Points

  • NRSC will be developing the Bhuvan-Aadhar portal providing information and locations of the aadhaar centres across India.
  • NRSC will also provide a web-based portal to collect and store data pertaining to existing and new enrolment centres to improve citizen-centric services by carrying out regular statutory inspections.
  • Bhuvan will facilitate complete geographic information storage, retrieval, analysis and reporting for Aadhaar centres, with a high-resolution backdrop of natural-colour satellite images.

About Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI:

  • UIDAI is a statutory authority established under the provisions of the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (“Aadhaar Act 2016”) on 12 July 2016 by the Government of India, under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
  • UIDAI has so far issued Aadhaar numbers to more than 132 crore residents.

Source: PIB

Important News: Defence

Anti-Tank Guided Missile ‘HELINA’ successfully flight tested

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Why in News

  • Indigenously developed Helicopter launched Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) ‘HELINA’ was successfully flight tested at high-altitude ranges as part of user validation trials in Pokhran.

Key Points

  • The flight test was jointly conducted by the teams of scientists from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF).
  • The flight trials were conducted from an Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) and the missile was fired successfully engaging a simulated tank target.
  • Helena has a maximum range of seven kilometres and has been designed and developed for integration on weaponized versions of the ALH.
  • Helena has been developed by Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL), Hyderabad under the Missiles and Strategic Systems (MSS) cluster of the DRDO. Successful user trials of the missile have been conducted since 2018.

Source: Indian Express

Important News: Science

IIT Madras launches India’s first indigenously developed polycentric prosthetic knee 'Kadam'

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Why in News

  • IIT Madras researchers have launched the country’s first Made-in-India polycentric prosthetic knee‘Kadam’.

Key Points

  • The polycentric knee has been developed in association with Society for Biomedical Technology (SBMT) and Mobility India.
  • SBMT was established under DRDO by former President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam to enable indigenous medical device development.
  • Mobility India, an NGO in Bengaluru, will mass manufacture and take Kadam to the market along with overseeing the processes of fitment and training and ensuring easy access for the users.
  • It was developed by a team at TTK Center for Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2) at IIT Madras, which also developed and commercialized ‘Arise,’ the country's first standing wheelchair and NeoFly-NeoBolt, an active wheelchair.

Source: India Today

Important News: Appointment

Shehbaz Sharif was elected Pakistan's 23rd Prime Minister

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Why in News

  • Shehbaz Sharif, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, was elected unopposed as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan by the National Assembly, after a week-long constitutional crisis that climaxed when Imran Khan lost a no-confidence vote.

Key Points

  • Shehbaz, the younger brother of former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, received 174 votes. 
  • He has served as chief minister of the country's most populous and politically crucial Punjab province thrice.

Source: HT

Manoj Soni appointed as UPSC’s new chairman

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Why in News

  • Recently, eminent scholar-academician, Dr Manoj Soni was appointed as the new Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).

Key Points

  • Manoj Soni succeeds Pradip Kumar Joshi.
  • Prior to this, Dr Manoj served as the vice-chancellor of two universities.

About Union Public Service Commission (UPSC):

  • UPSC is India's premier central recruitment agency for the recruitment of all the Group 'A' officers under the Government of India.
  • The agency's charter is granted by Part XIV of the Constitution of India, titled Services Under the Union and the States.
  • Formed: 1 October 1926
  • Headquarters: New Delhi

Source: ET

Important News: Sports

India win first-ever gold medal at WSF World Doubles Squash championships 2022

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  • India's Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Saurav Ghosal defeated Adrian Waller and Alison Waters of England in the mixed doubles finals to win India's first ever gold medal at WSF World Doubles Squash championship 2022 at Glasglow, Scotland.
  • Apart from this, Dipika Pallikal also won the women's doubles gold with her partner JoshnaChinappa.

Source: newsonair

Important News: Books

Former CAG Vinod Rai’s book ‘Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings with BCCI’

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Why in News

  • Former CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) and chief of Supreme court-appointed CoA (Committee of Administrators), Vinod Rai has penned a book titled as, “Not Just A Nightwatchman: My Innings with BCCI”.

Key Points

  • In the book, Vinod Rai narrated his stint of 33 months at BCCI when he was appointed as the head of the Supreme Court-mandated Committee of Administrators (CoA) in the BCCI.
  • The book has been published by Rupa Publications India.
  • Vinod Rai is a former IAS officer who served as the 11th Comptroller and Auditor General of India

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