- Prime Minister Narendra Modi flags off 100th Kisan Rail
- The train will run from Sangola in Maharashtra to Shalimar in West Bengal.
- The multi-commodity train service will carry vegetables such as cauliflower, capsicum, cabbage, drumsticks, chillies, onion, as well as fruits like grapes, oranges, pomegranate, banana and custard apple.
- Note:The Central Government has extended a subsidy of 50 per cent on transportation of fruits and vegetables.
- The first Kisan Rail was introduced from Devlali in Maharashtra to Danapur in Bihar on August 7, 2020, which was further extended upto Muzaffarpur.
- Ladakh’s Tso Kar Wetland Complex now a Wetland of International Importance
- India has added Tso Kar Wetland Complex in Ladakh as its 42nd Ramsar site, which is a second one in the Union Territory (UT) of Ladakh.
- The Tso Kar Basin is a high-altitude wetland complex, consisting of two principal waterbodies, Startsapuk Tso, a freshwater lake of about 438 hectares to the south, and Tso Kar itself, a hypersaline lake of 1800 hectares to the north, situated in the Changthang region of Ladakh, India.
- Note: The Tso Kar Basin is an A1 Category Important Bird Area (IBA) as per Bird Life International and a key staging site in the Central Asian Flyway.
- A Ramsar site is a wetland site designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. Ramsar convention is an inter-governmental environmental treaty established by UNESCO and came into force in 1975.
- ‘Positive Pay System’ for cheque transactions
- On January 1, 2021, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will introduce the ‘Positive Pay System’ for cheque transactions above Rs 50,000 in a bid to enhance safety and eliminate frauds.
- Under this process, the issuer of the cheque submits electronically, through channels like SMS, mobile app, Internet banking and ATM, certain minimum details of that cheque (like date, name of the beneficiary, or payee and amount) to the drawee bank, details of which are cross-checked with the presented cheque by Cheque Truncation System (CTS).
- World Bank Signs $500 Million funding for 'Green' Highway Corridor Project in India
- India and the World Bank signed a $500 million project to build safe and green national highway corridors in the states of Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
- The Green National Highways Corridors Project will support the ministry to construct 783 km of highways in various geographies by integrating safe and green technology designs such as local and marginal materials, industrial by-products, and other bio-engineering solutions.
- The project will help reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions in the construction and maintenance of highways.
- Successful maiden launch of MRSAM
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) achieved a major milestone with the maiden launch of Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM), Army Version from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the Coast of Odisha.
- MRSAM Army weapon system comprises of Command post, Multi-Function Radar and Mobile Launcher system.
- Note: Army version of MRSAM was developed jointly by DRDO, India and IAI, Israel.
- Uttar Pradesh Government to set up India’s first mega Leather Park in Kanpur
- A mega leather park will come up in Ramaipur village of Kanpurwith an investment of Rs 5,850 crores.
- Recently, the project has received approval from the Union Commerce Ministry. At least 50,000 people will get direct employment and indirect employment for 1.5 lakh people in the leather park to be built under the mega leather cluster project in Kanpur.
- Karnataka unveils ‘FRUITS’ portal for farmers
- The Karnataka government has unveiled the FRUITS (Farmer Registration and Unified beneficiary Information System). It is an e-governance single portal to create a repository of farmland information and farm loan details.
- Note: Canara Bank has agreed to run FRUITS on a pilot basis.
- DRDO scientist Hemant Kumar Pandey conferred with 'Scientist of the Year Award'
- Hemant Kumar Pandey was conferred with 'Scientist of the Year Award' for his contribution in developing a herbal drug for leucoderma, an autoimmune disorder characterised by the loss of skin colour in parts of a body.
- Pandey, who heads the Herbal Medicine Division of DRDO's Defence Institute of Bio-energy Research (DIBER), was conferred with the prestigious award by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
- Vice President Venkaiah Naidu releases the book ‘Oh Mizoram’
- Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu released a book of English poems by Mizoram Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, titled. Pillai’s poems highlight Mizoram’s pristine natural beauty.
- He has written 125 books in Malayalam and English on a variety of topics including politics, social and legal issues and poetry.
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