Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 08 July 2021

SSC CGL Current Affairs

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Cabinet Ministers

Narayan Rane
Sarbananda Sonowal : Ports and Shipping, AYUSH Ministry.
DrVirendra Kumar
Jyotiraditya Scindia : Civil Aviation.
Ramchandra Prasad Singh : Steel Ministry.
Ashwini Vaishnav : Railways, Communication & Electronics and Information Technology.
Pashu Pati Kumar Paras: Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Kiren Rijiju : Law and Justice Ministry.
Dharmendra Pradhan : Education Ministry.
Raj Kumar Singh : Power and Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Hardeep Singh Puri : Petroleum, Housing and Urban Development.
Mansukh Mandaviya : Chemicals and Fertilizers, Health Ministry.
Bhupender Yadav
Parshottam Rupala
G Kishen Reddy
Anurag Thakur : Information & Broadcasting and Sports.

Ministers of State

PankajChoudhary
Anupriya Singh Patel
Satya Pal Singh Baghel
Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Shobha Karandlaje
Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma
Darshana Vikram Jardosh
MeenakshiLekhi
Annpurna Devi
A Narayanaswamy
Kaushal Kishore
Ajay Bhatt
BL Verma
Ajay Kumar
Chauhan Devusinh
Bhagwanth Khuba
Kapil Moreshwar Patil
Pratima Bhoumik
Subhas Sarkar
Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad
Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
Bharati PravinPawar
BishweswarTudu
Shantanu Thakur
Dr Munjapara Mahendrabhai
John Barla
Dr L Murugan
Nishith Pramanik
Virendra Kumar, AshwiniVaishnaw, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, PankajChoudhary, SPS Baghel, BhanuPratap Singh Verma, DarshanaJardosh, Annpurna Devi, AR Narayana Swami, KaushalKishor, BL Verma, Ajay Kumar, PratimaBhoumik, BhagwantKhuba, SubhashSarkar, BhagwatKisanraoKarad, BhartiPawar, John Barla and NishitPramanik were also among those who met Modi in the morning. This is the first reshuffle in PM Modi’s Council of Ministers since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.

New Ambassador to India

World Health Organization (WHO) emergencies programme head Michael Ryan on Wednesday urged countries to take extreme caution when reopening economies amid the threat presented by the Delta variant of Sars-Cov-2. During a news conference in Geneva, Ryan warned countries with low levels of vaccination coverage against opening up, saying the presence of variants could start filling the hospitals again.
“Countries opening up who have very low levels of vaccination coverage in the presence of variants is a real toxic mixture for your hospitals filling up again. And this is something that must absolutely be avoided,” said Ryan.
Commenting on Britain’s decision to remove most of the coronavirus-induced restrictions, the senior WHO official said all countries are trying to reach a balance of measures that allow their societies to open up while trying to maintain an element of control over the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). He said that the United Kingdom, which has achieved a high rate of vaccination, is “very alert to the threat represented by variants, especially the Delta variant.”
"Vaccine nationalism, where a handful of nations have taken the lion’s share, is morally indefensible and an ineffective public health strategy against a respiratory virus that is mutating quickly and becoming increasingly effective at moving from human-to-human," said Ghebreyesus.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will carry out open market purchase of government bonds worth ₹20,000 crore under the G-sec Acquisition Programme (G-SAP 2.0) on Thursday. RBI governor Shaktikanta Das had said earlier this month that the bank will conduct these purchases to support the market.
The RBI has kept a target of purchansing government securities of ₹1.2 lakh crore under the G-SAP 2.0 in the second quarter of the financial year.
The next purchase for ₹20,000 crore is scheduled to take place on July 22.
The first such auction of ₹25,000 crore was held on April 15 this year. The second purchase of ₹35,000 crore took place on May 20.
With the bond-buying plan, the RBI plans to keep a lid on long-term interest rates amid a massive government borrowing programme.
The government raises money from the market to fund its fiscal deficit through dated securities and treasury bills.
The RBI has said it remains committed to use all instruments at its command to revive the economy by maintaining congenial financial conditions, mitigate the impact of Covid-19 and restore the economy to a path of sustainable growth while preserving macroeconomic and financial stability.

A new research has located four planets of similar mass to Earth and without any host star. The discovery has been published in 'Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society'. These so-called rogue planets are free-floating, possibly after having been ejected from their star systems by the gravitational tug of heavier planets, the study said.
Led by Iain McDonald of the University of Manchester, UK, the study used data obtained in 2016 during the K2 mission phase of NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope. During this two-month campaign, Kepler monitored a crowded field of millions of stars near the center of our Galaxy every 30 minutes in order to find rare gravitational microlensing events.
The study team found 27 short-duration candidatemicrolensing signals that varied over timescales of between an hour and 10 days. Many of these had been previously seen in data obtained simultaneously from the ground. However, the four shortest events are new discoveries that are consistent with planets of similar masses to Earth.
Despite being ejected out of their solar systems, previous research has suggested that rogue planets could hang onto nearly half their moons during the ejection process and potentially maintain conditions for life for billions of years.

• Wrestler BajrangPunia will be the flag bearer at closing ceremony on July 8.
• IOA president NarinderBatra confirmed that the total contingent for the Olympics would be around 126 athletes and 75 officials, and as a result, the total contingent would be around 201.