Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 10 April 2021

SSC CGL Current Affairs

Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 10 April 2021

::NATIONAL::

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh holds bilateral talks with Kazakh Defence Minister Lt Gen NurlanYermekbayev

Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh held bilateral talks with Defence Minister of Republic of Kazakhstan Lieutenant General NurlanYermekbayev.
During the meeting, the two Ministers exchanged views to further strengthen bilateral defence cooperation, including through training, defence exercises and capacity building. They agreed that both sides must look at the possibility of defence industrial collaboration of mutual interest.
The Defence Minister of Kazakhstan thanked RakshaMantri for the opportunity given to the Kazakh troops for deployment as part of the Indian battalion in United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Both Ministers also positively assessed the annual KAZIND Exercise.
Chief of Defence Staff General BipinRawat, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh, Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar, Secretary (Defence Production) Raj Kumar and other senior civil and military officials of Ministry of Defence were also present on the occasion.

::INTERNATIONAL::

ICCR Foundation Day celebrated at Indian Embassy in Seoul

ICCR Foundation Day was celebrated at Indian Embassy in Seoul on Friday. Ambassador SripriyaRanganathan, highlighted the role of ICCR in promotion of Cultural Diplomacy and India’s Soft Power.
She said, over the years, ICCR has worked to propagate an image of India that augments its natural historical appeal, boosting cultural diplomacy and foreign policy” said Ambassador Ranganathan.
Dr. VinaySahasrabuddhe, President, ICCR said, ”During the last over 6 years, ICCR has received a new thrust under the guidance of Hon’ble Prime Minister ShriNarendraModi who has shown keen interest to build onto India’s ‘soft’ power strengths”.
Two distinguished Indologists, Prof. Geo Lyong Lee and Prof. Lim Geun Dong, both renowned scholars and recipient of prestigious ICCR awards in the fields of Indology and Sanskrit respectively for their extraordinary contributions in promoting Indian philosophy, language and culture were also present. They gave a Special Address on Indian Philosophy and Indian Scriptures as a form of India’s Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy and above all means to promote people to people ties between the two countries of India and Republic of Korea.
During the ceremony, ICCR Scholars, Alumni and students of Indian Cultural Centre shared their experience. A dance recital by the teacher and students of Cultural Centre was also presented during the event.

::ECONOMY::

Fuel consumption falls 9.1% in FY21

Fuel consumption in India jumped 18% in March this year compared to the same period last year, but overall consumption during the 2020-21 financial year fell about 9.1%, according to government data that reflects the unprecedented disruption in economic activity due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, the data for March from both years—this year, 18.77 million tonne of fuel was consumed compared to 15.93 in 2020—now add to several metrics that reflect a robust recovery in the economy.
The country’s annual consumption of petroleum products in 2020-21 was 194.63 million tonne, compared to 214.13 million tonne in 2019-20, according to the oil ministry’s data keeper, the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC).
Last year’s contraction was the first time since the PPAC began recording the data starting 1998-99.

::SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY::

Swarna Jayanti Fellow to explore the signatures of New Physics in Neutrino experiments

Sanjib Kumar Agarwalla, Associate Professor, Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar, a Swarnajayanti Fellow of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of India, will unravel the fundamental properties of massive neutrinos and explore the interesting signals of New physics in upcoming high-precision neutrino oscillation experiments.
Over the last two decades, several world-class experiments have firmly established the phenomenon of neutrino flavor oscillation which implies that neutrinos have mass and they mix with each other.
Since neutrinos are massless in the new particle physics, also called Basic Standard Model of particle physics, there is a need to invoke BSM physics to accommodate non-zero neutrino mass and mixing. Several interesting BSM scenarios such as sterile neutrinos, non-standard neutrino interactions, neutrino decays, dark matter - neutrino secret interactions, and so on may affect the production, propagation, and detection of neutrinos.
Sanjib will probe these BSM effects at very high (TeV-PeV) energies (beyond the reach of modern colliders) by detecting astrophysical neutrinos from cosmic distances using giant neutrino telescopes such as IceCube at the South Pole, future IceCube-Gen2, and KM3NeT in the Mediterranean Sea.
He has plans to investigate these BSM scenarios at low (MeV-GeV) energies using accelerator and atmospheric neutrinos travelling terrestrial distances.
Future high-precision accelerator long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE in USA, T2HK in Japan, and atmospheric neutrino experiment at the upcoming India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) facility are supposed to measure the mass-mixing parameters with a precision of around a few %.

::SPORTS::

Sonam, Anshu seal Tokyo Olympics wrestling berths

Teenage wrestling sensations Anshu Malik and Sonam Malik booked Tokyo Olympics berths as they stormed into the final of Asian Olympic qualifiers in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Anshu was relentless as she punched her ticket to Tokyo Olympics in 57 kg with force and steely composure. The teenager proved too strong for her rivals and won all her bouts through technical superiority and reached the final with a 12-2 victory over ShokhidaAkhmedova of Uzbekistan.
She started with an impressive victory over Korea's Jiuen Um 10-0 and then defeated Kazakhstan's Emma Tissina with the same margin. The 19-year-old conceded her first point in the semi-final against Shokhida when the Uzbek wrestler made it 4-2.