Daily Current Affairs Quiz: June 29,2021

ANSWER: C

Why in news ?

Every year, Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) Day is celebrated on 27^th June to recognise the contribution of these industries in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

History:

• The United Nations (UN) designated 27^thJune as Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Day through a resolution passed in the UN General Assembly in April 2017.
• In May 2017, a program titled ‘Enhancing National Capacities for Unleashing Full Potentials of MSMEs in Achieving the SDGs in Developing Countries’ was launched.
• It has been funded by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Sub-Fund of the United Nations Peace and Development Fund.

Significance:

• The UN wants countries to recognise sustainable development goals and create awareness about them.
  • An International Trade Centre survey on Covid-19 impact among businesses in 136 countries has shown that nearly 62% of women-led small businesses have been strongly affected by the crisis, compared to just over half of firms led by men, and women-owned are 27% more likely not to survive the pandemic.
• Formal and informal MSMEs make up over 90% of all firms and account, on average, for 70% of total employment and 50% of GDP. As such, they are key actors in achieving a green recovery.

• 2021 Theme:
  • MSME 2021: Key to an inclusive and sustainable recovery

ANSWER: D

Why in news ?

Recently, the Defence Minister visited the Karwar Naval Base in Karnataka to review the ongoing infrastructure development under Phase-II of ‘Project Seabird’.

About:

Project Seabird-Phase II:

• Project Seabird involves construction of a naval base over an area of 11,169 acres.
• Phase I comprised construction of a deep-sea harbour, breakwaters dredging, a township, a naval hospital, a dockyard uplift centre and a ship lift. It was completed in 2005.
• Phase-II of Project Seabird was cleared by the Cabinet Committee on Security in 2012. It envisages expanding facilities to house additional warships and set up a new Naval Air Station, among other plans.
• INS Kadamba is currently the third-largest Indian naval base, and is expected to become the largest naval base in the eastern hemisphere after completion of expansion Phase II.
• The Navy’s lone aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya is based at Karwar. The base also has the country’s first sealift facility, a unique “shiplift” and transfer system for docking and undocking ships and submarines.
• The project involves several technical and environmental challenges.

ANSWER: A

Why in news ?

• The National Skill Development Corporation and WhatsApp announced an alliance to launch the Digital Skill Champions Program that aims to train India’s youth on digital skills, in order to make them employment ready.
• The partnership identifies two broad areas of collaboration viz., WhatsApp Digital Skills Academy and Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendra (PMKK) and WhatsApp Business App Training sessions.
• Through this program, school and university students would be coached to imbibe digital and online skills that would culminate with WhatsApp and NSDC awarding ‘Digital Skill Champions’ certification.

ANSWER: A

Why in news ?

• The Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has informed that India’s first Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC-I), is planned to be commissioned by 2022.
• Once commissioned, the carrier will be rechristened as INS Vikrant, in memory of India’s first aircraft carrier.
• The IAC-1 carrier is being built at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), Kochi, Kerala, under a public-private partnership.
• It comprises nearly 75 per cent of indigenous content from design, to steel used in construction, to key weapons and sensors.
• The IAC-1 will undergo a series of sea trials before it gets inducted into the Navy.
• Vikrant is 262 metres (860 ft) long and 62 metres (203 ft) wide, and displaces about 40,000 metric tons (39,000 long tons).

ANSWER: C

Why in news ?

• Microsoft officially launched its new Windows operating system ‘Windows 11’. It is being called as the “next generation” of Windows.
• The release comes nearly six-year after the current latest Windows Operating System ‘Windows 10’ was launched in July 2015.
• Windows 11 is special because it focuses on a new user interface, a new Windows Store, and improvements to performance, including a center-aligned Taskbar and Start button.

ANSWER: B

Why in news ?

• The Central government has declared Smart City awards 2020 in which Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and Surat (Gujarat) won the award jointly for their overall development.
• Whereas Uttar Pradesh emerged on the top among all states, followed by Madhya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu under the Smart City award, 2020.
• The Smart City awards were given across the themes of Social Aspects, Governance, Culture, Urban Environment, Sanitation, Economy, Built Environment, Water, Urban Mobility

ANSWER: B

Why in news ?

• The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)successfully test-fired the subsonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ on June 24, 2021, from an Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur in Odisha’s Balasore. This was the eighth test flight of the missile. The first test flight of Nirbhay was held on 12 March 2013.
• Nirbhay is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missileindigenously designed and developed by
• The missile can be launched from multiple platforms and is capable of carrying conventional and nuclear warheads.
• Nirbhay is a two-stage missile and can engage several targets in a single flight.
• The missile has a length of 6 metres, a width of 0.52 metres, a wingspan of 2.7 metres and weighs about 1500 kg.
• It has a strike range of about 1500 km.