Daily Current Affairs – 27th April 2021
Topics/Highlights
- Project Ladakh Ignited Minds
- Project Dantak
- Zhurong
- Disaster Management Act
Focus
1. Project Ladakh Ignited Minds
In News
The project aims to provide better educational opportunities for Ladakhi students.
The project is initiated by Indian Army.
Key Points
- The project Ladakh Ignited Minds: A Centre of Excellence and Wellness aimed at providing training facilities to disadvantaged Ladakhi students.
- It is to give them the opportunity to study in niche educational institutes.
- Fire and Fury Corps of Indian Army is providing a holistic training for Ladakhi youth with the support of HPCL and execution agency NIEDO.
- 20 girls out of 45 students from Leh and Kargil districts, would get training for JEE and NEET entrance examinations in the first batch.
Source – PIB
2. Project Dantak
In News
It completes 60 years in Bhutan.
Key Points
- It was established on 24 April, 1961.
- It was aimed to construct the motorable roads in the Kingdom.
- The construction of Paro Airport, Thimphu – Trashigang Highway, Sherubtse College, Kanglung and India House Estate, Telecommunication & Hydro Power Infrastructure, Yonphula Airfield.
- All these years, it has met the requirement of infrastructure in Bhutan in accordance with the vision of Their Majesties and the aspirations of the people in a symbiotic manner.
- The medical and educational facilities is also established by this project in far flung areas.
- The road is having food outlets which introduced the Bhutanese to Indian delicacies and developed a sweet tooth in them.
Source – PIB
3. Zhurong
In News
Zhurong is China’s first Mars rover which means traditional fire god.
Key Points
- It is aboard in the Tianwen-1 probe that arrived in Mars orbit on February 24
- It will land in May to look for evidence of life.
- In 2019, China became the first country to land a space probe on the little-explored far side of the moon.
- In December it also returned lunar rocks to Earth for the first time since the 1970s.
- After the former Soviet Union and the United States, China would become the third country to put a robot rover on Mars.
About Tianwen-1:
- It is China’s first Mars probe. (formerly Huoxing 1)
- The spacecraft consists of an orbiter, a lander and a rover.
- It will land on somewhere in Utopia Planitia which is a vast plain in Mars’ northern latitudes and the same place NASA’s Viking 2 mission landed in the 1970s.
The objective of the mission is
- To create geological map of Mars.
- Investigation of the Martian atmosphere and climate at the surface.
- To create a understanding of electromagnetic and gravitational fields of the planet.
- To explore the characteristics of the Martian soil and potentially locate water-ice deposits.
- Surface material composition analysis.
Source – The Hindu
4. Disaster Management Act
In News
Centre has ordered States that all liquid oxygen, including the stocks with private plants, should be made available to the government and will be used for medical purposes only under the Disaster Management Act.
Key Points
- Except for nine industries that include the pharmaceutical, petroleum, nuclear energy and steel sectors, supply of oxygen will now be prohibited for industrial purposes.
Liquid oxygen
- It is the liquid form of molecular oxygen.
- It has a pale blue color and is strongly paramagnetic.
- It is having cryogenic nature by which liquid oxygen can cause the materials it touches to become extremely brittle.
- It is a very powerful oxidizing agent by which organic materials will burn rapidly and energetically in liquid oxygen.
About the Disaster Management Act, 2005
- The objective is to manage disasters, including preparation of mitigation strategies, capacity-building and more.
- The act came into force in January 2006.
- It also provides “the effective management of disasters and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.”
- The act provides for the establishment of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), with the Prime Minister of India as chairperson.
- The acta also provides that the Central Government to Constitute a National Executive Committee (NEC) to assist the National Authority.
- State Governments should establish a State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA).
Source – The Hindu
