Daily GK Current Affairs News viable of 25th May 2021. – Here is the Regular current affairs viable of 25th May 2021. covering the following news headlines: World Thyroid Day, NASA, Sanjeevani Pariyojana, Indian Commonwealth Day, India Biodiversity Award 2021, Mission Oxygen Self-Reliance.
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Here current affairs have been categorized which is as follows:
- International News
- State News
- Awards News
- Important Days
- Obituaries News
- Miscellaneous News
International News
- UK launches plan for ‘Global Pandemic Radar’
- The United Kingdom will develop an advanced international pathogen surveillance network to identify COVID-19 variants and emerging diseases.
- This global epidemic radar will ensure early detection of new forms and emerging pathogens, so the vaccines and treatments needed to prevent them can be rapidly developed.
- Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced plans ahead of the Global Health Summit organized by Italy and the European Union (EU).
- The radar is expected to be fully up and running with a network of surveillance hubs before the end of 2021, with the aim of significantly improving global health security going into next year.
- WHO will lead an implementation group, supported by global health charity the Welcome Trust, to launch the new international partnership to identify, track and share data on new coronavirus variants and monitor vaccine resistance in populations.
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- UK Prime Minister:- Boris Johnson;
- UK Capital: London.
State News
- Maharashtra govt launches “Mission Oxygen Self-Reliance”
- The Maharashtra government has launched the “Mission Oxygen Self-Reliance” scheme to meet the state’s oxygen needs. Special incentives will be given to oxygen producing industries under this scheme.
- At present, the state’s oxygen generation capacity is 1300 MT per day. Units set up in Vidarbha, Marathwada, Dhule, Nandurbar, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg regions will be eligible for incentives up to 150 per cent of their eligible fixed capital investments and units set up in the rest of Maharashtra will be eligible for up to 100 per cent general incentives.
- The government will also give a refund on gross SGST, stamp duty, electricity duty and unit subsidy of power cost for five years and interest subsidy for MSME units with a fixed capital investment of up to Rs.50 crore.
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- Maharashtra CM: Uddhav Thackeray.
- Maharashtra Governor: Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
- Maharashtra Capital: Mumbai.
- Haryana govt launches ‘Sanjeevani Pariyojana’ to treat COVID patients at home
- Haryana government has launched an anti-Covid “Sanjeevani Pariyojana”, which will provide supervised and quick medical care at home for people, with mild to moderate symptoms of Covid-19, residing in rural areas.
- This Pariyojana has been launched to extend medical care in rural areas where awareness regarding the second wave of Covid-19 and related treatment remains low. It is an important step of bringing medical care for the people who need it most and when they need it most.
- The scope of medical advice will be expanded beyond qualified doctors as it will mobilize 200 final year and pre-final year medical students and interns by connecting them to consultants and experts.
- The initiative comprises an Integrated Command and Control Centre to manage critical resources such as ambulance tracking, oxygen supply, hospital beds availability, besides, door-to-door awareness campaign.
- Thus, it will help the district administration in keeping a bird’s eye view of the entire healthcare system.
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- Haryana Governor: Satyadev Narayan Arya.
- Haryana Chief Minister: Manohar Lal Khattar.
- Haryana Capital: Chandigarh.
Awards News
- Kerala’s Shaji N.M. wins India Biodiversity Award 2021
- Shaji NM, affectionately called ‘Tuber Man’ of Kerala, has been awarded the India Biodiversity Award 2021 in the individual category of ‘Conservation of Domesticated Species’.
- During the International Biodiversity Day (IDB) 2021, a prize of ₹ 2 lakh cash prize and citation was announced.
- Shaji, who conserves a wide array of around 200 tuber crops including greater yam, lesser yam, elephant foot yam, arrowroot, colocasia, sweet potato, cassava and Chinese potato in his farm has received State awards seven times for his efforts.
- He has also received the Plant Genome Savior Reward 2015 established by the PPV & FR Authority, New Delhi.
Important Days
- World Thyroid Day celebrated on 25 May
- World Thyroid Day is celebrated globally on 25 May every year. The purpose of WTD is to make aware of the importance of thyroid and prevention and treatment of thyroid diseases.
- This day is established in 2008 as a part of the campaign led by the European Thyroid Association (ETA) and the American Thyroid Association (ATA) followed by the Latin American Thyroid Society (LATS) and Asia Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA) to commemorate the patients with Thyroid diseases and doctors and physicians who treat them.
- The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland in the throat that produces T3 (thyroxine) and T4 (triiodothyronine) and is maintained by thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). It regulates the body’s metabolism and abnormalities in it can impair the body’s systems.
- International Missing Children’s Day: 25 May
- International Missing Children’s Day is celebrated globally on 25 May every year. The day is celebrated for missing children who have found their way home, who remember victims of crime, and continue the effort to find those who are still missing.
- May 25 is now widely known as Missing Children’s Day, as a symbol of it, Forget Me Not a Flower.
- The day was proclaimed in 1983, by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. In 2001, 25 May was the first formally recognized as International Missing Children’s Day (IMCD), to a joint effort on the part of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC), Missing Children Europe and therefore the European Commission.
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- ICMEC Headquarters: Alexandria, Virginia, US;
- Chairman of ICMEC: Dr Franz B. Humer.
Obituaries News
- China’s ‘father of hybrid rice’ Yuan Longping passes away
- Chinese scientist Yuan Longping, who is famous for developing hybrid rice strains that have greatly improved grain production in the country, died at the age of 91.
- Yuan succeeded in 1973 to cultivate a high-yielding hybrid rice, which was later grown extensively in China and other countries to increase mass production.
Miscellaneous News
- World’s largest iceberg breaks off from Antarctica
- The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed using satellite images that the world’s largest iceberg has broken off from Antarctica.
- Named as A-67, the iceberg was 4320 square kilo meters in size, which is half the size of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- The finger-shaped iceberg broke off from the Ronne Ice shelf, a massive ice shelf that encompasses an area of more than 400,000 sq. km. The images were captured by Copernicus Sentinel-1.
- The Copernicus Sentinel spacecraft is the first ESA Earth Observation spacecraft to implement communications security on the command link.
- Indian-Origin Anvee Bhutani Elected as Oxford Student Union President
- At the end of the student union (SU) by-election, an Indian-origin anthropology student from Magdalen College, Oxford University, has been declared the winner.
- Anvi Bhutani, co-president of Racial Awareness and Equality (CRAE) at Oxford SU and president of the Oxford India Society, was in the fray for a by-election for the 2021–22 academic years, which attracted record turnout.
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