Daily GK Current Affairs viable of 11th May 2021

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Table of Contents

Here current affairs have been categorized which is as follows:

International News
National News
State News
Appointments News
Banking News
Business News
Science and Technology News
Awards News
Sports News
Important Days
Miscellaneous News

International News

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Former Senator Bill Nelson Sworn in as the 14th NASA Administrator

Former Senator Bill Nelson served as NASA’s 14th administrator to carry out the Biden-Harris administration’s vision for the agency.
Nelson served in the U.S. Senate for 18 years from Florida and as a payload specialist on space shuttle mission 61-C in 1986.
Nelson has served in public office over four decades, first in the state legislature and the US Congress, then as state treasurer.
He has been elected to the United States Senate three times, represented Florida for 18 years. His committees included government policy breadths ranging from defense, intelligence and foreign policy to finance commerce, and health care.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

NASA Founded: 1 October 1958.
Headquarters of NASA: Washington D.C., United States.

National News

CBSE launches ‘Dost for Life’ mobile app

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a new mobile app for students and parents. This new app ‘Dost for Life’ is a special psychological counseling app for students and parents of CBSE affiliated schools.
The new App will simultaneously cater to students and parents from CBSE-affiliated schools in different geographies across the world.
The app will provide students with other resource materials such as suggestive course guides after senior secondary education, tips on mental health and wellbeing, and corona guides, along with daily safety protocols, home learning and self-care.
The counselling sessions shall be provided to students of classes 9-12 by 83 volunteer counsellors and school principals.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

CBSE Head Office: Delhi.
CBSE Founded: 3 November 1962.
CBSE Chairman: Manoj Ahuja.

State News

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Tripura Launches Auro Scholarship Programme of Sri Aurobindo Society

The Education Minister of Tripura, Ratan Lal Nath has launched the Sri Aurobindo Society’s Scholars Auro Scholarship Program ‘for all the students of the state.
The Auro Scholarship Program offers monthly micro-scholarships to students to motivate students to achieve great learning results by achieving benchmark performance in 10-minute course-aligned quizzes.
1000 scholars of Tripura will develop into direct beneficiaries and the standard of training within the state will achieve new heights.The month-to-month micro-scholarship programme will profit the scholars in the long term.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

Chief Minister of Tripura: Biplab Kumar Deb; Governor: Ramesh Bais.

Appointments News

Ujjwala Singhania takes over as 38th National President FICCI FLO

Ujjwala Singhania has been elected as the national chairperson of the FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO), the oldest female-led and women-centric business chamber in Southeast Asia.
As the 38th National President of FLO Singhania, her focus will be on empowering women by facilitating an enabling environment that promotes entrepreneurship, industry participation and economic growth.
Under his leadership, the FLO will make a number of interventions to promote the large contribution of women to India’s industrial and economic development story.

Banking News

CSC, HDFC Bank launches chatbot ‘Eva’

HDFC Bank and Common Services Center (CSCs) launched Chatbot on Eva ‘on CSCs digital services portal to support rural level entrepreneurs (VLEs) in providing banking services for rural consumers last mile.
This initiative will bridge the gap between India and Bharat. Urban India has been quick to learn and adapt to the digital world. Rural India has faced challenges as it has lower Internet penetration.
VLEs will learn a little about the products and services offered by HDFC Bank, which will improve services for last mile customers and enhance banking services for Last Mile even more.
The 24 × 7 service will allow VLEs to get accurate information about different products, processes and queries about the services of HDFC Bank.
VLEs would improve their business by learning about account opening, loan lead generation and product details.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

Headquarters of HDFC Bank: Mumbai, Maharashtra;
The tagline of HDFC Bank: We understand your world;
MD and CEO of HDFC Bank: Sashidhar Jagdishan.

Business News

Bajaj Finance gets RBI approval for prepaid payment business

Bajaj Finance is fully prepared to join the likes of Paytm and Amazon in the prepaid payment segment with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), allowing the non-bank lender with permanent validity.
The move is part of a broader strategy by Bajaj Finance to expand its digital offerings. RBI has authorized the company to issue and operate semi-closed prepaid payment instrument with permanent validity.
A semi-closed PPI is effectively a digital wallet but one through which transactions can flow to merchants and establishments other than the one offering the wallet services.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

Bajaj Finance Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra;
Bajaj Finance CEO: Sanjiv Bajaj.

Science and Technology News

SpaceX to launch ‘DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon’

SpaceX, owned by Elon Musk, is set to launch “DOGE-1 Mission to Moon”, the first-ever commercial lunar payload, fully paid for in cryptocurrency Dogcoin.
The satellite is scheduled to be launched in the first quarter of 2022 onboard the Falcon 9 rocket. The dogecoin-funded mission is led by the Canadian company Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC).
SpaceX will carry a 40-kilogram cube satellite dubbed as DOGE-1, as rideshare on a Falcon 9 rocket.
The payload will acquire lunar-spatial knowledge from sensors and cameras with integrated communication and computational systems.
This launch will make DOGE the first crypto in space as well as the first meme in space.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

SpaceX Headquarters: California, United States of America.
SpaceX founder & CEO: Elon Musk.
SpaceX Founded: 2002.

Awards News

Dr Tahera Qutbuddin 1st Indian To Win Arab World Nobel Prize

Born in Mumbai, Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin, a professor of Arabic literature at the University of Chicago, recently became the first person of Indian origin to win the 15th Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
The award is considered the Nobel Prize of the Arab world. He won the award in 2019 for his latest book, “Arabic Oration – Art and Function” published by Brill Academic Publishers of Leiden.
In the book, she presents a comprehensive theory of Arabic literature in its seminal oral period, dating back to the seventh and eighth centuries AD. She also discusses its influence on the teachings and lectures of the new times.

Sports News

Pakistan’s Babar Azam Wins ICC Players of the Month for April 2021

Pakistan captain Babar Azam has been awarded the ICC Men’s Player of the Month title for April 2021 for his consistent and brilliant performance in all formats of the series that ended immediately against South Africa.
Along with Babur, Australian women’s team wicketkeeper-batsman Alyssa Healy commended the ICC women’s player for her incredible performance in the month of April.
The ICC Player of the Month Awards also recognize and celebrate the best performances of male and female cricketers in all forms of international cricket throughout the year.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

Headquarters of ICC: Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Chairman of ICC: Greg Barclay.
CEO of ICC: Manu Sawhney.

Important Days

India celebrates National Technology Day on 11th May

National Technology Day is celebrated on 11 May across India. On this day, the Shakti-I nuclear missile was successfully tested at the Indian Army’s Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan.
This day will be focusing on rebooting the economy through Science and Technology. It also highlights the achievements of our scientists and engineers in the field of science and technology and encourages students to embrace Science as a career option.
National Technology Day is celebrated across India on 11 May every year to commemorate the anniversary of the Pokhran nuclear test power held on 11 May 1998.
Shakti also knows as the Pokhran Nuclear Test was the first nuclear test code-named ‘Smiling Buddha’ was carried out in May 1974.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

National Science Day is celebrated all over India on 28th February.

Miscellaneous News

Paytm unveiled COVID-19 vaccine finder tool

Fintech chief Paytm launched ‘COVID-19 Vaccine Search’, a platform to help citizens test the availability of vaccination slots on their Mini App Store.
The platform will help citizens to check the availability of vaccination slots by entering individual age groups (18+ or 45+) with different PIN codes or district details.
In case the slots are saturated for the near future, users can select the option for real-time alerts from Paytm once any slot is free. The automated process reduces the hassle and ordeal of refreshing the platform for new slots repeatedly.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams: