19-06-21 Daily-Himachal Pradesh-HPPSC Current Affairs

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) will set up a Rs 400 crore grain-based ethanol plant with a capacity of 125 KL per day in Una district.

Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said that the would provide about 70 acres for the plant and a rail-fed POL terminal of higher capacity.

Major raw materials for producing ethanol such as rice and maize will be procured from Kangra, Hamirpur, Bilaspur and Una districts, besides Hoshiarpur and Rupnagar districts of Punjab.

The state government will provide about 70 acres for the plant and a rail-fed POL terminal of higher capacity

GeM is implementing the SAHAY project in collaboration with the Indian Software Product Round Table (iSPIRT), a non-profit tech think tank’s volunteer team.

The GeM-SAHAY portal can be used to provide frictionless financing for MSMEs on the Government eMarketplace, allowing them to obtain a loan at the Point of Order acceptance on the GeM platform.

The SAHAY platform is affiliated with the country’s leading lenders.

Using the portal, the loan payment will be instant, rather than the traditional principle of approving the loan, which usually does not end with the actual payment.

The GeM SAHAY platform is lender agnostic,’ allowing any lender that is duly regulated by the Reserve Bank Of India to participate and provide capital and smart collection accounts to GeM sellers.

Minister of Tribal Affairs, Shri Arjun Munda, inaugurated Second National Sickle Cell Conclave on the occasion of World Sickle Cell Awareness Day 2021 on 19th June.

This conclave is held to mark world Sickle Cell Day each year. It is being organised with the aid of Ministry of Tribal Affairs in association with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), Apollo Hospitals, Novartis, Piramal Foundation etc. It will prepare discussions about brand new advances and future traits in remedy of SCD on vulnerable patient Population.

SCD is the most regular inherited blood sickness or a genetic red blood cell disorder. People with sickle cell issues dont have sufficient wholesome red blood cells which lift Oxygen throughout the body.

The Adi Prashikshan Portal was launched by the Minister of Tribal Affairs.

The portal would serve as a Central Repository for all training programmes offered by Tribal Research Institutes (TRIs), various divisions of the Tribal Affairs Ministry, the National Society for Education of Tribal Students (NESTS), Ministry-funded Centers of Excellence, and the National Tribal Research Institute. It was created by the Government of India’s Tribal Affairs Ministry.

The fifteenth version of the Global Peace Index (GPI) announced by using Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) Sydney, the GPI is the worlds leading measure of world peacefulness. The index ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. This record affords the most complete data-driven evaluation to date on trends in peace, its financial value, and how to boost peaceable societies.

Iceland stays the most peaceable country in the world, a position it has held because 2008. It is joined at the pinnacle of the index through New Zealand, Denmark, Portugal, and Slovenia. Afghanistan is the least peaceable country in the world for the fourth consecutive year, followed with the aid of Yemen, Syria, South Sudan, and Iraq.

The biggest enchancment in peacefulness in South Asia happened in Pakistan, which ranked 150th globally and 6th in the region, by using moving up two notches from the previous years ranking.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute that is SIPRI has released the SIPRI Yearbook 2021. The file assesses the current status of armaments, disarmament and global security. China is in the center of huge modernisation and expansion of its nuclear weapon inventory, and India and Pakistan also appear to be increasing their nuclear arsenals.

According to the yearbook, India possessed an estimated 156 nuclear warheads at the begin of 2021 in contrast to one hundred fifty at the begin of last year, whilst Pakistan had a hundred sixty-five warheads, up from a hundred and sixty in 2020.

Russia and the U.S. collectively possessed over 90% of world nuclear weapons and have big and steeply-priced modernisation programmes underway.