Current Affair - 27/April/2019

DPIIT proposed Startup India Vision 2024 –

·       The Commerce and Industry Ministry has proposed a host of measures such as text incentives to promote budding entrepreneurs as part of the ‘Startup India Vision 2024’.

·       The vision document aims at facilitating setting up of 50,000 new start-ups in the country by 2024 and creating 20 lakh direct and indirect opportunities.

Skyroot to test Vikram series of rockets –

·       Skyroot Aerospace, a Hyderabad Startup, is gearing up to test-launch its ‘Vikram’ series of rockestto send satellites in space by mid-2021.

·       The Aerospace company is betting big on the proposed Space Activities Bill-2017 which is under discussion at the Cabinet-level.

·       Once the bill is passed, it would enable and regulate the activities related to space by the private players.

Sri Lanka banned drones after Easter bombings –

·       Sri Lanka banned the use of drones and unmanned aircraft following the Easter bombings that killed over 350 people and injured more than 500.

·       The ban will be in effect until further notice.

·       Ranil Wickremesinghe is the OM of Sri Lanka, while Maithripala Sirisena is its President.

Russia and North Korea held first summit –

·       Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Jong Un held first summit talks in Vladivostok.

·       Its aim was to strengthen ties that date back to the Soviet Union’s support for the founder of North Korea, Kim’s grandfather Kim II Sung.

2 new birds species found in Indonesia –

·       Zoologists at Trinity College Dublin discovered 2 new bird species named as the Wakatobi white-eye and the Wangi-Wangi white-eye in the Wakatobi Archipelago of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

·       Details of their discovery were published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

·       In the same journal, Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin published their original ideas about specification in 1858.

SBI Launched Green Car Loan –

·       State Bank of India (SBI) launched ‘Green Car Loan’ to encourage customers to buy electric vehicles (EVs) in the country.

·       The interest rates on the loan will be 20 basis points (0.2%) lower than SBI’s existing auto loans.

·       Thus, the equated monthly instalment (EMI) per Rs.1 lakh will be lower at Rs.1,468 for 96 months.

·       The scheme comes with the longest repayment period of up to 8 years.

Etihad: 1^st to operate plastic-free flight –

·       Etihad Airways has become the first airline in the Gulf region to operate a flight EY484 without any plastics on board, in a bid to raise awareness about pollution on Earth Day (April 22).

·       Etihad identified that over 95 single-use plastics products are used across its aircrafts cabins.

·       By the end of 2019, it will have removed 100 tonnes of single-use plastics from its inflight service.

Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary resigned –

·       Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando resigned on 25^th April after the Easter attacks.

·       He took the responsibility for the deadly serial bombings.

·       The new Secretary is yet to be named.

·       Mr.Fernando is the first official to step down after both President Maithripala Sirisena and PM Ranil Wickremesinghe said they were unaware of the imminent threat.

Mr. Naidu visited National Museum of Cinema –

·       The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu visited the National Museum of Indian Cinema, in Mumbai on 26 April, 2019.

·       Exhibits at the museum would take the visitors down the memory lane of their favourite movies, actor sand the music.

·       Cinema being the most loved and watched platform by the every Indian act as an instrument of social change.

New Rs. 20 notes to be issued soon –

·       The RBI would soon issue Rs. 20 notes greenish-yellow colour.

·       The banknote in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) series will have a motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the country’s cultural heritage.

·       The dimension of the new Rs. 20 notes will be 63 mm x 129 mm.

BepiColombo mission completed tests –

·       The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s BepiColombo mission has successfully completed a series of test.

·       It has completed its near-Earth commissioning phase.

·       It is now read for the operations that will take place eventually for its scientific investigations at Mercury.

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