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| Jan 01, 1970 | Daily Report |
| RISING BHARAT | News Count (102292) | |
20841. Engineer Learns to Upcycle Drums & Tyres From YouTube, Earns Rs 1 Crore
- Maharashtra-based Pramod Susare quit his job to launch P2S International. His startup converts used tyres and drums into attractive furniture that sells across India.
- He spent hours on YouTube learning about how drums and tyres could be made into furniture and have commercial value.
- In January 2019, he received an order from a Pune-based cafe who saw the products, which earned me Rs 50,000.
20842. Import restrictions have boosted agarbatti manufacturing in India: Piyush Goyal
- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said that restrictions on imports helped in promoting manufacturing at large scale and going forward we can increase farming of agarwoods to stop its imports also and become self-reliant in this sector.
- The restrictions on imports helped in promoting manufacturing at large scale. Going forward, we can increase farming of agarwoods and then we can stop its imports also and become self-reliant in this sector.
- In the Union Budget 2021, the government earmarked Rs 15,700 crore for the development of this sector.
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20843. Explained: What is the new regional navigation satellite system or IRNSS?
- The navigation system can now replace GPS in the Indian Ocean waters upto 1500 km from the Indian boundary.
- The IRNSS is an independent regional navigation satellite system developed by India. It is designed to provide accurate position information service to assist in the navigation of ships in the Indian Ocean waters.
- The IMO had encouraged countries to design their own navigation systems, there are at least 2,500 merchant vessels in Indian waters that can all use the IRNSS.
20844. Astra air combat missile to be soon tested from Tejas fighter.
- India’s first indigenous air-to-air missile Astra will soon be tested from the first home-grown fighter Tejas
- BVRAAM, which flies over four times the speed of sound at Mach 4.5, on the Tejas
- The flight trials of the indigenous missile on the indigenous fighter will begin within the next few months, DRDO also plans to begin testing the Mark-2 version of Astra, with a range of 160-km, in the first half of next year
20845. Defusing the pension bomb
- The proposal suggests the retirement age for colonels be increased from 54 to 57, brigadiers from 56 to 58 and major-generals from 58 to 59. The DMA wants a similar increase in retirement ages for personnel in the navy and air force as well.
- Officers who retire prematurely should get only a percentage of the stipulated pension: for instance, those with 26 to 30 years of service would get only 60 per cent and those with 31 to 35 years of service would get only 75 per cent of entitled premature retirement pensions
- The pension bill has more than doubled from Rs 55,000 crore in 2015 to Rs 1.33 lakh crore in 2020-21. India has 3.2 million pensioners and dependents and only 1.6 million ex-servicemen.
20846. Air Chief flies a sortie in Light Combat Helicopter. Checks out the mean machine!
- The aircraft which has been indigenously designed and developed by state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), was airborne for almost an hour after taking off at around 11.45 hours.
- To meet all the requirements of the Air Force, the HAL is all ready for the productionisation of the LCH, the CMD of HAL R Madhavan, assured the Air Chief.
- Two LCH have already been deployed for operations in Leh sector to support the IAF missions, due to the ongoing standoff between India and China.
20847. Water infrastructure: Make smart water a reality
- Holistic water management that employs smart technologies is critical to achieving the goals of the Smart Cities Mission
- The objective of the Smart Cities Mission is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and allow citizens a decent quality of life.
- Smart Water Management (SWM) uses ICT and real-time data and responses as an integral part of the solution.
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20848. Govt plans to set up charging infrastructure across 69,000 petrol pumps .
- The Road Transport and Highways Minister has taken several steps to promote electric vehicles which include reduction in GST to 5 per cent.
- allowing delinking of battery cost of 2-3 wheelers from vehicle cost as it accounts for nearly 30 per cent of the cost etc.
- government is planning set up at least one electric vehicle charging kiosk at around 69 thousand petrol pumps across the country.
20849. E-Gita, PM Modi's Picture, 19 Satellites: ISRO Flags Off 2021 In Style
- The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) PSLV-C51 blasted off the agency's launchpad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, SHAR, Sriharkota, today, a little before 10.30 am, carrying 19 payloads and ringing in its schedule for 2021 in all glory.
- The 53rd Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) launch happened at 10.24 exactly as planned, carrying Brazil's 637-kg Amazonia-1, an optical earth observation satellite, as its primary passenger.
- This satellite would further strengthen the existing structure by providing remote sensing data to users for monitoring deforestation in the Amazon region and analysis of diversified agriculture across the Brazilian territory.
20850. India's new negative defence import list may include larger weapon systems like tanks, aircraft
- S The IAF carried out a long-range precision strike mission against a practice target at Pokhran in Rajasthan to mark the second anniversary of the pre-dawn bombing of the JeM terror facility at Balakot in Pakistan on February 26 in 2019.
- The mission was conducted by the same Mirage-2000 fighter jet squadron that had conducted the Balakot strikes, in which five of the six designated targets were hit in the cross-border operation codenamed `Operation Bandar’ two years ago, as was earlier reported by TOI.
- India has for years been among the world's top three importers of defence equipment. Every year, the forces spend over Rs 2 lakh crore in acquiring defence hardware under both capital and revenue heads.