Current Affairs - 23 May 2021 ============================== | UPSC Notes EPFO Labour Law
Current Affairs - 23 May 2021
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China successfully launches new ocean observation satellite ‘Haiyang-2D’
China successfully launched a new ocean-monitoring satellite Haiyang-2D (HY-2D) into orbit on May 19, 2021, on Long March-4B rocket, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China. The HY-2D will form a constellation with the HY-2B and HY-2C satellites to build an all-weather and round-the-clock dynamic ocean environment monitoring system of high frequency and medium and large scale to provide early warning on marine disasters.
State Bank of India and HyperVerge Partner to offer AI-powered Online Account Opening amid Covid
HyperVerge, the AI product startup, has partnered with India’s largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), with one of its flagship products, the Video Banking solution, to provide convenient digital banking services to the customers of SBI. Under the partnership, SBI customers can instantly open savings account using Video Banking process, during the pandemic, with minimal ID documents.
APEDA organizes Virtual Buyer-Seller Meet to enhance mangoes exports to South Korea
In a bid to increase mangoes exports to South Korea, Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) in collaboration with Indian embassy, Seoul and Indian Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ICCK), organised a Virtual Buyer-Seller Meet. The mangoes exported to South Korea, were treated, cleaned and shipped from the APEDA assisted and registered packhouse and vapor heat treatment facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh and exported by IFFCO Kisan SEZ. In the current season, 30 Metric Tonnes of Mangoes have been exported to EU, UK, Ireland, middle east countries among several others.
Narinder Batra re-elected as FIH President for a second term
Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra has been re-elected as president of the International Hockey Federation in a virtual presidential election
Chipko Movement Leader Sunderlal Bahuguna Passes Away
Noted environmentalist and Gandhian activist, Sunderlal Bahuguna, who was the leader of the Chipko Movement, has passed away due to COVID-19 complications. He was 94. The idea of Chipko movement was given by his wife and the action was taken by him. The movement began in 1973 in Uttarakhand, (then a part of Uttar Pradesh), at the foothills of Himalayas.
