Today Current Affairs in English [18 March 2021]
March 18, 2021
Today Current Affairs in English (18th March 2021)
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- Air Quality Report 2020 bu IQAir
- Jharkhand 75% job Reservation
- La Perouse Maritime Exercise
- India's First Nuclear Missile Tracking Ship
- Madhumakhi-Baad Project
1. Air Quality Report 2020 by IQAir
IQAir is a Swedish Technology company that publishes Air Quality Report
Every Year. Recently they published the 2020 Air Quality Report where
India's rank is very poor. This time they include 106 countries in this report.
According to this report, Delhi is the World's most polluted Capital for the straight 3rd year followed by Dhaka and Islamabad. This report only considers PM 2.5 pollutants for the ranking. Overall India's rank in this report is 3 that means India is the 3rd most polluted country in the World. The No1 and No.2 placeholders are Bangladesh and Pakistan respectively.
Among the world's 30 most polluted cities in the World 22 are of India which is a matter of concern. The World's most polluted city is Hotan,
China. India's most polluted city in this report is Gaziabad.
2. Jharkhand 75% Job Reservation
Recently you must have known that Haryana passed the same type of bill and
Now Jharkhand passes the 75% job reservation in the private sector in the parliament. These private sectors include shops, mines, enterprises,
industries, companies, trusts, limited liability partnership farms, and any
persons employing ten or more persons as the private sector.
3. La Perouse Maritime Exercise
Recently it is announced that QUAD members will participate in France-laid
maritime exercise. Thus it is considered as the QUAP Plus exercise. So the
Member countries that are going to participate in this naval exercise are
France, the USA, Japan, Australia, and India.
This time this exercise will be organized in the Indian ocean particularly in the Bay of Bengal. India announced that its frontline ship and P8I
aircraft will participate in this exercise. This exercise is going to organized in April this year.
4. India's First Nuclear Missile Tracking Ship
India is secretly commissioned India's first Nuclear Missile Tracking Ship.
The name of the ship is INS Dhruv. It is capable of tracking nuclear missiles in the sea. This is built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited.
It is a massive size ship with a 15,000 tones displacement weight. Only 4
countries in the world that are operating this kind of ship. These countries are the USA, China, Russia, France. and finally India is going to operate this kind of ship. China has the most Nuclear Missile tracking ships and that is 6 to 7 ships.
5. Madhumakhi-Baad Project
Recently Khadi and Village Industries Commission announced that they are going to launch a project soon where the honeybees will be used to prevent elephants from entering the Human village. The name of this project is
Madhumakhi-baad.
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