Current Affairs 9th May

National Affairs

1. Uttar Pradesh is the first state to introduce health cards for children

On May 7, 2023, The Metropolitan Advancement Division and Lucknow Shrewd City sent off the ‘School Wellbeing System’ making Uttar Pradesh (UP) the principal Indian state to make computerized wellbeing cards for kids.

As a pilot project, the program has been begun by Lucknow Brilliant City in three schools in

Lucknow viz. Aminabad Bury School, Kashmiri Mohalla Young ladies Entomb School and Kashmiri Mohalla Montessori School.

These schools have been given the obligation of wellbeing exam of 1765 youngsters.

Program for School Health:

A digital health report card based on 130 criteria will be created in accordance with this to assess the municipal school’s overall physical and mental health. These children will also receive health insurance worth Rs 25,000. A 30- to 35-member mobile health team of doctors, paramedics, health volunteers, and team coordinators will examine the child from desk to desk. Each child will be issued a one-of-a-kind ID card that can be downloaded by the child’s parents, the school, and administrative staff. Follow-up of the Computerized Wellbeing Report is additionally done each six months.

Children’s oral health, eye and dental health, and listening and speaking skills will all be evaluated.

Studios are additionally directed on subjects like kid brain science, emergency treatment, well-being and cleanliness.

2. NITI Aayog’s Best Practices in Social Sector: A Compendium, 2023 includes 14 Union Govt Initiatives

On May 1, 2023, the NITI Aayog (Public Establishment for Changing India) in cooperation

with the Assembled Countries Improvement Program (UNDP) delivered the ‘Accepted procedures in

Social Area: A Compendium, 2023 contains 75 social sector initiatives from the Centre and states and Union Territories (UTs).

Out of the 75 drives, 14 have been sent off by Association Government, two are joint

drives by the Middle and the state legislatures, while the rest are from 26 states and

UTs.

14 Social Area:

The 75 initiatives are innovations in national and state policymaking in 14 important social sectors, including health, education, agriculture, science and technology, the environment, disaster mitigation, sports, COVID-19, energy conservation, e-government and digitization, women’s empowerment, financial inclusion, skill development, and social welfare.

75 initiatives can be replicated because they have helped a lot of people.

3. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Inaugurates India’s 1st IAF Heritage Centre in Chandigarh

The Indian Air Force (IAF) Heritage Centre in Sector 18 of Chandigarh was opened by Union Minister Rajnath Singh, Ministry of Defence, during his visit to Chandigarh on May 8, 2023, to highlight the IAF’s various aircraft and its contributions to various wars.

At the Government Press Building in Chandigarh, the IAF’s history is spread out over 17,000 square feet.

It has five vintage aircraft, and visitors would be able to experience flight simulators and get a look inside the cockpit.

Backdrop: In the presence of Banwarilal Purohit, Administrator of the UT of Chandigarh, the Chandigarh administration and the IAF signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the heritage center in June 2022.

Key Points:

Air Force “Kanpur-1 Vintage Prototype Aircraft,” a single-engine indigenous flying machine designed and built by the late Air Vice Marshal Harjinder Singh in 1958 at Base Repair Depot Kanpur, is the first IAF-made patent aircraft housed in the heritage center.

Banwarilal Purohit, V R Chaudhari, the Air Chief Marshal, and Kirron Kher, an MP, were with the Defense Minister.

In Chandigarh, the Defense Minister also opened and laid the groundwork for a few other projects.

A keepsake shop furnished with the IAF’s commemoration and scale models has been set up at the legacy place

Note – Keepsake transport is a shop that sells things that are intended to be a sign of a spot

one visits.

Other features include:

58 vintage and retired aircraft are depicted in photographs and paintings on a stunning one-foot wall in the center.

It was also planned that the heritage center would include a number of the IAF’s worldwide and nationwide rescue operations.

The drives attempted by the Flying corps Family Government assistance Relationship to help the groups of air heroes at the station, territorial and focal levels were likewise wanted to be appeared through projectors.

According to the MoU endorsed in June 2022, the legacy community is set to have test systems, decommissioned airplane, air motors and other IAF antiques alongside utilizing virtual reality and man-made consciousness.

4. Vistara Becomes the First Indian Airline to Use Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Air Vistara became the first Indian airline to use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a commercial domestic flight on a widebody aircraft on May 4, 2023. The airline’s brand-new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by approximately 4,500 kilograms (kg) when it flew from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) to Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport using a mixture of 17% SAF and 83% conventional jet fuel.

On this flight, Vistara had the option to diminish around 10,000 pounds of CO₂ outflows.

This drive is a piece of Vistara’s endeavors to limit fossil fuel byproducts and backing a

maintainable future for the avionics business.

Tata SIA Airlines, a joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, is known for its flagship Vistara brand.

Note: At the 2023 Regional Passenger Choice Awards, Vistara won the title of “Best Overall Airline” in Central/South Asia. For the second year in a row, it was also honored with the Ch-aviation Asia’s Third Youngest Airline Fleet award.

Banking and Finance

1. Visa Launched CVV-Free Payments Feature for Tokenised Cards

To facilitate online transactions, Visa, a payment processor, introduced a free Cardholder Verification Value (CVV) feature for tokenized cards in India. In this manner

empowering the clients to complete internet based exchanges without the need to enter the CVV.

It kills the requirement for clients to enter the CVV for each homegrown exchange.

The element permits the dealers just to check the three-digit CVV once when tokenising the card.

The course of Validation:

Tokenized cards make transactions safer by replacing card information with a unique code during the tokenization process.

Two-factor authentication is required for tokenized transactions—first at tokenization and then when entering the OTP.

Advantage:

Customers don’t have to enter their 16-digit debit or credit card number, CVV, or expiration date every time they use a merchant website thanks to the CVV free feature.

The exchange could be made safely as the web-based traders could store tokens

(not card information) and the tokens additionally can’t be utilized on other trader stages.

Note – Shippers like Zomato and installment specialist co-ops Razorpay are the current

clients of Visa’s without cvv arrangement.

Priority Service:

Visa introduced the Visa Safe Click service in 2019 to eliminate the requirement for CVV or OTP for transactions below Rs 2,000 after the RBI relaxed the two-factor authentication requirement for online card transactions up to Rs 2,000 in 2016. Safe Click will now be suspended by Visa.

Visa asserts that it has distributed more than 250 million tokens in India as of March 2023.

UPI transactions are rising:

As per most recent RBI (Save Bank of India) information, absolute charge and credit exchanges in the country totalled 458.8 million in February 2023, worth Rs 1.68 lakh crore.

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) reports that in February 2023, there were more than 7.53 billion UPI (Unified Payment Interface) transactions, processing payments worth Rs 12.35 lakh crore. This demonstrates the widespread use of the payments infrastructure.

Science and Technology

1. Indian Navy decommissions INS Magar at Naval base in Kochi after 36 years of Service

After 36 years of service at the Naval base in Kochi, Kerala, the Indian Navy (INS) decommissioned the oldest Landing Ship Tank (Large) on May 6, 2023.

CDR Hemant V Salunkhe was in charge of it.

It was decommissioned within the sight of Bad habit Naval commander Mama Hampiholi, Directing inChief, Southern Maritime Order, as a Central Visitor. From 2005 to 2006, he led the ship.

Key Points:

During the event, the ship’s timeline and a special postage cover were also made available.

INS Magar was sent off on November 16, 1984 by Meera Tahiliani and appointed on

July 18, 1987 at Nursery Arrive at Shipyard and Architects (GRSE) Restricted, Kolkata (West

Bengal) by late Chief of naval operations Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani.

During administration, ING Magar partook in various activities, land and/or water capable activities and helpful missions and tasks including Samudra Setu wherein more than 4,000

Indian nationals were localized from different corners of the world, during the Coronavirus

pandemic.

In addition, the ship assisted in the evacuation of over 1,300 tsunami survivors in 2004 and had participated in a number of joint military exercises with the Indian Army.

The vessel joined the First Training Squadron at Kochi in 2018 after being converted into a training ship.

2. IAF Received 1st Batch of Indigenous Loitering Munitions – TATA ALS 50

The TATA ALS 50, which are capable of operating from all types of terrain and high altitude areas and can take down targets at a range of over 50 kilometers without putting any personnel at risk, is the first indigenously designed and developed Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) loitering munitions that have been given to the Indian Air Force (IAF).

The weapons which are otherwise called self destruction drone has been created by Goodbye High level Frameworks Restricted (TASL)

The weapons are intended for VTOL and have effectively exhibited their ability

to do accuracy strikes (under 2 meters) during preliminaries and tests.

The TATA ALS 50 might make it possible for the operator or an autonomous system to target in real time.

Features:

Operation in constrained spaces, such as narrow valleys, fortified mountain positions, small jungle clearings, and warship decks, will be made easier with VTOL capability.

In addition to high-value targets like command centers and missile launchers that may be located at great distances, loitering munition could be utilized to destroy enemy targets that may be beyond line of sight.

3. Rocket Lab launches 2 NASA satellites to study Tropical Storms and Hurricanes

On eighth May 2023, Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(Rocket Lab) sent off the first of the 2 send-offs

to send NASA (Public Flight and Space Organization’s) Time-Settled

Perceptions of Precipitation Design and Tempest Power with a Star grouping of Smallsats

(Jungles) mission across two separate Electron dispatches.

From Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand, Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket launched Rocket Like A Hurricane, the first of two launches to deploy two TROPICS CubeSats for NASA’s TROPICS mission.

In addition, this is the 36th Electron launch by Rocket Lab all together.

Note:

The second mission – Coming To A Tempest Close to You – is booked to send off from something very similar area in mid-late May 2023.

The TROPICS:

Tropical cyclones, including hurricanes, will be tracked by NASA’s TROPICS constellation, which will provide constantly up-to-date storm intensity observations.

Scientists will be able to better model and predict these high-impact storms as a result of the insights gained from these data.

The constellation, which is a part of NASA’s Earth System Science Pathfinder Program, is made up of four CubeSats that must be launched to a specific orbit with a 30 degree inclination and an altitude of 550 kilometers.

These were initially intended to be a series of six satellites; however, Rocket Lab was chosen to launch the remaining four after the first two were destroyed by an Astra launch failure in 2022.

4. IAF’s First C295 for India completes its Maiden Flight in Spain

The first C295 medium transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF) completed its first flight in Spain, marking a significant step toward its delivery by the second half of 2023. On May 5, 2023, the aircraft flew from Seville, Spain, and landed after a three-hour flight.

The first Make in India aerospace program has accomplished a significant milestone with this first flight.

India gained 56 C295 airplanes in September 2021 to supplant the (IAF) heritage AVRO armada.

The customer will receive the first 16 aircraft in “fly-away” condition after they are assembled in Seville, Spain.

As part of an industrial partnership between Airbus and Tata Advanced Systems Limited businesses, the remaining forty aircraft will be manufactured and assembled in India by Tata Advanced Systems (TASL).

The C295 program has 280 orders from 39 operators, making it an aircraft of unrivalled weight and mission category.