Current Affairs 10 April 2021 is the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims and mains.
Drone use permission to CMPDI for coalfield survey
Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have granted conditional exemption to Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI) for surveying in coalfield areas of Coal India Ltd. Read More
INYAS launched multipronged nationwide mass awareness campaign
Secretary Department of Science & Technology (DST) Prof Ashutosh Sharma launched a multipronged nationwide mass awareness campaign on April 6 with information packages to bust myths about COVID 19 vaccination in 11 languages, including English and Hindi, make the immunization programme successful. Read More
Central government notifies Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021
The Central government has notified the Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 2021 which amends the Copyright Rules, 2013. The amendments have been introduced with the objective of bringing accountability and transparency, and making the existing rules in parity with other relevant laws. Read More
PM Modi inaugurated several Indian projects in Seychelles
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Seychelles President jointly inaugurate several Indian projects in Seychelles. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Seychelles is central to India’s vision of ‘SAGAR’ – ‘Security and Growth for All in the Region’. Read More
What can a Civil defence volunteers do?
From being lauded for their work during the pandemic to facing allegations of high-handedness, the role of the civil defence volunteers in the national capital has come under intense scrutiny in the recent past. Read More
India’s objections on net-zero
John Kerry, the US President’s Special Envoy on Climate, is currently on a three-day visit to India. One of the objectives of Kerry’s visit is to explore whether India can agree to the possibility of pledging itself to a 2050 net-zero goal. Read More
First purchase of G-secs worth ₹25,000 cr under G-SAP 1.0
The Reserve Bank said the first purchase of government securities worth Rs 25,000 crore under the G-sec Acquisition Programme (G-SAP 1.0) will be done on April 15 with a view to enabling a stable and orderly evolution of the yield curve. Read More
Significance of film certification tribunal
The government by an ordinance abolished the Film Certificate Appellate Tribunal (FCAT), which heard appeals by filmmakers seeking certification for their films. The Tribunals Reforms (Rationalisation and Conditions of Service) Ordinance, 2021, which came into effect on April 4, amends the Cinematograph Act, 1952 by omitting some sections and replacing the word “Tribunal” with “High Court” in other sections. Read More
Landmark study challenges rulebook of particle physic
Newly published results of an international experiment hint at the possibility of new physics governing the laws of nature. The results of the experiment, which studied a subatomic particle called the muon, do not match the predictions of the Standard Model, on which all particle physics is based, and instead reconfirm a discrepancy that had been detected in an experiment 20 years previously. Read More
The double mutant virus that scientists had flagged
The “double mutant” virus that scientists had flagged on March 2021 as having a bearing on the spread of the pandemic in India, has a formal scientific classification: B.1.617. The variant is common in India and has a couple of defining mutations, E484Q and L425R, that enable it to become more infectious and evade antibodies. Read More
