- The Arya Collateral Warehousing Services Pvt Ltd has partnered with Canara Bank to provide farm loan management support to the farmers. They have partnered to provide collateral management and warehouse services to the farmer's community by exposing them to the market.
- Static Part:
- HQ of Arya Arya Collateral Warehousing Services Pvt Ltd: Noida, UP
- HQ of Canara Bank: Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Tagline of Canara Bank: Together We Can
- Ramesh Bais, Governor of Tripura, inaugurated the Udaipur Science Centre, at Udaipur, Tripura. It is constructed with the cost of Rs 6 crore which was jointly granted by the Ministry of Culture, GOI, Dept. of Science, Technology & Environment of state government and with this; NCSM (National Council of Science Museums) has now set-up science centres in all the NE States.
- IBM partnered with Gov. of Goa with an aim to provide free online courses to the students, job seekers of the state. The tech giant IBM has set a target to provide skill training to 10,000youths across 10 institutions in 1 year through its SkillBuild Program.
- Static Part:
- HQ of IBM India: Bangalore
- Rivers in Goa: Chapora River, Mandovi River, Sal River, Terekhol River
- Aries-Devasthal Faint Object Spectrograph & Camera (ADFOSC): It is the name of an Optical Spectrograph developed by Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) of Nainital. It was commissioned on the 3.6-m Devasthal Optical Telescope (DOT), in the Nainital, Uttarakhand.
- MapmyIndia has collaborated with CO-WIN Portal (COVID Vaccine Intelligence Network) to help people to locate nearby COVID-19 vaccine centres.
- World Bank plans to grant a $100 million credit guarantee scheme to support India’s solar rooftop projects.
- Static Part:
- HQ of World Bank: Washington DC, US
- President of World Bank: David Malpass
- Siemens Limited acquired a 99.22% stake in C&S Electric Limited for Rs 2100 crore.
- Merchant Digitization Summit 2021: It was hosted by GOI, FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) and United Nations based Better Than Cash Alliance. The summit focussed on Himalayan regions, northeastern states and aspirational districts of India. The Intellecap was the technical assistant supporter for the summit.
- Static Part:
- HQ of FICCI: New Delhi
- President of FICCI: Uday Shankar
- 11th QS World University Rankings 2021
- Ease of Living Index 2020
- India and Philippines signed Key Defence Pact
- Exim Bank Inked Soft Loan Pact with Eswatini
- Appointments on 5th March 2021
Question:
Q.1 Which tech giant partnered with Gov. of Goa to provide free online courses to the students, job seekers of the state?
a. TCS
b. Wipro
c. KPIT Technologies
d. IBM
a. TCS
b. Wipro
c. KPIT Technologies
d. IBM
