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                         World Biofuel Day, 2021                               • World Biofuel Day is observed every year on 10th August to create awareness about the importance of non-fossil fuels as an alternative to conventional fossil fuels and to highlight the various efforts made by the Government in the Biofuel sector.  • World Biofuel Day is being celebrated by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas since 2015. Related details: • Any hydrocarbon fuel that is produced from an organic matter (living or once living material) in a short period of time (days, weeks, or even months) is considered a biofuel. • Biofuels may be solid, liquid or gaseous in nature. Solid: Wood, dried plant material, and manure Liquid: Bioethanol and Biodiesel Gaseous: Biogas • Biofuels are derived from renewable bio-mass resources.  • They provide a strategic advantage to supplement conventional energy sources in meeting the rapidly increasing requirements for transportation fuels.  Initiativ

  ➽ Tokyo Olympics 2020 Winners ➽ 1) 🥇India’s Neeraj Chopra won the first ever athletics medal for India in Olympics. At the javelin throw final, Neeraj Chopra threw 87.58m in his second attempt. This won him the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics. ➨Neeraj Chopra became second Indian to get gold after Abhinav Bindra. ➨Neeraj Chopra was the best prospect for India to get a medal. On August 4, he became the first Indian javelin thrower in history to qualify for the final at the Olympic Games. 2) 🥈 Mirabai Chanu ended India's 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49kg category. ➨ This is India's second weightlifting medal at the Olympics overall, after Karnam Malleswari, who won the bronze at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Mirabai, with this has also become overall the 17th individual Olympic medallist from India (from 1900 to 2021). 3)🥈Indian wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya bagged the silver medal after losing in the final of me

  The Quit India Movement was a clarion call given by Mahatma Gandhi on 9 August 1942 from the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee in Mumbai; it is also known as August Movement or August Kranti.   • It is a part of the Civil Disobedience Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi to end British rule in India.  Quit India Movement • The Quit India Movement is one of India's most important freedom struggle movements that led to India's end of British rule.  • On 9 August 1942, Mahatma Gandhi initiated the Quit India Movement or Bharat Chodo Aandolan from Bombay. Gandhiji gave the slogan "Do or Die" in his speech at the Gowalia Tank Maidan, now popularly known as August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai. • The slogan 'Quit India' was coined by Yusuf Meherally who was a socialist and also a trade unionist. He also served as Mayor of Mumbai. He also coined the slogan "Simon Go Back." Causes of Quit India Movement • The immediate cause of the Quit

  🏆🇮🇳NEERAJ CHOPRA🇮🇳🏆 🔷 Sport : Track and field 🔷 Event(s) : Javelin throw 🔷 Coached By : Uwe Hohn 💠 Neeraj Chopra is from Khandra village, Panipat district, Haryana 🏆 Gold medal – 2020 Tokyo Olympics 🏆 Gold medal – Asian Games 2018 Jakarta, Indonesia 🏆 Gold medal – Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast, Australia 🏆 Gold medal – Asian Championships 2017 Bhubaneshwar, Odisha 🏆 Gold medal – South Asian Games 2016 Guwahati/Shillong 🏆 Gold medal – World Junior Championships  2016 Bydgoszcz, Poland 💠 Neeraj Chopra has been conferred with the Arjuna Award in 2018 💠 Neeraj Chopra has won gold in men's javelin throw at Lisbon athletics meet in Portugal

  9th AUGUST  International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples      विश्व के स्वदेशी लोगों का अंतर्राष्ट्रीय दिवस 🔹 Theme 2021 : “Leaving no one behind: Indigenous peoples and the call for a new social contract.” 🔹 To Raise awareness and protect the rights of the world's indigenous population.  🔹 First pronounced by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1994 . ❄ United Nations General Assembly 🍁 Established : 1945 🍁 Headquarters: New York, US 🍁 President: Abdullah Shahid

  Development of Education     1781: Calcutta Madrasah ( Warren Hastings)   1791: Sanskrit College, Benaras ( Jonathan Duncan)   1800: Fort William College ( Lord Wellesley)   Serampur missionaries were very enthusiastic about spread of education   ▪️1813: Charter Act   Sanction of 1 lakhs annually   Amount not made available till 1823   Grant sanctioned for Calcutta College ( 1817- Rammohun Roy)   ▪️ 1835: Lord Macaulay's Minute   Settled the debate in favour of Anglicists- limited govt resources to be devoted to teaching western  sciences and literature through medium of English language alone   Neglected mass education   Downward filtration theory    1835: Medical college in Calcutta      ▪️1843-53: James Thomson ( LG of NW Province)   Developed comprehensive scheme of village education through the medium of vernacular languages   Purpose was to train personnel for newly set up Revenue and Public works dept.   1844: Applicants for govt employment sh

  ▪️Institutions headed/chaired by Prime Minister of India 1. NITI Aayog  2. National Integration Council 3. National Ganga River Basin Authority (NGRBA) 4. National Water Resources Council 5. National Commission for Population Control 6. Kendriya Hindi Samiti 7. Nuclear Command Authority 8. National Board for Wildlife 9. National Disaster Management Authority 10. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 11. PM’s Council on Climate Change 12. Inter-state Council  13. Appointments Committee to the Cabinet 14. Cabinet Secretariat 15. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs 16. Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs 17. Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances Note - Zonal Councils are headed by Home minister

 

  The historical nuclear attack took place in the year 1945 with an atomic bomb on August 6 in the city of Hiroshima and later on August 9 in Nagasaki. Nagasaki Day is observed every year on August 9 to promote peace politics and raise awareness of the effects of the bomb attack on Nagasaki. Nagasaki city was attacked by atomic weapons that killed thousands of life instantly. It is the 76 th  anniversary of the atomic bombing of the Japanese city. It is the second city after Hiroshima to be attacked by a nuclear bomb. An annual event takes place in Galway Alliance War in Eyre Square marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States in 1945. Various programs are held to promote peace politics every year through music, dance, and songs. History: In 1945, the United Nations deployed a nuclear bomb to the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This wiped out 39 percent of the civilians in the city. The US created two atomic bombs named ‘The Little Boy

  • IIT-Kanpur will establish an autonomous centre 'Chandrakanta Kesavan Centre for Energy Policy and Climate Solutions', for implementing the practical solutions for India & the world to combat Climate Change.   • It will be working with the Department of Sustainable Energy Engineering. • The Centre is named after Dr Chandrakanta Kesavan, pioneering acoustical engineer, also a role model for many Indian young girls in science.  • An agreement is established between IIT Kanpur and Sudhakar Kesavan, an alumnus of the Class of 1976 from IIT Kanpur, to establish the Centre in IIT-K. • The primary focus is on policy, communications, education, and outreach efforts to implement technology and science-based solutions in the country at large, outside the academic world.

  "Hiroshima Day is observed on August 6 every year to raise awareness of the disastrous effects of the atom bomb and the need to promote "peace politics" among nations.     Significance:   • On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.  • The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.  • Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.  • Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio address on August 15, citing the devastating power of “a new and most cruel bomb.”   • Hiroshima Day 2021 marks the 76th anniversary of the killings. According to a Reuters report, the IOC will honour the anniversary during the Tokyo 2020 closing ceremony, which is scheduled for August 8.