Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 28 September 2022

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PM Narendra Modi announced the decision to rename Chandigarh airport after Shaheed Bhagat Singh. The decision has been taken just days before the iconic freedom fighter’s birth anniversary, which falls on September 28.

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The decision has been taken just days before the iconic freedom fighter’s birth anniversary, which falls on September 28. Born on September 28, 1907, in pre-partition Punjab’s Banga, Bhagat Singh was a charismatic revolutionary freedom fighter.
The massacre of Jallianwala Bagh deeply impacted Bhagat Singh. At a young age, he decided to dedicate his life to the country.
He joined the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. Bhagat Singh was also part of the Young Revolutionary Movement and supported the violent overthrow of the British Government in India.
Bhagat Singh and his associates threw low-grade explosives in the Central Legislative Assembly. The intention behind the bombings was not to injure anyone but to get arrested so that they take their cause for India’s freedom to the public.
Bhagat Singh was executed by British Empire on March 23, 1931, along with his friends Rajguru and Sukhdev.

The teaser of Akshay Kumar’s new movie, Ram Setu, was released on September 26, once again generating buzz around the chain of shoals off the southeast coast of India that many believe is the bridge to Lanka mentioned in the Ramayana.

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The Ram Setu, also knows as Adam’s Bridge, is a 48-km chain of limestone shoals between Rameswaram on India’s southeast coast and Mannar Island near Sri Lanka’s northwest coast.
The structure has significance in both Hindu and Muslim mythology – while Hindus believe this is the bridge (setu) built by Lord Ram and his army to cross to Lanka and fight Ravan, as per Islamic legend, Adam used this bridge to reach Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, where he stood on one foot for 1,000 years in repentance.
Scientists believe Ram Setu is a natural structure formed due to tectonic movements and sand getting trapped in corals.

NASA’sDART (Double AsteroidRedirection Test) spacecraft is set to collide with asteroid Dimorphos.

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Dimorphos orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos.
Launched in 2021, it is low-cost spacecraft, weighs around 610 kilograms.
It carries a small satellite or CubeSat named LICIACube (Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging ofAsteroids).
It is a suicide mission and spacecraft willbe completely destroyed.
It’ll be first to test “kinetic impactor”method of planetary defence, whichinvolves changing trajectory of asteroidsthat threaten Earth by crashing ahigh-speed spacecraft into it.
Image of double-asteroid system will beshared through Didymos Reconnaissanceand Asteroid Camera for Opticalnavigation (DRACO) instrument.

During the 77th Session of the UN GeneralAssembly, Russian Foreign Minister expressedhis support for India, becoming a permanentmember of the Security Council.
Reasons demanding India’s permanent seat inUNSC
India’s strict adherence to the principle ofPanchsheel which is based on Mutualrespect for sovereignty, non-aggression,non-interference, equality and peacefulcoexistence.
India is also part of the G20 and is ofteninvited to take part in the G7.
India has just become the 5th largesteconomy.
It’s one of the largest contributors of troopsto UN peacekeeping missions.

Union Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) jointly launched a Convergence Portal between Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME) scheme and Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY).

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This launch will prove to be very important for the Food Processing Enterprises of the country.
The Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare is implementing the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF) - a medium to long-term debt financing facility started on 08 July 2020 for the creation of post-harvest management infrastructure and building of community farming assets. Benefits under the scheme include 3% interest subvention and credit guarantee support.
Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) launched a centrally sponsored PPMFME scheme on June 29th, 2020 as a part of “Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan” to enhance the competitiveness of individual micro-enterprises in the unorganized segment & promote the formalization of this sector.

ISRO will launch a Rohini RH-200 sounding rocket during the World Space Week celebrations (4-10October).

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Rohini Sounding Rockets is a two-stage rocket capable of climbing to a height of 70 km bearingscientific payloads.
The 1st sounding rocket was launched in 1963 from Thumba (beginning of Indian Space Programme).
ISRO started to launch indigenous sounding rockets in 1965.

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