National Events (Part-II) (Railway)

• Samarth Scheme, also known as Scheme for Capacity Building in the Textile Sector (SCBTS), was approved in 2017 in order to ensure steady supply of skilled manpower in the labour-Intensive textile sector.

• SpaceX was founded in 2002 by American magnate Elon Musk.

• Falcon 9 was carrying 133 commercial and government "spacecraft" as well 10 SpaceX satellites.

• SpaceX aims to send thousands of small satellites into space to form a global broad-band system called Starlink.

• INS Karanj, India's third of six Scorpene class submarines, has superior stealth and several major combat capabilities.

• It is a diesel-electric attack submarine built under the Project-75 programme at Mazagon Docks Limited in Mumbai in collaboration with Naval Group (formerly DCNS), the French submarine builder.

• This includes empowerment of the trainee women so that they become independent and confident members of the society.

• This Scheme covered Rs. 2 Lakh accidental death for a premium of Just Rs. 12 rupees per Year.

• This Scheme is valid for between 18 to 70 years old people.

• The government again extended the tenure of his service by a year in June 2021 and for three months in June 2022.

• Venugopal had took over as the 15th Attorney General after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi demitted office citing personal reasons.

• Senior advocate R venkatramani appointed as a 16th AGI of India.

He replaced former AGI K.K. Venugopal.

• The bank was also directed to appoint an IT audit firm to conduct a comprehensive System Audit of its IT system.

• The RBI took the decision in exercise of its powers under section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

• The festival saw participation from the British Council, National Centre for Writing, Norwich, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK.

• The laboratory has been designed and built by Indian Council of Medical Research in collaboration with Mumbai based bio-safety equipment maker Klenzaids.

• It is a joint venture of Digital University of Kerala, Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) and Tata Steel Limited.

• Of the 86.41-crore, the Union Government would provide Rs 49.18 crore and private business houses Rs 11.48 crore.