Gaganyaan Engine Testing at Kavalkinaru ISRO:
- At Kavalkinaru, Tirunelveli district, ISRO has tested a cryogenic engine that can be fitted in the gaganyaan rocket to send humans into space.
- The central government’s space research organization ISRO has been creating records by sending various satellites into space.
- The mission of the Gaganyaan spacecraft is to send humans into low Earth orbit and bring them back safely to Earth.
- The spacecraft is designed to carry three people.
- This spacecraft of the Indian Space Research Center G. S. L. Will be launched by V Mark III.
- The test flight of the spacecraft, manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, took place on December 18, 2014.
Vazhndhu Kattuvom Project:
- The Tamil Nadu Rural Innovation Project, Vazhndhu Kattuvom, with World Bank support, will sustainably improve rural communities through rural enterprise development, access to finance and job creation in selected areas of Tamil Nadu.
- Therefore, it is an innovative project with the primary vision of transforming rural areas by using improved techniques (methods) that go beyond poverty alleviation through wealth creation.
- It is implemented with the aim of making the lives of people living in rural areas sustainable and making their lives brighter by creating women-centric enterprises.
Ennum Ezhuthum Scheme:
- Principal M.K.Stalin started the program of learning counting and writing for classes 1-3 in government schools at Alinjivakkam Panchayat Union Middle School, Tiruvallur.
- The Numeracy and Literacy program aims to have students acquire basic literacy and numeracy skills by 2025.
- Based on the various researches conducted so far in education, the program aims to integrate scientific attitude and social skills in language teaching based on the students’ learning level (level based).
Vidiyal Payanam Scheme:
- According to Vidiyal Payanam Scheme, from June 2021, all women, transgenders and persons with disabilities will travel free of charge in government city buses.
- The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has changed the name of the free bus travel scheme for women to ‘Vidiyal Payanam’
August 11: National Day for Daughters
- International Day of the Daughters is observed on 11th August to celebrate the birth of daughters.
Important Facts:
- Prime Minister Modi will introduce 109 new varieties of crops that can withstand climate and give high yield.
- India’s Unified Payments (UPI) service to be launched in Maldives
- Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu inaugurated the drinking water supply and sewage drainage facility works in 28 islands of Maldives under the financial assistance of India.
- In Meghalaya, from 2025 onwards, two public examinations for class 10 will be conducted.
- Timor-Leste President Ramos-Horta awarded President Murmu with the ‘Grand Collar of the Order of Timor-Leste’, the highest award of Timor-Leste.
- The Prime Minister of Timo-Leste is Xanana Gusmao.
- A target has been set to increase the blending of ethanol with petrol to 20 per cent by 2030.
- V. Somanathan has been appointed as the Union Cabinet Secretary as the term of office of Rajiv Gauba as the Union Cabinet Secretary ends.
- Free bus travel scheme for women to be launched in Andhra Pradesh
- In Vembakkottai excavations, 2 conical, oblong shaped flint clay chess pieces were found.
- The Netherlands became the first country to win gold medals in both the men’s and women’s categories at the Paris Olympics.
- Tamil Nadu’s Kamali Moorthy and Kannada’s Ramesh Budhial won the National Surfing Championship held at Kovalam.
- India’s Aman Sehrawat won bronze in men’s wrestling at the Paris Olympics.