11-01-21 Daily-Punjab-PPSC Current Affairs

Punjab Government has initiated a new idea to impart IELTS coaching through Govt Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in synergy with Cambridge University Press India, a subsidiary of the Cambridge University Press UK, which is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge and develops and publishes educational courses and instructional materials.

In a function held here to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University, Punjab Technical Education and Industrial Training Minister Rana Gurjit Singh said that around 6 lakh Punjabi Students have undergone the IELTS preparations every year and this is the need of the moment to explore new educational avenues for our students. He said that the initiative aimed to create an ecosystem in the state where the potential of our students could flourish in a world-class way. He said that India has the largest young Population in the world and needs distinctive education.

The Minister said that the MoU included a teacher training program for trainers through an authorized test center and the University will provide the TEACHING module as well as the material and teaching partners. ”Punjab is a leading Migration state of India with a very widespread diaspora, known for its hard work and . They have established themselves in many countries of the world, where the numbers of those moving to live, work or study is increasing day by day. We want to explore how they can also be better trained in English or other foreign languages before their departure so they may easily be able to get jobs and join the workforce once they arrive,” he added.

He said we have set up Foreign Study and Placement Cell in Punjab to facilitate the migration of youth through legal pathways to foreign countries through a very robust system of District Bureaus of EMPLOYMENT and Enterprise (DBEEs).

This MoU will provide an opportunity to the approximately 40000 young aspirants to get coaching & training of IELTS in the govt. technical institutes in Punjab through well-trained and certified trainers. Cambridge University will conduct an IELTS test for all English teachers in Govt ITIs and Polytechnics and those who will get 8 Bands in the IELTS examination will be nominated for IELTS coaching. This will save the youth from getting duped by private IELTS trainers charged a hefty amount of fees and also their trainers are not qualified and specialized.

The Khelo India Games were created to bring India’s Sports culture back to life. Due to the COVID situation, the 2021 Khelo India Games have been postponed. It is now scheduled to take place in Haryana in January 2022.

Madhya Pradesh will host the Khelo India Youth Games in 2022-23. The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet finally enacted Bhopal as the host city for the games.

The cabinet also approved a 50-acre plot of land for the construction of an international sports center.

For the first phase, the Madhya Pradesh government set aside Rs 176.59 crores. The International Sports Complex will cost Rs 15.56 crore to operate and maintain.

According to an official statement, the Centre will host the first-ever Innovation Week starting Monday to bring together the country’s top startups, entrepreneurs, investors, incubators, funding entities, banks, policymakers, and others under one platform to celebrate Entrepreneurship and promote innovation, as well as to showcase the entrepreneurship across India.

According to a statement from the Commerce and Industry Ministry, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is hosting a virtual week-long innovation celebration from January 10 to 16, which also aims to commemorate India’s 75th year of independence and is designed to showcase the spread and depth of entrepreneurship across the country.

In the startup sector, 2021 has been dubbed the “Year of Unicorns,” with more than 40 unicorns expected to be added during the year.

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences.

Highlights:

David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the Nobel Prize for their methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.

These have provided us with new insights about the labour market and shown what conclusions about cause and effect can be drawn from natural experiments.

This might help with pharmaceutical research and making chemistry greener.

The Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences was shared into equal parts for laureates.

Their strategy has spread to other fields and revolutionised empirical research

In 1968, Sweden’s central Bank established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize.

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, American Scientists, won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on 4 October.

Highlights:

David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the Nobel Prize for their discoveries of temperature and touch receptors.

These discoveries could help create new painkillers and allows us to understand how heat, cold and mechanical force initiate the nerve impulses.

This might help in the development of treatments for several diseases and conditions.

The Nobel Prize for medicine was shared into equal parts for laureates.

There were also recommendations for COVID 19 Vaccines developers to be rewarded with Nobel Prizes.

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics, and Giorgio Parisi won.

Highlights:

Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi won the Nobel Prize for their contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.

Syukuro Manabe from Princeton University, USA and Klaus Hasselmann from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany were awarded for the physical modelling of Earth’s Climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting “.

Giorgio Parisi from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, was awarded for discovering the interaction of disorder and variations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.