6th August 2022 Current Affairs

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6th August 2022 Current Affairs is provided below:

1. Chevalier Award:

Given to Kannan Sundaram, Publisher of Kalachuvadu.
Honoured by the French government.
For his contribution to the publishing collaboration between India and France.

2. Danuri:

South Korea’s first-ever Lunar Mission.
Jointly developed by NASA and Korea Aerospace Research Institute.
With this launch, South Korea will become the seventh country in the world to have launched an unmanned probe to the moon.

3. Carbon Monitoring Satellite:

Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Monitoring Satellite.
Launched by China
From the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shanxi Province, North China.
The two secondary payloads were the HEAD 2G and Minhang Youth Satellite.
The satellite uses a wide range of remote sensing techniques, spanning laser, hyperspectral and polarization to detect and measure vegetation biomass and chlorophyll fluorescence.

4. Panchamrut Yojana:

Launched by the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
It aims to double the farmers’ income through the implementation of cost-effective technical measures and the promotion of co-cropping methods.

Significance:

- Reducing costs through saving water
- Maximum use of stubble and the leaves of sugarcane
- Sparing use of Fertilizers and pesticides
- Promotes the cultivation of more than one crop for greater productivity
- Controlling pollution as there will be no need to burn leaves in the fields.
- Intends to minimize sugarcane production costs
- Increasing productivity and land fertility through 5 techniques i.e., Sugarcane seeding, ratoon management, trash mulching, drip irrigation and co-cropping.

5. The Hollongi Greenfield Airport of Arunachal Pradesh has been renamed as Donyi Polo Airport, Itanagar.

6. New members of NATO:

Sweden and Finland – recently joined the NATO group.
NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

7. SEBI constitutes 15 member committee:

Headed by former Chief Economic Adviser K V Subramanian.
To attract foreign investment.
To boost overseas flows into the country.
SEBI – Securities and Exchange Board of India
Chairperson – Madhabi Puri Buch
Estb – 12 April 1992
HQ – Mumbai

8. Garima Hazarika Passes Away:

An eminent exponent of Assam’s Classical Sattriya Dancer
Credited with pioneering the entry of women Sattriya Dancers on the stage.

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