Addapedia Odisha | Daily Current Affairs | 30 September 2023 | Download PDF

Recently she won a bronze medal in women’s shot put.

Key fact

• She won the medal in the 19th edition of  Asian games held in Hangzhou(China). 
• India won the medal in this category after 72 years.
• Kiran Baliyan is  the second Indian to win a medal in women’s shot put in Asian Games.

Did you know?

Barbara Webster, an Anglo-Indian from then Bombay, won a bronze in the inaugural edition in New Delhi in 1951.

The Asian  Development Bank (ADB)  approved  $100 billion to invest in the Asia Pacific region.

Key fact:

• The approval unlocks the fund through capital management reform.
•  funds are to be available for  the next 10 years to support Asia and the Pacific 
• These resources are  to manage crisis situations  and climate-change challenges.

• The reforms were introduced through an update of ADB’s Capital Adequacy Framework (CAF).

•  It is a multilateral development bank established on 19th December 1966.
• Its Headquarters is in Manila, Philippines.
• It currently has 68 members.
• India became its member in 1966. 
• Its primary mission is to “foster economic growth and cooperation” among countries in the Asia-Pacific Region.
• ADB assists members and partners by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development.

Did you know?

As of 2022, ADB’s five largest shareholders are Japan and the United States( 15.6%), the People’s Republic of China (6.4%), India (6.3%), and Australia (5.8%).

The 2023 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Ruixiang Zhang of the University of California, Berkeley

Key points

• Zhang’s fundamental work spans analytic number theory, combinatorics, Euclidean harmonic analysis, and geometry.

About prize

• The Ramanujan Prize was founded  by Shanmugha Arts, science, technology and Research Academy (SASTRA).
• It is located near Kumbakonam, India,  Srinivasa Ramanujas ‘ hometown.
• It is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Ramanujan’s fields of interest. 
• The age limit for the prize has been set at 32 (the age at which Ramanujan died)

Did you know? 

This Award is an annual $10,000 prize

The government announced the sale of the 28th tranche of electoral bonds at all authorized branches of the State Bank of India.

Key points

• • Electoral bonds are a financial instrument introduced by the Government of India in 2018
  • An electoral bond is a bearer instrument, like a promissory note, that is payable to the bearer on demand to donate their contributions to political parties.
  • The  various denominations for electoral bonds, ranging from Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1 crore.
• SBI is the only bank authorized  to sell these bonds.

• The political parties have to disclose the amount to the Election Commission.

Did you know?

Only registered political parties are eligible to receive electoral bonds.

India has maintained the 40th position out of 132 economies in the Global Innovation Index 2023

About Index

• It is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
• It is an annual index 
• It  measures the innovation  performance of the country.
•  Index is based on following Parameters 

1. human capital and research
2. infrastructure
3. market sophistication
4. business sophistication
5. knowledge and technology outputs create outputs
6. Institutions 

The  PM Gati Shakti Scheme has recommended six major road and rail projects worth ₹52,000 in Odisha and Kerala.

Key facts 

• It includes two greenfield highways proposed through Gujarat and 
• two new railway projects in Odisha and Kerala.

About Scheme

• PM Gati Shakti is a National plan for multimodal connectivity
• It is  essentially a digital platform.
• Aim  of the scheme  is  to bring 16 Ministries together for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects.
• will incorporate the infrastructure schemes of various Ministries and State Governments like Bharatmala Sagarmala Inland  dry/land ports,Udan, Economic Zones 
• It is based on the six pillars

1. Comprehensiveness
2. prioritization 
3. Optimisation
4. Synchronization
5. Analytical 
6. dynamic.

In a paper in Nature Physics, a researcher at Google Quantum AI reportedly demonstrated in theory that simulating random quantum circuits and determining their output will be difficult for classical computers.

• Quantum computing is a rapidly-emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems too complex for classical computers.
• It is a fundamentally different way of processing information compared to today’s classical computing systems.

• It is based upon the principles of classical mechanics
•  It is  based on bits  that can either be 0 or 1 to represent data. 
• The classical bit is the basic and smallest unit in classical computing.
• The byte is a collection of bits that can be used to represent larger information units, like characters or numbers. 
• The classical bit operations are deterministic. This means that the output of a given input is always the same.

Quantum computing

• Quantum computing uses quantum-mechanical phenomena 
• It is based on quantum bits”, or “qubits”,
• It allows superposition means “qubits”, and can exist simultaneously in different states.
• and entanglement which means the state of a qubit can be connected to another’s state, even though they are physically separated.
• It can solve complex phenomenon , 
• This allows for the simultaneous exploration of multiple solutions.

The Odisha government has said that the irrigation potential has been created for over 78 per cent of the cultivable land of the state.

Key points

• 61.80 lakh hectares of land of the state is suitable for growing crops.
• The potential has been created to bring more than 48.29 lakh hectares of total arable land under irrigation.
• the highest irrigation potential of 97 per cent has been created in the Bargarh district 
• It is followed by 93 per cent in the Dhenkanal district
• The area coverage has exceeded the actual cultivable land in the Cuttack and Sonepur districts.

Four major and medium irrigation projects proposed by the Odisha government in the lower Mahanadi basin are awaiting approval from the Central Water Commission (CWC)

Mahanadi River:

•  It is one of the major east-flowing peninsular rivers in India.
• The river originates from the Sihawa range of hills in the Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh state.
• It flows a total of 860 km by distance before it ends up in the Bay of Bengal.
• It flows in a southeastern direction through Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
• The river flows through Chhattisgarh and Odisha and in smaller portions of Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
• The river is bounded by Central highland in north, south and east by the Eastern Ghats and in the west by Maikal hill range.
• The main tributaries are Seonath River, Jonk River, Hasdeo River, Mand River, Ib River, Ong River and Telen River.

• It is an annual event held on September 29th September.
• To raise awareness about heart disease and promote healthy heart habits. 
• Theme 2023 is “Use Heart, Know Heart.” 
• This helps us talk about the importance of a healthy heart.

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