Harijan Sevak Sangh celebrates its foundation day

हरिजन सेवक संघ का स्थापना दिवस

- AIR
● On 30 September in 1932, Harijan Sevak Sangh
was founded, when Gandhi Ji was in Yervada
Jail, Pune and on fast.
● The immediate historical background dates back
to the Second Round Table Conference in
London in 1931 when Gandhi ji opposed the
segregation of the depressed classes of the
Hindu community into a separate electoral group.
● Gandhi Ji saw in it a sinister device of the British
government to create a split in the Hindu
community in furtherance of its policy of divide
and rule.
● The Sangh was established to combat
untouchability and a new weekly paper, the
Harijan, was started.
● Harijan means children of God, it was Gandhi
Ji's name for the untouchables
• 30 दसतंबि 1932 को, हरिजन सेवक संघ की
स्थापना हुई, जब गां धी जी पुणे के यिविा जे ल,
औि उपवास पि थे ।
• तात्कादलक ऐदतहादसक पृष्ठभू दि 1931 िें लंिन िें
दितीय गोलिेज सम्मेलन की है जब गां धी जी ने
एक अलग चु नावी सिूह िें दहं िू सिुिाय के िबे
हुए वगों के अलगाव का दविोध दकया था।
• गां धी जी ने इसे दिदिश सिकाि के दवभाजन औि
शासन की नीदत िें दहं िू सिुिाय िें दवभाजन पैिा
किने के दलए एक भयावह उपकिण के रूप िें
िे खा।
• अस्पृ श्यता का िुकाबला किने के दलए संघ की
स्थापना की गई औि एक नया साप्तादहक पत्र,
हरिजन शु रू दकया गया।
Harijan Sevak Sangh

• Harijan Sevak Sangh is a non-profit organisation founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1932 to

eradicate untouchability in India, working for Harijan or Dalit people and upliftment of
Depressed Class of India.
• It is headquartered at Kingsway Camp in Delhi, with branches in 26 states across India.
• After the Second Round Table Conference, British government agreed to give Communal
Award to the depressed classes on the request of B. R. Ambedkar. Gandhi opposed the
government's decision which he considered it would divide the Hindu society and
subsequently went on to the indefinite fast in Yerwada Jail.
• He ended his fast after signed Poona Pact with Ambedkar on 24 September 1932.
• On 30 September, Gandhi founded All India Anti Untouchability League, to remove
untouchability in the society, which later renamed as Harijan Sevak Sangh ("Servants of
Untouchables Society").
• The Sangh helped the depressed classes to access public places such as temples,
schools, roads and water resources, also conducted inter dining and inter caste marriages.
• It constructed and maintains several schools and hostels across the country.
 V President Venkaiah Naidu tests positive for Covid-19
उपिाष्ट्रपदत िाष्ट्रपदत वें कैया नायडू का कोदवि -19 के दलए पिीक्षण सकािात्मक पाया गया
- AIR
• Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu who
underwent a routine COVID-19 test has been
tested positive.
• Mr Naidu is asymptomatic and in good health.
• Mr Naidu's wife Usha Naidu has been tested
negative and is in self-isolation.
• Part V of the Constitution of India under
Chapter I (Executive) also discusses the office
of the Vice-President of India.
• The Vice-President of India is the second
highest constitutional office in the country.
• He serves for a five-year term, but can
continue to be in office, irrespective of the
expiry of the term, until the successor assumes
office.
• Articles 63-73 which deal with the
qualifications, election and removal of Vice-
President of India.
• Articles 63 states that there shall be a Vice-
President of India.
• उपिाष्ट्रपदत एि। वें कैया नायडू जो एक दनयदित COVID-
19 पिीक्षण से गुजिे हैं , का पिीक्षण सकािात्मक दकया
गया है ।
• नायडू स्पशोन्मुख औि अच्छे स्वास्थ्य िें हैं ।
• नायडू की पत्नी उषा नायडू का नकािात्मक पिीक्षण दकया
गया है औि वे आत्म-अलगाव िें हैं ।
• अध्याय I (काययकािी) के तहत भाित के संदवधान का भाग
V भाित के उपिाष्ट्रपदत के कायाय लय पि भी चचाय किता
है ।
• भाित का उपिाष्ट्रपदत िे श का िू सिा सवोच्च संवैधादनक
कायाय लय है ।
• वह पां च साल के काययकाल के दलए कायय किता है , लेदकन
पि पि बने िह सकता है , चाहे काययकाल की सिाप्तप्त के
बावजूि, जब तक दक उत्तिादधकािी पि ग्रहण न कि ले।
• अनुच्छेि 63-73 भाित के उपिाष्ट्रपदत की योग्यता, चुनाव
औि दनष्कासन से संबंदधत हैं ।
• अनुच्छेि 63 िें कहा गया है दक भाित का उपिाष्ट्रपदत
होगा।
 ICMR warns India of 'Cat Que Virus' which could spread disease in the
country
ICMR ने भाित को 'कैि क्व वायिस' से आगाह दकया जो िे श िें बीिािी फैला सकता है
- TOI
CQV

• CQV belongs to the Simbu serogroup virus of the genus

Orthobunyavirus.
• It was first isolated in 2004 from mosquitoes in northern
Vietnam. It has also been reported in China.
• CQV comes under the category of Arthropod-borne viruses.
• Arthropods are a group of invertebrate animals including
insects, spiders etc.
• It is found in pigs and Culex mosquitoes.
• Birds such as the Jungle Myna may also act as a host.
• Mosquitoes of Culex species also cause Japanese
Encephalitis.
• It infects both humans and livestock species.
• Humans are infected through mosquito bites.
 Hudali village in Karnataka follows Gandhian way of life
कनाय िक का हुडली गााँ व गां धीवािी जीवन पद्धदत का अनुसिण किता है
- AIR
• Hudali village near Belagavi district in • कनाय िक िें बे लागवी दजले के पास हुिली गााँ व
Karnataka is a living monument of गां धीवािी जीवन शै ली का एक जीवंत स्मािक है ।
Gandhian way of life. • इसने गां धीवािी िशय न को ग्रहण दकया है औि
• It has imbibed Gandhian Philosophy and
आज भी गां धीवािी तिीके से जी िहा है ।
continues to live in the Gandhian way, even
• िहात्मा गां धी ने 1937 िें गााँ व िें कुछ दिन दबताए
today.
थे औि चिखा औि खािी पेश दकया था।
• Mahatma Gandhi had spent a few days in
• गां धीजी ने तीन बाि बे लगावी (तत्कालीन बे लगाि)
the village in 1937 and introduced charkha
and Khadi. का िौिा दकया।
• Gandhiji visited Belagavi (erstwhile • उन्ोंने 1916 िें होि रूल लीग के बॉम्बे प्ां तीय
Belgaum) three times. सम्मेलन िें भाग दलया, 1924 िें कां ग्रेस अदधवेशन
• He attended the Bombay provincial की अध्यक्षता की औि 1937 िें हुडली गां व िें
conference of the Home Rule League in खािी औि ग्रािोद्योग केंद्र िें 10 दिन दबताए।
1916, chaired the Congress Session in
1924 and spent 10 days in the Khadi and
Village Industries Centre in Hudali village in
1937.
Mahatma Gandhi
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar.
• His father, Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi (1822–1885), served as the diwan (chief minister) of
Porbandar state.
• In November 1887, the 18-year-old Gandhi graduated from high school in Ahmedabad.
• In the year 1888, Mahatma Gandhi left for London to study law.
• In May, 1893 he went to South Africa to work as a lawyer.
• There he had first-hand experience of racial discrimination when he was thrown out of the first-
class apartment of the train despite holding the first-class ticket because it was reserved for white
people only and no Indian or black was allowed to travel in the first class.
• िोहनिास कििचंि गां धी का जन्म 2 अक्टू बि 1869 को पोिबंिि िें हुआ था।
• उनके दपता, कििचंि उत्तिचंि गां धी (1822-1885), पोिबंिि िाज्य के िीवान (िुख्यिंत्री) के रूप िें सेवा किते थे ।
• नवंबि 1887 िें, 18 वषीय गां धी ने अहििाबाि के हाई स्कूल से स्नातक दकया।
• 1888 िें, िहात्मा गां धी कानून का अध्ययन किने के दलए लं िन चले गए।
• िई, 1893 िें वे वकील के रूप िें काि किने के दलए िदक्षण अफ्रीका गए।
• वहां उन्ें नस्लीय भेिभाव का पहला अनुभव था, जब उन्ें प्थि श्रेणी का दिकि िखने के बावजू ि िर े न के प्थि श्रेणी
के डब्बे से बाहि दनकाल दिया गया था, क्ोंदक यह केवल गोिे लोगों के दलए आिदक्षत था औि दकसी भी भाितीय या
अश्वेत को पहले यात्रा किने की अनुिदत नहीं थी।
• In 1924 at the Belgaum session of INC Gandhi was elected as the President of INC. In 1928
in the Calcutta session, Gandhi warned the British government to free India within a year.
On January 26th, 1930 INC celebrated Indian Independence, as per the proposal of 1929
Lahore session of INC.
• On 12 March 1930, Gandhi launched the Civil disobedience Movement by marching to
Dandi from Ahmedabad.
• He launched the Quit India Movement in 1942 in which Gandhi gave the slogan of ‘Do or
Die.’
• 1924 िें कां ग्रेस के बेलगाि अदधवेशन िें गां धी को INC के अध्यक्ष के रूप िें चुना गया।
• 1928 िें कलकत्ता अदधवेशन िें, गां धी ने दिदिश सिकाि को एक साल के भीति भाित को आजाि किने की
चेतावनी िी।
• 26 जनविी, 1930 को INC ने 1929 के लाहौि सत्र के प्स्ताव के अनुसाि भाितीय स्वतं त्रता दिवस िनाया।
• 12 िाचय 1930 को, गां धी ने अहििाबाि से िां डी तक िाचय किके सदवनय अवज्ञा आं िोलन शु रू दकया।
• उन्ोंने 1942 िें भाित छोडो आं िोलन शु रू दकया दजसिें गां धी ने 'किो या ििो' का नािा दिया था।
Important books written by Gandhi

• The Story of my Experiments with Truth

• Hind Swaraj
• India of my Dreams
• Village Swaraj
• Constructive Program- Its Meaning and Place

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 Noted filmmaker Shekhar Kapur appointed president of FTII Society
प्दसद्ध दफल्मकाि शे खि कपूि को FTII सोसायिी का अध्यक्ष दनयुक्त दकया गया
- TOI
• Noted Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has
been named as the President of Film and
Television Institute of India, FTII Society
and Chairman of Governing Council of
FTII.
• Mr Kapur has directed several films, many
of which are critically acclaimed.
• The Movies include Masoom, Mr. India,
Bandit Queen and Elizabeth.
• He will replace television producer BP
Singh.
• Singh’s tenure had ended in March 2020
but he was given an extension owing to
the coronavirus situation.
• प्ख्यात दफल्मकाि शे खि कपूि को दफल्म एं ड
िे लीदवजन इं स्टीट्यूि ऑफ इं दडया के अध्यक्ष,
एफिीआईआई सोसायिी औि एफिीआईआई की
गवदनिं ग काउं दसल के अध्यक्ष के रूप िें नादित
दकया गया है ।
• कपूि ने कई दफल्मों का दनिे शन दकया है , दजनिें
से कई सिीक्षकों िािा प्शं दसत हैं ।
• िूवीज िें िासूि, दिस्टि इं दडया, बैं दडि क्वीन औि
एदलजाबे थ शादिल हैं ।
• वह िे लीदवजन दनिाय ता बीपी दसंह की जगह लेंगे।
• दसंह का कायय काल िाचय 2020 िें सिाप्त हो गया
था, लेदकन उन्ें कोिोनवायिस की प्तस्थदत के
कािण दवस्ताि दिया गया था।
Film and Television Institute of India

• The Film and Television Institute of India

(FTII) is an autonomous institute under the
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
of the Government of India.
• It is situated on the premises of the
erstwhile Prabhat Film Company in Pune.
• It was established in 1960.
• The Centre will set up a new Institute in
Arunachal Pradesh as part of an initiative
to tap the potential of the North Eastern
region.
 UAE plans to launch unmanned spacecraft to moon in 2024
यूएई ने 2024 िें चंद्रिा पि िानव िदहत अंतरिक्ष यान लॉन्च किने की योजना बनाई है
- Mint
• The United Arab Emirates plans to send
an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in
2024.
• The oil-rich nation that could see it
become only the fourth nation on Earth
to accomplish that goal.
• The announcement by Dubai shows the
rapid expansion of the space program
that bears his name.
• The rover would be named Rashid after
Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum,
one of the original founding rulers of the
UAE.
• Rover is a vehicle for exploring the
surface of a planet or moon.
• दनदधयों की एक नई नस्ल बाजाि िें प्वेश कि
िही है ।
• यह श्रे णी दविे शों िें लोकदप्य है औि कई
म्यू चुअल फंड उद्योग के अदधकारियों का िानना
है दक यह घिे लू तौि पि भी एक प्िुख पसं िीिा
दवषय होगा।
• ईएसजी (पenvironment, social and
Governance) का एक संयोजन है जो आपके
फंड को स्टॉक उठाते सिय लागू होता है ।
• एक ताजा योजना - आईसीआईसीआई
प्ू डेंदशयल ईएसजी फंड - शुरू की जा िही है ।
• नया फंड ऑफि अवदध 5 अक्टू बि, 2020 को
बंि हो जाती है , दजसके बाि यह एक ओपन
एं डे ड स्कीि बन जाती है ।
UAE’s Space Mission

• In July 2020, the UAE launched a Mars probe named Amal (Hope) from Japan, marking the
Arab world’s first interplanetary mission.
• Amal is set to reach Mars in February 2021, the year UAE will celebrate 50 years of its
formation.
• UAE has also set a goal to build a human colony on Mars by 2117.
• UAE is a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula.
• In 2019, the UAE sent its first astronaut to the International Space Station.
• If successful in 2024, the UAE could become the fourth nation to land a
spacecraft on the moon after the USA, the former Soviet Union and
China.
• India, Israel and Japan have tried but failed in landing a spacecraft on
the moon
United Arab Emirates

• The United Arab Emirates is a

Sovereign State in Western Asia.
• The sovereign absolute monarchy is
a federation of seven emirates
consisting of Abu Dhabi, Ajman,
Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah,
Sharjah and Umm Al Quwain.
• Capital: Abu Dhabi
• President: Khalifa Bin Zayed Al
Nahyan
• Prime Minister: Mohammed Bin 35
Rashid Al Maktoum
• Currency: UAE dirham
SII to double Covid vaccine supply to 200 million doses
SII ने कोदवि वैक्सीन की आपूदतय 200 दिदलयन खुिाक के दलए की
- IE
• Serum Institute of India (SII) had received
additional funds that would allow it to double its
supply of Covid-19 vaccines to India and other
poorer countries as part of the Gavi COVAX
facility.
• The Pune-headquartered vaccine maker will now
be using these funds from The Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation as well as Gavi, The Vaccine
Alliance, to supply 200 million vaccines to these
countries as early as the first half of 2021.
• SII currently has agreements to manufacture
Covid-19 vaccines developed by American
vaccine maker Novavax, as well as Oxford
University in collaboration with Swedish-British
drugmaker AstraZeneca.
• सीिि इं स्टीट्यूि ऑफ इं दडया (SII) को अदतरिक्त
धनिादश दिली थी, जो इसे भाित औि अन्य गिीब िे शों
को COVID-19 वैक्सीन की अपनी सुदवधा के रूप िें
कोदवि -19 वैक्सीन की आपूदतय को िोगुना किने की
अनु िदत िे गा।
• पुणे-िुख्यालय वाली वैक्सीन दनिाय ता अब इन फंडों का
उपयोग ि दबल एं ड िेदलंडा गेि्स फाउं डेशन के साथ-
साथ गवी, ि वैक्सीन एलायंस, इन िे शों को 2021 की
पहली छिाही िें 200 दिदलयन वैक्सीन की आपूदतय
किने के दलए किें गे।
• SII के पास वतयिान िें अिेरिकी वैक्सीन दनिाय ता
नोवाक्स िािा दवकदसत कोदवि -19 वैक्सीन के दनिाय ण
के साथ-साथ स्वीदडश-दिदिश डरगिेकि AstraZeneca
के सहयोग से ऑक्सफोडय यूदनवदसयिी बनाने के सिझौते
हैं ।
• SII (Pune), the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer by volume, has agreements to
manufacture Covid-19 vaccines, Covidshield (currently under clinical trials)
developed by American vaccine maker Novavax, as well as Oxford University in
collaboration with Swedish-British drugmaker AstraZeneca.
• The vaccines will be priced at a maximum of USD 3 per dose.
• COVAX is one of three pillars of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator,
which was launched in April 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), the
European Commission and France in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

• Created in 2000, Gavi is an international organisation - a global Vaccine Alliance,

bringing together public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal
access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest
countries.
• Its core partners include the WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank and the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.
• In June 2019, the Gavi Board approved a new five-year strategy (‘Gavi 5.0’) with a
vision to ‘leave no-one behind with immunisation’ and a mission to save lives and
protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Important Questions
Recently, Harijan Sevak Sangh celebrated its foundation day. Harijan Sevak Sangh
was founded in the year ________.
हाल ही िें, हरिजन सेवक संघ ने अपना स्थापना दिवस िनाया। हरिजन सेवक संघ की स्थापना वषय
________ िें हुई थी।

A. 1921
B. 1924
C. 1930
D. 1932
Recently, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu who underwent a routine COVID-19 test has been
tested positive. Which of the following article of the Indian constitution states that there shall be
a Vice-President of India?
हाल ही िें, एक दनयदित COVID-19 पिीक्षण से गु जिने पि उपिाष्ट्रपदत एि वेंकैया नायडू का पिीक्षण सकािात्मक
िहा है । भाितीय संदवधान के दनम्नदलप्तखत िें से कौन सा लेख कहता है दक भाित िें उपिाष्ट्रपदत पि होगा?

A. Article 37
B. Article 47
C. Article 52
D. Article 63
 Hudali village is a living monument of Gandhian way of life. Hudali village is in the state of
__________.
हुडली गााँ व गां धीवािी तिीके से जीवन जीने का स्मािक है । हुडली गााँ व __________ िाज्य िें प्तस्तथ है ।

A. Bihar
B. West Bengal
C. Haryana
D. Karnataka
Who among the following has been named as the President of the Film and Television Institute
of India, FTII Society?
दनम्नदलप्तखत िें से दकसे FTII सोसायिी के दफल्म एं ड िे लीदवजन इं स्टीट्यूि ऑफ इं दडया के अध्यक्ष के रूप िें
नादित दकया गया है ?

A. Paresh Rawal
B. Anupam Kher
C. Shekhar Kapur
D. Aditya Chopra
The United Arab Emirates plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in______.
संयुक्त अिब अिीिात ने ______ िें चां ि पि िानव िदहत अंतरिक्ष यान भेजने की योजना बनाई है ।

A. 2021
B. 2022
C. 2023
D. 2024
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