current affairs 10 february 2022

J&K becomes the 1st Union Territory to be integrated with National Single Window System.

• Jammu & Kashmir has become the first Union Territory to be integrated with the National Single Window System (NSWS).
• National Single Window System (NSWS) was launched in September 2021 by the Ministry of Commerce & Industry.
• It is a digital platform that serves as a guide for investors to identify and to apply for approvals as per their business requirements.
• NSWS will eliminate the need for investors to visit multiple platforms/offices to gather information and obtain clearances from different stakeholders.

India tops in terms of digital skills readiness as per Salesforce Global Index.

• India has scored the highest on digital readiness among the 19 countries that were surveyed as part of the Salesforce Global Index.
• This index measures global employee sentiments and readiness to acquire the key digital skills needed by businesses today and over the next five years.
• India had the highest digital readiness score of 63 out of 100, with 72% of respondents saying they were actively learning digital skills to prepare themselves for the future of work.
• The average global readiness score was 33 out of 100.

Dr S Unnikrishnan Nair has been appointed as director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).

• Dr S Unnikrishnan Nair has been appointed as the new director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
• He will replace S Somanath, who recently took over as the chairman of ISRO.
• VSSC is a space research center of the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Kerala signed an MoU with Social Alpha to develop clean energy technology.

• The Government of Kerala has signed an MoU with Social Alpha's Energy Lab – Clean Energy International Incubation Center (CEIIC) to support innovative and clean energy technology programs in Kerala.
• The Government of Kerala signed this agreement through Kerala Development & Innovation Strategy Council (KDISC) and Energy Management Centre (EMC).

NASA plans to retire the International Space Station by 2031 by dropping it into the Pacific Ocean.

• NASA has announced its plan that the International Space Station will be kept operated until the end of 2030, after which the ISS would be crashed into a remote part of the Pacific Ocean known as Point Nemo.
• The report released by NASA said that its budget estimate assumed that the deorbit would happen in January 2031.
• ISS is the world’s largest habitable artificial satellite in space and was launched in 2000, being managed by five space agencies- NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada).