Current affairs 12 October 2023

ISRO in collaboration with VIBHA organizes exhibition Space on Wheels.

The ISRO in collaboration with Vijnana Bharati is organizing an exhibition called Space on Wheels in Arunachal Pradesh.
Objective: To provide valuable insights into ISRO’s activities and India’s space missions to school and college students.
Aim: To sensitize the youth about the exciting and rewarding career opportunities in the field of space science and to bring the wonders of space exploration to the doorstep of students and enthusiasts across the region.

India's fiscal deficit in the first five months of the financial year 2023-24 (FY24) stood at Rs 6.42 trillion, 36 per cent of the full-year target of Rs 17.87 trillion.
In the same period in FY23, the fiscal deficit was 32.6 per cent of the full-year target.
Aim: To narrow its fiscal deficit to 5.9 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by the end of the current financial year, against 6.4 per cent last year.

CM Dhami inaugurated the Rozgar Prayag portal in the Uttarakhand Yuva Mahotsav -2023.
He also launched the Yuva Uttarakhand application and self employment centres at the employment exchanges of the State in the programme.
Aim: To help the unemployed by providing information about the posts in different departments to be filled by outsourcing.
MoUs signed with the IIT Roorkee and Microsoft International for technical support to the state government in skill development.

ISRO will launch of the Gaganyaan Test Vehicle Space flight, that is, the Gaganyaan Test Vehicle Development flight (TV-D1) on 21october.
ISRO will also test the efficacy of the Crew Escape System which is the crucial part of Gaganyaan mission, resulting in unmanned and manned missions to outer space by 2024.
The test is to be conducted at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
Crew Module will carry the astronauts during the Gaganyaan mission to outer space.

The Nobel Prize in Economics was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in October, 2023.
The Nobel Prize in Economics for the year 2023 has been awarded to Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University.
Goldin is the third woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Claudia Goldin has provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labor market participation over centuries.
His research reveals the causes of change and the main sources of male-female differences.
She has written a book on Gender in the Economy.
The first Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in the year 1969.