25th May 2023 ENGLISH TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF TNPSC SHOUTERS
A fighter jet landing on Vikrant is a historic feat
- While our country is becoming self-sufficient in military logistics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the largest aircraft carrier INS Vikrant for our Navy in September last year. With this indigenously built ship, India has joined the list of countries producing aircraft carriers capable of carrying a weight of more than 40,000 tons.
- Built at a total cost of Rs 23,000 crore, the INS Vikrant has state-of-the-art facilities to repel air and ship-based missile attacks. It can accommodate 30 warplanes and helicopters at the same time. While dedicating this aircraft carrier to the country, Prime Minister Modi had said, 'This is a floating city'.
- The aircraft carrier INS Vikrant conducts grounding exercises of various fighter jets from time to time. In this line, our soldiers landed the Russian-made MiG-29K fighter jet and Tejas light fighter jets made for the Navy on board INS Vikrant last February.
- Also, fighter jets have never been landed on a ship at night. In this situation, while the Vikrant ship was traveling in the Arabian Sea, the pilots landed the MiG 29K fighter jet for the first time at night.
- Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi flagged off the inaugural service of Vande Bharat Express from Dehradun to Delhi today and dedicated it to the nation through a video presentation. He dedicated the newly electrified railway lines in Uttarakhand to the nation and declared the state as a state with 100 percent electrified railway lines.
- This is the first Vande Bharat train service to be introduced in the state of Uttarakhand. The train will provide an excellent travel experience with world-class amenities. Especially, this train will be very useful for tourists to the state. The train is indigenously designed and has advanced safety features including Gavach technology.
- The third advance estimates of production of major crops for the 2022-23 agricultural year have been released by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare.
- Food grains – 3305.34 lakh tonnes (record)
- Rice – 1355.42 lakh tonnes (record)
- Wheat - 1127.43 lakh tonnes (record)
- Rye - 111.66 lakh tonnes
- Maize – 359.13 lakh tonnes (record)
- Total pulses - 275.04 lakh tonnes
- Oilseeds – 409.96 lakh tonnes (record)
- Cotton – 343.47 lakh bales (170 kg each)
- Sugarcane - 4942.28 lakh tonnes (record)
- According to the third advance estimates for 2022-23, the country's total foodgrain production is estimated at 3305.34 lakh tonnes. This is 149.18 lakh MT higher than the previous year 2021-22.
- The total production (record) of rice in 2022-23 is estimated at 1355.42 lakh MT. This is 60.71 lakh tonnes more than the previous year.
- Wheat (record) production in the country is estimated at 1127.43 lakh MT, which is 50.01 lakh MT higher than the previous year's production.
