• NITI Aayog in association with PhonePe will launch the Fintech Open Hackathon.

• The Hackathon will provide an opportunity for innovators, digital creators and developers from all over India to think, ideate and code.

• It aims to showcase path-breaking solutions for the Fintech Ecosystem.

• The Ministry of Education (MoE) on Wednesday approved a new scheme “New India Literacy Programme” for the next five years to cover all the aspects of adult education to align with the new National Education Policy (NEP).

• The ministry has also decided to use “Education For All” instead of “Adult Education” as the previous term did not appropriately represent all non-literates in the 15 years and above age group.

• The scheme will be implemented through volunteerism via online mode. The training, orientation, workshops of volunteers, maybe organized through face-to-face mode.

• The scheme will cover non-literates of the age of 15 years and above in all state and union territories.

• The Union Govt. approved a new scheme “New India Literacy Programme" during the FYs 2022-2027 to cover all the aspects of adult education and also to align with national education policy 2020

• The scheme will cover non-literates of the age of 15 years and above in the country.

• Now, Govt. has replaced the term “Adult Education (प्रौढ़ शिक्षा)” as ‘Education for All’ in the country.

• It will be implemented through volunteerism through online mode.

• The much-awaited water taxi service promising connectivity between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai has been unveiled by Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal

• The initiative will help in promoting tourism as well as reducing traffic congestion in the city.

• The WT services are expected to cut the commuting time between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai by almost 45 minutes to an hour.

• The service will begin from Domestic Cruise Terminal at ferry wharf in Mumbai to Navi Mumbai destinations.

• Kannada writer and poet Dr Chennaveera Kanavi (94-years) passed away due to age-related illnesses at a private hospital in Dharwad.

• He was also known as ‘Samanvaya Kavi’ (Poet of Reconciliation).

• Dr Kanavi received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981 for his work Jeeva Dhwani (Poetry).

• Katavi's first book, Kavyakshi, was published in 1949.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the ‘Quit Tobacco App’ to help people quit tobacco use in all forms, including smokeless and other newer products.

• The ‘WHO Quit Tobacco App’ is the latest tobacco control initiative by the WHO South-East Asia Region.

• It was launched during WHO’s year-long ‘Commit to quit’ campaign.

• A first-of-its-kind by the WHO, the app targets all forms of tobacco, and helps users identify the triggers, set their targets, manage cravings, and stay focused on quitting tobacco.

• SIDBI launched the 'Waste to Wealth Creation' programme in which women will make ornaments and showpieces from fish scale in the Sundarbans in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district.

• Under this programme, SIDBI will extend benefits to 50 women in directly generating revenues from alternate livelihoods.

• Later, each of them is expected to become a trainer for replicating and disseminating the knowledge among other aspirants.

• The Second Advance Estimates of production of major crops for the year 2021-22 were released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and the country is estimated to record foodgrains production of 316.06 million tonnes. which is higher by 5.32 million tonnes than the production of foodgrains during 2020-21.

• Further, the production during 2021-22 is higher by 25.35 million tonnes than the previous five years' (2016-17 to 2020-21) average production of foodgrains.

• Total production of Rice during 2021-22is estimated at record 127.93 million tonnes.

• It is higher by 11.49 million tonnes than the last five years' average production of 116.44 million tonnes.

• The main tunnel of T-49 of Udhampur- Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link (USBRL) project has been connected successfully.

• It is constructed between Sumber and Arpinchala station of Katra-Banihal section USBRL

• It the longest tunnel of Indian Railways.

• T49 is a tunnel of length 12.758 km long and it is going to be the longest tunnel of Indian Railway.

• Peer Panjal Tunnel of 11.2 km length constructed by USBRL on the Banihal-Qazigund section is the 2^nd longest tunnel.

• Defending champion Kerala defeated Railways 25-21, 17-25, 25-21, 25-17 and won the women's title in the National senior volleyball championships at the KIIT indoor stadium, Bhubaneswar.

• It was Kerala's fourth straight triumph in the Nationals.