A thirteen-year old Madurai girl from Tamil Nadu, Nethra has been appointed the Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Association for Development and Peace, the UNADAP. It was in recognition of her role in feeding the poor during the COVID-19 lockdown by her father, a hairdresser by profession. As COVID-19 count in Chennai swells every […]
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The Football Association announced Chelsea as the winner of the 2019-20 Women’s Super League and awarded the 2019-20 Women’s Championship title to Aston Villa. The Blues were in second place but with one game in hand over Manchester City who were a point ahead when it was decided the league is to finish prematurely due
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British lender Standard Chartered Bank’s local unit has started operations from the International Financial Services Centre, becoming the first global bank to commence operations from the special economic zone in Gandhinagar. Presence at the newly built IFSC GIFT City can help the lender expand its business in trade, lending, financial market transactions and other structured
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The Andhra Pradesh government launched what it claimed to be the country’s first online Waste Exchange Platform to ensure 100 per cent safe disposal of industrial toxic wastes. Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the programme on the occasion of World Environment Day. The newly-floated AP Environment Management Corporation (EMC) will implement the
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The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, developed mobile application SAHYO, an Integrated Geospatial Platform out of available geospatial datasets, standards-based services, and analytic tools. The mobile application and the website prepared and managed by the Survey of India (SoI) Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 SAHYO:♦ The SAHYO aims to help decision
Union Power Minister has launched the #iCommit initiative for building an energy resilient future on 5 June 2020 to encourage all stakeholders and individuals to continue moving towards energy efficiency. The #iCommit initiative will function under the administration of the Ministry of Power. It is headed by Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL). The campaign will
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The President of India has promulgated the two Ordinances namely the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce Ordinance 2020 and the Farmers Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance 2020. The move comes after the announcement of the landmark decisions by the Government of India for reforms in the agricultural sector for raising the income
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Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) discovered a low cost and efficient way to generate hydrogen from water using Molybdenum dioxide as a catalyst. They have found that Molybdenum dioxide (MoO2) nanomaterials annealed in hydrogen atmosphere can act as efficient catalysts. Using this, Hydrogen can be generated from water and produces water on
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World silver-medallist Amit Panghal and the seasoned Vikas Krishan were nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the Boxing Federation of India, which picked only Olympic-bound names as its nominees for the annual honours. BFI has nominated world bronze-winning trio of Lovlina Borgohain under 69kg, Simranjit Kaur under 64kg, and Manish Kaushik under
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Road Transport & Highways Minister has launched the UNDP national awareness campaign on ‘Prevention of Human and Animal Mortality on Highways’ on 5 June. The campaign aims to generate awareness and education for the masses at large towards reducing or eliminating mortality on the roads of both human beings and animals. As per the official
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