The International Monetary Fund (IMF) proposed to release its full $1 trillion lending capacity to support countries that battle the COVID-19 outbreak. The IMF described the COVID-19 pandemic as a crisis like no other crisis ever. The announcement was made by the IMF head Kristalina Georgieva. In the first-ever virtual annual spring meeting of the IMF […]
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
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has approved support for large scale production of organic-inorganic hybrid nanocoatings for disposable masks developed by Dr Viswanatha R from Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru under the DST Nano Mission. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The N95 masks are capable of filtering out all types of particles,
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The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) in collaboration with WHO issue a stamp in the denomination of CHF 1,70, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the eradication of smallpox. The stamp was unveiled virtually on 8 May by the WHO Director-General during a commemorative event in Geneva, signifies what national unity and global solidary can
Agra Smart City has created a GIS dashboard which will show various hotspots, heat map, positive cases, recovered cases etc. Agra Smart City dashboard updates the COVID-19 latest detail on a daily basis and it can be accessed from the link: http://covid.sgligis.com/agra. The dashboard is developed on the IGiS platform, an indigenous technology that brings
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CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, Chandigarh, has designed and developed an innovative technology for effective disinfection and sanitization to fight with corona pandemic. CSIR-CSIO has transferred this technology to a Nagpur-based company, Rite Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd., for commercialization and large-scale production. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This technology has been found very efficient and
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has released a new list with the names of 169 tropical cyclones that are likely to emerge over the north Indian Ocean, including the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The tropical cyclones forming over different Ocean basins are named by the concerned
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JNCASR scientists have developed a natural product based Alzheimer inhibitor. Scientists from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have modified the structure of Berberine, a natural and cheap product similar to curcumin, available commercially, into Ber-D to use as a Alzheimer’s inhibitor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The scientist selected isoquinoline natural
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About 5 million people were displaced in India last year, the highest in the world, due to disasters, including cyclones and monsoon floods. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The report highlighted that the displacements were caused due to a combination of increasing hazard intensity, high population exposure, and high levels of social and economic
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The Task Force on National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) submitted its Final Report on NIP for FY 2019-25 to the Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs. The Summary Report of the Task Force on National Infrastructure Pipeline for 2019-2025 has already been released by the Finance Minister on December 31st, 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz
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