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Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare has launched the COVID India Seva, which provided an interactive platform to establish a direct channel of communication with millions of Indians amid the pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The initiative is aimed at enabling transparent e-governance delivery in real-time and answering citizen queries swiftly, at […]
In order to effectively track the home-quarantines citizens and ensure they are actually staying in the home, a mobile application named Saiyam has been developed by the Pune Municipal Corporation under Smart Cities Mission (SCM). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The app has been developed to monitor home quarantined citizens. The city administration has
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Minister of Health and Family Welfare of India has participated in the video conference of the Health Ministers of G20 countries. During that conference, Forge cooperation and mutually respectful and useful collaborations to deal with COVID-19 disease. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The 19-member countries apart from European Union (EU) of G20 are Argentina,
Union Government has created an online data pool of doctors including AYUSH doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, volunteers from NYKs, NCC NSS, PMGKVY, ex Servicemen etc. for use by the ground level administration at state, district or municipal levels. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The information has been uploaded on a dashboard
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In an Order today, clause 14(v) of the consolidated revised guidelines, relating to E-commerce companies has been excluded. In this regard it is again clarified that while operations of e-commerce companies for non-essential goods stands prohibited, however they will continue to operate for essential goods as has been allowed earlier and continue to be allowed
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Researchers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have discovered hundreds of Li-rich giant stars indicating that Li is being produced in the stars and accounts for its abundance in the interstellar medium. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The researches have also associated such Li enhancement with central He-burning stars, also known as red
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Chinese Language Day is observed on 20 April to educate people about the history of the Chinese language. The day highlights the contribution of Chinese literature, poetry, and language in world culture. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The United Nations (UN) observes the Chinese Language Day to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity. The UN
Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to geotag its 7,368 community kitchens and community shelters across 75 districts which produce 12 lakh food packets a day. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The UP state government has partnered with Google to ‘Geo-map’ the locations of all these establishments on the Google
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According to a new study by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW), India’s renewable energy subsidies fell 35% between 2016-17 and 2018-19. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The report was titled “Mapping India’s Energy Subsidies 2020” which said that the support for renewable energy
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Researchers at the Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune have developed a sensitive and low-cost sensor to rapidly detect bacteria. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The bug sniffer is a biosensor that uses synthetic peptides, magnetic nanoparticles, and quantum dots to detect the presence of bacteria. It will provide a cost and time-effective way of
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