India, and US have signed Memorandum of Understanding on Intellectual Property cooperation. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry signed the MoU with US Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce of the US. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Union Cabinet in its meeting on 19th February this […]
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India is expected to surpass 350 million 5G subscriptions by 2026, accounting for 27% of all mobile subscriptions in the country, according to a report by Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points As per the ‘The Ericsson Mobility Report 2020,’ four out of every ten mobile subscriptions in 2026 will
An Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technologies Park (ARTPARK), set up in Bengaluru, will promote technology innovations in AI and robotics. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ARTPARK, is a unique not-for-profit foundation established by Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru with support from AI Foundry in a public-private model. With seed funding of Rs. 170
Scientists from the world’s three leading research institutions took part in this extensive research and suggested that oxidative potential of air particles should also be taken into account in future air-quality regulation measures to reduce the adverse health impact of inhaling poor quality air by the people. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Exposure to
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Puerto Rico’s massive Arecibo telescope, famous for its stellar contributions to astronomy, collapsed, leaving many among the scientific community in shock and anguish. The collapse was devastating also for many Puerto Ricans, for whom the observatory was culturally significant. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The second-largest single-dish radio telescope in the world, Arecibo was
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A powerful new telescope ASKAP, in Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ASKAP is a telescope designed over a decade ago and located about 800 km north of Perth. It became fully
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NASA has confirmed that the Near-Earth Object called 2020 SO is the rocket booster that helped lift the space agency’s Surveyor spacecraft toward the Moon in 1966. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Surveyor-2 spacecraft was supposed to make a soft landing on the Moon’s surface in September 1966, during which time one of
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IIT Kanpur researchers have demonstrated how with the use of a micro-structured hour-glass shaped metastructure in the lattice unit, one can get a wider variation of propagation and stop bands. The hour-glasses are developed in the Smart Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Inspiration of the lattice they developed has come from a two-headed drum
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The theremin is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). Theremin instrument turned 100 years old this year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The instrument was invented in 1920. It is named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928. The instrument’s controlling section usually consists
US drugmaker Moderna was applying for emergency use authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine. A few days earlier, Pfizer applied for emergency use authorisation for the vaccine it has developed in collaboration with BioNTech. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Vaccines and medicines, and even diagnostic tests and medical devices, require the approval of a regulatory
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