Chandrayaan-3 is likely to be launched in early 2021. However, unlike Chandrayaan-2, it will not have an orbiter, but will include a lander and a rover. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points After the hard landing of Chandrayaan-2 in September last year, space agency ISRO had planned another mission to the Moon later this year. […]
Scientists experimenting with new ways to manipulate quantum states so that they can be harnessed for computing, communication, and metrology, has found a novel way to characterise and estimate such states. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points This method of characterisation called Quantum State Interferography, can help make such manipulations simpler so that several crucial
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CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute has developed the World’s Largest Solar Tree, which is installed at CSIR-CMERI Residential Colony, Durgapur, West Bengal. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The installed capacity of the Solar Tree is above 11.5 kWp. It has the annual capacity to generate 12,000-14,000 units of Clean and Green Power. There are
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Electronics and IT Minister has launched next-generation startup contest `Chunauti” which aims to encourage startups and software products with special focus on Tier-II towns. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The government has earmarked a budget of over 95 crore rupees over a period of three years for this programme. It aims at identifying around
India’s Tata Group is pushing into the country’s booming tech sector with a new “super app” that will bring together its disparate consumer services for the first time. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A super app is a platform developed by a company offering various services under one umbrella. For example, China’s WeChat, which
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According to data in the Science and Technology Indicators (STI), 2018, a periodic compendium of the state of scientific research in India, the private sector research companies of India appear to employ a larger proportion of women in core research and development activities than government-funded major scientific agencies do. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points
The Government of India has introduced ‘Open API Service’, a novel feature to help the people, businesses and the economy to return to normalcy. Aarogya Setu app has started a new technological solution in order to help businesses and the economy to start functioning while being safe. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Open
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An old-age drug RLF-100 or Aviptadil, used for treatment for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and chronic lung diseases, has now been proposed for treatment of COVID-19 infection. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points According to a report by the IE, the drug is being probed as some studies indicated that it is able to halt
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Government has taken various measures to improve viability of sugar industry, thereby enabling sugar mills to make timely payment of cane dues of farmers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Going forward, diversion of excess sugarcane and sugar is the long term solution for addressing the problem of excess stock and improving viability of sugar
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The government has set targets of 10 per cent bioethanol blending of petrol by 2022 and to raise it to 20 per cent by 2030 under the ethanol blending programme to curb carbon emissions and reduce India’s dependence on imported crude oil. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points 1G and 2G bioethanol plants are set
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