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NTPC’s Singrauli Unit 1 emerges as India’s top-performing plant in first quarter of FY21

July 12, 2020
National Thermal Power Corporation Lts. (NTPC)
  • The state-run electricity giant National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Singrauli’s Unit 1 has emerged as the top-performing unit in the country in the first quarter of the financial year 2020-21 as per the data released by Central Electricity Authority.
  • Singrauli Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Shaktinagar in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh. The power plant is the first power plant of NTPC.

Russia becomes first nation to complete clinical trials of Coronavirus vaccine

July 12, 2020
coronavirus vaccine
  • Russia has become the first nation to successfully complete the human trials of COVID vaccine. Russia’s COVID-19/coronavirus vaccine has proven to be effective, as per the results of the trials.
  • Chief Researcher Elena Smolyarchuk informed on July 12, 2020 that the human trials of Russia’s COVID vaccine have been completed and the volunteers will be discharged soon. Smolyarchuk is the head of Center for Clinical Research on Medications at Russia’s Sechenov University

India’s First State-Level ‘E-Lok Adalat’ conducted by Chhattisgarh High Court

July 12, 2020
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  • The Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court P.R. Ramachandra Menon inaugurated the first State Level E-Lok Adalat of India from the Conference Hall of the Chhattisgarh State’s High Court in Bilaspur district.  The E-Lok Adalat was conducted through video conferencing.
  • The E-Lok Adalat was conducted in 195 benches across the state of Chhattisgarh. A total of 3133 cases were placed before the 195 benches out which 848 cases were attended by 24 benches from the capital city of Chhattisgarh Raipur.

All India Tiger Census 2018 sets new Guinness World Record for largest camera-trap wildlife survey

July 12, 2020
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  • The 4th edition of the All India Tiger Estimation 2018 has created the Guinness World Record for being the world’s largest camera trap wildlife survey.
  • The All India Tiger Estimation is conducted every four year since 2006, by the National Tiger Conservation Authority with technical support from the Wildlife Institute of India.
  • In the fourth cycle of the survey, conducted in 2018-19, Camera traps (outdoor photographic devices fitted with motion sensors that start recording when an animal passes by) were placed in 26,838 locations across 141 different sites.
  • A total of 34,858,623 photographs of wildlife were captured by the 26,838 camera traps installed.
  • Of the total photographs, 76,651 were tigers and 51,777 were leopards while the remaining were other native fauna.

World’s second-largest data centre inaugurated near Mumbai

July 11, 2020
world's second largest data centre

Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that world’s second-largest data centre inaugurated in Mumbai which is developed by the Hiranandani Group.

Rajasthan launches campaign “Pure for Sure” to ensure purity of milk, dairy products

July 11, 2020
pure for sure
  • Rajasthan launched a week long campaign named ”Pure for Sure” to ensure purity of milk and its products.
  • Under the campaign samples of milk and dairy products will be collected for testing at Food Testing Laboratory available at the divisional level and the food safety officers have been directed to send the campaign report to the headquarters on daily basis.

Himachal’s Nadaun Police Station Among Best In Country

July 11, 2020
Nadaun Police station
  • Himachal Pradesh Nadaun Police Station is declared as one of the best in the country.
  • The ranking of police stations is carried out by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. Himachal DGP Sanjay Kundu presented this certificate of excellence received by him from the Union home minister to the CM.

New startup policy of Uttar Pradesh gets Cabinet nod

July 11, 2020
Startup policy uttar pradesh
  • The state Cabinet cleared the new Uttar Pradesh Startup policy 2020.
  • The objective of the policy is to promote start-ups in the state, establish at least one incubator in each district and 100 incubators across the state, create an ecosystem for establishment of 10,000 staround artups etc.
  • The new policy will be applicable for the next five years.

Skill Development Ministry Launches AI-based portal ASEEM to bridge Demand-Supply gap of Skilled Workforce

July 11, 2020
ASEEM portal
  • Mahendra Nath Pandey, Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched ‘Aatamanirbhar Skilled Employee Employer Mapping (ASEEM)’ portal on 10 July 2020 to help skilled people find sustainable livelihood opportunities.
  • ASEEM is an Artificial Intelligence-based platform to improve the information flow and bridge the demand-supply gap in the skilled workforce market.The portal will strengthen the career pathways of skilled workers by exploring emerging job opportunities especially in the post COVID era.
  • ASEEM has been developed and will be managed by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in collaboration with Bengaluru-based Company Betterplace

Google Plus is now ‘Google Currents’ in playstore

July 11, 2020
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  • Google has officially shut down its ‘Google Plus’ social networking platform and it has rebranded the app as “Google Currents”.
  • Google Currents is a platform which enables its users to connect with their colleagues, exchange documents and interact with like-minded people who have similar interests