Category: All Current Affairs

A short film made in Odisha village gets award in COVID-19 International film festival

June 16, 2020

• Martyapura Re Jamaraj (‘Yamaraj on earth’), a short film released by a group from the Ankushpur village of Odisha’s Ganjam district has honored with a special jury award at the COVID-19 International Film Festival 2020.

Airtel Payments Bank starts ‘Suraksha Salary’ account for MSMEs

June 16, 2020

• Airtel Payments Bank started a salary account for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).
• Through the ‘Suraksha Salary’ account, MSMEs and other organizations will allow them to make cashless payments and also give financial security blanket to their employees.

India 9th largest recipient of FDI in 2019 stated UN

June 16, 2020

• India got USD 51 billion in foreign investment in 2019 and was the world’s 9th largest recipient of foreign direct investments (FDI) in 2019, as per a report by the UN’s trade body.

Anmol Narang to be first observant Sikh to graduate from US Military Academy

June 16, 2020

• Anmol Narang has created history by becoming the first observant Sikh to graduate from the esteemed United States Military Academy at West Point, and the Second Lieutenant is confident that her efforts to represent her religion and community will inspire Americans to learn more about Sikhism.

India with 12 countries heads “Verified” initiative of the United Nations to counter misinformation on COVID-19

June 16, 2020

• India, along with 12 other countries, has led an initiative here targeted at spreading fact-based content to counter misinformation on the coronavirus, with over 130 nations supporting the global call to fight the “infodemic” associating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Minister of State for Home Affairs Kishan Reddy starts “GermiBAN” in Hyderabad

June 16, 2020

• Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, G Kishan Reddy started GermiBAN at AIC ALEAP We-Hub, here, on 14th June.
• The device begun has UV C and other B, C, D components, the patenting technology that destroys surface and air microbes at 99.9 percent, useful for quarantine wards, hospitals for killing viruses like Corona.

First nationwide online ‘Gas Trading Platform’ started by IGX

June 16, 2020

• Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Dharmendra Pradhan started the Indian Gas Exchange (IGX), first nationwide online delivery-based gas trading platform. IGX will be a delivery-based trading platform for the delivery of Natural Gas. The trade on the platform began in his auspicious presence.

India stood 43rd on IMD’s World Competitiveness Index 2020; Singapore on top

June 16, 2020

• India retains to place 43rd on an annual World Competitiveness Index arranged by Institute for Management Development (IMD) with some traditional weaknesses like bad infrastructure and inadequate education investment keeping its ranking low.

India ranks 12th on the Nature Index 2020

June 15, 2020

• India has placed on 12^th position, globally in science research output as per the newly-released Nature Index table 2020.
• Globally the top-rated Indian institutions in this table are CSIR, a group of 39 institutions at the 160th position and IISc Bangalore at the 184th.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft ties-up for “Project Protect” to combat online child sexual abuse

June 15, 2020

• Facebook joined Google, Microsoft and 15 other tech companies to declare the formation of “Project Protect”: A plan to fight online child sexual abuse – a renewed commitment and investment from the Technology Coalition growing its scope and impact to defend kids online and guide its work for the next 15 years.