Category: All Current Affairs

Manipur Govt starts Electronic format of comic textbooks

April 15, 2020

• The government of Manipur has begun an Electronic format of comic textbooks.
• The Department of Education (schools) has started the electronic format comic textbooks for Class III, IV, and V as steps and measures to make up the gaps for the academic situation, especially for the schools.

Google starts ‘Nearby Spot’ to assist users to find local stores

April 15, 2020

• Google has begun ‘Nearby Spot’ under “Google Pay” to support users to find local stores selling essentials like groceries that are open, amid the lockdown
• The Google “Nearby Spot” is going to be started in Hyderabad, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, and Delhi soon.

ADB to rise COVID-19 package to $20 billion

April 15, 2020

• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has boosted the size of its COVID-19 Response Package to $20 Billion.
• The amount in the COVID-19 Response Package was $6.5 billion in starting as per announcement in March 2020 as ADB’s response to the COVID-19.

UP to be the first state to Start Pool Testing of COVID-19

April 15, 2020

• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has permitted to Uttar Pradesh to start “Pool Testing” of COVID-19 samples in the state.
• With this, Uttar Pradesh will be the first state to start pool testing.

Robots to provide food, medicine to COVID-19 patients in Jharkhand

April 15, 2020

• Robots will provide food and medicine to COVID-19 patients in two hospitals in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, in a step to preventing doctors and health workers from getting infected.
• Started by District Deputy Development Commissioner (DDC) Aditya Ranjan, the remote-controlled COBOT-Robotics will serve food and medicine to patients without human intervention.

Father of modern Iraqi architecture Rifat Chadirji passes away

April 14, 2020

• Father of modern Iraqi architecture Rifat Chadirji passed away because of COVID-19.
• He was credited to design some of Iraq’s most valuable structures and iconic “Freedom Monument” in the now protest hub of Baghdad’s Tahrir Square.

Science communication initiative “CovidGyan” originated

April 14, 2020

• An initiative “CovidGyan” has been started by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC).
• It is a multi-institutional, multi-lingual science communication initiative that has been begun to bring the scientific and factual aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on to the public domain.

Kerala prepares trial plasma therapy for COVID-19 treatment

April 14, 2020

• Kerala to be the 1st state of India to start clinical trial plasma therapy for COVID-19 treatment.
• The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has given approval to Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to commence clinical trial convalescent plasma therapy treatment.

World Chagas Disease Day celebrated globally on 14 April

April 14, 2020

• World Chagas Disease Day celebrated globally on 14 April. On 14  April 2020, the world community is to commemorate World Chagas Disease Day for the 1st time.
• The main purpose of marking the day is to increase awareness of Chagas disease and to marked as a day to spread awareness about this “silent and silenced disease”.

IIT-Bombay prepares digital stethoscope called “AyuSynk”

April 14, 2020

• IIT-Bombay has prepared a digital stethoscope called “AyuSynk” to check patients who are infected with COVID-19.
• IIT Bombay converts conventional stethoscopes into digital ones.
• The conventional stethoscope may pose a danger of infection to healthcare professionals handling coronavirus patients.