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AUGUST – 03 | Daily Current Affairs 2020

IMPORTANT DAYS

1. World Sanskrit Day is observed on which date?
A) August 2nd
B) August 1st
C) August 4th
D) August 3rd
Answer: D) August 3rd
Sanskrit Diwas also known as ‘Vishvasamskritadinam’ is celebrated around this time of the year.

SPORTS

2. Start of Tour de France in Denmark is postponed to 2022. This sports will held in which date?
A) July 1-5
B) July 1-9
C) July 2-9
D) July 1-3
Answer: D) July 1-3
Tour de France from Copenhagen, scheduled for 2021, pushed back to 2022.
Denmark:
Capital: Copenhagen
Currency: Danish Krone

OBITUARY

3. Politician John Hume passed away. He won which Award?
A) Order of Merit
B) Order of Tower
C) Nobel Peace Prize
D) Emmy Award
Answer: C) Nobel Peace Prize
Politician John Hume, who won Nobel Peace Prize for work to end violence in his native Northern Ireland, has died.
Ireland:
Capital: Dublin
Currency: Euro

BANKING AND FINANCE

4. BOB Financial Solutions Limited ties up with which payment solution company Ltd launches Bank of Baroda Credit Card offers EMI’s on PoS Terminals?
A) Mastercard
B) Rupay
C) Visa
D) Innoviti
Answer: D) Innoviti
Bank of Baroda:
Hq: Vadodara, Gujarat
MD and CEO: Sanjiv Chadha
Tagline: India’s International Bank

5. Tech Mahindra has launched a solution to enable workforce and community safety against COVID-19. What is the name of that solution?
A) Msafety
B) Mhealthy
C) Mtreaty
D) Mgoody
Answer: B) Mhealthy
Mhealthy is a solution that uses technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable data driven digital diagnostics.
Tech Mahindra:
HQ: Pune, Maharashtra
Chairman: Anand Mahindra

APPOINTMENTS

6. IFSCA set up a panel of industry experts to formulate a plan to develop international retail business at the International Financial Services Centre. Who is Chaired by this committee?
A) Suresh Shah
B) Pradip Shah
C) Prem Shah
D) Sandhosh Shah
Answer: B) Pradip Shah

7. Irfaan Ali has been sworn in as president of which country?
A) Iran
B) Iraq
C) Iceland
D) Guyana
Answer: D) Guyana
Guyana:
Capital: George town
Currency: Guyanese Dollar

AWARDS

8. Which IIT researchers has conferred the ‘Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2020’ for developing a mechanism for generating electricity from wet clothes left under sunlight to dry?
A) IIT Hyderabad
B) IIT Madras
C) IIT Kanpur
D) IIT Kharagpur
Answer: D) IIT Kharagpur

• Prof Partha Saha and Dr Aditya Bandopadhyay from the Department of Mechanical Engineering have been awarded for their work—“Electrical power generation from wet textile”.
• Another team from the institute was separately granted the same award for addressing the problem of energy conservation and thermal management in wearable and flexible electronic devices.
• Prof Sunando Dasgupta and his team from the Department of Chemical Engineering have also been awarded for their work—“Smart, flexible, and multi-functional thermal and energy management systems for next-generation electronic devices”.

9. Moothon and Run Kalyani have won Best Film award at the 20th edition of New York Indian Film Festival. Who is the director of Moothon Flim?
A) Geetha J
B) Geetu Mohandas
C) Sanjana Dipu
D) Nivin Pauly
Answer: B) Geetu Mohandas

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

10. Which country will be rolled out 2 new rapid Covid-19 tests to hospitals, care homes and laboratories to increase testing capacity?
A) USA
B) UK
C) New Zealand
D) India
Answer: B) UK

• The 90-minute LamPORE swab tests, will be supplied by Oxford Nanopore, an Oxford University spin-off co-founded by Indian-origin CEO Gordon Sanghera, who believes it also offers an “accessible global testing solution”.
• The DNA Nudgebox machines will be rolled out across NHS hospitals in the UK to analyse DNA in nose swabs, providing a positive or negative result for Covid-19 in 90 minutes, at the point of care. The machines will process up to 15 tests on the spot each day without the need for a laboratory.

United Kingdom:
Capital: London
Currency: Pound Sterling

11. IIT Madras Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre and which startup have successfully deployed the jointly-developed remote patient monitoring solutions for Covid-19?
A) Nelyxon
B) Helyxon
C) Pelyxon
D) Telyxon
Answer: B) Helyxon

12. Kashmiri teenager Ashfaq Mehmood Choudhary has developed a new file sharing app would enable users to share audios, videos, images and texts between two devices without Internet access. What is the name of that app?
A) ‘Pado Drop’
B) ‘Nano Drop’
C) ‘Dodo Drop’
D) ‘Mono Drop’
Answer: C) ‘Dodo Drop’

13. Which organization has developed nanorods used to reduce pain, fever or inflammation and found it to be an effective non–invasive small molecule-based nanotherapeutics against cataract?
A) CSIR
B) IIT Madras
C) IIT Hyderabad
D) INST
Answer: D) INST
The Institute of Nano Science & Technology (INST) an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India has developed nanorods from the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) Aspirin, a popular medication used to reduce pain, fever or inflammation and found it to be an effective non–invasive small molecule-based nanotherapeutics against cataract.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

14. Which state government will set up industrial parks for micro, small and medium enterprises in six of its most industrialized district?
A) Madhya Pradesh
B) Uttar Pradesh
C) West Bengal
D) Andhra Pradesh
Answer: B) Uttar Pradesh
The state government has also started work on a detailed project report (DPR) for the proposed 601km-long Ganga Expressway between Meerut and Prayagraj.
Uttar Pradesh:
Capital: Lucknow
CM: Yogi Adityanath
Governor: Anandiben Patel

15. Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary said, the Government aims to double the income of farmers by which year?
A) 2024
B) 2022
C) 2021
D) 2025
Answer: B) 2022
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare,Rural Development and Panchayati Raj:
Minister: Narendra Singh Tomar
Constituency: Morena, Madhya Pradesh

16. Which Union territory has launched E-Gyan Mitra mobile app for online education?
A) Delhi
B) Chandigarh
C) Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
D) Puducherry
Answer: C) Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu:
Capital: Daman
Lt Governor: Praful Khoda Patel

17. Andhra Pradesh state government Launches a month-long awareness programme on the safety of women and children in cyberspace. What is the name of that programme?
A) e-Rakshabhoomi
B) e-Rakshabandhan
C) e-Rakshabrand
D) e-Rakshakishan
Answer: B) e-Rakshabandhan
Andhra Pradesh:
Capital: Amaravati
CM: Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy
Governor: Biswa Bhushan Harichandan

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