Current Affairs - 2019-20

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Recently, Strand Life Sciences has launched a Liquid Biopsy test portfolio, called STRAND LB that provides highly sensitive detection of tumour traces from a simple blood draw. The test is helpful in detecting the wide variety of cancer types – including lung, colorectal, breast, and bladder cancer.

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Mannavaram power project is a proposed power project in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh.

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The international conference on the VISION ZERO and its relevance to Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) is being organized from 15th to 17th, March 2017 at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi by Directorate General Factory Advice and Labour Institutes (DGFASLI).

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Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group that has been involved in the Colombian conflict since 1964. The group was founded by Manuel Marulanda and Jacobo Arenas to represent the interests of the rural population after the Colombian civil war from 1948 to 1958. The FARC is the largest rebel group in Colombia, with an estimated 10,000 armed soldiers and thousands of supporters.
The FARC was formed as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party (PCC). The group’s force strength is estimated to be around 15,000 to 18,000 men and women, organized in more than 80 fronts.
The conflict in Colombia is historically rooted in the conflict known as La Violencia. This conflict was triggered by the 1948 assassination of liberal political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. The anti-communist repression in rural Colombia in the 1960s led Liberal and Communist militants to re-organize.

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The term was coined by RBI governor Raghuram Govind Rajan. He explain his point, with an imaginary example of a pensioner with a savings of Rs 1 lakh who earns an interest rate of 10 per cent and wants to buy dosas that cost Rs 50 a piece. The RBI governor assumes inflation to be 10 per cent. “He could buy 2,000 dosas with the money today, but he wants more by investing. At 10 per cent interest, he gets Rs 10,000 after one year plus his principal,” Rajan argued. With dosa prices going up by 10 per cent to Rs 55, he can buy 182 dosas approximately with the Rs 10,000 interest. However, with his principle amount the pensioner can now buy 1818 dosas. Thus, stateing that that low deposit rate coupled with low inflation is better than high rates with high prices.

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Kuji mendha, a threatened breed of sheep, has been conferred “rare and singular species” tag by the central government, is found in which state of India. Kendrapara sheep, also known as Kuji mendha in local language, has been recently accorded with “rare and singular species” tag by the National Bureau of Animal Genetic Resources (NBAGR). It is a threatened breed of sheep found only in coastal Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts of Odisha. These sheep are fast breeders, and give multiple births at a time, while those in other parts of the state give single birth at a time.

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All given information is about the Kathak queen Sitara Devi. Recently, on 8th November 2017, Google paid a tribute to her by dedicating a doodle on her 97th birth anniversary. She was described by Rabindra Nath Tagore as Nritya Samragin when she was just 16 years old. In 2016, she was honoured with a number of awards including India Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011 for her contribution to the classical dance. She has also acted in a number of Hindi Movies. She had also acted in a number of Hindi movies. She had first married K. Asif and later to Pratap Barot.

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Each FIFA World Cup since 1966 has its own Mascot. Mascot is generally one or more anthropomorphic characters targeted by children with cartoon shows. The Mascot for 2018 FIFA World Cup was Zabivak

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At the Rio Olympic Games, India Men’s National Hockey team finished at the 8th position bagging two victories and three losses. Where was the 2018 World Cup Hockey held?

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Norway led the medal tally with 39 medals, followed by Germany with 31 medals and finally Canada with 29 medals. Norway and Germany both the nations had won 14 Gold medals each.