Current Affairs Quiz - August, 2020

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Interceptor Boat ‘ICGS C-454’, that has been built by Larsen and Toubro, was recently launched into the service of the Coast Guard.
The newly-built boat of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) was launched in Surat, as per the recent notification from the Defence Ministry. It has a length of 27 meters and a maximum speed of 45 nautical miles or 83 kilometers per hour.

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The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), an US based India-centric business advocacy group has announced to honour Anand Mahindra and Shantanu Narayen with 2020 Leadership Awards.
The Mahindra group Chairman and Adobe Chairman and CEO are awarded for promoting US-India bilateral ties. It will be presented at 3rd Annual Leadership Summit of USISPF titled “US-India Week: Navigating New Challenges”, that will be virtually convened from August 31.

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The Union Ministry of External Affairs in collaboration with the Thailand’s Foreign Ministry has organized the 6th Round Table of ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks (AINTT). The round table conference was conducted virtually.
The theme of the conference was ‘ASEAN-India: Strengthening Partnership in the Post COVID Era’. More than 400 eminent members from various educational institutions, industry, government and diplomats attended the Round Table.

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The Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs has advised State Governments and UTs to include all eligible disabled persons under the National Food Security Act, NFSA 2013.
As per the direction of the Ministry, those not covered under the scheme should be covered with fresh ration cards. After registration, they will get the entitled quota of food grains under NFSA and Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana as per provisions of the Act.

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Researchers at IIT – Bombay and Shiv Nadar University have claimed that they have developed a technology to produce environment friendly Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries.
The Li-S batteries would be three times more energy efficient and cost effective than conventional Lithium-ion batteries. The production of Li-S batteries uses products from the petroleum industry and agro-waste along with co polymers, and thus has a positive impact on environment.

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The water technology company “Va Tech Wabag” has been conferred with the Global Water Award. This award has been given to the company for setting up a tertiary treatment reverse osmosis plant (TTRO) with a capacity of 45 million litres a day, at Chennai.
The award has been given under ‘wastewater project of the year’ category. With this project, Chennai is the first Indian city to reuse more than 20 % of its treated wastewater.

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This year, the Earth Overshoot Day fell on 22nd August, 2020. Earth Overshoot Day is the date when the demand for ecological resources and services by human beings exceeds what Earth can regenerate in a given year.
This is computed by the think tank named Global Footprint Network using Earth’s Bio-capacity, Humanity’s Ecological Footprint among others.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently announced that the African continent is completely free of Polio.
A commission headed by Rose Gana Fomban Leke has certified that no wild Polio cases occurred in the African region for the past four years. The threshold for eradication of poliovirus is also four years. Africa had earlier eradicated smallpox disease.

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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has recently released its annual report 2019-20, in which it has estimated that India would have a negative growth of (-) 4.5 % for the year 2020-21.
The central bank has also projected the global growth rate between (-) 6.0 per cent and (-) 7.6 per cent. It also said that the supply of banknotes during 2019-20 was also lower by 23.3 % than that of the previous year.

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Ace England Bowler James Anderson has become the first fast bowler to reach 600 wickets in Test matches.
Before his feat, only three spin bowlers had made this achievement, including Muttiah Muralitharan (800), Shane Warne (708) and Anil Kumble (619). Anderson achieved this feat during the third Test against Pakistan at the Rose Bowl.