Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2020

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World Emoji Day is celebrated every year on July 17, across the world. It was founded by Jeremy Burge.
He is called an emoji historian as he created an unofficial Wikipedia for emojis named Emojipedia. This day has been observed since 2014, to celebrate the usage of emojis, the ideograms used in online text conversations.

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The Horticultural Department of Haryana is organising a five-day Sub-Tropical Fruit Expo 2020 till July 22.
The expo is being organised at the Centre for Sub-Tropical Fruit at Ladwa that is an Indo-Israel project. The cultivation techniques of sub-tropical fruit are explained and streamed live on social media, so that the farmers can learn the technologies under the ‘Mera Pani – Meri Virasat’ crop diversification scheme.

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The International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad has developed a Ultra-violet Baggage Disinfection System named ‘KritiScan’.
ARCI, an autonomous R&D Centre of Department of Science and Technology (DST) has co-developed the system along with Noida-based Vehant Technologies. The compact system can efficiently carry out a dry and chemical-free disinfection.

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The Regulatory body of Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed telecom companies to stop free internet services to its subscribers for accessing social media.
This decision has been made as this facility is being used by some people for indulging in criminal activities on the social media. This ban is also expected to curb unhealthy competition between the companies.

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The Income Tax Department has launched an e-campaign on voluntary compliance of Income Tax for the convenience of taxpayers from July 20.
The aim of the 11-day campaign is to assist taxpayers especially the Income Tax assessees for FY 2018-19, to validate their financial transaction information online, by using the information available with the I-T Department. This will help tax-payers from redundant notice, scrutiny and penalty.

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25-year-old Spanish professional Golfer Jon Rahm claimed the top spot in the world, after he clinched victory in the Memorial Tournament.
He surpassed Rory McIlroy to claim the top spot in the World Golf Rankings for the first time in his career. This is also his fourth straight season with a victory. After Seve Ballesteros, he is only the second player from Spain to be placed in the Number one rank.

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The Jammu and Kashmir administration has approved insurance cover of ₹25 lakh to all panchayat members in the Union Territory.
All elected BDC chairperson, sarpanches, panches and elected members of municipal bodies are covered in the event of death due to militancy. Last month, a sarpanch was shot dead by militants in south Kashmir. The UT also made an amendment to grant short-term permits to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) on land up to 1 hectare, till September 30, 2021.

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Major Global companies including Microsoft, Nike, Starbucks, Unilever and Mercedes-Benz among others are collaborating to form a new consortium.
The group named ‘Transform to Net Zero’ pledges to share resources and strategies for curbing carbon emissions. It has planned to work with the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund for implementing this programme.

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The Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the Director General of Civil Aviation have permitted Maharashtra to use drones for inspecting power transmission lines and towers.
Maharashtra is the first state to be permitted for using drones for surveillance of faulty extra high voltage (EHV) power lines, to reduce the risk of the staff involved. As per the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Ltd (MSETCL), each zone will be given a drone with HD cameras.

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India has sent its first trial containership ‘MV Shejyoti’ from Kolkata to Agartala through Chattogram port of Bangladesh.
The ship contains iron bars and pulses to be transhipped to North-Eastern states of India. The ship also contains containers imported by the traders of Bangladesh. It has recently arrived in the Chattogram port.