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Global Task Force on Pandemic Response
The Global Task Force on Pandemic recently announced that it is closely working with US-India Strategic Partnership Forum and US-India Business Council to make three immediate actions. What are the actions? To source, ship and deliver thousand ventilators. To deliver 25,000 oxygen concentrators. To create Chief Human Resources Officer India Action Group. The group will ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: International Current Affairs
Topics: Adobe • AstraZeneca • Google • medical oxygen • Remdesivir • Sundar Pichai • US India Business Council • USAID • ventilator
INS Kolkata reaches Kuwait to bring liquid medical oxygen (LMO)
As a part of Operation Samudra Setu II, INS Kolkata has reached Kuwait to collect Liquid Medical Oxygen from the country. Earlier it embarked 43 oxygen concentrators and two hundred bottles of oxygen from Qatar. INS Kolkata It is a stealth guided missile destroyer. In 2015, BrahMos missile and Barak 8 missiles were test fired ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2021
Category: Defence Current Affairs • International Current Affairs
Topics: Brahmose • INS Kolkata • Liquid Oxygen • medical oxygen • Operation Samudra Setu • oxygen concentrator • oxygen shortage
IGST on Import of Oxygen Concentrators reduced
The Ministry of Finance recently cut the IGST on import of oxygen concentrators for personal use to 12%. Earlier it was 28%. IGST is Integrated Goods and Services Tax. The decision was announced by the Central Board of Indirect taxes and Customs. The changes are being made in accordance to the IGST Act, 2017. Constitutional ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: Central Board of Indirect Tax and Customs • exports • IGST • imports • medical oxygen • oxygen concentrator • Oxygen Express • Oxygen Generation Plants • oxygen plants • oxygen shortage
What is an Oxygen Concentrator?
The Government of India is to import 10,000 oxygen concentrators. What is an Oxygen Concentrator? An oxygen concentrator concentrates oxygen from the atmosphere. Working of Oxygen Concentrator The atmospheric air has 78% of nitrogen and 21% of oxygen. The Oxygen Concentrator accumulates air, filters through a sieve sending the nitrogen back in to the air ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs
Topics: COVID-19 • medical oxygen • Oxygen • oxygen concentrator
Basic customs duty and health cess on medical oxygen, equipment launched
The Government of India has granted complete exemption from basic health cess on import of oxygen-related equipment and customs duty for a period of three months. Background With the COVID-19 double mutant variant B.1.617 spreading rapidly in the country, the demand for medical oxygen exploded exponentially. In order fulfil this high demand, the Government of ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2021
Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs
Topics: B.1.617 • COVID-19 • Disaster Management Act 2005 • Double mutant variant • Indian Air Force (IAF) • Indian Railways • medical oxygen • Motor Vehicles Act