Today Current Affairs - 13th July 2020 Current Affairs
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan Releases White Paper by TIFAC on “Focused Interventions for Make in India Post COVID 19”
ii.The White Paper apprehends the specific strengths, market trends and opportunities with reference to the supply and demand, self-sufficiency and mass-scale production capacity in the critical sectors like healthcare, machinery, ICT, agriculture, manufacturing, and electronics.
About Ministry of Science and Technology:
Union Minister– Harsh Vardhan
Department under the ministry– Department of Science & Technology(DST), Department of Biotechnology(DBT), Department of Scientific & Industrial Research(DSIR)
Chhattisgarh organises India’s first E-Lok Adalat
On 11th July 2020, Chhattisgarh State
Legal Service Authority and the high Court organised India’s first
e-Lok Adalat to ensure the administration of justice and to solve the
financial crisis of the parties and lawyers amid COVID-19 pandemic. The
high court Chief Justice P R Ramchandra Menon inaugurated the e-Lok
Adalat through video conferencing.
What is Lok Adalat?
Lok Adalat is one of the alternative
dispute grievance mechanisms or a forum where pending cases or disputes
in the court of law are settled or compromised whereas e-lok adalat will
be handled virtually.
E-Lok Adalat:
i.Lok Adalat is moved to a virtual platform as e-Lok Adalat to handle the pending cases amid COVID-19.
ii.The virtual hearing will be conducted over a virtual platform through video conferencing.
iii.This is aimed to settle over
3000 pending cases through more than 200 benches in various districts
across chhattisgarh including the Bilaspur high court.
iv.The parties and lawyers can
present their cases through whatsApp video call incase of any
difficulties in counting through video conferencing.
v.E-Lok Adalat will be continued further following the success of the first experimental trial.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
India Moves up a Rank, Becoming the Second-Largest Foreign Investor in UK
i.The United States of America remains in top, followed by India, Germany, France, China and Hong Kong.
ii.From the FDI report, the number of jobs safeguarded by FDI has increased by 29 per cent.
About United Kingdom:
Prime Minister- Boris Johnson
Capital- London
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
India’s 2018 Tiger Census – Largest Camera Trap Wildlife Survey sets Guinness Record
ii.Guinness Book of World record cited that the fourth iteration of the survey conducted in 2018-2019 was the most comprehensive to date in terms of resources and data.
iii.The population of the tiger has increased 33% since 2014 that is from 2,226 in 2014 to 2967 in 2018 making India the safest and biggest habitat for the wild cats in the world.
About Ministry of Environment, ForestMoEF) and Climate Change:
Union Minister– Prakash Javadekar
Minister of State– Babul Supriyo
Kezang D Thongdok of Arunachal Pradesh wins 2020 Dada Saheb Phalke Award for ‘Chi Lupo’ – documentary on Honey Hunting
ii.The documentary won the best documentary at the 10th Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival Awards.
iii.He is currently working on a documentary Khiksaba about an unexplored festival of Shertukpen tribe.
About Arunachal Pradesh:
Chief Minister– Pema Khandu
Governor– Brigadier (Dr.) B. D. Mishra
Capital– Itanagar
Rotary Foundation Honours TN CM Edappadi K Palaniswami with Paul Harris Fellow Recognition
On July 10,2020 The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International,Chicago, has honoured Tamil Nadu(TN) Chief Minister(CM) Edappadi K Palaniswami with Paul Harris Fellow recognition.
About Paul Harris Fellow recognition
i.The recognition is in the honor of Rotary founder, Paul Harris who contributed to The Rotary Foundation.
ii.The Paul Harris Fellow
recognition is conferred to honour the efficient service of people who
provide drinking water, sanitation, prevention of diseases, environment,
world peace etc. to its people.
iii.It also acknowledges
individuals who contribute, or who have contributions made in their
name, of USD 1,000 to The Rotary Foundation.
iv.The person recognised as the
fellow will receive a certificate along with a lapel pin. They are also
eligible to buy a Paul Harris Fellow medallion.
About TN:
Capital– Chennai
Governor– Banwarilal Purohit
About Rotary International:
Headquarters– Evanston, USA
President– Holger Knaack( 2020-21)
IHD India Receives ‘Development Marketplace Award 2020’ from World Bank and SVRI
World Bank Group and Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) joint hands to support and provide fund for researchers and innovators in low- and middle-income countries to study the violence against women and to reduce the violence against them.
About Institute for Human Development (IHD):
Institute for Human Development (IHD), non-profit autonomous institution was established in the year 1998 and managed under the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE).
Chairman – Prof. S.R. Hashim
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Government launches ASEEM portal to support skilled people to find sustainable livelihood opportunities
ii.ASEEM is available as an online portal and mobile application.
iii.The portal is developed and managed by National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in collaboration with Betterplace, a Bengaluru based company.
About Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship(MoSDE):
Union Minister– Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey
Minister of State– Raj Kumar Singh
IAF Received Last 5 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters from US Aerospace company Boeing
ii.This final 5 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters were part of a deal that was signed by Indian Government & Boeing in the year 2015 to deliver 22 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters .
iii.In September 2015, India signed a $3 billion deal with Boeing for 22 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and 15 Chinook helicopters through the Foreign Military Sales programme of the U.S. government.
About Boeing:
Headquarter – Chicago, United States (U.S.)
Director – Robert A. Bradway
First Launch of China’s Kuaizhou-11 Carrier Rocket Failed; Telecommunication Satellite “APSTAR-6D” Successfully Launched
ii.During the failed launch, Kuaizhou-11(KZ-11) carried Jilin-1 Gaofen-02E or BilibiliSat and the CentiSpace-1 S2 – also designated Xiangrikui 2.
iii.Kuaizhou-11 & APSTAR-6D was developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.(CASC) and commercialized by the China Space Sanjiang Group Corporation (Expace).
About China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.:
Headquarter – Beijing, China
President – Xu Qiang
Loyal Textile Mills in Collaboration with RIL and HeiQ Launched world’s 1st Reusable PPE with Triple Viral Shield Technology
ii.Along with this, other triple viral shield products like masks(SS 95 medical respiratory type Mask) and protective antiviral fashion wear range were also launched.
About Loyal Textile Mills Limited:
Headquarters– Chennai, Tamilnadu
Chairperson– Valli M. Ramaswami
About HeiQ Group:
Headquarters– Switzerland
CEO and co-founder– Carlo Centonze
A Team of Wildlife researchers rediscover ‘Ypthima watsoni’ butterfly after 61 years in Tripura
A team of wildlife researchers has rediscovered ‘Ypthima watsoni’ butterfly(commonly known as ‘Looped three-ring’)
after 61 years near a village called Phuldungsei in Jampui Hills under
the North Tripura district. The research paper regarding this discovery
was published in the Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies.
Ypthima Watsoni
i.Ypthima watsoni, 1893 belongs to the subfamily Styrene and family Nymphalidae of insect order Lepidoptera
ii.The species was 1st reported
and described byZoologist Frederic Moore in the year 1893-1896 from two
different places in Myanmar. It was last seen in Manipur in 1958.
Research Team
The research was done by Suman Bhowmik,
Head of the department of Lepidoptera conservation & research
division of Wild Tripura Foundation, Agartala, Tripura with Sandip
Malakar and Atanu Bora
Wild Tripura Foundation– The Wild
Tripura Foundation is a Government registered Trust. It supports and
helps to study Lepidoptera diversity of Tripura.
Note– The Jampui Hills harbours some of the rarest fauna that are hard to find anywhere else in the Indian Subcontinent.
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