DAILY GK 9-10 AUG 2020
1. GANDHIAN YOUNG TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AWARDS
2020
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Gandhian
Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards
2020 is bestowed to a group of researchers from Indian Institutes of
Technology(IIT) Kharagpur for developing a mechanism for generating
electricity from wet clothes left under sunlight to
dry. The work has been published in Nano Letters, a high-impact
journal in the field, and the innovation has been patented by them.
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1The
same award was presented separately to another team of the IIT Kharagpur for
addressing the problem of energy conservation and thermal
management in wearable and flexible electronic devices.
2. ‘AIR SUVIDHA’ PORTAL
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Delhi
International Airport Limited (DIAL) a GMR Group-led consortium, has developed
AIR SUVIDHA, a first-of-its-kind portal allowing international arriving
passengers to fill a mandatory self-declaration form and eligible passengers to
apply for exemption from compulsory institutional quarantine for coronavirus.
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It
will make passengers’ journey more convenient and comfortable in a contactless
way as they won’t have to fill the physical copies of the forms on arrival.
3. IIT GUWAHATI DEVELOPS NANOPARTICLE ‘META-GRID’
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The
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India, and Imperial
College London, United Kingdom, have developed nanoparticles called the ‘meta-grid’
or ‘metamaterial grid’ that makes the light-emitting diodes (LED)
brighter, energy-efficient and durable.
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It
was jointly developed by Dr. Debabrata Sikdar, assistant professor
at IIT Guwahati along with Prof. Sir John B. Pendry and Prof. Alexei A.
Kornyshev from Imperial College London.
4. SII PARTNERED WITH GAVI AND THE BILL & MELINDA
GATES FOUNDATION
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Serum
Institute of India(SII) Private Limited has entered into a new
partnership with Gavi, the International Vaccine Alliance and the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, to accelerate the process of manufacture and
delivery of up to 100 million doses of COVID-19
vaccines for India and other low and middle income countries(LMICs) by
2021 as part of the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC), a mechanism
within the COVAX Facility.
5. ICC RETAINS INDIA AS THE HOST OF 2021 CWC
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International
Cricket Council(ICC) confirmed that India will
host the Twenty-20(T20) Cricket World Cup 2021 between
October – November 2021 as the BCCI retained the hosting rights
and Australia will host the 2020 World Cup edition, which was
postponed due to the global pandemic in 2022.
6. U.P. GOVERNMENT ODOP SCHEME
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E-commerce
platform Flipkart signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uttar Pradesh
Government’s One District, One Product (ODOP) scheme.As part of the MoU,
artisans, weavers and craftsmen under the One District, One Product (ODOP)
scheme will be brought into the ‘Flipkart Samarth’ initiative.
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Flipkart
will provide training, dedicated space in Flipkart’s fulfilment centres,
constant seller support, free cataloguing, marketing, account management,
business insights and warehouse support.
7. SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2020
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Defence
Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) Pune, an autonomous organization under
the Department of Defence Research & Development, DRDO, has won first
prize of rupees 1 Lakh for solving problem statement MS331 in the category of
software posed by the Madhya Pradesh Government in Smart India Hackathon
-SIH(Software) 2020, which is held at Noida Institute of Engineering &
Technology (NIET), Uttar Pradesh from August 1 to 3, 2020.
