1. Automobile giant Maruti Suzuki develops low cost ventilators
Automobile giant Maruti Suzuki has developed low-cost ventilators for helping the government in the fight against COVID-19. The production is going on in Gautam Buddha Nagar of Uttar Pradesh, where the company is supporting a start-up Agva Healthcare to scale-up ventilator production..
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- Chairman of Maruti Suzuki: R. C. Bhargava...
- Managing Director & CEO of Maruti Suzuki: Kenichi Ayukawa..
- Headquarters of Maruti Suzuki: New Delhi.
2. “Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator” launched by G-20
G-20 has launched a new initiative “Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator” under the presidency of Saudi Arabia. The new initiative “Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator” will act as global platform for action to improve connections as well as to leverage interdependencies for collective partnership, mobilizing, problem-solving, and guiding investments for new COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics as well as vaccines. It also aims to provide equitable access of all the tools to all the members..
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- Capital of Saudi Arabia: Riyadh.
- Currency: Saudi riyal.
- The Group of Twenty (G20) is the premier forum for international economic cooperation which brings together the leaders of both developed and developing countries from every continent. ..
- The members of the G20 group are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Republic of Korea, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union (EU)..
3. Andhra Pradesh govt starts “Jagananna Vidya Deevena Scheme”
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Y. S.Jaganmohan Reddy has started the ‘Jagananna Vidya Deevena’ Scheme. Under this scheme, fee reimbursement will be credited directly to mothers’ accounts instead of college accounts in the coming academic year 2020-21..
Important takeaways for all competitive exams:
- Governor of Andhra Pradesh: Biswa Bhusan Harichandan...
- Capital of Kerala: Amaravati.
4. North Pole’s largest-ever ozone hole finally closes
Scientists who have been observing the ozone hole at Copernicus’ Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) has announced that the Ozone layer hole is now closed in the North Pole. They reported that the largest hole in the Ozone layer spreading over 1 million square kilometres above the Arctic has closed due to unusual atmospheric conditions. The hole in Ozone was first identified by scientists in March 2020...
5. CSIR-CMERI develops “Hospital Care Assistive Robotic Device”
A low-cost robotic device named as “Hospital Care Assistive Robotic Device (H-CARD)” has been developed by CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur. This robotic device will be used in the collection of samples of people exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, and will also be useful in treating COVID-19 patients. Hence, it will be very beneficial for the frontline healthcare workers who are treating COVID-19 patients. HCARD works both in autonomous mode as well as manual mode of navigation.
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