1. Indian Railways’ CLW creates world record; produces highest number of locos
- CLW = Chittaranjan Locomotive Works
- CLW surpassed its own record by producing 431 locomotives, 2.15 times its installed capacity, in FY19.
- Chittaranjan Locomotive Factory-located in Asansol, West Bengal.
2. Govt launches official COVID-19 tracking app: ‘AarogyaSetu’
- The App, called ‘AarogyaSetu’ joins Digital India for the health and well-being of every Indian.
- The App will enable people to assess themselves the risk for their catching the Coronavirus infection.
- The app is available in 11 languages.
- The app has been developed by MeitY in just four days.
3. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launches new features of e-NAM Platform
- e-NAM = National Agriculture Market
- The new features of e-NAM will strengthen agriculture marketing by farmers and will reduce the need to come to wholesale mandis for selling the produce.
- It was launched in 2016 as a pan-India electronic trade portal linking APMC.
- It provides for contactless remote bidding &mobile-based payment
- APMC = Agricultural Produce Market Committee.
4. SCTIMST ties up with Wipro 3D to manufacture automated ventilators to meet COVID 19 related crisis
- SCTIMST = Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology.
- To build a prototype of an emergency ventilator system based on Artificial Manual Breathing Unit (AMBU), developed by SCTIMST.
- SCTIMST is located in Trivandrum, Kerala.
5. DRDO develops bio suit to keep personnel engaged in combating COVID-19 safe from virus
- DRDO =Defence Research Development Organisation
- The current production capacity is 7,000 suits/day.
- Efforts are on to ramp up to 15,000 suits/day.
- DRDO Chairman – G. Satheesh Reddy;
- Headquarters – New Delhi
6. Justice Rajnesh Oswal sworn in as permanent Judge of High Court of J&K, Ladakh under Indian Constitution
- Article 217(1) allows president to appoint judges of High Court.
7. ADB expects India’s economic growth to slow down to 4% in FY21
- Asian Development Bank has 68 member countries.
8. Moody’s revises Indian banking system outlook to negative
- Chairman of Indian Banks Association : Rajnish Kumar.
9. Spacewatch : Nasa SunRise mission to study solar storms
- Nasa has selected a new mission, Called the SunRISE to study how space weather forms on the sun and launches radiation storms into space.
- SunRISE = Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment
- It consists of 6 small CubeSats to provide 3D maps of solar activity.
- It could protect astronauts on Moon or Mars exploration missions
10. Paytm Money founder MD Pravin Jadhav quits due to growing differences
- Paytm money received approval for stockbroking business.
11. World Athletics championship shifted to 2022 after new Tokyo Olympics dates
- The 2021 world athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon to be shifted to 2022 to accommodate the re-arranged Tokyo Olympics.
- It was scheduled to take place on August 6-15, 2021.
- World Athletics President : Sebastian Coe
- Headquarters : Monaco
12. Gurbani maestro Nirmal Singh Khalsa dies of novel coronavirus in Amritsar
- Nirmal Singh Khalsa, a noted singer of Sikh ‘Gurbani’ hymns, died of the novel coronavirus in Amritsar.
- He was the former Hazoori Raagi at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
- Nirmal Singh Khalsa received the Padma Shri in 2009.
13. Tony Lewis, famous for Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method, dies at 78
- Tony Lewis, one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited-overs cricket matches passed away.
- He belongs to England.
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