Page-23 of Current Affairs - August, 2020
Price Monitoring and Resource Unit (PMRU) set up in Karnataka
The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority, in collaboration with the Karnataka State Drug Control Department, has launched the Price Monitoring and Resource Unit in the state. The PMRU will be mainly responsible for making access to medicine convenient for all the ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
DIAT Pune develops biodegradable face mask and anti-microbial body suit
The Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) has developed a Nanofibres of Ayurvedic based Biodegradable face mask which acts as a virus neutralizer to resist against the bacteria/ virus. The mask has been named as ‘Pavitrapati’. Apart from this, an ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
HDFC Bank launches Shaurya KGC Card
The largest private sector bank in the country, HDFC Bank, launched ‘Shaurya KGC (Kisan Gold Credit) Card, a loan product for the armed forces. This is the first-of-its-kind scheme meant for the army personnel in the country and is based ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Phase-2 trials of Bharat Biotech vaccine to begin in September
As reported by India Today, the phase I trial for the COVID 19 vaccine made by Bharat Biotech is complete and the Phase II of this trial is going to commence in September. In the first phase of the trial, ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
RBI approves Dividend of Rs 57,000 crore to Government
The Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India has approved the transfer of Rs 57128 crores as the dividend to the Central government for the accounting year 2019-20 while maintaining the contingency risk buffer at 5.5 per cent. What ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Defence Minister unveils 15 products developed by Defence PSUs
The Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has unveiled four products each by the Ordnance Factory Board and Bharat Earth Movers Limited, two by BEL and one each by HAL, BDL, MDL, GRSE and GSL. All these products have been developed as ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Narendra Modi has longest tenure as head of elected government at over 18 years
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the longest-serving non-Congress PM of the country and at the same time, he has also been at the helm of an elected government for a period of 18 years, which is the longest ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
New Test ‘N1-STOP-LAMP’ diagnoses SARS-CoV-2 virus in 20 minutes
In order to combat the menace of COVID 19 pandemic in the country, the researchers have developed a tool that can test the results of samples collected in as early as 20 minutes. This has been published in the Journal ..