Current Affairs - 2019-20

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Wipro Chairman Azim Premji will be honoured with the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy for his efforts to reform India’s public school system. He is among the 9 philanthropists named recipients of the 2017 Medal of Philanthropy, who are selected for their distinguished and longstanding contributions to the public good. The Carnegie institutions will award the medals during a formal ceremony in October 2017. The honorees are recognized as catalysts for good whose philanthropy has had a significant and lasting impact on a particular field, nation, or community of people.

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The mines mentioned in this are in Jharkhand.

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The new missions will be opened in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Swaziland and Togo. Currently, India has 29 resident missions in Africa.

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The World Down syndrome Day (WDSD) is observed every year on March 21 to raise public awareness about the syndrome and well being of people with Down syndrome. The 2018 theme “What I Bring To My Community” demonstrates that how people with Down syndrome can and do make meaningful contributions throughout their lives, whether in schools, workplaces, living in the community, public and political life, culture, media, recreation, leisure and sport. The Down syndrome is a naturally occurring chromosomal arrangement that has always been a part of the human condition, exists in all regions across the globe and commonly results in variable effects on learning styles, physical characteristics or health.

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AC = BC = 5 cm
∴ AB

Hence option [A] is the right answer.

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Supercritical and ultra-supercritical technologies are associated with coal-fired power plants. These technologies are designed to improve the efficiency and reduce the emissions of coal-fired power plants.
Supercritical boilers operate at temperatures around 538–565°C and pressures above 3,200 psi. Ultra-supercritical boilers operate at temperatures around 615–630°C and pressures around 300 bar.
The term “advanced ultra-supercritical” (AUSC) is sometimes used to describe generators where the water is above 700°C (1,292°F). The coal industry uses the term “High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions” (HELE) to describe supercritical and ultra-supercritical coal generation.

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Gyan Sangam is the meet of various banks, financial institutions and insurance companies in order to discuss for enhancing the digitisation of the banking system in India and ways to increase the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and big data analytics in the banking & financial services industry in India.

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Khangchendzonga National Park (KNP) in Sikkim has been named a world heritage site by the World Heritage Committee (WHC) of UNESCO. This is a National Park and a Biosphere reserve located in Sikkim, India. It was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list on July 17, 2016, becoming the first "Mixed Heritage" site of India.

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Ministry of Communications has launched the Cool EMS Service. It is a one-way service that allows customers in India to import Japanese food for personal use. All the Food items will be carried by Japan Post in special cool boxes containing refrigerant to preserve the quality of the food items and then collected in India.

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The NASA’s X-ray source, Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), located in a region of the sky known as the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), has observed the deepest gamma-ray burst (GRB) event. The two major possibilities to explain the X-ray source invoke gamma-ray burst (GRB) events are- GRBs are jetted explosions triggered either by the collapse of a massive star or by the merger of a neutron star with another neutron star or a black hole.