Current Affairs - 2019-20

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The Indian Railways has recently launched a virtual server “RailCloud” with an inbuilt security system to optimise server usage and faster connectivity. The technology is developed by rail PSU RailTel at an estimated cost of approx Rs 53 crore. The RailCloud technology enables maximising the usage of available server and storage resulting in accommodation of bigger data and more applications within same server space. It will cover all management related to various services like human resources, health and hospital, signal assets, freight and logistics and energy among others. Beside this, the first IT application on RailCloud “Nivaran-Grievance Portal” was also launched. Nivaran is a platform for resolution of service-related grievances of serving and former railway employees.

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In the equilateral triangle centroid, incentre, orthocentre, coincide at the same point.
∴ Height $latex \div$ 3 = in radius
∴ Height = Median = 3$latex \times$3 = 9 cm
Hence option [B] is the right answer.

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The required per cent = $latex \frac{10\times 100}{35} $= 28.6% (approx)

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The Egypt squash team has won the boy’s title at the 6th WSF-World junior squash team championship 2018 by defeating England by 2-0 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on July 29. Egypt’s Marwan Tarek, who lost the individual championship final, defeated Nick Wall of England in straight games. Czech Republic and USA finished third and secured the bronze medal. Host India finished 11th overall.

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All above given features are of Chennakeshava Temple, located at Belur in Karnataka.  Chennakeshava is a form of the Hindu god Vishnu.

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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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'Tulaipanji' and 'Gobindobhog' are varieties of aromatic rice. Recently, the Bengal Government applied in the Office of Geographical Indications, Chennai for GI certification of products.

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Recently, on 12 December 2017, two years after the historic Paris Climate Change Agreement was adopted, Heads of State, governments, civil society and the private sector met at Paris to drive forward climate action. The summit was named “One Planet Summit”. The One Planet Summit is designed to launch new initiatives that assist in ramping up financial flows to developing nations as they implement their climate action plans under the Agreement. The three aims of the One Planet Summit are:

• Take tangible and collective action
• Innovate
• Support one another

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Recently, Government has planned to organise an international bird festival in this Dudhwa tiger reserve. The bird festival is being organized jointly by the state forest department and Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). This region is home to 450 bird species, including the endangered Bengal florican and vulnerable bird species like swamp partridge, also called swamp francolin, sarus crane and herons.

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The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) is a world summit, aimed at preventing nuclear terrorism around the globe. The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS)-2016 was held at Washington, D.C. in United States.