Current Affairs Quiz-September, 2020

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The Delhi Government’s Women and Child Development Ministry is set to re-start vaccination and immunization of children from September 2020.
The programme was halted due to the nationwide COVID 19 lock-down. It will be implemented through 10,000 Anganwadi centres in Delhi with the help of ASHA and Anganwadi Workers.

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According to State Bank of India’s research report, ‘Ecowrap’, the real GDP of India for FY21 will contract by 10.9%.
The report had earlier estimated that the growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) at (-) 6.8% for the current fiscal year. It also highlighted that all the four quarters of FY21 will showcase only negative real GDP growth.

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Indian ace Tennis player Sumit Nagal became the first Indian to win a Grand Slam singles main draw match in seven years.
The 23-year old entered the second round of the ongoing US Open tournament. He defeated Bradley Klahn of the United States in the men’s singles first round. Prior to this achievement, Somdev Devvarman had reached the second round of the Australian Open, French Open, and US Open.

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According to an annual report released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), around 1.39 lakh people died by suicide and 4.21 lakh people were killed in accidents in India last year.
The report also noted that traffic accidents were the single biggest contributor to accidental deaths which amounted to 43% of all fatalities.

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The Government of India has blocked 118 Mobile Apps which are considered to be prejudicial to Sovereignty and Integrity of the nation and the Defence security of the country.
The move has been made by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology by using the powers vested under Section 69A of Information Technology (IT) Act. This includes apps like PUBG and Wechat.

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The Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Shakti has launched the ‘Water Heroes – Share Your Stories’ Contest.
The contest is launched from September 1 and it aims to create awareness about the importance of water conservation. Under the contest, entries will be invited every month which is a video explaining the participant’s success story. Selected entries will be awarded Rs. 10,000 each.

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The United States Department of Defense released its 2020 annual report to the US Congress, on Chinese military power.
As per the DoD report, China has the largest navy in the world, with a battle force of around 350 ships and submarines including over 130 major surface combatants. Whereas, the U.S. Navy’s battle force is approximately 293 ships.

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Vinod Kumar Yadav has been appointed as the first chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Railway board. The appointment has been cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC).
Vinod Kumar Yadav is currently the chairman of the Railway Board. In December 2019 the Union Cabinet had cleared a proposal for restructuring of the Railway board with a CEO and 4 members.

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The Union Cabinet, headed by the Prime Minister has approved a bill which gives official language status to Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir.
These languages are apart from the existing official languages Urdu and English. Jammu and Kashmir Official Languages Bill, 2020 would be introduced in the Monsoon session of the Parliament to legislate this bill.

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IIT Tirupati (IITT) in collaboration with Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati, have developed a new technology named the ‘Hybrid sterilization system’.
It can decontaminate the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that are used by the Health workers to contain the spread of COVID 19. This Portable Optical Cavity Sterilization Unit (POSCU) sterilises the PPEs and other items which can be reused.