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Daily Current Affairs 23 October 2020 With Video Lecture

What is Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center?  The NITI Aayog and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced the establishment of a Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), the first of...

What is Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center?

  •  The NITI Aayog and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have announced the establishment of a Frontier Technologies Cloud Innovation Center (CIC), the first of its kind in India.
  • CIC is part of the AWS CIC Global Program
  • CIC will enable government stakeholders, start-ups, and local organizations in India to innovate and create new approaches to solving problems
  • Mission: To identify and deploy leading-edge technologies to drive continuous innovation in delivering citizen services.
  • The center will identify and prioritize projects as well as collaborate with local leaders, including subject matter experts at the state and district levels, to solve critical challenges.
  • Local enterprises, start-ups, researchers, and universities in India can experiment and build prototypes on AWS Cloud.
  • With AWS Cloud, public sector organizations get the power of the broadest and deepest cloud services to accelerate their missions.

Aditi Urja Sanch

  • The Union Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences recently inaugurated the Dimethyl ether (DME) fired “Aditi Urja Sanch” unit along with the DME-LPG blended fuel cylinders.
  • It is a newly designed Burner.
  • Dimethyl ether (DME) is an ultra-clean fuel.
  • CSIR-NCL has developed nation’s first kind of DME pilot plant with 20-24Kg/day capacity.
  • Need: The conventional LPG burner is not suitable for DME combustion as DME density is different than LPG.
  • Salient features of newly designed Burner are:
  • The new design is efficient for both DME and the blend of DME and LPG.
  • Novel design and flexible air ingress.
  • The new nozzle design allows optimum oxygen ingress for combustion
  • The angles at which nozzles are placed maximize the heat transfer area across the utensils.
  • Optimum flame velocity can be obtained.
  • The length of the flame (high, low, and medium) can be adjusted by altering the oxygen ingress.
  • The experiment shows that it increases the heat transfer rate as well.

PM Modi to inaugurate three key projects in Gujarat

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate three key projects in Gujarat
  • He will also launch the Kisan Suryodaya Yojana for the farmers of Gujarat.
  • He will inaugurate the Paediatric Heart Hospital attached with UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre and a Mobile Application for tele-cardiology at the Ahmedabad Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad.
  • Mr Modi will also inaugurate the Ropeway at Girnar on the occasion.

e-Dharti Geo portal

  • The Union minister of Housing and Urban affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri launched the e-Dharti Geo Portal.
  • The portal will integrate map and lease plans in the Management Information System.
  • It will make the system Geographic Information System enabled; GIS enabled.
  • Aim: To provide Property Certificate by Land & Development Office (L&DO) through e-Dharti Geo Portal.
  • The certificate includes property details; viz. land type, property type, date of allotment, property status, sub-type, etc.
  • The Property Certificate will be available on nominal fee of ₹1,000/- and can be accessed by public by visiting website.
  • Through the Certificate, the lessee of the property will be able to get the basic details of his/her property along with map showing its location.

COVIRAP

  • The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has validated the efficacy of COVIRAP for the detection of COVID-19.
  • It is a diagnostic machine for COVID-19 detection.
  • Developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
  • This COVID-19 diagnostic testing method has been designed to be fairly easy to conduct and affordable as well and can produce results within one hour.
  • ICMR has successfully validated ‘COVIRAP’ for its efficacy in COVID-19 detection.

Current COVID19 Situation in India

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QUIZ TIME

Aditi Urja Sanch is an initiative of:

  1. Ministry of Tribal Affairs
  2. Ministry of Health
  3. NITI Ayog
  4. Ministry of science and technology

Answer – D

Which of the following is not a component of e-Dharti Geo portal?

  1. It comes under Housing and Urban affairs
  2. Provide Property Certificate
  3. It is to provide loans to farmers
  4. None of the above

Answer – C

COVIRAP is developed by:

  1. IIT Delhi
  2. IIT Kharagpur
  3. CSIR
  4. Ministry of Health

Answer – B

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