Rajasthan Current Affairs Daily-16 July 2020 (English)

Which institution has manufactured the world's cheapest Kovid-19 diagnostic kit Corrosure-

IIT Mumbai
IIT Kharakpur
IIT Madras
IIT Delhi

The world's cheapest Kovid-19 diagnostic kit based on RT-PCR developed by IIT Delhi in New Delhi has been launched digitally, which has been approved by ICMR and DCGI.
This affordable detection kit will help the country in the midst of the current crisis.
IIT Delhi has become the first academic institution to receive ICMR approval for real-time PCR-based clinical trials. It is also the first test-free test for the ICMR-approved Kovid-19.
IIT Delhi has granted license to 10 companies to manufacture Kovid-19 diagnostic kits using technology developed by its researchers.
With this kit, the cost of RT-PCR testing for Kovid-19 will decrease significantly.

The Defense Procurement Council has approved the purchase of powers up to Rs.

100 crores
200 million
300 million
500 crores

The Ministry of Defense gave authority to the three armies that they would be able to buy weapons worth Rs 300 crore at their level.
The Ministry of Defense has given this authority to the Army under the Individual Capital Procurement Program.
The decision was taken in the Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) meeting of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh.
The judgment said that the purchase deadline has been fixed. Orders will be placed within six months and delivery will begin within a year.
The Defense Acquisition Council is the apex decision-making body in the Ministry of Defense to decide on new policies and capital acquisitions for the three services (Army, Navy and Air Force) and the Indian Coast Guard. The Minister of Defense is the Chairman of the Council.
In 2001, it was formed following the recommendations of the Group of Ministers on 'National Security System Reform' after the Kargil War (1999).

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa has been made the vice-president of which one of the following institutions-

world Bank
IMF
Asian Development Bank
New Development Bank

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday appointed Deputy Commissioner of Election Ashok Lavasa. Lavasa is a 1980 batch retired IAS officer.
Ashok Lavasa will replace Diwakar Gupta, whose tenure ends on 31 August this year.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Ashok Lavasa as the Vice President in the Bank for Private Sector Operations and Public Private Partnerships.
Ashok Lavasa took charge as Election Commissioner of India on 23 January 2018. He is a 1980 batch retired IAS officer of Haryana cadre.
Prior to his appointment as Election Commissioner, Lavasa retired as Union Finance Secretary. Prior to this, he was the Union Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Where is the 2022 FIFA World Cup proposed?

France
Italy
Iraq
Queue

FIFA, the global body of football, released the schedule of the 2022 World Cup which will be played in November and December.
The first Football World Cup to be held in West Asia will begin with host Qatar which will be played at 1 pm on 21 November at Al Bayt Stadium with a capacity of 60 thousand spectators.
The final will be held on December 18 from 6 pm at the Lussell Stadium with a capacity of 80 thousand spectators.
This will be the first World Cup to be held in Arabia and the first in a Muslim-majority country.
This will be the second World Cup held in Asia, following the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan.
In addition, the tournament will be the last to include 32 teams, with an increase of 48 teams scheduled for the 2026 tournament in the United States, Mexico and Canada.
The current World Cup champions are France.

Which one of the following countries is sending a mission to Mars in July 2020?

America
China
United Arab Emirates
All of the above

In July 2020, not one, but three missions will be launched from Earth towards the Red Planet.
The United States, China and the United Arab Emirates, the UAE, are set to launch their respective missions - Mars in the second half of July. UAE's Mission Hope is the first attempt by any Arab country to go to another planet.
The UAE, known for its luxurious Standard of Living, is set to launch its Orbiter Hope from the Tanigashima Space Center in Kagoshima, Japan.
Its goal is also to create the first global weather map of Mars.
This mission is special because earlier orbiters used to visit Mars in such a way that they were able to monitor every part of it within a limited time of the day.
Apart from this, the Orbit of Hope is oval, which will take 55 hours for this rover to complete.

On July 30, NASA will launch its Mars Rover 2020 mission from Cape Canaveral. In this mission, a six-wheeled rover is being sent. The car's rover is named Perseverance. It will collect stone samples that will be brought back to Earth for analysis in about a decade.
The landing of the Perverence is planned to be done in the Ancient River Delta and the Lake. It is known as Jeziro Crater which is full of boulders, rocks, sand dunes.
America is the only country to have successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars. He has done this 8 times, starting with the Twin Vikings in 1976. NASA's two lander Insight and Curiosity are still operational there. Six other spacecraft are exploring the planet from Orbit. Three of them are American, two European and one from India.

China will launch its mission of rover and orbiter sometime around 23 July.
The name of the mission is Tianwen. China's rover is smaller than that of America's rover and the place where it will be land will also be slightly flat.
Like the American spacecraft, this spacecraft will have to cross the murky sky of Mars. This will be the most risky part of this mission. It will take about seven minutes.
Here seven minutes will decide whether the mission was successful or not.
Like the American rover, the Chinese rover, with the help of its radar, will try to find out if there is any water inside the ground.
In 2011 China sent its mission with Russia which had failed.

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