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08-05-2020 Current affairs & Daily News Analysis

Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have launched the GARUD portal (https://garud.civilaviation.gov.in) for providing fast track conditional exemptions to government agencies for COVID-19 related drone operations

About: GARUD is an acronym for ‘Government Authorisation for Relief Using Drones’. The step has been taken to aid government entities in addressing the challenges posed by COVID-19 and will remain in force until further orders. The rules and regulations related to operation of Drones/Remotely Piloted Aircraft ("RPA") are covered under Rule 15A of Aircraft Rules, 1937 and Civil Aviation Requirements ("CAR") Section 3 Series X Part I dated 27.8.2018 issued by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Source : All India Radio (Science & Technology) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy ‘Vesak’, the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is being observed by United Nations on May 7, 2020

About: Vesak is the most sacred day for Buddhists around the world. Other names: It is also known as Buddha Purnimaand Buddha Day. Significance: The day commemorates birth, enlightenment and Death (or Parinirvana) of Lord Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, all of which is said to take have taken place on the same day. Date of observance: Vesak, falls on the full moon day (Purnima) of the month Vaishakha (May), hence the occasion is referred to as Buddha Purnima in India. Recognition by United Nations (UN): The General Assembly, by its resolution in 1999, recognized internationally the Day of Vesak. It was done to acknowledge the contribution that Buddhism made to humanity. Source : United Nations (Culture) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy The Iranian Parliament authorised the replacement of the national currency, the rial with another basic unit of currency called the toman

About: The plan is set to effectively cut four zeros from its currency, making each toman worth 10,000 rials under the new system. The Guardian Council, a body of conservative clerics that supervises Parliament, is expected to ratify the law, and then the Central Bank will have two years to implement the change — removing rials from circulation and issuing tomans instead. Iran’s move is to offset the fallout from inflation fueled by U.S. sanctions. Source : The Hindu (International Relations) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy IIT Bombay Professor Saurabh Lodha has received the Young Career Award in Nano Science & Technology for the year 2020 for Advanced Transistor Technologies

About: The award has been instituted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. This award recognises his pioneering contributions in the development of logic transistor technologies beyond silicon and nanoelectronic devices based on two-dimensional Van der Waals materials. The ultra-thin (less than a nm thick) nature of these Van der Waals materials, analogous to graphene, bestows them with extraordinary optical and electronic properties along with high mechanical flexibility. Source : Indian Express (Science & Technology) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy China has successfully launched Long March 5B rocket, a new rocket and prototype spacecraft, in a major test of its ambitions to operate a permanent space station and send astronauts to the Moon

About: A Long March 5B rocket took off from the Wenchang launch site on the southern island of Hainan and eight minutes later an unmanned prototype spacecraft successfully separated and entered its planned orbit. China hopes that the craft will one day transport astronauts to a space station that it plans to complete by 2022 – and eventually to the Moon. It will have capacity for a crew of six. China plans to send an astronaut to the Moon in about a decade and then build a base there. The United States is so far the only country to have sent humans to the Moon. But in its effort to catch up, China has sent astronauts into space, satellites into orbit and a rover to the far side of the Moon in 2019. Source : The Hindu (Science & Technology) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Indian Navy has launched Operation Samudra Setu - meaning Sea Bridge, as a part of national effort to repatriate Indian citizens from overseas amid coronavirus pandemic About: Indian Naval Ships Jalashwa and Magar are presently enroute to Malè in Maldives to commence evacuation operations as part of Phase-1. A total of one thousand persons are planned to be evacuated during the first trip. The evacuated personnel will be disembarked at Kochi in Kerala and entrusted to the care of State authorities. This operation is being progressed in close coordination with Ministries of Defence, External Affairs, Home Affairs, Health and various other agencies of the Government of India and State governments. Source : All India Radio (International Relations) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy The latest report by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and Nielsen showed rural India had 227 million active internet users, 10% more than urban India’s about 205 million, as of November 2019

About: In addition, there are around 71 million kids, aged 5-11 years, who go online using devices of family members. With this, India surpassed another milestone of having 504 million active internet users who are 5 years old or above — 53 million more than 451 million in March 2019. With 504 million active internet users who are 5 years old or above , India has become the second-largest internet user market behind China, which has about 850 million users. The United States has about 280-300 million users. India remains behind both countries in internet penetration, which stands at 40% compared to over 88% for the US and 61% for China. Important Info : Active internet users are defined as those who use the internet at least once a month. Source : Times of India (Science & Technology) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Researchers in France have put forward a hypothesis that the presence of nicotine actually equips the body to fight COVID-19. And they are conducting trials to test the hypothesis About: At the centre of the nicotine hypothesis is a receptor that responds to nicotine as well as a chemical called acetylcholine. Hence its name: “nicotinic acetylcholine receptor”, abbreviated as nAChR. nAChR is found in parts of the nervous system, muscle and certain tissues of organisms including humans. Nicotine is known to bind with the nAChR receptor. According to the hypothesis, If nicotine is present on the receptor, and the novel coronavirus arrives, then the nicotine would block the interaction. Important Info : Receptors? Receptors are structures composed of protein, and they receive signals that may be integrated into the body. These signals can come from various substances, such as a hormone, a drug, or an antigen.For example, the surface of the human cell has receptors called ACE2, which open the door for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV2 to enter the body. Source : Indian Express (Health) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy The External Affairs Ministry of India issued a “strong protest” over an order by the Pakistan Supreme Court allowing the Pakistan’s Government to hold elections in the region of Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)

About: Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) was formerly known as the Northern Areas. It is an integral part of the Indian Union Territory of Ladakh but is currently under Pakistani occupation. Gilgit Baltistan has been under the control of Pakistan since April 1949, when the leadership of the so-called Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) was forced to sign away this territory to Pakistan. However, the region does not have any place in the constitutional framework of Pakistan and has been kept under the tight control of the central government. The region functioned as a “provincial autonomous region” since 2009. Gilgit-Baltistan shares a border with Azad Kashmir, together with which it is referred to by the United Nations as "Pakistan administered Kashmir". Pakistan in recent months had taken a series of steps to ensure full constitutional and legal guarantees to the region which was strategically important for the country especially in view of the passage of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) through the region. Source : Indian Express (International Relations) Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from IAS Study Circle in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Read UPSC Current affairs and Daily News Analysis from Top IAS Academy in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Daily Current affairs and News Analysis Best IAS Coaching institutes in Bangalore Vignan IAS Academy Contact Vignan IAS Academy Enroll For IAS Foundation Course from Best IFS Academy in Bangalore Read the full article

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