Chittaranjan Locomotive Works surpassed its own record by producing 431 locomotives, 2.15 times its installed capacity, in FY19. The factory with improved supply chain management has been consistently producing an average of 40 locomotives since July 19.
Chittaranjan Locomotive Factory-located in Asansol, West Bengal.
The App, called ‘AarogyaSetu’ joins Digital India for the health and well-being of every Indian. The App will enable people to assess themselves the risk for their catching the Coronavirus infection. The app is available in 11 languages.
The app has been developed by MeitY in just four days.
The new features of National Agriculture Market will strengthen agriculture marketing by farmers and will reduce the need to come to wholesale mandis for selling the produce. It was launched in 2016 as a pan-India electronic trade portal linking APMC.
It provides for contactless remote bidding &mobile-based payment
Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology has tied up with Wipro 3D to build a prototype of an emergency ventilator system based on Artificial Manual Breathing Unit (AMBU), developed by SCTIMST.
SCTIMST is located in Trivandrum, Kerala.
Defence Research and Development Organisation has developed a bio-suit to keep the medical, paramedical personnel engaged in combating COVID-19 safe. The current production capacity is 7,000 suits/day. Efforts are on to ramp up to 15,000 suits/day.
DRDO Chairman – G. Satheesh Reddy; Headquarters – New Delhi
Justice Rajnesh Oswal was sworn in as a permanent Judge of the High Court of J&K and Ladakh. He is the first Judge of the High Court to take oath under the Indian Constitution. All previous Judges had taken oath under the constitution of J&K.
Article 217(1) allows president to appoint judges of High Court.
According to Asian Development Bank, India's economic growth is likely to slow down to 4% for FY21. Also, growth in India will remain subdued after the country suffered a sharp slowdown last year, from 6.1% in fiscal 2019 to 5%.
Asian Development Bank has 68 member countries.
Rating agency Moody’s revised the outlook for the Indian banking system to negative from stable, citing disruptions in economic activity caused by the COVID-19 outbreak and an ensuing decline in asset quality.
Chairman of Indian Banks Association: Rajnish Kumar.
IRDAI has clarified that the standard health insurance plan Arogya Sanjeevani will also cover the hospitalisation treatment costs. It has issued clearance to 29 general and health Insurance companies to market it.
Policy coverage between ₹1 L & ₹5 L.
Age Group: 18 – 65.
Nasa has selected a new mission, Called the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) to study how space weather forms on the sun and launches radiation storms into space. It consists of 6 small CubeSats to provide 3D maps of solar activity.
It could protect astronauts on Moon or Mars exploration missions
Founder MD & CEO of Paytm Money Pravin Jadhav resigned from his post due to growing differences with the company board. Paytm Money is part of Paytm parent One97 Communications’ alongside Paytm, Paytm Mall & Paytm Payments Bank.
Paytm money received approval for stockbroking business.
The 2021 world athletics championships in Eugene, Oregon to be shifted to 2022 to accommodate the re-arranged Tokyo Olympics. It was scheduled to take place on August 6-15, 2021.
World Athletics President: Sebastian Coe
Headquarters: Monaco
Nirmal Singh Khalsa, a noted singer of Sikh 'Gurbani' hymns, died of the novel coronavirus in Amritsar. He was the former Hazoori Raagi at the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
Nirmal Singh Khalsa received the Padma Shri in 2009.
Tony Lewis, one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited-overs cricket matches passed away. He, alongside fellow mathematician Frank Duckworth, devised the Duckworth-Lewis method and was adopted by ICC.
He belongs to England.