Monday, August 3, 2020

03 August 2020 Daily Quiz Key + Notes

1. Launch America

Launch America is a public–private partnership between NASA  and multiple space companies, for the Commercial Crew Development program.

The first space launch under the Launch America was on May 30,2020 by SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 space mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.


2. IIT Kanpur

Haryana forest department officials said drone for aerial seeding to increase green cover in Aravallis. 

The seed pallets were showered by 'seeding drone' designed by a by IIT-Kanpur backed startup.

3. Great Eastern Shipping Company

Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd’s board has appointed former RBI Governor Urjit Patel as an additional & independent director for a term of 5 years.

Urjit Patel served as the 24th governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 2016 to 2018.

4. MobiKwik

mpay.me - a UPI payment link service to send and receive money from any UPI payment app
users and merchants can set up a single link using their mobile number to start receiving money.

5. Israel

India-Israel joint cooperation started trial for rapid testing, to find if the result in less than 30 seconds is successful.

Trials started three days ago at a special testing site at Dr Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital.

developed jointly in cooperation with DRDD Ministry of Defence Israel and DRDO, CSIR and PSA, India, while being coordinated by respective Foreign Affairs Ministries.

Ron Malka, Ambassador of Israel to India


6. Open Defecation free

Swachh Bharat Mission (Rural) has moved towards its second phase which is also called ODF-Plus, and will continue till 2024-25. 

 Launch of Swachh Bharat Mission was on 2nd October 2014.

7. CREDAI 

The CREDAI (Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India) Awaas App is a residential project discovery online platform that will help buyers to virtually explore RERA approved projects by CREDAI,  from 220 cities in India.

8. HousingforAll.com

The NAREDCO (National Real Estate Development Council) web portal 'HousingForAll.Com' will help buyers to access the best priced inventory of builders and will display only RERA approved projects.

RERA -  Real Estate Regulatory Authority under Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016.

9. Narendra Singh Tomar

 released a booklet on “Best Practices in Digital India Land Records Modernization Programme (DILRMP)” of Department of Land Resources (DoLR)

Under the DILRMP, computerization of registration of land, cadastral maps and land records have been completed in more than 90 %of the states, Union Rural Development Ministry Announced.

10. 28

Under the PMGSY-2 scheme, 28 road projects will be constructed in Jammu and Kashmir costing nearly Rs.175 crore.

Dr. Jitendra Singh laid foundation stone virtually through video conferencing. 

11. August 3,2020

World Sanskrit Day, also known as “Viswa Samskrita Dinam”, promotes the revival of ancient Indian language Sanskrit.

According to the Hindu calendar, it is celebrated on the poornima (full moon) of the ‘Shravana‘ month. In 2020, it was celebrated on August 3.


12. eSamadhan

The prestigious and highest Digital India Platinum Award at the 66th Skoch Summit, was for West Bengal was for eSamadhan which is the CMO Public Grievance System. 

13. PayTM Money

PayTM CEO - Vijay Shekhar Sharma
PayTM Money CEO- Varun Sridhar
MobiKwik CEO -Bipin Preet Singh
Swiggy CEO- Sriharsha Majety
Zomato CEO -Deepinder Goyal
PhonePe - Sameer Nigam

14. Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC)

Khadi Agarbatti Aatmanirbhar Mission (KAAM) - Union Minister for MSME Nitin Gadkari has approved a unique employment generation program proposed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission

15. Rajasthan 

SMILE (Social Media Interface for Learning Engagement)

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