29th July Daily Quiz ~ Key + Notes

• Telengana 

Telangana Government developed a Home Isolation Telemedicine and Monitoring (HITAM) app to advise, counsel and prescribe medicines through phone to the Covid-19 patients. 

•  Defence Acquisition Procedure 2020

Defence Ministry has published  second draft of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020, now renamed as the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020, was put out in public domain  for comments from stakeholders and public.

Government is expected to come out with a decision on 74% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in defence.

• COP26

The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, is the 26th UNCC conference. 

COP - Conference of Parties ( is the governing body of an international convention)

President of COP26- Alok Sharma

• 1994

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international environmental treaty was adopted on 9 May 1992 and entered into force on 21 March 1994.

• Glasgow

 COP26,  26th United Nations Climate Change conference, is scheduled to be held in Glasgow, Scotland from 1 to 12 November 2021 under the presidency of the UK Government.

• ￡240 million

Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF), established in 2018, is focused on identifying, investing and supporting growth in zero-carbon and low-carbon energy solutions.

 BP has invested $70 million  (£55mn) in the Green Growth Equity Fund (GGEF), which is  promoted by the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and the UK government

EverSource Capital is the fund manager of GGEF

• 1MDB

 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak

1MDB - 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), a government-run strategic development company

• 3 billion animals

Nearly 3 billion animals, including mammals, reptiles and birds, were either killed or displaced during Australia’s devastating bushfire season of 2019 and 2020, a new study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

• Access to COVID-19 Tools

In April 2020, a global collaboration of governments, global health organisations, civil society groups, businesses, and philanthropies came together to form the ACT-Accelerator

• vaccine pillar

The ACT-Accelerator is led by the work of partner organizations collaborating under four pillars

- diagnostics pillar, therapeutics pillar, vaccine pillar, health systems connector

 COVAX Facility ( collaboration of CEPI, GAVI &WHO) comes under vaccine pillar

• 2 billion

The current estimate to deliver 2 billion doses by the end of 2021, assuming a safe and effective vaccine is developed in the near future under COVAX Facility