03.07.20 Daily APPSC Current Affairs

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ANDHRA PRADESH
Illegal sand mining and aqua ponds
NGT constitutes Joint Committee on illegal sand mining and aqua ponds in East Godavari
The Committee has been directed to inspect the places and submit a factual and action-taken report if any violation is found
The Committee has been asked to inspect the illegal beach sand mining and aqua ponds along the coastline and the encroachment of the beach area for the aqua ponds, and assess the loss and damage caused due to the illegal sand mining.
It will also assess whether any contamination of groundwater was reported in the respective area.

 

International

Indra Mani Pandey to be India’s next ambassador to UN

  • Indra Mani Pandey, an IFS officer of 1990 batch and presently additional secretary in the MEA, will be the next ambassador/permanent representative of India to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva, including WHO and UN Human Rights Council
  • Pandey will lead India’s efforts to blunt Pakistan’s campaign to vilify India for alleged human rights abuses in J&K.

 

 

National

Former RBI Governor C. Rangarajan gets first Mahalanobis award

Former Reserve Bank of India Governor C. Rangarajan has been conferred the P.C. Mahalanobis Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his contribution to official statistics.

  • The Mahalanobis International Award is sponsored by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation of the Government of India.
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The award recognizes an individual for lifetime achievements in statistics in developing country or region.

 

Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020 launched

  • Union Minister for Human Resource Development Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, and,  Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Science and Technology  Harsh Vardhan today launched Drug Discovery Hackathon through online platform.
  • hackathon is first of its kind national initiative for supporting drug discovery process.
  • Hackathon will primarily focus on computational aspects of drug discovery and will have three Tracks. Track-1 will deal with computational modelling for drug design or identifying ‘lead’ compounds from existing databases that may have the potential to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 while Track-2 will encourage participants to develop new tools and algorithms using data analytics and AI/ML approach for predicting drug-like compounds with minimal toxicity and maximal specificity and selectivity. A third track, named Track 3 is a Moon-shot approach which will only deal with novel and out-of-the-box ideas in this field.

 

Work to begin shortly on Zojila tunnel

  • Work will begin shortly on the strategic Zojila tunnel for all-year connectivity between Kashmir and Ladakh regions.
  • The tunnel project, stalled for about six years, holds strategic significance as Zojila Pass is situated at an altitude of 11,578 feet on the Srinagar-Kargil-Leh National highway and remains closed during winters due to heavy snowfall, cutting off Ladakh region from Kashmir.
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