31 July 2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

31 July 2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF


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Last Day Important que with Ans:-

Que 1-  Main Focus of World day against trafficking in Person 2020....First Responders 

Que 2- Under NDP 2020, National Curricular and Pedagogical Framework for Early Childhood Care and Education (NCPEFCCE) for children upto age of...08 Year.. will be developed by .....NCERT

Que 3-  Under NDP 2020, National professional standard for teachers will be established by year..2022

Que 4- 3 wind projects with 800 megawatt capacity recently dedicated to nation, location of projects....01 at Tuticorin TN, 02 at Bhuj Gujrat

Que 5-  .ADB .. Bank support $3 Million to India to fight with Covid 19.


Que 6- Central to convert ravines of chambal region into arable land with .....World Bank

Que 7- First Hurricane in Atlantic Ocean in 2020....Hana

Que 8- India received first lot of Rafale fighter jets from ...France. all fighter jets landed in India at ....Ambala..Air Force Station.

Que 9- Recently Turkey Govt convert ..Hagia Shopia .museum to mosque.

Que 10- Pangong Tso lake located at...Chushul Valley Ladhak
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31 July 2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

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Current Affairs Today:-
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1. Atal Innovation Mission launches 'AIM-iCREST',  in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation

 A Robust Ecosystem focused on creating high performing Startups

Lend credible support and expertise in the entrepreneurship and innovation space

current pandemic crisis, the effort will focus on supporting start-up entrepreneurs in knowledge creation and
dissemination as well as in developing robust and active networks. 


A business incubator is a company that helps new and startup companies to develop by providing services such as management training or office space
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2.  Central Consumer Protection Authority established to promote, protect and enforce the rights of consumers; will function from Indian Institute of Public Administration premises

The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 has come into force from 20th July, 2020

As provided in section 10 of the Act, the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has been established w.e.f. 24th July, 2020.

Smt. Nidhi Khare has been assigned the charge of Chief Commissioner.

 Objective - promote, protect and enforce the rights of consumers as a class


Empowered to conduct investigations into violation of consumer rights and institute complaints / prosecution, order recall of unsafe goods and services, order discontinuation of unfair trade practices and misleading advertisements, impose penalties on manufacturers/endorsers/publishers of misleading advertisements.
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3. CCI approves proposed acquisition of 49% of the total equity share capital of Odisha Power Generation Corporation Limited (OPGC) by Adani Power Limited (APL)


Competition Commission of India-Competition Commission of India is a statutory body of the Government of India responsible for enforcing The Competition Act, 2002 throughout India and to prevent activities that have an appreciable adverse effect on competition in India. It was established on 14 October 2003.
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4.  NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover launch

Perseverance will carry a unique instrument, MOXIE or Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment(ISRU means In Situ Resource Utilization)

Perseverance will carry Ingenuity, the first ever helicopter to fly on Mars. This is the first time NASA will fly a helicopter on another planet or satellite.

Perseverance is the planned first step to bring back rock samples from Mars for analysis in sophisticated laboratories on Earth

Mighty Atlas V rocket used.
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5.  The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020)

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship report jointly prepared by:
  1. Food and Agriculture Organization.
  2. International Fund for Agricultural Development.
  3. United Nations Children’s Fund.
  4. World Food Programme.
  5. World Health Organization.
report estimates that 18% of South Asians (numbering 586 million people) cannot afford the nutrient-adequate diet and 58% of South Asians (1,337 million people) cannot afford the healthy diet.

Hundreds of millions of people in India above the international poverty line of $1.90 purchasing power parity (PPP) per person per day cannot afford a healthy or nutritious diet.

Redefine poverty line: The Indian poverty line of 2011-12, as defined by the Tendulkar Committee, amounted to ₹33 per day in urban areas and ₹27 per day in rural areas

Affordability: If we want to reduce malnutrition and food insecurity, we have to address the problem of affordability of healthy diets.
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Important Questions:- 
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Que 1-   
Atal Innovation Mission launches ..................  in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation.

Que 2-  section 10 of the  of  The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 envisaged ......

Que 3-  Objective the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 .....

Que 4-  49% of the total equity share capital of Odisha Power Generation Corporation Limited (OPGC)  proposed acquisition by .....

Que 5-  Competition Commission of India is a ........... body.

Que 6- NASA's Perseverance  mission for......

Que 7- first ever helicopter to fly on Mars, sent by NASA.......

Que 8- Name of rocket used Perseverance  mission of NASA ....

Que 9- The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) report published by ....

Que 10- First Chief Commissioner of Central Consumer Protection Authority .......

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31 July 2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

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