06 Aug 2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

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Last Day Important Questions with Ans:- 
Que 1- Book Swachh Bharat Kranti is a Hindi version of ...The swachh Bharat revolution
Que 2- Global methane budget released by Global carbon project

Que 3- As per Global methane budget, Methane is increased in 2017  ..9 % .higher than 2000-06.

Que 4- Power to punish contempt of Court by Supreme court lies in article ..129

Que 5- Power to punish contempt of Court by High Court lies in article ..215

Que 6- Head Quarter Of International Solar Alliance...Gurugram 

Que 7- NBWL is a ...Statutory body .. under wildlife protection Act 1972 .

Que 8- National Board of Wild Life is chaired by...PM 

Que 9- Standing committee of NBWL is chaired by..Union minister of Environment forest and climate change

Que 10- Sir Creek line make boundary of two nations..India  and ..Pakistan
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06 Aug  2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

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Current affairs Today:-
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1. Hiroshima Day- 6 August

It was the day when in 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped in city of Hiroshima Japan.

First time use of nuclear weapon

Bomb wiped out around 90% of the city and around 80,000 people killed.

Name of bomb Little boy
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2. Beirut Lebanon explosion

The blast killed at least 100 people and injured more than 4000 others.

Whole city shaken and mushroom cloud could be seen.

Caused by 2750 tonns of ammonium nitrate stored and safely in a warehouse.

Ammonium nitrate:-

  1. Mainly used as fertilizer in agriculture.
  2. Explosive used in mining
  3. Not explode on it own, ignites only under the right circumstances.
  4. When explode toxic gases nitrogen oxide and ammonium gase releases.
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3. Sugarcane production policies and impact.

India is second largest producer and consumer of sugarcane.

New policies including minimum support price, guaranteed sale ,public distribution of sugar and production of ethanol used in blending of petrol.

These steps  incentives sugar production.

Effect- as sugar is cash crop it takes place of food crops, in future it would affect food crops.

Sugarcane required more water for the lead depletion of water.
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4. Eradication modern slavery report

Report published by Commonwealth human right  initiative

To and modern slavery by 2030 and achieve the sustainable development goal 8.7 of forced labour human trafficking and child labour.

One third Commonwealth countries has criminalized force marriage, 23 headnote criminalize commercial sexual exploitation of children.

1 in every 150 people in Commonwealth is living in condition of modern slavery.

None Asian countries in the group has implemented low against forced labour in supply chain.

India accounted for one third of all child bride in the world. No National coordination body  or plan

Commonwealth human Rights initiative- an independent body non-profit International non government organisation work towards human right in the countries of Commonwealth.
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5. Opening up of city gas distribution  (CGD) 

Petroleum and natural gas regulatory board proposed that cgd companies would have to provide their infrastructure essays to third parties companies

At present Indraprastha Gas Limited in Delhi and Mahanagar Gas Limited in Mumbai are working

Tariff  would be set by player but regulated by PNGRB

Lower price of CNG

Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) (Hindi : à¤ªेट्रोलियम और प्राकृतिक गैस नियामक बोर्ड ) is a statutory body in India, constituted under the act of Parliament of India, namely Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board Act, 2006.
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6. SpaceX which NASA Crew is back home

Came back in capsule in gulf of Mexico

Previously no private company has accomplished in bringing astronaut from space first private company

First To send humans in orbit also.

Founded in 2002 by Elon Musk with goal to reduce space transportation cost and enable the colonization of Mars.
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7. Covid-19 Bio repositories - Five

For clinical and viral samples linked to coronavirus disease

Department of biotechnology has supported

  • NCR biotech science and technology institute Faridabad
  • Institute of liver and biliary science New Delhi
  • National centre for cell science Pune
  • Institute of Life science Bhubaneswar
  • Instem Bangalore

To judiciously use these simple to promote research and development

to promote Indian academy industry and commercial entities for developing novel solution for covid-19.
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Most Important Questions:- 

Que 1- First atom bomb dropped on which city.....

Que 2- Name of first atom bomb dropped on Japan.....

Que 3- Beirut Lebanon explosion caused by .....

Que 4- India's number in sugarcane production.....

Que 5- Eradication modern slavery report published by .....

Que 6-  Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) is a ........body

Que 7- First Private company who sent astronaut in space........

Que 8-  Covid-19 Bio repositories established with support of ......

Que 9- Which organisation has collaborated with SIDBI to launch the MSME Saksham portal.......

Que 10- Vaartavali weekly sanskrit program started by.......
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06 Aug  2020 Current Affairs for UPSC PDF

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