Current Affairs (October 2020) Flashcards
Winners of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
Harvey J. Alter (America)
Charles M. Rice (America)
Michael Houghton (Britain)
- for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus
Winners of Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Roger Penrose
- for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez
- for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.
Winners of Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
- for the development of a method for genome editing
Winners of Nobel Prize in Literature 2020
Louise Glück
- for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal
Winner of Nobel Peace Prize for 2020
World Food Programme
Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2020
Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson
- for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats
Ex-Officio Chairman of Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
Governor of RBI - Shaktikanta Das
New economists as RBI’s MPC members
Ashima Goyal, Jayanth R Varma & Shashanka Bhide
Indian Air Force Day
8th Oct
When was the IAF founded?
8th October, 1932
World’s longest highway tunnel above 10,000 feet from MSL
Atal Tunnel
- previously called Rohtang Tunnel
- built by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO)
- 9.02 km
Names of Russia’s first and second COVID vaccines.
Sputnik V & EpiVacCorona
Winner of Men’s 2020 French Open Title
Rafael Nadal
Youngest woman to win French Open Tennis 2020
Iga Swiatek
International Year of Pulses
2016
International Year of Millets
2023
India’s first indigenous surface-to-surface strategic missile, developed by DRDO.
Prithvi-2
Winner of the Visvesvaraya award
Japan
- recognises the countries with a maximum floating solar capacity in each of the four regions of ISA.
Winner of Kalpana Chawla awards
Bhim Singh & Aaesha Alnuaimi
- recognise the outstanding contribution of scientists and engineers working in the field of solar energy.
Winner of Diwakar award
Arpan Institute & Arushi Society
- recognises organisations working for the benefit of differently-abled people and by maximising the use of solar energy in the host country.
India ranked ___ in Global Hunger Index 2020
94th
Narendra Singh Tomar launched this scheme to assist cooperatives to play an important role in the creation of healthcare infrastructure in the country.
Ayushman Sahakar scheme
India’s biggest hospital for cardiology
Paediatric Heart Hospital in Ahmedabad
- inaugurated at U.N Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre at Civil Hospital campus
World’s longest temple ropeway project
Girnar hill ropeway at Junagadh
- 2,320 metres long ropeway with a capacity of carrying 1,000 passengers every hour