Current affairs hints for the aspirants
Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) has come up with a new wheat range known as PBW RS1, which includes excessive tiers of amylose starch. RS stands resistant starch.
This new wheat will assist alter blood sugar and weight problems and to minimize the danger of type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
The notably risky Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus is increasing its attain in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, prompting issues over its viable have an effect on in the context of local weather change.
World Health Organization (WHO) has listed CCHF amongst its 9 precedence diseases. The listing consists of the ailments which the organization thinks are the largest threats to public health.
During the third Culture Working Group Meeting of G20 held in Hampi, the Ministry of Culture’s Culture Working Group completed a Guinness World Record for organizing the greatest show of Lambani items.
In line with their ‘Culture Unites All’ campaign, a unique exhibition showcasing Lambani embroidery patches used to be formally opened at the Yeduru Basavanna complicated in Hampi. The inauguration ceremony used to be attended through Prahlad Joshi, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs & Coal and Mines.
India’s drug regulatory authority has planned to issue a warning about the potential risks associated with Pholcodine-containing cough and cold remedies due to concerns of life-threatening allergic reactions.
Pholcodine, an opioid cough suppressant found in certain cough medications, has sedative effects and is used to alleviate dry coughs.
14th July is celebrated as the Fête Nationale Française, or the National Day in France. It is additionally recognised as the Bastille Day.
For this year’s celebrations, the Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi has been invited as the Guest of Honour at the Bastille Day Parade in France.
The Reserve Bank currently constituted a working team on to speed up the tempo of internationalisation of the rupee, which is headed by way of RBI Executive Director Radha Shyam Ratho.
The working team has submitted its record and has endorsed more than a few measures, such as inclusion of the rupee in the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket and recalibration of the overseas portfolio investor (FPI) regime etc.
