Important Day
International
- Under the Government to Government (G2G) provision, the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) will export around one lakh ton of wheat to Lebanon and - Afghanistan.
Persons in News
- Reappointed MD and CEO of Karnataka Bank for next three years - Mahabaleshwara M S.
State Current Affairs
- New State Election Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh - Justice V Kanagaraj.
- This state government has launched 'Chief Minister Folk Artist Encouragement Scheme' under which such artists can shoot videos of their performances and get a chance to win cash prize - Rajasthan.
Science
- A team at this institution has developed a "digital stethoscope" that can listen to heart beats from a distance and record them - Indian Institute of Technology of Bombay (IIT-B).
- This institution has obtained a go-ahead for “convalescent-plasma therapy” that aims at using the immune power gained by a recovered person to treat a sick person - Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Kerala.
- This organisation has developed “CHARAK” a ‘mobile doctor booth’ - Indian Railways.
General Knowledge
- National Commission for Women (NCW) was established on - 31 January 1992.
- Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) was established in - 1985.
- Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) – Founded: 20 February 1997; Headquarters: New Delhi.
- National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) was established on - 2nd October 1958.
- 12 April 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by - Yuri Gagarin (Soviet citizen).
- First human-made Earth satellite that was launched on 4 October 1957 into outer space - Sputnik I.
