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26 May 2020

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

China's First Plateau-Focused Unmanned Helicopter Makes Maiden Flight

  • China's first domestically developed unmanned helicopter focused on plateau operations made its maiden flight.
  • Capable of conducting missions including reconnaissance, communication relay, electronic disruption and fire strike at high altitude, this versatile and easy-to-operate drone could help safeguard China's southwestern borders with India.
  • The AR500C unmanned helicopter, developed by the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC),  successfully made its maiden flight at an AVIC base in Poyang, East China's Jiangxi Province, in which it conducted several maneuvers including hovering, horizontal and vertical moves.

Africa Day

  • Africa Day (formerly African Freedom Day and African Liberation Day) is the annual commemoration of the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity on 25 May 1963.
  • It is celebrated in various countries on the African continent, as well as around the world.

France Frowns on English Words

  • France has announced a new list of alternatives for English language terms such as clickbait, podcast and deepfake.
  • The Commission for the Enrichment of the French Language (CELF) published the new list in an official government newsletter.
  • It has released a number of recommendations over the years in a bid to stop English terms taking hold.
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ENVIRONMENT

Scientists at BSI Discover 3 New Plant Species in Western Ghats

  • A team of scientists led by K.A. Sujana at the Kolkata based Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have discovered 3 new plant species namely- Eugenia sphaerocarpa, Goniothalamus sericeus and Memecylon nervosum at the Western Ghats in Kerala and Tamil Nadu (TN).
  • Eugenia sphaenrocarpa found primarily in the Kakkayam area of the Malabar wildlife sanctuary in Kerala at an altitude of  800 m, it belongs to the Myrtaceae or Rose apple family.
  • Goniothalamus sericeus discovered in the Kanyakumari wildlife sanctuary in Tamil Nadu (TN) at an altitude of 1400m, this species belongs to the Annonaceae family of custard apple.
  • Memecylon nervosum found at an altitude between 700-900m at the Kanyakumari wildlife sanctuary in Tamil Nadu (TN), this species belongs to the Melastomataceae (Kayamboo or Kaasavu in local parlance) family.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

Fintech Startup Zaggle Joins Hands with Visa to Launch Payment Solutions for SMEs, Startups

  • Fintech startup, Zaggle, has announced a partnership with Visa to launch innovative payment solutions for SMEs and startups.
  • This partnership is aimed at helping SMEs and startups improve productivity, reduce costs and get access to faster credit through a card which would have both inbuilt forex and prepaid.
  • Zaggle will leverage Visa's expertise in the payments space to co-create and build new solutions for SMEs. Visa will also support Zaggle for new technological innovations and ideas.

Lufthansa Agrees €9bn Rescue Deal with Germany

  • Lufthansa has agreed a rescue deal worth €9bn (£8bn) with the German government that saves it from collapse.
  • The German airline has been severely affected by a decline in travel due to the coronavirus and closed its budget airline Germanwings in April 2020.
  • The German government will take a 20% stake in the firm, which it intends to sell by the end of 2023.
  • But the deal still has to be approved by the firm's shareholders and the European Commission.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

4 Indian Astronauts Resume Training in Russia for India's First Manned Mission to Space 'Gaganyaan'

  • The four cosmonauts shortlisted for Gaganyaan, India's first manned space mission, have resumed their training in Russia, after it was put on hold due to COVID-19 scare.
  • Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) resumed training of the Indian cosmonauts under the contract between Glavkosmos, JSC (part of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos) and the Human Spaceflight Center of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

NASA's WFIRST Hubble Telescope renamed after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman

  • NASA has renamed its next-generation space telescope- Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), after the space agency's first chief astronomer Nancy Grace Roman.
  • The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope or Roman Space Telescope is set for launch in 2025. 
  • NASA's first Chief Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman had paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe.
  • She is considered as the mother of Hubble Space Telescope, which had launched 30 years ago. 

NASA's WFIRST Hubble Telescope renamed after astronomer Nancy Grace Roman

  • NASA has renamed its next-generation space telescope- Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), after the space agency's first chief astronomer Nancy Grace Roman.
  • The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope or Roman Space Telescope is set for launch in 2025. 
  • NASA's first Chief Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman had paved the way for space telescopes focused on the broader universe.
  • She is considered as the mother of Hubble Space Telescope, which had launched 30 years ago. 
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SPORTS

Hockey Legend Balbir Singh Sr Passes Away at 96

  • Triple Olympic gold medallist Balbir Singh Senior breathed his last at a Mohali hospital. He was 96.
  • Singh was member of the 1948 London Olympics gold medal-winning Indian hockey team, apart from being the vice-captain of the 1952 victorious side and skipper of the 1956 champions.
  • Singh, whose full name was Balbir Singh Dosanjh but was called Senior to differentiate from the other five Balbirs who played for India in later years, was also the oldest surviving Olympic medallist from India, a record which now passes on to his 1948 London Olympics team-mate Keshav Dutt.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS

In a First, Uttarakhand Releases Report on Conservation of Endemic, Threatened Floras

  • Uttarakhand has become the first state to release a unique report highlighting its conservation efforts to save over 1,100 rare plants from extinction.
  • Herbs like 'Ashwagandha', 'Giloy', 'Kalmegh' and 'Chitrak', which are presently part of scientists'' research to find a possible cure to coronavirus, are included in this conservation programme.
  • As many as 1,145 plant species have been conserved out of which 46 species are endemic to Uttarakhand and 68 species are rare, endangered or threatened, under red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) or under state biodiversity board, under this project by the research wing of the state forest department.
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DEFENCE

DRDO's RCI Develops AI-based Attendance Application

  • The Research Centre Imarat (RCI), DRDO, here has developed a AI-based Attendance Application (AINA) which allows non-contact based personnel verification, using facial features of the person, in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic making it unsafe to use contact-based biometric verification for attendance marking systems.
  • AINA can be deployed with minimal upgradation to the legacy attendance infrastructure with RFID readers. AINA can be installed on a normal desktop computer with a GPU based display adapter.

US Navy Successfully Tests a Laser Weapon That can Destroy Aircraft Mid-Flight

  • A US Navy warship has successfully tested a new high-energy laser weapon that can destroy aircraft mid-flight, the Navy's Pacific Fleet has announced.
  • Images and videos provided by the Navy show the amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland executing "the first system-level implementation of a high-energy class solid-state laser" to disable an aerial drone aircraft.
  • It did not give a specific location of the laser weapons system demonstrator (LWSD) test, saying only that it occurred in the Pacific on May 16, 2020.
  • Navy ships face an increasing number of threats in conducting their missions, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, armed small boats, and adversary intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

India Helps Uganda to Set Up Military War Game Centre

  • Indian Association in Uganda, with help of the Indian Military training team, set up a military war game centre in Jinja district.
  • Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni inaugurated the war game centre conceptualised by Indian military team for Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF).
  • The wargame centre was comissioned at the Uganda Senior Command and Staff College in Kimaka in Jinja District.
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PERSONS IN NEWS

Indian-Origin Physician Appointed to New York's Commission on Economic Recovery

  • Pulitzer winning Indian-American physician, Siddhartha Mukherjee has been appointed as a member of New York's commission that will focus on jumpstarting the state's economy, which has been badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic. 
  • Another Indian-origin higher education leader, Satish Tripathi has also been named as a member of the commission by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
  • The New York Governor made the announcement on May 24, 2020. He stated that New York's Blue-Ribbon Commission will focus on improving telehealth and broadband access using new and innovative technologies.
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DAYS AND EVENTS

International Missing Children's Day

  • International Missing Children's Day is an international day celebrated on May 25, the same day as the United States' National Missing Children's Day designated by Ronald Reagan in 1983.
  • In 2020, on International Missing Children's Day, FIFA is came together with over 170 football clubs across six continents to support a new initiative that hopes to help find vulnerable young people.
  • Each club, as well as FIFA, has volunteered to use their social media channels to share videos featuring children who are currently missing all over the world.
  • The 'Football Cares' Initiative is being run by the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) and also supported by the European Club Association (ECA).

World Thyroid Day Celebrated on 25 May

  • World Thyroid Day is observed globally on 25 May every year.
  • The main purpose of the WTD is to aware of the importance of Thyroid and the prevention and treatment of thyroid diseases.
  • This day is established in 2008 as a part of the campaign led by European Thyroid Association (ETA) and the American Thyroid Association (ATA) followed by Latin American Thyroid Society (LATS) and Asia Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA) to commemorate the patients with Thyroid diseases and doctors and physicians who treat them.
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