Daily Current Affairs 1st July 2020 | CivilsonlinEd

01st July 2020 Daily Current Affairs

           

v  Doctors Day

  Ø  It is celebrated on 1st July to acknowledge the contributions of doctor's humane service to mankind

  Ø  National Doctor's Day is observed to honour the legendary physician and West Bengal's second Chief Minister, Dr B C Roy whose birth and death anniversary coincides on the same day

  Ø  Theme: Lessen the mortality of COVID 19

v  Faster than Rajdhani Express: Indian Railways invites private companies to run new trains

  Ø  Indian Railways today said it has invited proposals from private companies to run 151 modern passenger trains.

  Ø  The railways will shortlist bidders to run train operations on 109 pairs of routes across the country. 

  Ø  The project would entail private sector investment of about ₹30,000 crores, the Indian Railways said in a statement.

  Ø  This will be the first initiative of private investment for running passenger trains over Indian Railways network, the railway ministry said.

Source: Livemint

v  Accelerate Vigyan

  Ø  Launched by the Union government’s Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB).

  Ø  The scheme aims to initiate and strengthen mechanisms of identifying research potential, mentoring, training and giving hands-on workshops on a national scale

  Ø  Accelerate Vigyan has already started calling applications under its ‘ABHYAAS’ component for the winter season.

  Ø  ABHYAAS is an attempt to boost research and development in the country by enabling and grooming potential post-graduate / PhD students by developing their research skills in select areas

  Ø  It has two components: High-end workshops (‘KARYASHALA’) and research internships (‘VRITIKA’). This is especially important for those who have limited opportunities to access such learning capacities/infrastructure 

  Ø  The current call for applications invites researchers for the winter season (December 2020-January 2021) ‘KARYASHALA’ and ‘VRITIKA’.

Source: DownToEarth

v  Andhra Pradesh Goes into Virtual Financial Shutdown Due to Non-passage of Appropriation Bill

  Ø  The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday went into a virtual financial shutdown, due to non-passage of the Appropriation Bill, as a result of which it could not pay salaries to its staff.

  Ø  The Andhra Pradesh government on Wednesday went into a virtual financial shutdown, due to non-passage of the Appropriation Bill, as a result of which it could not pay salaries to its staff.

  Ø  It will not be able to spend any money from the government coffers till a constitutional process is completed and the state governor gives assent to the Appropriation Bill.

  Ø  The Appropriation Bill, passed by the Legislative Assembly on June 16, could not get through in the Council

  Ø  The Vote-on-Account Ordinance issued in March elapsed on June 30 but the crucial Appropriation Bill, which paves the way for budgeted expenditure, did not become law.

  Ø  As per the Constitution, a Money Bill is deemed to have been passed by the Council if it is not returned to the Assembly within 14 days.

Source: Daily Hunt

v  India appoints Indra Mani Pandey as new envoy to UN bodies in Geneva

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