- 5 dwarf planet recognizes so far are as follows – [Source 🔗 ]
- Pluto
- MakeMake
- Eris
- Ceres (Recently it has been given the status of “Ocean World” )
- Discovered in 1801 by Giueseppe Piazzi, he considered it as a missing plant between Mars & Jupiter
- Largest object in Asteroid Belt
- It has 1682 Earth Days or 4.6 Earth years | 9 hours of Axial Rotation (Shortest Day Length)
- Classified as dwarf planet in 2006, when Pluto’s planet status was downgraded to dwarf
- First dwarf planet to be orbited by spacecraft (2015) | NASA Dwan Mission- 2007
- It doesn’t have any moon or Ring
- Haumea
- Sataya Pal Malik has been appointed as new governor of Meghalaya.
- Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been given Additional charge of Goa Governor’s after Malik Transfer.
- Govt has hiked the sugarcane FRP by ₹10 to 285 per quintal for the season 2020-21 (Oct- Sept)
- FRP has been fixed on recommendation of CACP by cabinet committee of Economic Affairs.
- Former CBI Chief, Rakesh Asthana is appointed as the new chief of BSF. [August 2020]
- He is currently holding the position of chief of NCB (Narcotics Control Bureau) & Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.
- Pandit Jasraj, Passes away, some facts about him-
- Hindustani classical music
- Born in Hisar, Haryana
- Awarded Padma Bhushan
- India ranks 3rd in Cotton & bovine Meat Exports though the overall Agri Export has been down in 2019 compare to last year.
- Cotton ranking
- USA
- Brazil
- India
- Bovine (Meat) Ranking
- Brazil
- Australia
- India
- Cotton ranking
- “Abraham Accord” is the agreement between Israel, UAE & USA for the full normalization of relation between UAE & Israel.
- Recently, the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has observed that global concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have crossed the 415 parts per million (ppm) mark for the first time
- Maldives is the first neighbouring country with which an air bubble is being operationalized by India. The first flight under the Air Bubble is expected to begin on August 18
- USA Election, Democratic party Presidential candidate, Joseph R Biden chosen Kamla Harris as his running mate in presidential election.
- Next Generation Sequencing Machine (NSG) is the potential device considered by CSIR to ramp up the covid testing in the country.
- NSG has higher accuracy rate (97.3%) compare to RT-PCR
- NSG look for the whole genome of virus while RT-PCR looks for the specific genes
- NSG can process the 1500-300 tests in one go
- Sequence Machine is used for the Genome Sequencing which on modification can be turn to a covid testing machine claimed by CSIR, it will unleash new way of testing viral diseases on global platform.
- It can also trace the virus evolution & mutation reliably.
- NSG needs only custom reagents.
- Rajive Mehrshi is the chief of CAG, Appointed in 2017
- Girish Chandra Murmu, becomes the new Chief of CAG on 5th August 2020
- Scope of the Priority sector Lending (PSL) has been widen up by including the Startups in the list & enhancing the credit for renewable energy while overall limit of PSL is same at 40%.
- Kishan Rail Service has been started by the Indian Railway for transportation of perishable items, first such service is provided between Danapur (Place nearby Patna) to Devlali (Maharashtra).
- It was announced in the 2020-21 budget
