DAILY Current affairs 9 JULY 2020
1. WORLD’S 2ND LARGEST & ASIA’S LARGEST DATA
CENTRE
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Uddhav
Thackeray & Ravi Shankar Prasad, inaugurated the World’s 2nd Largest & Asia’s Largest Data Center, ‘Yotta NM1 Data Center’ of Yotta
Infrastructure of Hiranandani Group at Panvel data centre park, Mumbai over a
virtual platform.
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Yotta
NM1 is the first of five data centre buildings coming up at the Integrated
Yotta Data Center Park.The NM1, Yotta’s largest data centre, received the fault
tolerant tier IV certification of the Design Documents Certification from the
Uptime Institute, USA.
2. US NOTIFIED UN OF ITS DECISION TO WITHDRAW FROM
WHO
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United
States of America (USA), as a depositary of the 1946 Constitution of the World
Health Organization (WHO), has formally notified the UN of its decision
of withdrawal from the global health body, WHO .
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The
US, which has been a party to the WHO Constitution since June 21, 1948 is
the largest funder to the WHO, contributing more than USD 450
million per annum.
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Notably,
the US has to follow the withdrawal conditions including one year notice period
and paying outstanding financial obligations, which were agreed at the time of
joining the WHO.
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In this regard, the US has to serve a 12-month
notice period i.e. till July 6, 2021 and also needs to clear the
current and past dues which currently owe the WHO around $200 million.
3. MALDIVES & SRI LANKA ELIMINATES RUBELLA & MEASLES
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According
to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) South East Asian
Region (SEAR) office, Maldives and Sri Lanka were verified to
eliminate both measles and rubella, making them the
first two countries in the WHO South-East Asia region to achieve beyond their
2023 target.
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Maldives
had reported cases of measles in 2009 and rubella in October 2015, on the other
hand, Sri Lanka had reported cases of measles in May 2016 and rubella in March
2017.
4. AIIB RELEASES USD 50 MN TO L&T INFRASTRUCTURE
FINANCE
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Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank(AIIB) has released USD 50
million in the first tranche of assistance to L&T Infrastructure
Finance Ltd(LTIF), to fund renewable Energy Projects in the country.
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The
released amount is part of a sanctioned USD 100 million External Commercial
Borrowing(ECB) loan.
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This
is the 1st loan of AIIB to a non-banking financial company (NBFC) in India.
5. INDIA’S
LARGEST BUTTERFLY
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“Golden
Birdwing (Troides aeacus)” from uttarakhand has surpassed the “Southern Birdwing (Troides minos)” after
88 years to become the largest butterfly in India.
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The
female species of the Golden Birdwing has a wingspan of 194 mm that is 4 mm
larger than that of the Southern Birdwing with 190 mm wingspan
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The
smallest butterfly is the Quaker (Neopithecops zalmora) with a
wingspan of 18 mm and forewing length of 8 mm.
6. AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX
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Finnland
driver Valtteri Bottas with Mercedes won the Formula One (F1) season-opening
Austrian Grand Prix (GP) , surpassing his Mercedes team mate and Formula One
champion Lewis Hamilton.
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The
podium position winners held up a black t-shirt with “End Racism” captioned
on it.
7. BOOK -‘MAHAVEER:THE SOLDIER WHO NEVER DIED’
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The
book, titled ‘Mahaveer: The Soldier who never died’ is
authored by award winning author A.K. Srikumar & his wife, Rupa Srikumar.
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The
book is a patriotic story about the courage & selfless love of Jaswant
Singh Rawat who is one of the legendary Garhwali soldiers fought in
Indo-Chinese battle of Nuranang in 1962 .
