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Daily GK Current Affairs News viable of 7th August 2021. – Here is the Regular current affairs viable of 7th August 2021. covering the following news headlines: India’s First Mobile COVID-19 testing lab, India extends Line of Credit worth 18 million dollars to Maldives for Fisheries Development, Monetary Policy Committee of August 2020, Sameer Sharma passes away.

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National News
State News
Banking & Economy
Business News
Awards News
Obituaries News
Important Days
Miscellaneous News
Sports News

National News

India’s First Mobile COVID-19 testing lab, developed by IISC, launched in Bengaluru

The Karnataka Government has launched a first-of-its-kind mobile COVID-19 laboratory on 5th August 2020.
The unique lab has been developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc).
The mobile lab is the first Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-approved mobile RT-PCR Covid-19 testing laboratory in India.
The Mobile Infection Testing and Reporting (MITR) lab is capable of performing 9,000 RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) tests per month with 100% accurate results within four hours.
The MITR lab has been handed over to Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) in Bengaluru.

India extends Line of Credit worth 18 million dollars to Maldives for Fisheries Development

The Government of India has provided a Line of Credit (LoC) of USD 18 million to the Government of Maldives for expansion of fishing facilities at the Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company (MIFCO).
The fund will be used for development of fish collection and storage facilities and for setting up of Tuna Cooking Plant and Fish Meal Plant.
The grant is part of a US$800 million line of credit offered by India with a 20-year repayment period and a moratorium of 5 years.

State News

India’s first Heart Failure Biobank starts at SCTIMST in Kerala

The first Heart Failure Biobank in the country has come up at the National Centre for Advanced Research and Excellence in HF (CARE-HF) at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Kerala.
The Biobank is open to study genetic, metabolomics and proteomic markers of health outcomes in heart-failure patients.
Biobanks are an important resource of collections of high-quality biological human samples that can be used to understand molecular pathways and to improve the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of heart failure.
The biospecimens include blood, serum and tissue samples obtained during open-heart surgery and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and genomic DNA collected from heart-failure patients.

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Kerala CM: Pinarayi Vijayan;
Kerala Governor: Arif Mohammad Khan.

Banking News

RBI keeps repo rate unchanged in Monetary Policy Committee of August 2020

RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee meeting for the second meeting of 2020-21 was held on August 4, 5 and 6. The following points were mentioned in the meeting.
Policy rates have been kept unchanged:
Policy Repo Rate- 4.00%
Reverse Repo Rate- 3.35%
Marginal Standing Facility Rate and Bank Rate – 4.25%
CRR- 3%
SLR- 18%
The committee continues with a liberal stance.

Business News

SBI General partners with SahiPay to offer general insurance products

SBI General Insurance, one of India’s leading General Insurance companies, announced a tie-up with Manipal Business Solutions to increase insurance penetration in the rural markets.
SahiPay, the fastest growing tech-enabled financial inclusion platform of Manipal Business Solutions, provides digital and financial services to customers in semi-urban and rural India.
This partnership will bring in a perfect blend for rural customers, with SBI General’s non-life product offerings and Manipal Business Solutions, along with the right understanding of the rural segment by both partners.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

SBI General Insurance Headquarters: Mumbai;
SBI General Insurance Founded: 2009;
SBI General Insurance CEO: Prakash Chandra Kandpal.

Awards News

Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project in Bhutan gets Brunel Medal

Bhutan’s India-aided Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project was awarded the Brunel Medal awarded by the London-based Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE).
The award was given as a symbol of excellence in civil engineering within the industry and was handed over by Indian envoy to Bhutan, Ruchira Kamboj, to Lyonpo Loknath Sharma, chairman of the Mangdechhu Hydroelectric Project Authority.
One of the reasons the Mangdechhu project was awarded was because of its social and environmental credentials.
The project will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2.4 million tonnes every year.
In the past, Bhutan and India have collectively resolved to increase Bhutan’s hydroelectric power capacity to 12000 MW.
The Brunel Medal has historically been awarded to major projects and organizations around the world.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

Bhutan Capital: Thimphu;
Bhutan Prime minister: Lotay Tshering;
Bhutan Currency: Bhutanese ngultrum.

Obituaries News

Veteran CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal Minister Shyamal Chakraborty passes away of COVID-19

A senior CPI(M) leader and former West Bengal Transport Minister Shyamal Chakraborty has passed away. He was 76 years old.
Chakraborty served as the Transport Minister of West Bengal thrice from 1982 to 1996.
He was also a Rajya Sabha member for two terms.
In addition, he was also the state president of the CPM’s trade union wing, the Center of Indian Trade Unions, (CITU).

Renowned TV actor Sameer Sharma passes away due to suicide

Veteran television actor Sameer Sharma is no more.
The 44-year-old actor committed suicide by hanging himself from the kitchen ceiling of his house on 5 August 2020.
Sharma has been a part of some famous TV serials like ‘Geet – Hui Sabse Parayi’, ‘Left Right Left’, ‘Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki’, ‘Chaar’ and ‘Shash… Koi Hai’.
She was also seen in Sidharth Malhotra’s ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’ and ‘Ittefaq’.

Important Days

National Handloom Day observed on 7th August

India has marked the 7th National Handloom Day to showcase the legacy of the Indian handloom industry.
The day is to commemorate the Swadeshi Movement and to celebrate our country’s rich fabrics and colourful weaves.
The whole nation will mark the day to showcase the legacy of the Indian handloom industry and to honour the weavers across the country. It was first observed in 2015 by the Govt of India.
National Handloom Day seeks to focus on the contribution of handloom to the socio-economic development of the country and also increase the income of weavers.

Miscellaneous News

Ladakh launches ‘Pani Maah’ to raise awareness about clean water

‘Pani Month’ or Jal Month has been started in Ladakh to make the villagers aware about the importance of clean water.
The Ladakh government has also announced a reward of Rs.25 lakh for the first block of each district to achieve ‘Har Ghar Jal’ status.
The ‘Pani Maah’ campaign will adopt a three-pronged approach – water quality testing, planning and water supply strategy, and focusing on seamless functioning of Pani Sabha in villages.
Only 11.75 per cent of rural households in Ladakh have access to tap water connections. The Pani Maah campaign is expected to expedite the implementation of the Jal Jeevan Mission in the union territory.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh: Radha Krishna Mathur.

Sports News

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Bajrang Punia wins Olympic wrestling bronze medal

Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia has won an Olympic wrestling bronze medal match in the men’s freestyle 65kg category after an 8-0 win over Kazakhstan’s Daulat Niyazbekov.
Punia became the sixth Indian wrestler to finish on the Olympic podium after KD Jadhav, Sushil Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt, Sakshi Malik and Ravi Kumar Dahiya. This is the second time after the 2012 London Olympics that two Indian wrestlers have won medals in the same Games.

Neeraj Chopra wins Olympic gold medal in Javelin throw

Neeraj Chopra has won a Gold medal for India in the javelin throw event at Tokyo Olympics. With a throw of 87.03 metres in his first attempt, Neeraj killed the competition.
In his second he improved it to 87.58m and that turned out to be the golden throw. Except for Viteszalav Veslay of the Czech Republic who threw 86.67m none of his rivals including world champion Johannas Vetter fell by wayside.
This is India’s 7th medal at Tokyo 2020, the best ever medal haul for India at a single edition of the Games. Neeraj Chopra’s Gold is also India’s second-ever individual Gold medal at the Olympics, after Abhinav Bindra in Shooting.

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