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Daily GK Current Affairs News viable of 22nd May 2021. – Here is the Regular current affairs viable of 22nd May 2021. covering the following news headlines: DIPCOVAN, IDBI Bank, HIT Covid App, International Day for Biological Diversity, Hero Vired, FIH Athletes’ Committee.

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National News
State News
Banking News
Economy News
Sports News
Important Days
Obituaries News
Miscellaneous News

National News

DRDO develops Covid-19 antibody detection kit ‘DIPCOVAN’

India’s Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has developed a Covid-19 antibody detection kit.
The DIPCOVAN kit can detect both spikes of coronaviruses as well as nucleocapsid proteins with a high sensitivity of 97%. It has been approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research and has been developed by the Defense Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences Lab of DRDO with the help of Vanguard Diagnostics Pvt Ltd of Delhi.
The main objective of DIPCOVAN is the qualitative detection of IgG antibodies in human serum or plasma, which target SARS-CoV-2 related antigens.
It offers a significantly faster turnaround time of just 75 minutes to conduct the test without any cross-reactivity with other diseases. The kit has a shelf life of 18 months.

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DRDO Headquarters: New Delhi.
Chairman DRDO: Dr G Satheesh Reddy.
DRDO Established: 1958.

State News

Bihar govt launches ‘HIT Covid App’ to ensure regular monitoring

The Bihar government has launched the ‘Hit Covid-19 App’ to ensure regular monitoring and tracking of those Kovid-19 patients who are isolated from home across the state. HIT stands for Home Isolation Track.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said that this app will help health workers in regular monitoring of home isolated patients.
Health workers will visit the patients at home every day and feed data in the app after measuring their temperature and oxygen level.
These data will be monitored at the district level. If the oxygen level is below 94, the patient will be shifted to the nearby dedicated Covid-19 health centers for proper treatment.

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Chief Minister of Bihar: Nitish Kumar;
Governor: Phagu Chauhan.

Banking News

IDBI Bank launches digital loan processing system

IDBI Bank announced the launch of its fully digitized credit processing system, offering over 50 products to MSMEs and the agricultural sector.
Credit processing systems (LPS) for MSMEs and agricultural products are seamlessly integrated with data fintech, bureau verification, document storage, account management and customer information.
These features of the fully digitised and automated loan processing system are further aimed at providing a superior tech-enabled banking experience to the bank’s MSME & Agri customers.
The platform is designed to incorporate knock-off criteria & credit policy parameters for superior underwriting standards.

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IDBI Bank Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra.
IDBI Bank CEO: Rakesh Sharma.

Economy News

ITR filing deadline for FY21 extended by two months to September 30

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the due date of filing of income tax returns for individuals by two months to 30 September 2021 for the Assessment Year (AY) 2021-22. The earlier deadline was July 31, 2021.
The decision to extend timelines for compliances under the Income-tax Act 1961 has been taken to provide relief to taxpayers due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The government has also extended the due date of Income Tax Returns filing for companies for Assessment Year 2021-2022 from October 31 to November 30, 2021.

Sports News

Barcelona Women beat Chelsea Women to win Women’s Champions League trophy

The Barcelona woman defeated the Chelsea women to win the Women’s Champions League trophy. Chelsea scored four goals in the first 36 minutes and Barcelona blew them away to win their first Women’s Champions League in Gothenburg.
Barcelona is the first Spanish side to win the Women’s Champions League. Barcelona becomes the first club to win both the men’s and women’s Champions League, and this was the biggest ever winning margin in a women’s final.

Important Days

International Day for Biological Diversity: 22 May

The United Nations celebrates International Biodiversity Day on 22 May every year to raise awareness about the issue of a significant reduction in biological diversity due to some human activities.
Biological diversity includes a wide variety of plants, animals, and microorganisms, including genetic differences within each species, for example, between varieties of crops and breeds of animals.
This year 2021 the theme is “We’re part of the solution”. The slogan was chosen to be a continuation of the momentum generated last year under the over-arching theme, “Our solutions are in nature”, which served as a reminder that biodiversity remains the answer to several sustainable development challenges.

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Mr. Antonio Guterres is the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA.

Obituaries News

Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna passes away

Renowned environmentalist and Gandhian, Sundarlal Bahuguna has passed away.
A pioneer in environmental protection, Mr. Bahuguna led the charge against the construction of large dams in the Himalayas in the 1980s. He was strongly opposed to the construction of the Tehri Dam.
Bahuguna, who lived for decades in his Silyara ashram in Tehri Garhwal, inspired many young people in his passion for the environment. His ashram was open to young people, with whom he communicated with ease.
Bahuguna, along with local women, founded the Chipko movement in the Seventies to prevent the felling of trees in the ecologically sensitive zones. The movement’s success led to the enactment of a law to ban the felling of trees in ecologically sensitive forest lands. He also coined the Chipko slogan: ‘ecology is the permanent economy.

Miscellaneous News

Hero Group launches ed-tech platform ‘Hero Vired’

The Hero Group, led by the Munjal family, has launched a new education technology startup ‘Hero Vired’, which will introduce an end-to-end learning ecosystem.
Through this new edtech venture, Hero Group aims to enter the ed-tech space. The platform will offer learners overall professional development to make them industry-ready for employment.
Hero Vired has partnered with top global universities, such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Singularity University, to offer full-time and part-time programs in finance and financial technologies; game design; integrated programs in data science, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI); entrepreneurial thinking and innovation; and full-stack development.

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