by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 3, 2020 | News in Brief
On August 21, 2020, a tech start-up from Kerala has won a government challenge to create a video-conferencing platform similar to Zoom. The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology’s Digital India (MEITY)’s ‘Grand Challenge,’ rolled out on April 12, to...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 3, 2020 | News in Brief
On August 20, 2020, Delhi’s second serological survey, conducted between August 1 and 7, sampled 15,000 people, and found that 29.1 per cent of the city’s residents have developed antibodies against Covid-19. It means that around 5.8 million people in the city have...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 3, 2020 | News in Brief
It was reported in August 2020, that our galaxy could be littered with warm and watery planets like Earth. The researchers at Penn State University used data from NASA’s Kepler telescope to estimate the number of Earth-like planets in the Milky Way. They suggested...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 2, 2020 | News in Brief
On August 19, 2020, India may see a surge in populist politics as it battles the world’s third-highest number of coronavirus cases, and poses a key risk for companies whose fortunes are closely tied to the economy, says J P Morgan Chase & Co. Analysts led by James...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 2, 2020 | News in Brief
In August 2020, the Supreme Court ‘refused’ to order transfer of funds from the PM CARES Fund to the National Disaster Response Fund (NDRF), saying they ‘are two entirely different funds with different object and purpose’ and ‘there is no occasion’ for such a...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 2, 2020 | News in Brief
On August 20, 2020, the Union Cabinet approved a proposal for leasing out airports at Jaipur, Guwahati, and Thiruvananthapuram through public-private partnership (PPP) for a period of 50 years. A competitive bidding process in this regard began in February 2019 when...
