Prelims Facts 6 October 2020 – IAS Current Affairs
Prelims Facts 6 October 2020 is an extra read for UPSC IAS Prelims exam. Major events are :
- Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020
- Successful Flight Test of SMART
- Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology
- World Habitat Day 2020
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020
Why in News ?
PM’s address at the inauguration of ‘Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020’ Summit
- Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India, is organizing RAISE 2020 (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment) a virtual global summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in collaboration with NITI Aayog.
About Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020
- The summit would be a global meeting of minds to exchange ideas and charter a course to use AI for social empowerment, inclusion, and transformation in key areas like Healthcare, Agriculture, Education and Smart Mobility amongst other sectors.
- The RAISE 2020 Summit will feature some of the most exciting start-ups working in Artificial Intelligence and related fields.
- RAISE 2020, created a global forum for the world’s leading stakeholders.
- Exchange ideas and chart a common course for the adoption of Artificial Intelligence.
- A roadmap that can truly help transform lives and livelihoods across the world.
Source : PIB
Successful Flight Test of SMART
Why in News ?
Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) has been successfully flight tested at 1145 hrs from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha.
Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART)
- The mission objectives including missile flight upto the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, release of Torpedo and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM) have been met perfectly.
- SMART is a missile assisted release of lightweight Anti-Submarine Torpedo System for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operations far beyond Torpedo range.
- This launch and demonstration is significant in establishing Anti-Submarine warfare capabilities.
- Development Of Technology
- A number of DRDO laboratories including DRDL, RCI Hyderabad, ADRDE Agra, NSTL Visakhapatnam have developed the technologies required for SMART.
Source : PIB
Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology
Why in News ?
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
Discovery of the hepatitis C virus
- The trio’s work helped explain a major source of blood-borne hepatitis that couldn’t be explained by the hepatitis A and B viruses.
- These have essentially eliminated post-transfusion hepatitis in many parts of the world, greatly improving global health.
- Their work make possible blood tests and new medicines that have saved millions of lives.
- Discovery also allowed the rapid development of antiviral drugs directed at hepatitis C.
Hepatitis Disease
- World Health Organisation estimates there are over 70 million cases of hepatitis worldwide and 400,000 deaths each year.
- The disease is chronic and a major cause of liver inflammation and cancer.
About Nobel
- Nobel award comes with a gold medal and prize money of over USD 1,118,000 courtesy of a bequest left 124 years ago by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
- The Nobel Committee often recognizes basic science that has laid the foundations for practical applications in common use today.
- The other prizes are for outstanding work in the fields of physics, chemistry, literature, peace and economics.
Source : The Hindu
World Habitat Day 2020
Why in News ?
United Nations designated the first Monday of October of every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of our towns and cities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter.
About World Habitat Day
- The Day was established in 1985 by the United Nations General Assembly and was first observed in 1986.
- The first Monday of October is marked as World Habitat Day.
- Theme of 2020 : Housing For All – A Better Urban Future” is the theme for World Habitat Day 2020.
- World Habitat Day this year looks at the impact of the pandemic on housing in urban areas .
- Affordable, safe and adequate housing for the urban poor has been the Indian government’s focus.
Source : PIB
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Current Affairs Compilation : 6 October 2020