Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 03 December 2020

SSC CGL Current Affairs

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US drugmakerModerna said it was applying for emergency use authorisation for its Covid-19 vaccine. In India, Serum Institute of India, which is trialling a version of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, has informed that, it expects to seek emergency use authorisation within the next two weeks.
Vaccines require approval of a regulatory authority before they can be administered. However, in emergency situations like COVID-19, regulatory authorities have developed mechanisms to grant interim approvals to vaccines and medicines. Till the completion of final trials EUA allows medicine or vaccine to be used on public.
India’s drug regulations do not have provisions for an EUA, and process for receiving one is not clearly defined or consistent.
In India, regulatory authority concerned for this is Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation.

There are allegations related to irregularities in the implementation of Jammu and Kashmir States Land (vesting of ownership to the occupants) Act, also known as Roshini Act, which has now been declared null and void.
It envisaged the transfer of ownership rights of state land to its occupants, subject to the payment of a cost, as determined by the government.
Revenue generated was to be spent on commissioning hydroelectric power projects, hence the name Roshni.

The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) has got membership of International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).
With this membership IFSCA would have access to IAIS’s global network and would be able to exchange ideas and information with other global regulators.
This membership would go a long way in connecting IFSC with global insurance institutions and would facilitate IFSCA in the joint development of global insurance business with other global centres.
It was established in 1994, the IAIS headquartered in Switzerland.

It is a high-level dialogue among media organisations from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa that aims to establish an efficient coordination mechanism among BRICS media and advance innovation-driven media development.
Representatives called for the five nations to work together to jointly combat fake news in the pandemic era.
Rigorous fact-checking and investigation by well-trained teams of journalists.
Deployment of technologies like Artificial Intelligence, in fight against disinformation, especially large-scale online harms.

IIT Kanpur researchers have demonstrated how with the use of a micro-structured hour-glass shaped metastructure in the lattice unit, one can get a wider variation of propagation and stop bands. The hour-glasses are developed in the Smart Materials Laboratory of IIT Kanpur using additive manufacturing.
Lattice based meta-structures have shown tremendous application in electro-magnetic and sonic wave absorption which could in principle create ‘invisibility’ of an object either in optical or in acoustic domain.
Existing lattice and crystal based phononic materials have however, practical limitations in terms of customizability and hence, they can be generally used in a narrow band of frequency.

ViratKohli become fastest cricketer to score 12,000 ODI runs

India captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday became the fastest cricketer to score 12,000 ODI runs, breaking a record held by legendary compatriot Sachin Tendulkar.
The 32-year-old Indian captain was playing in his 251st ODI and averages close to 60 in the format with 43 hundreds and 59 half centuries. He made his debut in 2008.
Tendulkar scored 18426 runs from 463 ODIs between 1989 and 2012 at an average of 44.83 with the help of 49 hundreds and 96 half centuries.