Kamala Harris scripts history as she accepts Democratic Party’s nomination for US vice-president
Senator Kamala Harris has accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination to be the vice president of the United States, scripting history by becoming the first Indian-American and also the first Black woman to be on a major political party’s national ticket. She has been nominated as the vice-presidential candidate at the virtual Democratic National Convention. She is also the first female African-American to become California’s attorney general. In 2017, she became the second African-American woman to join the Senate, winning the California seat vacated by Senator Barbara Boxer.
If elected in the November 3 presidential elections, Harris, whose mother is from India and father from Jamaica, would be the first-ever women vice president of the United States.

Who is ahead - Trump or Biden?
The 2020 United States presidential election is scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2020. It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election. Voters will select presidential electors either giving Mr Trump another four years or handing over the keys to the White House to Mr Biden who in turn will vote on December 14, 2020, to either elect a new president and vice president or re-elect the incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence respectively. The Republican president is being challenged by Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden, who is best known as Barack Obama’s vice-president but has been in US politics since the 1970s. As election day approaches, polling companies will be trying to gauge the mood of the nation by asking voters which candidate they prefer.

Japan to release contaminated water into sea
Japan is planning to release treated radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. 
It follows years of debate over how to dispose of the liquid, which includes water used to cool the power station hit by a massive tsunami in 2011.
Environmental and fishing groups oppose the idea but many scientists say the risk it would pose is low. The water would be diluted inside the plant before release so it is 40 times less concentrated, with the whole process taking 30 years.

US judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on new TikTok 
TikTok has avoided a government-ordered block on new downloads in the US after a judge issued a temporary injunction. TikTok had argued that forcing it off the iOS and Android app shops would have violated the First and 5th Amendments of America charter. TikTok has said it has more than 100 million active users in the US and about 700 million worldwide. It has claimed even a temporary ban would threaten its business. The US government has issued two executive orders targeting TikTok. While the first is designed to prevent it being distributed via Apple and Google, the second is more far-reaching. Due to come into force on 12 November, it is designed to shut the app down outright in the US, if the president’s national security concerns are not resolved.

Microsoft buys Fallout creator Bethesda for $7.5bn
Xbox-owner Microsoft has acquired the games company behind blockbuster titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim and Wolfenstein. It is paying $7.5bn (£5.85bn) for Bethesda’s parent ZeniMax Media. Xbox has said that the publisher’s franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription package for consoles and PCs. This could help make the forthcoming Xbox Series X more attractive than the PlayStation 5 to some players. Both machines are due to launch in November. Game Pass already gives players access to more than 200 games. Microsoft includes first-party titles at point of launch to those signed up to its “ultimate” package without further cost. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.

Yoshihide Suga Becomes Japan’s Prime Minister
Yoshihide Suga has become Japan’s first new prime minister in almost eight years, replacing the country’s longest-serving premier, Shinzo Abe, who stepped down citing health concerns. Suga, 71, was sworn in by Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace after parliament elected him as prime minister. He pledges to forge ahead with his predecessor’s key policies, including his efforts to jump-start the economy and to revise Japan’s postwar constitution, which restricts the use of its military. Mr. Suga has said kickstarting the economy will be a top priority, along with containing the virus- essential if the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics are to open as planned in July 2021.

Reliance becomes 1st Indian firm to cross $200 bn in market value 
Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries has become the first listed Indian company to cross $200 billion in market capitalisation. Shares of the oil-to-telecom conglomerate surged over 8% to a record high after Bloomberg reported that it’s offering to sell a $20 billion stake in Reliance Retail to Amazon. India’s second-most valuable company TCS is worth $119 billion.

Jeff Bezos becomes the first person on Earth to be worth more than $200 billion
Bezos isn’t just the wealthiest man but the only person to have that amount of money in modern history. His wealth is nearly double that of the world’s second-richest person and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. 56-year old Bezos is the founder, CEO, and president of Amazon — a multinational company that focuses on a range of businesses from e-commerce to cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Amazon’s share price has surged by 80% since the beginning of the year. People are shopping online now more than ever — filling the deep pockets of both Amazon and Bezos. According to Forbes, Bezos has earned $86 billion of his wealth in the last 12 months. He was worth $114 billion until September last year. Experts say Bezos is on his path to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2026.

Apple to open a ‘floating’ store in Singapore
As the coronavirus forces other retailers to close down, Apple has announced that it is planning to open a new Apple Store in Singapore that appears to float on the water.   It will be named Apple Marina Bay Sands after the hotel complex. The store is replacing a shard-shaped Crystal Pavilion that once housed a nightclub called Avalon. Apple has rebuilt the structure with glass panels that will reflect Singapore’s skyline during the day and will reportedly ‘glow like a lantern’ in the night.

Facebook allows work from home till July 2021
Facebook employees have been allowed to work from home till July 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The social media company will also be giving employees $1,000 to cover home office needs. The company will reopen offices in a restricted capacity where government guidance permits and where virus mitigation has taken place for about two months.

War over TikTok worsens
China’s state-run media has struck back in the war over TikTok, branding U.S. demands for the sale of the social media app’s American operations to Microsoft Corp. as “theft” and suggesting Beijing may block the transaction.ByteDance had become the world’s largest startup thanks to the success abroad of TikTok, which American lawmakers accuse of posing a threat to national security because of its ability to vacuum up data. Trump has the power to cripple ByteDance’s prized asset by adding TikTok to the U.S. entity list, which would compel American companies such as Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to drop the service from their app stores.

India’s 2nd national-level plasma bank opened in Tamil Nadu
After Delhi, India’s second national-level plasma bank has been opened in Tamil Nadu at a cost of ₹2.34 crore. Over 1,30,000 people have recovered from COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu. Plasma is the liquid portion of blood that remains when all red and white blood cells and platelets have been removed. Plasma therapy uses blood donated by recovered patients to introduce antibodies in those under treatment.

Mukesh Ambani becomes the world’s 7th richest man
Asia’s richest person Mukesh Ambani has surpassed Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett to become the world’s seventh-richest person. According to Forbes data, Ambani’s net worth stands at $70.1 billion, while Warren Buffett’s net worth is $68.2 billion. The share price of Reliance Industries has more than doubled since March following investments in Reliance Jio worth $15 billion.

US to withdraw visas for foreign students 
The US won’t allow foreign students to remain in the country if all of their classes are moved online because of coronavirus crisis. The rule applies to holders of F-1 and M-1 visas. There were over 10 lakh international students in the US for the 2018-19 academic year, according to IIE. The second-largest number of international students came from India.

Ban on Chinese apps in India
India’s ban on more than 50 Chinese apps, including popular ones such as TikTok and WeChat, has left millions of users surprised and disappointed. The government said the apps were “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”. China has asked India to uphold the legal rights of international firms. Anti-China sentiment has been high in India since earlier this month when clashes between the two nuclear-armed neighbours left 20 Indian troops dead.

Amazon announces $2B fund to support clean energy tech
Amazon has announced the Climate Pledge Fund, with an initial $2 billion in funding, to support development of sustainable and decarbonising technologies and services. The programme will invest in companies whose products and solutions will facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy. It will initially focus on certain industries including transportation and logistics and circular economy.

New spider species named after Greta Thunberg
A newly discovered species of huntsman spiders in Madagascar has been named after Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and is called ‘Thunberga gen. nov.’. German arachnologist Peter Jager named it after Greta in honour of her commitment to tackling climate change. Jager said he hoped naming the species after Greta would draw attention to issue of loss of biodiversity in Madagascar.

Airlines set for worst year on record
The plunge in travel caused by the coronavirus will drive airline losses of more than $84bn (£66bn) this year, a global industry group has warned. The International Air Transport Association, which has 290 member airlines, said revenues would drop to $419bn, down 50% from 2019. That is steeper than initially forecast and comes despite recent signs that travellers are returning to the skies. The group said it expected airlines to lose $230m on average each day this year as the number of travellers falls to 2.25 billion, roughly halving from last year.

Trump bans Chinese passenger airlines 
Amid the rising tensions between the US and China over coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, US President Donald Trump has upped the ante by issuing a proclamation banning the entry of Chinese students and researchers having ties with the People’s Liberation Army. The Trump administration has taken this decision in order to stop China from using graduate students to acquire intellectual property and technology from the US.

Vodafone names new chairman
The Vodafone Group has named Heineken CEO Jean-Francois Van Boxmeer as its new chairman. He will succeed Gerard Kleisterlee and take over the new role from November. Van Boxmeer will handover his role as CEO of Heineken to the company’s Asia-Pacific chief, Dolf van den Brink, in June. Heineken’s shares have risen three-fold during Van Boxmeer’s 15-year tenure as CEO.

Apple reopens 100 stores
After having closed nearly all its retail stores due to the coronavirus pandemic, Apple has reopened around 100 stores globally. In most stores, the smartphone maker has made face coverings mandatory for both workers and customers and is providing face masks to those who don’t bring their own. Temperature checks and symptom screenings will also be conducted at entry doors.

Zoom dethrones TikTok to become the top downloaded app
Zoom has dethroned video-sharing app TikTok to become the most downloaded app globally in April in the non-gaming category. The US-based-based video conferencing app clocked 131 million installations in April. Notably, India was the largest contributor to the total number of downloads during the month at 18.2%, followed by the US, which accounted for 14.3%. Zoom has been gaining ground during the worldwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first quarter of this year or Q1 2020, Zoom has recorded the highest downloads from India – 6 million downloads out of a total of 80 million. TikTok, which was the most downloaded app in March with more than 115.2 million installs, recorded 107 million installs in April and ranked 2nd.

Indian-origin girl Vaneeza names NASA’s first Mars helicopter
Vaneeza Rupani, a 17-year-old Indian-origin girl from the US, has named NASA’s first Mars helicopter ‘Ingenuity’. She suggested the name in NASA’s ‘Name the Rover’ essay contest which received 28,000 entries. “The ingenuity and brilliance of people working hard to overcome challenges of interplanetary travel are what allow us to experience wonders of space exploration,” Rupani’s submission read.

The world’s fastest app to reach 5 crore users
India’s COVID-19 contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu has become the world’s fastest app to reach 5 crore users, achieving the milestone in 13 days. Of these, 1.1 crore downloads were recorded last week after PM Modi urged people to install the app in his address to the nation. Aarogya Setu beat ‘Pokémon GO’, which hit 5 crore downloads in 19 days.

Jeff Bezos tops Forbes Billionaires List
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has remained the world’s wealthiest person with a $113-billion net worth, as per Forbes Billionaires List 2020. Presently, Bezos is the only billionaire with a 12-figure valuation. His ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos entered the list for the first time at 22nd spot with $36-billion net worth, after receiving $38 billion from Bezos as part of their divorce settlement.

NASA spots an elusive giant black hole 50,000 times the mass of the Sun 
An elusive mid-sized black hole that was tearing apart a wayward star has been spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. A team of astronomers found the stellar object - known as an ‘intermediate-mass black hole’ - 740 million light-years away using Hubble and X-ray observatories. Experts from the University of New Hampshire in Durham say it is about 50,000 times larger than the Sun and is a ‘missing link’ in the evolution of the universe. The new intermediate-mass black hole is larger than the holes created by the collapse of super-giant stars. The stellar object is considerably smaller than the supermassive black holes found at the centre of galaxies. They say it is larger than the black holes created by the collapse of giant stars but smaller than the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies. 
WHAT ARE BLACK HOLES?
Black holes are so dense and their gravitational pull is so strong that no form of radiation can escape them - not even light. They act as intense sources of gravity which hoover up dust and gas around them. Their intense gravitational pull is thought to be what stars in galaxies orbit around.

IIT-D students make app to identify those coming in contact with COVID-19 patient
A team of students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi has developed an application, which they claim can help trace individuals who came in close contact with COVID-19 patients. The application purportedly identifies people who have been within two metres of a known infected person, using Bluetooth technology. It then connects the user with the nearest healthcare facility.

The world’s fastest supercomputer identifies chemicals that can stop COVID-19 spread
Using IBM’s ‘Summit’, the world’s fastest supercomputer, American scientists have identified 77 drug compounds that might stop coronavirus from infecting a person and help create a vaccine. Researchers ran simulations of over 8,000 compounds to analyse which compounds would be effective in binding to “spikes” on a model of the COVID-19 organism, hindering the attachment of virus to host cells.

Govt orders postponing CBSE, JEE Mains, university exams after March 31
The government has ordered rescheduling all ongoing CBSE, NIOS and university exams after March 31. It has also ordered rescheduling of JEE Mains exam, saying that the new date will be announced on March 31 after reassessment of the situation. Further, all educational institutions have been requested to maintain regular communication with teachers and students through electronic means.

Singapore plans to launch country-wide facial recognition system
The government of Singapore is preparing to transition to a facial recognition program it hopes will eliminate the need for ID cards by 2022. Beginning in June, kiosks fitted with cameras will be installed at a limited number of government agencies, and instead of presenting an ID card citizens will be able to check in for services with just their faces. The facial recognition system is a major expansion of the Smart Nation Initiative, which began in 2014 under Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and through which the state has built up a biometric database on more than four million Singaporeans over the age of 15.

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