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1st March: World Defence Day
01 March 2020: the World Defence Day, The day is observed to educate awareness of public protection from natural and man-made disaster and liberate service work.
World Civil Defense Day was introduced by the International Civil Defense Organization (ICDO) General Assembly in 1990. It observes the day when the ICDO structure came into force as an intergovernmental association in 1972.
ICDO:
- ICDO was established by French Surgeon-General George Saint-Paul in 1931 in Paris.
- It was acknowledged by the French Parliament in June 1935 and in 1972 it realized the status of an intergovernmental organization.
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal was presented the prominent Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee award 2020
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was awarded the Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee award 2020 for politics at the 6th India Ideas Conclave at Tent City Narmada in Gujarat.
The award is established by India Foundation & Indic Academy, & presented by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Speaker of People’s Majlis of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed.
Swarajya Awards
The main goal of this Swarajya Awards is to honor the stellar work by persons in the field of social work, economics, culture, and politics. Every award will carry a citation, Specially designed trophy and a cheque worth Rs. 1 Lakh.
World economy faces the worst years since the past decades
BofA(Bank of America Corporation economist specified that the World economy is heading for the most awful performance since the past decades financial crisis. The drop is due to the growing spread of coronavirus all over the globe. The estimate didn’t include a world pandemic that would fundamentally shut down economic activity in several major countries.
Bank of America:
Founded on: 1998
Founded by: Amadeo Giannini
Chairman and CEO: Brian Moynihan
Headquarters: Charlotte, North Carolina, US
1st March: Zero Discrimination Day
Zero Discrimination Day is observed on 1 March. The Zero Discrimination day endorses diversity and identifies that everyone counts. The Butterfly is the symbol of Zero Discrimination Day. It is mainly used by the people to share their photos and stories as a way to end discrimination and effort towards optimistic transformation.
The Zero Discrimination Day is celebrated by the United Nations on 01 March 2014, after UNAIDS.
UNAIDS
It is the program on HIV and AIDS launched its Zero Discrimination Campaign on World AIDS Day in December 2013.
Astronomers Detect Biggest Explosion Since the Big Bang
Astronomers have discovered the signal of a colossal explosion in the galaxy which is five times larger than anything observed before. The massive release of energy is anticipated to have occurred from a tremendous black hole which is located around some 390 million light-years from Earth. The scientists specified that the explosion might have left an enormous dent in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.
Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster:
It is the biggest structures in the galaxy held together by gravity, enclosing thousands of individual galaxies, dark matter, and hot gas. The hot gas that pervades clusters like Ophiuchus gives off much of its light as X-rays.
Astronomers noticed 17 new planets in the Universe
The Columbia Researcher has discovered the 17 new planets by combing through data gathered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The planets include a potentially habitable Earth-sized world. The researchers looked for planets, especially those lying in the potentially habitable “Goldilocks Zone” of their stars, where liquid water could exist on a rocky planet’s surface. Over 16 new planets were discovered. The smallest is only two- thirds the size of the Earth one of the smallest planets to be found with Kepler data so far. The remaining planets range in size up to eight times the size of the Earth.
KIC-7340288 b:
- The planet is located about a thousand light-years away
- The current findings include a rare planet named KIC-7340288 b.
- The planet is one and a half times the size of the Earth
- The planet gets about one-third of the light that the Earth gets from the Sun.
- It has a year that is 142 and a half days long. It orbits its star at 0.444 Astronomical Units (AU).
