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  Former U.S President Barack Obama has announced his first memoir, as a President of U.S.A, titled " A Promised Land ". The book consists of 768 pages. It will be published in November 2020 by Penguin Random House. As per sources the scheduled release will be 17 November. The interesting thing is that it is going to be published in 25 different languages to cater to needs of global populace. This is one of two volumes going to be published. This volume tells about his early political life, his presidential candidacy and campaign in 2008 and ending with the death of most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden in 2011.

The World Bank has released a report on Human Capital Index 2020. India has been ranked 116th. The report was titled " The Human Capital Index 2020 Update: Human capital in the time of Covid-19 ". The index is being prepared with collaboration between Human Development Practice Group and the World Bank's Development Economics. India has been ranked among 174 countries. Singapore has topped the ranking list followed by Hongkong and China. Japan got the third position. The Human Capital Index 2020 update includes health and education data of 174 countries. It covers 98% of the World's population up to March 2020. It provides pre-pandemic situational analysis keeping health and education of children as a baseline. It tracks how the current health and education infrastructure brings about productivity of the coming generation of workers.

M Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice-President of India inaugurated 4th Ayurveda Summit: The summit was inaugurated virtually by M Venkaiah Naidu.   The theme of the summit was "Emerging Opportunities for Ayurveda during Pandemic". The objective of the summit was to showcase the importance of Ayurveda and its immunity build up capability model to the global world through a solution being named as "Health as One " and "Immunity through Ayurveda".

Fiumicino International Airport got world's 1st 5-star Anti-Covid award: Fiumicino Airport is known mainly by "Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport". It is situated in Italy. It is the busiest airport in Italy. It has become the first airport in the world to be certified with "Covid-19 5-star airport rating" from a U.K based airport and airline review firm Skytrax. It has got the distinction  mainly due to checks on its hygiene processes in the airport. The procedural efficiency checks, visual observation anlysis and ATP sampling steps for Covid-19.  

India has now become a member of ECOSOC: India has been elected as a member of Commission on Status of Women, a body under the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) which is a part of United Nations. India is going to have a four year term that is from 2021-2025. Apart from India, countries like Afghanistan, China has also contested to be the member. But they failed to achieve that.  ECOSOC that is Economic and Social Council is part of the United Nations. It is headquartered in New York, USA. It is the central platform to foster sustainable goals and achieve it collectively through consensus among various countries internationally. It is also responsible to follow up major conferences and summits associated with Economic and social well being for the people all over the world.

Tiktok choses Oracle as its technology partner for its U.S operations. TikTok has chosen Oracle as its tech-partner for its U.S operations. There are many companies who were in the race to acquire it. Microsoft was also in a bid to acquire Bytedance company TikTok. But the Chinese major company have chosen Oracle over Microsoft to be its partner. The partnership was signed by the two companies last month. One thing was made very clear as stated by U.S President that TikTok would be blocked in the U.S if it did not sell its entire entities of U.S operations to an American company by 20th September 2020.  Thus U.S is successfully able to make Chinese company bow down to their feet when U.S was suspecting espionage and data theft from TikTok. 

International Tea Day was observed globally on 21st May: International Tea day is celebrated globally on May 21 on the recommendation of India, which is World leader in Tea-production after China. This day is observed to try to improve the condition of tea producers and tea workers worldwide. Tea producing countries make a lot of profit by exporting tea-products worldwide but the conditions of labour working in the tea plantations is very bad. Therefore the purpose of observing May-21 is to encourage the confidence of tea workers, women working there, worker's rights, daily wages etc. HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL TEA DAY: The United Nations General Assembly in New York has designated May 21 as International Tea Day based on a proposal put forwarded by India at the FAO inter-governmental group on Tea in October 2015. Before 2019, it was celebrated on 15th december in many tea-producing countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Uganda, Tanzania, Ke...

World Health Assembly's 73rd session: The 73rd session of World Health Assembly was held through video-conferencing due to Corona virus pandemic. It featured all delegations from W.H.O member countries/states. It focused on specific health agenda which was prepared by group under a executive board. Dr. Harsh Vardhan . Union Health Minister of India participated on behalf of India. He highlighted timely approach and necessary action taken by Indian government to tackle Covid-19 spread. For your kind information guys, WHO is a international decision making organisation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO assembly is responsible to determine policies governing international health.

Facebook buys Giphy, the GIF-maker: Facebook has purchased the American online database and search engine that allows to make GIF files. A report from Axios said that the deal was settled for $400 million. But as usual Facebook is not going to disclose the price of the deal. Before knowing bit about it, let's explore what GIFs are. GIF stands for Graphical Interchange Format, is an animated image you often found in Whatsapp, Instagram, Facebook and other social media platforms. It is an animated image or short soundless video of very short duration like for few seconds only. It plays on a continuous loop without viewers intervention in clicking or pressing the play button. These GIFs convey emotions, jokes, present happenings etc.  And Giphy is one of the largest sites for making such creative animated images. Facebook said that 50% of Giphy's traffic came from their platforms and half of it used to come from Instagram. So, it decided to make Giphy's creation a part of Inst...

Vietnam's success over Covid-19 Pandemic:- Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia on South China Sea. It is famous for its beaches, Buddhist pagodas and bustling cities. Vietnam has a long border with China and a population of about 98 million people. The country has been successful in tackling covid-19 crises despite being a long border with China. Vietnam latest reports show that it has recorded just over 300 cases of Corona-virus with not a single death. It acted early and used each and every measure to contain the virus. The leaders of the country knows very well that they didn't have sufficient medical infrastructure to tackle the crisis if it would been a mild spread of this virus. If cases arising out of USA been replaced to Vietnam hypothetically, then the country would have gone in complete darkness. That is the reason, it acted early and fiercely which seemed to be quite extreme when the outbreak of the virus spreaded from Wuhan, the most probable epicenter of this pa...

TOP 05 MOBILE COMPANIES 2020:- 1. APPLE :-                   Apple Inc is an American multinational technology company. It is headquartered in Cupertino, California that designs, develops and sells electronic products such as iphones, ipods, mac personal computer. It also develops computer software and other online services. 2. Samsung :-                  Samsung is a South-Korean multinational company. It is headquartered in famous Samsung Town, Seoul. The company has multiple bussiness ventures in almost all electronic products. It was founded by Lee Byung-chul way back in 1938. Samsung is successful in almost all of his business ventures. 3. OnePlus :-                    OnePlus is a Chinese mobile manufacturer. It is headquatered in Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is a very recent company started by Pete Lau and Carl Pei in December 2013. It b...

                   Scientists are puzzled over Corona                                          virus Mutations! Scientists and researchers in US and UK have identified hundreds of mutations to the virus which causes this dangerous disease Covid-19. Preliminary research in US suggested that the virus is becoming dominant and could make this disease more infectious. The research team from UK found people with mutated virus seemed to have a larger amount of virus in their samples but they are still confused that they become sicker or stayed in hospital for longer. Theories emerging from several scientists are still theoretical. Many Covid-19 vaccines which are currently in development targeting the virus which are not mutating at the time of research but with time it changes its character, thus making it difficult for the devel...

Are Chinese brands sending private data to China? Is this news true? It’s possible to some extent that Chinese brands are sending private data to China. But authenticity of the news cannot be guaranteed. But one most important thing is that the place associated with manufacturing, Quality check, software check facilities and rules and regulation through which a company has to go before selling its product. If suppose Chinese brands are making Phones in India, manufacturing them in India under Make in India basis, then possibility of leakage of private information is less. India will throughly check its quality, software, licensing etc . So, in particular India act as a filtering process to give its citizen the best possible product , be it from any company or country.