{"id":58084,"date":"2020-04-01T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T15:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=58084"},"modified":"2020-04-01T20:27:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:57:22","slug":"9-pm-current-affairs-brief-april-1st-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-april-1st-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 April 1st, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good Evening Friends<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are posting Todays 9pm Current Affair Brief<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About 9pm Current Affair Brief<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; This initiative provides a brief of all the relevant articles of day in a clear, concise and easily consumable format. Students don\u2019t need to look anywhere more for your daily news bytes. It will help students in their prelims and mains preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For old Archives of 9pm Current Affair Brief, Click on \u201cArchives\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-brief\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9pm Current Affair Briefs Archives<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2192<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/day-after-toddler-s-death-aes-fears-keep-bihar-doctors-on-toes-70097\"><b>Acute Encephalitis Syndrome(AES)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amid coronavirus outbreak, Acute Encephalitis Syndrome(AES) returns in Bihar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acute Encephalitis Syndrome(AES) also known as \u2018Chamki Fever\u2019 or Litchi Virus is an umbrella term used for infections that causes inflammation irritation or swelling on the brain.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cause:<\/strong> Viruses, bacteria, fungi and a range of agents.However, Japanese encephalitis(JE) virus is the most common cause of AES in India<\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms:<\/strong> Acute onset of fever, change in mental status (mental confusion, disorientation, delirium, or coma) and new-onset of seizures.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vulnerable:<\/strong> The disease most commonly affects children below the age of 15 years due to high malnourishment.<\/li>\n<li>Diagnosis: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme in India has set up countrywide surveillance for AES through sentinel sites with a focus on detecting Japanese encephalitis(JEV).<\/span><b>Additional Facts:<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Japanese Encephalitis:<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a mosquito-borne flavivirus and belongs to the same genus as dengue, yellow fever, and West Nile viruses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is no cure for the disease. The treatment is focused on relieving severe clinical signs and supporting the patient to overcome the infection.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[read more]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-what-is-the-rapid-test-kerala-is-rolling-out-for-covid-19-exposure\/\"><b>Explained: What is Rapid Test<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kerala government has announced \u2018rapid test\u2019 to tackle the suspicion of whether the novel coronavirus has spread into the community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rapid test is a speedy test conducted to determine whether there has been any kind of recent viral infection in a person\u2019s body.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a pathogen enters a human body, specific antibodies are released as a response to the virus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A rapid test can detect the presence of such antibodies in blood, serum or plasma samples quickly indicating a viral infection.It is conducted usually to check for community transmission of a virus during an epidemic.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1609489\"><b>Stranded in India Portal<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Ministry of Tourism has launched the Stranded in India Portal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To extend support to the foreign tourists who are stranded in India by providing information like helpline numbers or call-centres that the foreign tourists can reach out to for help.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloombergquint.com\/business\/rbi-raises-governments-ways-and-means-advances-limit-for-h1-fy21\"><b>Ways and Means Advances<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has increased the limit on Ways and Means Advance (WMA) by 60% to support the cash flow mismatch expected from higher spending to combat the spread of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ways and Means Advances(WMA) Scheme was introduced in 1997. These are temporary loan facilities provided by the Reserve Bank of India(RBI) to the central and state governments.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this, the government can avail immediate cash from the RBI.But it has to return the amount within 90 days.Interest is charged at the existing repo rate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">limits for Ways and Means Advances(WMA) are decided by the government and RBI mutually and revised periodically.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Types of WMA: a) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Special WMA: It is extended against the collateral of the government securities held by the State Government and <\/span><b>b) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Normal WMA: It is based on a three-year average of actual revenue and capital expenditure of the state. It is not collateral-based.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/tech\/science\/nasa-announced-new-sunrise-mission-to-study-giant-solar-particle-storms-8211131.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NASA announces SUNRISE Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) Mission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To study how the Sun generates and releases solar particle storms into planetary space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SunRISE contains six CubeSats which will observe radio images of low-frequency emission from solar activity and create 3D maps to locate the origin place of a solar particle storm on the Sun.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Significance: Help in greater understanding of the solar system and safeguard astronauts from solar storms while they travel to Mars or the Moon<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Additional Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Solar storms:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Also called geomagnetic storms, they&#8217;re caused by disturbances in the Sun that send charged particles into space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\":8f.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">[\/read]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Evening Friends We are posting Todays 9pm Current Affair Brief About 9pm Current Affair Brief &#8211; This initiative provides a brief of all the relevant articles of day in a clear, concise and easily consumable format. Students don\u2019t need to look anywhere more for your daily news bytes. It will help students in their&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-april-1st-2020\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 April 1st, 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":48116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9-pm-brief","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/9-PM-Brief.png?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704940804},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}