{"id":58217,"date":"2020-04-04T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=58217"},"modified":"2020-04-04T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:25:33","slug":"9-pm-current-affairs-brief-april-4th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/9-pm-current-affairs-brief-april-4th-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"9 PM Current Affairs Brief \u2013 April 4th, 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.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/iaf-airlifts-62-tonne-essential-drugs-to-maldives\/article31240436.ece\"><b>Operation Sanjeevani<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian Air Force(IAF) with the assistance of Indian army has conducted Operation Sanjeevani to supply essential medicines and hospital consumables to Maldives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Additional Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Other Operations in News:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Operation Sankalp:<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was conducted by the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to ensure the safety and security of Indian ships.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Operation Vanilla:<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was conducted by Indian Navy to support flood-hit Madagascar.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Operation Kayla Mueller:<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a United States led military operation in Syria that targeted Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leadership notably its leader,Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Operation Peace Spring:<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was conducted by Turkey against the Syrian Kurdish militia (YPG) in Northeast Syria.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[read more]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/coronavirus-geo-fencing-app-will-be-used-to-locate-quarantine-violators\/article31241055.ece\"><b>Explained:What is Geo-fencing?<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of India has planned to use the &#8216;Geo-Fencing App&#8217; to locate quarantine violators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Geo-fencing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:It is a location-based service which uses GPS, RFID, Wi-Fi or cellular data to trigger a pre-programmed action when a person or device enters or exits a virtual boundary set up around a geographical location known as a geofence.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Authorisation: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act,1885 authorises State or Centre to access information of a user\u2019s phone data in case of occurrence of any public emergency or in the interest of public safety.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Additional Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Radio-Frequency Identification(RFID):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the use of radio waves to read and capture information stored on a tag attached to an object.A tag can be read from up to several feet away and does not need to be within the direct line-of-sight of the reader to be tracked.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Wi-Fi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is a radio transmission technology that allows digital devices to use high-speed internet without direct cable connections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Global Positioning System (GPS): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a U.S.-owned satellite-based radio navigation system that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2020\/nasa-university-of-nebraska-release-new-global-groundwater-maps-and-us-drought-forecasts\"><b>GRACE-FO Mission<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NASA has released new global maps mapping groundwater, soil wetness using GRACE-FO mission satellites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Facts:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission was launched in 2018.It is a successor to the original GRACE mission which orbited Earth from 2002-2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Bodies involved:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a partnership project between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences(GFZ).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Objective:<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To map Earth&#8217;s gravity field every 30 days in order to monitor changes in underground water storage, the amount of water in lakes, soil moisture, ice sheets, glaciers and sea level<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\":8f.co\" class=\"tL8wMe EMoHub\" dir=\"ltr\">[\/read]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Evening Friends We are posting Todays 9pm Current Affair Brief About 9pm Current Affair Brief &#8211; 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