Current Affairs One-Liner: 7th May 2020

• CHDCOVID app- It has been launched by the Chandigarh government to provide COVID-9 related information. It is developed by Society for Promotion of IT in Chandigarh (SPIC).
• Static Part: 
• Lt Governor of Chandigarh: V.P. Singh Badnore
• Awards:- Pulitzer Prize in feature photography – Indian journalist Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand have won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography.
• Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020-Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring, and Nicholas C Coops share the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for a model to predict forest growth in a changing climate. The name of the model is 3-PG (Physiological Principles Predicting Growth).

• Book and Author:-‘Vijyant at Kargil: The life of a Kargil War Hero’- It is the biography of Captain Vijayant Thapar.
• Author of the Book: Col. VN Thapar and Neha Dwivedi
• National Gallery of Modern Art organized a virtual tour titled ‘Gurudev: Journey of the Maestro through his visual vocabulary’. This was launched to commemorate the 159th birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
• CSIR-IGIB Signs MoU with TATA Sons—To License KNOWHOW for FELUDA
• Coronavirus Global Response International Pledging Conference
• Ayush Kavach App- By Uttar Pradesh Government
• Appointments
• ‘Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan’ Campaign—By NITI Aayog and Piramal Foundation

Questions:

Q.1 What is the name of the app launched by Chandigarh to provide COVID-19 related information? 

a. INFOCOVID
b. CHDCOVID
c. CHDCARE
d. SAFECHD

Q.2 Who is the author of the book ‘Vijyant at Kargil: The life of a Kargil War Hero’?
a. Rachna Bisht Rawat.
b. Brig. JP Dalvi
c. Gen VK Singh
d. Col V N Thapar

Q.3 Which of the following organization organized a virtual tour titled‘Gurudev: Journey of the Maestro through his visual vocabulary’?
a. JJ School of Art, Mumbai
b. None of these
c. Ministry of Culture
d. National Gallery of Modern Art