Current Affairs 2020 For July 2020 | Daily Quiz

1. India’s renowned mathematician and Padma Bhushan awardee Conjeevaram Srirangachari Seshadri passed away in Chennai on July 17, 2020 at the age of 88. CS Seshadri founded the Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI) as part of the SPIC Science Foundation in 1989 and was its director-emeritus until his demise. Among his notable works are the Narasimhan–Seshadri theorem, proved together with fellow Mathematician MS Narasimhan in 1965. The mathematician was known for his work in algebraic geometry and a term is named after him. What is the name of the term?

Seshadri Variable
Seshadri Theorem
Seshadri Postulation
Seshadri Constant

2. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Ethics Committee on Saturday, 18th July 2020 gave its approval for conducting the human clinical trial of which indigenously developed COVID-19 vaccine?

Covaxin
Coronil
Coronaxe
Covaxit

3. A statue, which was discovered while digging the foundation for a house in Pakistan’s Pashtun-dominated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Mardan district, was smashed into pieces by local construction workers on Saturday because they considered the relic to be unIslamic, drawing the ire of the authorities concerned. The statue was discovered in Mardan’s Takht Bhai area, which was a part of the Gandhara civilisation, while the workers were digging to lay the foundation for the under-construction house. Whose statue was it?

Mahavir Swamy
Buddha
Shiva
Ram

4. Whom did the BCCI has appointed as the interim CEO of the board as announced on July 13, 2020?

Rahul Johri
Sachin Tendulkar
Hemang Amin
Sourav Ganguly

5. Can you name the India's wealthiest woman who is now the chairperson of HCL Technologies, the Noida-based IT company as announced on Friday 17th July 2020?

Leena Nair
Roshni Nadar Malhotra
Neeta Ambani
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

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