Daily Current Affairs Quiz – 27 May 2020

Former coach of the Italian professional football club ‘Inter Milan’ Gigi Simoni has passed away at the age of 81.
As a player, Simoni played as an attacking midfielder for Mantova, Napoli, Torino, Juventus, Brescia and Genoa from 1959-1974.

Airtel Payments Bank (APBL) has partnered with Mastercard to develop customized products for the underbanked spectrum including farmers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and retail customers.
The collaboration aims at building a digital platform which provides farmers with knowledge about advanced farming techniques and connection to marketplaces, while simultaneously enabling them to receive payments directly in their Airtel Payments Bank account.

An Indian-American inventor Dr. Rajiv Joshi has bagged the prestigious Inventor of the Year award for the year 2020 for his pioneering work in advancing the electronic industry and improving artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Dr Joshi works at the IBM Thomson Watson Research Center in New York.
The $5,000.00 award is presented every year by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) in recognition of the contribution that the invention has and/or will make towards society as a whole.

Under Open Skies treaty is a forum of 34 member countries including Russia, to fly their aircraft over each other’s territory and came into force on January 1, 2002.
Under the treaty, the member nation can operate unarmed aerial surveillance flights over the entire territory of its participants to enhance mutual understanding and confidence by giving all participants equal opportunity in gathering information about military forces and activities which might be of concern to them.

The research and rating agency CRISIL has revised its forecast downwards again and expects Indian economy to contract 5 percent in fiscal 2020-21. This was 1.8 percent in last prediction.
This means India’s GDP growth for FY21 has been estimated to be -5%

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways of India Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the 440 metre-long tunnel, constructed below the busy town of Chamba, on Rishikesh-Dharasu road Highway(NH 94) as part of the Chardham Connectivity Project.
The tunnel has been developed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).

The United States has announced that the country is leaving the Open Skies treaty for a period of six months, effective from 23 May 2020.
US President Donald Trump took this decision, due to the non-compliance of Russia with the treaty.

The United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth has listed Manipur’s Khudol (gift) among the top 10 global initiatives, for an inclusive fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Khudol is a crowdfunded initiative of Imphal-based NGO ‘Ya_All’, ensuring food, health and hygiene of the LGBTQI+ community, people living with HIV, daily-wage earners, children and adolescents.

New York City, United States

A Mumbai based startup, VAMS Global, has come up with the world’s first contactless Visitor Management Software, having various features such as temperature scanner and mask detection, without coming in contact.
The software, called VAMS SafeGuard, follows no touch no queue visitors entry and can scan body temperature, detect mask on faces among other things, while following social distancing on the premises.

Explanation: Himachal Pradesh

Explanation: Geneva, Switzerland

Explanation: Gangtok, Sikkim,