DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (01 MAY 2020)

🔷 01 May : International Workers’ Day also known as International Labour Day

🔷 Maharashtra, Gujarat celebrates state formation day on 1 May

🔷 Bollywood Legend Rishi Kapoor Passes Away at 67

🔷 National Film Award for Best Child Artist for his role in Mera Naam Joker (1970)

🔷 Neeraj Vyas Appointed as Interim MD and CEO of PNB Housing Finance

🔷 Shikha Sharma named advisor to Google Pay India

🔷 USAID announces USD 3 million Grant for India to fight COVID-19

🔷 KVGB Launches Collateral free MSME Loan Scheme ‘Vikas Abhaya’

🔷 India ranked 53rd in budget transparency, accountability in IBP survey; Top- New Zealand

🔷 Chhattisgarh top state in providing employment to workers under MGNREGS

🔷 Rajasthan is on second while Uttar Pradesh is on the third.

🔷 MP Govt Launches ‘Jeevan Amrit Yojana’ scheme to boost immunity system of citizens

🔷 Nitin Gadkari launches “MSME Bank of Schemes, Ideas, Innovation and Research” portal

🔷 Legendary footballer Chuni Goswami passed away at 82

🔷 US Navy to host world’s largest maritime exercises ‘Rim of the Pacific’ in Hawaii

🔷 Cauvery Water Management Authority brought under Jal Shakti Ministry

🔷 Tripura start ‘neighborhood classes’ besides tele-classes for students amid lockdown

🔷 Assam SDMA engages 14,000 citizens as ‘Pratirodhi Bondhu’ to fight against COVID-19

🔷 T. S. Tirumurti appointed as Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to UN

🔷 Deepak Mittal is India’s new Ambassador to Qatar

🔷 Piyush Srivastava is India New Ambassador to Bahrain

🔷 Thangjam Dhabali Singh conferred ‘Order of Rising Sun’ by Japan

🔷 Manulife acquired 49% stake in Mahindra AMC for Rs 265 crore

🔷 Reliance increases its stake to 26.3% in US-based tech company SkyTran

🔷 India Meteorological Department (IMD), releases list of 169 names for upcoming tropical cyclones

🔷 A book titled “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir” authored by John Bolton

🔷 FIFA launches #WeWillWin campaign for health workers

🔷 AYURAKSHA programme was organized for Delhi Police

🔷 Agra Smart City launched GIS dashboard to monitor COVID-19 hot-spots

🔷 Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune developed a microwave sterilizer named “ATULYA”.

🔷 Ramayan creates world record for Highest Viewed Entertainment Programme Globally; 77 million

🔷 Amazon India sets up ‘Partner Support Fund for small and medium businesses in logistics’

🔷 IIT-Delhi team develop COVID-19 dashboard ‘PRACRITI’

🔷 ADB to support Maharashtra with $346 mn loan for power sector

🔷 Deepak Agarwal banned by ICC from all cricket for 2 years