DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (02 APRIL 2020)

🔷 02 April : World Autism Awareness Day

🔷 Theme 2020 : “The transition of adulthood.”

🔷 Wimbledon organizers cancelled the Wimbledon Championships 2020 due to the coronavirus

🔷 Andhra Pradesh to give away house sites on 14 April under Navaratnalu-Pedalandariki Illu program

🔷 Indigram awarded the winners of the Adhunik Gram program

🔷 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to hold virtual meeting on coronavirus outbreak

🔷 Wipro, Azim Premji Foundation commit Rs 1,125 cr to tackle COVID-19 crisis

🔷 First made-in-India testing kit for novel coronavirus named ‘Patho Detect’

🔷 ‘Patho Detect’ launched at Mylab Discovery in Pune

🔷‘Patho Detect’ developed by team led by virologist Minal Dakhave Bhosale

🔷 Karnataka CM donates annual salary of Rs 24.10 lakh to the ‘CM Relief Fund COVID-19’

🔷 IRDAI announces Arogya Sanjeevani insurance policy for COVID-19

🔷 Centre redefines domicile rule for Jammu & Kashmir

🔷 COVID-19 tracking app ‘Aarogya Setu’ launched by the government

🔷 Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, laureate Phillip Anderson passed away at 96

🔷 NASA to launch new mission ‘SunRISE’ to study the Giant Solar Particle Storms

🔷 Hindustan Unilever completes its merger with GSKCH India

🔷 Lakshminarayanan appointed as MD of Sundaram Home Finance

🔷 World Banks offers USD 1 billion for proposed COVID-19 Indian project

🔷 Poverty to increase by 11 mn in East Asia and Pacific due to COVID-19

🔷 Jitendra Singh launched DARPG’s National Monitoring Dashboard for COVID- 19 Grievances

🔷 ICCR: “United Against Corona- Express through Art”

🔷 Legendary NCERT Historian Arjun Dev Passes Away at 81

🔷 Book Titled ‘Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess’ Authored by Satyarth Nayak

🔷 Karnataka Government Launches ‘Corona Watch’ App

🔷 PhonePe launches coronavirus hospitalisation insurance policy ‘Corona Care’

🔷 PhonePe has partnered with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance for this “Corona Care”.

🔷 RBI sets WMA for Central Government at Rs 1,20,000 crore for first half of FY21

🔷 S&P Further Slashes India’s GDP Forecast to 3.5% from 5.2% for FY21

🔷 DARPG launches “National Monitoring Dashboard on COVID-19 Grievances”

🔷 Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020 extended up to 31st March, 2021

🔷 UN COP26 Climate Change Summit postponed to 2021

🔷 Padma Shri awardee Bhai Nirmal Singh passes away

🔷 Ministry of Tourism launches ‘Stranded in India’ portal

🔷 “Active Case Finding Campaign” begins in Himachal Pradesh ,COVID-19

🔷 ‘Modi Kitchen’ has been set up in the Kovai (Coimbatore), Tamil Nadu

🔷 BhartPe & ICICI lombard tie up to launch COVID-19 insurance

🔷 IIT Kanpur to develop low-cost portable ventilator

🔷 IIT Guwahati team develops drone to sanitise large areas