Daily One Liners Current Affairs (06 APRIL 2020)

🔷 06 April : International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

🔷 05 April : National Maritime Day

🔷 04 April : International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action

🔷 Theme 2020 : ” Advancing Protection, Peace and Development.”

🔷 Indian Railways develops low-cost ventilator prototype named “Jeevan”

🔷 Civil Services Association Launches Initiative ‘CARUNA’ to help Government Fight Coronavirus

🔷 India Launches Operation “Sanjeevani” to Send 6.7 Tones of medical assistance to Maldives

🔷 Kobe Bryant inducted into NBA’s Hall of Fame (Basketball)

🔷 After SBI, Govt nominates IOB for collecting donations for PM Cares Fund

🔷 Naveen Patnaik awarded with ‘Hero to Animals Award’ by PETA India

🔷 Asian Youth Games to be held in China from November 20 to 28, 2021

🔷 ‘Smart Triplets’ Launched As Official Mascots of 19th Asian Games, Hangzhou

🔷 Congcong, Lianlian and Chenchen, collectively named as the ‘smart triplets’.

🔷 Indian-origin virologist in South Africa Gita Ramjee Passes Away from coronavirus

🔷 Govt Launches Mobile App ‘AarogyaSetu’ To Help People Track Spread Of Coronavirus

🔷 Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam Develops Oxygen Cylinder MOM for COVID-19 patients

🔷 IBM Launches ‘Watson Assistant for Citizens’ to Quickly Address Covid-19 Queries

🔷 ADB Estimates India’s GDP for FY’21 at 4 Percent; 6.2% for FY’22

🔷 ICMR recommends antibody test for speedy detection of COVID-19 cases

🔷Minister of State Human Resource Development launches ‘Hack the Crisis-India’ hackathon

🔷 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup, scheduled in November postponed

🔷 Home minister Amit shah approves Rs 11,092 crore for all states to deal with coronavirus

🔷 Fitch declined India growth forecast to 2% for FY21 from 5.1%

🔷 SEBI whole time member (WTM) Madhabi Puri Buch gets 6 month extension

🔷 Union HRD Minister launches MHRD AICTE COVID-19 for students

🔷 Pune based company develops technology- “Scitech Airon negative ion generator”

🔷 Bione launches India’s 1st home screening test kit for COVID-19

🔷 IIT Roorkee in association with AIIMS-Rishikesh prepares low-cost portable ventilator ‘Prana-vayu’

🔷 2021 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama postponed to 2022

🔷 Army Medical Corps celebrates its 256th Raising Day: April 3,

🔷 NCC volunteer cadets to fight COVID-19 under ‘Exercise NCC Yogdan’

🔷 UNGA adopts ‘Global solidarity to fight the COVID-19’ resolution

🔷 IISc Bengaluru develops indigenous ventilator prototype: COVID-19 crisis

🔷 Geo-fencing app to locate quarantine violators

🔷 World Bank approves $1 billion emergency funds for India: COVID-19

🔷 Odisha Govt in collaboration with UNICEF launches “Mo Prativa”