Daily One Liners Current Affairs (11 April 2020) | Most Important For All Competitive Exams💈NATIONAL AFFAIRS💈 🔹Madhya Pradesh railways designs mobile doctor booth called ‘CHARAK’ for zero-contact check-ups 🔸Hindustan Unilever joins hands with UNICEF to launch ‘BreakTheChain’ campaign against coronavirus ✔️ About United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): 💈INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS💈 🔱COVID-19 risked 400 mn Indian workers to face poverty: ILO Monitor 2nd edition Report ⚜️China became top patent filer via PCT system; India’s IIT in PCT filers while Nirsan Connect among Madrid system 💈ECONOMY & BUSINESS💈 🌐Goldman Sachs lowers India’s growth forecast for FY 21 to 1.6% from 3.3% 🧷About Goldman Sachs: 📎India’s FY21 GDP projected at 4.8%;Asia-Pacific needs $880 mn/year health emergency fund amid COVID19: UN report 💈AWARDS💈 📌Ben Stokes becomes first English player since 2005 to be named Wisden’s Leading Cricketer 📌Jeff Bezos tops, Mukesh Ambani ranked 17th: 34th Forbes billionaires List 2020 💈APPOINTMENTS💈 📝Anamika Roy Rashtrawar appointed as MD & CEO of IFFCO Tokio General Insurance 🔏Centre approves extension of Bank Board Bureau members’ tenure by 2 years 💈SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY💈 ♏️Centre launches 1st of its kind iGOT e-learning portal on DIKSHA platform of MHRD 🆔Housing & Urban Affairs ministry releases revised version of Swachhata app to answer queries related to coronavirus ⚛️CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune ties up with BEL to produce medical devices 🉑COVID-19: JNCASR develops antimicrobial coating to stop spread of viruses ☢️Indian Immunologicals ties up with Australian university to develop vaccine for Coronavirus 💐OBITUARY💐 💐Grammy winner, american folk singer, songwriter John Prine passed away at 73 💐Italian Olympic 800 meters finalist Donato Sabia passed away at 56 💈BOOKS & AUTHORS💈 📓Actor Jim Carrey & writer Dana Vachon authored a novel “Memoirs and Misinformation” 📕The Book titled ‘The Wizenard Series: Season One’- created by Kobe Bryant & authored by Wesley King 📗The Pulitzer Prize winner, American reporter Mary Jordan authors a book- ‘The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump’ |