DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (13 MAY 2020)

🔷 Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) Releases New Song ‘United We Fight’ To Strengthen India’s Fight Against COVID-19

🔷 The song ‘United We Fight’ is written and composed by Joe Alvares

🔷 TVS Group, Sundaram Med, IIT-Madras develop low-cost, automated respiratory assists device called ‘The Sundaram Ventago’.

🔷 Manoj Ahuja appointed as the new Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairman

🔷 All India Football Federation (AIFF) has nominated Sandesh Jhingan and N Bala Devi for this year’s Arjuna Award.

🔷 French cyclist Di Gregorio given four-year ban after conclusion of 2018 doping case

🔷 Actor Shafique Ansari, who starred in Sony TV’s show Crime Patrol, has died.

🔷 Former National Table Tennis Champion Manmeet Singh Walia Dies

🔷 PM Modi announces special economic package worth Rs 20 lakh crore to kick-start economy

🔷 US’ Control and Prevention (CDC) commits USD 3.6 million to India”s COVID-19 fight

🔷 China Launches Two Satellites to Test Space-based Communications Technology

🔷 The satellites, Xingyun-2 01 and 02, were launched by a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) carrier rocket

🔷 Indian Journalist Siddharth Varadarajan Conferred with Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award

🔷 Freedom of Speech Award presented by German public news outlet Deutsche Welle

🔷 Morgan Stanley projects India GDP growth for 2020 at 0%; For 2021 at 7.7%

🔷 Department of Consumer Affairs partners with Safejob and Seekify to power “Suraksha Store Initiative”

🔷 Gujarat based Macpower produces India’s 1st indigenous Seam Sealing Machine for PPEs

🔷 Jitendra Singh addresses Indo-Bangladesh Virtual Conference organised by ASSOCHAM

🔷 WHO released first “State of the World’s Nursing Report – 2020” stating a global shortfall of 5.9 mn nurses

🔷 FIFA U-17 World Cup to be held in India from 17 Feb 2021

🔷 Ministry of Tourism organized 18th webinar titled Odisha-Indias Best kept secret under Dekho Apna Desh series

🔷 Jammu and Kashmir to provide tap water to every household by 2022 December

🔷 Anunta won VMware 2020 Regional Partner of the Year Award

🔷 Tribal Affairs Minister held video conference on “Tribal livelihoods and safety”

🔷 New Development Bank (NDB)provides USD 1 billion loan to India to fight COVID-19

🔷 Study states that Indias under-5 mortality rate since 2000 dropped by 49%

🔷 IIT-Guwahati organized Poster Making Competition under Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Campaign

🔷 TDB & CII organises Digital Conference “RE-START”

🔷 RE-START : Reboot the Economy through Science, Technology and Research Translations

🔷 Sania Mirza becomes 1st Indian to win Fed Cup Heart Award

🔷 GI tag for Tamil Nadu’s Thanjavur Netti and Arumbavur Wood carving

🔷 Jharkhand’s Sohrai Khovar painting & Telangana’s Telia Rumal gets GI-Tag