Daily One Liners Current Affairs (14 & 15 APRIL 2020)

🔷 14 April : World Chagas Disease Day

🔷 14 April : Ambedkar Jayanti

🔷 In 2020, we are marking the 129th birth anniversary of Babasaheb

🔷 11 April : National Pet Day 2020

🔷 YES Bank extends bancassurance partnership with Max Life Insurance for 5 years

🔷 Barclays predicts India’s GDP growth for CY2020 at 0%; For FY21 at 0.8%

🔷 IMF predicts India’s GDP growth for FY21 at 1.9%; For FY22 at 7.4%

🔷 Jharkhand Hospitals Employ Robots to serve food & medicine to COVID-19 patients

🔷 Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog & National Informatics Centre (NIC) jointly launches CollabCAD

🔷 AIIMS Rishikesh Collaborates with BEL to Co-develop India’s First Remote Health Monitoring System for COVID-19 Patients

🔷 DRDO develops Safe COVID-19 Sample Collection Kiosk (COVSACK)

🔷 Indian Railways’ First ‘Walk Through Mass Sanitizing Tunnel’ Installed at Ahmedabad Railway Station

🔷 IIT Bombay Team Develops Digital Stethoscope ‘AyuSynk’ for remote auscultation

🔷 ADB increases COVID-19 response package to $20 billion from $6.5 bn

🔷 Former Attorney General of India Ashok Desai passes away at 77

🔷 Indian Army observes 36th Siachen Day on 13th April

🔷 IIT Bombay researchers get patent for smart stethoscope “AyuDevice”

🔷 Pohela Boishakh 2020: Bengali New Year

🔷 Google Pay launches ‘Nearby Spot’ to help users find local stores selling essentials

🔷 Agricultural trading portal e-NAM to complete 4 years

🔷 CSIR forms core strategy group to find early measures to prevent COVID-19

🔷 Goa becomes the first state to integrate allopathy and Ayurveda to treat COVID-19 patients

🔷 CII report “Exit From The Lockdown” recommended phase-wise lifting of lockdown

🔷 UN releases $ 2.5 million to help cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu

🔷 Retail inflation lowers to 5.91% in March 2020 against 6.58% in February 2020

🔷 India’s GDP to contract by 6.1% in April-June: Japan’s Nomura

🔷 Bank credit growth decelerated to 5-decade low of 6.14% in FY20

🔷 Four Indian-Americans is awarded Guggenheim fellowships 2020

🔷 Pradeep Sharma , Kavita Ramanan , Dilip Da Cunha & Mukul Sharma

🔷 US clears sale of Harpoon missile and torpedoes priced a total of $155 million to India

🔷 C-DOT and Telecom Service Providers develop COVID Quarantine Alert System

🔷 Kerala becomes the first state to commence clinical trial plasma therapy treatment

🔷 IFFCO organizes continual awareness campaigns ‘Break the CORONA Chain’ on ground zero

🔷 OPEC and Russia agreed to cut crude oil production amid Coronavirus crisis

🔷 WB South Asia Economic Focus report: Indian economy grows at 1.5-2.8% in FY21

🔷 India becomes top Hydroxychloroquine producer & exporter with 70% annual global share

🔷 UGC constitutes 2 expert committees for examination & online education: COVID-19

🔷 Sara Ali khan appointed as the ambassador of James Bullough Lansing (JBL)

🔷 DPIIT constitutes 25-member development council for pulp, paper and allied industries headed by A S Mehta

🔷 China’s central bank increases its stake to 1% in HDFC; SAMA also bought 0.7% stake

🔷 HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal “Nishank” launched web-portal YUKTI in New Delhi

🔷 NIF developed herbal dewormer “wormivet” for livestock owners

🔷 India to host Asian Boxing Championships 2020 in Nov-Dec

🔷 Manipur Govt introduces ‘Food Bank’ initiative for poor and needy people