Daily One Liners Current Affairs (22 APRIL 2020)

🔷 22 April : Earth Day

🔷 Theme 2020 : “Climate Action”

🔷 21 April : World Creativity and Innovation Day

🔷 21 April : National Civil Services Day

🔷 Kapil Dev Tripathi appointed Secretary to the President of India

🔷 BRO Constructs Daporijo Bridge over Subansiri River in Arunachal Pradesh

🔷 Gujarat govt gives green signal to “Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan”

🔷 David Li appointed as CEO of Huawei India

🔷 Former Prime Minister of Fiji Laisenia Qarase Passes Away

🔷 Fitch Solution cuts India’s GDP growth forecast for FY21 to 1.8%

🔷 China begins testing of digital currency – DC/EP

🔷 Charles Leclerc wins Chinese Virtual Grand Prix

🔷 ICICI Bank launches voice banking services on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant

🔷 Uttar Pradesh Becomes First Indian State to Geotag Community Kitchens & Shelters

🔷 HDFC Bank launches Safety Grid campaign to reinforce #socialdistancing

🔷 HRD Minister reviews National online education platform ‘SWAYAM’

🔷 MP Anganwadi workers, Assistants to get benefit of CM COVID-19 Yoddha Kalyan Yojana

🔷 Finance Minister attended 5th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of NDB

🔷 New Development Bank’s to provide 1 billion dollar emergency assistance to India

🔷 Donald Trump appointed Indian-American Sudarsanam Babu to the country’s top science board.

🔷 Bombay, Orissa, Meghalaya high courts to get new chief justices

🔷 Dipankar Datta as new Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.

🔷 Biswanath Somadder as new Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court.

🔷 Mohammad Rafiq as new Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.

🔷 Rudratej Singh, the President and CEO of BMW Group India, passed away

🔷 Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune Develop ‘bug sniffer’ for detection of pathogens

🔷 Govt launches Dashboard ‘COVID Warriors’ Containing Details of Healthcare Professionals

🔷 RBI cancels license of Goa’s oldest Mapusa urban co-operative bank

🔷 N Kamakodi re-appointed as MD & CEO of City Union Bank

🔷 HSBC appoints Noel Quinn as Chief Executive Officer

🔷 Health ministry launches platform on coronavirus called ‘COVID India Seva’

🔷 Rajasthan government partners with ‘Aayu’ to tackle COVID-19

🔷 A book titled “How the Onion Got Its Layers” authored by Sudha Murty Released

🔷 Bhaichung Bhutia among 50 footballers to take part in FIFA’s initiative to applaud ‘humanity’s heroes’

🔷 Pune develops Saiyam app to track home-quarantines citizens

🔷 Himachal Pradesh rolls out “e-sanjeevani-opd” for free online medical consultation to sick people.

🔷 High-speed magnetic RAM developed by IIT-Mandi

🔷 Indian Navy formed “Air Evacuation Pod” for Covid-19 patients

🔷 Facebook launches 3rd party fact check system in Bangladesh

🔷 BCCI creates ‘Team Mask Force’ to spread awareness against COVID-19

🔷 India ranks 142nd on global press freedom index 2020, top Norway