Daily One Liners Current Affairs (26 APRIL 2020)

🔷 26 April : World Intellectual Property Day

🔷 Theme 2020 : ” Innovate for a Green Future”

🔷 26 April : International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day

🔷 Sanjay Kothari takes oath as Central Vigilance Commissioner

🔷 World Bank Approves Rs 585 cr for Himachal Pradesh State Roads Transformation Project

🔷 Singapore’s Caladium Investment hikes stake in Bandhan Bank to 4.49%

🔷 HDFC acquires 6.43% stake in Reliance Capital

🔷 CARE Ratings predicts India’s GDP growth rate for FY21 at 1.1 to 1.2%

🔷 Facebook launches ‘Messenger Rooms’ for group video chat

🔷 NASA Develops high-pressure ventilator ‘VITAL’ to fight COVID-19

🔷 Kerala govt hospital launches ‘KARMI-Bot’ to serve COVID-19 patients

🔷 Assam Govt Launches ‘Dhanwantari’ Scheme for home delivery of Medicines to Patients

🔷 IIITM-Kerala develops AI search engine ‘Vilokana’ for COVID-19 studies

🔷 Andhra govt revives ‘zero interest’ loan scheme for women self-help groups

🔷 Country’s foreign exchange reserves surge by over 3 billion dollars

🔷 International Hockey Federation (FIH) Pro League Season 2 extended by one year

🔷 Vodafone Idea partners with Paytm to launch ‘Recharge Saathi’ programme

🔷 CISF launches ‘e-karyalay’ app for movement of files

🔷 Uttar Pradesh Becomes first state to have in-house facility of virtual courts

🔷 UNODC Launches ‘Lockdown Learners’ Series for Indian students & teachers

🔷 Pralhad Joshi sets 710 MT coal production target for Coal India Limited in FY 20-21

🔷 Iran launched Noor, its first military satellite

🔷 Astronomers found 19 asteroids orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune

🔷 China names its first Mars exploration mission to be launched later in 2020 as Tianwen-1

🔷 UNCTAD cancels USD 1 trillion debts owed by developing countries

🔷 Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the 30th anniversary on 24 April 2020.

🔷 CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan launches Jeevan Shakti Yojana in MP