Daily One Liners Current Affairs (29 APRIL 2020)

🔷 29 April : International Dance Day

🔷 IIT Delhi Launches Dashboard ‘PRACRITI’ to predict district, state wise Covid-19 transmission rate

🔷 Team led by IIT Bombay Develops low-cost mechanical ventilator Ruhdaar

🔷 Andhra Pradesh CM launches ‘Jagananna Vidya Deevena’ Scheme for 100% Fee Reimbursement

🔷 Australia cancels premier multilateral air combat training exercise Pitch Black 2020

🔷 ADB approves $1.5 billion loan to India to help fund its fight against Covid-19

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

🔷 Axis Bank to buy 29% in Max Life Insurance, total stake to rise to 30%

🔷 Airtel signs deal worth $1 billion with Nokia to improve 4G network experience

🔷 UK Finance Minister unveils 100% state-backed ‘Bounce Back Loan Scheme’ for small businesses

🔷 A report titled “Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019” released by SIPRI

🔷 India third largest military spender in world, after US and China

🔷 India Ratings lowers GDP growth rate further to 1.9%

🔷 G20 launches ‘Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator’ Initiative

🔷 Ladakh’s Aksai Chin is part of China: WHO map

🔷 Shiv Das Meena appointed as Chairman & Managing Director of HUDCO

🔷 Gujarat govt launches unique initiative ‘Umbare Aanganwadi’ to help children during lockdown

🔷 AP launched ‘Covid Pharma’, a mobile application to trace people buying medicines for fever, cold

🔷 Agartala Smart City uses Mobile Kiosk for COVID-19 sample testing

🔷 Economic decline of 2.7 percent expected in APEC region post-COVID-19 pandemic

🔷 Justice Dipankar Datta sworn in as Chief Justice of Bombay HC

🔷 Suresh N. Patel appointed as the vigilance commissioner in Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)

🔷 India loses hosting rights of the 2021 men’s world boxing championship to Serbia