Daily One Liners Current Affairs(24 APRIL 2020)🔷 24 April : National Panchayati Raj Day 🔷 24 April : World Day for Laboratory Animals 🔷 24 April : International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace 🔷 Government reconstitutes National Shipping Board; Head- Malini Shankar 🔷 Fitch Ratings predicts India’s GDP growth for FY21 at 0.8%; For FY22 at 6.7% 🔷 Fitch Ratings Expects Global Economy to Shrink by 3.9% in 2020 🔷 Remittances to India likely to decline by 23% in 2020 due to COVID-19: World Bank Report 🔷 Iran’s Alireza Firouzja defeats Magnus Carlsen of Norway in final of Banter Blitz Cup 🔷 Renowned Thespian Usha Ganguly Passes Away at 75 🔷 HRD Minister launches ‘VidyaDaan 2.0’ for inviting e-learning content contributions 🔷 JKSLSA launches helpline under ‘Serve-the-Seniors Initiative’ for senior citizens 🔷 Karnataka govt launches “Apthamitra” helpline and app to fight COVID-19 🔷 SC quashes order providing 100% reservation to ST candidates in scheduled areas of Andhra Pradesh 🔷 Rajnath Singh inaugurates DRDO developed mobile laboratory to test COVID-19 samples 🔷 India approves US$ 1 million to Antigua as project outlay 🔷 “Lockdown Learners” series launched with students & educators in India on COVID-19 🔷 Lebanon becomes 1st Arab nation to legalise cannabis farming 🔷 IOB launches Working Capital Demand Loan for agriculture sector: COVID-19 🔷 India’s GDP growth likely to grow at 1.5% in current FY: CII 🔷 Federal Bank to acquire additional stake of up to 4% in IDBI Federal Life Insurance 🔷 CSIR-IGIB scientists develops ”Feluda” a low-cost coronavirus test strip 🔷 SpaceX launches Falcon 9 carrier rocket with 60 satellites Starlink 🔷 World Games Birmingham unveils new logo, title for 2022 edition 🔷 Mairabai Chanu and Jeremy Lalrinnunga qualifies for Tokyo Olympics confirmed by IWF 🔷 Shilpa Medicare launched the anti-cancer drug Dasashil 🔷 Minister of HRD launched the #MyBookMyFriendcampaign 🔷 Ministry of Tourism presented its 7th webinar of Dekho Apna Desh Webinar Series 🔷 NBT & FICCI organizes WEBINAR on Post-COVID Publishing Scenario 🔷 Mizoram: Mobile app ‘mCOVID19’ to act as online pass for drivers and handymen 🔷 COVID-19: China announces additional USD 30 million grant for WHO 🔷 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) named World Book Capital for 2020 |