TOP DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (22 MAY 2020)

🔷 22 May : International Day for Biological Diversity

🔷 Theme 2020 : “Our solutions are in nature”

🔷 Reserve Bank extends Rs 15,000-cr credit line to EXIM Bank

🔷 World Bank names Carmen Reinhart as chief economist and vice president

🔷 Govt extends Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana till 31 March 2023; Lowers Interest Rate to 7.4%

🔷 Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Scheme Launched in Chhattisgarh for Farmers Welfare

🔷 Didi Vehicle Service Launched in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh

🔷 Rural Livelihood Mission begins Didi Vehicle Service for safe delivery of rural women

🔷 Flipkart partners with Bajaj Allianz to offer digital, hassle-free motor insurance

🔷 Union HRD Minister launches IGNOU’s Online MA Hindi Programme

🔷 UP launches ‘Startup Fund’ signs MoU with SIDBI to promoted young entrepreneurs

🔷 1st installment of Rs 15 crore to Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI).

🔷 India, Bangladesh sign pact to operationalise 5 more ports of call & 2 new routes

🔷 Airtel Africa with UNICEF extends e-learning support to students

🔷 ICRA sharply cuts India’s GDP growth forecast for FY21 at -5%

🔷 Finance ministry exempts B2B firms from using only BHIM, RuPay for accepting payments

🔷 Bharat Biotech and Thomas Jefferson University to develop a new vaccine candidate for COVID-19

🔷 Tata Power International Pte Ltd acquires 10% stake in Adjaristsqali Netherlands BV

🔷 Researcher of CSIRO develops “heat resistant” coral to fight bleaching

🔷 Cyclone Amphan causes havoc in India and Bangladesh

🔷 Tripura gets its first international waterway with River Gomti approved as Indo-Bangla protocol route

🔷 Mee Annapurna programe launched for farmers in Maharashtra

🔷 US Senate passes law to ban Chinese companies listing on exchanges

🔷 RBI cuts repo rate to a record low by 40 bps

🔷 Policy repo rate cut by 40 basis points – from 4.4% to 4%

🔷 Policy Reverse repo rate cut by 40 basis points – from 3.75% to 3.35%

🔷 Marginal Standing Facility(MSF) Rate & Bank Rate : 4.25%

🔷 Cash reserve Ratio(CRR) : 3% & Statutory Liquidity Ratio(SLR) :18%

🔷 Four-time Grand Slam singles champion Ashley Cooper passes away.

🔷 Government releases Rs 1,160 cr to Nafed for buying pulses, onion

🔷 NTPC, ONGC to set up Joint Venture Company for Renewable Energy Business

🔷 Aarogya Setu app is not mandatory for children below 14 years of age

🔷 IIT-Guwahati scientists discover new ways to prevent memory loss due to Alzheimer

🔷 “iTurmeric Fincloud” platform launched by Intellect Design Arena

🔷 KKR to invest Rs 11,367 crore in Jio Platforms for 2.32% stake