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18-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 18 April 2020

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Context: Recently RBI increased the limit by 60 per cent above the level as of March 31, 2020, this new limit is available till September 30, 2020.

Ways and Means Advances (WMAs)

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) gives te   Read more >

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17-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 17 April 2020

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Context: Recently IMD has predicted that India will likely have a normal monsoon in 2020, with a chance of ‘above normal’ rain in August and September.

It has also officially redefined the definition of what constitutes ‘norm   Read more >

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16-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 16 April 2020

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Context: As the coronavirus pandemicthreatens to cause an economic recession, it may also cause a “social recession”.

Key Points

• Social Recession: It is a collapse in social contacts.

• Just after a few we   Read more >

172.

15-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 15 April 2020

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Apollo 13 Mission

• The Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on April 11, 1970, aboard the Saturn V SA-508 rocket.

• Apollo 13 was NASA’s seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space   Read more >

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14-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 14 April 2020

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Context: The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has clarified that the contributions to the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund or the State relief fund will not qualify as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expenditure, while any donation t   Read more >

174.

13-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 13 April 2020

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Context:

• Government efforts to ensure access to learning opportunities for children during the lockdown phase.

Background:

• Schools and colleges have been shut due to the COVID-19 lockdown. They had closed ev   Read more >

175.

11-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 11 April 2020

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Bihu is a set of three important Assamese festivals in the Indian state of Assam

There are three types of Bihu namely

• Rongali or Bohag Bihu (Sowing festival) - It is the most important of the three, celebrating sp   Read more >

176.

10-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 10 April 2020

Context:

Kerala has won the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) approval to explore the feasibility of administering convalescent plasma transfusion on critically ill patients.

Details:

• Convalescent plasma thera   Read more >

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09-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 9 April 2020

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Context: India has shared nine whole genome sequences of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) with the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID).

• So far, 3,086 sequences of the virus isolated from humans have been   Read more >

178.

08-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 8 April 2020

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Intensification of Research in High Priority Area (IRPHA)

• Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) is an autonomous body under DST.

Under its Intensification of Research in High Priority Area (IRPHA) scheme, SERB h   Read more >

179.

07-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 7 April 2020

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Context: A Malayan tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo has been infected with the COVID 19.

Key takeaways:

• Four-year-old Nadia is believed to have caught the virus from a zoo employee, who had not shownsymptoms.

•   Read more >

180.

06-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 6 April 2020

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Context: Beginning mid-March, India began restricting incoming international flights into the country and by March 24 had imposed a total shutdown on domestic air travel as well to contain the spread of Covid-19.

• The grounding   Read more >

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04-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 4 April 2020

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Why in News

• The Indore district administration invoked the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, against four persons accused of instigating residents of a locality to pelt stones and chase away health workers.

• Health   Read more >

182.

03-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 3 April 2020

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Context: Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched new features of National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) Platform.

About:

• It will help strengthen agriculture marketing by farmers which will reduce their ne   Read more >

183.

02-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 2 April 2020

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For dealing with the coronavirus-led slowdown, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that banks don’t need to activate countercyclical capital buffers (CCyB) for one more year, which means the banks can utilize the capital ear   Read more >

184.

01-04-2020: Current Affair Updates of 1 April 2020

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Over 200 have tested positive for COVID-19 from among 4,000-odd who had gathered in Delhi’s Markaz Nizamuddin, the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat.

About:

• What is it? Tablighi Jamaat, which literally means   Read more >

185.

30-03-2020: Updates of 30th March 2020

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Context: A recent study by scientists of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) has proved that Himalayan Ibex is a distinct species from the Siberian Ibex.

About:

• The paper, ‘Genetic evidence for allopatric spec   Read more >

186.

29-03-2020: Updates of 29th March 2020

1. • Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the constitution of the PM's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM-CARES) fund.

About:

• Mandate: This will be a dedicated national fund with the primary obj   Read more >

187.

28-03-2020: Updates of 28th March 2020

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• Context: Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organization (PESO) has taken various measures to ensure un-interrupted supply of Oxygen to hospitals and other health care facilities due to nationwide lock down for containment of COVI   Read more >

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27-03-2020: Updates of 27th March 2020

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• Context: In response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, United States President Trump declared a national emergency under the Stafford Act, allowing the federal government through FEMA to take advantage of a $50 billion fund for d   Read more >

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26-03-2020: Updates of 26th March 2020

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• Context: China’s English daily Global Times has reported the death of a person from Yunnan Province who tested positive for the hantavirus.

About:

• The hantaviruses are a family of viruses spread mainly by   Read more >

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25-03-2020: Updates of 25th March 2020

1. Kurzarbeit Scheme:

Context: Amid the all-round disruption caused to the economy by the novel coronavirus outbreak, various governments have unveiled various measures to address such concerns, and one of the most talked about is Germany�   Read more >

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24-03-2020: Updates of 24th March 2020

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• World Tuberculosis Day is being observed on March 24 with the theme “It’s Time”.

About:

• Objective: To build public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis (TB).

• Date of observance: It   Read more >