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Current Affairs April 2020 www.ranaacademyshimla.com COACHING OF VARIOUS CENTRAL & contact no. 7018596250, 9805332278 STATE LEVEL COMPETITIVE EXAMS CURRENT AFFAIRS APRIL 2020 ( HPAS / ALLIED SERVICES / NAIB TEHSILDAR / BANKING / SSC AND ALL OTHER GOVT EXAMS ) ▪ JOIN COACHING CLASSES FOR : ▪ HAS/HPAS ▪ Allied and subordinate exams ▪ clerical posts in HP secretariat. ▪ Morning and evening batches are also available . ▪ Free demo class. ▪ Affordable fee. RANA ACADEMY, KHALINI, SHIMLA. 9805332278, 7018596250. WWW.RANAACADEMYSHIMLA.COM www.ranaacademyshimla.com COACHING OF VARIOUS CENTRAL & contact no. 7018596250, 9805332278 STATE LEVEL COMPETITIVE EXAMS INDEX 1. INTERNATIONAL NEWS 2. NATIONAL NEWS 3. STATE NEWS 4. ECONOMY NEWS 5. RANKS AND REPORTS 6. OBITUARIES 7. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 8. SUMMITS AND CONFERENCES 9. DEFENCE 10. APPOINTMENTS 11. IMPORTANT DAYS 12. BOOKS AND AUTHORS 13. AWARDS 14. SPORTS www.ranaacademyshimla.com COACHING OF VARIOUS CENTRAL & contact no. 7018596250, 9805332278 STATE LEVEL COMPETITIVE EXAMS INTERNATIONAL NEWS 1. Largest hole in the Ozone layer is now closed in the North Pole. ▪ Scientists who have been observing the ozone hole at Copernicus’ Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) has announced that the Ozone layer hole is now closed in the North Pole. They reported that the largest hole in the Ozone layer spreading over 1 million square kilometres above the Arctic has closed due to unusual atmospheric conditions. The hole in Ozone was first identified by scientists in March 2020. 2. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud has abolished the death penalty for crimes committed by minors. ▪ The new order states that any individual who has received a death sentence for crimes committed while he or she is a minor will no longer face execution. Instead of the death sentence, the individual will undergo a prison sentence of no longer than 10 years in a juvenile detention facility. The new rule was announced by the president of the Saudi government’s Human Rights Commission, Awwad Alawwad. 3. G-20 has launched a new initiative “Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator” under the presidency of Saudi Arabia. ▪ The new initiative “Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator” will act as global platform for action to improve connections as well as to leverage interdependencies for collective partnership, mobilizing, problem-solving, and guiding investments for new COVID-19 diagnostics, therapeutics as well as vaccines. It also aims to provide equitable access of all the tools to all the members. 4. Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, Jack Dorsey has pledged to donate $1 billion to charities working towards combatting the global COVID-19 pandemic. 5. The NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has announced the appointment of a group of experts on 31 March 2020. This group to support his work in a reflection process to further strengthen NATO’s political dimension. 6. The World Bank has offered $1 billion to the Indian government for India’s COVID-19 emergency response and health systems preparedness project which aims to develop the preparedness of India’s health care systems in the time of the pandemic. The project will respond and mitigate the COVID-19 threat and strengthen national systems for public health preparedness in India, as per the project document. 7. ADB increases its COVID-19 Response Package to $20 Billion 8. UN COP26 Climate Change Summit postponed to 2021. ▪ The United Nation’s COP26 climate change conference which was set to take place in Glasgow in November has been postponed till next year due to COVID-19. The decision to postpone the conference was taken by the COP Bureau of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). 9. IBM has introduced ‘Watson Assistant for Citizens’ in India free of cost to address COVID-19 queries. www.ranaacademyshimla.com COACHING OF VARIOUS CENTRAL & contact no. 7018596250, 9805332278 STATE LEVEL COMPETITIVE EXAMS ▪ ‘Watson Assistant for Citizens’ is an Artificial Intelligence platform which provides reliable information on COVID-19 related queries. 10. The United States has announced $2.9 million aid for India through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to help India in its fight against COVID-19 as well to also provide care for those who are affected and help the local communities with the tools to stop the pandemic spreading in the country. 11. For COVID-19 related projects in its member states, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Development Fund (SDF) has allocated $5 million. 12. The 44th session of the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has been postponed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 13. The Lebanese parliament has passed the legislation to legalize the cannabis cultivation for medical and industrial purposes. ▪ Earlier, the farming of cannabis was illegal in Lebanon, but now the cannabis farming would be regulated within the country. Legalizing the cultivation of Cannabis is expected to produce high value-added medicinal products. It is also a potentially lucrative export for Lebanese economy which is in dire need of foreign currency as it is grappled with a financial crisis. 14. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) has rolled out a ‘Lockdown Learners’ series in India under its flagship “Education for Justice” initiative. ▪ It has launched ‘Lockdown Learners’ series of online dialogues with educators and students in India. The ‘Lockdown Learners’ series emphasizes on COVID-19 and its impact on Sustainable Development Goals, peace and rule of law. 15. Iran has successfully launched its first-ever military satellite named “Noor” into the orbit. ‘Noor’ satellite has reached its orbit and is orbiting 425 km above the earth’s surface. 16. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed a high-pressure ventilator called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) to treat COVID-19 patients. NATIONAL NEWS 1. The promulgation of an Ordinance to amend the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 has received the Union Cabinet’s approval. ▪ It has been approved by the cabinet, keeping in view the recent instances with the most critical service providers i.e. members of healthcare services being targeted and attacked by miscreants, thereby obstructing them from doing their duties during the current COVID-19 pandemic. It intends to make such acts of violence cognizable and non-bailable offences and also ensure that during any situation akin to the current pandemic, there is zero tolerance to any form of violence against healthcare service personnel as well as damage to property. 2. An Integrated Geospatial Platform “SAHYOG” has been rolled out by the Department of Science and Technology. www.ranaacademyshimla.com COACHING OF VARIOUS CENTRAL & contact no. 7018596250, 9805332278 STATE LEVEL COMPETITIVE EXAMS ▪ Government of India has launched it to help in decision making during the present COVID-19 outbreak and support with area-specific strategies in order to handle the socio-economic impact in the recovery phase. It will also complement the “AAROGYA-SETU” mobile application for Contact tracing, Public awareness, and Self-assessment objectives. It is expected to bolster the public health delivery system of the State as well as Central Governments and facilitate the necessary geospatial information support to citizens and agencies by collecting the COVID-19 specific geospatial datasets via community engagement. 3. The Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched a campaign titled ‘Bharat Padhe Online’ for Crowd Sourcing of Ideas in order to improve the online education ecosystem of India. 4. A webinar series titled “#DekhoApnaDesh” has been launched by the Indian Tourism Ministry. ▪ This unique series has been launched by the tourism ministry to provide information on many destinations and culture & heritage of Incredible India. 5. Government of India (GoI) has allocated Rs. 15000 crores for ‘India COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package’. ▪ The funds will help in enhancing the production of Personal Protection Equipment, ventilators, ICU and other essential equipment. These interventions and initiatives would be implemented under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 6. ADB assures $2.2 bn support package to India to fight Covid-19 pandemic 7. COVIDCARE app launched by Arunachal Pradesh to combat COVID-19 8. An iGOT e-learning platform has been launched by the Government of India in order to combat COVID-19. ▪ The platform can be accessed at https://igot.gov.in and delivers curated, role-specific content, to each learner at his place of work or home and to any device of his choice. It is designed to population scale and will provide training to around 1.50 crore workers and volunteers. 9. The innovation cell of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has launched an online challenge called “SAMADHAN” to fight against COVID-19. ▪ The students participating in this challenge will search and develop such measures that can be made available to the government agencies, health services, hospitals and other services for quick solutions to the Coronavirus epidemic and other such calamities. 10. The Government of India has extened the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) by another one year i.e. up to 31st March, 2021 in view of the unprecedented current situation arising out of the pandemic Novel COVID-19. ▪ The policy was implemented on 1st April, 2015 for 5 years and was valid upto 31st March, 2020. Along with extension, the Union Commerce and Industry Ministry has also announced some changes in the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP). 11. The Ministry of Tourism has launched a portal ‘Stranded in India’ to help foreign tourists who are stuck in various parts of the country. Its web address is strandedinindia.com. www.ranaacademyshimla.com COACHING OF VARIOUS CENTRAL & contact no. 7018596250, 9805332278 STATE LEVEL COMPETITIVE EXAMS 12. The ‘Team Mask Force’ has been formed to spread awareness about wearing masks in public places. ▪ Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has created a video to promote wearing masks in public places and help the country to fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
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