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April 2020 Monthly Current Affairs Magazine 2020 In-focus April 2020 Monthly Current Affairs Magazine www.helloscholar.in ©helloscholar Global military expenditure report by SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) ........................................................ 27 Contents US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report ............................... 28 Important apps launched by Government to North Pole’s largest ozone hole closed ........... 29 fight COVID-19 ................................................ 3 Eleventh session of Petersberg Climate Dialogue National News ................................................. 4 ...................................................................... 30 International News .......................................... 9 Uttar Pradesh Epidemic Disease Control Awards ...........................................................11 Ordinance 2020 ............................................. 31 Economy ........................................................12 US Navy to host world’s largest maritime exercises RIMPAC 2020 in Hawaii ................ 32 Obituaries ......................................................15 – Gk related to current affairs ........................... 33 Days and Dates ...............................................15 G20 ................................................................ 33 Appointments ................................................16 PM Narendra Modi launched e-Gram Swaraj & Sports .............................................................17 Swamitva Yojana ............................................ 35 In-depth news ................................................18 Research Centre Imarat (RCI) ......................... 35 Yoddha Kalyan Yojana launched in Madhya DRDO ............................................................. 35 Pradesh ..........................................................18 meeting of NDB board of governors ...............19 Ambubachi Mela at Guwahati’s Kamakhya Temple .......................................................... 37 NDB credit to BRICS countries ........................19 Serum Institute of India ................................. 37 Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences NTPC to procure hydrogen fuel cell cars and (CeNS) ............................................................20 buses for Delhi, Leh........................................ 38 Daporijo bridge ..............................................21 Bodoland ....................................................... 39 virtual meeting of G-20 Agriculture Ministers .21 The Asian Development Bank ......................... 41 Mobile Virology Diagnostics and Research The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 ................... 42 laboratory inaugurated in Hyderabad .............22 Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Iran launches satellite ‘Noor’ ..........................22 Yojana ............................................................ 44 Operation Twist by RBI ...................................23 Why USA attacked Iran?................................. 47 VITAL Ventilator by NASA ...............................24 Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a vaccine against COVID19 ............25 India to manufacture COVID19 vaccine ...........26 helloscholar – current affairs Page 2 ©helloscholar Naadi Puducherry Pragyaam Jharkhand Sandhan West Bengal Self Declaration Nagaland Vera’s Telangana Start free trial – click here GoK Direct Kerala MCovid-19 Mizoram Quarantine Important apps launched by Watch Karnataka Government to fight COVID-19 Raksha Sarv Chattisgarh Name of App Launched by Noida Authority Important operations launched by Apurti Suvidha (Uttar Pradesh) Government to fight COVID-19 Arogya Setu Govt. of India Launched Name of Operation by Corona Watch Karnataka Operation Shield Delhi Corontine IIT Bombay Caruna (Civil Services Association Civil COVA Punjab Reach to Support National Disasters) servants Corona Sahayata Bihar YUKTI (Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Govt. of Corona Kavach Govt. of India Innovation) India Covidcare Arunachal Pradesh Mo Jeeban Odisha MahaKavach Maharashtra Operation Namaste Indian helloscholar – current affairs Page 3 ©helloscholar Army National News Aimed at empowering people in its fight against coronavirus, the Karnataka government on Wednesday launched “Apthamitra” Start free test – click here helpline with an exclusive toll free number and a mobile app. A mobile application named Saiyam has been developed by the Pune Rajasthan government has Municipal Corporation under Smart exclusively partnered with Cities Mission to effectively track the healthcare startup MedCords to home-quarantined citizens and provide 24×7 online consultation ensure that they are staying in the and medicine delivery to the people home. of Rajasthan as the State battles to control cases of Coronavirus. Uttar Pradesh Government joined Through its integrated solution - hands with tech giant Google to Aayu & Sehat Sathi app, MedCords formed geotag community kitchens will help over 68 Million of people in in the state. The kitchens produce Rajasthan through this collaboration 12 lakh food packets on a daily basis. Now, Uttar Pradesh became the 1st state to geotag community kitchens. Around 7,368 community kitchens located in 75 districts were geotagged. helloscholar – current affairs Page 4 ©helloscholar Council of Scientific and Industrial Jammu and Kashmir have developed Research (CSIR)-Institute of a low-cost mechanical ventilator Genomics and Integrative Biology Ruhdaar. (IGIB) has developed ”Feluda” – a low-cost COVID-19 test strip. The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – Uttar Pradesh becomes the 1st state Kerala (IIITM-K) has developed an AI to enable virtual courts in Allahabad semantic search engine – High Court for hearing cases through www.vilokana.in to enable video conferencing. researchers to get deeper insights into scientific studies relating to A team of researchers at IIT Ropar is Covid-19. aiming to develop a wardbot that will deliver food and medicine to Robots named “Nightingale-19” and Covid 19 patients in their isolation “KARMI-Bot” are being used to wards. provide food and medicines to COVID-19 patients in Kerala. Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh – Shivraj Singh launched Jeevan-Shakti India was ranked 142nd in World Yojana. Under the scheme, women Press Freedom Index 2020. Norway will prepare masks at homes in the topped the list. urban areas and earn profit. The Government will give Rs 11 per mask India ranked 53rd in the 7th edition to them immediately. of the Open Budget Survey 2019 by International Budget Partnership. A team of engineering students from New Zealand topped the list. IIT Bombay, NIT Srinagar and Islamic University of Science & Technology Ramayan has created the world (IUST), Awantipora, Pulwama, record of Highest Viewed helloscholar – current affairs Page 5 ©helloscholar Entertainment Programme Globally. programme for Delhi Police personal 77 million people watched the show at New Delhi today. The joint in one day on the 16th of this programme titled AYURAKSHA month. “Corona Se Jung- Delhi Police Ke Sang” aims to fight against corona Defence Institute of Advanced through simple and time tested Technology, Pune, a deemed Ayurveda immunity boosting university supported by Defence measures. Research and Development Organisation has developed a Scientists from Jawaharlal Nehru microwave steriliser named as Centre For Advanced Scientific ‘ATULYA’ to disintegrate (COVID-19). Research (JNCASR) an autonomous The virus gets disintegrated by institute under the Department of differential heating in the range of Science & Technology (DST), Govt. of 560 to 600 Celsius temperatures. India have modified the structure of Berberine, a natural and cheap product similar to curcumin, available commercially, into Ber-D to use as a Alzheimer’s inhibitor. Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder and accounts for more than 70% of all dementia. NLC India Limited, a Navratna Public Start free test – click here Enterprise under the Ministry of Coal, has for the first time, The All India Institute of Ayurveda commenced production of Coal. (AIIA), under Ministry of AYUSH and Delhi Police organised AYURAKSHA helloscholar – current affairs Page 6 ©helloscholar Andhra Pradesh launched ‘Covid installments every year. Pharma’ to track people purchasing medicines for cough, cold and fever Indian Institute of Technology Delhi from medical stores. has developed a web-based dashboard – PRACRITI (Prediction The robotic device HCARD, in short and Assessment of Corona for Hospital Care Assistive Robotic Infections and Transmission in India) Device, can help frontline healthcare for tracking and predicting the workers in maintaining physical spread of COVID-19 in India. distance from those infected by coronavirus. HCARD is developed by New rules to become a citizen of Durgapur-based CSIR lab, Central Jammu and Kashmir - A person Mechanical Engineering Research should reside in Jammu & Kashmir Institute. The device is equipped for at least 15 years or has studied with various state-of-the-art for a period of seven years in Jammu technologies and works both in and Kashmir and appeared in Class automatic as well as manual modes 10 or 12 examinations. of navigation. Union Cabinet has approved an Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS ordinance to cut the salaries of all Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the Members of Parliament by
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