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Current Affairs (April 2020) #2 Flashcards

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Madhya Pradesh government launched ___ scheme in April 2020 to boost the immune system of people to fight (COVID-19) disease.

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‘Jeevan Amrit Yojana’

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Andhra Pradesh started the ____ Scheme, where fee reimbursement will be credited directly to mothers’ accounts instead of college accounts in the coming academic year 2020-21.

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‘Jagananna Vidya Deevena’

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Madhya Pradesh government has launched the ___, for women in urban areas to earn by making masks at home.

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‘Jivan Shakti Yojana’

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____ government has launched a new scheme called “Dhanwantari” for home delivery of medicines.

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Assam

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Domino’s Pizza partnered with ____ to launch “Domino’s Essentials”.

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ITC Foods

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National Health Authority signed an agreement with ___ to provide transportation service to public healthcare workers in April 2020.

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Uber

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Dunzo partnered with packaged foods company _____ to deliver range of products to its consumers.

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Britannia Industries

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Airtel Payments Bank partnered with ____ to launch a COVID-19 insurance policy.

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Bharati AXA General Insurance

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In April 2020, ___ partnered with the UN Children’s Fund to support India to combat COVID-19.

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Hindustan Unilever

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Flipkart Pvt Ltd partnered with ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd & Go Digit General Insurance to launch two health insurance policies.

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‘COVID-19 Protection Cover’ & ‘Digit Illness Group Insurance’

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Paytm Payments Bank Ltd (PPBL) partnered with ____ to issue virtual and physical debit cards to enable customers to perform secure online transactions, make payment in stores & withdraw cash from ATMs.

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Mastercard

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Vodafone idea ties up with Paytm to launch the ____ program to help individuals and small businesses to earn additional income.

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‘Recharge Saathi’

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_____ is the new MD of the Sundaram Home Finance.

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Lakshminarayanan Duraiswamy

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Bharti AXA Life Insurance has appointed _____ as MD & CEO of the company.

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Parag Raja

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World Wide Fund (WWF) India has appointed _____ as its ambassador for the environmental education programme.

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Viswanathan Anand

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____ is the new MD & CEO of Paytm General Insurance Ltd.

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Vineet Arora

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_____ is the new Executive Director of Union Bank of India, after its amalgamation with Corporation Bank and Andhra Bank.

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Birupaksha Mishra

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____ was appointed as the Secretary to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind in April 2020.

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Kapil Dev Tripathi

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_____ is the next Ambassador Representative of India to the United Nations.

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T.S. Tirumurti

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J. Arunkumar was appointed as the head coach of the ____ team.

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USA national cricket

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The 2021 World Athletics Championships which was originally scheduled to held in _____ was shifted to 2022.

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Eugene, Oregon

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Official mascots of the 19th Asian Games

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Congcong, Lianlian and Chenchen aka ‘The Smart Triplets’

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____ ranked 1st in FIFA rankings.

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Belgium

  • Followed by France and Brazil
  • India came 108th
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The late Kobe Bryant has been selected as a member of the ____ Hall of Fame.

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Naismith Memorial Basketball

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____ to be the mascot for Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games, China.

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Feifei

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India lost the hosting rights of the men’s World boxing championship 2021 to ____.

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Serbia

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____ represented India in the virtual session of the 2nd G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting.

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Nirmala Sitharaman

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World Autism Awareness Day was observed globally on ___.

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2 April

  • theme ‘The Transition to Adulthood’
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International Transgender Day of Visibility is being observed globally on ___ to celebrate transgender people.

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31st March

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The United Nations declares April 5 as the 1st ____.

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International Day of Conscience

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World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated on ____ and the theme of 2020 was ____.

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7 April, Support Nurses And Midwives

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_____ won the Formula One Esports Chinese Virtual Grand Prix championship.

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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc

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World Heritage Day 2020 observed globally on ____ every year to preserve the human heritage and to recognise all the efforts of relevant organizations.

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18 April

2020 theme: ‘Shared Culture’, ‘Shared heritage’ and ‘Shared responsibility”.

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India celebrates National Panchayati Raj Day on ____ every year.

A

24 April

35
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Earth Day or International Mother Earth Day is observed globally on ____ every year.

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22 April

The theme of 2020: Climate Action

36
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World Book Capital for 2020

A

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The slogan for 2020- ‘KL Baca – caring through reading’

37
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English Language Day is observed globally on ___ every year.

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23 April

  • marks the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare
38
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International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace observed globally on _____.

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24 April

39
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India celebrates ____ on 30th April to promote affordable medical facilities in remote areas of the country.

A

Ayushman Bharat Diwas

  • based on the Socio- Economic Caste Census database.
40
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International Jazz Day is observed globally on ____ every year to create awareness around the world of the virtues of jazz as a force of peace, unity, dialogue, and enhanced cooperation among people, and an educational tool.

A

30 April

41
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International Dance Day is observed globally on ____ every year.

A

29 April

42
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World Immunization Week 2020 will be observed from ____ to ____.

A

24th April-30th April 2020

Theme: #VaccinesWork for All

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Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched _____ and air-lifted 6.2 tonnes of essential medical supplies to the Maldives to fight against COVID 19.

A

‘Operation Sanjeevani’

44
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Indian Navy’s Naval Aircraft Yard (Kochi) has formed _____ for the safe evacuation of COVID-19 patients from remote areas.

A

Air Evacuation Pod (AEP)

45
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NASA selected mission ____ to look into how the Sun generates and releases solar particle storms into planetary space.

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Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE)

46
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____ has started developing portable ventilators which are significantly cheaper than the ones available in the market.

A

IIT Kanpur

47
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NASA unveils plan to setup _____, the first human base camp on Moon’s south pole by ____.

A

Artemis, 2024

48
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_____ is a kiosk developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation to make the process of collecting COVID-19 samples free of infection spread.

A

COVSACK

49
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____ developed & designed a ‘WardBot’ to deliver medicines and food to COVID-19 patients in isolation wards without human intervention.

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IIT Ropar (Punjab)

50
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A low-cost electro-catalyst has been developed with ____ by the scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST)

A

Fish gills

51
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____ developed a high- speed magnetic RAM which is faster, energy-efficient and stores more data in a smaller volume as compared to existing data storage technologies.

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IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh

52
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Minister of Defence, _____ launched India’s 1st COVID-19 sample collection mobile Lab _____ through video conference.

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Rajnath Singh, “Mobile BSL-3 VRDL Lab”

53
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NASA announced to launch astronauts ___ & ____ to International Space Station (ISS) on May 27, 2020.

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Bob Behnken & Doug Hurley

  • carry them to the International Space Station (ISS) in Crew Dragon spacecraft.
54
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____ developed a high-pressure ventilator called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) to treat COVID-19 patients.

A

NASA

55
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Scientists who have been observing the ozone hole at ____ announced that the Ozone layer hole is now closed in the ___.

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Copernicus’ Atmospheric Monitoring Service, North Pole

56
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, has completed its ____ year in orbit.

A

30th

57
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____ wrote a book titled ‘The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump’.

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Mary Jordan

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist
58
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____ introduced an Artificial Intelligence platform ‘Watson Assistant for Citizens’ in India free of cost to address COVID-19 queries.

A

IBM

59
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Guinness World Records has officially confirmed ____, from UK, as the oldest person living (male).

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Bob Weighton

  • 112 Years and 1 day
60
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PhonePe has partnered with _____ to launch a unique coronavirus hospitalisation insurance policy called “Corona Care”.

A

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance

61
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Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has launched a dedicated Twitter handle for authentic COVID-19 updates. The account is named as ____ and it uses the handle _____.

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IndiaFightsCorona, @CovidnewsbyMIB

62
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____ launched a 5T plan to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Arvind Kejriwal [Delhi Chief Minister]

  • testing, tracing, treatment, teamwork and tracking
63
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Narendra Singh Tomar launched a mobile application ____ to facilitate transportation of food grains and perishables during lockdown.

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“Kisan Rath”

  • Agriculture Minister
64
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____ has become the 1st state of India to start clinical trial of plasma therapy for COVID-19 treatment.

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Kerala

65
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Facebook has partnered with an Indian fact checking website “Boom” to launch a third party fact checking system in ____.

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Bangladesh

66
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____, one of the men behind the Duckworth- Lewis-Stern (DLS) method passed away.

A

Tony Lewis

67
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Physicist ____ who received Nobel Prize [1977] in Physics for contribution in fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, passed away in April 2020.

A

Philip Warren Anderson

68
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____ has become the first royal to pass away due to COVID-19 in April 2020.

A

Maria Teresa [Spanish princess]

69
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Former Libya Prime Minister ____ passed away due to COVID-19 in April 2020.

A

Mahmoud Jibril

70
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Renowned Hindustani classical singer and Padma Shri awardee ____ passed away in April 2020.

A

Shanti Hiranand Chawla

71
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Doug Sanders who was also known as the _____, passed away in April 2020.

A

“peacock of the fairways”

  • pro golfer
72
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Father of modern Iraqi architecture _____ passed away due to COVID-19 in April 2020.

A

Rifat Chadirji

73
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BMW Group President and CEO ___ passed away in April 2020.

A

Rudratej Singh

74
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Padma Shri award winning Bollywood actor ____ passed away in April 2020.

A

Irrfan Khan

75
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Noted Odia Dramatist & play-writer _____ passed away in April 2020.

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Bijay Mishra

76
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Head of the COVID-19 Fact Check Unit in India.

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Nitin Wakankar

77
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In April 2020, India and ___ celebrated 70 years of diplomatic ties.

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China

78
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UNESCO commemorated International Day of Reflection on 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda

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7 April

79
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UN’s International Day of Human Space Flight

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12 April

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