Current Affairs (April 2020) #2 Flashcards
Madhya Pradesh government launched ___ scheme in April 2020 to boost the immune system of people to fight (COVID-19) disease.
‘Jeevan Amrit Yojana’
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.
‘Jagananna Vidya Deevena’
Madhya Pradesh government has launched the ___, for women in urban areas to earn by making masks at home.
‘Jivan Shakti Yojana’
____ government has launched a new scheme called “Dhanwantari” for home delivery of medicines.
Assam
Domino’s Pizza partnered with ____ to launch “Domino’s Essentials”.
ITC Foods
National Health Authority signed an agreement with ___ to provide transportation service to public healthcare workers in April 2020.
Uber
Dunzo partnered with packaged foods company _____ to deliver range of products to its consumers.
Britannia Industries
Airtel Payments Bank partnered with ____ to launch a COVID-19 insurance policy.
Bharati AXA General Insurance
In April 2020, ___ partnered with the UN Children’s Fund to support India to combat COVID-19.
Hindustan Unilever
Flipkart Pvt Ltd partnered with ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd & Go Digit General Insurance to launch two health insurance policies.
‘COVID-19 Protection Cover’ & ‘Digit Illness Group Insurance’
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.
Mastercard
Vodafone idea ties up with Paytm to launch the ____ program to help individuals and small businesses to earn additional income.
‘Recharge Saathi’
_____ is the new MD of the Sundaram Home Finance.
Lakshminarayanan Duraiswamy
Bharti AXA Life Insurance has appointed _____ as MD & CEO of the company.
Parag Raja
World Wide Fund (WWF) India has appointed _____ as its ambassador for the environmental education programme.
Viswanathan Anand
____ is the new MD & CEO of Paytm General Insurance Ltd.
Vineet Arora
_____ is the new Executive Director of Union Bank of India, after its amalgamation with Corporation Bank and Andhra Bank.
Birupaksha Mishra
____ was appointed as the Secretary to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind in April 2020.
Kapil Dev Tripathi
_____ is the next Ambassador Representative of India to the United Nations.
T.S. Tirumurti
J. Arunkumar was appointed as the head coach of the ____ team.
USA national cricket
The 2021 World Athletics Championships which was originally scheduled to held in _____ was shifted to 2022.
Eugene, Oregon
Official mascots of the 19th Asian Games
Congcong, Lianlian and Chenchen aka ‘The Smart Triplets’
____ ranked 1st in FIFA rankings.
Belgium
- Followed by France and Brazil
- India came 108th
The late Kobe Bryant has been selected as a member of the ____ Hall of Fame.
Naismith Memorial Basketball
____ to be the mascot for Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games, China.
Feifei
India lost the hosting rights of the men’s World boxing championship 2021 to ____.
Serbia
____ represented India in the virtual session of the 2nd G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting.
Nirmala Sitharaman
World Autism Awareness Day was observed globally on ___.
2 April
- theme ‘The Transition to Adulthood’
International Transgender Day of Visibility is being observed globally on ___ to celebrate transgender people.
31st March
The United Nations declares April 5 as the 1st ____.
International Day of Conscience
World Health Day is a global health awareness day celebrated on ____ and the theme of 2020 was ____.
7 April, Support Nurses And Midwives
_____ won the Formula One Esports Chinese Virtual Grand Prix championship.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc
World Heritage Day 2020 observed globally on ____ every year to preserve the human heritage and to recognise all the efforts of relevant organizations.
18 April
2020 theme: ‘Shared Culture’, ‘Shared heritage’ and ‘Shared responsibility”.
India celebrates National Panchayati Raj Day on ____ every year.
24 April
Earth Day or International Mother Earth Day is observed globally on ____ every year.
22 April
The theme of 2020: Climate Action
World Book Capital for 2020
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The slogan for 2020- ‘KL Baca – caring through reading’
English Language Day is observed globally on ___ every year.
23 April
- marks the birthday and date of death of William Shakespeare
International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace observed globally on _____.
24 April
India celebrates ____ on 30th April to promote affordable medical facilities in remote areas of the country.
Ayushman Bharat Diwas
- based on the Socio- Economic Caste Census database.
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.
30 April
International Dance Day is observed globally on ____ every year.
29 April
World Immunization Week 2020 will be observed from ____ to ____.
24th April-30th April 2020
Theme: #VaccinesWork for All
Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched _____ and air-lifted 6.2 tonnes of essential medical supplies to the Maldives to fight against COVID 19.
‘Operation Sanjeevani’
Indian Navy’s Naval Aircraft Yard (Kochi) has formed _____ for the safe evacuation of COVID-19 patients from remote areas.
Air Evacuation Pod (AEP)
NASA selected mission ____ to look into how the Sun generates and releases solar particle storms into planetary space.
Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE)
____ has started developing portable ventilators which are significantly cheaper than the ones available in the market.
IIT Kanpur
NASA unveils plan to setup _____, the first human base camp on Moon’s south pole by ____.
Artemis, 2024
_____ is a kiosk developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation to make the process of collecting COVID-19 samples free of infection spread.
COVSACK
____ developed & designed a ‘WardBot’ to deliver medicines and food to COVID-19 patients in isolation wards without human intervention.
IIT Ropar (Punjab)
A low-cost electro-catalyst has been developed with ____ by the scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST)
Fish gills
____ 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.
IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh
Minister of Defence, _____ launched India’s 1st COVID-19 sample collection mobile Lab _____ through video conference.
Rajnath Singh, “Mobile BSL-3 VRDL Lab”
NASA announced to launch astronauts ___ & ____ to International Space Station (ISS) on May 27, 2020.
Bob Behnken & Doug Hurley
- carry them to the International Space Station (ISS) in Crew Dragon spacecraft.
____ developed a high-pressure ventilator called VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) to treat COVID-19 patients.
NASA
Scientists who have been observing the ozone hole at ____ announced that the Ozone layer hole is now closed in the ___.
Copernicus’ Atmospheric Monitoring Service, North Pole
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, has completed its ____ year in orbit.
30th
____ wrote a book titled ‘The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump’.
Mary Jordan
- Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist
____ introduced an Artificial Intelligence platform ‘Watson Assistant for Citizens’ in India free of cost to address COVID-19 queries.
IBM
Guinness World Records has officially confirmed ____, from UK, as the oldest person living (male).
Bob Weighton
- 112 Years and 1 day
PhonePe has partnered with _____ to launch a unique coronavirus hospitalisation insurance policy called “Corona Care”.
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
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 _____.
IndiaFightsCorona, @CovidnewsbyMIB
____ launched a 5T plan to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arvind Kejriwal [Delhi Chief Minister]
- testing, tracing, treatment, teamwork and tracking
Narendra Singh Tomar launched a mobile application ____ to facilitate transportation of food grains and perishables during lockdown.
“Kisan Rath”
- Agriculture Minister
____ has become the 1st state of India to start clinical trial of plasma therapy for COVID-19 treatment.
Kerala
Facebook has partnered with an Indian fact checking website “Boom” to launch a third party fact checking system in ____.
Bangladesh
____, one of the men behind the Duckworth- Lewis-Stern (DLS) method passed away.
Tony Lewis
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.
Philip Warren Anderson
____ has become the first royal to pass away due to COVID-19 in April 2020.
Maria Teresa [Spanish princess]
Former Libya Prime Minister ____ passed away due to COVID-19 in April 2020.
Mahmoud Jibril
Renowned Hindustani classical singer and Padma Shri awardee ____ passed away in April 2020.
Shanti Hiranand Chawla
Doug Sanders who was also known as the _____, passed away in April 2020.
“peacock of the fairways”
- pro golfer
Father of modern Iraqi architecture _____ passed away due to COVID-19 in April 2020.
Rifat Chadirji
BMW Group President and CEO ___ passed away in April 2020.
Rudratej Singh
Padma Shri award winning Bollywood actor ____ passed away in April 2020.
Irrfan Khan
Noted Odia Dramatist & play-writer _____ passed away in April 2020.
Bijay Mishra
Head of the COVID-19 Fact Check Unit in India.
Nitin Wakankar
In April 2020, India and ___ celebrated 70 years of diplomatic ties.
China
UNESCO commemorated International Day of Reflection on 1994 Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda
7 April
UN’s International Day of Human Space Flight
12 April