Current Affairs 12 April 2020

🔶GoI approved Rs.15000 cr for COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package

🔶TRIFED along with UNICEF & WHO launched digital campaign to ensure work safety of Tribal Gatherers

🔶SC extended tenure of TDSAT Chairperson Shiva Kirti Singh by three months

🔶UNSC met for 1st time to discuss COVID-19 impact through video-conference

🔶Flipkart partners with ICICI lombard & Go Digit to offer two COVID-19 health insurance policies

🔶CPI inflation likely to ease from 4.8% in Q1 to 4.4% in Q2: RBI’s MPR

🔶RBI: AU Small Finance Bank appoints R V Verma as part-time chairman and Sanjay Agarwal re-appointed as MD and CEO

🔶IndiGrid to acquire Gurgaon-Palwal Transmission Limited

🔶Apple acquires Dark Sky weather app

🔶Centre launched Aarogya Setu IVRS for non-smart phones in collaboration with TN govt and IIT-Madras

🔶Biofortified carrot variety ‘Madhuban Gajar’ developed by Vallabhhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya- farmer scientist

🔶Bharat Biotech ties-up with FluGen & US virologists to develop intranasal vaccine for coronavirus ‘CoroFlu’

🔶DST to fund for development of Nasal passage gel for COVID-19

🔶FIFA’s ranking 2020: Indian football team static at 108th position; Belgium on top

🔶Indian-American veteran journalist Brahm Kanchibotla passed away at 66

🔶 World Homeopathy Day 2020: April 10

🔶 April 9, 2020 WADA celebrates Play True Day 2020

🔶55th Anniversary of CRPF Valour Day 2020: April 9

🔶Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launches “Operation SHIELD” in 21 Containment Areas against COVID-19

🔶RBI launches Twitter campaign to adopt digital payment modes

🔶Odisha became the first State to extend lockdown till April 30