Current Affairs 13 April 2020

🔶 Union HRD minister launches ‘Bharat Padhe Online’ campaign

🔶 ICMR approves use of TB diagnostic machine for coronavirus

🔶Government approves ex-gratia compensation for life insurance cover for FCI employees: COVID-19

🔶Dharmendra pradhan participates G20 extraordinary energy ministers virtual meeting 2020 chaired by Saudi Arabia

🔶India jobless rate hits 23.4% amid COVID-19 lockdown: CMIE

🔶COVID-19: Jitendra Singh distributed 2200 Essential kits prepared by Kendriya Bhandar to needy families in Delhi

🔶Ahmedabad railway station becomes first station of IR to install sanitizing tunnel

🔶UNIDO signs MoU with Consumer Unity Trust Society to counter economic impact of COVD-19

🔶Jana Small Finance Bank launches DigiGen, a digital banking platform

🔶India’s Fiscal deficit of 5.07% in February makes it difficult to meet its revised target of 3.8%: GOI

🔶Karnataka Bank gets RBI nod to reappoint Mahabaleshwara M S as MD and CEO for 3 years

🔶Raghuram Rajan named among 12 members of External Advisory Group: IMF

🔶Indian Actress Tamannaah Bhatia signed as brand ambassador for MPL

🔶COVID-19: SCTIMST scientists develop disinfection gateway & face mask disposal bin

🔶BEL & AIIMS- Rishikesh jointly develops remote health monitoring system for coronavirus cases

🔶For the first time, NASA scientists measure wind speed on a brown dwarf

🔶COVID-19: IIT-Bombay researchers develop ‘digital stethoscope’ which can hear heartbeat from a distance

🔶Google and Apple ties-up to create coronavirus contact tracing technology by smartphone

🔶Padma Shri classical singer Shanti Hiranand passed away at 8720National Safe Motherhood Day 2020: April 11

🔶NCW launches domestic violence helpline for women

🔶ADB assures $2.2 bn support package to India to fight Covid-19 pandemic

🔶Former New Zealand Wicketkeeper Jock Edwards passes away at 64

🔶Former Zimbabwean cricketer Jackie du Preez passes away at 77