Top GKToday’s News Headlines-17 April 2020

April 17, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 17 April, 2020

SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram develops diagnostic test kit Chitra Gene LAMP-N for COVID-19
- SCTIMST: Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology
PUSA decontamination and sanitizing tunnel, developed by ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, inaugurated
NIRDPR, Hyderabad and UNICEF training community leaders online to combat COVID-19
- NIRDPR: National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj
Actor Ranjit Chowdhry, best known for his roles in ‘Khatta Meetha’, ‘Baton-Baton Mein’ and ‘Bollywood/Hollywood’, dies aged 65 in Mumbai
Freedom fighter R V Bhuskute dies aged 94 in Maharashtra’s Raigadh district
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) asks Centre to take effective measures to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on migrant workers

Govt sets foodgrain production target at record 298.3 million tonnes for 2020-21 crop year (July-June); production was 291.95 million tonnes in 2019-20
RBI launches latest round of quarterly order books, inventories and capacity utilisation survey (OBICUS) of manufacturing sector
Mobile phones, televisions, refrigerators, laptops and stationary items will be allowed to be sold through e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal from April 20
India is the most digitally dexterous country in the world: Gartner 2019 Digital Workplace Survey
Four-month rental of small IT units operating out of Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) waived off by the govt.

South Korea: President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party and its ally Together Citizens’ Party win 180/300 seats in parliamentary elections

‘Feifei’, the mascot for the 4th Asian Para Games at Hangzhou, China in October 2022, unveiled
Chess player Viswanathan Anand joins World Wide Fund India as its ambassador for environment education programme