Top GKToday’s News Headlines-22 April 2020

April 22, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 22 April, 2020

Civil Services Day celebrated on April 21
Caregivers of senior citizens residing with them, food processing units exempted from lockdown: Govt
Dr Harsh Vardhan launches ‘COVID India Seva’, an interactive platform on Twitter to answer queries on COVID-19
Gujarat Govt. starts 3rd edition of its ‘Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan’, a conservation plan to deepen water bodies in the state before monsoon
Pune Municipal Corporation launches Saiyam mobile app to track home-quarantined citizens
COVID-19 lockdown: ‘Jharkhand Bazar’ mobile app launched to help people of the state get their essential commodities
ICMR asks states to stop using rapid antibody test kits procured from China for next 2 days; to examine their quality

Coronavirus impact on economy to last well beyond the first quarter: Assocham-Primus Partners’ joint survey
Dun & Bradstreet Composite Business Optimism Index at 49.40% for Q2 2020 (April-June); down 37% as compared to the year-ago period
Narendra Singh Tomar participated in the G-20 Extraordinary Agriculture Ministers Meeting through Video Conferencing on the issue of COVID-19 impacts on food security, safety and nutrition

Israel: PM Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud Party and his main rival Benny Gantz of the Blue and White party agree on setting up coalition govt.
Adam Higginbotham wins William E. Colby Award for his book ‘Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster’
Laisenia Qarase, who was Fiji’s PM from 2000 to 2006, dies in capital Suva aged 79
UN’s World Food Programme releases its fourth annual Global Report on Food Crises
World Creativity and Innovation Day celebrated by UN on April 21