Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2020

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World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is celebrating the ‘Play True Day 2020’ on April 9, which has been celebrated since 2014.
Canada-based World Anti-Doping Agency is a foundation launched by the International Olympic Committee, to promote awareness against drugs in sports. WADA is celebrating the day this year with the theme ‘Play Safe on Play True Day 2020’.

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In 2003, the government of India declared the national safe motherhood day on April 11, which is the birth anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi. The day is celebrated to raise awareness about access to care during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal services.
The government of India has launched Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakaram in 2011, to motivate the general public to opt for institutional deliveries. It aimed to eliminate out of pocket expenses for pregnant women and infants in accessing public health institution.

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The multilateral funding agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) has tripled its Covid-19 response package initially announced for developing member countries to $20 billion.
Last month, ADB had announced a $6.5 billion package for its 31 DMC (developing member countries) to assist them in recovering the economies. The lender has also announced that $2 billion will be provided through loans for private sector and financial institutions and microfinance loans for medium-sized enterprises.

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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has announced an ‘Innovation Challenge for Development of a Video Conferencing Solution’ under the Digital India Programme.
The winning team which presents the world-class solution will receive a prize money and assistance of ₹1 crore with additional annual support of ₹10 lakh for three years, for operations and maintenance. Any Indian IT start-up and software product company can participate in the challenge.

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The Union Ministry of Tourism has launched a webinar series named ‘DekhoApnaDesh’. The webinar will have information about the important destinations of the country.
The webinar series was aimed at highlighting the history and diverse culture of various Indian destinations. Several features like monuments, cuisine, art, dance forms and festivals are being focussed. The first webinar in the series was about the city of Delhi and was titled ‘City of Cities – Delhi’s Personal Diary’.

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The Union Ministry of External Affairs has announced a training programme on COVID-19 for healthcare professionals of SAARC countries.
The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme will conduct this training programme from April 17, 2020. The SAARC leaders had a virtual meeting on March 15, where an idea was proposed by India, to cumulate the efforts of all health professionals against the COVID-19.

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The province of Himachal Pradesh was organised on 15 April 1948, after its 28 princely states, which were called as the Simla Hills States and four Punjab southern hill states, were integrated. To commemorate the foundation of the state, April 15 is being celebrated every year as ‘Himachal Day’.
Himachal Pradesh was originally classified as a Union territory in 1956. It was created as the 18th state of India in 1971. The first Chief Minister of the state was Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar.

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Trade Deficit is defined as the difference between the total imports of the country and the total exports. This condition occurs when a country is importing more goods than it is exporting.
Recently, the Commerce Ministry announced that the trade deficit in the month of March fell to $9.76 billion, which is the lowest in the last 13 months. Due to the steep fall in export of leather, gems and jewellery and petroleum products, the total exports in the year 2019-20 decreased.

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The Indian Government has planned to set up a chain of retail shops across India called ‘Suraksha Stores’. The stores provide essential goods and services to people by following stricter safety and sanitation measures.
Recently, the top 12 packaged consumer goods manufacturers of the country have partnered with the government in operating the Suraksha Stores. The firms will educate the retail stores to become certified sanitised retail outlets. The stores will also be compliant to the Aarogya Setu application.

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The Ministry of Agriculture has set the target for production of food grains at 298.3 million tonnes for the 2020-21 crop year, during the National virtual Conference on Kharif crops 2020.
This target is 2 per cent above the estimated production of 291.95 million tonnes in the 2019-20 crop year. The increase in target follows the IMD forecast about a normal monsoon. Target for production of rice and wheat have been fixed at 117.5 million tonnes and 106.5 million tonnes respectively.