Current Affairs Quiz - April, 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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Technology giants Apple and Google recently announced a joint initiative to develop a technology solution for Contact Tracing activity, which will help the governments and health agencies to curb the spread of coronavirus.
The system which will use the Bluetooth technology, will identify people who are in contact with an infected person and provide alert message to the user. The companies also clarified that the system will be developed without compromising the privacy of the user.

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The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April in the year 1919. The people of the country and all national leaders paid tributes to the martyrs on the 101st anniversary of the massacre.
A group of unarmed people gathered in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab to condemn the arrest of two national leaders. The troops of the British Indian Army, under the Colonel Reginald Dyer fired machine guns on the crowd extensively. Though 379 people were killed as per the official British records, other sources estimate over 1000 people were massacred.

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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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Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog and National Informatics Centre (NIC) jointly launched a collaborative software system called ‘CollabCAD’.
The system provided a comprehensive engineering solution from two-dimensional drafting to three-dimensional product design. This software is aimed at enabling the students of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs) to create 3D designs, models and printing.

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The Indian Army has launched ‘Operation Meghdoot’ on April 13, 1984 in order to secure the passes on the Saltoro ridgeline, including the Bilafond La pass from Pakistan.
The courage and valour exhibited by the Army troops is commemorated every year on April 13 as ‘Siachen Day’ by the Indian Army across the country. The Siachen Glacier is located in the eastern Karakoram range in the range of Himalayas.

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The state of Uttar Pradesh becomes the first to be approved by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) to start the method of ‘Pool Testing’ the samples for Covid-19.
The pool testing method is aimed at speeding up the process of testing the samples. In this method, multiple swab samples are pooled together and tested. If the result of the particular pool comes negative, it is assured that all samples of the pool are negative. If the result is positive, all individual samples are tested again. This method was widely used in Germany.

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) have jointly created an informative website called ‘CovidGyan’.
This website serves as a comprehensive hub which consolidates all information available about the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The initiative has been launched with an aim of making the scientific aspects of this pandemic available in public domain.

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South Korea recently conducted its national assembly elections amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, prevalent across the world.
In the elections, the ruling party of South Korea has won a landslide victory, confirming the incumbent President Moon Jae-in rule the country again. The turn-out in the elections was 66.2%, which was higher than any of the election held in the country since 1992.

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As per the recent report of the United Nations, over 117 million children in 37 countries around the world would miss to receive the measles vaccine, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the World Health for Organization and the UNICEF, the immunisation campaigns for eliminating measles have already been delayed in 24 countries and more campaigns will be postponed. WHO has released guidelines to sustain the immunisation process in several countries.