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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India’s leading Private sector lender Karnataka Bank announced that it has received approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for reappointment of Mahabaleshwara M S as its MD and CEO for next three years, with effect from April 15.
The Reserve Bank has also approved the reappointment of P Jayarama Bhat as Non-executive Chairman up to November 13, 2021.

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The Union Minister for Human Resource Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank has recently launched a web-portal YUKTI (Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation).
The web portal comprises of a comprehensive dashboard, which will assist in monitoring and recording the initiatives of the HRD Ministry. The portal also has information about the COVID-19. It also consolidates the efforts of the research institutions related to COVID-19.

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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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Veteran British actor Tim Brooke-Taylor recently passed away at the age of 79, after contracting coronavirus infection.
He was famous for his extra-ordinary performance through the ‘The Goodies’ trio, along with two other comedians Graeme Garden, and Bill Oddie. The actor was presented the OBE, an order of the British Empire award, which is the second highest ranking Order of the British Empire award.

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Hyderabad-based Defence Research and Development Laboratory of DRDO has recently developed ‘COVID-19 Sample Collection Kiosk’ (COVSACK), to fight the coronavirus.
The kiosk which has an automatic disinfecting feature, has been developed in association with the doctors of Employees’ State Insurance Corporation in Hyderabad. The kiosk enables the healthcare workers to take coronavirus samples from suspected infected patients without frequently changing PPEs.

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According to a recent notification from the Ministry of Finance, the Government of India has decided to issue Sovereign Gold Bonds, after consultation with the Reserve Bank of India.
The Gold Bonds are set to be issued in six tranches from April 2020 to September 2020. As per the prevalent practice, the minimum subscription for an individual in the bond is 1 gram of gold whereas the maximum subscription is 4 kg. The maximum subscription for a HUF and trusts are 4 kg and 20 kg respectively.

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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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The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently launched an interactive service on Facebook Messenger to provide accurate information about the coronavirus outbreak to the general public.
More than 1.3 billion monthly active users can resolve their queries on Covid-19 from the “Health Alert” interactive service, launched by the WHO. The global health agency had already launched an alert service on WhatsApp.

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The Union Home ministry has recently announced a set of revised guidelines on the extended lock-down till May 3, 2020.
As per the guidelines, travel by air, rail, metro, public buses, taxis, cab aggregators will remain suspended. However, the industries operating in rural areas, outside the limits of municipal corporations and municipalities, will be exempted. The industries should maintain measures of social distancing and sanitation.