Current Affairs Quiz - April, 2020

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The Chief of International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva has recently named former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan and 11 other experts in her external advisory group.
The group is expected to provide perspectives on policy issues and responses to the challenges faced by the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. The group has 12 eminent individuals who have expertise in policy-making, global market and private sector. Raghuram Rajan is currently serving as a professor at the University of Chicago.

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Anak Krakatau volcano is located in Indonesia and was seen in news recently as it was continuously erupting ash and lava.
This was the longest eruption since 2018, when the explosion and collapse of the island caused a deadly Tsunami along the coasts of Sumatra and Java, which killed 430 people. A level 2 alert status on a scale of four was made for the eruption.

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The former Chairman and Managing Director of National Housing Bank, RV Verma has been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of AU Small Finance Bank for a period of one year. He has been an independent director of the SFB from 2018.
The AU Small Finance Bank is headquartered at Jaipur, Rajasthan. RBI has also approved the re-appointment of Sanjay Agarwal as Managing Director & CEO of the Small Finance Bank.

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Every year April 10th is observed as World Homeopathy Day. The theme of this year’s World Homeopathy Day is selected as “Enhancing the scope of Homeopathy in Public Health”.
This day is celebrated to commemorate the birth anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the father of the Homeopathy system of medicines. Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH), under the Ministry of AYUSH organized an international webinar on the occasion of World Homoeopathy Day.

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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 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 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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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 National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR) has collaborated with UNICEF Hyderabad Field Office.
The Communication Resource Unit (CRU) of NIRDPR and UNICEF, Hyderabad field office have developed an online programme for Panchayati Raj Institutions, Self-help Groups (SHG), National Service Scheme (NSS) officials and volunteers for practising sanitation and social measures.

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India’s leading economic think tank, National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) conducts a quarterly survey and releases Business confidence index (N-BCI).
NCAER has recently released its recent quarterly business confidence index, conducted in March. As per the survey, the index fell to 77.3 which is the lowest since 1998 Asian Financial crisis. In the third quarter, the index was 111.2.