Top GKToday’s News Headlines-3 April 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 3 April, 2020
INDIA
- Kerala HC stays state govt order allowing liquor supply to those suffering from Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS)
- Govt. launches mobile app ‘AarogyaSetu’ to help citizens assess their risk of contracting the coronavirus
- Padma Shri awardee & former ‘Hazuri Raagi’ at Golden Temple dies of coronavirus in Amritsar aged 52
- Delhi Govt. to provide Rs 5,000 to drivers of public transport vehicles such as autos, taxis and e-rickshaws in the city
E-NAM
- New features added to electronic National Agriculture Market (e-NAM)
- Will enabling direct trading from warehouses as well as collection centres of farmers producers organisations (FPOs)
- Will reduce the need for farmers to physically come to wholesale mandis for selling their harvested produce
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- Non-subsidized LPG cylinder price slashed by Rs. 61.50 per cylinder
- Just about 1/4th of the consumers in India currently pay for news but nearly 2/3rd are willing to pay: WEF study
WORLD
- World Autism Awareness Day observed on April 2; theme: ‘The Transition to Adulthood’
- Emmy award winning singer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger died aged 52 due to coronavirus in US
- Rafael Gomez Nieto, the last surviving Spanish WWII liberator of Paris in November 1944, dies of coronavirus at 99
- Internationally-renowned Indian-origin South African virologist Gita Ramjee dies due to COVID-19 aged 64
SPORTS
- Tony Lewis, one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited overs cricket matches, dies in UK aged 78
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