Current affairs April 2020 - CSEET
• Utkal Diwas or Odisha day is observed on 1 April
• Covid-19 battle: World Bank offers $1bn for proposed India project
• Government launches Covid-19 tracking app Aarogya Setu
• Odisha government, UNICEF launch ‘Mo Prativa’ to engage young minds amid COVID-19 lockdown
• Cabinet reduces salaries of MPs by 30% for a year, no MPLAD funds for 2 years
• COP26 climate change conference postponed until 2021 due
• Act against China for spreading COVID-19: International Court of Jurists to UNHRC
• India gets request from 30 countries for hydroxychloroquine
• India seeks $6 billion of loans from ADB, AIIB to fight coronavirus pandemic
• Affordable housing firm Aavas gets $60m ADB loan
• Hindustan Unilever completes its merger with GSKCH India
• Fitch slashes India growth forecast to 30-year low of 2% for FY21
• SBI lists $100 million green bonds on India INX
• ADB expects India GDP to slip to 4 pc in 2020-21
• Government announces new Rs 20 coin
• PNB Housing Finance signs pact with JICA to raise $75 million
• Govt extends tenure of NCLT acting President BSV Prakash Kumar
• Justice Rajnesh Oswal sworn in as permanent Judge of High Court of J&K, Ladakh under Indian Constitution
• Nasscom appoints Infosys’ Pravin Rao as chairman
• China to host Asian Youth Games in 2021 (November 20 to 28,
• 2nd April: World Autism Awareness Day (Theme 2020- ‘The Transition to Adulthood’.)
• 4th April: International Mine Awareness Day
• The United Nations Declares April 5 as International Day of Conscience
• 6th April: International Day of Sport for Development and Peace
• 5th April: 57th National Maritime Day
• Padma Shri awardee Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa dies after testing positive for coronavirus
• Tony Lewis of ‘DLS method’ fame passes away.
• Emmy award-winning musician Adam Schlesinger dies at 52 of COVID-19
• American singer & 3 time Grammy awardee Bill Withers passed away
• Indian railways designs mobile doctor booth called ‘CHARAK’ for
zero-contact check-ups
• Prasar Bharati launches new channel DD Retro
• Ahmedabad station becomes 1st station to get sanitizing tunnel
• 101st anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
• Union HRD Minister launches a web-portal YUKTI in New Delhi
• Ministry of Tourism launches its “DekhoApnaDesh” webinar series
on April 14
• World faces ‘worst economic fallout since Great Depression’,
• SAARC Development Fund allocates $5 million for Covid-19 projects
• India to export 90,000 tonnes of surplus wheat to Afghanistan, Lebanon under G2G arrangement
• India exported 5 tonnes of drug including hydroxychloroquine to Israel
• Hindustan Unilever partners with UNICEF to support India’s fight against COVID-19
• India’s GDP may plummet to multi-decade low of 1.6 per cent in FY21: Goldman Sachs
• Hitachi gets CCI nod to buy 80.1% stake in ABB’s power grid arm
• JSW Energy inks pact to acquire 100% stake in GMR Kamalanga
• India’s GDP for FY21 projected at 4.8%: UN
• Jana Small Finance Bank Launches “DIGIGEN” – Simple Digital Banking for Savings Account & Fixed Deposits
• World Bank sees FY21 India growth at 1.5-2.8%
• Yes Bank extends bancassurance tie-up with Max Life Insurance
• Bharti AXA Life Insurance appoints Parag Raja as MD & CEO
• Anamika Roy Rashtrawar appointed MD & CEO of IFFCO Tokio
• Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan appointed to a 12-member advisory group to IMF
• Actress Tamannaah bhatia signed as brand ambassador for Mobile Premier League (MPL).
• Birupaksha Mishra takes charge as director at Union Bank of India
• US approves sale of anti-ship missiles, torpedoes worth USD 155
million to India
• 11th April: National Safe Motherhood day
• DST rolls out integrated geospatial platform “Sahyog”
• Jim Corbett becomes India’s first quarantine facility for animals
• DRDO develops kiosk for Covid-19 sample collection
• A total of 170 districts in 25 states was clearly described and showed as COVID-19 hotspots by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
• Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman attends the Plenary Meeting of International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) through video-conference
• Kisan Rath Mobile App launched to facilitate transportation of food grains and perishables during lockdown
• CSIR-CFTRI’s Protein-Enriched Biscuits Reach COVID-19 Patients
• Centre releases 7,300 crore rupees to States & UTs under MGNREGS
• Asia to see zero per cent growth in 2020: IMF
• India gifts 23 tonnes of essential medicines to Nepal
• Economic growth may fall to 1.1% in FY21, says SBI report
• BSNL, SBI partner to launch UPI-based payment platform Bharat Instapay
• Reverse repo rate is being reduced by 25 bps from 4 per cent to
3.75 per cent under Liquidity adjustment facility (LAF)
• The measures though significant were not substantial enough as a mere Rs 50,000 crore in the form of TLTRO is rather conservative. However, for the moment major concerns have been addressed as real estate and NBFC sectors have received massive relief, NBFCs (small and large) have liquidity coming in from TLTRO 2.0
• RBI cancels banking license of Mapusa Urban Co-op Bank
• Government revised FDI Rules to limit the takeover of Indian firms
• S&P slashes India’s FY21 growth forecast to 1.8%
• TVS Motor acquires iconic British bike company Norton
• Facebook buys 9.99% stake in Reliance Jio for Rs 43,574 crore
• Paytm Payments Bank partners Mastercard to launch debit cards
Ajay Mahajan appointed MD & CEO of Care Ratings
Vineet Arora appointed MD, CEO of Paytm General Insurance
Kapil Dev Tripathi appointed Secretary to President Kovind
SC appoint Justices Dipankar Datta, Biswanath Somadde and Mohammad Rafiq as the Chief Justice of High Court of Bombay, Meghalaya and Orissa respectively.
HSBC appoints Noel Quinn as Chief Executive Officer
N Kamakodi reappointed as MD & CEO of City Union Bank
• 19th April: World Liver Day 2020
21st April: National Civil services day
A book titled “How the Onion Got Its Layers” authored by Sudha Murty
HRD Minister launched the #MyBookMyFriend campaign
PM Narendra Modi launches e-Gram Swaraj, Swamitva yojana for faster development of villages
Jaishankar to participate in BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting on response to COVID-19 pandemic
Sri Lanka to seek $400 mn debt swap facility from RBI to meet short term financial needs
ADB approves USD 1.5 bn loan to India to fight COVID-19
India’s GDP likely to grow between -0.9% and 1.5% in FY21: CII (Confederation of Indian Industry)
India’s forex reserves surge $3.09 billion to $479.57 billion
Remittances to India likely to decline by 23% in 2020 due to
World Bank approved Rs 585 cr for Himachal Pradesh State Roads Transformation Project (HPSRTP)
Vodafone Idea ties up with Paytm to launch ‘Recharge Saathi’
Ind-Ra cuts India’s FY21 GDP growth further to 1.9%
RBI announces ₹50,000 crore special liquidity facility for mutual funds
CARE Ratings expects GDP growth at 1.1% in FY21
Moody’s slashes India’s growth estimate to 0.2% for 2020 from 2.5%
Transcorp becomes the 1st non-bank company to receive RBI nod to enter into co-branding arrangements
HDFC acquires 6.43% stake in Reliance Capital
CRISIL pegs India’s FY21 economic growth rate at 1.8% from 3.5%
Airtel signs $1-billion deal with Nokia to get 5G ready
Axis Bank to buy 29% stake in Max Life for Rs 1,592 crore
UBS pegs FY21 India growth at
Transcorp becomes the 1st non-bank company to receive RBI nod to enter into co-branding arrangements
HDFC acquires 6.43% stake in Reliance Capital
CRISIL pegs India’s FY21 economic growth rate at 1.8% from 3.5%
Airtel signs $1-billion deal with Nokia to get 5G ready
Axis Bank to buy 29% stake in Max Life for Rs 1,592 crore
ADB gives $ 346 mn loan for power sector in rural Maharashtra
India facilitates $ 150 million foreign currency swap facility to Maldives due to Covid-19
Govt. Appointed “T S Tirumurti” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN
• Actor Ranjit Chowdhry passes away
• BMW India CEO Rudratej Singh passes away
• Tom and Jerry director, Oscar winning animated filmmaker Gene Deitch passes away
• Karnataka govt launches “Apthamitra” helpline and app to fight
• PM Narendra Modi launches e-Gram Swaraj, Swamitva yojana for faster development of villages
• King George Medical University in Lucknow becomes 1st govt hospital to successfully launch Plasma Therapy Treatment for COVID-19
• World Bank ties-up with AIMA to organize virtual workshop on
“Contract Management during Emergency situations”
• NTPC launched Hydrogen Fuel bus and car project for Leh, New Delhi
• IIT-Kharagpur ranked top in India, 57th globally in THE Impact Rankings
• Karnataka tops in total installed renewable capacity: CRISIL Research report
• WHO launched COVID-19 Tools Act Accelerator
• US President Donald Trump Nominates Indian-American Manisha
• Fitch Ratings sees India growth dipping to 0.8% in FY21 from estimated 4.9%
• India’s GDP likely to grow between -0.9% and 1.5% in FY21: CII (Confederation of Indian Industry)
• India’s forex reserves surge $3.09 billion to $479.57 billion
• Remittances to India likely to decline by 23% in 2020
• CARE Ratings expects GDP growth at 1.1% in FY21
• Moody’s slashes India’s growth estimate to 0.2% for 2020 from 2.5%
• ADB gives $ 346 mn loan for power sector in rural Maharashtra
• India facilitates $ 150 million foreign currency swap facility to Maldives due to Covid-19
• Bajaj Auto ED Rakesh Sharma appointed as IMMA President
• Sanjay Kothari Takes Oath As Chief Vigilance Commissioner
• PNB Housing Appoints Neeraj Vyas as Interim MD and CEO
• Ex-Andhra Bank chief Suresh N Patel to take over as vigilance
• India third largest military spender in world, after US and China
• Badminton World Federation (BWF) names PV Sindhu as an
Birmingham, Alabama –
• Umar Akmal banned for three years from all forms of cricket for corruption charges
• Middle distance runner Jhuma Khatun handed 4-year ban for dope flunk
• India loses hosting rights of 2021 Men’s World Boxing Championship
• ICC bans Deepak Agarwal from all cricket for 2 years
• Former Karnataka batsman J Arunkumar named as USA national
• 24th April: International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for
• 24 to 30 April– World Immunization Week is celebrated
• 28th April: World Day for Safety and Health at Work
• Ayushman Bharat Diwas 2020 is celebrated on 30 April
• 30 April: International Jazz Day
• Former Australian all-rounder Graeme Watson passes away
• Former Governor, Veteran Congress Leader Devanand
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