Weekly One Liner Current Affairs : 8th to 15th April 2020

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs : 8th to 15th April 2020

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As we all know that General Awareness/ Current Affairs Part is playing a major role in any exam weather it will be SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government examinations. So here we are providing the weekly one liner current affairs for every upcoming exam which has GA section. Weekly one liner current affairs consist top news in one line which is important for every exams. Check Weekly current affairs below and update yourself with weekly one liner current affairs here.

♦National News

• Swasth ke Sipahi delivering essential services and medicines at doorstep
• MHRD launches ‘Samadhan’ challenge to invite ideas to fight COVID-19
• Indian railways designs mobile doctor booth called ‘CHARAK’ for zero-contact check-ups
• Delhi CM announces Operation ‘Shield’ to fight Covid-19
• 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
• Robots to serve food, medicine to COVID-19 patients in Jharkhand
• UP to Become First State to Start Pool Testing of Covid-19

♦International News

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey pledges $1 billion of his wealth for fight against coronavirus
• World faces ‘worst economic fallout since Great Depression’, says IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva
• Jeff Bezos tops Forbes billionaires list ($113 billion), Mukesh Ambani is 17th position with 44.8 billion.
• 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
• Easter festival is celebrated on 12 April
• Apple and Google collaborate to launch COVID-19 contact-tracing tech
• All 50 states under disaster declaration for first time in US history
• ADB to increase COVID-19 package to $20 billion

♦Banking and Financial

• 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%
• IMF projects India’s growth rate at 1.9% in 2020
• Yes Bank extends bancassurance tie-up with Max Life Insurance for 5 years
• World Bank releases “South Asia Economic Focus” report, regional growth will fall to a range between 1.8 and 2.8 per cent in 2020, down from 6.3 per cent projected six months ago.

♦Appointment

• Bharti AXA Life Insurance appoints Parag Raja as MD & CEO
• Anamika Roy Rashtrawar appointed MD & CEO of IFFCO Tokio
• RV Verma appointed as non-executive Chairman of AU Small Finance Bank
• Karnataka Bank gets RBI nod to reappoint Mahabaleshwara M S as MD and CEO for 3 years
• 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

♦Defence

• US approves sale of anti-ship missiles, torpedoes worth USD 155 million to India

♦Sport

• Ben Stokes named leading cricketer in the world (Australia’s Ellyse Perry reclaimed the leading women’s cricketer)
• India retains 108th slot at FIFA’s latest ranking (Top- Belgium)
• India to host Asian Boxing Championship in November-December

♦Important Day

• 10^th April: World Homeopathy Day 2020
• 11^th April: National Safe Motherhood day
• 11^th April: National Pet Day
• 12^th April: International Day of Human Space Flight 2020
• 15^th April: World Art day

♦Book and Author

• Pulitzer prize winner Mary Jordan writes book on Melania Trump (book titled ‘The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump’)

♦Obituary

• Malayalam actor Sasi Kalinga passed Away
• Padma Shri classical singer Shanti Hiranand passes away
• Former Pakistani cricketer Zafar Sarfraz dies of coronavirus

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