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First Week 1st to 7th April 2020

♦National News

• 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
• Tamil Nadu finishes on top in micro-irrigation coverage FY 2019-
20

♦International News

• COP26 climate change conference postponed until 2021 due

to coronavirus
• Robert Weighton named world’s oldest man, aged 112
• Act against China for spreading COVID-19: International Court of
Jurists to UNHRC
• India seeks $6 billion of loans from ADB, AIIB to fight coronavirus
pandemic
• India gets request from 30 countries for hydroxychloroquine

♦Banking and Financial

• Affordable housing firm Aavas gets $60m ADB loan

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• 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

♦Appointment and Resign

• Paytm Money CEO Pravin Jadhav resigns

• 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

♦Defence

• Operation Sanjeevani: IAF airlifts medical and hospital

consumables for the Maldives

♦Sport

• China to host Asian Youth Games in 2021 (November 20 to 28,

2021.)
• World Athletics championship shifted to 2022
• Wimbledon cancelled due to coronavirus, first time since World
War II
• FIFA postpones U-17 Women’s World Cup in India due to Covid-
19 pandemic
• World Games in Birmingham, Alabama postponed until 2022

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• Tokyo 2020 weightlifting bans for Thailand and Malaysia

♦Important Day

• 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
2020
• 5th April: 57th National Maritime Day
• 7th April: World Health Day (Theme 2020:” Support nurses and
midwives’)

♦Obituary

• Arjun Dev: A legendary historian passes away

• Princess Maria Teresa of Spain becomes first royal to die from
COVID-19
• Padma Shri awardee Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa dies after testing
positive for coronavirus
• Tony Lewis of ‘DLS method’ fame passes away
• Gita Ramjee, renowned Indian-origin virologist, dies from
coronavirus
• Emmy award-winning musician Adam Schlesinger dies at 52 of
COVID-19
• American singer & 3 time Grammy awardee Bill Withers passed
away

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2nd Week 8th to 15th April 2020

♦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

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• 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

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• 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).

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• 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

• 10th April: World Homeopathy Day 2020

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

♦Book and Author

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• 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

3rd Week 16th to 22nd April 2020

♦National News

• 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
the 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

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• Government launches online data pool of critical human

resource for combating and containing Covid-19
• Rajasthan govt launches new app Aayu & Sehat Sathi to battle
coronavirus
• Delhi govt: Use ‘Assess Koro Na’ app for door-to-door
survey in containment zones
• India Drops 2 Places to Rank 142nd on Global Press Freedom
Index (Top-Norway, Bottom- North Korea)

♦International

• Asia to see zero per cent growth in 2020: IMF

• South Korea’s ruling party President Moon Jae-in’s wins general
elections amid Covid-19 pandemic
• RBI’s 3-month EMI moratorium could provide ₹2.1 lakh crore
liquidity to companies
• India gifts 23 tonnes of essential medicines to Nepal

♦Banking and Financial

• 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

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25000 cr. to NABARAD.

10000 cr. to NHB
15000 cr to SIDBI

• AIIB to lend USD 500 mn to India to help fight COVID-19

pandemic
• RBI cancels banking license of Mapusa Urban Co-op Bank
• Government revised FDI Rules to limit the takeover of Indian
firms
• RBI moratorium: 10% provisioning may shave Rs 35,000 cr off
bank profits
• 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

♦Appointment

• Ajay Mahajan appointed MD & CEO of Care Ratings

• Vineet Arora appointed MD, CEO of Paytm General Insurance
• Anand named ambassador for WWF India
• BSNL CMD P K Purwar takes Additional charge of MTNL
• 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

♦Sport

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• Charles Leclerc wins Chinese Virtual Grand Prix

♦Important Day

• 14th March: The International Day of Mathematics (1st Time)

• 16th April: World Voice Day (Theme 2020: FOCUS ON YOUR
VOICE)
• 17th April: World Haemophilia Day (Theme 2020:
“Get+involved”)
• 18th April: World Heritage Day 2020 (Theme 2020: Shared
Cultures, Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility)
• 19th April: World Liver Day 2020
• 21st April: National Civil services day
• 21st April: World Creativity and Innovation Day
• 22nd April: Earth Day 2020 (Theme 2020: ‘Climate Action’)

♦Book and Author

• Shuttling to the Top: The Story of P.V. Sindhu, written by V.

Krishnaswamy
• A book titled “How the Onion Got Its Layers” authored by Sudha
Murty

♦Obituary

• Actor Ranjit Chowdhry passes away

• BMW India CEO Rudratej Singh passes away
• Tom and Jerry director, Oscar winning animated filmmaker
Gene Deitch passes away

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4th Week 23rd to 30th April 2020

♦National News

• Karnataka govt launches “Apthamitra” helpline and app to fight

COVID-19
• HRD Minister launched the #MyBookMyFriend campaign
• PM Narendra Modi launches e-Gram Swaraj, Swamitva
yojana for faster development of villages
• CISF launches ‘e-office’ app for movement of files
• UP becomes first state with in-house facility of virtual courts
• 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”

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• NTPC launched Hydrogen Fuel bus and car project for Leh, New
Delhi
• IIT-Kharagpur ranked top in India, 57th globally in THE Impact
Rankings
• MP CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan launches Jeevan Shakti Yojana
• Jaishankar to participate in BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting on
response to COVID-19 pandemic
• Punjab varsity launches “Unique” COVID-19 website
• AP launched ‘Covid Pharma’, a mobile application to trace
people buying medicines for fever, cold
• Karnataka tops in total installed renewable capacity: CRISIL
Research report
• IMD releases new list of 169 names of tropical cyclones over
north Indian Ocean

♦International News

• Sri Lanka to seek $400 mn debt swap facility from RBI to meet
short term financial needs
• Iran launches its 1st military satellite “Noor” into orbit
• WHO launched COVID-19 Tools Act Accelerator
• US President Donald Trump Nominates Indian-American Manisha
Singh as Unites States Envoy to OECD
• ADB approves USD 1.5 bn loan to India to fight COVID-19
• WHO map shows parts of Ladakh as Chinese territory

♦Banking and Financial

• Fitch Ratings sees India growth dipping to 0.8% in FY21 from

estimated 4.9%

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• 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
COVID-19: World Bank
• 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
• 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 -0.4%
• Moody’s slashes India’s growth estimate to 0.2% for 2020 from
2.5%
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economy to reduce
by 2.7 percent in 2020 due to COVID-19
• 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

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♦Appointment

• Bajaj Auto ED Rakesh Sharma appointed as IMMA President

• Sanjay Kothari Takes Oath As Chief Vigilance Commissioner
• Government reconstitutes National Shipping Board; to
be headed by ex-DG Shipping Malini Shankar
• Shiv Das Meena appointed as Chairman & Managing Director of
HUDCO
• Justice Dipankar Datta sworn in as Chief Justice of Bombay HC
• Former finance secretary Rajiv Kumar appointed PESB chairman
• PNB Housing Appoints Neeraj Vyas as Interim MD and CEO
• Ex-Andhra Bank chief Suresh N Patel to take over as vigilance
commissioner
• Govt. Appointed “T S Tirumurti” India’s Permanent Representative
to the UN

♦Defence News

• India third largest military spender in world, after US and China

♦Sport

• Badminton World Federation (BWF) names PV Sindhu as an

ambassador for ‘I am badminton’ campaign
• World Games unveil new logo, title for 2022 edition held in
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

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• 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
team coach

♦Important Day

• 23rd April: World Book and Copyright Day

• 23rd April: English Language Day
• 23rd April: International Girls in ICT day
• 24th April: International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for
Peace
• 24th April: National Panchayati Raj Day
• 25 April: World Malaria Day (Theme 2020:”Zero malaria starts with
me.”)
• 25 April: International Delegates Day
• 26th April: World Intellectual Property Day (Theme 2020: ‘Innovate for
a Green Future.’)
• 26 April: International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
• 24 to 30 April– World Immunization Week is celebrated
• 28th April: World Day for Safety and Health at Work (Theme 2020:
Stop The Pandemic)
• International Dance Day is celebrated on 29 April
• International Guide Dog Day was celebrated on 29 April (the last
Wednesday of April)
• Ayushman Bharat Diwas 2020 is celebrated on 30 April
• 30 April: International Jazz Day

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♦Obituary

• Former Australian all-rounder Graeme Watson passes away

• Former Governor, Veteran Congress Leader Devanand
Konwar Passes Away in Guwahati
• Actor Irrfan Khan passes away
• Actor Rishi Kapoor passes away
• India’s football legend Chuni Goswami passes away

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