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1. Economy NDB approves USD 1 billion Emergency Assistance Program Loan to India The loan aims to support GoI to curb the spread of COVID-19 and overcome social, human and economic losses This is NDB’s second emergency assistance program in order to help its member countries to fight COVID-19. Quick Read more…
1.History, Art and Culture Jharkhand’s Sohrai Khovar painting and Telangana’s Telia Rumal get GITag Sohrai Khovar painting: It is a traditional and ritualistic mural art practised by local tribal women in Hazaribagh It is made during local harvest and marriage seasons using local, naturally available soils of different colours in Read more…
1.Government Schemes Ministry of MSME launches CHAMPIONS Portal CHAMPION stands for Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for Increasing the Output and National Strength. It has been envisioned as a one-stop-shop solution of the MSME Ministry which will utilise modern ICT tools to assist Indian MSMEs into becoming National Read more…
1.Miscellaneous WHO & UNPA release postage stamp on 40th anniversary of smallpox eradication World Health Organisation and United Nations Postal Administration are commemorating 40 years of smallpox eradication The stamp serves to honour world leaders, international organizations, rural doctors and community doctors, who worked together to eradicate smallpox. Quick Fact: Read more…
1.Miscellaneous Jharkhand govt bans Pan Masala for 1 year on health concerns The state government has banned 11 premium brands of pan masala This has been done on the suspicion that they contain magnesium carbonate which can cause acute hyper magnesia and cardiac arrest The move would also contain spread Read more…
1.Government Schemes MP: First state to provide Mid-Day Meal ration In Madhya Pradesh, mid day meal rations will be sent to students at their home. This is being done to ensure that children obtain optimum nutrition which they were missing out due to schools being closed in the lockdown The Read more…
Miscellaneous NITI Aayog launches ‘Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan’ The campaign has been launched virtually in association with Piramal Foundation It aims to ensure the well-being of senior citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic through behavioral change, access to service and early detection and tracking The campaign will reach over 2.9 Read more…
1.Science and Technology Long March 5B- China’s new Rocket China had launched a new rocket and a deep-space spacecraft called Long March 5B The rocket will help China in: sending astronauts to space operating a permanent space station called Tiangong The rocket was launched from Wenchang launch site of Hainan Read more…
1.Person in News Pulitzer Prize for Indian Journalists Three Indian journalists have won Pulitzer Prize 2020 in feature photography. All three of them, Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand, are associated with Associated Press. They have been awarded for coverage of life under lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir. 2.Economy Read more…
1.Economy National e-commerce marketplace ‘bharatmarket’ to be launched by CAIT The marketplace will integrate 95% of retail traders onboard the national platform It will provide end-to-end services in the logistics as well as supply chains from manufacturers to end consumers. CAIT expects an enrollment of one crore retailers on the Read more…