Daily Current Affairs(14 April 2020) Important for all Competitive Exams

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NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS 

1. India awaits coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown status, PM Narendra Modi address at 10 am on April 14 today, last day of 3-week lockdown 

2. Tamil Nadu, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh on Monday formally announced an extension of the lockdown till April 30 taking to eight the number of states adopting this step. The other states are Odisha, Punjab, Maharashtra, Telangana, West Bengal, Karnataka and Puducherry.

3. Nation remembers gallant martyrs on 36th Siachen Day observed on 13 April. On 13 April 1984, the Indian Army launched ‘Operation MEGHDOOT’ to secure Bilafond La and other passes on the Saltoro Ridgeline, from Pakistani aggression. 

4. Retail inflation slowed to four-month low of 5.91 per cent in March and came back to the RBI's comfort zone, mainly due to easing prices of kitchen essentials like vegetables, eggs and meat.

5. A low-intensity earthquake of magnitude 2.7 shook parts of Delhi on Monday, the National Centre for Seismology said, the second quake to hit the national capital region in less than 24 hours

6. 895 people arrested in Kolkata for lockdown violation. West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday urged the state government to pay heed to the Centre's warnings against "gradual dilution" of lockdown,  reports of alleged violation in Murshidabad and Siliguri are noted.

7. Union ministers and senior officials resumed working from offices on Monday as the government scaled up its activities to deal with the situation arising out of the coronavirus crisis.

8. Doordarshan Launches New Channel ‘DD Retro’ To Telecast All Classic Hit Shows As Its Viewership Tops Charts

9.  Delhi govt to implement odd-even rule in wholesale markets.  Vegetables will be sold from 6 am to 11 am and fruits from 2 pm to 6pm in all wholesale markets in Delhi

10. The Supreme Court on Monday modified its April 8 order which asked private labs to conduct free COVID-19 tests and said the benefit will be available only to "economically weaker sections" who are covered under a government scheme such as the Ayushman Bharat.

11. Lieutenant General KPD Samanta (retired), a veteran of the 1971 India-Pakistan War, 1984 Operation Blue Star and Kargil War in 1999, died on Monday (April 13, 2020) in New Delhi aged 70. The Army officer was suffering from cancer and breathed his last at Delhi's Apollo Hospital

12. Veteran Congress leader and former union minister M V Rajasekharan died aged 91 in Bengaluru

13. CEC Sunil Arora, ECs Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra to take voluntary 30% cut in their basic salary for one year starting April 1, 2020

14. Delhi Police on Monday (April 13) nabbed a man pretending to be and officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) during a vehicle-checking drive conducted in northeast area of the national capital. 

15.  14 villages in Uttar Pradesh sealed because of man who attended Delhi's Tablighi Jamaat event. He was tested COVID-19 positive in Bhavanipur Khali area UP, following which 14 adjoining villages were sealed, The man is from Andhra Pradesh and he was staying in a mosque 

16.  GMR Airports Limited gets approval to build greenfield International airport at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh

17. Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti is an annual festival observed on 14 April to commemorate the memory of B. R. Ambedkar. It marks Babasaheb Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's birthday who was born on 14 April 1891. Since 2015 it has been observed as an official public holiday throughout India. 

✈INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

1.  India on Monday issued a strong demarche to Pakistan over the killing of three civilians, including a minor, by Pakistani troops in a ceasefire violation along the Line of Control in Keran sector of Jammu and Kashmir

2.  There have been frequent incidents of ceasefire violation by Pakistani side since India announced its decision to withdraw special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcate the state into two union territories in August last year.

3. China’s northeastern border with Russia has become a frontline in the fight against a resurgence of the coronavirus epidemic as new daily cases rose to the highest in nearly six weeks - with more than 90% involving people coming from abroad.

4. A total of 108 new coronavirus cases were reported in mainland China on Sunday,

5.  The border is closed, except to Chinese nationals, and the land route through the city had become one of few options available for people trying to return home after Russia stopped flights to China except for those evacuating people.

SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS

1. Former Chelsea football goalkeeper Peter Bonetti has passed away  after prolonged illness. He was 78.

   

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