Daily Current Affairs(06 April 2020) Important for all Competitive Exams

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1. Millions of Indians light lamps on PM's appeal; India unites no impact on power grid: Power minister said

2. PM Modi`s mother Heeraben joined the nation by turning off all lights at her residence and lighted an earthen lamp, responding to her son`s appeal to switching off lights at 9 pm for 9-minutes as solidarity with coronavirus infected and to dispel darkness cast by the deadly pathogen in the country. On 31 Mar she was also donated Rs 25,000 from her personal savings to PM CARES fund 

3. PM to chair council of ministers' meet on Monday via a video-conference

4. DRDO’s VRDE (Vehicle Research and Development Establishment, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra) develops full-body disinfection chamber called  ‘Personnel Sanitization Enclosure’ for healthcare workers

5. Three soldiers and five unidentified militants, suspected to be foreigners, were killed in an ongoing counter-infiltration operation in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district

6. Bollywood actress Rakul Preet feeds 200 families living in Gurugram slum

7. AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said that PM Modi`s decision not to invite him to the video conference with floor leaders of political parties is an insult to the people of Hyderabad and Aurangabad.

8. A Facebook user Prashant Dutta, a resident of Surankote,  was booked under 295-A, 67 of the IT Act for allegedly making sensitive remarks on the social networking site having potential to disturb peace and create law and order problem in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir

9. Mumbai Man identifed has Shamim Iftekhar Khan, a resident of Qureshi Nagar in Kurla East was arrested in Chunabhatti in Mumbai on Sunday for allegedly uploading a post on Facebook claiming the novel coronavirus outbreak was a government conspiracy and that people should not reveal information to authorities.

10. He was arrested under sections 188 (disobedience of an order promulgated by a public servant) and 505 (statements conducing to public mischief) of IPC, and provisions of Disaster Management Act. 

11. Chandigarh directs schools to start online teaching

GMSH, GMCH to start consultation through video call 

12. While the total 21-day lockdown, designed to fight the spread of coronavirus, with automobiles and industrial work shut down, pollution levels across India have witnessed a drastic fall.

13. The most recent example has to be the spectacular view of the Dhauladhar mountain range from a rooftop in Jalandhar, Punjab. The snow-capped mountains, part of the Himalayan range in Himachal Pradesh, became visible to the naked eye as the level of toxic emissions have gone down in the city. In fact, with humans staying indoors, the animals have come out to play. From peacocks to elephants, there have been several incidents of wildlife taking to the streets in the absence of human beings.

14. Over 75 lakh needy people, including migrant labourers, have been provided with food at 19,460 special food camps set up across the country in the wake of the lockdown.  A total of 9,951 food camps have been set by the state/UT governments and 9,509 camps by NGOs

15. Railways has transported 7,630 rakes and 3.92 lakh wagons of essential items between March 25 and April 4

16. India's top oil and gas producer ONGC has sent an SOS to the government seeking a cut in taxes as well as being granted pricing and marketing freedom for gas to help it weather the slump in prices that has made sustaining operations difficult and may force a cut in investments

17.A Nashik man Sayyad Jameel Sayyad Babu, 38, was arrested  in Malegaon. for a TikTok video showing him wiping his nose and mouth with currency notes has been doing the rounds on social media,  court has remanded the him to police custody till April 7.

18. Return of Ramayan and Mahabharat on TV. Viewers have been glued to the iconic shows, resulting in the former witnessing the highest TV ratings for a TV show since 2015. While the audience have been enjoying the show, Sonakshi Sinha has become a talking point too, as her failure to answer a question from the epic text on Kaun Banega Crorepati had invited intense trolling a few months ago. 

19. Amul shares old 1990s ads for Ramayan viewers on public demand on DD channel

INTERNATIONAL CA

1.India mulls Trump's request to lift ban on hydroxychloroquine export and related formulations. Hydroxychloroquine tablets are recognised as prophylactic the anti-malaria drug.

2. Eight people were caught at the Delhi IGI airport on Sunday trying to flee to Malaysia. All of them have been identified as Malaysian nationals and are suspected to be hiding their participation in the recent Tablighi Jamaat event in Nizamuddin. The group was trying to board a Malindo Airways flight amid the ongoing lockdown in the country in which all international and domestic passenger flights have been suspended.

3.  Over 2,000 delegates, including foreigners from Indonesia and Malaysia, attended the Tablighi Jamaat congregation in Nizamuddin West from March 1-15. 

4. Home Ministry has blacklisted 960 foreigners and cancelled their tourist visas over the Tablighi Jamaat event.

  

5. Pakistan re-arrests four men acquitted in Daniel Pearl murder caseincluding Briton Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for masterminding Pearl`s murder. The other three were sentenced to life.

6. The biggest and brightest moon of this year is set to appear in the skies above you in a couple of days’ time: Super Pink Moon on the night of April 7 and morning of April 8 is expected to be just around 356,000 km from the Earth. At most times, the distance between the Earth and the moon is around 384,000 km

7. Its visible starting April 7 nighttime in North America and some other regions. You can find the exact moonrise and moonset times for your region here (https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/india/new-delhi)

SPORTS CA

1. Former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh on Sunday pledged to donate Rs 50 lakh to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's PM CARES Fund

2. Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh has pledged to feed 5000 under-privileged families in his native Jalandhar

3. The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) or the International Federation of Association Football has postponed the Under-17 Women’

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