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NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. Over 400 Lifeline Udan flights deliver essential, medical supplies across country
2. President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and other political leaders across the country on Wednesday mourned the demise of actor Irrfan Khan, calling him a 'rare talent' who will be greatly missed.
3. The Kerala government on Wednesday decided to issue an ordinance empowering it to deduct salaries of its employees to mobilise funds to fight Covid-19 in the state
4. Coronavirus cases in India are now 31787 of which 7797 persons have recovered and 1008 dead. Lockdown restrictions, particularly in rural areas, have been eased to restart some economic activity
5. The Ministry of Home Affairs stated that the new guidelines which would come into effect from May 4 shall give considerable relaxations to many districts and has permitted the inter-state movement of stranded persons in the country. This move will help migrant workers, students, pilgrims, tourists who have been stranded in different parts of India to return to their home state
6. Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people, who are stranded in different parts of the country, were on Wednesday allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions. The moving persons would be screened and those found asymptomatic would be allowed to proceed, according to the home ministry
7. On arrival at their destination, such persons would be assessed by the local health authorities, and kept in home quarantine, unless the assessment requires keeping the persons in institutional quarantine,
8. Former Andhra Bank MD & CEO Suresh N. Patel appointed as the vigilance commissioner in Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) for a tenure upto December 2022
9. UIDAI permits Aadhaar updation facility through Common Service Centres (CSCs)
10. On April 29, 2020, the task force on National Infrastructure Pipeline has submitted its final report to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman. The report has been prepared for the year 2019-25.
11. The scientists of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) operating under Department of Science and Technology has invented a natural product for Alzheimer disease. Alzheimer’s is a disorder that accounts for more than 70% of all types of dementia.
12. Airport Authority of India has stated: Once restrictions on passenger flights are lifted airports will facilitate limited domestic and international scheduled flights in phases and may be at 30% capacity to facilitate social distancing
13. Veteran Actor Rishi Kapoor Hospitalised In Mumbai. He was taken to H N Reliance hospital by his family on Wednesday morning
14. Heavy rain accompanied by wind, lashes Bengaluru. the city received an average of 45 mm rainfall since Tuesday midnight, with a few areas receiving more than 65 mm.The city will continue to receive rain over the next few days, said G.S. Srinivas Reddy from the KSNDMC.
15. The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted partial relief to Vodafone Idea Ltd by asking the income tax (I-T) department to refund Rs 733 crore to the telecom firm within four weeks, for assessment year 2014-15.
16. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday called Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over reports of the murder of two sadhus (Hindu monks) in Bulandshahar and requested him to take strict action against the culprits.
17. After death of actor Irrfan Khan, Doordarshaan announced the rerun of the actor’s first TV serial, Shrikant. Directed by Pravin Nischol, the series also featured Farooq Shaikh and . It was based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s book.
18. Low-cost airline SpiceJet has told its pilots that they won't get the salary for April and May but will be paid for the cargo flights that they fly. The airline had already cut salary, laid off its expat pilots and sent a part of its staff on leave without pay, steps necessitated because of the disruption caused by COVID-19.
19. NEW ACADEMIC SESSION FROM SEPTEMBER, UGC RELEASES EXAMINATION GUIDELINES: The new academic session for freshers will begin in September while for 2nd and 3rd-year students, the academic session will begin in August.
20. The commission also said that exams for final semester students will be conducted in July. Where it is difficult to hold exams, universities can mark students 50% on the basis of the pattern of internal evaluation, and the remaining 50% marks can be awarded on the basis of performance in the previous semester, the guidelines said.
Universities may conduct Terminal / Intermediate Semester / Year examinations in offline / online mode, as per their Ordinances/Rules and Regulations, Scheme of Examinations, observing the guidelines of “social distancing” and keeping in view the support system available with them and ensuring fair opportunity to all students
✈INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. 3 Navy warships on standby to bring Indians back from Gulf. INS Jalashwa and two Magar-class amphibious warships
2. The Haryana government has got the Centre's nod to use testing kits manufactured by a South Korean company to conduct COVID-19 rapid tests
3. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), however, advised states to stop using these kits till it examined their quality in the wake of complaints that they were not fully effective
4. Asian Development Bank approves USD 1.5 billion loan to India to help fund its response to the novel coronavirus pandemic
5. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) India Business Forum organized a video interaction with Ambassador of India to China, Vikram Misri to discuss the situation arising out of COVID19 and it’s impact on various Indian businesses operating in China.
6. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar attends BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meeting on COVID-19 through video conferencing
7. Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar attends first virtual Petersberg Climate Dialogue hosted by Germany
8. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has released 169 new names for the tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean Region. The names were contributed by 13 countries namely India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Thailand, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iran. The proposed names should be neutral to cultures, politics, gender and religious beliefs. The name should not hurt the sentiments of the group of population in the world.
9. Mexico: Death toll from COVID-19 rises to 1,569
10. World Day for Safety and Health at Work observed by the UN on April 28
11. Asteroid 1998 OR2 to Safely Fly Pasted Earth : A large near-Earth asteroid safely passed by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail. The asteroid got no closer than about 3.9 million miles (6.3 million kilometers), passing more than 16 times farther away than the Moon.Its next close approach to Earth will occur in 2079, when it will pass by closer - only about four times the lunar distance.
SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS
1. India loses hosting rights of the 2021 men’s world boxing championship to Serbia
2. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said
"It will be impossible to host the Tokyo Olympic Games next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained"
3. The International Olympic Committee and the Japanese government postponed the Games last month until July 2021 because of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.
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