Current Affairs March 2020

The Union Cabinetchaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved the following schemes: Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 The scheme on Promotion of Medical Device Parks for financing CommonInfrastructure Facilities in 04 Medical Device Parks with financial implications of Rs. 400 crore. The   Production   Linked   Incentive (PLI) Scheme   for   promoting   domesticmanufacturing of medical […]

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Disaster Management Center has launched a website, www.covid19-sdmc.org, to provide information about COVID-19 pandemic in the region. The website shows the number of Coronavirus patients in member countries and arrangements are made to update it regularly. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 SAARC is an organization of seven

The Cabinet has approved a $6.4bn plan to boost the electronics manufacturing industry in India which has become the world’s second-biggest mobile phone manufacturer. The Government will reportedly provide companies a production-linked incentive of 4-6% on incremental sales of goods made locally for five years. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Under the scheme, electronic manufacturing

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi called for a complete lockdown of the entire nation for the next 21 days beginning at midnight tonight in an effort to contain the COVID-19 Pandemic. He also said that even those nations with the best of the medical facilities could not contain the virus and that the social distancing

It is the eighth World Happiness Report released by the United Nations. World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The World Happiness Report 2020 for the first time ranks cities around the world by their subjective

The Union Cabinet has approved financial assistance to the Modified Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC2.0) Scheme for development of world class infrastructure along with common facilities and amenities through Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs).  EMCs would aid the growth of the ESDM sector, help development of entrepreneurial ecosystem, drive innovation and catalyze the economic growth of the

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced to provide one month free food grains to poor people along with Rs 1,000 as compensation to daily wage workers who have been affected due to the outbreak of deadly virus. More than 20 lakh 37 thousand labourers registered with labour department will be given rupees 1000

The National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow has developed a whiteflies-resistant variety of cotton. Even though Bt cotton is also genetically-modified cotton and present in the market for farmers usage, it is resistant to two pests only and not resistant to whiteflies. Whiteflies are one of the top ten devastating pests in the world that

The Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) has launched a transformational “Tech For Tribals” program in partnership with Institutes of National Importance (INIs) to develop Tribal entrepreneurship. It aims to transform 5 crore Tribal Entrepreneurs by capacity building and imparting entrepreneurship skills to tribal forest produce gatherers enrolled under the Pradhan Mantri Van