Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman waived minimum balance charges for savings bank accounts to help citizens deal with the lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis. Also, debit card holders can now withdraw cash from ATMs of all banks free of charge for the next three months. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Sitharaman further extended the […]
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US is slashing $1 billion in assistance to Afghanistan and threatening further reductions in all forms of cooperation after the country’s rival leaders failed to agree on forming a new government. The decision to cut the aid was made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after he made an unannounced, urgent visit to Kabul to
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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
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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
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The United Nations will create a fund to prevent the spread of coronavirus and support the treatment of patients worldwide. The purpose of the fund is to assist developing countries with weak health systems in addressing the crisis as well as to tackle the long-term consequences. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Norway, which suggested the
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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
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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
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The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has recommended the use of hydroxy-chloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19 for high-risk cases amid increasing cases of coronavirus outbreak in India which has claimed 7 lives and 415 confirmed cases. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 The ICMR National Task Force said only high risk cases can be
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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
