21 April current affairs in English

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21 April current affairs in English

🔶World Liver Day 2020: April 19

🔶UN Chinese Language Day: 20th April

🔶G20 Health Ministers Meeting held via video conference to control COVID-19; US $8mn required for containment

🔶Centre formed high-level task force headed by Vinod Paul & K Vijay Raghavan for development of Covid-19 vaccine

🔶Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to geotag community kitchens

🔶DCGI clears ICMR plasma therapy trial in Covid-19 patients; 99 applications received

🔶Centre has amended FDI Policy, 2017 for curbing opportunistic takeovers

🔶MNRE urges states to set up renewable energy equipment parks

🔶Voice banking services on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant launched: ICICI

🔶RBI reduces FPI investment limits in G-secs to Rs 2.34 lakh cr for FY21; Rises for SDLs to Rs 64,415 cr

🔶Fitch cuts India’s FY21 GDP growth forecast to 1.8%

🔶Central Government forms 6 Inter-Ministerial Teams

🔶2 empowered committees formed to look into implementation of exits from lockdown

🔶BSNL CMD P K Purwar takes additional charge as CMD MTNL

🔶SC collegium names New Chief Justices for Bombay, Meghalaya & Orissa High courts

🔶Government launches online data pool to combat & contain COVID-19

🔶Researchers at IIA, Bengaluru discovers hundreds of Li-rich giant stars,

🔶CSIR-CDRI signs MoU with KGMU to sequence the virus strains

🔶NASA to launch 1st US astronaut mission to ISS since 2011

🔶New model to predict ionospheric electron density can help communication & navigation

🔶A book by Sudha Murty, entitled "How the Onion Got Its Layers"

🔶 Abba Kyari, the chief of staff of Nigeria's President Buhari, dies