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- GK snap shot on 20 April
1)World Heritage Day 2020: April 18
2)44th session of World Heritage Committee 2020 of UNESCO in Fuzhou postponed
3)Union minister Prahlad singh patel launches the National list of intangible cultural heritage of India in New Delhi
Covid-19
1)Health Ministry formulated colour codes for Lockdown 2.0 to manage COVID-19 pandemic
2)Rajasthan: First Indian to carry out Rapid Testing for Covid-19
3)Gujarat’s GBRC: 2nd Indian institute to decode COVID-19 genome sequence; 3 new mutations found
4)Indian Navy develops air evacuation pod for COVID-19 patients
5)Chilean author Luis Sepúlveda dies of coronavirus in northern Spain at 70
6)South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s party wins election amid COVID-19 pandemic
7)Automatic Mist Based Sanitisers Dispensing Unit & UV Sanitisation Box and Hand-held UV device introduced: DRDO
Economy
1)Centre Government releases 7,300 crore rupees to State & UTs under MGNREGS
2)Equitas Small Finance Bank launches Selfe Fixed Deposits and Selfe savings accounts
3)RBI’s 1st auction under TLTRO 2.0 for Rs 25,000 cr on Apr 23; final tranche of Rs 1 lakh crore TLTRO concluded
4)NCAER Business confidence index (N-BCI) declined to 77.3 from 111.2 in Q4 FY20
5)TVS motor acquires 122-year-old UK-based firm Norton motorcycles for Rs 153 cr
6)Eros International & Hollywood’s STX Entertainment to merge all share- 1st of its kind
7)Nirmala Sitharaman attends the 101st Development Committee Meeting: IMF
8)Government increases loss coverage for micro loan defaults under CGFMU scheme to 75% from 50% earlier
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