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#Wewillwin campaign launched by FIFA

May 1, 2020
FIFA
  • #WeWillWin campaign has been launched by Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) to support and motivate all those corona warriors who are working at the front line to stop COVID-19 pandemic.

Nikkei Asia Prize 2020 award to IIT madras professor T. Pradeep

May 1, 2020
T. Pradeep Nikkei Asia Prize 2020
  • IIT Madras professor, Thalappil Pradeep has been conferred with the prestigious Nikkei Asia prize for his contribution to the development of nanotechnology based water filters. 
  • He received this award under “Science and technology” category.

Order of Rising Sun award conferred by Japan to Manipuri doctor Thangjam Dhabali Singh

May 1, 2020
  • Japan has conferred Order of the Rising sun award to the Thangjam Dhabali Singh for his service towards strengthening ties between both the countries.

Shikha Sharma appointed as the new advisor of Google Pay India.

May 1, 2020
Shikha Sharma
  • One of the leading payments platform Google pay has appointed Shikha Sharma as advisor to the Google Pay India. Google pay is a Unified Payment Interface (UPI) based platform for online transactions.

T. S. Tirumurti appointed as ambassador of India to UN

April 30, 2020
T. S. Tirumurti
  • Government of India (GoI) has appointed T. S. Tirumurti as India’s ambassador to United Nations Organization(UN). He will be replacing Sayyad Akbaruddin.

Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) appoints Rajiv Kumar as new Chief

April 30, 2020
Rajiv Kumar PSEB
  • 1984 batch Jharkhand cadre IAS Rajiv Kumar has been appointed as chairman of Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) .
  • He will succeed the incumbent Kapil Dev Tripathi, a 1980 batch retired Assam-Meghalaya cadre IAS official.

Suresh N Patel appointed new Vigilance Commissioner of India

April 30, 2020
Suresh N Patel
    • Eminent banker Suresh N Patel has been appointed as the New Vigilance Commissioner of India. He  was administered the oath of office by Central Vigilance Commissioner Sanjay Kothari through video conference.
    • He has over three decades of banking experience, and has also worked as the executive director in Oriental Bank of Commerce, before taking over as the Managing Director and CEO of Andhra Bank in 2015.

Bollywood Actor Rishi Kapoor passed away.

April 30, 2020
Rishi Kapoor
  • India’s one of the most popular and loved actor Rishi Kapoor passed away. From almost one year he was in New York for his cancer treatment.
  •  He made his debut, as an adolescent, in his father Raj Kapoor’s film Mera Naam Joker, for which he won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist.

Deepak Mittal and Piyush Srivastava appointed ambassadors of India

April 30, 2020
deepak mittal , piyush srivastava
  • India has appointed Deepak Mittal as ambassador to Qatar.
  • India has appointed Piyush Srivastava as ambassador to Bahrain.

Maharashtra gets a loan of $346 million for power sector from ADB

April 30, 2020
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
  • Maharashtra government has signed a loan pact with Asian development Bank (ADB) of $346 million. This amount will be used for improving the power sector of the rural areas of the state.

Jeevan Amrit Yojna launched by Madhya Pradesh Government

April 30, 2020
Jeevan Amrit Yojna
  • Madhya Pradesh government has launched “Jeevan Amrit Yojana “  to boost the immunity of people of MP that will prove beneficial for fighting COVID-19. 
  • Under this scheme, Madhya Pradesh government has decided to distribute “Trikut Churna” prepared by the Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) ministry.

PNB Housing appoints Neeraj Vyas as new MD & CEO

April 30, 2020
Neeraj Vyas
  • Punjab National Bank (PNB) Housing Finance Ltd. has appointed Neeraj Vyas as the new MD and CEO.He will be replacing Sanjay Gupta, present MD and CEO of PNB Housing Finance Ltd.

IIT delhi develops dashboard “PRACRITI” for COVID-19

April 30, 2020
Pracriti
  • Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi has developed a special dashboard “PRACRITI” for state-wise and district-wise predictions of COVID-19 for a three-week period.
  • PRACRITI is acronym for PRediction and Assessment of CoRona Infections and Transmission in India

Former footballer from UK, Michael Robinson passed away

April 30, 2020
Michael Robinson
  • Michael Robinson, who played in a European Cup-winning team at Liverpool and became a respected soccer broadcaster in Spain passed away at the age of 61. He belonged to United Kingdom.

J. Arunkumar appointed as coach of the US national cricket team.

April 30, 2020
J. ArunKumar
  • J. Arunkumar has been appointed as coach of United States (US) national cricket team. He is a former cricketer from Karnataka having various outstanding achievements.He will be replacing James Pamment.

Men’s World Boxing championship 2021 to be held in Serbia

April 29, 2020
International Boxing Association
  • Men’s World Boxing Championship 2021 will be held in Belgrade, Serbia. This was supposed to be held in India but International Boxing Association (AIBA)  took hosting rights from India as New Delhi didn’t fulfill its obligations to pay host fee as mentioned in the Host City Agreement terms. This event was held earlier in Serbia in 1978.

G-20 launches a new initiative to fight COVID-19

April 29, 2020
  • G-20 has launched a new initiative “Access to COVID-19 tools accelerator” under Saudi Arabia. The aim of this initiative is to make sure the availability of all tools necessary to fight COVID-19 to all the members countries.

ADB to provide a loan of $1 Billion to India for COVID-19

April 29, 2020
ADB
  • Asian development Bank(ADB) has signed a loan agreement with Government of India (GoI) of $1 Billion that will be utilized to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Govt. will focus on providing food security, medical kits and other essential equipments like ventilators, PPE kits etc.

Germany hosts 11th session of Petersberg Climate Dialogue virtually

April 29, 2020
petersberg climate dialogue
  • Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate change, Prakash Javadekar attended the 11th session of Petersberg Climate Dialogue virtually hosted by Germany and co-hosted by United Kingdom.

Australia cancels the “Pitch Black 2020” air-combat exercise.

April 29, 2020
Pitch black 2020 air force
  • Australia has cancelled the multilateral air combat training exercise between India and Australia” Pitch Black 2020” due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has already affected more than 190 countries all over the world. This was informed by Air Marshal Meg Hupfeld, Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), in a letter to Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria, in mid-April.
  • Last edition was held in 2018 and next edition is scheduled to be held in 2022.

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