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Date DayTheme
01 AprilUtkal Diwas / Odisha FOundation Day
01 AprilNational Walking Day
01 AprilFossil Fools Day
01 AprilEedible Book Day
02 AprilWorld Autism Awareness DayThe transition of Adulthood
04 AprilInternational day for Mine AwarenessTogether for mine action
05 AprilNational Maritime Day
05 AprilInternational day of ConscienceSupport nurses and Midwives
07 AprilWorld Health Day
08 AprilInternational Romani day
10 AprilWorld Homeopathy DayEnhancing the scope of Homeopathy in Public health
10 AprilSiblings Day
11 AprilNational Safe Motherhood DaySafe Motherhood in times of COVID-19
11 AprilNational Pet Day
12 AprilInternational day of Human Space Flight
13 AprilJallianwala Bagh Massacre
14 AprilB. R. Ambedkar Remembrance Day / Ambedkar Jayanti
14 AprilWorld First Chagas disease day
15 AprilWorld Art DaySee Art, Do Art, Be Art, Stay Home,
16 AprilWorld Voice DayFocus on your voice
17 AprilWorld Haemophilia Day
18 AprilWorld Heritage Day / International day of monuments and sitesShared Cultures, Shared heritage, Shared responsibility
19 AprilWorld Liver Day
21 AprilSecretaries' day
21 AprilNational Civil Services Day
21 AprilWorld Creativity and Innovation Day
22 AprilWorld Earth DayClimate Action
23 AprilWorld Book and Copyright DaySlogan: "KL Baca – caring through reading"
24 AprilNational Panchayati Raj Day
25 AprilWorld Malaria DayZero Malaria starts with Me
25 AprilInternational Delegate's day
26 AprilWorld Intellectual Property DayInnovate for a Green future
27 AprilWorld Veterinary Day
28 AprilWorld day for Safety and Health at Work
28 AprilWorld Veterinary Day
29 AprilInternational Dance Day
30 AprilAyushman Bharat Diwas
30 AprilInternational Jass Day
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AIM’s, NITI Aayog & NIC jointly start “CollabCAD”

AIM’s, NITI Aayog & NIC jointly launches “CollabCAD”
  • Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, and National Informatics Centre (NIC) have jointly started Collaborative CAD Software (CollabCAD).
  • CollabCAD is a collaborative network, computer-enabled software system, giving a total engineering solution from 2D drafting & detailing to 3D product design.

India will host Asian Boxing Championship in November-December

India will host Asian Boxing Championship in November-December
  • The national sports federation has declared on 13th April that it will host the Asian Boxing Championships for men and women in November-December 2020.
  • The tournament will be kept in November-December and the host city will be finalized after things come to normal,” Boxing Federation of India’s (BFI) Executive Director R K Sacheti told media.

YES Bank extends bancassurance tie-up with Max Life Insurance

Yes Bank

  • YES Bank has declared the extension of its strategic bancassurance tie-up with Max Life Insurance.
  • The partnership has been extended for 5-years in order to reaffirm their commitment to invest in building a digitally-enabled ecosystem, to provide customers broad range of need-based products and services in order to give a seamless experience for customers.

IIT-Bombay prepares digital stethoscope called “AyuSynk”

AyuSynk
  • IIT-Bombay has prepared a digital stethoscope called “AyuSynk” to check patients who are infected with COVID-19.
  • IIT Bombay converts conventional stethoscopes into digital ones.
  • The conventional stethoscope may pose a danger of infection to healthcare professionals handling coronavirus patients.

World Chagas Disease Day celebrated globally on 14 April

World Chagas Disease Day
  • World Chagas Disease Day celebrated globally on 14 April. On 14  April 2020, the world community is to commemorate World Chagas Disease Day for the 1st time.
  • The main purpose of marking the day is to increase awareness of Chagas disease and to marked as a day to spread awareness about this “silent and silenced disease”.

Kerala prepares trial plasma therapy for COVID-19 treatment

Kerala prepares trial plasma therapy for COVID-19 treatment
  • Kerala to be the 1st state of India to start clinical trial plasma therapy for COVID-19 treatment.
  • The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has given approval to Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to commence clinical trial convalescent plasma therapy treatment.

Science communication initiative “CovidGyan” originated

CovidGyan
  • An initiative “CovidGyan” has been started by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC).
  • It is a multi-institutional, multi-lingual science communication initiative that has been begun to bring the scientific and factual aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak on to the public domain.

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