National Current Affairs

March 24, 2020

“Mylab PathoDetect COVID-19 Qualitative PCR kit” has become the first ‘Made in India’ COVID19 Test Kit to receive the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) approval.
CDSCO has given the commercial approval to the COVID-19 diagnostic test kit which is also called as the Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test.

March 23, 2020

The BJP Legislative Party meeting is scheduled to be held on 23^rd March at 6 pm at the party in Bhopal. Shivraj Singh Chouhan will take oath as the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Congress leader and former CM Kamal Nath had on March 20 presented his resignation to Governor Lalji Tandon following the resignation of 22 Congress.

March 22, 2020

A 30- days long capacity-building program called “Tech for Tribal” has been started by the Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED).
More than 3 lakhs Tribal people will be profited from this program including 120 sessions.

March 22, 2020

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has launched a new “Draft Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) 2020” featured promotion of indigenous manufacturing, during a meet in New Delhi.
A total of 47 amendments carried out as part of Business Process Reengineering to draft DPP 2020.

March 21, 2020

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will infuse liquidity of Rs 30,000 crore by purchasing of Government securities under Open Market Operations (OMOs) to maintain financial stability in the Indian economy.
RBI has took this decision to improve liquidity in order to ensure that all markets segments function normally with adequate liquidity and turnover, as certain financial market segments are facing stress due to COVID-19 outbreak.

March 20, 2020

The Government of India has allowed the proposal of setting up of National Technical Textiles Mission with an outlay of Rs. 1480 crores. The mission would be set up for a period of 4 years from 2020-21 to 2023-24.
The mission focuses on the development in usage of technical textiles in various flagship missions as well as programmes of the country.
The Mission will also work towards the promotion of innovation amongst young engineering /technology/ science standards and graduates along with creation of innovation and incubation centres and promotion of start-up and Ventures.

March 20, 2020

As the whole world is wrangling against the COVID-19 pandemic, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi addressed his countrymen and made an appeal to all Indians to stay indoors as much as possible to stop the outspread of COVID-19 in India.
He told a mantra ‘Hum Swasth, toh Jag Swasth’ that is the world will be healthy, if we stay healthy. He appealed to the people of India to adopt ‘Social Distancing’ which can play a important role in these times of the global corona pandemic.
He also stated a term during his address to the nation i.e. “People’s curfew” which means a curfew imposed for the people, by the people, on the people themselves.

March 19, 2020

Indian Navy has established a Quarantine Camp at INS Vishwakarma in Eastern Naval Command (ENC) for Indian nationals being evacuated from COVID-19 affected countries.
The Quarantine Camp has the capacity to accommodate nearly 200 personnel with all appropriate facilities.
Indian nationals being evacuated from COVID-19 affected countries will be closely monitored by a team of naval personnel and medical professionals of ENC.

March 18, 2020

Microsoft India and NASSCOM Foundation have jointly started Innovate for Accessible India campaign to empower people with disabilities with the help of technology and tools to provide better integration into society and access to equal opportunities.
The campaign has been started in partnership with Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, National Research and Education Network, and Department of Science and Technology.

March 16, 2020

On March 13, 2020, The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), India’s largest Central Armed Police Force, has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aditya Mehta Foundation (AMF),a non-profit organization which helps people with disabilities to pursue sports, to train its 189 CRPF personnel who had lost their limbs in operations in areas of cyber security, artificial intelligence (AI) and paralympic sports.
The agreement inked in the presence of CRPF’s Director General (DG) AP Maheshwari, will help create newer opportunities for such personnel to continue as the integral part of the force.

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