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Ind-Ra lessens India’s GDP forecast to 3.6% from 5.5% for FY21

March 31, 2020
GDP
  • India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) recently cut its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth approximation for India for fiscal 2020-21 to 3.6 percent from 5.5 percent.
  • The reasons told are the COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown till April 14.

Tokyo Olympics postponed to July 23- August 8 in 2021

March 31, 2020
Tokyo 2020 Olympics
  • The Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 has been delayed by one year and will be organized from 23 July to 8 August 2021.
  • The decision has been made by the IOC amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jharkhand govt starts PRAGYAAM app to issue e-passes

March 31, 2020
PRAGYAAM app
  • The Jharkhand Government has released a mobile app PRAGYAAM to issue e-passes.
  • The app targets to issue e-passes associated with the delivery of essential services during the nationwide lockdown to check COVID-19.

DRDO prepares casualty evacuation bags

March 31, 2020
DRDO
  • The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a casualty evacuation bag to carry or isolate infected persons from COVID-19.
  • The bag is water and air-proof and treated to fight with biological agents.

Tata Power JV begins Shuakhevi HPP in Georgia

March 31, 2020
Tata Power JV commissions 178 MW-hydropower projects in Georgia
  • Tata Power Company’s mutual venture with Norway’s Clean Energy Invest (CEI), and International Financial Corporation (IFC) has begun commercial operation of a 178-megawatt hydropower project in Georgia.
  • After the 178 MW-Shuakhevi Hydro Power Project, the JV will commission 9 MW units, i.e the Skhalta Hydro Power project.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets NASA award for planned lunar space station

March 30, 2020
lunar space station
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has chosen a new space capsule from SpaceX to ferry cargo and supplies to the agency’s planned lunar space station.
  • The Dragon XL spacecraft will carry out research supplies to aid future astronauts on surface of the moon in collecting lunar samples.

Rajasthan police released a mobile app titled “RajCop citizen app”

March 30, 2020
RajCop citizen app
  • Rajasthan police have released a mobile app “RajCop citizen app” to enable individuals and company employees in the state to take authority for venturing out in necessary conditions.
  • Rajasthan Police begins giving permits on the app for movement during the lockdown.

Saudi Arabia assures continuous LPG supply to India

March 30, 2020
Saudi Arabia assures continuous LPG supply to India
  • Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan has declared that Saudi Arabia assured India to get constant Liquefied petroleum Gas(LPG) supply during the conversation on global oil market developments with Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman and Aramco’s Chief Executive Amin Nasser via video conference.

Air Vice Marshal(retd) Chandan Singh Rathore passes away

March 30, 2020
Air Vice Marshal Chandan Singh Rathore
  • Maha Vir Chakra (MVC) recipient and retired Air Vice Marshal Chandan Singh Rathore passed away at 95 at his Jodhpur residence.
  • He marked himself as a young aviator in the Sino-India 1962 war & the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

A book named ‘The Death of Jesus’ written by JM Coetzee

March 30, 2020
The Death of Jesus
  • Nobel Laureate John Maxwell Coetzee, who wrote the book “The Death of Jesus”, concluded his Jesus trilogy (a group of 3 related novels) with the concluding book.
  • The book traverses the meaning of a world void of memory but brimming with questions.