Current Affairs 30 April 2020

✅Current Affairs 30 April 2020

🔶 International Dance Day 2020, April 29

🔶Prakash Javadekar participates in 1st virtual 11th session of Petersberg Climate Dialogue 2020

🔶EAM Jaishankar participated in BRICS FMs’ virtual meet on coronavirus; $15mn loan support set up by BRICS

🔶Karnataka tops in total installed renewable capacity:  CRISIL Research report

🔶COVID-19: India facilitates $ 150 million foreign currency swap facility to Maldives

🔶Government establishes IFSCA to regulate all financial services in IFSCs

🔶ADB approves $ 346 mn loan for Maharashtra to electrify rural agriculture customers

🔶Moody declined India’s growth estimate to 0.2% for CY 2020 from 2.5%

🔶CRISIL pegs India’s FY21 economic growth rate at 1.8% from 3.5%

🔶Former Finance secretary Rajiv Kumar is appointed as PESB Chief

🔶Former Andhra Bank chief Suresh N Patel takes charge as vigilance commissioner

🔶PNB housing appoints NeerajVyas as interim MD & CEO as incumbent Sanjaya Gupta steps down

🔶Former Karnataka batsman J Arunkumar named as USA national team coach

🔶Near-Earth asteroid 1998 OR2 to pass within 3.9m miles of Earth: NASA

🔶Scientists at JNCASR develop Berberine based Alzheimer inhibitor ‘Ber-D’

🔶MyGov, VMate collaborates to disperse information on Covid-19

🔶IIT-Roorkee professor develops software to detect COVID-19 within 5 seconds using X-ray scan

🔶India lost hosting rights of 2021 Men’s World Boxing Championships to Serbia: AIBA

🔶India among 5 teams seals direct qualification for Women’s World Cup 2021

🔶Padma Shri awardee and famous Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan passed away at 53

🔶Sayajirao Gaekwad III: The Maharaja of Baroda, New book by Uma Balasubramaniam published by Rupa Publications

🔶Andhra govt launches fee reimbursement scheme for students namely Jagananna Vidya Deevena

🔶Madhya pradesh CM Shivraj singh unveils ‘Jeevan Amrit Yojana’ to help people fight against COVID-19