Monday, 27 April 2020

Current Affairs in short : 27 April 2020

The gravitational wave observatories at Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have detected a merger of two unequal-mass black holes for the first time.

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging (whipping or lashing) as a form of punishment and the death sentence for minors.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) report titled "Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2019" stated that India has become the third-largest military spender in the world, after the US and China.

Australia has informed India that the exercise Pitch Black 2020, scheduled to be held from 27th July to 14th August has been cancelled due to the Covid-19.

India sent 50,000 surgical gloves and one lakh tablets of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) to Bangladesh to help its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Manabasa Gurubara, Chhau and Ravanachhaya — the three popular cultural practices from Odisha have been included in the recently-published Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) list by the Union Ministry of Culture.

The United States State Department has accused China and Russia of conducting nuclear tests with low yields, in violation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).

NTPC Ltd has invited Global Expression of Interest (EoI) to provide 10 Hydrogen Fuel Cell (FC) based electric buses and Hydrogen Fuel Cell based electric cars in Leh and Delhi.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a special liquidity facility of Rs. 50,000 crore for mutual funds (SLF-MF), in a move to ease the liquidity pressures on mutual funds amid coronavirus crisis.

The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala has developed an AI semantic search engine to enable researchers to get deeper insights into COVID-19-related scientific studies.

Dr.Viswanatha R from Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru under the DST Nano Mission has developed organic-inorganic hybrid nanocoatings for disposable masks

Kerala uses Robots named  "Nightingale-19" and Karmi Bot to provide food and medicines to COVID-19 patients in Kerala.

Uttar Pradesh has become the first state to have the requisite infrastructure in all its courts for hearing cases through video conferencing.

Amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Uttar Pradesh Government has decided to ban the public gathering till June 30, 2020. The decision was taken by the state government during the Chief Minister’s meeting with chairpersons of 11 committees of the state over the COVID-19 situation.

Denmark's ace doubles exponent Mathias Boe (39 years) announced her retirement from international badminton.

Veteran politician Devanand Konwar (77 years) passed away.
He had served as the Governor of West Bengal.

Veteran sports photojournalist Ronojoy ''Ronny'' Roy (57 years) passes away following a cardiac arrest.

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