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World Creativity and Innovation Day: 21 April

UN designated 21 April as World Creativity and Innovation Day to raise the awareness of the role of creativity & innovation in all aspects of human development. Acc. to UNESCO, Cultural & creative industries should be part of economic growth strategies.

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World Creativity & Innovation Week, April 15-21.

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Nirmala Sitharaman attends the 5th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of NDB

UM of Finance & Corporate Affairs attended the 5th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of New Development Bank through video-conference in New Delhi.The NDB was established by the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India,China and South Africa) in 2014.

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New Development Bank ,Headquarters location: Shanghai, China.

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Union HRD Minister chairs the review meeting on SWAYAM and SWAYAM Prabha in New Delhi

Union Minister for HRD, Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' held a detailed review of the National online education platform SWAYAM and the 32 DTH Television Education Channels SWAYAM PRABHA in New Delhi.1902 courses are available currently in SWAYAM.

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SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active–Learning for Young Aspiring Minds).

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Road Ministry launched dashboard containing list of Dhabas and Truck Repair Shops on its website

MoRTH has created a dashboard link for providing list & details of Dhabas & Truck repair shops available across the country by various organisations like NHAI, States,Oil Marketing companies. NHAI's centralized call number 1033 has also been enabled.

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Nitin Gadkari ,Incharge-Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

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New model to predict ionospheric electron density can help communication, navigation

Researchers from Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Navi Mumbai have developed a global model to predict the ionospheric electron density with larger data coverage. It is a new Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) based global Ionospheric Model.

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ANNs replicate the processes in the human brain.

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Dharmendra Pradhan holds meeting of National Biofuel Coordination Committee

Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan held a meeting of National Biofuel Coordination Committee. At the meeting, he discussed ways in which biofuel industry can help the country in stepping-up its fight against COVID-19.

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National Biofuel Coordination Committee,set up in the year 2009.

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Karnataka government launches GetCETGo for NEET, CET students

Karnataka govt. has launched an online crash course programme ‘GetCETGo’ to help students from the state to prepare for Common Entrance Test & National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET).Android application ,developed by Sinchu Infotech & Deeksha Online.

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Karnataka Chief minister: B. S. Yediyurappa.

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Arunachal CM inaugurates Hangpan Dada Bridge online

Arunachal Pradesh CM inaugurated the revamped strategic bridge over River Subansiri at Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district. This bridge is the only line of communication to Daporijo and other villages located on the other side of Subansiri River.

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Arunachal Pradesh CM-Pema Khandu,Governor-Brig (Retd) B D Mishra

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Bangalore-based JNCASR develops predictive model for spread of covid-19

Bengaluru-based JNCASR, along with collaborator from IISc, have developed a heuristic predictive model for covid-19 that provides short-term predictions about the evolution of the disease.The model focuses on the ‘Achilles’ heel’ of covid-19 response.

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Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research(JNCASR)

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US Prez Trump appoints Indian-American Sudarsanam Babu to country's top science board

US President Donald Trump appointed Indian-American Sudarsanam Babu to country's top science board.He would be the third Indian American in this prestigious board. The other two being Sethuraman Panchanathan and Suresh V Garimella.

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Donald John Trump is the 45th and current president of the US.

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RBI raises WMA limit to ₹2-lakh crore in H1 FY21

Reserve Bank of India (RBI), in consultation with the Government of India, has revised the limit for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the remaining part of the first half of FY21 (April 2020 to September 2020) to ₹2-lakh crore.

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Ways and Means Advances scheme was introduced in 1997.

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RBI announces calendar of MPC meetings for current financial year

RBI has announced the calendar of the meetings of the MPC for the current financial year.Decision of the 1st meet will be announced on June 5, 2020, other meetings will take place on August 4 -6; September 29-30 & October 1; December 2-4; & Feb 3-5, 2021.

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Monetary Policy Committee (MPC),comprises six members.

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Finance Ministry sanctions Rs 46,038 crore as states share in taxes for April

The finance ministry sanctioned the release of Rs 46,038.10 crore to states as their share of central taxes and duties for April. The first instalment of tax devolution was made as per the recommendations of the 15th Finance Commission (FC).

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Uttar Pradesh received the highest amount at Rs 8,255.19 crore.

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Kapil Dev Tripathi appointed Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by PM Modi has appointed Kapil Dev Tripathi as Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind. He was heading the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) that does top-level recruitments in the CPSEs.

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Ram Nath Kovind,14th President of India.

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Former captain Smith appointed South Africa's director of cricket

Former captain Graeme Smith has been appointed director of cricket on a permanent basis by Cricket South Africa (CSA).Smith has signed a two-year deal with CSA and is set to remain in the position until April 2022.

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Graeme Smith ,only player to captain a team in 100 Test matches.

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Fitch Solutions cuts India's GDP to 1.8% for FY21

Fitch Solutions slashed India's economic growth forecast for FY21 to 1.8% citing private consumption likely to contract due to large-scale loss of income given the worsening domestic outbreak of COVID-19.

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IMF,recently slashed India’s growth estimate for FY21 to 1.9%.

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Singapore Govt. increases stake in Bandhan Bank to 4.49pc

Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Fund GIC increased its stake in NBFC Bandhan Bank by 1.1%.GIC, through its affiliate entity Caladium Investment PTE Ltd., earlier held 3.39% stake in the bank.Following the transaction, GIC now holds 7.23 crore shares of Bank.

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Bandhan Bank CEO: Chandra Shekhar Ghosh.

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Renowned Litterateur Ratnakar Chaini no more

An Odia writer & academician, Chaini passed away. He was born at Salepur in Cuttack in 1945. He was an Odia lecturer at Ravenshaw, former president of Sanskar Bharti and Utkal Sahitya Samaj & was felicitated with Sahitya Bharati Samman for the year 2016.

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His literary works,Santha Kabi Achyutananda, Niraba Kolahala etc

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Pune-based ARI develops ‘sensor-based bug sniffer’

Pune-based c (ARI), an autonomous institute under the DST has developed a low-cost sensor device to rapidly detect bacteria.The portable device can detect as low as 10 bacteria cells from a sample size of one milliliter in just 30 minutes.

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Department of Science and Technology (DST).