💈Affairscloud Today💈
🎁 7 April🎁


🧞‍♂NATIONAL AFFAIRS🧞‍♂

🎯Tamil Nadu topped in micro-irrigation coverage under PMKSY for FY 2019-20

💐ICMR approves TB machines for Covid-19 testing
✓About ICMR:

Headquarter– New Delhi
Director General– Prof. Balram Bhargava

🎯Testing, treatment is free for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries

💐Central government constitutes 10-member group headed by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh kant to fight corona

✓About NITI Aayog:

Headquarters– New Delhi.
Chairperson– Narendra Modi.
Vice Chairperson– Rajiv Kumar

🔰BANKING & FINANCE🔰

⚜Govt nominated IOB & HDFC Bank for collecting donations of PM Cares Fund

✓About HDFC

The HDFC group has contributed Rs.150 crores to the PM-Cares Fund

Headquarter– Mumbai
MD– Aditya Puri
Tagline– We understand your world
Digital Assistant– EVA

✓About IOB.

Headquarters– Chennai
MD & CEO– KarnamSekar
Tagline–Good people to grow with

💐AWARDS💐   

💈Naveen Patnaik conferred PETA’s “Hero to Animals Award”for feeding community animals

⚡️SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY⚡️

✅Indian Railways’ RCF unit developed low-cost ventilator ‘Jeevan’ to fight COVID-19

✅Start-up Aerobiosys Innovations at IIT-Hyderabad develops low-cost ventilator called ‘Jeevan Lite’

✅NASA’s Artemis: First human base camp on Moon’s South Pole by 2024

✓About NASA:

Establishment– 1958,
Headquarter– Washington
Administrator– James Frederick Bridenstine

🎯SPORTS🎯

⛹‍♂American Basketball player Kobe Bryant inducted into Naismith Hall of Fame

🏋IWF bans Thailand & Malaysia from weightlifting at Tokyo Olympics

🏏Former Australian Test spinner Stephen O’Keefe retires from 1st class cricket

⚽️East Bengal contracts Indian-origin Iranian footballer Omid Singh

🤾‍♀China’s High Jumper Zhang Guowei retires at 28

💐OBITUARY💐

💐Libya’s former PM Mahmoud Jibril passed away at 67

💐Malayalam Music composer M.K. Arjunan passed away at 84

📓BOOKS & AUTHORS👨‍💼

📚Two new books providing better understanding of COVID-19 will release in May 2020

🌈Source: Affairscloud 👨🏻‍💻