Top GKToday’s News Headlines-30 March 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 30 March, 2020
INDIA
- PMO sets up high-level panels to suggest measures to restore normalcy post 21-day lockdown; these panels to work under guidance of P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to the PM
- Home Ministry directs states, UTs to allow transportation of all essential, non-essential goods during lockdown
- Centre orders closure of state and district borders, says violators to be put in 14-day quarantine
- National Book Trust to launch ‘Corona Studies Series’ books for all age-groups for the post-Corona readership needs
- IIT Bombay develops mobile app named ‘CORONTINE’ for tracking COVID-19 quarantine patients
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) eases timelines within 330-day deadline for insolvency resolution process; lockdown period would not be counted for the purpose of timelines
WORLD
- US: Ethnic Indian newspaper India Abroad ceases print edition after 50 years
- Polish composer, conductor Krzysztof Penderecki dies at 86
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2020