Top GKToday’s News Headlines-13 April 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 13 April, 2020
INDIA
- HRD Ministry launches YUKTI (Young India Combating COVID with Knowledge, Technology and Innovation) portal
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- At 1.5%-2.8%, Indian economy’s growth will be the worst since the 1991 liberalisation this fiscal year: WB said in its ‘South Asia Economic Focus’ report
WORLD
- COVID-19 to hit South Asia very hard, likely to wipe out gains made in poverty alleviation: WB said in its ‘South Asia Economic Focus’ report
- US (20,597) overtakes Italy (19,468) with highest coronavirus deaths on April 11
- British PM Boris Johnson discharged from hospital following week-long intensive care treatment for coronavirus
- Bangladesh: Former President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s killer Abdul Majed hanged in Dhaka
- International Day of Human Space Flight celebrated, marks the historic space flight of USSR’s Yuri Gagarin on 12 April, 1961
SPORTS
- British Formula One racing driver Stirling Moss dies aged 90 in London
- Former Chelsea and England goalkeeper Peter Bonetti dies aged 78 in London
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020