Top GKToday’s News Headlines-27 April 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 27 April, 2020
BUREAUCRATIC APPOINTMENTS
- Health Secretary Preeti Sudan: 3-month extension
- Higher Education Secretary Amit Khare given additional charge of the I&B Ministry
- Tarun Bajaj: Secretary in the Economic Affairs Department
- Ravi Mittal: Sports Secretary
- Nagendra Nath Sinha: Secretary of the Rural Development Department
- Arvind Kumar Sharma: Secretary in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Ministry
- Leena Nandan: Consumer Affairs Secretary.
- Sudhanshu Panday: Food and Public Distribution Secretary
- Sanjeev Ranjan: Shipping Secretary
- Aramane Giridhar: Secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- Anita Karwal: Secretary in the Department of Education and Literacy
- Rameshwar Prasad Gupta: Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
- Pradip Kumar Tripathi: Secretary, Ministry of Steel
- Tarun Kapoor: Secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas
- Rajesh Verma: Secretary in the Ministry of Corporate Affairs
- Anand Kumar: Culture Secretary
- Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi: Secretary in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
- Ram Mohan Mishra: Secretary, the National Commission for Scheduled Castes
- Rajesh Kumar Chaturvedi: Secretary, Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals
- Ajay Tirkey: Secretary in the Ministry of Women and Child Development
INDIA
- Blocking burial or cremation of victims of notified disease to attract jail term up to 3-years in Tamil Nadu
- Former Governor of Bihar and Tripura and veteran Congress leader Devanand Konwar dies aged 86 in Guwahati
- Odia dramatist, lyricist and screenwriter Bijay Mishra dies aged 83 in Bhubaneswar; was winner of Kendra Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- India’s holding of US government securities at record high of USD 177.5 billion at the end of February; India 13th in the world, Japan 1st
- NVVN (NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam) invites Global Expression of Interest (EoI) for Hydrogen Fuel Cell based electric buses and cars
WORLD
- There is no evidence that recovered patients are immune to COVID-19 infection: WHO
- World Intellectual Property Day observed on April 26; theme: ‘Innovate for a Green Future’
- International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day observed by UN on April 26
- Indian artist Zarina Hashmi dies aged 83 in London; won President’s Award for Printmaking in India in 1969
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020