Current Affairs 20th April 2016

Current Affairs 20th April 2016

Aspirants who are regularly seeking to go through Current affairs can check our page regularly. GK / GA is the very useful topic for the competitors who are preparing for the IBPS, RRB, CWE and other examinations must have the strong knowledge of current affairs.

Current Affairs 20th April 2016

India, Mauritius ink MoU to advance conventional solution

• India and Mauritius have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance collaboration in conventional pharmaceutical and homeopathy The MoU imagines supply of customary restorative substances, trade of specialists, joint R&D and acknowledgment of the customary frameworks of wellbeing and prescription in both nations.
• It likewise goes for advancement and promotion of the different Indian customary frameworks which fall under AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homeopathy.
• The Union AYUSH service likewise has as of late marked comparable MoUs with Malaysia, China, Trinidad and Tobago, Bangladesh, Hungary and Nepal.

RBL turns out to be first private area bank to open committed branch for new businesses

• The RBL Bank (once in the past Ratnakar Bank) turned into the main private area bank in India to open devoted branch for new businesses.
• The devoted branch was initiated at Koramangala, Bengaluru by Nandan Nilekani, noted business person and previous administrator of UIDAI.
• The main selective bank office for new companies will offer a bunch of managing an account items to benefit the end-to-end needs of the rising entrepreneurial eco-framework. The branch will help business people in setting up new ventures or organizations.
• It will offer them host of keeping money items including, remote trade administrations, settlements and money administration.
• The Branch will likewise give a scope of worth included administrations including legitimate and charge conventions, enrollment and so on through its members and accomplices.

Indian-American Geeta Pasi assigned as US agent to Chad

• Joined States (US) President Barack Obama has assigned Indian-American Geeta Pasi as the nation’s next agent to focal African country Chad. Ms. Pasi is a vocation individual from the US Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor.
• She had served as the United States Ambassador to Djibouti from 2011 to 2014. At present, she is the Director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources at the Department of State. She had joined the US Foreign Service in 1988.
• Since she had served at posts in Ghana, Cameroon, India and Romania. Pasi likewise had served as the Director of the Office of East African Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs (2009 to 2011), Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Dhaka (Bangladesh) from 2006 to 2009, and Deputy Principal Officer at the US Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany (2003 to 2006).

Prestigious Hollywood on-screen character Doris Roberts passes away

• Prestigious Hollywood on-screen character Doris Roberts passed away in Los Angeles in her rest. She was 90. She was best known for playing interfering mother Marie Barone in US sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005).

India’s Durga Thakur Promoted as International Hockey Umpire

• India’s Durga Thakur has been elevated to universal outside umpire by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
• She was advanced tailing her great execution at the as of late held Hawke’s Bay Cup in Hastings, New Zealand.