Top Best Current Affairs 11 April 2020

Haryana state government has announced that it is to double the salary of Doctors, Nurses and other medical professionals dealing with COVID-19 patients. The announcement was made by the Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

Union Minister for Human Resource Development Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has launched the 'Bharat Padhe Online' campaign on 10 April in New Delhi. The campaign aimed for crowdsourcing of Ideas for Improving the Online Education ecosystem of India. Ideas can be shared on bharatpadheonline. [email protected] and on twitter by using # BharatPadheOnline up to 16 April 2020.

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has released a new strategy for COVID-19 testing in India, hotspots, cluster, large migration gatherings or evacuees centres. The new strategy for COVID-19 testing, provided by ICMR, includes all symptomatic individuals who have undertaken international travel in the last 14 days and all symptomatic contacts of laboratory-confirmed cases. ICMR was Formed on 1911 and Headquarters is in New Delhi

Researchers from the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali have made computer-based designs of nano-materials with superhigh piezoelectricity. It can be the building blocks of futuristic nano-electronics for many applications like ultrathin, next-generation nano-transistors.

:India has announced that it is to export around one lakh tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan and Lebanon under the government to government (G2G) arrangement. India is expecting a record wheat production of 106.21 million tonnes in 2020 against 2.61 million tonnes more than 2019 output.

:Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that it is to fiund $2.2 billion (about Rs.16,500 crore) support to India in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. ADB is committed to supporting India's emergency needs.

IIT Kanpur has developed a very low-cost personal protective equipment (PPE), which can be manufactured for less than Rs 100. The demand for personal protective equipment has risen sharply with the increase in the number of coronavirus cases across the nation.

Amazon is building a lab that will enable it to test employees for the COVID-19 virus. The move by the online retailer is to protect its delivery employees and delivery drivers who are getting essential products to customers sheltering at home. For this, the company has assigned a team of scientists, software engineers and procurement specialists to build a lab that will test the small numbers of front line employees soon.Headquarters: Seattle, Washington DC, United States