Top Best Current Affairs 27 March 2020

Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) has announced that it is to organize India's first Global Hyperloop Pod Competition. The competition is open to all students globally. The final round will take place on the IIT-Madras campus in the month of July 2020. The main objective of the Global Hyperloop Pod Competition is to raise awareness about the Hyperloop mode of transportation in India.

The Union Cabinet under the chairmanship of PM Modi on March 25, 2020, approved the recapitalization of regional rural banks (RRB) to improve the capital to risk weighted assets ratio. The Scheme of Recapitalization of RRBs was launched in 2011. It was launched on the recommendation of Dr K C Chakrabarty Committee.

The National Book Trust of HRD Ministry has launched #StayIn and #StayHome to encourage people to read books while at home. It provides select and best-selling titles for FREE Download as part of its initiative of #StayHomeIndiaWithBooks! The move comes in the wake of Preventive Measures of the Government of India to contain the spread of Covid-19.

IRS officers Krishan Mohan Prasad and Satish Kumar Gupta appointed as CBDT members.

Veteran photographer & Padma Shri recipient Nemai Ghosh dies in Kolkata at 86.

Abdul Latif, member of football bronze medal winning team at the 1970 Bangkok Asian Games, dies in Guwahati.

Union Bank of India launches Covid Emergency Line of Credit (CELC) for its customers to tide over liquidity issues.

Centre earmarks Rs 1.80 lakh crores for providing wheat at Rs 2 per kg and rice at Rs 3 per kg; amount to be given in advance to the states for the co