Top Best Current Affairs 20 April 2020 (2)

Currently, government permission mandatory only for investments coming from Bangladesh and Pakistan.

International Day for Monuments and Sites (World Heritage Day) celebrated on April 18. Theme was 'Shared Cultures, Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility'.

The supply of quality power at affordable prices is essential for sustained growth of the economy of the country. Ministry of Power issued a draft proposal for amendment of Electricity Act, 2003 in the form of the draft Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill, 2020 for comments/suggestions from Stakeholders on 17th April 2020.

Department of Posts planned to extend the payment of compensation of 10 lakh rupees to all postal employees including Gramin Dak Sevaks employees to the corona disease. Department of Posts comes under essential services and the employees are performing various routine duties along with delivering COVID-19 test kits, food packets, rations, and essential medicines across the country.

Door-to-door delivery of newspapers and magazines prohibited in Maharashtra.

The union government of India made Central Nodal Agencies like NAFED and FCI striving to assure better returns for the farmers. The Minimum Support Price (MSP) from the farmers in several States in the Rabi 2020-21 season has started. Procurement of Pulses & Oilseeds at MSP from farmers under the Price Support Scheme (PSS) scheme in Rabi 2020-21 season currently in progress in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rajasthan. NAFED was Founded on 2 October 1958.

Mysuru-based CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) made available high-protein biscuits to the corona affected patients in the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), New Delhi.