DAILY CURRENT AFFAIR 19/ APRIL/2020

Hello everyone,
today's current affair news are ,
1-
CBDT releases relief funds to MSME
# The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) issued Rs 5,204 cores as relief funds to MSME (Micro Medium and Small Enterprises) sector. Around 8.2 lakh small businesses have received Income Tax Refunds so far. 
# It was done to help MSME's move out of financial crunches caused by COVID 19 .
2-
Nigerian Chief Aide of President Muhammadu Buhari dies of COVID-19

# Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Aide Abba Kyari died of COVID-19 on April 17, 2020. 
3- 
JAPAN's COVID 19  mascot (शुभंकर) released -

Amabie is the pictorial representation of the 19th century yokai or mythological (पौराणिक) spirit (आत्मा)  that has emerged as the social media for novel  coronavirus .
4- 
Will convalescent ( recovering
अच्छा हो जानेवाला) plasma help COVID 19 patients ?
# As we all know till now scientist have not discovered proper vaccine to treat corona virus.
So till then convalescent plasma is believed to be the best way to deal with this deadly disease.
  Convalescent Plasma - it is blood derived from patients who have recovered from COVID 19 - on an assumption that their bodies contain antibodies to fight against this virus.
- around 800 ml of blood is taken from the donar .

Today's topic - UPSC( संघ लोक सेवा आयोग)
Full form - Union Public Service Commission 
Formed - 1/October / 1926
Headquarter - Dholpur House ,Shahjahan road , New Delhi
Chairman - Arvind Saxena
# Part 14 of the constitution contains article 315 which talks about union public service commission.
# UPSC is India's premier central recruiting agency.
#  It is responsible for appointments to and examinations for All India Services and group A & group B of Central services.

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