Daily Current Affairs 16-04-2021

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NATIONAL NEWS

The Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India Prof. K VijayRaghavan virtually launched the “MANAS” App to promote wellbeing across age groups.
MANAS which stands for Mental Health and Normalcy Augmentation System was endorsed as a national program by the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
The App was jointly executed by NIMHANS Bengaluru, AFMC Pune and C-DAC Bengaluru.

Electronic Solution for Augmenting NaCSA farmers' Trade in Aquaculture (e-SANTA) web portal will act as an electronic marketplace that provides a platform to connect aqua farmers and the buyers.
[National Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture (NaCSA) is an extension arm of Marine Products Export Development Authority (MPEDA), Govt. of India, Ministry of Commerce & Industry.]
e-SANTA will enable the farmers to get a better price and the exporters to directly purchase quality products from the farmers.
It will act as an alternative marketing tool between farmers & buyers, within the country and abroad, by eliminating middlemen.
It provides cashless, contactless and paperless electronic trade platform between farmers and exporters.

NITI Aayog, in partnership with the Centre for Social and Behaviour Change, Ashoka University, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, launched Poshan Gyan.
Poshan Gyan is national digital repository on health and nutrition.
It will help to make nutrition a ‘Jan Andolan’ (People’s Movement).

India’s overall exports for the financial year 2020-21 are estimated a negative growth as 6.6% comparing to the previous financial year.
The Exports have contracted to -6.6% i.e., USD 493.19Billion.
Also, overall imports are estimated to be -16.53% i.e., USD 505.94Billion.

The 6th Edition of the prestigious Raisina Dialogue, jointly organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation is to be held virtually from 13-16 April, 2021.
The theme for the 2021 Edition is "#ViralWorld: Outbreaks, Outliers and Out of Control”.
The Raisina Dialogue is a multilateral conference held annually in New Delhi, India.
The conference was first held in the year 2016, became India’s flagship conference on geopolitics and geo-economics.

Prime Minister paid tributes to the martyrs of Jallaianwala Bagh Massacre on 13^th April.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre.
The massacre took place on 13 April 1919.
Acting Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered troops of the British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed Indian civilians in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, killing at least 379 people and injuring over 1,200 other people.

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