NEWS 18-03-2020. NEWS FOR 20-MAR (FRIDAY) 1. India has signed an MoU with Nepal for the construction of new schools in the country. Under this MoU, India is to provide 107.01 million Nepali rupees to Nepal. 2. The President of India Ramnath Kovind has nominated the former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi to Rajya Sabha. 3. ISRO has designed NAVIC messaging system and receiver. The system will be used to broadcast emergency warning messages in cases such as tsunami, cyclone & high waves. 4. The United States of America began the first human trial for evaluating COVID-19 vaccine. The US National Institute of Health will enroll 45 healthy adult volunteers between age 18 and 55 for a period of 6 weeks in order to test the vaccine. 5. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development recently released a report on the effect of COVID-19 on global economy. The report says that the slow down in manufacturing sector of China due to the virus, will affect 50 billion USD trade all over the world hitting global value chains greatly. < < Back