Current Affairs 16 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 16 May 2020

🔶Govt introduces new scheme of 2% interest subvention on working capital loans for dairy sector

🔶Arjun Munda launches ‘GOAL’ for digital skilling of tribal youths

🔶Dr Harsh Vardhan dedicates COBAS 6800 testing machine to the nation

🔶Harsh Vardhan participates in the 32nd Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Meeting

🔶Piyush Goyal participates in virtual session of G20 meet

🔶4 Ayush formulations against COVID-19 by AYUSH ministry & CSIR

🔶Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan Part-2: Package for Poor, including migrants and farmers detailed by Nirmala Sitharaman

🔶Delhi Police gets India’s first ‘Thermal Corona Combat Headgear’ to enhance social distancing

🔶India’s CO2 emissions falls for the 1st time in four decades: Carbon Brief

🔶Israel names street in Tel Aviv after Rabindranath Tagore on his 159th birth anniversary

🔶World Bank approves 1 billion USD to support India’s combat against COVID-19

🔶COVID-19 may cost global economy loss of up to $ 8.8 trillion: ADB report

🔶WTO Director General Roberto Azevedo to step down on August 31 before term expires

🔶Indian coast guard ship sachet, interceptor boats C-450 and C-451 commissioned: Rajnath Singh

🔶MHRD develops SAMARTH an e-Governance platform to provide quality education to students

🔶IITGN develops interactive dashboard “MIR AHD Covid-19 Dashboard” to help contain COVID-19 community infection post lockdown

🔶China wins 1st edition of FIDE Chess.com online Nations cup 2020; India finishes fifth

🔶Bengali author Sahitya Akademi winner Debesh Roy passes away at 84

🔶Padma Bhushan awardee Professor Anisuzzaman passes away at 83

🔶International Day of Families 2020: May 15

🔶National Endangered Species Day observed on May 15, 2020

🔶Gujarat Govt launches ‘Atmanirbhar Gujarat Sahay Yojna’ to provide loans to small businessmen

🔶The government of West Bengal announces two new schemes

🔶Jharkhand: Education dept with Doordarshan starts online classes for School children

🔶Little Richard, rock’n’roll pioneer, passed away at 87