Current Affairs 6 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 6 May 2020

🔶World Asthma Day 2020: May 5

🔶International Day of the Midwife 2020: May 5

🔶Narendra Modi participates in online Summit of NAM Contact Group

🔶Dr Jitendra Singh attended Bamboo Conclave through Video Conference

🔶IIT Launches India’s first COVID-19 test bus in Mumbai

🔶‘India SME Services Platform’ to be launched: SIDBI

🔶DBS Bank slashes India’s FY21 GDP forecast to 1% from 1.5%; another Rs 1.5-3 lakh-cr relief package required

🔶2020 Pulitzer Prizes announced: 3 photojournalists from Jammu & Kashmir won the feature photography

🔶Vladimir Putin awards commemorative World War II medal to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

🔶Nicholas C. Coops, Joseph J. Landsberg and Richard H. Waring shares the Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020

🔶7 member committee formed to enhance audit independence and accountability: MCA

🔶Panel formed to frame standard professional indemnity policy: IRDAI

🔶Indian-American lawyer Ashok Michael Pinto as US representative to World Bank’s lending arm IBRD

🔶Krishnan Ramachandran appointed as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Max Bupa

🔶KPTL completes sale of 100 piece stake in Kalpataru Satpura Transco to CLP India

🔶Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched “The Saras Collection” on GeM portal from New Delhi

🔶DRDO Develops “UV blaster”,  Ultraviolet Disinfection Tower

🔶SNBNCBS develops Nanomedicine to alter oxidative stress to treat COVID-19

🔶COVID-19: CIMAP’s Herbal products ‘CIM-Paushak’ and ‘Herbal Cough Syrup’ boost immunity

🔶Jharkhand launches three schemes for rural job creation

🔶West Bengal govt launches exit app for stranded people of other states

🔶Government hikes MSP for minor forest produce of 49 items