Current Affairs 7 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 7 May 2020

🔶International No Diet Day 2020: May 6

🔶Indian Navy’s ‘Samudra Setu’ to bring stranded Indian citizens from Maldives; Air India will evacuate from other 12 nations

🔶Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan campaign to protect senior citizens during COVID-19: NITI Aayog

🔶5,037,000 people internally displaced in India in 2019: UNICEF report

🔶PNB Housing Finance Limited signs MoU with IIT Delhi to develop reusable PPE kits

🔶Bharat Dynamics Limited signs MoU with IIT Kanpur to manufacture ventilators for COVID-19 treatment

🔶IIT-Bombay Professor Saurabh Lodha receives Young Career Award 2020 in Nano Science and Technology

🔶Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj appointed as Director on RBI Central Board

🔶Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury reappointed as chairperson of Parliament’s public Accounts Committee

🔶IES Officer Negi assumes charge as Director General of Labour Bureau

🔶GARUD portal launched to fast-track approval to COVID-19 related drone operations: MoCA and DGCA

🔶CSIR-IGIB and TATA Sons sign MoU for licensing ‘KNOWHOW’ for rapid diagnosis of COVID-19

🔶SCTIMST develops 2 types of swabs and viral transport medium for COVID-19 testing

🔶North Pole’s largest-ever ozone hole,620,000 square miles, finally closes

🔶TIU bans Egyptian tennis player Youssef Hossam for life in match-fixing cases

🔶Former Union Minister Dalit Ezhilmalai passed away at 74

🔶A book titled as Vijyant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero  authored by Colonel VN Thapar and Neha Dwivedi

🔶Andhra Pradesh CM rolls out ‘CMAPP’  to monitor farming needs

🔶Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Ayush Kavach-Covid’ App

🔶Himachal Pradesh to launch ‘Nigah’ to aware family members of migrant returnees