Current Affairs 8 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 8 May 2020

🔶Energy efficiency initiatives by BEE led to savings worth Rs. 89,122 Cr. in 2018-19: Report by PwC

🔶MP becomes the first state in country to provide Mid-Day Meal ration

🔶Harsh Vardhan & Shripad Yesso Naik launched Ayush Sanjivani app & interdisciplinary studies involving AYUSH interventions

🔶India’s unemployment rate shoots up to 27.11% amid COVID-19 crisis: CMIE

🔶India for the 1st time has more internet users in rural areas than urban: IAMAI report

🔶CSIR launches Compendium of Indian Technologies to tackle COVID-19 pandemic

🔶Govt to run awareness campaign in 1 lakh villages on balanced use of fertilisers for FY20-21

🔶India’s energy demand falls by 30% due to covid-19 lockdown: IEA-Global Energy Review 2020

🔶Iran approves currency denomination bill to slash 4 zeros from its currency; Rial will covert to Toman

🔶UNEP extends Bollywood actress Dia Mirza’s term as Goodwill ambassador till 2022

🔶Former intelligence chief Mustafa Al Kadhimi sworn in as 6th Prime Minister of Iraq

🔶Donald Trump Nominates seniorIndian-American diplomat Manisha Singh as US envoy to OECD

🔶Jupiter like cloud bands on closest brown dwarf discovered by astronomers

🔶World Athletics Day 2020: May 7

🔶Tripura CM launches national scholarship online portal under ‘Mukhyamantri Yuba Yogayog Yojana’

🔶Sanjeevani a unique vehicle developed at the local level in Madhya Pradesh

🔶Pixar Director Rob Gibbs passed away