Current Affairs 9 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 9 May 2020

🔶World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 2020, May 8

🔶World Thalassaemia Day 2020: May 8

🔶World Hand Hygiene Day 2020: May 5

🔶Nitin Gadkari sets road construction target for next 2 years at Rs 15 lakh crore during virtual meet of MoRTH & SIAM

🔶Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates 80 km link road for Kailash Mansarovar through VC

🔶SC Ruling: Cooperative banks come under SARFAESI Act, 2002; Parliament can prescribe recovery process for cooperative banks

🔶Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh approves abolition of 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service

🔶AIIB grants $500 mn loan to India to deal with coronavirus disaster

🔶NABARD disburses Rs 12,767 crore to State Co-op Banks & RRBs to extend credit to farmers

🔶Moody’s slashes India’s GDP growth to zero in FY 21 from 2.6%

🔶Coir Board signs MoU with IIT Madras to establish CoE for Coir applications

🔶Yes Bank appoints Neeraj Dhawan as chief risk officer

🔶US-based Vista Equity Partners to buy 2.32% stake in Jio Platforms for  Rs 11,367 crore

🔶China successfully launches ‘Long March 5B’ rocket to space as it steps up Moon landing plans

🔶JNCASR Researchers Invent Economical, Energy-Efficient Wafer-Scale Photo detector for security

🔶UP passes ordinance to suspend most Labour Laws for 3 years

🔶Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Pravasi Raahat Mitra’ app for migrant Workers

🔶Himanta Biswa Sarma presented Rs 1,03,762 cr Assam Budget for FY 2020-2021

🔶UP becomes first state to provide facility of beds with ventilators in each district