Current Affairs 5 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 5 May 2020

🔶World Press Freedom Day 2020: May 3rd

🔶World Laughter Day 2020: May 3

🔶International Firefighters’ Day 2020: May 4

🔶NMCG & NIUA organized IDEAthon, a webinar; collaborated on urban river management plan

🔶India ranked 3rd among countries in scientific publication in 2018; expenditure on R&D tripled: NSTMIS

🔶Reserve bank cancels mumbai’s 105-year-old CKP co-op bank license

🔶IIT Hyderabad to collaborate with Hong Kong firm to create venture ecosystem

🔶US private equity firm Silver Lake buys 1.15% stake in Reliance Jio platforms for Rs 5655.75 cr

🔶Polycab India acquired 50% stake in Ryker from Singapore-based Trafigura

🔶Russia to launch its 1st satellite ‘Arktika-M’ to monitor Arctic climate & environment

🔶NIAB develops portable coronavirus detection kit “eCovSens”

🔶BharatPe launches two apps to limit the need to touch handsets for checking transactions

🔶Aarogya Setu Mitr launched in private public partnership initiative

🔶IIG developed 1D fluid simulation code to study electric field structure in Earth’s Magnetosphere

🔶FINA postpones 2021 Fukuoka Aquatics World Championships to May 2022

🔶Discus thrower Sandeep Kumari banned for 4 years by WADA after testing positive for metenolone

🔶Veteran Poet, Padma shri K. S. Nissar Ahmed passed away at 84

🔶Judicial Member, Lokpal of India, Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi passed away at 62

🔶Dr. Harsh Vardhan launches “COVID KATHA”, a multimedia guide on COVID-19

🔶HP govt to launch ‘Mukhya Mantri Shahari Rojgar Guarantee Yojna ‘ for urban employment

🔶Indian Railways starts Shramik Special Trains