✅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
