✅Current Affairs 14 May 2020
🔶68.2% of under-5 deaths in India due to child, maternal malnutrition; UP topped: Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–17
🔶PM Modi announces Rs 20 lakh cr special economic package and Lockdown 4.0
🔶Registration Committee recommends banning use of TB drug on crops
🔶4 new products from three states receive Geographical Indication (GI) tag
🔶ICMR, NCDC to initiate a population-based serosurvey in selected districts to monitor coronavirus prevalence
🔶New initiative by the Railways and postal department for delivery and pick up
🔶In a 1st, PoK’s Gilgit-Baltistan & Muzaffarabad included in the meteorological forecast list of IMD
🔶India ranks 74th, Sweden tops: WEF’s global Energy Transition index 2020
🔶BRICS’ New Development Bank provides USD 1 billion loan to India to fight COVID-19
🔶CDC of the United States promises 3.6 million USD to India to combat COVID-19
🔶World Airport Awards 2020: Bengaluru’s Kempegowda honoured as best regional airport in India & Central Asia; Singapore Changi crowned as World’s Best
🔶Manoj Ahuja appointed as new CBSE chief and ASI gets V Vidyavati as Director General
🔶Akhil Kumar re-inducted into NADA disciplinary panel
🔶MSME Ministry launches CHAMPIONS Portal
🔶TVS Group, IIT-M develop automated respiratory assist device “Sundaram Ventago”
🔶Astronomers of the University of Canterbury discovered new one in a million Super-Earth
🔶South African & US scientists use MeerKAT telescope to solve the mystery of ‘X galaxies’
🔶Former National TT champion Manmeet Singh Walia passed away at 58
🔷Grammy winning-singer Betty Wright passes away at 66
🔶Uttarakhand CM launches ‘HOPE’ a portal to help unemployed youths
🔶Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan re-launched Sambal Yojana for dalits tribals and poor
🔶‘United We Fight’ musical creation released by ICCR to Fight COVID-19
🔶77 new mandis from 10 States & UTs integrated with the e-NAM platform for marketing of Agricultural produce
