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Current Affairs 15 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 15 May 2020

🔶EAM Jaishankar participated in SCO Foreign Ministers video conference on COVID-19

🔶PM CARES Fund trust allocates Rs 3,100 crore: COVID-19

🔶ICMR fast-tracks roll out of ‘Solidarity’ trial to find treatment: COVID-19

🔶Centre sets up “Rice Export Promotion Forum” to promote rice export

🔶Jal Jeevan Mission: Haryana and J&K to provide tap water to every household by Dec 2022

🔶Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan Part-1: MSME focused package detailed by Nirmala Sitharaman; EPF contribution reduced

🔶International tourism to decline 60-80% in 2020: UNWTO report

🔶India likely to miss global nutrition targets by 2025: WHO’s Global Nutrition Report 2020

🔶Forest loss rate globally declined from 2015 to 2020: FRA 2020

🔶Reserve Bank extends interest subsidy scheme for exporters till 31 March 2021

🔶Federal bank, MoneyGram tie up for direct-to-bank deposits in India

🔶UN forecasts India to grow at 1.2% in CY20 and global economy to shrink by 3.2%

🔶Lieutenant Commander Akshay Kumar was awarded Vice Admiral G.M. Hiranandani Memorial Rolling Trophy 2020

🔶Former JDS MP Raja Rangappa Nayak passes away at 61

🔶West Bengal govt launches ‘Matir Smristi’ scheme to utilise 50,000-acre barren land in 6 districts

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