✅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
