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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Current Affairs 14 May 2020

✅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

Current Affairs 13 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 13 May 2020

🔶Harsh Vardhan addressed a digital conference RE-START to celebrate the National Technology Day

🔶SRS Bulletin released: National infant mortality rate at 32, MP worst performer; Kerala achieved SDG target

🔶Atal Pension Yojana completed 5 yrs on May 9, 2020 with 2.23 crore enrolment

🔶Department of Consumer Affairs partners with Safejob and Seekify to power Suraksha Store Initiative

🔶MP becomes 1st in the country to launch ‘FIR Aapke Dwar Yojana’

🔶Gujarat based Macpower produces India’s 1st indigenous Seam Sealing Machine for PPEs

🔶Jitendra Singh addresses Indo-Bangladesh Virtual Conference organised by ASSOCHAM

🔶SC orders to set up high-powered committee headed by Secretary of MHA to restore 4G internet services in J&K

🔶WHO released first “State of the World’s Nursing Report – 2020” stating a global shortfall of 5.9 mn nurses

🔶Covid-19: United Nations and partners to raise $ 6.7 billion for vulnerable nations

🔶Indian Tennis ace Sania Mirza becomes 1st Indian to win Fed Cup Heart award 2020 for Asia/Oceania zone

🔶Kumar Sangakkara set to serve second term as MCC President

🔶CSIR-NAL develops BiPAP non-invasive ventilator ‘Swasth Vayu’

🔶Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank launches Central University of Odisha helpline ‘Bharosa’ to help students in distress

🔶China launches two satellites to test space based communication technology

🔶FIFA U-17 World Cup to be held in India from 17 Feb 2021

🔶Para-athlete Shot-putter Deepa Malik announce retirement to head PCI

🔶French cyclist Remy Di Gregorio banned by UCI for 4 years following ‘super-EPO’ positive test

🔶Comedian and Seinfeld actor Jerry Stiller passed away at 92

🔶International Nurses Day 2020: May 12

🔶TN constitutes a 24 member high-level committee headed by ex-governor of RBI C Rangarajan to assess COVID-19 impact

🔶BBMP, Bengaluru launches “Pranavayu” to track oxygen levels of ILI patients

Current Affairs 12 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 12 May 2020

🔶National technology day 2020, May 11

🔶India launched Mission Sagar to assist 5 island nations Indian Oceanamid COVID-19

🔶6 member panel to set up to review production sharing contracts: Centre

🔶National Gallery of Modern Art launches a virtual program ‘NGMA Ke Sangrah Se’ to showcase artworks

🔶ICMR ties-up with India Post for lab delivery of Covid-19 testing kits

🔶TRIFED under AOL signed a MoU to promote the tribal enterprises

🔶 17 laureates conferred with DW Freedom of Speech Award 2020; Journalist Siddharth Varadarajan from India among them

🔶Narinder Batra to remain as FIH President until May 2021

🔶ICMR-NIV develops 1st indigenous antibody detection kit “COVID KAVACH ELISA” for COVID-19

🔶Parakh: DRDO- DFRL’s mobile microbial containment lab handed over to MMCRI

🔶DRDO lab develops DRUVS, an automated UV systems to sanitise electronic gadgets, papers & currency notes

🔶ICMR ties up with BBIL to develop the 1st fully indigenous COVID-19 vaccine

🔶CSIR approves project to develop ‘hmAbs’ that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 in patients; BBIL to lead

🔶Indian Scientists discover 3 new species of fishes under genus ‘Dawkinsia’ in western ghats

🔶COVID-19: SAI forms 6-member panel to prepare SOP for phased resumption of training after lockdown

🔶Famous historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan passed away at 68

🔶Vadhan authors a new book titled “Fear of God” deals with corruption, vigilantism & law

🔶Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio presented Rs. 21049.87 crore state budget for FY 20-21

Current Affairs 11 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 11 May 2020

🔶World Migratory Bird Day 2020, 9th May

🔶Defence Ministry signs contract with Tata Power SED for Phase-II of Modernisation of Air Field Infrastructure

🔶Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ announces modifications in PMRF Scheme to boost  research

🔶Central Board of Direct Taxes amends 44G of Income-tax Rules 1962

🔶WHO and UN’s postal agency releases commemorative stamp on 40th anniversary of smallpox eradication

🔶Government hikes its market borrowing to Rs 12 lakh crore from Rs 7.80 lakh crore for FY 21: COVID-19 impact

🔶FM Nirmala sitharaman launches INR-USD futures and options contracts on BSE, NSE  at Gift city

🔶Ratings agencies Goldman Sachs & Nomura cut India’s economic growth projections for 2020-21

🔶Giriraj Singh presents awards to the winners of “Startup India- Animal Husbandry Grand Challenge”

🔶Edu-tech firm ELSA Corp appoints Indian cricketer Ajinkya as its brand ambassador for India, Middle East, ANZ & SAARC

🔶74% stake of SeQuent bought by Carlyle for Rs 1,587 crore

🔶Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline sells 5.7 % stake in Hindustan Unilever for $3.35 billion

🔶IIT-Delhi startup launches reusable antimicrobial mask NSafe

🔶CSIR receives approval for clinical trial of two drugs, ‘phytopharmaceutical & favipiravir’ to treat COVID-19

🔶“Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family”  byOmidScobie and Carolyn Durand set to release in August

🔶Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War: May 8-9

🔶Sikkim Assembly passes a budget of Rs 9,100 crores for FY21