Current Affairs 9 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 9 May 2020

🔶World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day 2020, May 8

🔶World Thalassaemia Day 2020: May 8

🔶World Hand Hygiene Day 2020: May 5

🔶Nitin Gadkari sets road construction target for next 2 years at Rs 15 lakh crore during virtual meet of MoRTH & SIAM

🔶Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates 80 km link road for Kailash Mansarovar through VC

🔶SC Ruling: Cooperative banks come under SARFAESI Act, 2002; Parliament can prescribe recovery process for cooperative banks

🔶Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh approves abolition of 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service

🔶AIIB grants $500 mn loan to India to deal with coronavirus disaster

🔶NABARD disburses Rs 12,767 crore to State Co-op Banks & RRBs to extend credit to farmers

🔶Moody’s slashes India’s GDP growth to zero in FY 21 from 2.6%

🔶Coir Board signs MoU with IIT Madras to establish CoE for Coir applications

🔶Yes Bank appoints Neeraj Dhawan as chief risk officer

🔶US-based Vista Equity Partners to buy 2.32% stake in Jio Platforms for  Rs 11,367 crore

🔶China successfully launches ‘Long March 5B’ rocket to space as it steps up Moon landing plans

🔶JNCASR Researchers Invent Economical, Energy-Efficient Wafer-Scale Photo detector for security

🔶UP passes ordinance to suspend most Labour Laws for 3 years

🔶Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Pravasi Raahat Mitra’ app for migrant Workers

🔶Himanta Biswa Sarma presented Rs 1,03,762 cr Assam Budget for FY 2020-2021

🔶UP becomes first state to provide facility of beds with ventilators in each district

Current Affairs 8 May 2020

✅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

Current Affairs 7 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 7 May 2020

🔶International No Diet Day 2020: May 6

🔶Indian Navy’s ‘Samudra Setu’ to bring stranded Indian citizens from Maldives; Air India will evacuate from other 12 nations

🔶Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan campaign to protect senior citizens during COVID-19: NITI Aayog

🔶5,037,000 people internally displaced in India in 2019: UNICEF report

🔶PNB Housing Finance Limited signs MoU with IIT Delhi to develop reusable PPE kits

🔶Bharat Dynamics Limited signs MoU with IIT Kanpur to manufacture ventilators for COVID-19 treatment

🔶IIT-Bombay Professor Saurabh Lodha receives Young Career Award 2020 in Nano Science and Technology

🔶Economic Affairs Secretary Tarun Bajaj appointed as Director on RBI Central Board

🔶Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury reappointed as chairperson of Parliament’s public Accounts Committee

🔶IES Officer Negi assumes charge as Director General of Labour Bureau

🔶GARUD portal launched to fast-track approval to COVID-19 related drone operations: MoCA and DGCA

🔶CSIR-IGIB and TATA Sons sign MoU for licensing ‘KNOWHOW’ for rapid diagnosis of COVID-19

🔶SCTIMST develops 2 types of swabs and viral transport medium for COVID-19 testing

🔶North Pole’s largest-ever ozone hole,620,000 square miles, finally closes

🔶TIU bans Egyptian tennis player Youssef Hossam for life in match-fixing cases

🔶Former Union Minister Dalit Ezhilmalai passed away at 74

🔶A book titled as Vijyant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero  authored by Colonel VN Thapar and Neha Dwivedi

🔶Andhra Pradesh CM rolls out ‘CMAPP’  to monitor farming needs

🔶Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Ayush Kavach-Covid’ App

🔶Himachal Pradesh to launch ‘Nigah’ to aware family members of migrant returnees

Current Affairs 6 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 6 May 2020

🔶World Asthma Day 2020: May 5

🔶International Day of the Midwife 2020: May 5

🔶Narendra Modi participates in online Summit of NAM Contact Group

🔶Dr Jitendra Singh attended Bamboo Conclave through Video Conference

🔶IIT Launches India’s first COVID-19 test bus in Mumbai

🔶‘India SME Services Platform’ to be launched: SIDBI

🔶DBS Bank slashes India’s FY21 GDP forecast to 1% from 1.5%; another Rs 1.5-3 lakh-cr relief package required

🔶2020 Pulitzer Prizes announced: 3 photojournalists from Jammu & Kashmir won the feature photography

🔶Vladimir Putin awards commemorative World War II medal to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

🔶Nicholas C. Coops, Joseph J. Landsberg and Richard H. Waring shares the Marcus Wallenberg Prize 2020

🔶7 member committee formed to enhance audit independence and accountability: MCA

🔶Panel formed to frame standard professional indemnity policy: IRDAI

🔶Indian-American lawyer Ashok Michael Pinto as US representative to World Bank’s lending arm IBRD

🔶Krishnan Ramachandran appointed as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Max Bupa

🔶KPTL completes sale of 100 piece stake in Kalpataru Satpura Transco to CLP India

🔶Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched “The Saras Collection” on GeM portal from New Delhi

🔶DRDO Develops “UV blaster”,  Ultraviolet Disinfection Tower

🔶SNBNCBS develops Nanomedicine to alter oxidative stress to treat COVID-19

🔶COVID-19: CIMAP’s Herbal products ‘CIM-Paushak’ and ‘Herbal Cough Syrup’ boost immunity

🔶Jharkhand launches three schemes for rural job creation

🔶West Bengal govt launches exit app for stranded people of other states

🔶Government hikes MSP for minor forest produce of 49 items

Current Affairs 5 May 2020

✅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

Current Affairs 4 May 20

✅Current Affairs 4 May 2020

🔶Five more States/UTs integrated with ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ platform, taking the total to 17

🔶Maharashtra the first state government to announces free and cashless insurance to the people

🔶200 new mandis added to the e-NAM platform from 7 States: Narendra Singh Tomar

🔶IIT-Madras Professor & Padma Shri awardee Thalappil Pradeep named for 25th Nikkei Asia Prizes 2020 in S&T

🔶Professor Shobana Narasimhan of JNCASR elected as International Member to American Academy of Arts and Science

🔶Traders’ body CAIT to launch national e-commerce marketplace ‘bharatmarket’ for retail traders

🔶US Scientists discover 1st known aquatic Dinosaur ‘Spinosaurus aegyptiacus’

🔶BWF postpones World Championship 2020 to November 2021

🔶Former world snooker champion Peter Ebdon retires from sport

🔶Union Culture Minister released e-book “Prof. B. B. Lal -India Rediscovered” to mark the centenary year of Prof B. B. Lal