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

Current Affairs 10 May 2020

✅Current Affairs 10 May 2020

🔶Mother's Day: 10 May 2020

🔶 A “Compendium of Indian Technologies for Combating COVID-19 (Tracing, Testing and Treating)” prepared by National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) was launched by Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Director General, CSIR and Secretary, DSIR, Govt. of India at CSIR Headquarters, New Delhi

🔶 Indian Economic Services officer D P S Negi took charge as Director General of Labour Bureau in the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

🔶 PNB Housing Finance has signed a pact with IIT-Delhi for developing sustainable and reusable personal protective equipment (PPE) kits for healthcare workers.

🔶 Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) allowed employers to register their digital signatures online through e-mail.

🔶The government has extended the last date for filing annual GST return for the financial year 2018-19 by three months till September 2020.

🔶 Former head of the Intelligence Agency Mustafa al-Qadimi was cursed as the country's next prime minister amid a severe economic crisis created by the Coronavirus global epidemic in Iraq.

🔶 A Pakistani youth, Rahul Dev, has become the first Hindu to join the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), having been recruited as a General Duty Pilot Officer.

🔶 The Madhya Pradesh government has re-launched the ambitious Sambal Yojana aimed to strengthen the lives of the poor and the SC and ST communities by providing them social security cover, right from birth to death.

🔶 Professor Saurabh Lodha from Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, has received the Young Career Award in Nano Science and Technology for the year 2020 instituted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India.

🔶 Lt Gen Raj Shukla assumed the command of the Army Training Command (ARTRAC).

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