Daily Current Affairs One Liners 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

Daily Current Affairs One Liners 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

Daily Current Affairs One Liners 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