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Insight current affairs

🔶One Sun One World One Grid: India initiated talks on West to SE Asia solar grid

🔶Piyush Goyal attends the Digital Summit on Exports organized by CII through video conference

🔶U.S. joins G7 artificial intelligence group to counter China

🔶NABARD grants Rs 1,050 crore to West Bengal during FY 21 for the benefit of farmers & poor people

🔶India’s GDP growth slows to a 11-year low of 4.2%, Q4 slumps to 3.1 in 2019-20%: NSO

🔶PFC board appoints RS Dhillon’s as CMD

🔶SN Rajeshwari appointed as new CMD of Oriental Insurance

🔶India Observatory launches GIS-enabled dashboard, CoAST India

🔶Famous Lyricist Yogesh Gaur passes away at 77

🔶World Digestive Health Day 2020, May 29
Irfaan Ali sworn in as president of Guyana, Mark Phillips as PM

•Sashidhar Jagdishan to be the new CEO of HDFC Bank; Will succeed Aditya Puri
• NASA Astronauts returns safely after successful Demo-2 mission

• Two US astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, returned from the International Space Station

• Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume passes away at 83

• Mr Hume was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998

• Computer electronics major HP appoints Ketan Patel as India MD

• “Bharat Air Fibre Services” inaugurated in Maharashtra

• Govt of India gave nod to IPL 2020 in UAE

• 13th edition of Indian Premier League’s (IPL’s) 2020

• Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport gets UNICEF�funded mass fever scanner

• World Cup Winning German Soccer Player Benedikt Howedes  retires at 32

• Rajasthan Approves 5% Reservation in Judicial Service for MBC

• A book titled “Siyasat Mein Sadasyata” authored by Vijay Kumar
Choudhary

• IIT Madras with Helyxon Developed First of Its Kind Remote Patient Monitoring Solution for COVID-19

🔶World Vape Day 2020: May 30

🔶Karnataka to launch State Health Register, a first-of-its-kind in India

🔶Nirmala Sitharaman chairs 22nd Meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC)

🔶Annual listing fee reduced by 25% for SMEs: BSE & NSE

🔶Indian economy to contract by 5% in FY21 by Fitch’s GEO and Crisil

🔶Infosys ties-up with Zurich-based Avaloq for digital wealth management services

🔶Thierry Delaporte, COO of Capgemini becomes the new CEO and MD of Wipro

🔶Sandip Mukund Pradhan gets two-year extension as Director General of SAI

🔶AI virtual assistant PAi launched: NPCI

🔶Western Naval Command sets up Ultraviolet sanitisation Bay at the Naval Dockyard

🔶NASA renames its WFIRST Telescope after ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman

🔶Kochi Startup Devaditek Innovations develops decontamination device ‘Lumos’ to check COVID-19 spread

🔶Indian researchers explore new possibilities to increase paddy yield

🔶A new species of small freshwater fish “Puntius sanctus” discovered in Velankanni, Tamil Nadu

🔶Chhattisgarh’s First CM Ajit Jogi passed away at 74

🔶Rajya Sabha member M.P. Veerendra Kumar passes away at 83

🔶International Day of UN Peacekeepers 2020 May 29

🔶World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2020: May 28

🔶Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh launches ‘Rozgar Setu Yojana’ for skilled workers

🔶Uttarakhand launches Mukhyamantri Swarozgar Yojana for returnee migrants

🔶Uttar Pradesh Government develops 800 Km roads as Herbal roads

🔶Labour Ministry with TCS iON offers free online skill training through NCS portal

🔶23 additional Minor Forest produce items in Minimum Support Price List announced: M/O of Tribal affairs

🔶UN extends arms embargo and other sanctions in South Sudan till May 2021

• Virat Kohli, the only cricketer in the forbes top 100 highest paid athletes of 2020 topped by Federer

🔶Mohandas Pai to chair the advisory committee on Service provider of IBBI

🔶Finance Ministry appoints PR Jaishankar as MD of IIFCL

🔶Arun Singhal becomes new CEO of FSSAI

🔶Irrawaddy Dolphin population at Odisha ‘s Chilika lake increased with the help of IIT Madras’ dredging methodology

🔶Indian long distance runner Kiranjeet Kaur handed 4 year ban for violation of anti-doping rule

🔶UP government signs MoU with industry associations to create 10 Lakh job for migrants