insight daily current affairs

Insight daily current affairs

World Thyroid Day 2020, May 25

🔶International Missing Children’s Day 2020: May 25

🔶Former Supreme Court Justice A K Sikri inaugurates Indian Dispute Resolution Centre

🔶First Meeting of XVFC’s Committee on Fiscal Consolidation Roadmap held through VC; GDP growth remains -6% to 1% for FY21

🔶Uttarakhand becomes the 1st state to release report on conservation of endemic, threatened floras

🔶India sets up military war game centre called ‘INDIA’ for Ugandan Defence forces in Jinja

🔶India’s crude steel output slips 65.2% to 3.13 MT in Apr: Worldsteel April 2020 report

🔶WHO and IOC team up to improve health through sport amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

🔶Fintech startup Zaggle ties up with Visa to launch innovative payments solutions for SMEs & startups

🔶US Navy successfully tests 1st solid state laser weapon system to destroy aircraft mid-flight

🔶DRDO’s RCI develops ‘AINA’ AI-based Attendance Application

🔶Indian Navy made breathable PPE kit “NavRakshak”

🔶Scientists at BSI discover 3 new plant species in Western Ghats

🔶US tennis star Jamie Hampton announced retirement from Professional tennis

🔶Hockey Icon Padma Shri Balbir Singh Sr passed away at 96

🔶Former Inter coach Gigi Simoni passed away at 81

🔶Mizoram becomes the 1st state to give industry status to sports

🔶UP govt to create migration commission to provide employment to migrant workers

🔶MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to inaugurate ‘Everybody will get employment’ scheme through video conferencing

🔶Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma to resign from SoftBank’s Board

🔶US left open skies surveillance treaty due to non-compliance of Russia towards treaty

🔶LIC launches modified PM Vaya Vandana Yojana pension scheme

🔶Maruti Suzuki partners with ICICI Bank to provide retail financing schemes to customers

🔶India’s GDP growth is expected to reach 1.2% in Q4 FY20: SBI Ecowrap report

🔶Researchers of INST found a route to fabricate precisely controlled nanostructure of desired geometry and location on 2D materials

🔶Renowned vocalist Shyamala Bhave passes away at 76

🔶SKIMS in Srinagar gets its first of it’s kind Infectious Disease Block facility

🔶Tamil Nadu starts Implementation of Solar Fence Farmland Protection Programme

🔶Uttarakhand CM Rawat presented Rs 53,527-cr budget for FY20-21; 25 public welfare goals in focus

🔶‘Hunar Haat’ with the theme “Local to Global”to restart from September 2020

🔶Voicebot ‘TIA’ on Whatsapp launched: Tata Capital

🔶A song titled ‘Jayatu Jayatu Bharatam – Vasudev Kutumbakkam’ penned by Prasoon Joshi

🔶Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen re-elected for second term; 2 Indian MPs sent congratulatory video messages

🔶Airtel Payments Bank joined hands with Mastercard to develop customised  payment solutions for farmers, SMEs

🔶CSIR-IIIM & Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to develop RT-LAMP based test for Coronavirus

🔶IIT Madras develops magnesium alloy to replace steel, aluminium in cars

🔶Padma Shri awardee, Noted Urdu satirist Mujtaba Hussain passes away at 84

🔶Former Tamil Nadu footballer Shanmugam passes away at 77

🔶Hong Kong’s “King of Gambling”, Stanley Ho passed away at 98

🔶JK Rowling releases children’s book ‘The Ickabog’ online for free

🔶Tamil Nadu govt inks 17 investment MoUs worth ₹15,128 cr with corporates

🔶CIPET renamed as Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering &Technology

🔶672 million children will be trapped in to poverty by the end of 2020 due to COVID-19 Impact: UNICEF report

🔶ADB & India signs USD 177 million loan for road improvements in Maharashtra

🔶India’s GDP growth to contract 5% in FY21: S&P Global Ratings

🔶Tech firm Vakrangee joins hands with LIC to distribute micro insurance products

🔶Brazil’s Marcos Prado Troyjo elected as new President of NDB; SBI’s Anil Kishora vice-prez

🔶IOC appoints Narinder Batra as member of Olympic Channel Commission

🔶Zomato elevates food-delivery CEO Mohit Gupta as co-founder

😊IAF operationalised its 2nd squadron 

🔶ISRO receives patent for highland soil simulant for future lunar missions

🔶World Hunger Day 2020: May 28

🔶Ladakh inaugurates the 1st Solar Lift Irrigation Plant of Kargil

🔶The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 modified by Maharashtra Gov.

🔶Senior IAS officer Vishwas Mehta appointed as new Chief Secretary of Kerala