insights daily current affairs

Insight daily current affairs

🔶Kisan Credit Cards campaign launched for 1.5 crore dairy farmers: Government

🔶Odisha, Sikkim and Mizoram included in ‘One Nation-One Ration Card’ scheme

🔶India ranked 23rd for world’s best startup ecosystems; US topped: StartupBlink Ecosystem Rankings 2020

🔶India’s GDP to contract by 4% in fiscal 2021 & downgraded its sovereign rating to ‘Baa3’ from ‘Baa2: Moody’s

🔶Indian Energy Exchange rolls out real time electricity market

🔶IRCON signs MoU with NIIFL & AYANA to explore and collaborate in the solar energy sector

🔶PM Modi appoints committee for MSME loan implementation headed by Rajnath Singh

🔶Reserve Bank approves Lakshmi Vilas Bank’s MD and CEO, Subramanian Sundar extension

🔶Tata Power acquires 51% stake in Odisha’s TPCODL for Rs 178.5 cr

🔶PM Modi Launches ‘CHAMPIONS’ portal to empower MSMEs

🔶DRDO develops ‘Ultra Swachh’ to disinfect PPE and other materials

🔶Former International Archer and coach Jayanti Lal Nanoma passed away at 34

🔶J&K: Former Union Minister, Congress leader P Namgyal passes away at 83

🔶‘One Year of Modi 2.0 – Towards A Self-Reliant India’ e-book released by Ministry of I&B

🔶Global Day of Parents 2020: June 1

🔶World Dugong Day 2020: May 28

🔶A multipurpose algae-based respirator ‘Oxigeno’ developed: LPU researchers

🔶MEITY launched 3 new schemes worth Rs 50,000 cr to boost electronic manufacturing in India

🔶Expert Committees on Rationalization of Film Media Units and Review of Autonomous Bodies submitted report to MIB

🔶MoD places orders with OFB to supply 156 upgraded tanks worth of Rs 1,094 crore for Army

🔶WHO Launched ‘COVID-19 Technology Access Pool’ for equal access to Life-saving Tech

🔶DBS Bank India partners with TCIL to facilitate real time payments for truck drivers by  DBS RAPID solution

🔶Indian writer Kritika Pandey wins regional award for Asia in 2020 Commonwealth short story prize

🔶SEEDS, an Indian NGO wins ‘World No Tobacco Day Award 2020’: WHO

🔶Uday Kotak Take over from Vikram Kirloskar as the new CII President

🔶Virendra Nath Datt took additional charge as CMD of National Fertilizers Limited

🔶SANSA & NASA collaborates to support human spaceflight missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond

🔶Rare ‘first of its kind’ Trojan asteroids called 2019 LD2 detected near Jupiter’s Orbit by astronomers at the “ATLAS” Institute of Astronomy

🔶ASI team discovers 1100-year-old Shiva lingam in Vietnam during temple excavation

🔶Kiren Rijiju launches 25 day Khelo India Community Coach Development programme

🔶Former Pakistan’s First-class cricketer Riaz Sheikh passed away at 51 due to COVID-19

🔶World Bicycle Day 2020 – June 3

🔶International Sex Workers Day 2020 – June 2

🔶Kerala announces K-FON to provide free internet by December 2020, first state to declare internet as a fundamental right

🔶Kondapochamma Sagar project inaugurated by Telangana CM

🔶South African Quarraisha Abdool Karim wins 2020 Christophe Mérieux Prize

🔶US, UK proposed expansion of G7 grouping

🔶My Life My Yoga Video Blogging contest launched; announced by PM Modi in Mann Ki Baat

🔶Ravi Shankar Prasad launched India’s national Artificial Intelligence Portal & launched “Responsible AI for Youth”

🔶India’s access to USD 50-60 billion worth of carbon credits can be achieved if it propagates agroecology: NITI Aayog

🔶SEBI Extends Deadline for Power Of Attorney Norms till August 1, 2020

🔶Board of BEML approved signing of MoU with MELCO as a part of Expression of Interest (EoI)

🔶YES Bank picks 24.19% stake in Dish TV by invoking pledged shares

🔶Swiz launches world’s first app “SwissCovid” with Exposure Notification API of Apple and Google

🔶NASA astronauts dock SpaceX spacecraft with ISS9Karnataka launches COVID-19 tracking platform built by NASSCOM

🔶Researchers of CMFRI have found a rare bandtail scorpionfish in Gulf of Mannar

🔶Millipede-like creature, Kampecaris obanensis is the world’s oldest-known land animal: Research

🔶SAI in collaboration with NSF launches India’s 1st online coaching programme ‘Khelo India e-Pathshala’

🔶Bollywood Music Director Wajid Khan passes away at 42

🔶American Sprinter Bobby Morrow passed away at 84

🔶20th Anniversary of World Milk Day: June 1, 2020

🔶World No Tobacco Day 2020, May 31

🔶International Everest Day May 29

🔶International Day of Action for Women’s Health observed on May 28, 2020

✅Current Affairs 5 August 2020

🔶MoD releases draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020; aimed at $5 bn export by 2025

🔶IIT Kanpur and DAR & PG sign agreement with MoD for using AI, ML to address grievances

🔶Listed entities get 3 years to meet criteria of minimum 25% public shareholding

🔶Four more States/UTs linked with One Nation One Ration Card scheme; taking total to 24

🔶For the 1st time in India Railways uses NTC machine for track construction

🔶Canara Bank Partnered with 3 insurers to Provide Individual Short-Term Corona Kavach Policy

🔶National Bank of Bahrain Selects Infosys Finacle to Digitally Transform its Transaction Banking Business

🔶Sunil ydv SS received the Karmaveer Chakra of United Nations and iCONGO at ReX ConcLIVE

🔶RBI Approved Sashidhar Jagdishan as Next MD & CEO of HDFC Bank; will Succeed Aditya Puri

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

🔶A health assistant robot “Rakshak” designed by the Mumbai Division of Central Railway

🔶A COVID prevention kiosk named “UV Baggage Bath” inaugurated at Bengaluru railway station

🔶Nobel Peace Prize Winner John Hume Passed Away at 83

🔶Padma Bhushan Awardee & Former Arunachal Pradesh Governor Ram D Pradhan passes away

🔶Government of AP Signs MoU with Hindustan Unilever Ltd, P&G and ITC to Support Economic Empowerment of Women

🔶DNHDD Launched E-Gyan Mitra Mobile Application for Online Education

🔶Two-day international webinar on ‘Lokmanya Tilak – Swaraj to Self-Reliant India’: ICCR

🔶Axis Bank unveils AXAA ,an AI powered conversational banking IVR