Current Affairs 14 May 2020

🔘 68.2% of under-5 deaths in India due to child, maternal malnutrition; UP topped: Global Burden of Disease Study 2000–17

🔘 PM Modi announces Rs 20 lakh cr special economic package and Lockdown 4.0

🔘 Registration Committee recommends banning use of TB drug on crops

🔘 4 new products from three states receive Geographical Indication (GI) tag

🔘 ICMR, NCDC to initiate a population-based serosurvey in selected districts to monitor coronavirus prevalence

🔘 New initiative by the Railways and postal department for delivery and pick up

🔘 In a 1st, PoK’s Gilgit-Baltistan & Muzaffarabad included in the meteorological forecast list of IMD

🔘 India ranks 74th, Sweden tops: WEF’s global Energy Transition index 2020

🔘 BRICS’ New Development Bank provides USD 1 billion loan to India to fight COVID-19

🔘 CDC of the United States promises 3.6 million USD to India to combat COVID-19

🔘 World Airport Awards 2020: Bengaluru’s Kempegowda honoured as best regional airport in India & Central Asia; Singapore Changi crowned as World’s Best

🔘 Manoj Ahuja appointed as new CBSE chief and ASI gets V Vidyavati as Director General

🔘 Akhil Kumar re-inducted into NADA disciplinary panel

🔘 MSME Ministry launches CHAMPIONS Portal

🔘 TVS Group, IIT-M develop automated respiratory assist device “Sundaram Ventago”

🔘 Astronomers of the University of Canterbury discovered new one in a million Super-Earth

🔘 South African & US scientists use MeerKAT telescope to solve the mystery of ‘X galaxies’

🔘 Former National TT champion Manmeet Singh Walia passed away at 58

🔘 Grammy winning-singer Betty Wright passes away at 66

🔘 Uttarakhand CM launches ‘HOPE’ a portal to help unemployed youths

🔘 Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan re-launched  Sambal Yojana for dalits tribals and poor

🔘 ‘United We Fight’ musical creation released by ICCR to Fight COVID-19

🔘 77 new mandis from 10 States & UTs integrated with the e-NAM platform for marketing of Agricultural produce