May Current Affairs 2020

Date	Day	Theme
01 May	Worker's Day (International Labor Day
01 May	Maharashtra Day
01st Sunday of May	World Laughter Day
01st Tuesday of May	World Asthma Day
02 May	World Tuna Day
02nd Sunday of May	Mother's Day
03 May	Press Freedom Day	Journalism without Fear and Favour
04 May	Coal Miner's Day
04 May	International Firefighters Day
07 May	World Athletics Day
08 May	World Red Cross Day
08 May	World Thalassaemia Day
11 May	National Technology Day
12 May	International Nurses Day
15 May	International Day of Families
17 May	World Telecommunication Day
17 May	World Hypertension Day
18 May	World AIDS vaccine Day
18 May	International Museum Day
21 May	National Anti-Terrorism Day
21 May	International Tea Day
21 May	World Day for Cultural Diversity for dialogue and Development
22 May	International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB)	Our Solutions are in Nature.
23 May	International Day to End Obstetric Fistula	nd gender inequality! End health inequities! End Fistula now!".
24 May	Commonwealth Day

May 1, 2020

Chhattisgarh has become the first state in the whole country to provide the highest number of employment under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) during the lockdown period due to COVID-19.

May 2, 2020

1988 batch IAS officer of Andhra Pradesh, Giridhar Aramane has been appointed as secretary in the Ministry of Road Transport and HIghways. Proir to this he was serving as additional secretary in the cabinet secretariat.
He has replaced Sanjeev Ranjan who has been appointed as secretary in the Ministry of Shipping.

May 2, 2020

One the birth anniversary of great archaeologist Professor B. B. Lal, Union Culture Minister Shri Prahlad Singh Patel released an e-book “Prof. B. B. Lal -India Rediscovered” in New Delhi.

May 2, 2020

Karnataka Vikas Grameena bank (KVG Bank) has launched Vikas Abhaya Scheme to support Micro , Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India that have been affected due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The loan will be for the existing MSME customers who have been regular as on February 29. A maximum loan of up to ₹1 lakh will be provided and no collateral security will be insisted upon. The loan is repayable within 36 months,

May 2, 2020

International Cricket Council (ICC) has booked Deepak Aggarwal, Cricketer from Sonipat, Haryana from all forms of cricket for breaching ICC Anti-Corruption Code for a period of 2 years.
He came on Dubai’s ICC anti-corruption unit’s radar because of his suspicious movement during a game in Abu Dhabi.

May 2, 2020

1988 batch IAS officer Arvind Kumar Sharma has been appointed as secretary to Micro, Small, and Medium enterprises.(MSMEs).
Prior to this he was serving as Additional Secretary, Prime Minister’s Office.

May 2, 2020

Chak-Hao, the black rice of Manipur and the Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh’s terracotta have bagged the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. Chak-Hao, a scented glutinous rice has been in cultivation in Manipur over centuries. It has also been used by traditional medical practitioners as part of traditional medicine.
The terracotta work of Gorakhpur is a centuries-old traditional art form, where the potters make various animal figures like, horses, elephants, camel, goat, ox, etc. with hand-applied ornamentation.Some of the major products of craftsmanship include the Hauda elephants, Mahawatdar horse, deer, camel, five-faced Ganesha, singled-faced Ganesha, elephant table, chandeliers, hanging bells etc.

May 2, 2020

AYURAKHSA programme has been launched by All India Institute of Ayurveda(AIIA) laong with AYUSH ministry and Delhi Police to boost immunity of people during the period of pandemic COVID-19.
The slogan is ““Corona Se Jung: Delhi Police Ke Sang”. Free immunity booster kits will be distributed to delhi police as well.

May 3, 2020

Professor Shobhana Narasimhan from the Theoretical Sciences Unit (TSU) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), has been elected as an International Honorary Member to the American Academy of Arts and Science.
She has done significant work on the rational design of nanomaterials, examining how the lowering of dimensionality and reduction of size affect material properties.

May 3, 2020

Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT), Pune has developed a microwave steriliser “ATULYA” that can disintegrate the novel coronavirus COVID-19 using differential heating in the range of 56 degree to 60 degree celsius.
DIAT is a deemed university under the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

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