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Current Affairs May 2020- The list of National and International happenings in a nutshell available for competitive exam preparation
Current Affairs May 2020
Current Affairs May 2020: With government uplifting the lockdown slowly and several organisations releasing their exam dates in the upcoming days, government job aspirants are gearing up. The candidates have been keeping a track on the exam dates, exam process and the have been taking mock tests. With so much happening this year, we certainly have a need to focus on the general awareness / current affairs part too to be fully prepared for the exams to come.
A fine grasp on the current affairs has been proven to increase the success rate during examination.
General Awareness/ Current Affairs makes up a crucial part of almost all the government exams, from SSC to Bank, Railways, Teacher tests, PSUs and UPSC. It is important candidates are thorough with the current affairs.
In this article, we bring you the current affairs from the month of May 2020. Let’s run through what went on last month in a jist:
CURRENT AFFAIRS May 2020
| INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS, MAY 2020 | |
| The World celebrated “World Press freedom on this day | 3rd May |
| The country that banned the export of alcohol-based sanitizers | India |
| The nation that re-opened its mosques for public prayers | Bangladesh |
| 2021 Commonwealth Games have been postponed to which year | 2023 |
| A commemorative stamp was release on 9th May by the WHO and UN Postal Agency to mark the 40th Anniversary of the eradication of which disease | Small Pox |
| World Thalassemia Day was observed on which day | 8th May |
| The Chief of WTO (World Trade Organisation) who decided to step down a year before his term expires | Roberto Azevedo |
| Amazon founder and CEO, who is seen as potentially the world’s first trillionaire by 2026 | Jeff Bezos |
| This nation’s exclusion from World Health Assembly was condemned in a statement by The United States | Taiwan |
| International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated on this day | 22nd May |
| The four times Grand Slams champion singles who passed away at the age of 83, recently | Ashley Cooper |
| Post COVID-19, world’s first major football league, Bundesliga, resumed its season in this country | Germany |
| The country that disagreed with WHO on its decision of temporary suspending the clinical trial of Hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19 patients | India |
| International Day of UN Peacekeepers is observed on this day | 29th May |
| NASA’s next generation space telescope-Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), named after the space agency’s first chief astronomer | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope |
| Who is the author of the book, “The Ickabog” | J.K. Rowling |
| NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS, MAY 2020 | |
| The legendary footballer and recipient of Padma Shri, Arjuna Award, Banga Bibhushan, passed away recently | Chuni Goswami |
| The operation launched by the Indian Navy as a pert of National effort to repatriate Indian citizens from other countries | Operation Samdura Setu |
| The city in which leakage of styrene gas from LPG Polymers chemical plant, killed 13 people and affected more than a 1000 people | Visakhapatnam |
| The Indian mission, under which food items, COVID related medicines including HCQ tablets, special Ayurvedic medicines have been dispatched to Maldives, Seychelles, Mauritius, Comoros & Madagascar | Mission SAGAR |
| Who has been named the new Economic Affairs Secretary | Tarun Bajaj |
| The last date for filling annual GST return for the fiscal year 2018-19 | 30th September |
| For how many months has the PSA detention period for Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister, Mehbooba Mufti, extended | 3 months |
| Telangana has imposed a fine for how many rupees, for not wearing masks in public places | Rs. 1000 |
| India’s first indigenous antibody detention kit for COVID-19 has been developed in which institute | National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune |
| The state that has banned Pan Masala containing Magnesium Carbonate, for 1 year | Jharkhand |
| Which state government has launched the “Pravasi Rahat Mitra” app for the migrant workers | Uttar Pradesh |
| Under India’s “COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project”, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIM), has approved a funds equivalent to | USD 500 million |
| On which day, the birth anniversary of Maharana Pratap was celebrated. He was the 13th King of Mewar kingdom | 9th May |
| Regular Passenger trains have been cancelled by Railways, till when | 30th June |
| The state that launched “Atmanirbhar Sahay Yojna” to help lower-middle income group | Gujarat |
| The state that became the first in the country to regulate cultivation of crops | Telangana |
| To respond the COVID-19 crisis, the US Centers of Control and Prevention (CDC), is providing the financial support of how much to India | USD 3.6 million |
| The innovative scheme of “FIR Apke Dwar Yojna” is launched by which state | Madhya Pradesh |
| An emergence liquidity of how much has been announced by the Government for the power distribution firms | Rs 90000 crores |
| Under Aatmanirbhar Economic Package, how much special credit facility for the street vendors has been announced by the Union Government | Rs 5000 crore |
| Under PM-CARES Fund, how much fund is allocated to the development of COVID-19 vaccine | Rs 100 crore |
| Who has been appointed as the new Chairman of CBSE | Manoj Ahuja |
| The name of cyclone that hit Odisha and West Bengal on 20th May | Amphan |
| With the fear if its extinction, rare palm of Andaman “Pinagna andamanensis” has been replanted in which state | Kerala |
| Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister’s Death Anniversary was observed on which date | 21st May |
| Oil India Limited has received Environmental Clearance for its exploration project beneath which National Park | Dibru-Saikhowa National Park |
| The recent dispute of Nepal’s inclusion of which disputed territories in its new map | Kalapani, Lipulekh, Limpiyadhura |
| To pick up a sake of 1.34%, General Atlantic will invest how much in Reliance Jio | Rs 6600 crore |
