Top GKToday’s News Headlines-9 May 2020

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80-km long Dharchula (Uttarakhand)–Lipulekh (China Border) road link curtailing Kailash-Mansarovar pilgrimage time inaugurated
15 migrant workers, who were sleeping on the railway tracks while going back to their native places, run over by a goods train between Jalna and Aurangabad in Maharashtra
Jharkhand bans manufacture, sale and storage of 11 brands of pan masala for a year

Moody’s Investors Service projects India’s economic growth at 0% in 2020-21
India’s foreign exchange reserves rise to USD 481.078 billion in the week to May 1
Govt. hikes market borrowing estimate to Rs 12 lakh crore in 2020-21; Budget target was Rs 7.8 lakh crore
Two exchanges at International Financial Services Centre in Gift City, India INX and NSE IFSC, launch trading in rupee-USD derivative contracts
Gift City is Gujarat International Finance Tec-City
Defence Ministry signs contract with Tata Power SED for infra modernisation at 37 airfields
Govt allows packaging of grains in used gunny sacks, plastic bags this procurement season because of shortage of jute bags
COVID-19 pandemic: Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approves USD 500 million loan for India
Gujarat govt announces exemptions for new projects from provisions of labour laws

Migrants stranded all over world at heightened risk of COVID-19: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director-General Antonio Vitorino
UN observing ‘Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War’ on May 8-9
World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day observed on May 8
May 8 is birth anniversary of Henry Dunant, the founder of Red Cross and the winner of first Nobel Peace Prize (1901)