Top GKToday’s News Headlines-27 May 2020

INDIA

• SC orders Centre and States to immediately provide transport, food and shelter free of cost to stranded migrant workers
• No major side-effects of hydroxychloroquine, can be used in preventive treatment for COVID¬-19: ICMR
• Gadkari inaugurates breakthrough event of Chamba Tunnel under Chardham Pariyojana done by BRO
• CSIR-IIIM, Jammu ties up with Reliance Industries Limited to develop RT-LAMP (Reverse Transcriptase-Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification) based COVID-19 diagnostic kit
• Rajendra Jadhav of Nashik develops tractor mounted sprayer for COVID-19 sanitisation
• Chhattisgarh govt. to consider lac cultivation as an agriculture activity in the state
• India’s Major Suman Gawani selected for UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award (2019)

• Validity period of hotel approval & classification extended till June 30

• Indian-American inventor Rajiv Joshi of IBM won Inventor of the Year given by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association