Top GKToday’s News Headlines-10 June 2020

INDIA

• Migrant workers stranded in the nationwide lockdown must be transported to their homes within 15 days: SC tells centre and state governments
• Covid-19: Govt extends validity of motor vehicle documents till Sept 30
• Uttar Pradesh Cow Slaughter Prevention Act amended: Anyone harming cow to face up to seven years’ imprisonment and Rs 3 lakh fine
• NCERT and Rotary India sign MoU for e-learning content telecast for class 1-12 on NCERT TV channels; content currently available in Hindi and Punjabi
• PSU BECIL (Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited) floats tender to empanel agencies to fight fake news and misinformation on social media
• Ajay Singh, ex-President of All India Jat Maha Sammelan and junior minister in PM V. P. Singh’s govt, dies at 70

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• Adani Green Energy wins Rs.45,000 crore tender from centre to build 8-gigawatt (Gw) photovoltaic power plant and 2-Gw solar cell and module manufacturing capacity in five years
• Massive fire engulfs Baghjan oil well of Oil India Limited in Assam’s Tinsukia district
• Mumbai is India’s most expensive city for expatriates says Mercer’s ‘2020 Cost of Living Survey’; Hong Kong world’s most expensive
• Twitter launches test feature ‘fleets’ in India for tweets that disappear

WORLD

• IBM has ceased offering facial recognition software: CEO Arvind Krishna

SPORTS

• Covid-19: ICC bans use of saliva to shine ball, allows use of non-neutral umpires in bilateral series