Top GKToday’s News Headlines-14 June 2020

INDIA

• AarogyaPath portal launched by govt. to provide information on real-time availability of critical healthcare supplies
• DRDO develops ‘GermiKlean’ chamber to sanitise uniforms of security forces
• Health Ministry adds loss of smell or taste to the list of Covid-19 symptoms
• Health ministry approves use of remdesivir to treat Covid-19 in moderate stage of criticality
• Health ministry recommends use of HCQ (hydroxychloroquine) to treat Covid-19 in early stages of the disease

• GMR signs concession agreement with AP govt. for developing greenfield Bhogapuram international airport
• Paratha subjected to GST of 18% while GST on roti (chapati) is 5%: Authority for Advance Rulings (Karnataka bench)

• Nepal’s lower house of parliament, Pratinidhi Sabha, passes bill to include India’s territories of Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipulekh in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand in its new map
• International Albinism Awareness Day observed on June 13; theme: “Made To Shine”

• India’s oldest first-class cricketer Vasant Raiji dies in Mumbai at the age of 100