Top GKToday’s News Headlines-16 June 2020

INDIA

• ICMR recommends use of rapid antigen test kits for diagnosis of COVID-19 in combination with RT-PCR test
• COVID-19 International Film Festival: Odia short film ‘Martyapura Re Jamaraj’ (‘Yamaraj on earth’) wins Special Jury award
• ECONOMY & CORPORATE
• Indian Gas Exchange (IGX), first nationwide online delivery-based gas trading platform, launched
• WPI (Wholesale Price Index)-based inflation was –3.21% in May 2020
• Exports in May 2020 fall 36.47% to $19.05 bn, trade deficit down to $3.15 bn
• EPFO launches facility allowing settlement of online claims from its regional offices
• CBIC (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs) launches e-Office to automate internal file handling
• Nirmala Sitharaman meets private banks, NBFCs to ensure smooth roll out of ECLGS (emergency credit line guarantee scheme) to help MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises)
• Airtel Payments Bank launches ‘Suraksha Salary Account’ for workforce of MSMEs
• Maruti Suzuki India’s Alto remains country’s best-selling model for 16th year in a row in 2019-20
• Samir Bangara, cofounder & CEO of digital music platform Qyuki Digital Media, dies in Mumbai
• ByteDance discontinuing its Vigo Video and Vigo Lite apps in India

WORLD

• India joins Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) as founding member
• PM Boris Johnson to establish a commission to look at racial equality in the UK
• India, China expanded nuclear stockpile in last one year: SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
• World Elder Abuse Awareness Day observed on June 15

SPORTS

• Azerbaijan’s Mamedyarov Shakhriyar wins Sharjah World Stars online chess tournament; India’s P. Harikrishna 2nd