Current Affairs 2021: Today’s News Headlines: May 5, 2021

May 5, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for May 5, 2021:

Supreme Court strikes down West Bengal law on real estate meant to protect home buyers
Delhi HC asks Centre why it should not face contempt for failing to supply oxygen to Delhi as ordered
ICMR issues fresh advisory on Covid testing, removes need for RT-PCR test for domestic travel if individual healthy
Vehicle location tracking (VLT) device made compulsory for oxygen tankers
Former civil servant and ex-J&K Governor Jagmohan Malhotra dies at 94; honoured with Padma Shri in 1971, Padma Bhushan in 1977 and Padma Vibhushan in 2016
Rashpal Malhotra, founder of the Center for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), dies in Mohali at 84

PM Modi and UK’s PM Boris Johnson hold virtual summit
India, U.K. unveil 10-year roadmap; to elevate bilateral ties to ‘Strategic Comprehensive Partnership’
EAM Dr S. Jaishankar holds meeting with UK’s Home Secretary Priti Patel in London

RBI approves applications of telecom service providers for 5G trials; Chinese vendors kept out
RBI imposes a Rs 3-cr penalty on ICICI Bank for violating prudential norms
India notifies revenue threshold of Rs 2 crore and 300,000 users for foreign firms to pay digital tax in India