Top GKToday’s News Headlines-24 May 2020

INDIA

• Odisha govt. allows home delivery of liquor; introduces 50% ‘COVID Fee’ on all types of foreign liquor and beer
• Dr Jitendra Nath Pande, eminent pulmonologist and former head of the Department of Medicine at AIIMS, Delhi dies at 79
• DST’s Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS), Bangalore develops cup-shape design mask that helps to create enough space in front of the mouth while speaking

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• “Hunar Haat” for artisans and craftsmen to resume from September 2020 with the theme of “Local to Global”: Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

WORLD

• Indian economist Abhas Jha World Bank’s Practice Manager for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management for South Asia
• World Turtle Day celebrated on May 23
• International Day to End Obstetric Fistula was observed on May 23
• World Metrology Day celebrated on May 20; theme: ‘Measurements for global trade’