Top GKToday’s News Headlines-5 June 2020

INDIA

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison hold online summit
• India, Australia sign Mutual Logistics Support Agreement (MLSA) that will allow their militaries to use each other’s bases
• India pledges $15 million to GAVI, the international vaccine alliance, at the virtual Global Vaccine Summit hosted by UK
• 750 tigers died in the country in the 8 years due to poaching and other causes: National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
• DRDO develops device ‘SUMERU-PACS’ that helps wearers of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to feel comfortable without sweating
• HRD and Housing & Urban Affairs Ministries jointly launch TULIP (The Urban Learning Internship Program) with ULBs (Urban Local Bodies) across the country
• Covid-19 lockdown: Andhra govt hands over Rs 10,000 to each of 262,000 auto, cab drivers under YSR Vahana Mitra scheme.
• Home Ministry blacklists 2,550 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members; bans entry into India for 10 years
• Bollywood director and screenwriter Basu Chatterjee, known for movies such as “Chhoti Si Baat” and “Rajnigandha”, dies at 93
• Brajendra Navnit appointed as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to WTO in Geneva

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• India’s unemployment rate fell between July 2018-June 2019 to 5.8% compared to 6.1% during the same period in 2017-18: Annual Periodic Labour Force Survey
• RBI to publish on a daily basis data on volume and value of transactions through various payment systems
• “Forced waiver of interest” on loans during 3-month moratorium period neither prudent nor appropriate: RBI tells SC
• SC extends order of no coercive action against employers for non-payment of full wages till June 12
• CPCL (Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd.), IOCL (Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.) JV to set up 9-MMTPA refinery in Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu
• GAIL (India) Ltd. and EESL (Energy Efficiency Services Ltd.) sign MoU for joint development of trigeneration projects
• Uday Kotak, MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Bank, assumes office as president of CII for 2020-21

WORLD

• Google pledges $37 million to fight racism amid outrage over the custodial killing of African-American George Floyd
• Hong Kong’s legislature approves bill making it illegal to insult the Chinese national anthem
• International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression observed on June 4