Top GKToday’s News Headlines-6 March 2020

March 6, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 6 March, 2020

Lok Sabha suspends 7 Congress MPs for remaining period of Budget Session for “gross misconduct” and “utter disregard” for House rules
“Chronicles of Change Champions”, a compilation of 25 innovative initiatives taken under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao (BBBP) scheme, released by WCD Minister Smriti Irani
No scientific evidence to show that coronavirus spreads through eating chicken, mutton and seafood: FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) CEO G. S. G. Ayyangar
Maharashtra: Aurangabad airport renamed Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Airport
Punjab Govt. to install statues of religious figures and freedom fighters — Parshuram at Ludhiana, Maharaja Agrasen at Bathinda, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur at Sirhind, Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna at Amritsar and Dr. B R Ambedkar at Phagwara/Jalandhar
IIT-Madras researchers claim to have developed an AI-powered drone to counter ‘rogue drones’

RBI imposes moratorium on the capital-starved Yes Bank, caps withdrawals at Rs 50,000 per account till further orders
Board of Yes Bank superseded with immediate effect for a period of 30 days owing to serious deterioration in the financial position of the Bank
Former SBI CFO Prashant Kumar appointed as administrator for Yes Bank

EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation) lowers interest rate on provident fund deposits to a seven-year low of 8.5% for 2019-20
SEBI launches mobile app ‘SEBI SCORES’ for investors to lodge grievances in SEBI Complaints Redress System (SCORES)
Trade impact of the coronavirus epidemic for India is estimated at $348 million; India to be 15th most affected economy: UNCTAD
RBI Deputy Governor N. S. Vishwanathan to step down by March 31, 3 months before the end of his extended one-year tenure

Singapore’s Daren Tang elected new Director General of Geneva-based WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation)
Former UN Secretary General (1981-1991) Perez de Cuellar of Peru dies at 100
Former PM Indira Gandhi and freedom fighter Amrit Kaur named by the TIME magazine among world’s 100 powerful women who defined the last century
IMF makes available $50 billion to help combat the spread of coronavirus in low income and emerging market countries
Ukraine’s Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, accepts resignation of PM Oleksiy Honcharuk; Denys Shmygal appointed new PM