Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for May 4, 2021

– Kerala retains top rank in NITI Aayog’s SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) Index, Bihar worst performer

– SC quashes sedition case registered against journalist Vinod Dua for criticising PM and the govt. in a YouTube telecast

– Retired officials taking up a private job soon after retirement akin to misconduct: CVC

– Submit assessment criteria for Class XII students in 2 weeks, SC tells CBSE, ICSE

– WhatsApp indulging in ‘anti-user practices’ by obtaining ‘trick consent’, Centre tells Delhi HC

– Noted Assamese litterateur and Padma Shri awardee Lakshmi Nandan Bora dies in Guwahati at the age of 91; awarded Sahitya Akademi Award in 1988 and Saraswati Samman in 2008

– Centre sets up expert group for fixing minimum wages and national floor minimum wages; to be chaired by Professor Ajit Mishra, director of the Institute of Economic Growth

– May Services PMI (Purchasing Managers’ Index) shrinks to 46.4 vs 54 in April; lowest level since August

– Defence Ministry signs ₹323-cr. deal for airport surveillance radars with Mahindra Telephonics Integrated Systems

– Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Singh Thakur launches IEPFA’s 6 modules of short films titled “Hisaab Ki Kitaab”; IEPFA: Investor Education & Protection Fund Authority

– Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Narendra Singh Tomar virtually inaugurates Indus Best Mega Food Park at Raipur, Chhattisgarh

– Mizoram struggling with livestock sector due to African Swine Fever: CM Zoramthanga

– Enforcement Directorate arrests RJD Rajya Sabha MP Amarendra Dhari Singh in connection with a money laundering case probe linked to an alleged fertiliser scam

– Indian economist Kalpana Kochhar joining Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation after retiring from IMF

– French novelist David Diop wins International Booker Prize for books translated into English with his novel ‘At Night All Blood is Black’; translator Anna Moschovakis gets half the £50,000 ($70,850) prize

– Jodie Foster to be honoured with Palme d’or at 2021 Cannes Film Festival

– Pakistan holds military exercise ‘Taskheer-e-Jabal’ in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

– African Union suspends Mali after military coup & threatens sanctions

– World Bicycle Day celebrated on June 3