Current Affairs 2021: Today’s News Headlines: May 4, 2021

May 4, 2021

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

Seeking to augment human resources deployed in fighting COVID-19, PM approves a number of measures
NEET-PG postponed for at least 4 months to make a large number of qualified doctors available for pandemic duty
Medical interns to be pressed into service
Services of final year MBBS students can be utilised for providing services like tele-consultation and monitoring of mild COVID cases
Sc. or GNM qualified nurses may be utilised in full-time COVID nursing duties
Those providing services in COVID management will be given priority in forthcoming regular government recruitments after they complete a minimum of 100 days of duty

SC directs Centre to revisit its COVID-19 vaccine pricing policy, says it creates disparity
Karnataka: 24 dead in Chamarajanagar district hospital due to oxygen shortage
Media cannot be stopped from reporting oral remarks made by judges during a court hearing: SC tells EC
SC directs Centre to prepare buffer stock of oxygen for use in emergencies
PM Modi and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, discuss Covid-19 efforts over phone
Tanzanian diplomat dies of COVID-19 at Base Hospital in Delhi Cantonment
Op CO-JEET launched by armed forces to fight COVID-19 in India: Lt. Gen. Madhuri Kanitkar
Justice (retired) Prafulla Chandra Pant appointed as the acting chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)

Rabi Sankar takes over as RBI deputy governor, has a tenure of 3 years
Over 7.5 million people lose jobs in April as lockdowns bite: CMIE (Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy)

World Press Freedom Day celebrated on May 3, theme: “Information as a Public Good”
Bangladesh: 26 die as speed boat overturns in the Padma River
Democratic Republic of Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak that killed six