Top GKToday’s News Headlines-8 May 2020
Top GKToday’s News Headlines-8 May 2020
INDIA
- Dr. Harsh Vardhan launches the ‘AYUSH Sanjivani’ App and inter-disciplinary studies on potential of AYUSH in prevention of COVID 19
- 64 flights to be launched during May 7-13 under Vande Bharat Mission to bring back bring back Indians stranded abroad
- COVID-19: Indian Navy’s personal protective equipment (PPE) certified for production and use by Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Delhi
- Defence Minister approves abolition of 9,304 posts in the Military Engineering Service
- UNEP extends term of environmentalist and actor-producer Dia Mirza as National Goodwill Ambassador for another 2 years
- United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad calls on EAM S Jaishankar, Ajit Doval in New Delhi
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- 8 dead from styrene vapour leak from LG Polymers plant at R. R. Venkatapuram village in Visakhapatnam district of AP
- Govt sets target of constructing roads worth Rs 15 lakh cr in next two years: Nitin Gadkari
WORLD
- Iraq’s Parliament appoints former intelligence chief Mustafa Khadimi as the new prime minister
VESAK
- Vesak, the Day of the Full Moon, observed on May 7
- The day marks the birth of Buddha in the year 623 BC
- It was on the Day of Vesak that the Buddha in his eightieth year passed away
- It was also on the Day of Vesak that the Buddha attained enlightenment
SPORTS
- Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wins Magnus Carlsen Invitational online chess tournament, gets $70,000 first prize
