Daily Current Affairs 5 May 2021 are the most important area from which a major share of questions come in SSC, Railway, state government recruitment exams, UPSC prelims, and mains. Let’s discuss the most important Current Affairs Today.
Out-of-control Chinese rocket falling to Earth
China recently launched the Part of a huge rocket that launched China’s first module for its Tianhe space station. Now it is falling back to Earth and could make an uncontrolled re-entry at an unknown landing point. Read More
Astrophysicists have spotted the first ‘blow-away’ galaxy
Astrophysicists using the Gemini telescope have spotted the first ‘blow-away’ galaxy, in which the hydrogen clouds have been stripped off exposing high-energy light. Read More
Renowned sitar player Debu Chaudhuri passed away
Renowned sitar player Debu Chaudhuri passed away. Pandit Devabrata (Debu) Chaudhuri (1935 – 2021) was an Indian sitarist and teacher. He is considered one of the greatest sitar player of the era with Ustad Vilayat Khan, Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee. Read More
Paradip port is the latest to handle rice exports
Paradip is the latest port to be opened up for rice shipments after the deep water port in Kakinada. In a major boost to India’s rice exports potential especially from eastern region, a consignment has been officially flagged off today from the Paradip International Cargo Terminal (PICT), Odisha to Vietnam. Read More
Asian Development Bank’s annual meeting 2021
Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs and Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Governor for India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman participated in the Governor’s Seminar on “Cooperation for a Resilient Future”, held as part of ADB’s annual meeting 2021. Read More
Former J&K Governor Jagmohan passed away
Former Union Minister and Former Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Jagmohan passed away in New Delhi at the age of 94. Jagmohan Malhotra (1927 — 2021), known by the mononym Jagmohan, was a former Indian civil servant and politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. Read More
COVID-19 vaccine and oxygen imports exempted from GST
Imports of COVID-19 relief material, including vaccines, medical oxygen and Remdesivir vials has waived off IGST. The exemption has been granted till 30th June for free distribution of these medical supplies. Earlier the Centre had waived the import duty & health cess on such medical supplies. Read More
MoFPI issues operational scheme guidelines
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has issued detailed operational scheme guidelines and has launched an online portal for ‘Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Food Processing Industry (PLISFPI). Read More
A malaria vaccine candidate has raised new hope
A malaria vaccine candidate has shown promise in phase 2b clinical trials, with high efficacy at 77%. The new vaccine candidate, called R21/Matrix M, is a modified version of RTS, S — another candidate against malaria that has been in development for more than 30 years by Walter Reed Institute of Research, GlaxoSmithKline and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative. Read More
CoWin API make it easier to get vaccine appointments
Since Covid-19 inoculation exercise commenced for the 18-44 age group, finding an available slot at a vaccine centre has become a challenge, especially given that it is mandatory for this age group to make an appointment on the CoWin app. Read More
Congo declares end of Ebola outbreak that killed six
The Democratic Republic of Congo declared the end of an Ebola outbreak that infected 12 people in the eastern province of North Kivu and killed six of them. The outbreak was contained using Merck’s Ebola vaccine, which was given to more than 1,600 of the patients’ contacts and contacts of contacts. Read More
Reliance becomes India’s largest medical oxygen producer
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has become India’s largest producer of medical-grade liquid oxygen from a single location. As the country grapples with an unprecedented new wave of COVID-19 pandemic, RIL now produces over 11% of India’s total production of medical-grade liquid oxygen, at its refinery-cum-petrochemical facility in Jamnagar and other plants, meeting the needs of nearly every 1 in 10 patients in the country. Read More
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