Top Best Current Affairs 19 May 2020

The representative of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Mr Hossein Kazempour Ardebili has passed away. During his career, he had served as OPEC governor for almost 20 years. Also, he had been serving as Iran's representative to OPEC since 2013.

Facebook had acquired the animated graphics startup GIPHY and would integrate the company in its Instagram visual social network. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the news site Axios said the California-based tech giant was paying $400 million. GIPHY is a platform and search engine for "stickers" and other products using the graphics interchange format or GIFs.

Realtors body National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) has appointed Rajesh Goel as director general (DG) of the association. Earlier, Goel was serving as the chairman and managing director, Hindustan Prefab Ltd.

US investment firm General Atlantic will be acquiring 1.34% stake in Reliance Jio for around Rs 6600 crore on a fully diluted basis. This is the 4th largest investment in Jio platform in last 30 days following the deals done by Facebook, Silver Lake and Vista Equity Partners. With this, the total investment in Mukesh Ambani's Jio platforms now stands at Rs 67,194.75 crore.

India is among 62 countries that have moved a proposal at the World Health Assembly to "identify the zoonotic source" of the coronavirus.

In Jharkhand, the State Education Department in collaboration with Doordarshan started online classes and educational programs to provide school education to students of the state through video and thematic lectures.

The Ministry of Agriculture announced that the e-NAM reached target 1000 mandis across the nation in 18 states and 3 union territories(UTs) with 38 new mandis integrated with the e-NAM platform of electronic agriculture trading portal. E-NAM launched in 2016 to create a network of Mandis as a common online market platform as 'one nation, one market' for agricultural commodities became a tool for social distancing in the global pandemic lockdown.

Alibaba's Jack Ma has resigned from the Softbank's Board of Directors. The official reason of Ma's resignation has not been revealed yet. Ma's resignation will come into effect on June 25, 2020, on the day of annual shareholder meeting of the Softbank. He served the group for nearly 13 years.