Top Best Current Affairs 29 May 2020

63-years-old Tsai Ing-wen, the current and first female President of Taiwan has been re-elected for a second four-year term of presidency. A representative of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she took the oath on May 20, 2020. It should be noted that, under her presidency, Taiwan has tackled the COVID-19 pandemic successfully as the nation has confirmed just 440 cases and 7 deaths. It has recorded no new cases since May 7, 2020 and has not seen a locally transmitted case since April 12, 2020.

The World Hunger Day was observed across the world on May 28, 2020. The day is observed as an initiative of the Hunger Project. It is observed since 2011 to not only spread awareness about the malaise of chronic hunger but also to solve hunger and poverty through sustainable undertakings.

In a bid to create financial products especially for those areas where there is less access to bank services, the Airtel Payments Bank has joined hands with Mastercard, a leading technology company in the global payments industry, to develop a special type of payment solutions such as contact less payments via NFC, credit facility and other neighbourhood banking services for Indian farmers and small and medium enterprises.

A 53-member team from China's Ministry of National Resources has been conducting scientific work on Everest since early March. A Chinese survey team became the first and perhaps only group to climb Mt Everest this year part of a project to remeasure the exact height of the worlds tallest mountain.

The principal bench of National Company Law Tribunal has given its nod to sell 50% stake in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City Co Ltd (GIFT City) held by crisis hit Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services to the Gujarat state government.

Twitter labels tweets from US President Donald Trump as misleading as they falsely claimed mail-in ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud.

The Institute of Integrative Medicine in Jammu has collaborated with Reliance Industries Limited to develop a new Reverse Transcriptase-Loop Mediated Isothermal Amplification- based COVID-19 diagnostic kit. A Memorandum of Understanding has also been signed between CSIR-IIM, Jammu and RIL.

Industry and the economy are being hit by the increasing coronavirus impact in Tamil Nadu & in the meantime, the state Government is taking various measures to restore the industry which has been hit by the virus. As part of this, the state government has inked 17 memorandum of understandings worth 15,128 crore with various companies based in Germany, Finland, Taiwan, China, France, South Korea, Japan, USA, Australia, England and Netherlands, with the aim to provide employment opportunities to 47,150 people.