Top Best Current Affairs 30 May 2020

Ladakh's Director of Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Fisheries Mohammad Raza inaugurated the 1st Solar Lift Irrigation Plant of Kargil with five kilowatt Solar Plant and 3 Horsepower Submersible Pump at Yak Breeding Farm, Bodh Kharboo.

World Menstrual Hygiene Day observed on May 28. Theme of World Menstrual Hygiene Day was 'Periods in Pandemic'.

S&P Global Ratings , an American credit rating agency, has projected India's GDP growth for the current fiscal year FY 21 to contract by 5 % from 1.8 % growth projected in April 2020, due to the lockdown imposed for the prevention of the coronavirus pandemic, which severely affected economic activity in the country.

Leo Puri, the former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of UTI Mutual Fund, will take charge as the chairman of JP Morgan, South and Southeast Asia after Kalpana Morparia retirement in 2021. She will stay in the company till Q1 of 2021. Leo Puri will report to Filippo Gori, CEO, Asia-Pacific.

Indian Space Research Organisation has received a patent for its method of manufacturing highland lunar soil simulant or moon soil which was prepared to create an artificial moon surface as a part of 2019's Moon landing mission Chandrayaan-2 so that the Vikram lander and Pragyaan rover could be tested. This soil simulant represents the regolith (loose unconsolidated rock and dust that sits atop a layer of bedrock) of lunar highland region. It is made in bulk from anorthosite rocks, a sample similar to regolith identified and picked out from Sittampundi Anorthosite Complex, almost 67 km from Salem, in Tamil Nadu.

The Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar held a high-level meeting with Ministers of State for Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, Parshottam Rupala, and Shri Kailash Choudhary and Secretary and Sanjay Agarwal to review the Locust Control Operations. The government is focused to deal dealing urgently with the Locustus attack in the country. GoI has procured 15 sprayers, which will start arriving from Britain in the next 15 days. Centre has also decided to procure 45 more sprayers.

International Day of UN Peacekeepers is observed on 29 May every year. The day aims to offer a chance to pay tribute to the uniformed and civilian personnel's invaluable contribution to the work of the Organization. The day also aims to honour more than 3,900 peacekeepers who have lost their lives serving under the UN flag since 1948.

The Indian Air Force operationalised its 2nd squadron No. 18 'Flying Bullet' equipped with Light Combat Aircraft Tejas Final Operational Clearance at its Sulur Air Force Station in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. It was operationalised by Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria. This Sqn is designed by the Aircraft Development Agency under the Defence Research and Development Organisation and manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Bengaluru & is the only Param Vir Chakra Sqn of the IAF.