Daily Current Affairs Update: 12th May

“CHAMPIONS” portal has been launched by the Union Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME). It is a technology-driven Control Room-Cum-Management Information System. CHAMPION stands for Creation and Harmonious Application of Modern Processes for Increasing the Output and National Strength. This portal is a one-stop-shop solution of the MSME Ministry.

The first biopic on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s life, titled ‘Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of A Modern Royal Family’ would be published on August 11, 2020. The book is a biopic, written by royal reporters Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.

A programme named “Pranavayu” has been launched by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, Karnataka. The programme has been launched by the city corporation to create awareness on the need to self examine the respiratory health for Bengaloreans, as the district has 175 confirmed COVID 19 positive cases.

The Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru has won this year’s SKYTRAX Award for Best Regional Airport in India and Central Asia. The airport was voted by customers because of the Best Regional Airport in India & Central Asia for the third time in four years at the 2020 World Airport Awards.

Union HRD Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has launched Central University of Odisha Helpline “Bharosa”. This helpline has been launched with the aim of relieving the student community from the discomfort caused during the troubled time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi has taken the charge as Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. He has succeeded Anand Kumar, who has been appointed as the Secretary of Ministry of Culture.

India’s first indigenous antibody testing kit “ELISA” has been successfully produced by the National Institute of Virology, Pune. This antibody testing kit will assist in surveillance of the proportion of the population exposed to SARSCoV2 infection and hence, it will help in battling COVID-19. For mass-scale production of the ELISA test kits, ICMR has tied-up with ZYDUS CADILA.

Former Lok Sabha MP and senior Janta Dal(S) leader Raja Rangappa Naik passed away. He got elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996. He represented the Raichur Lok Sabha constituency in the Indian state of Karnataka.

DRDO’s Research Centre Imarat (RCI) lab, Hyderabad developed an automated contactless UVC sanitisation cabinet named defence Research Ultraviolet Sanitiser (DRUVS). It has been created to sanitise mobile phones, iPods, laptops, currency notes, cheque leafs, challans, passbooks, paper, envelopes, etc.

Israel named a street in Tel Aviv after Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore as a tribute on his 159th birthday on 08 May. Israel named it ‘Tagore Street’ to commemorate his birth anniversary.

Founding father of Rock ‘n’ roll, Little Richard passed away. His full name Richard Wayne Penniman, was drafted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of its first group of inductees in 1986. He was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993 from the Recording Academy.

Madhya Pradesh government has started country’s 1st ever ‘FIR Aapke Dwar Yojana’ in Bhopal. ‘FIR Aapke Dwar’ Yojana has begun as a pilot project in 23 Police Stations including one urban and one rural Police Station at 11 Divisional Headquarters. For this Yojana “Dial 100” vehicle would have skilled Head Constables to lodge FIR.