Current Affairs 2020 June 10

• World bank grants Rs 1,950 cr loans to West Bengal to tackle COVID – 19; Mamata Banerjee.
• PhonePe along with ICICI Lombard launches ‘first of its kind’ travel insurance, domestic trip insurance.
• RBI proposed draft frameworks for sale of loan exposure and securitization of standard assets.
• Indian economy to contract by 3.2% in FY20; World bank GEP report June 2020; Deepest recession since WWII.
• Indian Entrepreneur Renjith Kumar honored with “NASA” distinguished public service medal.
• Recykal partnered with UNDP, HCCB for plastic waste management project Prithvi.
• Airborne rescue pod for isolated transportation (ARPIT) by the Indian Airforce.
• Thane engineer develops the world’s first ‘Internet-controlled’ robot ‘Coro-bot’ for COVID-19 hospitals.
• Scientists discover new star Kepler-160 and planet KOI-456 that are ‘mirror image’ of Earth and Sun.
• DIAT develops “ANANYA” nanotechnology-based disinfectant spray to fight COVID-19.
• AIU banned Gomathi Marimuthu, Tamil Nadu’s track, and field athlete for 4 years due to doping.
• Gairsain in Chamoli district declared as the summer capital of Uttarakhand.
• Former union water resources minister Arjun Charan Sethi passed away at 79.
• Former footballer Hamza Koya passed away at 61.
• Indian GDP to contract 5% in FY21: S&P global ratings.
• IIT-Guwahati’s students develop a mobile app “FLYZY”.
• India to set up the first coal trading exchange 256 schools destroyed in the 2015 earthquake to be reconstructed in Nepal by Govt. Of India.
• India, China holds top military-level talks in Maldo, Ladakh amid May 2020 standoff.
• MoU between India and Denmark energy cooperation.