Top Best Current Affairs 3 May 2020 (2)

Australia bans use of saliva, sweat to shine Cricket ball under COVID-19 guidelines.

Students from Jadavpur University, Kolkata have developed an intelligent device that will analyze if a coughing person is a COVID-19 carrier. The two undergraduate students are from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of the University.

Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to conduct Biennial Election to the Maharashtra Legislative Councils (MLCs) by the members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) on 21 May 2020.

The Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Vilas Paswan approved the integration of 5 States and Union Territories (UTs) with the National Cluster under the "One Nation One Ration Card" plan. The 5 states/UTs include Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu. Already 12 states are under the One Nation One Ration Card plan. The 12 are Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Kerala, Karnataka Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, and Tripura.

The Smart City Operations Centre (COC) of Visakhapatnam operates 24x7 in three shifts to manage COVID-19. Covid Helpdesk or the Contact center at COC traces and monitors foreign returned citizens in coordination with CMOH & DMOH on a day to day basis.The surveillance system, 500 cameras installed across the city, monitors important areas and key junctions. Visakhapatnam is in Andhra Pradesh State.

The 12th session of Dekho Apna Desh of Tourism Ministry was held on 30 April 2020. It was titled as 'Celebrating the Incredible Indian Women in Responsible Tourism'. It presented some powerful and personal stories of a few incredible women in India, who offer an alternative imagination of travel.

Kulmeet Makkar, CEO, Producers Guild of India (PGI), died on 1 May. He was 60. Makkar suffered a massive heart attack and passed away in Dharamsala.

Union Culture Minister Shri Prahlad Singh Patel released an e-book "Prof B.B. Lal -India Rediscovered" on 2 May on the occasion of the centenary year of great archaeologist Professor B. B. Lal. The book is a tribute from the Ministry of Culture for his immense contribution to the field of archaeology. The book is a centenary special edition that has been prepared by the Ministry of culture in collaboration with Prof B B Lal Centenary Celebration Committee.