Top Best Current Affairs 30 May 2020 (3)

Indian Olympic Association President Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra, 63 years old, was appointed as a member of the Olympic Channel Commission. Batra also heads the International Hockey Federation.

According to the report "Children in monetary poor households and COVID-19: Technical Note" released jointly by the UNICEF & Save the Children, a United Kingdom based non-profit organisation which works for child rights, the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic may increase the number of children living in poor households in low- and middle-income countries by 86 to reach 672 million by the end of 2020.

US House approves sanctions on Chinese officials involved in ill-treatment of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

GoI stated that in order to succeed against the COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of parallel efforts are being taken. The information was passed by Dr. Vinod Paul, Member NITI Aayog, and Prof. K. Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Adviser to the GoI. The first attempt is the indigenous efforts. Secondly, the Phyto-pharmaceuticals and extracts from medicinal plants are being tested. In the third method, new drug discovery includes a 'Hackathon' for computational drug discovery is being undertaken.