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- The World Bee Day theme for the year 2020 is "Bee Engaged".
- As per Food and Agricultural Organization database, in 2017-18, India ranked eighth in the world in terms of honey production (64.9 thousand tonnes) while China stood first with 551 thousand tonnes of honey production.
- The New York-based Private equity firm KKR has announced to invest Rs USD 1.5 billion in Jio Platforms for a stake of 2.32%.
- This is fifth such investment in Reliance Jio followed by Facebook, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners and General Atlantic.
- The Operators began shutting down the Philippsburg nuclear power plant in southern Germany.
- Germany has half a dozen more nuclear plants but they will be shut down by the end of 2022.
- The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has formed a six-member committee to prepare a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for phased resumption of training on sports once the coronavirus-forced national lockdown is lifted.
- It will be headed by SAI secretary Rohit Bharadwaj.
- The Union Environment Ministry has allowed a proposal to set up a desalination plant inside the eco-sensitive zone of Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park.
- The project will be coming up at Kuthiraimozhi village in Kadaladi Taluk of Ramanathapuram.
- The Indian economist Abhas Jha has been appointed by the World Bank to a key position on climate change and disaster management in South Asia region.
- The Former Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Jayalalithaa's house 'Veda Nilayam' is set to become a memorial house.
- Israel has named a street in Tel Aviv after celebrated Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore as a tribute on his 159th birthday.
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