Current Affairs August 2020

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 ✅Current Affairs August 2020


🔶Rajnath Singh Launched DPSUs and OFB’s Modernisation Projects During Atma Nirbhar Week (Aug7-14, 2020)


🔶India, Maldives Inked Contract for Development of 5 Eco-Tourism Zones in Addu atoll of Maldives under HICDP


🔶Prakash Javadekar Launched the Booklet on Best practices of Human-Elephant Conflict Management in India and Beta Version of “Surakhsya”


🔶Govt Abolished Cotton Advisory Board; Notifies Change in Status of Textiles Research Associations


🔶Union Minister of MSME Nitin Gadkari Addressed “India@75 Summit – Mission 2022” Organised by CII


🔶NTPC Group achieves 100 Billion Units (BU) power generation mark


🔶Power Finance Corporation Signed MoA with UP to Construct 2 Modular Operation Theatre Rooms


🔶IC-IMPACTS 2020 Research Conference held Virtually on Aug 6-7, 2020


🔶Bangladesh Decided to Construct a Monument for the Indian Soldiers Killed by Pakistan in the 1971


🔶Paytm Launched India’s 1st Pocket Android POS Device, ‘Paytm All-in-One Portable Android Smart POS’


🔶South Indian Bank obtained RBI’s in-principle Nod to Set up Non-Financial Subsidiary


🔶BSE signs MoU with two Akola based Bullion Trade Association for Deepening Commodity Derivatives Market in India


🔶Journalists Nitin Sethi and Shiv Sahay Singh Bagged Asian College of Journalism Award 2019


🔶Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab Government Steps Down


🔶Finance Minister Launched Online Dashboard for Information on National Infrastructure Pipeline


🔶Scientists Identified 77 New Species of Butterflies in Matheran Near Mumbai


🔶New Plant Species “Ardisia ramaswamii” of Genus Ardisia Identified by JNTBGRI Named After M S Ramaswami


🔶Former Minister & YSRCP Veteran leader Penmatsa Sambasiva Raju Passed Away


🔶Prakash Javadekar Released Ebook, ‘Connecting, Communicating, Changing’ Chronicling the Vice President’s 3rd year in office


🔶“Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World” – A Book by Dalai Lama to release in November


🔶World Lion Day to be observed virtually on August 10, 2020


🔶Gujarat Launched Mukhya Mantri Kisan Sahay Yojana Replacing PMFBY to Compensate Crop Loss of Farmers for FY21


🔶Himachal Pradesh gets approval from Centre for projects worth Rs 7922.69 Crores


🔶Assam CoM approves “Assam Non-Government Education Institutions (Regulation of Fees) Rules 2020”


🔶Mumbai becomes first city in India to have female icons on traffic signals

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