22 October 2020: Today’s News Headlines

October 22, 2020

Here are top News Headlines of 22nd October 2020

SC to examine if educational institutions fall under consumer law and can be sued for deficiency in services
Police Commemoration Day observed on October 21; National Police Memorial located in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
EC sets up committee to examine issues concerning expenditure limit for a candidate; committee comprises IRS officers Harish Kumar and Umesh Sinha
3rd phase of National Supercomputing Mission to begin in Jan 2021, aim: to raise computing speed to 45 petaflops
Cabinet approves adaptation of J&K Panchayati Raj Act

Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri launches ‘e-Dharti Geo Portal’
Banks can deploy on-tap TLTRO (targeted long-term repo operations) funds in agriculture, retail and MSMEs: RBI
Punjab assembly passes bills negating Centre’s farm laws; sale/purchase below MSP (minimum support price) illegal
Onion import norms relaxed till December 15 to boost domestic supply, check prices
IIT Kharagpur’s ‘COVIRAP’ coronavirus diagnostic test gets ICMR certification

85 mn human jobs likely to be displaced by machines by 2025: WEF says in its ‘Future of Jobs Report 2020’
‘Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty: An Update’ launched by World Bank Group and UNICEF
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft touches surface of asteroid Bennu; collects samples
Italy calls MoU with China on the latter’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) a mistake
18th meeting of Prosecutors General of SCO held via video conference; India represented by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta