22 September 2020: Today’s News Headlines

September 22, 2020

[no_toc]Here are top News Headlines of 22nd September 2020.

Parliament passes Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020; provides for up to seven years in jail for those attacking healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus
Lok Sabha passes Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020; limits administrative expenses drawn from foreign donations to 20%
Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu suspends 8 MPs from opposition parties over unruly behaviour
Suspended Rajya Sabha MPs: Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen from Trinamool Congress, Sanjay Singh from AAP, Rajeev Satav, Nasir Hussain and Ripun Bora from the Congress, and KK Ragesh and E Kareem from the CPI (M)
There can’t be universal policy on right to protest: SC in anti-CAA blockade case in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi
Bihar: PM launches ‘Har Gao Mein Optical Fibre’ project to connect state’s all 45,945 villages
In a first, two women officers to be deployed on Indian Navy warships; Sub Lieutenant Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lieutenant Riti Singh graduated as Observers (airborne tacticians) in the helicopter stream
India launches direct cargo ferry service to Maldives from Tuticorin port

Parliament approves changes in IBC (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code) to protect Covid-stressed firms
Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for all six Rabi crops hiked in crop season 2020-21 (July-June)
Rabi crops: Wheat, Gram (chana), Rapeseed & Mustard, Lentil (masur), Barley and Safflower
Govt sets foodgrain output target at record 301 mn tonnes for 2020-21 crop year

‘The Disciple’, Marathi movie directed by Chaitanya Tamhane, wins Amplify Voices Award at Toronto International Film Festival
UNGA adopts ‘Declaration on the Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations’