23 October 2020: Today’s News Headlines
Here are top News Headlines of 23rd October 2020
India
- Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) stealth corvette ‘INS Kavaratti’ commissioned into the Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam
- DRDO conducts final user trial of ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) Nag; will be manufactured by Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)
- AYUSH Minister Shripad Yesso Naik inaugurates Regional Raw Drug Repository at AIIA (All India Institute of Ayurveda), New Delhi
- restores all existing visas except in electronic, tourist and medical categories
- R&AW chief Samant Kumar Goel meets Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli in Kathmandu
Economy & corporate
- AMFI asks mutual fund distributors to not identify themselves as advisors unless designated by SEBI
- RBI fixes minimum Net Owned Fund (NOF) size for HFCs (housing finance companies) at Rs 25 crore
- New series of CPI (Consumer Price Index) for industrial workers released with 2016 as base year
- RBI conducts first OMO (open market operation) in state development loans (SDLs)
- Seeker of a life insurance policy duty bound to disclose all material facts: SC
World
- US designates six more China based media outlets as foreign missions
- First Ministerial Meeting of G-20 Anti-Corruption Working Group held; India represented by Union Minister Jitendra Singh
- Dhaka-Siliguri passenger train planned to start in March 2021: Bangladesh Railway Minister
- Lebanon: Former PM Saad al-Hariri named new prime minister by President Michel Aoun
- EU awards 2020 Sakharov Prize to Belarus opposition and its leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020