23 September 2020: Today’s News Headlines

September 23, 2020

[no_toc]Here are top News Headlines of 23rd September 2020.

Parliament passes bill to declare five new IIITs in Surat, Bhopal, Bhagalpur, Agartala and Raichur as institutes of national importance, enabling them to award degrees
Parliament passes bill to set up the National Forensic Sciences University by upgrading the Gujarat Forensic Sciences University
Parliament passes bill to set up the Rashtriya Raksha University in Gujarat
Parliament passes Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2020
Parliament passes Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2020
India conducts successful flight test of ABHYAS from Odisha test range

Parliament passes Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill; cereals, pulses, oilseeds, edible oils, onion and potatoes removed from list of essential commodities
Parliament passes Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to decriminalise various compoundable offences and reduce penalties for certain offences
Parliament passes The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2020; cooperative banks brought under the supervision of RBI
Parliament passes Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Bill, 2020
Lok Sabha passes three labour bills; companies with less than 300 workers allowed to hire and fire without prior approval

Ang Rita Sherpa, 1st man to climb Mount Everest 10 times, dies at 72 in Kathmandu
NASA announces Artemis Plan to land first woman, next man on moon in 2024
World Rhino Day celebrated on September 22

Wesley So (US) and Magnus Carlsen (Norway) declared joint winners of St. Louis rapid and blitz online chess in US
Sweden’s Armand Duplantis creates new world outdoor record of 6.14 metres in men’s pole vault