8 October 2020: Today’s News Headlines

October 8, 2020

Here are top News Headlines of 8th October 2020

Occupying public places indefinitely not acceptable: SC on New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh protests
UGC declares 24 universities as fake; maximum from UP (8) followed by Delhi (7)
Union Cabinet approves signing of cybersecurity agreement with Japan

India has become the global leader in real-time financial transactions with 41 million transactions per day: FIS
Finance companies cannot be set up with FDI from Mauritius: RBI
Kotak Mutual Fund MD Nilesh Shah re-elected AMFI (Association of Mutual Funds in India) Chairman
Govt grants pricing, marketing leeway to gas producers, allows e-bidding process for price discovery from new production areas
Union Cabinet approves ratification of Stockholm Convention, bans 7 hazardous chemicals

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna for developing genome-editing method
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi participate in India-Japan Strategic Dialogue in Tokyo
World Bank releases its biennial Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report; 150 mn likely to be in extreme poverty because Covid-19 by 2021
Greece: Court rules that Golden Dawn party, country’s 3rd largest, operating as a criminal organization
Pakistan: Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to purchase, preserve actor Dilip Kumar’s home in Peshawar
Russia tests new hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile ‘Tsirkon’
Negative perceptions of China rise sharply in advanced democracies: Pew Research Center Survey