Top GKToday’s News Headlines-20 June 2020

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Here are the Top GKToday’s News Headlines-20 June 2020

Rajasthan Rajya Sabha election winners: K. C. Venugopal and Neeraj Dangi of Congress and Rajendra Gehlot of BJP
MP Rajya Sabha election winners: Jyotiraditya Scindia and Sumer Singh Solanki of BJP and Digvijaya Singh of Congress
AP Rajya Sabha election winners: Pilli Subhash Chandra Bose, M. Venkata Ramana, Parimal Nathwani and Ayodhya Rami Reddy of YSR Congress
Manipur Rajya Sabha election winner: Leishemba Sanajaoba of BJP
Country’s first mobile I-Lab (Infectious Disease Diagnostic Lab) for last mile coronavirus (COVID-19) testing access launched by Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan
New Delhi-based NRDC (National Research Development Corporation) licenses manufacturing know-how of a PPE (personal protective equipment) suit named — ‘NavRakshak’ — to five MSMEs

Reliance Industries Ltd. becomes first Indian company to cross the Rs 11 lakh crore market valuation mark
BSE tenth among world’s largest exchanges with a market capitalisation of $1.7 trillion, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) No: 1 with valuation of $19.3 trillion
Former RBI Governor Urjit Patel appointed Chairman of NIPFP (National Institute of Public Finance and Policy), New Delhi for 4-year term
Noted economist B P R Vithal dies at 93; was Member of the Tenth Finance Commission

India will be the President of United Nations Security Council President for August 2021
Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020 launched by the UN
Jean Kennedy Smith, sister of late US President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, dies at 92
Facebook acquires Swedish startup Mapillary in a move aimed at taking on Google Maps
International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict observed on June 19
World Sickle Cell Awareness Day observed on June 19