Current Affairs – August 31, 2020 [Top Headlines]

August 31, 2020

Here are top Current Affairs of August 31, 2020

September will be observed as “Nutrition Month”: PM Modi says in “Mann ki Baat” radio programme
Delimitation Commission headed by former Supreme Court judge Justice Ranjana Desai (retd) to visit 4 northeastern States (Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh), J&K UT after preparing framework to redraw constituencies
Indian jails remained overcrowded and under-staffed in 2019: NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) data
IIT Bombay students launch AIR Scanner mobile app – a free Indian alternative to Chinese document-scanning apps

CBDT directs banks to refund charges taken since Jan 1 on UPI, RuPay payments; refrain from continuing to impose such charges

17th ASEAN-India Economic Ministers’ Consultations held; co-chaired by Piyush Goyal (Minister of Commerce and Industry & Railways) and his Vietnamese counterpart
India withdraws its participation in Kavkaz 2020 multinational defence exercise in Russia in September