Top GKToday’s News Headlines-9 July 2020

July 9, 2020

Here are the Top GKToday’s News Headlines-9 July 2020

COVID-19: Navy’s Operation Samudra Setu to bring back Indians stranded abroad concluded
New diplomats: David Pine, High Commissioner of New Zealand, Philip Barton, High Commissioner of UK, Akhatov Dilshod Khamidovich, Ambassador of Uzbekistan
Veteran actor-comedian Jagdeep, Sholay’s Soorma Bhopali, passes away at 81
PM to deliver inaugural address virtual conference ‘India Global Week 2020’ in UK; theme: ‘Be The Revival: India and a Better New World’

Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana for allocation of additional foodgrain extended for 5 months till November
Rice/wheat at the scale of 5 kg per person per month is provided being to beneficiaries covered under NFSA (National Food Security Act), 2013
Free distribution of whole Chana @ 1kg per month will also be done

Govt. to continue paying employers and employees’ EPF contributions for 3 months until August; benefit already given for March-May
Govt. to develop ARHCs (Affordable rental housing Complexes) for urban migrants/poor as a sub-scheme under PMAY (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana)
Cabinet approves Rs 12,450 crore capital infusion in PSU General Insurance Companies – Oriental Insurance, National Insurance and United India Insurance
Cabinet approves Central Sector Scheme of financing facility under ‘Agriculture Infrastructure Fund’
Govt. extends time limit for availing of free gas refill by Ujjwala scheme beneficiaries by 3 months from July 1
MoU between CBDT and SEBI signed for data exchange on an automatic and regular basis
Govt. extends tenure of NCLAT’s (National Company Law Appellate Tribunal) acting chairperson Justice B. L. Bhat by 3 months
Govt. asks ecommerce companies to display products’ country of origin by August 1
KVIC begins online sale of Khadi Face Masks; cotton Rs 30, silk Rs 100
General and health insurers can offer cover for more than ₹5 lakh under Arogya Sanjeevani: IRDAI
NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) launches NASSCOM Launchpad to trade between India and US
Nirav Modi case: Assets worth over ₹329 crore confiscated under Fugitive Economic Offenders Act
Facebook’s photo sharing app Instagram launches short video format Reels in India

WHO acknowledges “evidence emerging” of airborne spread of novel coronavirus
U.S. Govt. announces visa restrictions for Chinese officials under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act
Russia asks metals company Norilsk Nickel to pay $2 billion in damages for spilling 21,000 tonnes of diesel in the Arctic in May
Ivory Coast PM, presidential candidate Amadou Coulibaly dies at the age of 61
UN observing Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week from July 6 to 10