Current Affairs – August 24, 2020 [Top Headlines]

INDIA

• Govt releases SOPs (standard operating procedures) for resuming film, TV serial shoots amid Covid-19
• National Council for Transgender Persons formed under Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• Vande Bharat train sets tender cancelled as some bidders had revealed financial details of their offer even before clearing the technical evaluation transparency: Railways
• Govt frames norms for enforcement of ‘rules of origin’ for imports under free trade agreements (FTAs) to check dumping of goods by a third country routed through an FTA partner country.
• IIT-Bombay, Shiv Nadar University develop environment friendly lithium batteries

WORLD

• International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition observed on August 23

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020