Current Affairs – August 31, 2020 [Top Headlines]
Here are top Current Affairs of August 31, 2020
INDIA
- 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
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- CBDT directs banks to refund charges taken since Jan 1 on UPI, RuPay payments; refrain from continuing to impose such charges
WORLD
- 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
SPORTS
- Online Chess Olympiad: India-Russia declared joint winners
- Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins Formula One Belgian Grand Prix
- Veteran Athletics coach Purshottam Rai dies at 79; won 2020 Dronacharya Award
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020