Current Affairs – September 10, 2020 [Today’s News Headlines]
Here are top Current Affairs News Headlines of September 10, 2020.
INDIA
- Inaugural run of South India’s 1st and country’s 2nd Kisan Rail between Anantapur (AP) and New Delhi flagged off
- On August 7, the first Kisan Rail was flagged off between Devlali in Maharashtra and Danapur in Bihar as a weekly service.
- Union Education Minister confers ‘CBSE Teachers Award’ to 38 Teachers and Principals of CBSE affiliated schools
- Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot Inaugurates R&D Building of ALIMCO (Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India), Kanpur
- SC stays reservation for Marathas in govt jobs & educational institutions in Maharashtra
- HAL’s Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) completes hot and high-altitude trials
- Convalescent Plasma therapy didn’t help in reducing Covid-19 deaths: ICMR
- India’s under-5 child mortality rate declined drastically between 1990 (126) and 2019 (34), says UN in its report ‘The Levels & Trends in Child Mortality’ Report 2020’
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- PM held online ‘Svanidhi Samvaad’ with street vendors from MP
- Svanidhi Scheme was launched to help the pandemic impacted street vendors restart their livelihood
- Centre launches AatmaNirbhar Bharat ARISE-ANIC programme for MSMEs, start-ups
- ANIC: Atal New India Challenges, ARISE: Applied Research and Innovation for medium and Small Enterprises
- EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation) to credit 8.5% to its subscribers for 2019-20 in two tranches
- Public Sector Banks’ doorstep banking services launched by FM Nirmala Sitharaman; is part of EASE (enhanced access and service excellence) reforms
- Best performing PSBs under EASE (enhanced access and service excellence) Banking Reforms Index felicitated; Bank of Baroda, SBI and erstwhile Oriental Bank of Commerce were the ‘Top Performing Banks’
- RBI in process of constructing digital payment index (DPI) to assess extent of digitisation
- CDS (Chief of Defence Staff) General Bipin Rawat addresses e-symposium on ‘Catalysing Defence Exports’
- Route Mobile’s Rs 600-crore IPO fully subscribed on day 1
WORLD
- First trilateral Indo-Pacific dialogue held; Foreign Secretaries of India, Australia and France participated
- Bangladesh launches ‘Asol Chini’ (‘real-sugar’) campaign against fake information, rumours on social media
- PM Modi holds talks with Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud over telephone
- External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow
- Valdis Dombrovskis named new EU trade commissioner
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tops Forbes’ list of richest 400 Americans with networth of $179 billion
- International Day to Protect Education from Attack observed by the UN on September 9
SPORTS
- Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju holds online meeting with World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Witold Banka
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020