Current Affairs – September 3, 2020 [Top Headlines]
Here are top Current Affairs of September 3, 2020
INDIA
- Union Cabinet approves ‘Mission Karmayogi’ – National Programme for Civil Services Capacity Building (NPCSCB) – aimed at capacity building of central government employees
- Govt bans 118 Chinese apps, including PUBG, over security concerns
- Bureaucrat Kshatrapati Shivaji appointed as the chief statistician of India
- Union Cabinet approves J&K Official Languages Bill; J&K will have Urdu, Kashmiri, Dogri, Hindi and English as official languages
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- Govt caps benefits under MEIS (Merchandise Export from India Scheme) to Rs 2 crore per exporter till December
- Cabinet approves pact between India, Finland for cooperation in geology
- Cabinet approves MoU between India and Japan for cooperation in the field of good quality textiles
WORLD
- Switzerland first, India 48th on Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020 compiled by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), Cornell University and INSEAD Business School
- UK’s University of Oxford tops World University Rankings 2021 of Times Higher Education (THE); none from India in top-300
- External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar holds talks with his Nigerian counterpart Geoffrey Onyeama
- Tunisia: Parliament approves Hichem Mechichi as new prime minister
- Australian government appoints former cricketer Matthew Hayden as Member of Australia-India Council for advancing business ties with India
- World Coconut Day celebrated on September 2; theme: ‘Invest in Coconut to save the world’
SPORTS
- David Capel, former England allrounder who played 15 Tests and 23 ODIs in 1987-1990, dies at 57
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2020