Page-45 of Current Affairs - August, 2020
Today’s News Headlines-2 August 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for August 2, 2020 India Dipankar Ghose, PARI win Prem Bhatia award for outstanding journalism Indian Express reporter Dipankar Ghose and People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) have won this year’s Prem Bhatia award ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Government to come out with list of strategic sectors
The government is coming out with a new public sector enterprises policy that is going to define the strategic sectors which will not have more than four public sector undertakings. It has been announced by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
World Breastfeeding Week 2020 is being observed
World Breastfeeding Week is being observed globally during the first week of August as an annual affair and the week is mainly to commemorate the signing of the Innocenti Declaration in August 1990. This global campaign was first organized by ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Facebook launched its second phase of ‘More Together’ campaign for India
The social media giant Facebook has launched the next phase of its consumer marketing campaign in India – ‘More Together’ in order to showcase how people across the country can do more together by harnessing the power of their connections ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Inclusion of individual loans under ECLGS approved
The government has given the approval for inclusion of individual loans under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme. The government has taken this decision after extensive discussions with the stakeholders and all the individual loans taken for business purposes will ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
One Nation One Card scheme kick-started in four more states
The Ministry of Consumer Affairs has started the ‘One Nation One Card’ scheme in four more states of the country, namely, Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland and Uttarakhand. All these states have been integrated into this platform and with this ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
UAE starts operation of Arab world’s first nuclear power reactor
The United Arab Emirates has launched operations at the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant on the Gulf Coast to the east of Qatar. Nuclear fission has started in one of the four reactors at the Barakah plant, which uses ..
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020
Flipkart’s Samarth supports 6 lakh artisans in India
Walmart-owned Flipkart has stated that it supports over six lakhs artisans, craftsmen and weavers in the country through its Samarth Program and it is also working on onboarding more such sellers to the said platform. Launched last year, Samarth platform ..