Current Affairs – August 20, 2020 [Top Headlines]
Here are top Current Affairs of August 20, 2020
INDIA
- Cabinet approves setting up of National Recruitment Agency for conducting Common Eligibility Test for various govt. jobs
- Health Ministry’s ‘eSanjeevani’ telemedicine service records 2 lakh tele-consultations
- Indian Railways procures Ninja drones for security surveillance and passenger safety
- SCTIMST & IIT Madras start-up set up portable hospital infrastructure for COVID -19
- All serving and retired soldiers in Maharashtra exempted from panchayat property tax
- ‘Grandparents’ Bag of Stories’ announced as title of the forthcoming book of author Sudha Murty
- Sushant Singh Rajput case: SC orders CBI probe, asks Mumbai Police to hand over evidence
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- CCEA approves increase in sugarcane FRP by Rs 10 to Rs 285/quintal for 2020-21
- Cabinet approves proposal for leasing out Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports
- Cabinet expands lending limits for power discoms to help them clear dues
WORLD
- LS Speaker Om Birla attends inaugural ceremony of two-day 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament
- Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina discusses two-year road map with Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla
- Mali: President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigns after mutinous soldiers detain him at his home in capital Bamako
- Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI): India, Japan, Australia joining hands to counter China’s dominance
- World Humanitarian Day observed on August 19
- World Photography Day observed on August 19
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020