Top GKToday’s News Headlines-16 August 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for August 16, 2020
INDIA
- PM Modi announces launch of National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), all Indians to get health IDs
- PM announces ‘Project Dolphin’ for conservation of Gangetic Dolphins
- PM announces launch of project to conserve Asiatic Lions and its landscape in a holistic manner
- All villages to be connected with optical fibre in 1,000 days: PM Modi
- Google partners Central Water Commission for flood forecasting initiative
- WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan honoured with TN CM’s special award for her advisory role in combating the Covid-19 pandemic in the state
WORLD
- UNSC defeats U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran
- Donald Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in US TikTok operations within 90 days
- US seizes four Iranian fuel shipments to Venezuela, confiscates cargo
SPORTS
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni (39) retires from international cricket; was captain of Indian team that won World Cup in 2011
Month: Current Affairs - August, 2020