Top GKToday’s News Headlines-26 June 2020
Here are the Top GKToday’s News Headlines-26 June 2020
INDIA
- Indian Red Cross Society’s ‘eBloodServices’ Mobile App launched by Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan
- RailTel to provide video surveillance at 6,049 railway stations across country
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- Govt. approves private sector participation in space activities like building of rockets, satellites and providing launch services
- Funds parked by Indian individuals and enterprises in Swiss banks down 6% in 2019 to 899 million Swiss francs (Rs 6,625 crore)
- TRAI launches channel selection app for easy subscription
- RSWM of the LNJ Bhilwara Group ties up with Swiss firm HeiQ to offer antiviral fabric ‘ViroSecure’ under Mayur brand
- Hindustan Unilever to drop the word “fair” from its “Fair & Lovely” range of products
WORLD
- India becomes founding member of Alliance for Poverty Eradication at the UN
- Pakistan to remain on ‘grey list’ of terror financing watchdog FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
- IMF lowers its global growth forecast for 2020 to –4.5% from –3% made in April
- Day of the Seafarer celebrated by IMO on June 25; theme: ‘Seafarers are Key Workers’
- Japan’s Olympus to exit camera business, focus on medical equipment
SPORTS
- Clare Connor becomes first female president of the 233-year old London-based Marylebone Cricket Club