Top GKToday’s News Headlines-28 July 2020

July 28, 2020

PM launches 3 high throughput COVID-19 testing facilities located at Kolkata, Mumbai and Noida; each has capacity of 10,000 daily tests
Ministry of Earth Sciences launches mobile app “Mausam” for India Meteorological Department; app users can access weather information and forecasts
Locust control operations carried out 8 districts of Rajasthan and one district of Gujarat
Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh tops list of aspirational districts ranked by NITI Aayog for the February-June 2020 period
India-Indonesia Defence Ministers’ Dialogue held between Rajnath Singh and General Prabowo Subianto
India hands over 10 broad gauge diesel locomotives to Bangladesh to enhance bilateral trade &connectivity

4 schemes for promotion of domestic manufacturing of bulk drugs and medical devices parks in the country launched by Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda
BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) to frame quality norms for 371 items by March 2021 to curb non-essential imports
Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan launched BIS Mobile App ‘BIS-Care’
Using ‘BIS-Care’, consumers can check the authenticity of the ISI-marked and hallmarked products; lodge complaints
Paswan launches Standardization, Conformity Assessment and Training Portals of e-BIS on www.manakonline.in

Hollywood actress Olivia de Havilland dies at 104 in Paris
Bangladesh: Reconstructed Sree-Sree Joykali Matar temple inaugurated at Natore; funded by India