Top GKToday’s News Headlines-8 July 2020
Here are the Top GKToday’s News Headlines-8 July 2020
INDIA
- SC gives one more month to Centre for giving permanent commission to all women officers in Army
- CBSE syllabus for classes 9 to 12 reduced by 30% during the 2020-21 academic year due COVID-19 disruptions
- World Bank provides $400 million loan for the Namami Gange programme to help build infrastructure and institutions needed for rejuvenating river Ganga
- Assam to upgrade the Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary into National Park
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- All Customs stations would set up Turant Suvidha Kendras (TSKs) by July 15: CBIC (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
- New equipment inducted into CRCL (Central Revenues Control Laboratory) to enhance in-house testing capability of Customs
- Injeti Srinivas appointed Chairman of IFSCA (International Financial Services Centres Authority)
- JLL’s Global Real Estate Transparency Index: India 34th, UK first among 99 countries
- Face masks, hand sanitisers no more under Essential Commodities Act: Government
WORLD
- 4th edition of virtual Ministerial on Climate Action held; Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar calls upon developed countries to fulfill commitments of providing financial and technological support to developing countries
- 4th highest seizure of opium in 2018 reported from India (4 tonnes) after Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan: UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
- World Zoonoses Day observed on July 6; diseases transmitted from animals to humans are called zoonotic
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2020