CWJ CA PDF 2020

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1.IMPORTANT DAYS
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FEBRUARY
• Feb 2 - World Wetlands Day - “Wetlands and Biodiversity”.
• Feb 4 - World Cancer Day - “I am and I will”.
• Feb 6 - International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation - “Unleashing Youth Power“.
• Feb 10-14 - RBI Financial Literacy Week.
• Feb 10 - World Pulse day.
• Feb 10 - National Deworming Day.
• Feb 11 - World Unani Day.
• Feb 11 - International Day of Women and Girls in Science - “Investment in Women and Girls in Science for
inclusive green growth.
• Feb 11 - Safer Internet Day - “Together for better Internet”.
• Feb 12 - International Darwin Day.
• Feb 12 - National Productivity Day.
• Feb 13 - National Women’s day.
• Feb 13 - World Radio Day - “Radio And Diversity”.
• Feb 15 - World Pangolin Day.
• Feb 19 - Soil Health Card Day.
• Feb 20 - World Day of Social Justice - “Closing The Inequalities Gap to
Achieve Social Justice”.
• Feb 20 - Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh Statehood Day.
• Feb 21 - International Mother Language Day - “Language Without Borders”.
• Feb 22 - World Thinking Day - “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion”.
• Feb 24 - Central Excise Day.
• Feb 27 - World NGO Day.
• Feb 27 - Protein Day - “ProteinMeinKyaHai”.
• Feb 28 - National Science Day - “Women in Science”.
MARCH
• March 1 - Zero Discrimination Day - “Zero Discrimination Against Women and Giris”.
• March 1 - World Civil Defence Day - “Civil Defence and a First Aider in Every Home”.
• March 3 - World Wildlife Day - “Sustaining all Life of Earth”.
• March 3 - World Hearing Day - “Don’t Let Hearing Loss Limit You”.
• March 4 - National Security Day.
• March 7 - Jan Aushadhi Diwas.
• March 1-7 - Janaushadhi Week.
• March 8 - International Women’s Day - “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s
Rights”.
• March 10 - CISF Raising Day (51st Raising Day 2020).
• March 12 - World Kidney Day - “Kidney Health For Everyone Everywhere”.
• March 13 - World Rotaract Day.
• March 13 - World Sleep Day - “Better Sleep, Better Life, Better Planet”.
• March 14 - International Day of Mathematics.
• March 14 - International Pi Day.
• March 14 - International Day of Action for Rivers.
• March 15 - World Consumer Rights Day - “The Sustainable Consumer”.
• March 16 - National Vaccination Day.
• March 18 - Ordnance Factories Day.
• March 18 - Global Recycling Day - “#RecyclingHeroes”.
• March 20 - International Day of Happiness - “Happiness For All Together”.
• March 20 - World Sparrow Day - “I Love Sparrows”.
• March 20 - World Frog Day.
• March 20 - French Language Day.
• March 20 - World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People.
• March 21 - International Day of Forests - “Forest and Biodiversity”.
• March 21 - World Down Syndrome Day - “We Deside”.
• March 21 - World Poetry Day.
• March 21 - International Day of Nowruz.
• March 21 - World Pupperty Day.
• March 21 - International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
• March 22 - World Water Day - “Water and Climate Change”.
• March 23 - World Meteorological Day - “Climate and Water”.
• March 24 - World Tuberculosis Day - “it’s time”.
• March 24 - International Day for Achievers.
• March 25 - International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and
the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
• March 25 - International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff
Members.
• March 27 - World Theatre Day.
• March 31 - World Backup Day.
• March 31 - International Drug Checking Day.
APRIL
• April 1 - Utkal Diwas.
• April 2 - World Autism Awareness Day - “The Transition to Adulthood”.
• April 2 - International Children’s Book Day 2020 : "Hunger for Words“.
• April 4 - International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action -
“Advancing Protection, Peace and Development”.
• April 5 - National Maritime Day.
• April 5 - International Day of Conscience Theme 2020 – “Change the World with
Conscience”.
• April 6 - International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.
• April 7 - World Health Day - "Support Nurses and Midwives“.
• April 9 - CRPF Valour Day 55th Anniversary 2020.
• April 10 - World Homeopathy Day - “Enhancing the scope of Homoeopathy in
Public Health”.
• April 11 - National Safe Motherhood Day.
• April 12 - International Day of Human Space Flight.
• April 13 - Siachen Day 36th Siachen day 2020,
• April 14 - World Chagas Disease Day.
• April 15 - World Art Day.
• April 16 - World Voice Day -" Focus On Your Voice“.
• April 17 - World Hemophilia Day - “Get+involved”,
• April 18 - International Day For Monuments and Sites - "Shared Cultures, Shared
Heritage, Shared Responsibility.
• April 19 - World Liver Day.
• April 20 - UN Chinese Language Day.
• April 21 - World Creativity & Innovation Day and National Civil Service Day.
• April 21 - Secretary's day or Administrative Professionals Day.
• April 22 - Earth Day - “Climate action”.
• April 22 - International Mother Earth Day.
• April 23 - World Book Day also known as World Book and Copyright Day -
SHARE A STORY”.
• April 23 - UN English Language Day and UN Spanish Language Day.
• April 23 - Manipur Govt commemorate “Khongjom Day”.
• April 24 - National Panchayati Raj Day.
• April 24 - World Day for Laboratory Animals.
• April 24 - International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace.
• April 25 - World Malaria Day - “Zero Malaria Starts with Me“.
• April 25 - International Delegate’s Day and World Penguin Day.
• April 26 - World Intellectual Property Day2020 - "Innovate for a Green Future“.
• April 26 - International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day.
• April 28 - World Day For Safety And Health At Work - "Stop the pandemic“.
• April 29 - International Dance Day.
• April 30 - Ayushman Bharat Diwas & International Jazz Day.
• April 24-30 - World Immunization Week - “Vaccines Work for All“.
MAY
• May 1 - International Labour Day.
• May 1 - Maharashtra & Gujarat Day.
• May 2 - World Tuna Day and International Astronomy Day.
• May 3 - World Laughter Day (First Sunday of May ).
• May 3 - World Press Freedom Day - “Journalism Without Fear or Favour“.
• May 4 - International Firefighters Day.
• May 4 - Coal Miners Day.
• May 5 - World Asthma Day (First Tuesday of May) - "Enough Asthma Deaths“.
• May 5 - International Day of Midwives - "Celebrate Demonstrate Mobilise Unite“.
• May 5 - World Hand Hygiene Day - “SAVE LIVES Clean Your Hands”.
• May 6 - International No Diet Day.
• May 7 - World Athletics Day & Vesak Day.
• May 8 - World Red Cross Day & World Thalassemia Day.
• May 9 - World Migratory Bird Day (2nd Saturday of May) - “Birds Connect Our World”.
• May 11 - National Technology Day.
• May 12 - International Nurses Day – “Nurses A Voice to Lead Nursing the World
to Health’’.
• May 15 - International Day of Families - “Families in Development Copenhagen &
Beijing + 25”.
• May 15 - National Endangered Species Day (Third Friday of May).
• May 16 - International Day of Living Together in Peace.
• May 16 - International Day of Light and National Dengue Day.
• May 17 - World Telecommunication and Information Society Day - “Connect 2030
ICTs for the SDGs”.
• May 17 - World Hypertension Day 2020 - “Measure Your Blood Pressure, Control
It, Live Longer”.
• May 18 - International Museum Day 2020 – “Museums for Equality Diversity and
Inclusion”.
• May 18 - World’s AIDS Vaccine Day.
• May 20 - World Bee Day – “Bee Engaged”.
• May 20 - World Metrology Day - “Measurements for global trade”.
• May 21 - National Anti Terrorism Day Death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi.
• May 21 - International Tea Day.
• May 21 - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development.
• May 22 - International Day for Biological Diversity - “Our solutions are in nature”.
• May 23 - International Day to End Obstetric Fistula - “End gender inequality! End
health inequities! End Fistula now!”.
• May 23 - World Turtle Day.
• May 25 - Chhattisgarh observe Jhiram tribute day.
• May 25 - International Missing Children’s Day.
• May 25 - World Thyroid Day and Africa Day.
• May 28 - World Menstrual Hygiene Day 2020 - "Periods in Pandemic“.
• May 28 - World Hunger Day.
• May 29 - International Everest Day.
• May 30 - World Vape Day.
• May 31 - World No-Tobacco Day - “Tobacco and related industry tactics to attract
younger generations”.
JUNE
• June 1 - World Milk Day - “20th Anniversary of World Milk Day”.
• June 1 - Global Day of Parents - “Appreciate all parents throughout the world”.
• June 2 - International Sex Workers’ Day.
• June 2 - Telangana Formation Day.
• June 3 - World Bicycle Day.
• June 4 - International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression.
• June 5 - World Environment Day - “Biodiversity’’.
• June 5 - International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated
Fishing.
• June 6 - Russian Language Day.
• June 6 - World Pest Day.
• June 7 - World Food Safety Day - “Food safety, everyone’s business”.
• June 8 - World Oceans Day - “Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean’’.
• June 8 - World Brain Tumor Day.
• June 9 - World Accreditation Day - “Accreditation Improving food safety”.
• June 12 - World Day Against Child Labour - “COVID-19 – Protect children from
child labour now, more than ever”.
• June 13 - International Albinism Awareness Day – “Made to Shine”.
• June 14 - World Blood Donor Day - “Safe Blood Saves Lives’'
• June 15 - World Wind Day.
• June 15 - World Elder Abuse Awareness Day - “Building Strong Support For
Elders”
• June 16 - International Day Of Family Remittances – “Building Resilience in Time
of Crisis”
• June 17 - World day to combat desertification and drought - "Food, Feed, Fibre -
the links between consumption and land”.
• June 18 - Karnataka Observes Mask Day and Autistic Pride Day.
• June 18 - Sustainable Gastronomy Day.
• June 18 - Manipur Celebrated Uprising Day.
• June 19 - World Sickle Cell Day.
• June 19 - International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict.
• June 20 - World Refugee Day - “Step with Refugee”.
• June 21 - World Hydrography Day – “Hydrography Enabling Autonomous Technologies"
• June 21 - International Yoga Day - “Yoga for Health – Yoga at Home”.
• June 21 - World Music Day - “Music at the intersections”.
• June 23 - United Nations Public Service Day.
• June 23 - International Widows Day and International Olympic Day.
• June 25 - Day of the Seafarer.
• June 26 - International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking - “Better
knowledge for better care.”
• June 26 - International Day In Support Of Victims Of Torture.
• June 27 - Micro-Small and Medium - Sized Enterprises (MSME) Day.
• June 29 - National Statistics Day - “SDG- 3 & SDG- 5”.
• June 29 - International Day of the Tropics.
• June 30 - International Asteroid Day.
• June 30 - International Day of Parliamentarism.
JULY
• July 1 - National Doctor's Day & National Charted Accounted day
• July 1 - 3rd GST Day.
• July 2 - World UFO day.
• July 2 - World Sports Journalists Day
• July 6 - World Zoonoses Day.
• July 11 - World Population Day “How to safeguard the health & rights of women & girls now”.
• July 15 - World Youth Skills Day “Skills for a Resilient Youth".
• July 16 - 92nd foundation day of ICAR.
• July 17 - World Day for International Justice & international criminal justice Day.
• July 18 - international Nelson Mandela Day.
• July 20 - World Chess day.
• July 23 - National Broadcasting Day.
• July 26 - 21st anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas.
• July 28 - World Hepatitis Day “Hepatitis-free future”.
• July 29 - International Tigers Day
• July 30 - World Day Against Trafficking in Persons & International Day of Friendship
AUGUST
• Aug 1 - World Cancer day.
• Aug 1 - Women’s rights day.
• Aug 6 - Hiroshima day.
• Aug 7 - National Handloom day.
• Aug 1-7 - World breast feeding week - “Support breast feeding for a healthier planet”.
• Aug 8 - 78th Anniversary of quit India movement.
• Aug 9 - International day of world’s indigenous day - “COVID 19 & indigenous people
resilience”.
• Aug 9 - Nagasaki day.
• Aug 10 - world biofuel day & world lion day.
• Aug 12 - World Elephant day & International Youth day - “youth engagement fr global
action”.
• Aug 13 - World organ donation day aug(13-20) - world organ donation week.
• Aug 13 - International lefthander day.
• Aug 13 - Manipur Patriots day.
• Aug 14 - Naga independence day.
• Aug 15 - 74th Independence day.
• Aug 16 - Puducherry De-Jure day.
• Aug 19 - World Photography day.
• Aug 19 - World Humanitarian day.
• Aug 20 - Saabhavana Diwas.
• Aug 20 - Indian Akshay Urja day.
• Aug 21 - World Indian citizen day.
• Aug 21 - International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.
• Aug 23 - International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition -
‘Confronting Slavery’s Legacy of Racism Together’.
• Aug 23 - European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism & Nazism.
• Aug 24-28 - World Water Week - “Water and Climate change: Accelerating Action”.
• Aug 26 - Women’s Equality Day.
• Aug 29 - National Sports Day.
• Aug 29 - International Day against Nuclear Tests.
• Aug 30 - International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances.
2.OBITUARIES
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FEBRUARY
• Novelist Dalip Kaur Tiwana (Punjab).
• Writer & Novelist Jaswant Singh Kanwal (Punjab).
• Poet & Freedom Fighter Rabindranath Singh (Odisha).
• Former Lok Sabha MP & Senior Advocate Mr. Narayana Reddy (Telangana).
• Former Karnataka Minister D Manjunath (Karnataka).
• Former MLA Pranab Kumar Gogoi (Assam).
• Former Cricket Journalist & Film Historian Raju Bharatan.
• Padma shri Awardee & Hindi Novelist Giriraj Kishore (Uttar Pradesh).
• Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Author P Parameshwaran (Alappuzha).
• Journalist Nandu R Kulkarani.
• Indian Fashion Designer Wendell Rodricks (Goa).
• Former Chairman and Director General of the Energy Resources Institute Rajindra
Kumar Pachauri (Uttarakhand).
• Guitarist Sonam Sherpa (West Bengal).
• Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Tapas Pal (West Bengal).
• Chief Editor M.S. Mani (kerala).
• Veteran Kannada Actor Kishori Ballai(Karnataka).
• Former FICCI President & Chairman of KCP Group Velagapudi Lakshmana Dutt.
• Former Karnataka Minister & Janata Dal leader C Chennigappa(Karnataka).
• Former Indian Footballer Ashok Chatterjee(Kolkata).
• Former Lok Sabha MP Krishna Bose (Bangladesh).
• Former Tamil Nadu Fisheries Minister (DMK) (MLA) Chennai.
• Centenarian Vedic Scholar and Freedom fighter Sudhakar Krishna Rao,
Chaturvedi (Bengaluru).
• Famous Historian & Linguists Shadakshari Settar (Karnataka).
• DMK MLA S Kathavarayan
• Janata Dal (United) MP Baidyanath Prasad Mahto (Bihar).
• American Author Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark (US).
• Ex-President Daniel Arap Moi Kenya’s
• American Actor, Producer, Director & Author Issur Danielovitch Demsky named
Kirk Douglas (US).
• American Author Roger Kahn (US).
• Child Actress Nikita Pearl Waligwa
• American actress Lynn Cohen (US).
• Former Manchester United goalkeeper and Munich hero Harry Greg (Northern
Ireland).
• Hall of famer Mary Kathryn Mickey Wright American LPGA (Ladies Professional
Golf Association) Tour professional golfer (US).
• American computer scientist Lawrence Gordon Tesler (New York).
• Famous NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson (US).
• Former President Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak (Egypt).
MARCH
• Former Indian hockey Player, Padma Shri Awardee & Punjab Police Officer Balbir
Singh Kullar (Punjab).
• Senior Athletics coach & Dronacharya Awardee Joginder Singh Saini (Punjab).
• DMK Party General Secretary Kalyanasundaram Anbazhagan (TN).
• Communist Party of India (Marxist) MLA Vijayan Pillai (Kollam).
• Veteran Malayalam Poet, a scholar of Dravidian linguistics & a teacher Dr
Puthussery Ramachandran (Kerala).
• Veteran Bengali Actor Santu Mukhopadhyay or Santu Mukherjee
• Former Union Law Minister and Former Governor of Karnataka & Kerala, Senior
Congress leader Hansraj Bhardwaj (Haryana).
• Marathi Actor Jairam Kulkarani (Maharashtra).
• veteran journalist, writer, Khadi Activist, & a former Rajya Sabha member Patil
Puttappa.
• Former Indian football player Pradip Kumar Banerjee (West Bengal).
• Music Kenneth Ray Rogers (US).
• Tamil Folk singer and actress Paravai Muniyamma (Tamil Nadu).
• Air Vice Marshal retired, Maha Vir Chakra (1971) & Group Captain Chandan Singh Rathore.
• chief of Brahmakumaris Sansthan Rajyogini Dadi Janki (Hyderabad city).
• Founding member of the Samajwadi Party & former Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma (UP).
• Artist and Architect Satish Gujral (Punjab).
• Veteran photographer & Padma Shri (2010) Awardee Nemai Ghosh (Kolkata).
• Bollywood actress Nawab Banoo (UP).
• Former India football player Abdul Latif (Karnataka).
• Famous actor, director & stage artiste Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan
• Former Chairman & CEO John Francis Welch Jr (US).
• Former UN Chief & PM of Peru Javier Perez de Cuellar (Lima Peru).
• America’s civil rights leader Joseph Echols Lowery (US).
• Former Boxing Champion and Trainer Roger Mayweather
• Former Czechoslovak javelin-thrower Dana Zatopkova (Czechoslovakia).
• French comic book artist, scriptwriter Alberto Aleandro Uderzo (France).
• Swedish Actor Carl Adolf von Sydow (Sweden).
• Finance Minister of Hesse Thomas Schaefer (West Bengal).
APRIL
• Legendary Historian and Educationist Arjun Dev (West Punjab).
• Former Governor of Bihar & Tripura Devanand Konwar (Assam).
• Actor Ranjit Chowdhry (Mumbai).
• Actor Usha Ganguly (Rajasthan).
• Classical singer & Padma Shri awardee Shanti Hiranand Chawla (up).
• Former Attorney General & Senior Advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India
Ashok H Desai (Maharashtra).
• Former Union Minister of State of planning & statistics M V Rajasekaran (Karnataka).
• Famous Malayalam Music Composer M.K. Arjunan (Kerala).
• Padma Shri awardee Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa (Punjab).
• PM Mahmoud Jibril (Libya).
• Nobel Prize- winning Physicist Philip Warren Anderson (US).
• Former Fiji Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase (Lau).
• American singer-songwriter, record Producer & Bassist Adam Lyons Schlesinger (US).
• ‘DLS method’ cricket fame Tony Lewis (UK).
• Minister Passang Wangchuk Sona (Arunachal Pradesh)
• footballer Michael John Robinson (England).
• Oscar-winning illustrator & animator, film director & producer Eugene Deitch (US).
• Legend of motor sport Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (England).
• Cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz (Pakistan).
• Writer and Journalist Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura.
• Director, editor films & television advertisements Nobuhiko Obayashi (Japan).
• veteran journalist Brahm Kanchibotla.
• Sportsman Donato sabia (Italy).
• Folk singer, songwriter John Prine (US).
• Serbian football manager and player Radomir Antic
• Co-star Honor Blackman (England).
• American songwriter, singer, guitarist Bill Withers (US).
• World-renowned virologist Gita Ramjee (Uganda).
• Princess Maria Teresa (Spain).
• Actor Andrew Jack (UK).
• Actor Kalinga Sasi (Kerala).
• Business & Politician Rafael Callejas (Honduras).
• Photography Ronny Roy (WB).
• Freedom Fighter Padma Shree Gandhian (Assam)
• Actor Irfan Khan (Rajasthan).
• Actor Rishi Kapoor (Bombay).
• 6th Administrator of NASA James Montgomery Beggs (US)
• Cricketer Gramme Donald Watson (Australia).
• Noted Playwright Bijay Mishra (Odisha).
• Cricketer Peter Walker (England).
• Cricketer Jock Edwards (New Zealand).
• Actor Bullet Prakash (Karnataka).
• ICE Hockey Player Roger Chappot (Switcherland).
• Congress Politicain Hazarilal Raghuwansi (MP).
• Cricketer Jackie du Preez (Zimbabwe).
• Goal Keeper Peter Bonetti (UK).
• Chief Staff of Nigeria Abba Kyari.
• Golder Doug Sanders (US).
• Baseballer Glen Beckert (US).
MAY
• Freedom Activist, social worker, Sarvodaya leader Padma Shri Gandhian Hema Bharali
(Assam).
• Eminent author & columnist & Historian Ronald Vivian Smith (US)
• Veteran Poet & Kannada writer Padma Shri Kokkare Hosahalli Sheikh Haider Nissar
Ahmed (Mysuru).
• Former National Table Tennis (TT) champion Manmeet Singh Walia.
• Actor Jerry Stiller (US).
• South-African anti-apartheid activist Denis Theodore Goldberg (South Africa).
• Former Inter head coach Gigi Simoni (Italy).
• Bangladesh’s National Professor Anisuzzaman (Calcutta).
• Famous Australian Tennis player Ashley John Cooper (Australia).
• R&B (Rhythm & blues) singer, songwriter & background vocalist Bessie Regina Norris
(US).
• Gambling Stanley Ho (Hongkong).
• Famous Indian Lyricist and writer Yogesh Gaur (UP).
• CM Ajit Pramod Kumar Jogi (Chattisgarh).
• Footballer and coach R Shanmugam (Burma).
• Urdu actor Mujtaba Hussain (Telangana).
• Rajya Sabha MP M.P. Veerendra Kumar (Kerala).
• Legendary Hockey Player Balbir Singh Dosanjh (Punjab).
• Legendary Classical Musician Shyamala G. Bhave (Karnataka).
• Veteran Bengali Author Debesh Roy (Bangladesh)
• Veteran Marathi writer, playwright Ratnakar matkari (Maharashtra).
• Former JDS (Janata Dal [Secular]) MP Raja Rangapa Nayak.
• Former Union Minister of State for Health Dalit Ezilmalai (Tamilnadu).
• Eminent Historian Hari Shankar Vasudevan.
• Lokpal member & former Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High court Ajay Kumar Tripathi.
• Actor Rishi Raj Kapoor (Mumbai).
• Former India football captain Subimal Goswami (Bangladesh).
JUNE
• Former Indian Air Rifle Shooter Pournima Zanane (Maharashtra).
• Veteran filmmaker-screenwriter Basu Chatterjee (Ajmer, British India).
• Former Union Minister and Three-time Congress MP P Namgyal (Ladakh).
• Music Director Wajid Khan (Uttar Pradesh).
• Former international archer & Archery coach Jayantilal Nanoma (Rajasthan).
• Former Delhi police commissioner & former Governor of Mizoram, Manipur &
Jharkhand Ved Prakash Marwah (Peshawar, British India)
• The Vir Chakra Awardee Sqn Ldr Parvez Jamasji
• Former Union Water Resources Minister Arjun Charan Sethi.
• Pioneer in Management Padma Shri Pritam Singh.
• India’s oldest first-class cricketer Vasant Raiji (Gujarat).
• Former member of the Planning Commission, Advocate of data quality and economist
Dr. A. Vaidyanathan
• Kannada Actor Chiranjeevi Sarja.
• Veteran Kannada Novelist Geetha Nagabhushan (Karnataka)
• Former Karnataka Basketball Player K Raghunath.
• Vir Chakra Awardee, retired Major General Lachhman Singh Lehl (Punjab)
• Former MP and a veteran journalist Vishwa Bandhu Gupta (Bombay Province, British
India).
• Padma Shri Awardee & National Awardee, Freedom Fighter & Social Worker Vidyaben
Shah (Gujarat)
• Domestic cricket stalwart, Legendary first-class spinner Rajinder Goel (Haryana)
• Veteran Journalist and Freedom Fighter Dinu Ranadive (Maharashtra).
• Veteran Economist & Member of the 10th Finance Commission, IAS B.P.R. Vithal Baru
• Former Lok Sabha Member & founder of Janalaxmi Cooperative Bank Madhavrao
Balwant Patil
• Malayalam Script Writer & Director K.R. Sachidanandan.
• Lieutenant General Raj mohan Vohra (Shimla).
• Former Goa, Daman & Diu Cabinet Minister Achyut Kashinath Sinai Usgaonkar
• Bollywood Actor Sushant Singh Rajput (Bihar)
• Veteran Urdu poet & freedom fighter Anand Mohan Zutshi ‘Gulzar’ Dehlvi (Gali
Kashmeerian, Old Delhi)
• Former Pakistani first class cricketer Riaz Sheikh.
• Olympic Medalist American Sprinter Bobby Morrow (Texas)
• President Pierre Nkurunziza (Ngozi Province)
• Costume designer cum Film Director Joel Schumacher (USA).
• Former footballer & the defender Tonny Dunne (Ireland)
• Former New Zealand cricketer Matt Beresford Poore (New Zeeland)
• Gymnastic Kurt Bilteaux Thomas (Florida).
JULY
• British film & TV star actor Earl Cameron (Bermuda).
• Hollywood veteran and multihyphenate personality Carl Reiner (US).
• Leading industrialist Suraj Prasad Agarwal (Hyderabad).
• Veteran Bollywood choreographer Saroj Khan (Mumbai).
• West Indies cricket legend Everton Weekes (Barbados).
• Former Delhi cricketer Sanjay Dobal (Rajasthan).
• Veteran actor-comedian Jagdeep (Madhya Pradesh).
• Oscar-winning Italian film composer Ennio Morricone (Italy).
• Veteran Gujarati journalist, columnist, writer & political analyst Nagindas Sanghvi
(Mumbai).
• Renowned cartoonist Avad Bin Hassan Jami (Gujarat).
• England's 1966 World Cup Winner Jack Charlton (UK).
• mainstay of Ajax, Dutch teams of 1970s Wim Suurbier (Netherland).
• Ivory Coast's Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly (Cote d’ivoire).
• Former IAS officer & Maharashtra's first woman Election Commissioner Neela
Satyanarayan.
• Filmmaker Rajat Mukherjee.
• Towering Figure of Civil Rights Era John Robert Lewis (US).
• Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon (Lucknow).
• key civil rights leader Rev CT Vivian (US).
• Veteran Odia Actor Bijay Mohanty (Odisha).
• Veteran Urdu journalist and satirist Nusrat Zaheer (Pakistan).
• Noted dancer-choreographer Amala Shankar (Bangladesh).
• West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra (Bangladesh).
• Former President Benjamin Mkapa (Tanzania).
• star of ‘Gone With the Wind’ Olivia de Havilland.
• Broadway actor Nick Cordero (Canada).
AUGUST
• Malayalam actor Anil Murali (Kerala).
• Actor, writer, director and producer Raavi Kondal Rao (Andhra Pradesh).
• Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto (Japan).
• Former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui (Taiwan).
• Sitting judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Sanjay Gupta.
• Former Union Home Secretary Ram Pradhan.
• Businessman Shaankar Sen.
• Former India goalkeeper Bhaskar Maity (West Bengal).
• Politician Janmejai Singh (Uttar Pradesh).
• Former Cricketer, Administrator & Pitch Curator Gopalaswamy Iyenger
Kasturirangan (West Bengal).
• Director-actor Nishikant Kamat (Maharastra).
• Classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj (Haryana).
• poet-lyricist Chunakkara Ramankutty (Kerala).
• Carnatic musician and renowned veena vidwan Dr B Siva Kumar.
• Folk Musician, composer, Lyricist and Padmashree Awardee Sonam Tshering
Lepcha (West Bengal).
• Famous Writer and Documentary Filmmaker Sa. Kandasamy (Tamil Nadu).
• Former Samajwadi party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh (Uttar
Pradesh).
• Minister of Technical Education of Uttar Pradesh Kamala Rani Varun (Uttar
Pradesh).
• Former Andhra Pradesh (AP) Minister Pydikondala (P) Manikyala Rao (Andhra
Pradesh).
• Senior Congressman and Former Maharashtra Chief Minister (CM) Shivajirao
Patil Nilangekar (Hyderabad).
• Father of Modern Indian theatre Ebrahim Alkazi (Maharastra).
• Writer and Activist Sadia Dehlvi.
• Former Communist Party of India – Marxist (CPM) and Former West Bengal
Transport Minister Shyamal Chakraborty.
• YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) veteran leader Penmatsa Sambasiva Raju.
• Former Indian Footballer and former Mohun Bagan club (Football club) captain
Laishram Manitombi Singh (Manipur).
• Former Member of Parliament (MP) & Senior Congress Leader Nandi Yellaiah
(Telangana).
• Prominent Culture Historian and Exponent of Mewati Gharana Mukund Lath
(Kolkata).
• Athletics Coach Purushotham Rai.
• Congress Member of Parliament (Kanyakumari Lok sabha Constituency), founder
and chairman of Vasanth & Co H.Vasanthakumar (Tamil Nadu).
• Former Supreme Court Judge A.R. Lakshmanan (Tamil Nadu).
• Veteran Assamese folk singer Archana Mahanta (Guwahati).
• Former India Footballer (Goalkeeper) turned Coach Bhaskar Maity.
• Former Indian cricketer Chetan Chauhan (Uttar Pradesh).
• Urdu Poet & Lyricist Rahat indori (Indore).
• Former Indian Footballer and former Mohun Bagan club (Football club) captain
Laishram Manitombi Singh (Manipur).
• Former Member of Parliament (MP) & Senior Congress Leader Nandi Yellaiah
(Telangana).
13. Max Verstappen Wins F1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix 2020
14. Lewis Hamilton Claims Record 156th Podium Finish with Win at Spanish GP
15. England Cricketer Laura Marsh announces retirement
16. Ronnie O’Sullivan Wins Sixth World Snooker Championship 2020 at Crucible
17. Bayern Munich Won the UEFA Championship League 2019-20
• Pioneered computer designer & an innovative engineer Arnold Spielberg
(Ohio).
• Computer Scientist Credited with Inventing Pixel Russel A. Kirsch (USA).
• Former British tennis player and two-time Grand Slam Doubles champion
and Equal Rights Pioneer Angela Buxton (Liverpool).
• Famous Fiction Writer and Pulitzer Prize-Winner Shirley Ann Grau (United
States).
• Nobel Peace Prize winner & Prominent Northern Ireland politician John
Hume (Northern Ireland).
• Former President Pascal Lissouba (Republic of Congo).
• Co-Creator of the Mouse Mr. William English (Kentucky).
3.SPORTS
(FEB-AUG)
FEBRAURY
1. Rubigula state bird of Goa declared as official Mascot for 36th National Games
in Goa
2. NADA suspends Weightlifter Ramshad AR for 2 year & Wrestler Ravinder
Kumar for 4 years
3. 108th Australian open 2020 held in Melbourne, Australia
 Men’s Singles- Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
 Women’s Singles- Sofia Kenin (US)
Men’s Doubles- Rajeev Ram (US) & Joe Salisbury (United Kingdom)
Women’s Doubles- Kristina Mladenovic (France) & Timea babos (Hungary)
Mixed Doubles- Nikola Mektic (Croatia) & Barbora Krejcikova (Czech
Republic)
4. India Vs Newzealand T20I series 2020
India became 1st team to win a 5 match T20I series for 5-0
Ross Taylor became the 1st New Zealand male cricketer to play 100 T20I
matches.
Indian opening batsman Rohit Sharma became the 8th Indian batsman to
complete 14,000 runs
Rohit Sharma became 8th Indian to score 14,000 international runs
KL Rahul attains career-best second position in ICC T20I batsmen rankings
India fined by ICC for slow over-rate in final T20I
5. ICC test batsmen rankings: Kohli retained no. 1 spot; Rahane slips to 9th place
9. India boxers bags 5 medals at 64th “Bocskai Istvan Memorial” boxing 2020 held in
Debracen, Hungary
Gaurav Chauhan-91Kg-Silver
JGulia-51 Kg-Silver
Manisha-57 Kg-Silver
PL Prasad-52 Kg-Silver
Sachin-57Kg-Bronze
12.National snooker championship 2020 in Pune, Maharashtra: Aditya Mehta
& Vidya Pillai wins men and women’s title
13. Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record with 6.17m jump
14. Premier Badminton League 2020 in Hyderabad,Telangana: Bengaluru Raptors become
champions for 2nd time in a row
15. New Zealand beats India to win the ODI 2020 series held in New Zealand from Feb 5 –
11
6. Rohit Rajpal to continue as India's Davis Cup captain 2020
7. American tennis player Spears handed 22-month doping ban
8. Bangladesh won the 13th ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup 2020 defeating India in South Africa
India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal, was adjudged Player of the tournament.
ICC suspends Canada’s Under-19 spinner Raqib Shamsudeen for illegal bowling action
9. Australia clinches ICC women’s championship trophy 2020 for the 2nd time
10.ITF women’s tennis event 2020 in Thailand: India’s Ankita Raina wins 18th career doubles title
16.ICC Men’s test rankings 2020: Kohli continues at No.1, Babar azam moves up two places to 5th
17.54th All India Bombay Gold cup hockey championship 2020 in Mumbai, Maharashtra: Indian
navy wins the title
18.Inaugural National winter games 2020 to be held in Ladakh and J&K’s Gulmarg
19.Boxer Amit Panghal ranks world No. 1 in IOC’s ranking for Olympic qualifiers
20.Womens T20I Tri-Series 2020 in Melbourne; Host Australia beats India by 11 runs
21.“United by Emotion” to be 2020 Tokyo Olympics Motto
22.India wins bronze in Badminton Asia team championships 2020 held in Manila, Philippines
16.“United by Emotion” to be 2020 Tokyo Olympics Motto
17.India wins bronze in Badminton Asia team championships 2020 held in Manila, Philippines
18.India’s Koneru Humpy wins Cairns Cup chess tournament 2020 held in United States (US)
19.India to host 16-team FIH Junior Men’s World Cup 2021, South Africa to host women’s edition
20.NADA bans Javelin thrower Amit Dahiya for four years
21.Football — India to host 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup
22.AIFF received ‘Grassroots Charter Bronze Level’ membership of AFC
23.Brazil Para badminton International 2020 in Sao Paulo: India finish with 11 medals
24.India to host the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup 2020; ‘Kick Off the Dream’ is official
slogan
25.Great Britain Olympic hockey champion Alex Danson-Bennett announced her retirement
26.Russia will host new edition of AIBA World Cup 2020
27.FC Goa created history by becoming the 1st Indian club to reach 2021 AFC Champions league
group stage
28.Young Indian Grand Master D.Gukesh wins title at 34th Cannes open 2020 chess
6. Rohit Rajpal to continue as India's Davis Cup captain 2020
7. American tennis player Spears handed 22-month doping ban
8. Bangladesh won the 13th ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup 2020 defeating India in South Africa
 India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal, was adjudged Player of the tournament.
 ICC suspends Canada’s Under-19 spinner Raqib Shamsudeen for illegal bowling action
9. Australia clinches ICC women’s championship trophy 2020 for the 2nd time
10. ITF women’s tennis event 2020 in Thailand: India’s Ankita Raina wins 18th career doubles title
11. India boxers bags 5 medals at 64th “Bocskai Istvan Memorial” boxing 2020 held in Debracen, Hungary
 Gaurav Chauhan-91Kg-Silver
 JGulia-51 Kg-Silver
 Manisha-57 Kg-Silver
 PL Prasad-52 Kg-Silver
 Sachin-57Kg-Bronze
12. National snooker championship 2020 in Pune, Maharashtra: Aditya Mehta & Vidya Pillai wins
men and women’s title
13. Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record with 6.17m jump
14. Premier Badminton League 2020 in Hyderabad,Telangana: Bengaluru Raptors become champions for 2nd time in a
row
15. New Zealand beats India to win the ODI 2020 series held in New Zealand from Feb 5 – 11
16. ICC Men’s test rankings 2020: Kohli continues at No.1, Babar azam moves up two places to 5th
17. 54th All India Bombay Gold cup hockey championship 2020 in Mumbai, Maharashtra: Indian navy wins the title
18. Inaugural National winter games 2020 to be held in Ladakh and J&K’s Gulmarg
19. Boxer Amit Panghal ranks world No. 1 in IOC’s ranking for Olympic qualifiers
20. Womens T20I Tri-Series 2020 in Melbourne; Host Australia beats India by 11 runs
21. “United by Emotion” to be 2020 Tokyo Olympics Motto
22. India wins bronze in Badminton Asia team championships 2020 held in Manila, Philippines
23. India’s Koneru Humpy wins Cairns Cup chess tournament 2020 held in United States (US)
24. India to host 16-team FIH Junior Men’s World Cup 2021, South Africa to host women’s edition
25. NADA bans Javelin thrower Amit Dahiya for four years
26. Football — India to host 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup
27. AIFF received ‘Grassroots Charter Bronze Level’ membership of AFC
28. Brazil Para badminton International 2020 in Sao Paulo: India finish with 11 medals
29. India to host the FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup 2020; ‘Kick Off the Dream’ is official slogan
30. Great Britain Olympic hockey champion Alex Danson-Bennett announced her retirement
31. Russia will host new edition of AIBA World Cup 2020
32. FC Goa created history by becoming the 1st Indian club to reach 2021 AFC Champions league group stage
33. Young Indian Grand Master D.Gukesh wins title at 34th Cannes open 2020 chess
34.PM Modi inaugurated first-ever Khelo India University Games at Cuttack, Odisha
35.Asian Wrestling Championship 2020 held in New Delhi
Ravi Kumar Dahiya Men’s freestyle- 57kg Gold
Sunil Kumar Men’s Greco-Roman-87 kg Gold
Pinki Women’s freestyle-55 kg Gold
Sarita Mor Women’s freestyle- 59 kg Gold
Divya Kakran Women’s freestyle- 68 kg Gold
36.CGF approved India to host 2022 Commonwealth Archery and Shooting Championships
in Chandigarh
37.ICC bans Oman player Yousuf Abdulrahim Al Balushi from cricket for 7 years
38.ITTF World Tour Hungary Open 2020 in Budapest: Indian duo of Sharath kamal &
Sathiyan won silver medal
39.Shri Kiren Rijiju inaugurated 1st Khelo India Winter Games in Leh, Ladakh
40.Russian tennis star and 5 time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova gets retired
41.ICC Test rankings-India topped in the Team Ranking;Steve Smith dethrones Virat Kohli
to regain top spot in Batting Ranking
MARCH
1. New Zealand won the test series against India held in New Zealand
2. ICC women’s T20I Rankings 2020: Shafali verma creates history by becoming world’s No.1
batsman at the age of 16
3. Former Indian opener Wasim Jaffer announces retirement from all forms of cricket
4. Australia won ICC Women’s T20 World cup 2020 by defeating India in Australia
5. Jaydev Unadkat led Saurashtra Cricket team won Ranji Trophy title 2019-20
6. New Zealand all-rounder Andrew Malcolm Ellis announced retirement
7. Mexican open held in Acapulco, Mexico
Men’s Singles- Rafael Nadal Parera (Spain) Taylor
Women’s Singles- Heather Miriam Watson (United Kingdom)
Men’s Doubles -Łukasz Kubot (Poland) & Marcelo Pinheiro Davi de Melo (Brazil)
Women’s Doubles- Desirae Marie Krawczyk (America) & Giuliana Marion Olmos Dick
(Mexico)
8. Badminton Asia Championships 2020 shifted to Manila from Wuhan
9. Indian shuttlers Tasnim & Mansi wins historic bronze at Yonex Dutch Junior Intl 2020 held in
Netherlands
11.Table tennis star Sharath kamal wins men’s singles title at ITTF challenger plus Oman Open 2020
held in Muscat
12.Indian runner Prachi provisionally suspended after testing positive for Oxandrolone
13.Maltese Footballer Andre Schembri announced retirement
14.World Athletics fines Russia of USD 10 million & caps neutral athlete at 10
15.ATK FC won ISL trophy for the 3rd time by defeating Chennaiyin FC
16.1st Khelo India University Games 2020 held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha;Panjab University (PB)
topped the medal tally
17.Indian Hockey men’s team ranked 4th for the 1st time, Belgium topped & Women’s team ranked
9thNetherlands topped : FIH World Rankings 2020
18.Mumbai to host 2023 International Olympic Committee (IOC) session
19.Sports Authority of India (SAI) announced 1st edition of Under-21 Khelo India Women’s Hockey
League
20.Hockey India (HI) joins 38-member World Masters Hockey (WMH);RP Singh appointed convener
of HI Masters Committee
21.Canada becomes 1st country to back out of Tokyo Olympics 2020
22.Covid-19 pandemic: Tokyo 2020 Olympics postponed to 2021; First time in 124 years
23.IAAF suspends Indian shot putter Navin chikara for 4 years for doping violation
 APRIL
The World athletics championships – Postponed ( 2022 - oregon)
1.

2. Wimbledon canceled for first time since World War II

3. China host the 3rd edition of Asian youth games
4. The FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup has been postponed ( held in
india)
5. 19th Asian Games unveiled in Hangzhou, China – mascot
(congcong,lianlian,chenchen
6. The World Games have been postponed until 2022 ( albama ,US)
7. Australian Cricketer Stephen O’Keefe who retired
8. China’s Zhang Guowei ( high jump ) who retires recently
9. HOCKEY india has decided to postpone all the scheduled national
championships
10.AIFF & SAI - online coaching programme during lockdown
11.Tour de France (CYCLIC RACE EVENT ) postponed
12.Iran’s Alireza Firouzja beats world chess champion Magnus Carlsen to win Banter Blitz
cup 2020 1
13.Charles Leclerc(monaco) - Chinese Virtual Grand Prix
14.Pakistan skipper Sana Mir announces retirement
15.Olympic silver medallist Mathias Boe (denmark) announces retirement from
international badminton
16.Jhuma katun - middle-distance runner who has been banned for four years
French Grand Prix cancelled due to covid 19
18.USA head coach of the men’s national cricket team – J arun kumar
19.16.India lost hosting rights of 2021 Men’s World Boxing Championships to Serbia: AIBA
20.Thailand & Malaysia weightlifters banned from Tokyo Olympics 2020
21.Deepak Agarwal banned by ICC from all cricket for 2 years
22.East Bengal F.C contracts Indian-origin Iranian footballer Omid Singh
MAY
1. Australia deposes India for the first time since 2016 in Test ranking for men: ICC India
slips to 3rd Position
2. COVID-19 impact: ICC cricket committee led by Anil Kumble recommends ban on use
of saliva to shine ball
3. BWF postpones World Championship 2020 to November 2021
4. TIU bans Egyptian tennis player Youssef Hossam for life in match-fixing cases
5. US tennis star Jamie Hampton announced retirement from Professional tennis
6. Para-athlete Shot-putter Deepa Malik announce retirement to head PCI
7. NADA provisionally suspends Savita Kumari, Ankit Shishodia for violating anti-doping
rules
8. Aritz Aduriz, Spanish footballer announces retirement
9. COVID-19 impact: CGF postpones 7th season of 2021 Commonwealth Youth Games to
2023
10.Former world snooker champion Peter Ebdon retires from sport
11. COVID-19 impact: CGF postpones 7th season of 2021 Commonwealth
Youth Games to 2023
12. Former world snooker champion Peter Ebdon retires from sport
13. FINA postpones 2021 Fukuoka Aquatics World Championships to May
2022
14. Discus thrower Sandeep Kumari banned for 4 years by WADA after testing
positive for metenolone
15. SAI Forms 6-member committee headed by Rohit Bharadwaj to prepare
SOP for phased resumption of training after COVID-19 Lockdown
16. FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup to be held in India from 17 Feb
2021French cyclist Remy Di Gregorio banned by UCI for 4 years following
‘super-EPO’ positive test
17. China wins 1st edition of FIDE Chess.com online Nations cup 2020; India
finishes fifth
 JUNE
1. New Zealand Cricketer Rachel Priest Announces Retirement from International Cricket
2. National Champion Niki Kalayanda Poonacha elected to ITF Men’s Tennis Panel
3. Indian long distance runner Kiranjeet Kaur handed 4-year ban for violation of anti-doping rule
4. AIU banned Gomathi Marimuthu, Tamil Nadu’s Track and Field athlete for 4 years due to doping
5. Australia and New Zealand to Host The 2023 Women’s Football World Cup
6. Ukrainian boxing champion and Olympic medalist Oleksandr Gvozdyk retires
7. World Karate Federation provisionally de-recognised the Karate Association of India
8. 2020 World Archery Field Championships postponed to 2022 due to COVID-19.
9. SAI in collaboration with NSF launches India’s 1st online coaching programme ‘Khelo India e-
Pathshala‘
10. Kiren Rijiju launches 25 day Khelo India Community Coach Development programme
11. India to host AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2022
12. Former European high jump champion Alexander Shustov of Russia banned for 4 years for doping
13. 4th Asian Youth Para Games to be Held in Bahrain in December 2021
14. Grandmaster P. Harikrishna becomes the 1st Indian to join the USD 150,000 Chessable Masters
 July
1. Nitin Menon Becomes the 3rd Indian & Youngest Umpire to Enter ICC Elite Panel
2. T20 World Cup 2020 in Australia postponed due to COVID-19: ICC
3. Sri Lankan Cricketer Sripali Weerakkody retires from International Cricket
4. England Won the Final Wisden Trophy against West Indies by 2-1
5. Indian Domestic Player Rajat Bhatia Announces Retirement from All Forms of Cricket
6. China’s Badminton Player and 2 Time Olympic Champion Lin Dan Announces Retirement
7. Liverpool wins the top-flight title in 2020 Premier League Championship defeating Manchester City
8. Former Australian Skipper Mile Jedinak Announces Retirement from Football
9. Former Chelsea Forward and World Cup Winner Andre Schurrle Retires at 29
10. FIFA World Cup 2022: to be held in Qatar at Al Bayt Stadium
11. ISL becomes 1st league in South Asia and 7th in Asia to join the World Leagues Forum
12. Indian boxer Amit Panghal secures top spot in AIBA World Men’s Ranking 2020 in 52kg category; Manju
world’s second-best boxer in Women’s ranking in 48Kg category
13. Lt Col Bharat Pannu Becomes First Indian To Secures Podium Position in International Ultra cycling
Race: Finished 3rd In 1st Edition VRAAM 2020
14. Indian Olympic Association Adopts New Visual Identity to Celebrate 100 Years of Participation in
Olympic Games
15. Chess Player,G.Akash from Chennai,TN Becomes India’s 66th Grandmaster
16. Mercedes Valtteri Bottas Won the Formula One Season-Opening Austrian Grand Prix
17. World’s No.1 Women Squash Player Raneem El Welily of Egypt Retired; India’s Joshna Chinappa ranked
10th
18. Lewis Hamilton Won the Styrian Grand Prix in Spielberg
19. Formula One Champion, Mercedes Lewis Hamilton Won the Hungarian Grand Prix 2020; won this Title
for 8th Time
20. India’s 2018 Asian Games mixed relay medal upgraded to gold after Bahrain’s disqualification
21. Haryana to host the 4th edition of Khelo India Youth Games 2021
22. Indian GM P. Harikrishna Finishes Second in Grandmaster Triathlon Tournament at Biel Chess Festival
2020
 AUGUST
1. Central Government gave nod to Indian Premier League 2020 in UAE
2. ICC Retains India as the Host of 2021 Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup & Australia to Host Men’s T20 2020
World Cup in 2022 International Cricket Council (ICC)
3. Indian Cricketers MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina retire from international cricket
4. Australian Cricketer Cameron White announces Retirement from Professional Cricket
5. Sri Lanka Cricketer Tharanga Paranavitana retires from International Cricket
6. West Indies Cricketer Dwayne Bravo becomes first bowler to scalp 500 wickets in T20s
7. Indian Table Tennis player Poulomi Ghatak retires at 37
8. Ayaka Takahashi, Japan’s 1st Olympic Gold medalists in Badminton Announces Retirement
9. Bryan Brothers, Successful Doubles Pair in Tennis Announced Retirement
10. German Footballer Benedikt Howedes retires at 32
11. Spanish Footballer Iker Casillas announces retirement at 39
12. Mercedes Lewis Hamilton Won British Grand Prix 2020; Created Record by winning the British Grand
Prix title for 7th Time
4.APPOINTMENTS
(FEB-AUG)
 FEBRAURY
National
1. Ajay Bisaria-High commissioner of india to Canada
2. M.Ajit Kumar-Chairman of CBIC
3. Shri Gopal Baglay-High Commissioner of India to The Democratic Socialist Republic of SriLanka
4. Deepa Malik-President of Paralympic committee of India
5. Pramod Agarwal-Chairman & MD of Coal India Limited
6. Arvind Kejriwal-CM of New Delhi
7. Ajay H.Patel-President of All India Chess Federation
8. G Narayanan-Chairman of New Space India Limited
9. Rajiv Bansal-CMD of Air India
10. Vinay Dube-CEO of GoAir
11. Supratim Bandyopadhyay-Chairman PFRDA (Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority)
12. Sanjay Kothari-CVC of Central Information Commission
13. Bimal Julka-CIC of Central Information Commission
14. Sunil Gurbaxani-MD & CEO of Dhanalaxmi Bank
15. Champant Rai-General Secretary of The Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust
16. Ryan Roslansky -CEO of LinkedIn
16. Mahant Nritya Gopal Das-President of The Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra Trust
17. Raja Laxmi sing Deo-President of rowing federation of India
18. M.V.Shriram-Secretary General of rowing federation of India
19. Padmaja-High commissioner of India to Republic of Vanuatu
20. Abhay Kumar Singh-CMD of NHPC
21. Michael Miebach-President and CEO of Mastercard
22. L.V Prabhakar-MD & CEO of Canara Bank
23.Ryan Roslansky -CEO of LinkedIn
24.Puneet Sharma -CFO of Axis Bank
25.Sumant Kathpalia -MD & CEO of IndusInd
26.Rajesh Kumar- MD & CEO, TransUnion Cibil
International
1. Arvind Krishna-CEO of IBM
2. Mohammed Tawfiq Allawi-PM of Iraq
3. Albin Kurti-4th PM of Republic of Kosovo
4. Jeff Weiner-Executive Chairman (EC) of LinkedIn
5. Philip Robert Barton High Commissioner of Great Britain to India
6. Robin Singh-Director of UAE cricket
1. Rishi Sunak-Chancellor of UK
2. Barry O’Farrel-High commissioner of Australia to India
3. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai-President of Afghanistan
4. Vijay Advani-Chairman of USIBC
RESIGNATIONS
1. Abidali Neemuchwala -CEO and MD of Wipro
2. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg-Chief Economist of the WorldBank
3. Tidjane Thiam-CEO of Swiss Bank
4. A Surya Prakash-Chairman of India’s public service broadcasting agency
5. Suryakanth Mainak-Chairman of CARE Ratings
6. Leo Eric Varadkar-PM of Ireland
7. Mahathir bin Mohamad-PM of Malaysia
AMBASSADORS
1. Rishabh pant-JSW steel
2. Shri Jawed Ashraf-India to France
3. Vinay Mohan Kwatra-India to Nepal
4. Shri Abhishek Singh- India to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
5. Sourav Ganguly-India’s good will ambassodar to the Tokyo olymbics
MARCH
NATIONAL
1. Ajay Tyagi- Chairman, SEBI (Extenssion of Period)
2. Pekka Lundmark -CEO, Nokia
3. Dayapatra Nevatia -Chief Operating Officer, Mindtree
4. Sudhanshu Pandey- CMD, MMTC
5. Ajay Bhushan Pandey -(Revenue Secretary) Union Finance Secretary
6. Sridhar Venkatesh- MD & Vice President, GSK India
7. Sunil Joshi- Chairman of National Selection Panel, BCCI
8. Amrish Rau- CEO, Pine Labs
9. Sanjeev Nautiyal -MD, CEO of SBI Life Insurance
10. Bimal Julka- Chief Information Commissioner
11. Anurag Mehrotra CEO,- Mahindra-Ford JV
12. Nupur Kulshrestha -DIG of Indian Coast Guard.
13. Chalasani Venkat Nageswar- Deputy MD & Chief Financial officer, State Bank of India
14.Lt Gen KJS Dhillon- Director General Defence Intelligence Agency and Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff
15. Debashish Panda- Nominated on the Central Board of RBI
16.Baseer Ahmad Khan- Advisor to Lt. Governor Bansi Lal Bhat Member (Judicial) of the National Company Law
17.Lt Gen KJS Dhillon- Director General Defence Intelligence Agency and Deputy Chief of Integrated
Defence Staff
18. Debashish Panda- Nominated on the Central Board of RBI
19.Baseer Ahmad Khan- Advisor to Lt. Governor Bansi Lal Bhat Member (Judicial) of the National Company
Law
20. Ravinder Singh Dhillon- Chairman and Managing Director, Power Finance Corporation
21. Rajiv Bajaj- Managing Director, Bajaj Auto
22. Noel Quinn- Permanent Chief Executive, HSBC
23. Karan Bajwa Managing Director, Google Cloud in India
24. Ashwani Lohani- Chairman, AP Tourism Development Corporation
25.Janani Narayanan and Vrinda Rathi- International Panel of ICC Development Umpires
26.R Gandhi and Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan- Additional Diretors, YES Bank
27.Sumanth Kathpalia-MD & CEO, IndusInd Bank
28.Shivraj Singh Chouhan- Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh
29.Sameer Aggarwal- Chief Executive Officer, Walmart India
30.KrishIyer Parthasarathy -Chairman, Mahindra Logistics
31.Krishan Mohan Prasad & Satish Kumar Gupta- Members of Central Board of Direct Taxes
32.BP Kanungo- Deputy Governor of RBI
 INTERNATIONAL
1. Muhyiddin Yasin-Prime Minister, Malaysia
2. Sanjay Kumar Panda-India's Ambassador to Turkey
3. Janez Jansa- Prime Minister of Slovenia
4. Daren Tang-Director General, WIPO
5. Denys Shmygal-Prime Minister, Ukraine
6. Ashraf Ghani-President, Afghanistan
7. Adnan al-Zurfi Prime Minister, Iraq

RESIGNATION / RETIREMENT
1. NS Vishwanathan- Deputy Governor of RBI
2. Bill Gates -Board of Director, Warren E. Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway
3. Arundhati Bhattacharya (Former SBI Chief)- Independent Director, CRISIL Board
4. Kamal Nath- Chief Minister, Madhya Pradesh

AMBASSADORS
1. Kareena Kapoor - Puma
2. Amitabh Bachchan -IDFC First Bank Debasish
3. Disha Patani & Chief Sanjeeev Kapoor -Washington Apples
4. Suniel Shetty-NADA
5. Katrina Kaif –ReeBok
6. Neetu Chandra Patna Pirates - Pro Kabadi
7. Shah Rukh Khan -V - Nourish Ropes
8. Harbajan Singh-Burne & Bareskin
9. Vicky Kaushal-Havells Male Grooming Products
10. Salman Khan-Bharat Pe Ropes
11. Akshay Kumar(Actor) -TAFE 16 Benedict Cumberbatch MG Motor India
12. MS Dhoni Indian Terrian
13. Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant-Himalaya Men

Other Important News

1. Tribal affairs ministry constitutes committee under NC Saxena on CFR guidelines under FRA
2. IRDAI sets up 16-member panel on governance at insurers headed by Pravin Kutumbe
3. Government nominated former chief justice of India Ranjan Gogoi to Rajya Sabha
4. Government sets up 12 member panel to prepare investigation manual for SFIO headed by Injeti Srinivas
APRIL
1. D. Lakshminarayanan - Sundaram Home Finance (MD)
2. Guillaume Cartier - new Chairman for Africa, Middle East and India
3. Pravin Jadhav – paytm money ( resigned)
4. Justice Rajnesh Oswal - Judge of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh
5. BSV Prakash Kumar – NCLT acting president ( 3 months extends)
6. Madhabi Puri Buch – SEBI whole time member ( 6 month extend)
7. Lisa nandy - shadow foreign secretary of the United Kingdom
8. UB Pravin Rao - Nasscom Chairman
9. Anurag Srivastava - Spokesman of the Ministry of External Affairs
10.Shiva Kirti Singh - Chairman of Telecom Tribunal ( 3Month extend)
11.Dedar Singh Gill – Singapore high court judge
12.Parag Raja - MD & CEO of Bharti AXA Life Insurance
13.Anamika Roy Rashtrawar - MD & CEO of IFFCO Tokio General Insurance
14.Raj vikas varma - Part Time Chairman of the AU Small Finance Bank
15.Mahabaleshwar MS - MD & CEO of Karnataka Bank (3 yrs)
16.Maha Prasad Adikari - Governor of Nepal central bank
17. J Packrisamy - Officer on Special Duty in the Union Bank of India(Mrutyunjay Mahapatra-CANARA
18. Vineet Arora - MD & CEO of Paytm General Insurance Ltd
19. Ajay Mahajan - MD & CEO of Care Ratings
20. BSNL Chairman & Managing Director PK Purwar - additional charge MTNL
21. RO KHANNA - White House COVID-19 advisory council
22. Justice Biswanath Somadder - Meghalaya high court.
23. Justice Mohammad Rafiq - Odisha high court
24. Justice Dipankar Datta – bombay high court
25. Vinodpaul & K Vijayraghavan high level task force constituted by the Central government to develop vaccines
and drugs to tap the rising number of Covid-19 cases
26. Kapil dev tripathi - the Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind
27. Sudarsanam Babu - head the country's National science board for a six year term.
28. N Kamakodi - MD & CEO of City Union Bank
29. Noel Quinn - CEO of HSBC
30. David Li - CEO of Huawei India
31. Rakesh Sharma- President of Geneva based International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association
32. new Chief Vigilance Commissioner – sanjay kothari
33. Ravi Mittal - SportsSecretary.
34.Amit Khare - additional charge of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
35.Anita Karwal - Secretary School Education and Literacy.
36.Health Secretary Preeti Sudan, who was to retire this month, has been given three month extension.
37. Tarun Kapoor will be Secretary in Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas .
38. Tarun Bajaj will be Secretary Department of Economic Affairs in Ministry of Finance
39.Manisha singh - US envoy to the OECD .
40.Shiv Das Meena – MD & CEO HUDCO
41.Suresh n Patel & SHARAD KUMAR – vigilance commissioner
42.Deepak Mittal - INDIAN ambassdor to (QATAR)
43. Piyush Srivastava indian ambassdor to (BAHARIN)
44.Neeraj Vyas( 8 months) - MD and CEO of PNB Housing Finance
45.Rajiv Kumar - the chairman of the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB)
46. T. S. Tirumurti - Ambassador/Permanent Representative of India to the UN
 AMBASSADORS
1. Shafali Verma – PEPSICO
2. AMITABH BACHAN - digital modes of payment
3. Sara Ali Khan - JBL campaign titled ”Live it Real, Live it Raw
4. Rohit Sharma – crickingdom
5. Viswanathan anand - WWF India for Environment Education
6. PV sindhu - BWF’s ‘i am badminton’ campaign
7. Dhoni - pokerstars
 MAY
NATIONAL
1. Shikha Sharma (Former CEO – Axis Bank) -Advisor to Google Pay India
2. .Suresh K Reddy (Additional Secretary in External Ministry) -Ambassador of India to Brazil
3. Ajay Tirkey -Secretary in Ministry of Women & Child Development
4. Neeraj Dhawan- Chief Risk Officer, YES Bank
5. Ramesh Babu V- Director (Operations), NTPC Ltd
6. Sriram Venkataraman- Chief Financial Officer, FlipKart
7. Rahul Chhabra- Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs
8. Tarun Bajaj (Secretary, Ministry of Finane)- Director on RBI
9. Krishnan Ramachandran- MD & CEO, Max Bupa Health Insurance
10.Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury -Chairperson, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee
11.D P S Negi -Director General of Labour Bureau
12.Narinder Batra- President, International Hockey Federation
13. Anil Bhansali -Vice President of Engineering in India
14.Indu Shekhar Chaturvedi -Secretary, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy
17.V Vidyavathi- Director General, Archaelogical Survey of India
18.Zubair Iqbal- Managing Director of J & K
19.Harsh Vardhan -Chairman, Executive Board of World Health Organization
20.Rajesh Goel- Director General of National Real Estate Development Council
21.Dilip Oommen (CEO, Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India)- President of Indian Steel
22.Govinda Rajulu Chintala –Chairman of NABARD
23.Shaji KV and P V S Suryakumar- Deputy MDs of NABARD
24.B R Sharma- Chairman, Public Service Commission for the UT of J&K
25.TS Tirumurti- India's Permanent Representative to the UN
26.Jahnabi Phookan (Assam based entrepreneur) -37th President, FICCI Ladies Organization
27.Abhas Jha -key position on climate change and disaster management in South Asia
28.Periasamy Kumaran- India's High Commissioner to Singapore
29.Sandip Mukund Pradhan- Director-General, Sports Authority of India
30.SN Rajeswari -CMD, Oriental Insurance Company
31.Narinder Batra -Member, Olympic Channel Commission
32.Mohit Gupta -Co-founder, Zomato (HQ – Gurgaon)
33.Thierry Delaporte -CEO & MD, Wipro
34.R. Sreelekha- First Woman DGP of Kerala
35.Aiman Ezzat- CEO, Capgemini (France based company
36. Ravinder Singh Dhillon- Chairman & MD, Power Finance Corporation
37.P.R.Jaishankar -MD, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited Executive Director at National Housing
Bank
38. S Gopalakrishnan- Additional Secretary, PM’s Office
39.Manoj Pande- 15th Commander – in-Chief, Andaman & Nicobar Command
40.Arun Singhal- Chief Executive Officer, Food Safety and Standards Authority of India

INTERNATIONAL
1. Atsushi Ogata- President, CEO, MD of Honda Motor Co (Japan based)
2. Jacqueline d’Arros Hughes- Director-General, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
(Hyderabad)
3. Ashok Michael Pinto- Representative to IBRD (nominated by Trump)
4. Saritha Komatireddy- Nominated to a Federal Court in NewYork
5. Mustafa al-Kadhimi- Prime Minister, Iraq Adil Abdul-Mahdi
6. Dia Mirza- National Goodwill Ambassador
7. Leela Samson Jury,- JCB Prize for Literature Aruni Kashyap, Tejaswini Niranjana, Ramu Ramanathan &
Deepika Sorabjee – Other members
8. Benjamin Netanyahu -(5th term) Prime Minister, Israel
9. Keva Bain President,- 73rd World Health Assembly Permanent representative of Bahamas
10. Carmen Reinhart- Vice President & Chief Economist, World Bank
7. Leela Samson Jury,- JCB Prize for Literature Aruni Kashyap, Tejaswini Niranjana, Ramu Ramanathan &
Deepika Sorabjee – Other members
8. Benjamin Netanyahu -(5th term) Prime Minister, Israel
9. Keva Bain President,- 73rd World Health Assembly Permanent representative of Bahamas
10.Carmen Reinhart- Vice President & Chief Economist, World Bank
11.Tsai Ing-wen-N President, Taiwan
12.Leo Puri- Chairman, JP Morgan
13.Marcos Prado Troyjo- President, New Development Bank
14.Anil Kishora- Vice President, New Development Bank

RESIGNATION/RETIREMENT
1. Atanu Chkraborty (Retirement) Secretary, Dept of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance
2. Roberto Azevedo- Chief, World Trade Oranization
3. Jack Ma (Alibaba Co-founder) Retired from SoftBank Group Corp
4. Thomaas Thabane- Prime Minister of Lesotho (Moeketsi Majoro – expected PM)
JUNE
NATIONAL
1. Harsha Bangari (CGM, CFO of EXIM Bank)- Deputy Managing Director, EXIM Bank
2. Pradip Kumar Tripathi -Secretary, Ministry of Steel
3. Subramanian Sundar- MD & CEO, Lakshmi Vilas Bank
4. Uday Kotak- President, CII
5. TV Narendran (CEO of Tata Steel)- President designate, CII
6. Sanjiv Bajaj- Vice President, CII
7. Patrick Pichette- Chairman, Twitter
8. Krishnendu Majumdar- Chairperson, BAFTA
9. Virendra Nath Datt- Chairman & MD, National Fertilizers Limited
10. Rajeev Topno -Senior Advisor to Executive Director World Bank
11. AM Naik- Non-Executive Chairman, Larsen & Toubro
12. Anil Valluri- Senior Director, Google Cloud
13. Javed Iqbal Wani - Judge, common high court of the Jammu and Kashmir& Ladakh.
14. BK Manjunath Non-Executive, Independent Director, Lakshmi Vilas Bank
15.Anshuman Sharma- Govt nominee director, IDBI Bank
16.Biswajit Dasgupta- Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam
17.Kaizad Bharucha- Executive Director, HDFC Bank
18.Imtaiyazur Rahman- CEO, UTI Mutual Fund
19.KK Venugopal- Attorney General of India
20.Devendra Kumar Singh- Director of SIDBI
21.Shantanu Preetam -Chief Technology Officer, PayU D
22.K Jain- BCCI’s ethics officer and Ombudsman
23.Prakash Chandra- Non-Executive Chairman, RBL Bank
24.Dr Nirakar Pradhan- Chief, Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA)
25.Urjit Patel- Chaiman, National Institute of Public Finance and Policies
26.Pralay Mondal- President, Catholic Syrian Ban
27.Vikram Pawah - President, BMW India
28.Niki Poonacha- International Tennis Federation men’s player panel
29.Natarajan Chandrasekaran- Part-time Non-official director, Reserve Bank of India
30. Gaurav Maheshwari- Chief Financial Officer, Standard Chartered Bank
31.Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan 15th director of the National Science Foundation
32.T Rabi Sankar Chairman, IFTAS
33.N Rajendran- Chief Executive Officer, IFTAS
34.Sanjay Kumar- Chief Secretary of Maharashtra
35.Vini Mahajan- 1st woman Chief Secretary, Punjab
36.Anandiben Patel (UP Governor) -Governor of Madhya Pradesh (Additional Charge)

INTERNATIONAL
1. Sibi George - India’s Ambassador to Kuwait
2. Gaitri I.Kumar (Ambassador of India to Belgium)- High Commissioner of India to UK
3. Sushil Kumar Singhal -High Commissioner of India to Papua New Guinea
4. Rahul Shrivastava- Next Ambassador of India to Romania
5. M Netra (13 year old – Madurai) Goodwill ambassador of United Nations Association for Development and Peace
6. Shambhu S Kumaran- Next Ambassador of India to the Philippines
7. Alan Gemmell British- Deputy High Commissioner for Western
8. Monika Kapil Mohta- Next Ambassador of India to Switzerland
9. Santosh Jha- Next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Belgium
10. Nick Hockley- Interim Chief Executive, Cricket Australia
11. Volkan Bozkir (Turkish diplomant)- President , 75th UN General Assembly
12. Kubatbek Boronov- Prime Minister, Kyryzstan
13.Vijay Khanduja- Next Ambassador to Zimbabwae
14.Rishi Sunak- Chief executive of the UK’s
15.Clare Connor- President, Marylebone Cricket Club
16.Deven J Parekh- Director, US International Development Finance Corporation
17.Micheal Martin- Prime Minister, Ireland
18. Lazarus Chakwera- President, Malawi

RESIGNATION
1. Kevin Roberts- Chief Executive, Cricket Australia

BRAND AMBASSADORS
1. Manushi Chillar Brand Ambassador, Adidas India
2. Rohit Sharma Brand Ambassador, IIFL Finance
3. Sonu Sood Brand Ambassador, Gargo International
4. Varun Tej Konidela Brand Ambassador, Nagarjuna cement
5. Pankaj Tripathi Brand Ambassador of Bihar
6. Sourav Ganguly, Sunil Chhetri Brand Ambassador, JSW Cement
7. Priyanka Chopra & Anurag Kashyap-Ambassadors of 45thToronto film festival
 JULY
NATIONAL
1. Ravinder Bhakkar- Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Central Board of Films Certification (CBFC)
2. Shrikant Madhav (SM) Vaidya –Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
3. V Suryanarayanan -Managing Director (MD) of Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company
4. Sijo Kuruvilla George, the CEO of start-up village and founder of Re-think Foundation has been selected
as a member of Central Government’s Expert Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy
5. Injeti Srinivas Chairman of International Financial Services Centre Authority (IFSCA)
6. Jayant Krishna Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of UK India Business Council (UKIBC)
7. Gyanendro Ningombam -Officiating President of Hockey India (HI)
8. Hemang Amin Interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO)- Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
9. Ashwini Kumar Tewari- Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of SBI Cards and
Payment Services
10. Ramesh Babu Boddu -Managing Director (MD) & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Karur Vysya Bank
(KVB)
11. R. Narayanaswamy was appointed as the Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the
National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA)
12. Prakash Chandra Kandpal -Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) SBI General
Insurance Company Limited
13. Sumit Deb- Chairman and Managing Director of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC)
14. Partha Pratim Sengupta-Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Indian Overseas
Bank (IOB)
15. Sahil Seth- Honorary Advisor of BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI)
16. Anil Kumar Jha- Member of Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC)
17. Naveen Tahilyani -Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive officer (CEO) of Tata American
International Assurance (AIA) Life insurance company
18. Alok Misra- Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Director Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN)
19. N. Siva Raman- Managing Director (MD) and Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ICRA

INTERNATIONAL
1. Ashok Lavasa- Vice-President of Asian Development Bank (ADB)
2. Prof. Rattan Lal –Members of International Scientific Group
3. Gudni Johannesson-President of Iceland
4. Jean Castex- Prime Minister of France
5. Lee Hsien Loong’s-Prime Minister of Singapore
6. Andrzej Sebastian Duda-President of Poland
7. Chandrikapersad“Chan” Santokhi- President of Suriname
8. Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda-Prime Minister of Gabon
9. Hichem Mechichi- Prime Minister of Tunisia
10. Andrej Plenkovic - Prime Minister of Croatia
11. Indra Mani Pandey- United Nations and the other International Organisations in Geneva

BRAND & CAMPAIGN AMBASSADORS

1. Sukhbir Singh- Brand Ambassador of Luxury Ride
2. Brett Lee- Brand Ambassador of SportsAdda

RESIGNATIONS
1. Edouard Phillipe-Prime Minister of France
2. Elyes Fakhfakh-Prime Minister(PM) of Tunisian
3. Karnam Sekar- The Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indian Overseas Bank
(IOB)
 AUGUST
NATIONAL
1. VR Chaudari- IAF’s Western Air Command
2. Sashidhar Jagadisan-MD & CEO of HDFC
3. Ashwini kumar Tewati-MD & CEO of SBI card
4. Ayai Tyagi- 18 monts extension as SEBI Chairman
5. Manoj Sinha- Lieutenant Governor of J&K
6. Jaideep Bhatnagar- Director General of AIR News
7. Pradeep kumar joshi-New Chairman of UPSC
8. Comptroller & Audit General-Girish Chandra Murmu
9. Navin Agarwal-MD & CEO of Motilal osawal AMC
10. Urjit patel –Chairman of great eastern shipping
11. Hardayal prasad-MD & CEO of PNB Housing finance
12. PS Ranipse-New IG of CRPF
13. Harshbhanwala- capital india finance excecutive chairman
14. GK Pillai-Remission of duties and taxes on Export products
15. IRS Patanjali-Principal Chief Commisioner of Income tax
16. VK Paul-Committee for procurement administration of COVID
17. Pramod Basin-Indian Council for Research International Economic Relations Chairman
18. Soma Mondal-Steel Authority of India
19. Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi-Director General of Naval Operation
20. SS Mudra-Non Executive chairman of India Bull Housing finance
21. Suhail Sameer-Group president of Bharat pe
22. Kaushik khona-CEO of Go Air
23. GP Garg-SEBI Executive director
24. SS Chahar-head of 5 members panel to probe Kozhikode plane crash
25. Rakesh Asthana-New Director general of Border Security Force (BSF)
26. Sathyapal Malik-Governor of Meghalaya
27. Prashant Joshi-MD & Head of National distribuition of DBS Bank
28. Anil Mukim-Gujarat Chief Secretary gets 6month extension
29. Rajiv Kumar-New election commission
30. Ashwani Bhatia- MD of SBI
31. G Satheesh reddy-DRDO chief-2 years extension
32. Rajiv Srivatsava- MD & CEO of Indian Energy Exchange
33. Vinay Tonse-New MD & CEO of SBI Mutual fund
 INTERNATIONAL
1. Mark Philips-PM of Guyana
2. Mohammed Irfan Ali- President of Guyana
3. Bharat Jadego-Vice president of Guyana
4. Mohammed ould Bilal-PM of Mauritius
5. Walter Roger Martos Ruiz-PM of Peru
6. Alexander Lukashenko-President of Belarus (6th term)
7. Fransico Asue-PM of Equatorial Guinea
8. Luis Abinader-President of Dominican Republic
9. Keith Rowley- PM of Trinidad & Tobago
10. Mahinda Rajapaksa- Srilanka PM
11. Hameed Bokyoko -PM of Ivory Coast
BRAND AMBASSADORS
1. Harbhajan Singh- eBikego
2. Rohit Sharma-Oakley
3. Singer Shashan Mujeeb-1st Brand ambassador of Aligarh Municipal Corporation's Swachh Bharath
abhiyan

RESIGNATIONS/RETIREMENTS
1. Girish Chandra Murumuru- LG of J&K
2. Aditya puri-MD & CEO of HDFC
3. Neeraj Vyas-MD & CEO of PNB Housing finance
4. Lebanon government resigns over Beirut Port blast
5. Tathagat Roy-Meghalaya governor
6. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita-Mali’s president
7. Kevin mayer-Tiktok CEO
8. PK Gupta- MD of SBI
5.ACQUISITION & MERGER
(FEB-JULY)
FEBRUARY
• Twitter - Chroma Labs founded by Facebook veterans.
• NCLAT clears JSW Steel’s acquisition of Bhushan power for Rs 19,700cr.
• Cipla - 4 key brands from Wanbury for up to Rs 88.60 crore.
• CCI approved joint venture between Mahindra & Mahindra & Ford Motor.
• Adani Transmission sold 25.1 % stake in arm AEML to QIA for Rs 3,220 crore.
• ONGC & HPCL - 34.56 % of bankers’ stake in Petronet MHB for Rs 371 crore.
• Crisil - 100% stake in Greenwich Associates.
• CCI approves NTPC - 100% & paid-up share capital of NEEPCO & 74.5% stake
of THDC India.
• GOVT approves merger of Indus Towers with Bharti Infratel.
• India’s top refiner IOC - minority stake in Israeli battery developer Phinergy.
• Cognizant Tech Acquires EI Technologies & Code Zero Consulting Companies.
• DoT okays merger of Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices.
• Energy major Total to acquire 50% in Adani’s solar portfolio for $510mn.
• Emami Group Signs Binding Pact with Nuvoco Vistas for selling of its 100% stake
in Emami Cement.
MARCH
• NCLT approves NBCC - Jaypee Infratech.
• SBI - 6.825% stake of Zero Mass Private Limited.
• Chennai Port - centre’s 67% stake in Kamarajar Port (Rs.2,383crores).
• NTPC - Govt’s stake in THDC, NEEPCO (Rs 11,500 Crore).
• Bharti Airtel took 10% stake in fitness start-up Spectacom Global ltd.
• Zomato - UberEats India for $206 million.
• Ashok Leyland - 19% additional stake in HLFL (Rs 1,200cr).
APRIL
• Singapore Govt increases stake in Bandhan Bank to 4.49pc.
• TVS - Britain iconic sporting motorcycle brand Norton.
• GP Global - lubricants assets of Nigeria’s Grand Petroleum.
• IL & FS sells entire stake in IWPSL to ORIX Corp (Rs 6.05cr).
• Eros International & Hollywood’s STX Entertainment merge all share “1st of its kind”.
• IndiGrid - Sterlite Power’s asset (Rs1,050cr).
• Hindalco closes $2.8bn acquisition of Aleris Group.
• CCI - 9.93% stake by Emerald Sage Investment Limited in Apollo Tyres Limited.
• CCI approves acquisition of GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited by JSW Energy Limited.
• Facebook Invests $5.7 Billion in Indian Internet Giant Jio.
• Federal Bank approves 4% additional stake in life insurance JV from IDBI Bank.
• GSK plans to sell Rs 28,000 crore stake in Hindustan Unilever.
• IIFL Wealth Finance buys L&T Capital Markets for Rs 230 crore.
• Axis Bank to buy 29% stake in Max Life Insurance for Rs 1,600 crore.
• Ashok Leyland Ltd increases stake in Hinduja Leyland Finance Limited to 68.81%.
MAY
• Yes Bank - 24% Stake in Dish TV After Invoking Pledged Shares.
• Cisco - ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software.
• Ola Electric - Etergo, looks to launch electric scooters in India by 2021.
• RITES signs pact to acquire 24% stake in Indian Railway Station Development.
• IL&FS to sell 26% stake in ONGC Tripura Power.
• Intel - Rivet Networks, the maker of 'Killer' Wi-Fi cards.
• Airtel - stake in conversational AI startup Voicezen.
• Microsoft - robotic process automation platform Softomotive.
• Accenture - Byte Prophecy to Enhance AI and Digital Analytics Capabilities.
• Facebook buys Giphy, will integrate GIF library with Instagram.
• GCPL - balance 25% stake in Kenya-based Canon Chemicals.
• Manulife picks 49% stake in Mahindra AMC for Rs 265 crore.
• Polycab India buys 50% stake in Ryker from Trafigura.
• Apple Buys Virtual-Reality Streaming Upstart NextVR.
• Tata to buy out PepsiCo's stake in JV NourishCo Beverages.
• ITC signs Share Purchase Agreement to acquire Sunrise Foods.
JUNE
• Mastercard acquires Finicity; aims to advance open banking strategy.
• CCI approves acquisition of Metso Oyj’s minerals business by Outotec Oyj.
• Facebook-Jio deal gets Competition Commission nod.
• Just Eat acquires Grubhub for $7.3B in food delivery consolidation.
• CCI approves acquisition by MacRitchie in 91Streets, Ascent and API.
• Yatra terminates Rs 2,300-cr merger pact with US software firm Ebix.
• Abu Dhabi Investment Authority to invest Rs 5,684 crore in Jio Platforms for 1.16% stake.
• CCI approves proposed merger between Peugeot S.A and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V.
• Tata Power acquires 51% stake in Odisha’s TPCODL.
• Facebook floats 'Jaadhu Holdings' to do business with Jio
• Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala to buy 1.85% stake in Reliance Jio platforms for Rs 9093.6 cr
• Bharti Airtel arm buys 6.3% more stake in Robi Axiata from NTT Docomo
• TPG, L Catterton pick up 1.32% stake in Jio Platforms for Rs 6441.3 Cr
• HUL completes acquisition of female hygiene brand VWash from Glenmark.
JULY
• CCI approves Krishnapatnam port acquisition by Adani Ports, SEZL.
• CCI approves proposed acquisition of 49% of the total equity share capital of Odisha
Power Generation Corporation Limited (OPGC).
• RBI gives nod to SBI Funds Management to acquire up to 10 pc stake in CSB Bank.
• Advent to acquire RA Chem Pharma.
• CCI approves proposed combination involving Eros Plc, STX and Marco.
• KKR to acquire controlling stake in JB Chemicals for Rs 3,100 crore.
• Paytm expands financial services play, buys Raheja QBE General Insurance.
• CCI approves acquisition by Aceso Company Pte. Ltd. (Aceso) in HealthCare Global
Enterprises Limited (HCG).
• Google invests $4.5 billion in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms.
• CCI approves Escorts-Kubota deals.
• ArcelorMittal completes Rs 2,350-cr acquisition of Odisha Slurry Pipeline Infrastructure.
AUGUST
• IndusInd Bank - Stakes In Eveready & McLeod Russel India.
• Cognizant - Tin Roof Software to expand digital engineering services.
• CCI Approved Proposed Combination Pertaining to JV Formation between Honda Motor
and Hitachi.
• Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd Acquired 60% stake in Vitalic Health Pvt Ltd & 100% direct
ownership of Netmeds.
• CCI Approved 100% Proposed Acquisition of C&S Electric Limited by Siemens Limited.
• ICICI Lombard & Bharti AXA Signed Definitive Agreements to Merge their Insurance
Businesses.
• Axis Bank to Acquire 17% Instead of 29% in Max Life Insurance.
• CCI Approved Acquisition by Tau Investment, Lightstone Fund S.A and Carlyle Group’s
Comfort Investments II.
• PAG to Acquire 51% Stake in Edelweiss Wealth Management for About Rs 2,200 Crore.
6.APPS AND WEBPORTALS
(FEB-AUG)
FEBRUARY
• Star Rating of Coal Mines - The Ministry of Coal (MoC) - New Delhi, India.
• Yodhav - Pinarayi Vijayan - kochi, kerala.
• Credai Awaas - CREDAI (The Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of
India).
• Himmat Plus app - Delhi Police along with Uber.
• HRMS (Human Resource Management System) Mobile application - Shri Vinod Kumar
Yadav, Chairman, Railway Board.
• SPICe+ - Shri Injeti Srinivas, Secretary of Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• Thirumathi Kart - S.Sivarasu, Collector of Tiruchi.
• Santusht - Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, The Union Labour Minister.
• First-of -its-kind - Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Union Food Processing Industries (FPI)
Minister.
• Yard 45006 VAJRA - Shri Mansukh Laxmanbhai Mandaviya.
• ICGS Varad - Shri. Mansukh Mandaviya.
MARCH
• Humsafar - Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar.
• Incredible India - Shri Prahlad Singh Patel.
• Sebi SCORES - Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).
• www.gokaddal.com - Digital Solutions Exchange cloud.
• Cova Punjab - Punjab Government.
• NIGHA - Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy CM of Andhra Pradesh.
• Bhoomi Rashi - The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH).
• Customer Payment Portal - HIL (India) Limited partnered with Union Bank of
India.
• MyGov Corona - Government - Whatsapp chatbot in relation to COVID-19
using the number 9013151515.
• www.covid19-sdmc.org - SAARC Disaster Management Centre.
• “Corontine” and “Safe” - IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) - Bombay
(Department of CSE).
APRIL
• Stranded in India - Ministry of Tourism
• Corona Kavach - Government of India
• Aarogya Setu (A bridge of health) - Government of India
• https://helpline.aicte-india.org. - (HRD)&(AICTE) Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
• COVID- 19 Monitoring System Application - Developed by startup Vera Smart Healthcare
(Telangana).
• Electronic - National Agriculture Market (e-NAM) - PM Modi.
• DIKSHA platform - Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT)
• Swachhata - MoHUA
• Kisan Rath - “Kisan ka apna Vahan” (Narendra Singh Tomar)
• https://indiamaps.gov.in/soiapp/. - SAHYOG - Survey of India (SOI)
• Aarogya Setu - developed by (NIC) under (MeitY)
• Zoom - Cyber Coordination Centre (CyCord) under (MHA).
• YUKTI - Ramesh Pokhriyal (MHRD) (New Delhi).
• https://covidwarriors.gov.in. - Union government
• COVID India Seva - Dr Harsh Vardhan (@CovidIndiaSeva)
• ‘Saiyam’ - Smart City Mission (SCM)
• “e-Gram swaraj” Portal & Mobile app - Narendra Modi
• ‘e-karyalay’ or ‘e-office’ - Central Industrial Security Force (CISF)
• “GoCoronaGo” - lisc.
• “Apthamitra” - Karnataka(provide medical guidance).
• “iGOT” - learning portal.
• “Rakhsa Sarv” - Chattisgarh app(police).
• “Vmate & Mygov app” – Information.
• “Vilokana.in” – IIITM – Kerala (A.P. James).
• “Aayu & Sehat Sathi” – Rajasthan(healthcare app).
• “Covidfy1.in” – IIM – Kozhikode.
• “Bharat Padhe Online” – HRD Ministry.
• “Assess Koro Na” – door to door survey (Delhi).
• “DROR” – Safety app (Social Distance Score).
• “PRAGYAAM” – Jharkhand(e pass).
• “Noida Authority Apurti Suvidha” – National Capital Region.
• Safeseniors (for senior citizens) – Seniority.
MAY
• UMANG App - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)
• IGNOU’S (Indira Gandhi National Open University) - Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
• National Test Abhyas - Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank
• SAMARTH - Developed by The Ministry of Human Resource Development
• CHAMPIONS - Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) ministry
• Ayush Sanjivani application - Harsh Vardhan, Shripad Yesso Naik
• The Saras Collection - Narendra Singh Tomar
• https://garud.civilaviation.gov.in - The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) and Directorate General
of Civil Aviation (DGCA)
• Aarogya Setu Mitr - Private-public partnership (PPP)
• “Paisa Bolega” and “BharatPe Balance” - BharatPe
• ‘Bharatmarket’ (www.bharatemarket.in) - Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT)
• Kisan Sabha - CSIR
• Shipmin.gov.in - Ministry of Shipping
• MSME Bank of Ideas, Innovation and Research (http://ideas.msme.gov.in/) - (MoRTH) &
(MSME)
• Janaushadhi Sugam - (BPPI)
JUNE
• eBloodServices - Harsh Vardhan
• Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyan (GKRA) - Narendra Singh Tomar
• SwissCovid - Swiss
• SATYABHAMA - Pralhad Joshi
• e-Office - M. Ajit Kumar
• Aarogyapath - Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
• CHAMPIONS - Narendra Modi (PM)
• Responsible AI for Youth - Ravi Shankar Prasad
• NCS portal - Union Ministry of Labour and Employment partnered with
TCS iON
JULY
• BIS-Care - Ram Vilas Paswan.
• AIM Icrest - Atal Innovation Mission.
• Pravasi Rojgar - Sonu Sood (to help migrants find job opportunities).
• SWAYAMPrabha - UP Governor Anandiben Patel (e-learning initiative).
• National Transit Pass System - Prakash Javadekar.
• automotive technology e-portal ASPIRE - ICAT.
• National Anti-Doping Agency - Kiren Rijiju (to help athletes stay updated on
banned Substances).
• e- Kisaan Dhan - HDFC Bank(for farmers).
• Elyments - Venkiah Naidu.
• Self Scan - Mamtha Banarjee (Alternative of Banned Cam Scanner).
AUGUST
• Credai - Awaas App & an E-Commerce Portal, “HousingforAll.com” - Hardeep Singh
Puri (MoHUA)
• YONO (You Only Need One) Krishi - Narendra Singh Tomar.
• DGNCC - Rajnath Singh.
• Pensioners Corner – CISF.
• Harit Path - Nitin Jairam Gadkari (monitoring plantations and transplantation of trees).
• VedKrishi.com - Nitin Gadkari (virtual platform).
• Swasthya – MoTA.
• E-Pathshala - AIFF & SAI (web platform).
• SRIJAN - Rajnath Singh “opportunities for Make in India in Defence”
• www.indiainvestmentgrid.gov.in - Nirmala Sitharaman.
• Khelo India Mobile App (KIMA) - SAI, CISCE & CBSE (“Khelo India Fitness Assessment
of School Going Children”).
• Overhead Equipment (OHE) Inspection - Indian Railways.
• E-Gyan Mitra - Education department of Daman Administration (DNHDD)
• My Handloom - Smt Smriti Zubin Irani.
• AIR SUVIDHA - Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL).
• COVID19BWM App - Developed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to track
biomedical waste on a daily basis.
• My IAF - Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria.
7.INDEX & REPORTS
(FEB-AUG)
FEBRUARY
RANKING
• Greenbone Sustainable Resilience Report 2020 - German cybersecurity firm Greenbone Sustainable
Resilience (1.Maharashtra 2.Karnataka 3.West Bengal).
• Global Go to Think Tank Index Report (GGTTI) 2019 - Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP)
(1.US 2.Belguim 3.France).
• Hurun Global Rich List 2020 - Shanghai-based Hurun Research Institute and Shenzhen-based Shimao
Shenkong International Center (1.Jeff Bezos 2.Bernard Arnault 3.Bill Gates).
• Wordline India Digital Payments 2019 - Online Payment Processor Worldline India (1.Bengluru
2.Karnataka 3.Mumbai&Pune).
• Top 500 Banking Brands 2020 Report - Banker’s (1.China 2.United States 3.Canada 8.India).
• 2019 World Air Quality Report-Region & City PM2.5 Ranking - IQAir AirVisual(1.Bangladesh 2.Pakistan
3.)
• Missing Women and Children in India 2016, 2017 & 2018 - National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
(1.Maharastra 2.West Bengal 3.Madhya Pradesh).
• Counterpoint Research’s Market Monitor service report 2020 - Counterpoint Research’s (1.China 2.India
3.US).
• 8th International Intellectual Property (IP) Index - ‘Art of the possible’ 2020 -Chamber of Commerce’s
Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC), U.S. (United States) (1.US 2.UK 3.Sweden).
• Celebrity Brand Evaluation Report 2019 - Duff & Phelps (1.Virat Kohli 2.Akshay Kumar 3.Ranveer Singh
& Deepika Padukone)
REPORTS
• Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation(IHME) Report 2020 - (IHME).
• Municipal Performance Index 2019 - Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA)
• Report on Cancer: Setting priorities, investing wisely and providing care for all -WHO
• World Cancer Report “Cancer research for cancer prevention” - IARC (International Agency for Research
on Cancer)
• State of India’s Bird 2020: Range, trends and conservation status Report - State of India’s Bird.
• Transforming Nutrition in India: Poshan Abhiyan - NITI (National Institution for Transforming India)
Aayog.
• Women Entrepreneurship in India – Powering the economy with her - Bain & Company and Google.
• Today for tomorrow: realising the potential of Life Sciences 4.0 Report 2020 - EY (Ernst & Young Private
Limited).
MARCH
RANKING
• Freedom in the World 2020 Report - Freedom House, a U.S (United States) -based watchdog (1.Finland
2.Norway 3.Sweden).
• Trade-Related Illicit Financial Flows in 135 Developing Countries: 2008-2017 Report - US-based think tank
Global Financial Integrity (GFI) (1.China 2.Mexico 3.India).
• Wealth Report 2020 - Knight Frank LLP (1.US 2.China 3.Germany).
• Transforming Nutrition in India: POSHAN Abhiyaan - NITI Aayog (1.Andhra Pradesh 2.Chattisgarh
3.Madhya Pradesh).
• 4th Inclusive Internet Index 2020 - Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) (1.Sweden 2.New Zealand 3.US)
• 1st Gender Social Norms Index (GSNI) 2020 - UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) (1.Pakistan
2.Qatar 3.Zimbabwe).
• Economic Freedom Index 2020 - Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal (1.Singapore 2.Hong
Kong 3.New Zealand).
• World Happiness Report 2020 - United Nations (UN) (1.Finland 2.Denmark 3.Switzerland).
• Trends in international arms transfers, 2019 - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute’s (SIPRI)
(1.Saudi Arabia 2.India 3.Egypt).
REPORTS
• A New Era for Girls: Taking stock on 25 years of progress - United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) collaboration with UN Women and Plan International.
• 2nd Global Animal Protection Index (API) 2020 - World Animal Protection.
• Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2019 - United Nations
Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
• 10th FICCI-IBA survey - FICCI and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA).
• Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Report - United Nations’ (UN) arm
Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO).
• Boom and Bust 2020: Tracking the Global Plant Pipeline - Global Energy
Monitor, Greenpeace International, the Sierra Club, and Centre for Research on
Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
APRIL
RANKING
• Global Billionaires 2020 - Forbes (1.Jeff Bezos 2.Bill Gates).
• The World Press Freedom Index 2020 - Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), or Reporters Without
Borders (1.Norway 2.Finland 3.Denmark).
• CRISIL Research report – CRISIL (1.Karnataka 2.Tamil Nadu 3.Gujarat).
• Total Global Military Expenditure - Swiss based - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
(1.US 2.China 3.India).
• Impact rankings 2020 - Times Higher Education (THE)
REPORTS
• 2020 Global Report on Food Crises-Joint Analysis for better decisions -United Nation’s (UN) World Food
Programme (WFP).
• Digital Workplace Survey 2019 – Gartner.
• Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) 2020: Towards sustainable economies - United
Nations (UN) Economic and Social Commission.
• South Asia Economic Focus: The cursed blessing of public banks report - World Bank (WB).
• ILO Monitor 2nd edition: COVID-19 and the world of work- Updated estimates and analysis - International
Labour Organization (ILO).
MAY
RANKING
• India Solar Market Leaderboard 2020 - Mercom India Research (1.China 2.US 3.India).
• S&T Indicators Tables 2019-20 - National Science and Technology Management Information System
(NSTMIS) (1.USA 2.China 3.India).
• Open Budget Survey 2019 - International Budget Partnership (IBP) (1.New Zealand 2.South Africa
3.Sweden).
• India Solar Market Leaderboard 2020 - Mercom India Research (1.China 2.US 3.India).
REPORTS
• Children in monetary poor households and COVID-19: Technical Note – UNICEF & Save the Children
• India’s Utility-Scale Solar Parks—A Global Success Story - Kashish Shah
• Updated Assessment of the Potential Economic Impact of COVID-19 Manila, Philippines based Asian
Development Bank (ADB
• Global Nutrition Report 2020 - World Health Organization (WHO)
• International Tourism Report - United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
• Country of Particular Concern (CPC) Annual Report 2020 - U.S. Commission on International Religious
Freedom (USCIRF.
JUNE
RANKING
• THE Young University Rankings 2020 - Times Higher Education (THE) (1.Hong kong 2.Singapore
3.France).
• Global Start-up Ecosystem Report (GSER) 2020 - Start-up Genome.
• Annual Banking Statistics, 2019 - Switzerland’s central bank Swiss National Bank (SNB) (1.UK 2.US 3.West
indies).
• Largest Holder of US Government Securities - United States (US) Treasury Department (1.Japan 2.China
3.UK).
• Economy on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) for 2017 - World Bank(1.China 2.US 3.India).
• Statistical Review of World Energy 2020 - UK based oil and gas company BP plc.
• World Investment Report 2020 - UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (1.US 2.China
3.Singapore).
• SIPRI Yearbook 2020-Armaments, Disarmament and International Security - SIPRI (1.US 2.Russia 3.UK)
• Countries Global Ranking of Startup Ecosystem 2020 - StartupBlink (1.US 2.UK 3.Isreal).
• Asia University Ranking - Times Higher Education (THE).
• State Food Safety Index (SFSI) for 2019-20 - Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
REPORTS
• Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade - Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
• Inclusion and Education: All Means All - (UNESCO) Global Education Monitoring (GEM)
• India TB (Tuberculosis) Report 2020 - Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan and its Minister of State
(MoS), Ashwini Kumar Choubey.
• South Asian region on the impacts of COVID-19 on children – UNICEF.
• Policy Brief: The Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition - Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO).
• Global Status Report on Preventing Violence Against Children 2020 - United Nations (UN).
• Global Economic Prospect (GEP) June 2020 report - World Bank.
• Nature Index 2020 - Nature Index 2020 ratings.
• U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Report – USCIRF.
• Global Trade Update 2020 - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
JULY
RANKING
• The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 report-Quantities, flows, and the circular economy potential - Global E-
waste Monitor (1.China 2.US 3.India).
• Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) 2020 - FAO of the United Nations (UN) (1.China 2.Australia
3.India).
• Global Rights Index 2020-The World’s Worst Countries for Workers - International Trade Union
Confederation (ITUC)
• Delta Rankings for Aspirational Districts - NITI Aayog (1.Chattisharg 2.Meghalaya 3.Uttar Pradesh).
• The Global Direct Selling – 2019 Retail Sales - World Federation of Direct Selling Associations (WFDSA)
(1.US 2.China 3.Germany).
• Global Skills Index 2020 - Coursera (1.Russia 2.Switcherland 3.Belgium).
• Global Manufacturing Risk Index (MRI) 2020 - Cushman & Wakefield’s (1.China 2.US 3.India).
• Inward Investment Statistics for 2019-2020 - United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade (DIT)
(1.USA 2.India 3.Germany).
• Cancer preparedness in Asia-Pacific: Progress towards universal cancer control -Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU) (1.Australia 2.South Korea 3.Malaysia).
• Sustainable Development Report 2020- The Sustainable Development Goals and COVID-19 - Sustainable
Development Goals (1.Sweden 2.Denmark 3.Finland).
REPORTS
• Implications of AI on the Indian Economy - NASSCOM along with ICRIER and Google.
• Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2020 - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).
• Special Bulletin on Maternal Mortality in India 2016-18 - Registrar General’s Sample Registration System
(SRS).
• The state of food security and nutrition in the world- Transforming food systems for affordable healthy diets
- United Nations.
• World Wildlife Crime Report – UNODC.
• Towards a Clean Energy Economy: Post-Covid-19 Opportunities for India’s Energy and Mobility Sectors -
NITI Aayog and the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI).
• COVID-19 and Tourism: Assessing the Economic Consequences - United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development (UNCTAD).
• State of World Population 2020: Against my will – Defying the practices that harm women and girls and
undermine equality - United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
AUGUST
RANKING
• FutureBrand Index 2020 - FutureBrand Index (1.Apple 2.Reliance Industries Limited 3.Samsung).
• Implementation of (AMRUT) scheme - Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) (1.Odisha
2.Chandigarh (UT) 3.Telangana).
• Bloomberg Billionaires Index -Bloomberg (1.Jeff Bezos 2.Bill Gates 3.Mark Zuckerberg).
• Global Ranking of Average Wages - Picodi.com (1. Switcherland 2.Luxemberg 3.US)
• Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020 - NITI Aayog in partnership with Institute of Competitiveness
(1.Gujarat 2.Maharashtra 3.Tamil Nadu).
• Highest Paid Actors for the year 2020 – Forbes (1.Dwayne Johnson 2.Ryan Reynolds 3.Mark Wahlberg).
• Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index 2020 - Online Privacy Solutions Provider SurfShark (1.Denmark
2.Sweden 3.Canada.
• Swachh Survekshan 2020 (SS2020) – MoHUA.
• Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020 - Venkaiah Naidu.
REPORTS
• COVID-19: Are Children Able to Continue Learning During School Closures? -United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF).
• Tackling the Covid-19 youth employment crisis in Asia and the Pacific -ILO & ADB.
• Elderly Population in India: Status and Support Systems - M Venkaiah Naidu.
• Status of Sex Ratio at Birth in India - M Venkaiah Naidu.
• Population projections for India and States 2011- 2036 - National Commission on Population.
• National Cancer Registry Programme 2020 - The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – National
Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR)
• Progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene in school’s Special focus on COVID-19 - World Health
Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
8.BOOKS & AUTHORS
(FEB-AUG)
FEBRUARY
• “Lord of anonymity” - Lord J (1st and only anonymous singer in the world).
• “A Child of destiny” - Professor Koneru Ramakrishna Rao - by Venkaiah naidu.
• “The Thin Mind Map” - Dharmendra Rai ( Mind Map and Brain Literacy
trainer).
• “Messages from Messengers” - Priti K Shroff (Maharashtra).
• “A Commentary & Digest on The Air, Act 1981” - Dr k Khandelwal & Apoorva
Kumar Singh - by Haryana cm Manohar lal khattar - Published ‘The Bright Law
House’.
• “Chanakya Niti Verses on life and living” - Aditya Narayan Dhairyasheel Haksar
Indian diplomat - Published ‘Penguin Random House India’.
• “The Reference Annual India/Bharat 2020” - Shri Prakash Javadekar (Union
Cabinet Minister) - Published ‘Publication Division’(India) along with Minister of
Information and Broadcasting.
• “Who is Bharat Mata” - Mr. Manmohan Singh (former PM of India) - Published
‘The Swapna Book House’ Bengaluru in association with Delhi Karnataka Sangha.
• “Death; An Inside Story ; A book for all those who shall die” - Jaggy Vasudev – by
Venkaiah Naidu - Published ‘Penguin Ananda’.
MARCH
• “Chronicles of Change Champions” - Smriti Zubin Irani - released by Smriti
Zubin Irani (Union Minister of Women & Child Development.
• “The Adventure of the Daredevil Democrat” - released by Odisha CM
Naveen Patnaik - Published by ‘The Creative Workshop’ New Delhi.
• “The 12 Commandments of Being a Women” - Tahira Kashyap Khurrana
(Writer - Producer - Professor) - Published by ‘Juggernaut Books’ New
Delhi.
• “Lady, You’re the Boss!” - Apurva Purohit - Published by ‘Westland
Publications’.
• “An Extraordinary Life: A biography of Manohar Parikar” - Sadguru Patil
and Maya Bhushan Nagvenkar – Published by ‘Penguin Random House
India’.
• “Invincible - A Tribute to Manohar Parikar” - Tarun Vijay - released by
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
• “Messiah Modi : A Tale of Great Expectation” - Tavleen Singh - released by
Senior Journalist & Author Tavleen Singh.
• “Missing in Action The Prisoners Who Never Come Back” - Chander suta
Dorga (senior journalist) - Published by ‘HarperCollins India’.
• “Legacy of Learning” - Savita Chhabra chairperson of HRIPC (hygienic
research institute private limited).
• “Corona Studies Series” - Launched by Ministry of Human resource
Development (MHRD) - published by 'National book trust’.
• “The Death of Jesus” - John Maxwell Coatzee - Published by ‘Penguin
Random House’.
• “My Encounter in Parliament” - Bhalchandra Mangekar (An Indian
economist, former Rajya Sabha).
APRIL
• “The Enlightenment of the Greenage Tree” - ShoKoofeh Azar - ReadHowYouWant.com.
• “How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness & Community in Times of Global Crisis” -
Paolo Giordano - hatchette.
• “ Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs” - by epidemiologist Michael
Osterholmand author Mark Olshaker - hatchette.
• “The Art of her Deal” - Mary Jordan (biography of Melonia Trump).
• “Shuttling to the top: The story of P.V Sindhu” - Krishnaswamy V - HarperCollins.
• “How the Onion Got it’s layer (audio book)” - Sudha Murti – Puffin.
• “Sayajirao Geakward 3: The Maharaja of Baroda” - Uma Balasubramanian - Rupa
Publications.
• “The Room Where it Happened: A White House Memoir”- John Bolton - Simon &
Schuster.
• “Memoirs and Misinformation” - Actor Jim Carrey & Writer Dana Vachon - Alfred A
Knopf.
• “Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years” - Padma Vibhushan Montek
Singh Ahluwalia.
• “Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess” - Satyarth Nayak - Penguin Ebury Press.
• “The Wizenard Series Season One” - created by Kobe Bryant - authored by Wesley King –
Published by Kobe Bryant Granity Studios.
MAY
• “Sivaji in South Block: The Unwritten History of a Proud People” - Girish kuber.
• “Prof. B. B. Lal- India Rediscovered” e book - released by Prahlad Singh Patel, Union
Culture Minister.
• “COVID KATHA- A Multimedia Guide for Mass Awareness” -Dr.Harsh Vardhan.
• “Vijyant at Kargil: The Life of a Kargil War Hero” - Colonel VN Thapar and Neha
Dwivedi.
• “Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family” -
Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand.
• “Fear of God” - Bomma Devara Sai Cnadravadhan or Vadhan.
• “Wuhan DiaryWuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City” - Fang Fang.
• “Hop on: My Adventures on Boats, Trains and Places” - Ruskin Bond.
• “The Ickabog” - JK Rowling.
• “Three handbook Released” - Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank - Prepared by Central Board of
Secondary Education.
JUNE
• “Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India” - Amish Tripathi -
Westland Publications.
• “Naoroji Pioneer of Indian Nationalism” - Dinyar Patel - published by
Harvard University Press.
• “The Dry Fasting Miracle: Form deprive to Thrive” - Luke Countinho &
coauthored by Abdulaziz bin Ali bin Rashid al Nuaimi - Ebury press.
• “One Year of MODI 2.0 Towards A Self Reliant India e-book” - released by
Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
• “Safe Online Learning in the times of Covid 19” - launched by Ramesh
Pokhriyal Nishank.
• “Leaving and other Stories Lockdown Liaisons” - authored by Shobhaa dee –
published by Simon & Schuster.
• “Kiara and the Sun” - authored by Kazuo Ishiguro’s - published by Faber &
Faber in UK, Alfred A Knopf in US, Knopf in Canada.
• “A Burning” - authored by Megha Mazumdar - Westland Publications.
JULY
• "Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India“ - Viral Acharya’s.
• “Indian-origin” - Avni Doshi published by Hamis Hamilton.
• “Standard Treatment Guidelines” – released by Dr. Harsh Vardhan.
• "Financial Management Index for Rural Development Programmes“ – released by
Narendra Singh Tomar.
• “Suraj Kade Marda Nahi” (Sun Never Dies) - Baldev Singh Sadaknama.
• “The Yield” – Tara June (wins Miles Franklin award 2020).
• “If It Bleeds” – Stephen King.
• “A Song of India” – Ruskin Bond published by puffins
• "His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography“ - Tenzin Geyche
Tethong.
• “Mahaveer: The Soldier who never died”- AK Srikumar along with his wife Rupa
Srikumar published by Rupa publication.
• "MATSYA SAMPADA" – launched by Giriraj singh.
• “Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver” – Former RBI governor Urjit Patel.
AUGUST
• “Pitching It Straight” - Gurcharan Singh & Co-Authored by Sports Journalist MS Unnikrishnan
Published by Vitasta The book portrays.
• “Cricket Drona” - Vasudev Paranjpe’s son and current national selector Jatin Paranjpe along with
Cricket Journalist Anand Vasu - published by Penguin.
• “National Security Challenges: Young Scholars Perspective” - University Students, Ranging from
the Undergraduate Level to Doctoral Candidates - published by Centre for Land Warfare Studies
(CLAWS).
• “Running Toward Mystery: The Adventure of an Unconventional Life” - Tenzin Priyadarshi and
co-written by Zara Houshmand.
• “One Arranged Murder” - Chetan Bhagat - published by Westland Publications Ltd.
• “Gastric Cancer” - Launched by Dr Jitendra Singh - published by Springer Healthcare Education.

• “Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story” - Monika Arora, advocate, Sonali Chitalkar (political
Science) and Prerna Malhotra (English) teachers - published by Garuda Prakashan - released by
Bhupendra Yadav.
• A Bend in Time: Writings by Children on the COVID 19 Pandemic - Bijal Vachharajani –
published by Talking Cub.
• Our Only Home: A climate Appeal to the world - Dalai Lama.
• “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump” - Michael
Cohen’s - published by Skyhorse Publishing.
• “India Tomorrow: Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders” -Pradeep Chhibber and
Harsh Shah - published by Oxford University Press.
• “The Beauty of Living Twice” - Sharon Stone - published by Alfred A Knopf.
• “Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972-2020” - Arjun Subramaniam - published by HarperCollins Publishers
India Pvt. Ltd.
• “Greenlights” - Matthew McConaughey - published by Crown Publishing Group.
• “Vishesh: Code to Win” - Nirupama Yadav - published by the Bluerose publishers.
• “Siyasat Mein Sadasyata” - Vijay Kumar Choudhary - published by Bihar Assembly Secretariat.
• “Swachh Bharat Kranti” - Launched by Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Smriti Zubin Irani.
• “Amazing Ayodhya” - Neena Rai.
• “RAW (Research and Analysis Wing): A History of India’s Covert Operations” - Yatish Yadav - published by
Westland Publications.
• “Connecting, Communicating, Changing” - Prakash Javadekar - published by the Publications Division of
the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
• “Corona Kavithakal” - PS Sreedharan Pillai - released by Mizoram CM Zoramthanga.
9.AWARDS & HONOURS
(FEB-AUG)
FEBRUARY
• 1st Mathrubhumi Book of the Year award - Vinod Kumar Shukla (‘Blue Is Like
Blue’).
• SERB Women Excellence Award - Dr Niti Kumar (Scientist).
• Sahitya Akademi’s Translation Prize - Susan Daniel (Novel).
• Indian Achievers Award (IAA) - Rajendra Indraman Singh (Education). .
• 6th Annual Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi award - Padma Shri Jadav ‘Molai’ Payeng
(Environment).
• Mystic Kalinga Literary award: Indian and Global languages - Manoj Das (Literature).
• International Gandhi Awards - Dr. N.S. Dharmashaktu (Social Activity).
• 73rd British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards - Sam Mendes (Best
Film).
• 65th Edition of Amazon Filmfare Awards - Ranveer Singh (Best Actor for his
performance in Gully Boy).
• Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards.
• Central Banker of the Year, Asia-Pacific Award - Shaktikanta Das, (RBI) governor
(Encouraging growth and balancing the economy ).
• Most Promising Brand of the Year Award - Amulya Mica (Purbanchal Laminates Pvt
Ltd).
• 15th Annual Banking Technology Conference, Expo and Awards - South Indian Bank
(Banking Technology).
• Ideal Legislative Assembly Speaker / Ideal Legislative - Shri P. Ramakrishnan Speaker of
the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
• ESPN Multi-Sport Annual Awards - PV Sindhu & Saurabh Chaudhary (Sports),
• 20th Edition of Laureus World Sports Awards - Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (Sports).
• FIH Men’s Player of the Year 2019 - Manpreet Singh Pawar (Sports).
• FIH Men’s Rising Star of the Year 2019 - Vivek Sagar Prasad (Sports).
• FIH Women’s Rising Star of the Year 2019 - Lalremsiami (Sports).
• Lifetime achievement award - Dinkar Keshav Raikar (Journalism).
• Chhatra Vishwakarma Awards (CVA) - 23 teams under 8 sub- categories (Project).
• National e-Governance Awards “Excellence in providing Citizen-centric delivery”-
RaidMadad .
• Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 - Dr. N Kumar (TNUA).
MARCH
• Annual PEN/Hemingway Award 2020 - Ruchika Tomar (Novel).
• 61st Annual Lalit Kala Akademi Awards 2020 - 15 Member Awardees (Artists).
• 7th Dr MS Swaminathan Award (2017- 2019) - V Praveen Rao (Education).
• 4th Women Transforming India (WTI) Awards 2019 - 16 Member Awardees (Bravery).
• Best Citizens of India Gold Medal Award - Dr Jaimanti Bakshi (Social Service)
• Nari Shakti Puraskar (Women Shakti Award) 2019 - 15 (Women) Member Awardees
(Social Service)
• 128th Commonwealth Points of Light Award - Jadav Payeng (Environmental Activist).
• Swarajya Awards 2020 - Sarbananda Sonowal (Politics).
• 70th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) 2020 - Mohammad Rasoulof {Film
(There Is No Evil)}.
• Pritzker Architecture prize 2020 - Yvonne Farrell, Shelley McNamara (Architect).
• IIFTC Tourism Impact Award 2020 - Zoya Akhter (Contribution to the world tourism
through her cinema).
• Indian Sportsman 2019 - Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (Sports).
• Hockey India Dhruv Batra Player 2019 - Manpreet Singh Pawar, Rani Rampal (Hockey).
• Lifetime Achievement Award - Pilavullakandi Thekkeparambil Usha (Sports)
• 4th TOISA (Times of India Sports Awards) Awards - Rohit Sharma (Cricketer of the
year).
• 4th TOISA (Times of India Sports Awards) Awards - PV Sindhu (Sportsman of the year).
• Airport Service Quality Awards 2019 - 4 International Airports (Infrastructure).
• Chameli Devi Jain Award 2019 - Arfa Khanum Sherwani (Journalist)
• Business Line Changemaker Awards 2020 - Dutee Chand (India’s first medal in 20 years).
• Business Line Changemaker Awards 2020 - ISRO (Nation Progress).
APRIL
• Edison award 2020 - Tata Power company limited (Social Innovation).
• Child-friendly Gram Panchayat Award(CFGPA) 2020 - Panchayat Jamola Lower of
Rajouri District.
• Guggenheim fellowships 2020 - 4 Member Awardees (Arts).
• William E. Colby Award 2020 - Adam Higginbotham (Books).
• International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2020 - Abdelouahab Aissaoui
• Hero to Animals Award - Naveen Patnaik (Allocating Funds)
• The Medicine Maker Power List 20 For 2020 - 60 Inspirational Leaders (Small Molecules,
Advanced Medicines, and Biopharmaceuticals).
• Ben Stokes - Western Cricketer ‘Almanack’.
MAY
• Inventor of the Year Award - Dr. Rajiv Joshi (improving artificial intelligence (AI)
capabilities).
• United Nations Military Gender Advocate Award (2019) - Suman Gawani (Army).
• Alexander Dalrymple Award - Vice Admiral Vinay Badhwar (Distinguished service).
• Young Career Award 2020 - Professor Saurabh Lodha (Nano Science and Technology).
• Highest paid female athlete in the world - Naomi Osaka (Tennis)
• Fed Cup Heart Award 2020 - Sania Mirza (Tennis).
• SKYTRAX Award 2020 - Kempegowda International Airport (Best Regional Airport).
• The Nobel Prize for forest sector - Professors Nicholas C. Coops, Richard H. Waring,
Joseph J. Landsberg (Forest Sector)
• Nikkei Asia Prizes (2020) - Thalappil Pradeep (Nano Technology).
• Pulitzer Prize 2020 - 3 Indian (Photojournalists).
• Deutsche Welle Freedom of Speech Award 2020 - 17 Member Awardees (Journalism).
JUNE
• Richard Dawkins Award 2020 - Javed Ahktar (Poet, Lyricist & Writer).
• Regional award for Asia in 2020 - Kritika Pandey (Story).
• Peace Prize 2020 - Amartya Kumar Sen (Indian Economist, Philosopher and Nobel Laureate).
• World Food Prize Laureate - Dr. Rattan Lal (Indian-American Soil scientist).
• 100 world’s highest-paid celebrities 2020 - Akshay Kumar (Celebrity) .
• Medal of the Order of Australia - Shobha Sekhar (Musician).
• Annual Daytime Emmy Awards - 43 Member Awardees (Arts & Sciences).
• Vithabai Narayangaokar lifetime achievement award 2018-19 - Gulabbai Sangamnerkar (Arts).
• Humanitarian Award - Beyonce (Long-standing philanthropic work)
• EY World Entrepreneur of the year 2020 - Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Executive Chairperson)
• Biodiversity Award - Deccan Development Society (Environment).
• Top 100 highest paid athletes of 2020 – Virat Kohli (Indian cricket team captain).
• Arjuna award for 2018 - K. Sanjita Chanu (Sports).
JULY
• Von Karman Award 2020 - Kailasavadivoo Sivan (Academic)
• P. C. Mahalanobis National Award - Chakravarthi Rangarajan (National Statistical
System)
• Annual UNIFIL Environment Award 2020 - Indian Battalion(INDBATT) (Increasing
Awareness and Reduce Waste)
• National Award of Excellence 2019 - Kannan CS Warrier (ICFRE).
• International Press Freedom Awards 2020 - 4 Member Awardees (Courageous Act).
• Lifetime Achievement Award - Ashok Kumar (Legendary Hockey Player).
• Global Humanitarian Awards 2020 - Sachin Awasthi (Top Publicit).
• Gulbenkian Prize - Greta Thunberg (Humanity).
• TIFF Tribute Actor Award 2020 - Kate Winslet (Leading Performer).
• Dada Saheb Phalke Award - Kezang D Thongdok (Documentary).
• India’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) - Ravindra Jadeja (Batting and Fielding)
• Legend of Animation award 2020 - Arnab Chaudhuri (Animation).
• Hurun’s Research’s World Richest Man List - Jeff Bezos (Richest Person).
• 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Kritika Pandey (Story).
• 2020 Diana Award - Freya Thakral (Her Recycler App).
• CII-ITC Sustainability Award 2019 - NTPC Limited (Outstanding Accomplishment).
• Development Marketplace Award 2020: Innovations to Address Gender-Based Violence - Institute for
Human Development (IHD) (Project Alcohol).
• Elites Excellence Awards 2020 - Darpan (Mukhyamantri Darpan) Portal and Mobile app (Monitoring
Important Schemes of the Government).
• Water Heroes Award - South Central Railway’s Ongole Sub-Divisional Office.
• USIBC Global Leadership Award - Natarajan Chandrasekaran and Jim Taiclet (Outstanding Leadership
and for promoting Indo-US trade and business).
AUGUST
• The Karmaveer Chakra Award - Sunil Ydv SS (Contribution to The Society).
• Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) Award 2019 - Nitin Sethi (Investigative Journalism)
• Star 2020 E-citation Certification - Ganesh Vilas Lengare (Social Service)
• Pallikkutam National Award - St Christopher School (Innovation in Education).
• Prem Bhatia Award 2020 - Dipankar Ghose (Outstanding Political Reporting of the Year
2020).
• Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) Awards 2020 - Group of Researchers
from (IIT) Kharagpur (Generating Electricity from wet Clothes).
• K P Narayana Kumar Memorial Award 2019 - Shiv Sahay Singh (Social Impact
Journalism).
• National Sports Awards 2020 - 73 Member Awardees (Sports).
• Leadership Award 2020 - Anand Mahindra & Shantanu Narayen (Exemplary Vision and
Effort)
• Global Water Award - Va Tech Wabag (Water Technology).
• Swacchta Hi Seva (Cleanliness is Service) 2019 Award - NLC India Limited(Plastic-free,
Clean and Green Campus).
• SKOCH Gold Award - MoTA (Empowerment of Tribals through IT enabled Scholarship
Schemes).
• Human Capital Management Excellence Award - State Bank of India (SBI) (Nayi Disha).
10.COMMITTEE & MEETING
(FEB-AUG)
FEBRUARY
COMMITTEE
• High-level committee - Biplab Kumar Sarma, Retired former Gauhati High
Court (HC) Justice.
MEETING
• G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors Meeting - Saudi Arabia.
• 9th Defence and Security Expert Working Group (EWG) Meeting - Pakistan.
• Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) - New
Delhi.
• 43rd Governing Council meeting - Italy.
• 16th Commission of the Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) - New Delhi.
MARCH
COMMITTEE
• Bibek Debroy Committee - Bibek Debroy
• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) - Shri Narendra Modi,
Prime Minister (PM)
• High-level technical committee - NITI Aayog member V K Paul.
• 8-member committee - N K Singh.
MEETING
• GST Council meet - New Delhi.
APRIL
COMMITTEE
• 13-member committee - Ravindra H Dholakia.
• 8-Member Committee of Experts - M S Sahoo.
MEETING
• G20 Extraordinary Energy Ministers virtual meeting 2020 - Video Conference.
• BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting - Video Conference.
• Board of Governors of New Development Bank - Video Conference.
• G-20 Extraordinary Agriculture Ministers Meeting - Video Conference.
• Development Committee plenary Meeting - Video Conference.
• Plenary Meeting - Video Conference.
• G20 Trade and Investment Ministers meeting - Video Conference.
• G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting.
• G20 Health Ministers meeting - Video Conference.
MAY
COMMITTEE
• High-powered committee - Ajay Kumar Bhalla.
MEETING
• Finance Commission’s Committee Meeting - Video Conference.
• Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) - Video Conference.
• Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Health Ministers meeting - Video
Conference.
• World Health Assembly (WHA).
• MoRTH & SIAM meeting - Video Conference.
• Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Meeting - Video Conference.
• G20 Digital Economy Ministers meeting
• G20 Trade and investment ministers meet - Video Conference.
JUNE
COMMITTEE
• 3-member high-level committee - SCL Das. Dharmendra Pradhan.
MEETING
• ASEAN youth dialogue 2020.
• EAG plenary meeting 2020.
• G20 Extraordinary Virtual Education Ministers Meeting.
• GST Council Meeting.
JULY
COMMITTEE
• 11-member expert committee - Dr K S Reddy.
• Central Committee - Ranbir Singh.
MEETING
• G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting.
• U.S - India Strategic Energy Partnership (SEP) ministerial meeting.
• Board of Governors of AIIB meeting.
• SCO Health Minister’s Digital Meet - Nirman Pawan, Delhi.
• G20 Digital Economy Minister meeting.
• Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO) meeting 2020.
• Ministerial on Climate Action (MoCA) Meeting.
AUGUST
COMMITTEE
• Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) - Shaktikanta Das.
• Expert Committee - Dr VK Paul.
• Three-Member Committee - G.K. Pillai.
MEETING
• BRICS Environment Ministers’ Meeting – Virtual Platform.
• ASEAN - India Business Council Virtual Meet - Virtual Platform.
• First National Coordination Committee Meeting - Virtual Platform.
• India-UAE Joint Commission Meeting - Virtual Platform.
• 17th Meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission – Video Conference.
• 41st GST Council Meeting – Video Conference.
• 5th BRICS Industry Ministers Meeting - Video Conference.
• Sports Ministers of BRICS Nations Meeting - Virtual Platform.
11.ENVIRONMENT
(FEB-JULY)
FEBRUARY
• World’s largest species of cave fish discovered in Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills.
• ‘Henneguya salminicola’-First ever animal that can survive without oxygen discovered by
Scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU).
• 79-million-year-old fossils of new Thanatotheristes found in Canada.
• India to Switch to Worlds Cleanest Petrol diesel from april 1.
• CMS COP-13 Insects Declined to be Discussed for 1st Time.
• Carbon as old as 8000 years found Deepest blue hole.
• Dolphin Population in Odisha’s Gahirmatha halves
• India-Norway: Bilateral Cooperation to Contain Marine Population.
• Antarctica recorded Hottest Temperature 20.75 degree Celsius.
• Hornbill Festival begins to aim to raise awareness for Bird conservation.
• Mumbai Gets India’s largest air quality monitoring network.
• Climate Change Impact on Agriculture: 50million to be poor by 2030 (UN body).
• Nitin Gadkari inaugurates 1st Intercity Electric Bus Service.
• Tamil Nadu Gov decides to declare Cauvery Delta Region as protected Special Agriculture Zone.
MARCH
• Genetic study revealed the endangered red panda is actually two separate species.
• Newly Discovered insect species named after singer Lady Gaga.
• Fins of prehistoric fish “Elpistostege watsoni” revealed origins of the human hand.
• UK scientists discover fossil of the world’s oldest known modern bird, call it
‘Wonderchicken’.
• Red pandas are actually two separate species, study finds.
• Global coalition for biodiversity launched on World Wildlife Day.
• Coronavirus: Nasa images show China pollution clear amid slowdown.
• National Chambal sanctuary declared as eco-sensitive zone.
• Supreme Court relaxes deadline to transition to BS-VI amid lockdown.
• Protecting peatlands can help attain climate goals: FAO report.
• Skull of smallest known Dinosaur found in 99-Million-Year Old Amber.
• Lady Gaga: Newly Discovered Insect Species Named After Singer.
• Pacific Island Niue becomes the world’s first Dark Sky Nation
• Amazon rainforest may collapse within decades if critical point is reached: Study.
• 32lakh saplings planted so far under ‘Green J&K’ program.
• Over 40% environment-related crimes in Rajasthan during 2014-16: CAG.
• Sanitary Napkin Disposal Bags to be made mandatory from 2021: Prakash Javedekar.
• Black carbon levels spike at Himalayan glaciers.
• Agreement between India and Brunei for Exchange of Information notified.
• India to provide 107.01 million Nepali Rs for 3 new school buildings in Nepal.
• India ranks better in Animal Protection Index 2020, but still needs improvements.
• World’s only female white giraffe and her calf killed by poachers in Kenya.

APRIL
• New pit viper discovered in Arunachal Pradesh named after Harry Potter Character.
MAY
• IMD releases new list of upcoming cyclone names over North Indian Ocean
• NHPC Board Approves Foray into Solar Energy Business.
• GoI launches 5 initiatives towards Conservation of Biodiversity.
• Centre launches scheme to solarise entire Konark Temple, Konark town.
• 40 gharials released in Ghaghara river amid lockdown.
• Union Agriculture Minister calls for farmers movement on integrated soil nutrient
management based on Soil Health Card.
• Tiger population in Sunderbans rises to 96: Report.
• Black panther spotted in Goa’s Netravali sanctuary.
• Three new species of fishes found in Western Ghats.
• US Scientists discover 1st known aquatic Dinosaur ‘Spinosaurus aegyptiacus’.
• Kashmir Saffron receives GI Tag.
• IIG develops new simulation code to electric field structure in Earths Magnetosphere.
• Cyclone Amphan causes havoc in India and Bangladesh.
• A new species of small freshwater fish “Puntius sanctus” Velankanni, Tamil Nadu.
• Zoological Survey of India - 20 species of amphibians & 35 as endangered.
JUNE
• Infosys joins Amazon, signs Climate Pledge to become net-zero carbon.
• Avaada Energy to set up 350 MW solar plant in Maharashtra.
• Culture Ministry to celebrate Sankalp Parva from June 28-July 12.
• Maharashtra renames its environment ministry as ‘Environment & Climate Change
Ministry’.
• New fish species ‘Schizothorax sikusirumensis’ Arunachal Pradesh.
• Uttarakhand opens biodiversity park in Haldwani to encourage conservation.
• India continues to lose forest land to non-forestry projects: Report.
• Road Transport ministry issues distinct colour band for number plate sticker for BS-VI
vehicles.
• Plantation drive named ‘Thank Mom’ started in Madhya Pradesh.
• India secured 168th rank in the 12th edition of EPI Index.
• Urban Forest scheme to develop 200 ‘Nagar Van’ across the country in the next 5 years.
• WWF conducts estimation exercise of Indian Gaur in the Nilgris.
• Kampecaris obanensis is the world’s oldest-known land animal: Scotland Research.
• Researchers of CMFRI have found a rare bandtail scorpionfish in Gulf of Mannar.
JULY
• Sembcorp completes 800MW of SECI wind power projects.
• India Set to Propose World Solar Bank & Mobilize $50 Billion In Solar Funding.
• Former Coal India chief Anil Kumar Jha to head key green panel.
• Javadekar hails KURMA mobile app towards conservation of Indian turtles.
• Bhagirathi eco-sensitive zone gets green nod.
• Tripura: Wildlife researchers rediscover ‘Ypthima watsoni’ butterfly after 61 years.
• New species of fan-throated lizard discovered in northern Karnataka.
• Himalayan butterfly is India’s largest after 88 years.
• Poba Reserve Forest in Assam’s Dhemaji to be upgraded to wildlife sanctuary.
AUGUST
• Centre to launch projects for lion, dolphin conservation.
• Scientists map black swan genome to better understand immune response.
• Greenko Energies signs MoU with NTPC for RE power solutions.
• Germany to issue 'green bonds' worth up to $13B this year.
• Flipkart pledges 100% transition to electric vehicles by 2030.
• Rajasthan solar sector shines bright amidst gloom, adds max capacity in India.
12.DEFENCE
(FEB-AUG)
FEBRUARY
EXERCISE
• National Disaster Response Force hosted a 3 days exercise on “2nd BIMSTEC
Disaster Management Exercise 2020” (Odisha) “A cultural heritage site that suffers
severe damage in the earthquake” & “Flooding or storm”.
• India and United Kingdom conducted a 5 days bilateral air exercise on
“INDRADHANUSH - V” at Air Force Station Hindan in Uttar Pradesh
• “AJEYA WARRIOR -2020” a fourteen days program was hosted by Indian Army
and United Kingdom Army at Salisbury Planes, United Kingdom.
• Indian Navy hosted 5 day coastal security exercise on “MATLA ABHIYAAN” in
Sunderban Delta waters.
• INS Dega conducted a mock situation to handle hijack threats on “ANTI HIJACK”
in Vishakhapatnam Airport, Andhra Pradesh.
• Ministry of Defence with government of Uttar Pradesh conducted “11th Edition of
DefExpo – 2020” in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. “India : The Emerging Defence
Manufacturing HUB”.
TESTING
• Pranash, Ballistic Missile was tested by Defence Research and Development
Organisation
• Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft was developed by BAE systems and
Prismatic Ltd. It was tested at Royal Australian Air Force Woomera Range in
Australia.
• Pakistan completed the testing on Ra’ad – II, Cruise Missle in Land and Sea.
DEALS & MOU’S
• Defence deals set to cross USD 16 billion.
• Ministerial-level defence dialogue 2020 between India and South Korea was hosted
in New Delhi.
• United States approves sale of Integrated Air Defence Weapon System to India.
ARMY,NAVY &AIR FORCE NEWS
• India – Russia Indian Army and Private firm developed the worlds cheapest gun
shot locator “PARTH”.
• INS Jamuna initiated joint Hydrographic operations off Sri Lanka.
• L&T MBDA MAISSILE Systems sets up missile integration facility in Coimbatore,
Tamil Nadu.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh announced to create 10 more defence
Attache posts
• In a 1st ,HAL to make advanced armed UAVs with Israeli Company.
• Navy to get third Scorpene Submarine in December 2020.
• GRSE delivers 4th Anti-Submarine warfare corvette INS Kavarati to Navy.
• Indian Army is set to get new headquarters – The Thal Sena Bhawan in Delhi
Cantonment.
• Indian Army Major Anoop Mishra develops worlds first bulletproof helmet
that can stop AK-47firing.
• IDSA renamed as Manohar Parikar Institute for Defence Studies and
Analysis.
• India to get Peninsular &Air Defence Command by next 2021, theatre
commands by 2022.
MARCH
EXERCISE
• Indian Coast Guard conducted a 2-day program on “SAREX-2020” in Vasco, South Goa. Theme :
“Harmonization of Maritime and Aeronautical Search and Rescue” (HAMSAR).
TESTING
• Common Hypersonic Glide Body was tested by the United States Army and Navy in Pacific Missile
Range Facility (Hawaii).
DEALS & MOU’S
• Ministry of Defence signs Rs 880 (Negev 7.62*51mm Light Machine Guns) Israel Weapons
Industries.
• India & U.S signed Rs 1200 crore deal for missile protection suites for new Boeing – 777 VVIP
Planes
• DAC gives green signal to procure Tejas Mark 1A fighter aircraft and defence equipment
ARMY,NAVY & AIRFORCE NEWS
• India & France conduct joint patrols for the first time.
• Armed forces spends Rs 26.12 crore in legal expenses
• New draft defence procurement Procedure 2020 unveiled, aims to boost indigenization; introduced
‘leasing’ category
• Permanent commission to women in Indian Navy (Supreme Court).
APRIL
EXERCISE
• Australia has cancelled the premier Multilateral air combat training exercise
“Pitch Black” in collaboration with India.
• The Navy of the United States will host the world’s largest Maritime exercise
“The Rim of Pacific” in Huwali.
• NCC Yodgan was conducted by National Cadet Corps to fight COVID – 19.
ARMY, NAVY & AIRFORCE NEWS
• Indian Air Force transports 6.2 tons of essential medicines to Maldives under
“Operation Sanjeevani”.
MAY
TESTING
• USS Portland was developed by US Navy to successfully destroy the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
DEALS & MOU’S
• Defence Ministry signs contract with Tata Power SED for Phase - II of Modernization of Air Field
Infrastructure.
ARMY, NAVY& AIR FORCE NEWS
• Indian Navy Commissions 7th ship of MK IV class Landing Craft utility ‘IN LCU L57’ at Port
Blair.
• Indian coast guard ship sachet, interceptor boats C-450 and C-451 Commissioned : Rajnath Singh.
• Western Naval Command sets up Ultraviolet sanitization Bay at the Naval Dockyard.
• Indian Navy’s ‘Samudra Setu’ to bring stranded Indian citizens from Maldives; Air India will
evacuate from other 12 nations.
• DRDO’s RCI develops ‘ANIA’ AI based Attendance application.
• Indian Navy made breathable PPE kit “NavRakshak”.
JUNE
ARMY, NAVY & AIRFORCE NEWS
• DRDO develops Dry Heat Treatment Chamber “GERMIKLEAN” to sanitise
uniforms of Security Force.
• Airborne Rescue Pod for Isolated Transportation (ARPIT) inducted by the
Indian Air Force.
• Indian Navy inducts Advanced Torpedo Decoy System ‘MAAREECH’
indigenously developed by DRDO labs - NPOL & NSTL.
• Indian Navy inaugurates Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle Complex at
Visakhapatnam.
• Indian Tri-Service Contingent marches in Moscow Victory-Day parade.
• China to join UN Arms Trade Treaty to enhance ‘peace & Stability’.
• DIAT develops Ayurvedic face mask ‘Pavitrapati’.
• First Time India sends tri-services contingent to Russia’s Victory Day Parade.
JULY
EXERCISE
• India, Japan Hold PASSEX Naval Exercise to promote understanding in Indian
Ocean.
TESTING
• Defence Research Body Develops Fully Indigenous P7 Heavy Drop System.
ARMY,NAVY & AIRFORCE NEWS
• First five Rafale jets land at Ambala air force station; India welcomes the
'Golden Arrows.
• Women officers can now get permanent commission in Indian Army: MoD.
• Govt unveils amended draft acquisition procedure for defence products.
• Air Marshal VR Chaudhary appointed new chief of Western Air Command.
• Indian Navy holds passage exercise with 'USS Nimitz' carrier group.
AUGUST
EXERCISE
• India withdraws from multilateral military exercise in Russia.
• Indian Troops To Participate In Military Exercise In Russia With China, Pakistan.
ARMY,NAVY & AIRFORCE NEWS
• Indian Navy begins three-day Naval Commanders Conference.
• DRDO sets up 5-member committee to overhaul its labs to meet future defence needs.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launches SRIJAN portal for Indigenization in Defence
Sector.
• DAC approves procurement proposals worth Rs 8,722.38 crore.
• AFAC Commandant assumes office.
13.MoUs &
Agreements
(Feb-Aug)
FEBRAURY
• MoU’s BETWEEN COUNTRY
1. India & Norway Signed 4 MoUs (A Memorandum of Understandings) in the field of Research and higher
education to strengthen their bilateral partnership.
2. India & Maldives to establish Addu tourism Zone on 5 islands of Addu Atoll in Maldives with a project cost
of $2.49 million.
3. India & Myanmar For regular passenger bus service between Imphal and Mandalay.
4. India & Sri Lanka For up-gradation of infrastructure in plantation schools for estate workers of Indian
origin.

• MoU’s BETWEEN ORGANIZATION

1. CSIR-CFTRI & APEDA To set up a Liaison Office, Guwahati, Assam to provide technical support to the
food industries in the NorthEast region.
2. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M), Tamil Nadu & All India Institutes of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS), Mangalagiri,Andhra Pradesh Has announced to collaborate together in areas such as patient
safety and quality healthcare.
3. State-owned Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) & BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) For
installing 1000 public charging stations for Electric Vehicles.
4. State run power- giant NTPC & CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board) To provide financial support for
installation & commissioning of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations (CAAQMS).
• OTHER MoU’s
1. BBIN (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal) Nations deliberated on MoU to implement Motor Vehicles
Agreement (MVA)
2. Bihar to get north India’s first bird ringing station and MoU inked in Gujarat
3. India & Norway signs LoI for collaboration on blue economy for sustainable development in New Delhi,
India
4. MoU signed between NMCG, (SPMG-UK) & ICT to renovate Ghats at Gangotri & Badrinath
 MARCH
• MoU’s WITH STATES
1. Tripura State Government &Airport Authority of India (AAI) For the construction of the 6 equipment hiring
centers in Manu Block, Dhalai district, Tripura.
2. Gujarat Government & A Dutch Flying car-maker, PAL-V (Personal Air Land Vehicle) To set up a
manufacturing plant in Gujarat.

• MoU’s BETWEEN ORGANIZATION

1. Indian Air Force (IAF) & Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) Signed a MoU (Memorandum of
Understanding) to establish a ‘Chair of Excellence’ at Department of Defense & Strategic Studies at Pune,
Maharashtra.
2. Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) & Patanjali Bio Research Institute (PBRI) to add a new
dimension to the field of farming by undertaking research work as well as training and education.
3. Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana- National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) & Amazon For electronic
marketing (e-Marketing) of products made by Self Help Groups (SHGs) across the Country.
4. Telecommunications consultants India Limited (TCIS) & Gambia -This MoU is signed for the participation in
MEA’s
5. (eVBAB) e-VidyaBharati and e-ArogyaBharati Network Project
6. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) & Aditya Mehta Foundation (AMF) to train its 189 CRPF personnel
who had lost their limbs in operations in areas of cyber security, artificial intelligence (AI) and Paralympic
sports.
7. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) & Small
FarmersAgribusiness Consortium (SFAC) Aims for better synergy with this organization for the
development of agriculture, allied sectors and its exports for bringing better value to the stakeholders.
8. L&T Technology Services (LTTS) & Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-Kanpur) to collaborate on
research industrial and infrastructure cybersecurity.
 APRIL
• MoU’s BETWEEN ORGANIZATION
1. United Nations Industrial Development Organization & Consumer Unit and Trust Society (CUTS) &
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has signed an MoU to promote consumers
to contribute to the global development agenda as well as support their respective governments in times of
global crisis like coronavirus
2. (CSIR- CDRI) & King George’s Medical University (KGMU) to sequence the virus strains obtained from
COVID-19 patients in Uttar Pradesh.
 MAY
• MoU’s BETWEEN COUNTRY
1. India Bangladesh Signed the 2nd Addendum to the Protocol on Inland Water Transit and Trade in Dhaka.

• MoU’s WITH STATES

1. Jammu and Kashmir &Tata Technologies limited stration has signed an MoU to set up 2 Centres for
Invention, Innovation, Incubation and Training (CIIITs) in the Union Territory (UT), one each at
Government Polytechnic Colleges at Jammu and Baramulla.

• MoU’s BETWEEN ORGANIZATION

1. Punjab National Bank Housing Finance Limited (PNBHFL) & Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
for a development of a unique prototype material to be used in the manufacture of washable andreusable
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
2. Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL) & Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur for the large-scale
manufacture of ventilators developed by NOCCA Robotics
3. CSIR-IGIB & TATA Sons for licensing of KNOWHOW related to the development for FNCAS9
4. TRIFED & Art of Living (AOL) To collaborate in programmes of each organisation to promote the tribal
enterprises.
5. Coir Board & Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras for setting up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) to
boost the use of Coir applications (exclusively or in combination with other natural fibres).
6. Directorate General Defence Estates (DGDE) & Ministry of Defence & eGov Foundation Has signed MoU
through video conference to implement a cloud- based platform to deliver various citizen services under the
program e-Chhawani & to drive e-governance and improved citizen services across all 62 cantonment
boards in the country.
7. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) & NTPC to gain significant growth in the renewable
power sector.
8. Power Finance Corporation (PFC) & Narmada Basin Projects Company limited (NBPCL) for the 225 MW
hydro-electric projects and 12 multipurpose projects in the Madhya Pradesh
9. The Karnataka State Mango Department and Marketing Corporation Ltd. (KSMD&MCL) and Flipkart
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support the mango farmers in this mango season to sell
their produce through the online platform of Flipkart.
JUNE
• MoU’s BETWEEN COUNTRY
1. The Ministry of Power, Government of India and the Ministry for Government of Denmark signed an MOU to
develop strong cooperation and promote strategic intervention in the power sector on 5th June 2020.
2. The Bhutan government and the Kholongchhu Hydro Energy Limitedsigned the Concession Agreement for 600
Mega Watt (MW)Kholongchhu hydroelectric Project (Joint Venture of India andBhutan) in Thimphu.

• MoU’s WITH STATES

1. The Uttar Pradesh State MSME (Micro, Small and MediumEnterprises) signed the MoU with the Industries and
Business Chambers to promote the MSMEsector and provide employment for around 10 lakh skilled and semi-
skilled workers.
2. Maharashtra government signed 12 Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) with 12 domestic and foreign
companies for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) worth over Rs 16,000 crores. It is a part of the Magnetic
Maharashtra 2.0 initiative.

• MoU’s BETWEEN ORGANIZATION

1. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Bengaluru signed a MoU with the Aryabhatta Research
institute of Observational Science (ARIES), Nainital, Uttarakhand for the cooperation in the field of Space
Situational Awareness (SSA) and Astrophysics.
3. Board of BEML & MELCO (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) for Manufacturing, Partnerships under
“Make in India” policy.
4. Ircon International Ltd (IRCON), a public sector enterprise(miniratna) has signed a MoU with National
Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited (NIIFL) and Ayana Renewable Power Private Limited
(AYANA), NIIF platform company to explore and collaborate on opportunities in the solar energy sector.
5. State-owned Natural gas company GAIL (India) Ltd and Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) signed
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for development of” trigeneration” projects in India. The aim of
the MoU is to build a close strategic partnership between the two companies by jointly exploring business
opportunities in the trigeneration business segment in India.
6. The Noida based National Fertilizers Limited (NFL), a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE) works
under the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, has signed a MoU with Industrial Training Institutes (ITI)
Nangal (Punjab) to train youths in 1trades under Dual System of Training Scheme. NFL becomes first
CPSE to take this initiative in the state of Punjab.
7. Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO) & Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)
For joint research, testing and validation of different products
8. Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has inked MoU with Lucknow based Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to make latter as the implementation Agency for Prime Minister Street
Vendor’s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) – a Special Micro-Credit Facility for Street Vendors.
9. Serum Institute of India signed supply agreement with UNICEF to supply pneumonia vaccine to low-
income countries
 JULY
MOU between Countries
1. India & Bangladesh Signed an agreement for formation of 50:50 Joint Venture Company (JVC) of
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) business in Bangladesh.
2. India and Indonesia, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Indian Coast
Guard (ICG) and Indonesian Coast Guard on ‘Maritime Safety and Security’.
3. Government of India has inked 5 Memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Afghanistan under the
former’s high impact community development projects (HICDP) programme.
4. India & Israel Signed an agreement to further expand their collaboration in dealing with cyber threats.
5. Government of India (GoI) has signed an agreement with Ministry of Health of Maldives for the
establishment of ‘Emergency Medical Services Unit’ at Baa Atoll Dharavandhoo Hospital in Malé.
6. The Pakistan and Gezhouba Group Company Limited of China signed an Engineer Procurement and
Contract (EPC) agreement for the 700 MW Azad Pattan Hydel Power Project on Jhelum River in the
Sudhnoti District of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
7. India and Maldives inked an agreement to set up Geydoshu Mas Plant (Neighbourhood Fish Processing
Plants) at two islands in the Addu city of Maldives namely Maradhoo and Hulhudhoo.
MoU’s WITH STATES
1. Flipkart and the Department of MSME of Government of Karnataka signed a MoU under Flipkart’s
Samrath programme to promote the arts, Crafts and Handloom sector of Karnataka by providing market
access through e-commerce platform and to increase the local business.
2. The Government of Andhra Pradesh signed a MoU with AMUL (Anand Milk Union Limited) to empower
women self-help groups (SHG) and to encourage the cooperatives in government sectors.
3. Jharkhand & HDFC Bank To provide digital payment solutions to the state’s transport department.
4. The Punjab government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) – Ropar, for Skill Development in Chandigarh.
5. The UK India Business Council (UKIBC) signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) over a virtual
platform with the Industrial Extension Bureau (iNDEXTb), Industries and Mines Department,
Government of Gujarat to speed up the business and industrial development process of Gujarat.

MoU’s BETWEEN ORGANIZATION

1. Indian Railways & RailTel Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for installation of an IP-
based video surveillance system (VSS) at 6,049 railway stations across the country.
2. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the National Medicinal plants Board
(NMPB) under the Ministry of AYUSH and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)- National
Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR – located at New Delhi) under Department of Agricultural
Research and Education to conserve Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Genetic Resources (MAPGRs).
3. The UK India Business Council (UKIBC) signed a MoU with Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation
(MIDC), to improve the business relationship between India (Maharashtra) and the United Kingdom (UK).
4. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the data exchange between the two organisations via video
conference.
5. The Alumni Council of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Alumni Council) signed an agreement for joint
research on COVID-19 and patient data analysis with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research –
Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB), New Delhi.
6. Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) inked an agreement with the New Okhla Industrial Development
Authority (NOIDA) to install public Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations & related infrastructure in order to
promote the usage of electric vehicles.
7. The National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the
National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to access the centralised online Crime and Criminal Tracking
Network and Systems (CCTNS) database for getting details of First Information Reports (FIRs) and stolen
vehicles.
8. BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange) informed that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with IIT Alumni Council to encourage the listing of start-ups and develop a ‘High Investor Depth’ platform for
those start-ups.
9. The NTPC Limited signs the MoU with National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), acting through
National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited (NIIFL) to seek investment opportunities in areas like
renewable energy, power distribution and other areas of mutual interest in India.
10. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
(MoMSME) signed the formal memorandum of understanding (MoU) for sharing of data related to
income tax returns by the CBDT to the Ministry of MSME.
11. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC),
signed A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a smoother data exchange between the two
organisations.
12. Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bharat
Electronics Ltd (BEL) through video conferencing to collaborate and support the emerging global
opportunities in the airport business, including those in the Asia Pacific region.
13. The GAIL (India) limited and Carbon Clean Solutions Limited (CCSL) signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to explore the project development opportunities in the Compressed Biogas (CBG)
value chain in India.
14. The PFC (Power Finance Corporation) signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology-
Kanpur (IIT-K) in order to provide training, research and Entrepreneurship Development (ED) in Smart
grid technology.
15. The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
through video conference with The Green Energy Corporation of Odisha Limited (GEDCOL) to develop
floating solar power projects with a total capacity of 500 Megawatts (MW) in the state of Odisha.
OTHER MoU’S
1. MoU Signed Between Indian Oil, NTPC Ltd, and SDMC for Waste to Energy Plant in Delhi
2. Ministry of Defence signed with BEML to procure Mine Plough for Battle Tank T-90
3. India & Southern African Customs Union revived initiative for Preferential Trade Agreement via virtual
meet
4. India-European Union Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation renewed for next five years
(2020-2025)
5. TRIFED Signed Tripartite MoU with IIT Delhi and Vijnana Bharati Under Unnat Bharat Abhiyan of
MHRD
6. CSIR, UBA-IIT Delhi and VIBHA Signs a Tripartite MoU to Adopt CSIR Technologies for Rural
Development
 AUGUST
MoU’s BETWEEN COUNTRY
1. India & Maldives Signed a contract for the development of five eco-tourism zones in Addu atoll of
Maldives
2. India Nigeria Government of India signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on space cooperation
with the Federal government of Republic of Nigeria
3. India Israel India signed a cultural agreement with Israel, to strengthen the strategic bilateral relations
through promoting the people to people

MoU’s WITH STATES

4. Andhra Pradesh Government virtually signed the MoU through the Economic Development Board, with
the Hyderabad-based Indian School of Business (ISB) for setting up a public policy lab called “GoAP-ISB
Policy Lab”
5. Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC) has signed a Memorandum of Association (MoA) with District
Administration of Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh (UP) to construct 2 Modular Operation Theatre Rooms
in the District Hospital, Siddharthnagar.
6. The E-commerce platform Flipkart signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Uttar Pradesh
Government’s One District, One Product (ODOP) scheme.
7. Andhra Pradesh (AP) Government signed a MoU with The Boston Group (TBG) to set up a facility at
Visakhapatnam dedicated to Research and Development (R&D) in the Information Technology sector.
8. Goa’s Directorate of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (DSDE) has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) for setting up an Institute to
provide Advanced Skills Training.
9. The Delhi government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Institutes of
Technology (IIT)-Bombay and Tata Projects Limited to construct a 20- metre-high smog tower in
Connaught Place, New Delhi
10. Goa signed a tripartite memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Siemens Limited and Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) India to provide world class German dual
vocational education and training in Goa’s Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs).
11. Delhi signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bloomberg Philanthropies for road safety
12. The government of Uttar Pradesh (UP) signed an agreement with the Israel’s Water Resource Minister for
the water resource management in Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh.
13. The Government of Himachal Pradesh (HP) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth
Rs110 Crores with Micro Tek New Technologies Private Ltd for setting up an Electronics Manufacturing
Unit at Baddi, Solan District, Himachal Pradesh.
14. Haryana government’s employment department signed an MoU with M3M Foundation, the philanthropic
arm of M3M Group to facilitate students’ online preparation, training andmentoring for entrance
examinations of government jobs.

MoU’s BETWEEN ORGANIZATION

1. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) signed an agreement with IIT Delhi to set up a Centre of
Excellence (CoE) for use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in data driven decision making and Advance Data
Management System for Highways
2. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed agreement with Food Safety and
Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) for collaborative research and information dissemination in the area
of food and nutrition
3. Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB) has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with IIT
Delhi to set up a Geographical Information System (GIS) based platform for air quality management in
Bihar.
4. Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) & Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) Signed a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) to take the convergence endeavour (efforts of both ministries) ahead and support
rural poor including tribal communities.
5. All India Football Federation (AIFF) & International Professional Scouting Organization (IPSO) To
conduct online Scouting Workshops throughout India.
6. National Seeds Corporation (NSC) & Jute Corporation of India (JCI) Signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to improve the production and productivity of raw Jute in the country.
7. IIT Roorkee & Bureau of India Standards (BIS) Signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for
collaboration in areas of Standardisation and Conformity Assessment based on equality and reciprocity.
8. L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE), has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with power
utility major NTPC Ltd to build a carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol demonstration plant in NTPC Power
Station.
9. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Ministry of Shipping (MoS) and
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) for skilling, re-skilling and upskilling of
manpower in Port, Maritime sectors.
10. Flipkart signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IIT Patna to support the industry focused
applied research in the fields like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Machine Learning (ML).
11. Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), a Mumbai based company signed a MoUwith REE Automotive, a Tel-
Aviv, Israel based start-up firm to explore development and manufacturing of electric commercial vehicles
for the global market.
14.Summits &
conference
(FEB-AUG)
 FEBRAURY
1. DefExpo 2020 Lucknow, Uttarpradesh
2. 2th edition of the South Asia Conference New Delhi
3. Narmada Mahotsav 2020 Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh
4. India’s biggest rural technical festival ‘Antahpragnya 2020’ Telangana
5. National Conference on Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Pathways for Inclusion and Action for Resilience-
New Delhi
6. Central Asia Business Council -New Delhi.
7. 5th India-Russia Military Industrial Conference- Lucknow
8. 5th edition of Dhaka Art Summit -Dhaka, Bangladesh.
9. National Conference on e-Governance 2020 -Mumbai
10. 22nd Edition of India International Seafood show- Kochi, Kerala
11. 4 th Edition of East Asia Summit conference on Maritime security cooperation 2020 -Chennai, Tamilnadu
12. 33rd edition of the African Union (AU) summit -Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
13. 6th edition of the mega industrial exhibition ‘Engiexpo 2020’- Vadodara, Gujarat
14. ClimFishCon 2020, an international conference on the impact of climate change on, fisheries and food security’- Kerala
15.13th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of
Wild Animals (CMS)- Gandhinagar, Gujarat
16.National Water Conference -Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
17.National Workshop on Disaster Risk Financing, Insurance and Risk Transfer -Mumbai,
Maharashtra
18.India Action Plan 2020 Summit -New Delhi
19.BIMSTEC’s Conference on Combating Drug Trafficking -New Delhi.
20.National Workshop on Disaster Risk Financing, Insurance, and Risk Transfer- Mumbai
21.BioAsia 2020 Summit -Hyderabad, Telangana
22.International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 43rd Governing Council meeting -
Rome, Italy
23.All India Conference of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) -New Delhi
24.3rd High-Level Global Conference on Road Safety for Achieving Global Goals 2030 -Stockholm,
Sweden.
25.Global Investors' Summit 2020 -Srinagar
15.5th edition of Difficult Dialogues 2020 -Goa
16.“Chintan Shivir” Kevadia in Gujarat.
17.National Organic Food Festival 2020 -New Delhi
18.International Judicial Conference- New Delhi
19.Sustainable Development Goals Conclave 2020: Partnerships, Cooperation and Development of North
Eastern states -Guwahati, Assam
20.9th Defence and Security Expert Working Group (EWG) meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
(SCO) -Pakistan
21.2nd Edition of Exhibition and Conference on Agritechnology & Innovation –Hyderabad
22.International Judicial Conference -New Delhi
23.National Conference on Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience (CDRR&R) 2020 –New Delhi.
24."Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020" (RAISE 2020)- New Delhi 1
25.7th edition of the Special Committee for InterLinking of Rivers (ILR) -New Delhi.
26.An International Conference on Standardisation of Diagnosis and Terminologies in Ayurveda, Unani and
Siddha Systems of Medicine (ICoSDiTAUS-2020) -New Delhi
. OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS
 Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation of India (TRIFED) organized a workshop on Van
Dhan and Entrepreneurship Development.
 Secretary of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare (FW) Sanjay Agarwal inaugurated the 4th National Conference
on Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in Udaipur, Rajasthan
 NITI Aayog under the chairmanship of CEO Amitabh Kant organized a meeting to charge the API Industry
 Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (Mo I&B) in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) hosted India Networking Reception at Berlinale 2020.
 National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)
has organized a 3-day international conference on Ensemble Methods in Modelling and Data Assimilation
(EMMDA) in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
 Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is working on
a project of connecting about 3,000 kilometre-long power grid from Myanmar-Thailand to India.
 Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda inaugurated the All India Tribal Workers Meet in Delhi .
 A Higher Education Leadership Development Programme for Administrator has been launched by the
Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal.
 A Joint Seminar on the theme "Challenges Of The Evolving Threats Facing India" was held at Air Force
Station Tughlakabad, New Delhi.
MARCH
1. 19th edition of World Productivity Congress (WPC) -Bengaluru, Karnataka -Theme: “Industry 4.0: Innovation and
Productivity”.
2. 108th Indian Science Congress -Pune -Theme: “Science and Technology for Sustainable Development with Women
Empowerment”
3. International Olympic Committee's (IOC) session -Mumbai
4. Pragyan Conclave 2020 -New Delhi
5. "International Conference on Nano Science and Technology" (ICONSAT) -Kolkata, West Bengal
6. Kobita Utsav Kolkata PRAGYAN Conclave 2020 -New Delhi
7. Fourth International Diabetes Summit 2020 -Pune
8. Wings India 2020 Hyderabad
9. 9th GST Council Meeting -New Delhi
10.Meeting on Research in Indian Traditional Knowledge Systems -New Delhi
11.7th World Cities Summit (WCS) -Singapore -The theme for WCS 2020 is ”Livable and Sustainable Cities: Adapting to a
Disrupted World”.
12.Virtual G20 Leaders Summit -Saudi Arabia
• OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS
 The Competition Commission of India (CCI) organized the Fifth National Conference on Economics of
Competition Law at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi
 The District Employment and Counseling Centre has organized a Workshop-cum-Awareness Programme on
the Skill Development for Unorganized Workers. The workshop was held in Kulgam, Jammu & Kashmir.
 A national level Training Workshop on COVID-19 Management for all the states and hospitals was
organized in New Delhi.
 Eleventh Bengaluru INDIA Nano conference and exhibition showcased technologies and products developed
by academia and companies in nanotechnology.
 The United Kingdom (UK) was confirmed as the first co-chair of the governing council of India-led global
Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI).
 Invest India launched a platform named "The Invest India Business Immunity Platform".
 The G20 nations agreed to collectively inject $5 trillion into the world economy.
 India has proposed to set up a common electronic platform for all South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) nations.
 The Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH) has postponed the 49th edition of Indian
Handicrafts and Gifts Fair (IHGF)-Delhi Fair Spring 2020.
 APRIL
1. COP 26 climate change summit – 2021 ( postponed – glasgow,UK)
2. Dharmendhra pradhan - the G20 Extraordinary Energy Ministers’ virtual meeting
3. ASEAN’s special summit on covid 19 – chairperson vietnam
4. G-20 Extraordinary Agriculture Ministers Meeting through Video Conferencing to address issues related to
covid-19 – Narendra singh tomar.
5. Pakistan will host SAARC virtual conference on COVID-19
6. 1st virtual 11th session of Petersberg Climate Dialogue 2020 – prakash javedkhar
7. 5th Annual Meeting of Board of Governors of New Development Bank (NDB) through videoconference –
nirmala sitharaman
8. The 15th Finance Commission held meeting with its Advisory Council – NK singh
9. EAM Jaishankar to participate in BRICS Foreign Ministers meeting on response to COVID-19 pandemic
10. The Union Minister prakash javedkhar also participated in an Indo-German bilateral meeting with
Ms.Svenja Shulze.
11.Virtual Meeting of G20 Trade and Investment Ministers: Piyush Goyal participated
 MAY
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to participate in a virtual summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) on 4 May.
2. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr. Jitendra Singh, addressed
the Bamboo Conclave through Video Conference.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the online Summit of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Contact Group was held
on 4 May 2020 to discuss the response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
4. The 14th meeting of the High-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was held at Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi on 5
May.
5. Coronavirus Global Response International pledging conference was held virtually on 5 May. The conference began on 4 May
and expected to end on 23 May.
6. The National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology, Government
of India, in association with the Gujarat Council of Science & Technology (GUJCOST) has announced to organize a Citizen’s
Science Webinar Series on "Science Communication in the Time of COVID-19."
7. Ministry of Tourism organized the 17th session of the Dekho Apna Desh webinar on 9 April 2020. The webinar was titled
'Exploring River Nila' was about showcasing meaningful travel experiences for travelers that are offered by relatively
unvisited places.
8. The Technology Development Board (TDB) a statutory body of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) along with the
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will organise a high-level digital conference on ‘Rebooting the Economy through
Science, Technology and Research Translations (RESTART)’ on May 11, 2020, to celebrate the National Technology Day
9. Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda held a video conference with States/UTs on “Tribal
livelihoods and safety” in New Delhi on 13 May.
10.The Ministry of Tourism organized the 18th Dekho Apna Desh webinar series on 12 May 2020.
11. Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has organised the Indo-
Bangladesh “Virtual Conference”.
12. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar participated in the virtual meeting of Foreign Ministers of Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member countries on 13 May.
13.The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar held a meeting with
representatives of the Pesticide Manufacturing Industry through video conferencing to check the strategy to
prevent locust attacks on agricultural fields.
14.Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare participated in the 32nd Commonwealth
Health Ministers' Meeting through Video Conference on 14 May.
15. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare participated in the 73rd World Health
Assembly (WHA) through Video Conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
16. Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman has announced several initiatives to
boost education sector,on 17th May in New Delhi.
17. Development of Museums and Cultural Spaces, Ministry of Culture, Government of India hosted a
webinar on "Revitalising Museums and Cultural Spaces" on 18 May
18.Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan attended Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) through video conference
19.Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh participates in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs)
Econclave, “Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM) MSME Conclave 2020“,
20.Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) E-conclave was chaired by the Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh.
21. A Webinar under Know Your Scheme-Lecture Series on “Van Dhan Yojana : Learning For Post Covid-19” was
organized today by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of Rajasthan in association with
Trifed, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India.
22. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman attended the Special Board of Governors meet of New Development bank
through video conference.
23. Ministry of Tourism, Government of India’s Dekho Apna Desh Webinar Series titled , “Culture & Tourism- Two
sides of Goan economy on 26th May 2020
24.The 22nd meeting of Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) through video conferencing is
underway in New Delhi.
25. The Delimitation Commission held a meeting to review the progress of directions that were provided during its
meet in April, 2020.
26.The meeting of the Heads of Tax Authorities of the BRICS countries, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa was held
27.Ministry of Tourism organized its 25th webinar titled ‘Northeast India for the immersive traveller’ under Dekho
Apna Desh Series
JUNE
1. Prime Minister Addresses the virtual Global Vaccine Summit 2020
2. WEF Davos summit to focus on 'The Great Reset' in 2021
3. FM Nirmala Sitharaman to chair 40th GST council meeting through video conferencing
4. India-ASEAN Youth Dialogue 2020 Held Online Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
5. 24th Meeting of the FSDC Sub-Committee over Video Conference
6. India Ideas Summit to discuss geopolitics in post-COVID world virtually on July 21-22
7. Indian officials attend virtual EAG plenary meet in June
8. The 36th ASEAN Summit being hosted by Vietnam
9. S Jaishankar to join Russia-India-China trilateral virtual conference
10. Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurates India's one of India's largest & first Virtual Healthcare & Hygiene
EXPO 2020
11.Union Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar inaugurates Virtual India Pavilion at Cannes Film Market 2020
12.Piyush Goyal Led the Governing Council Meeting of National Productivity Council
 JULY
SUMMITS
1. The 15th summit between India and the European Union (EU) was held virtually where India was
represented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the EU was represented by Charles Michel, President of
the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered the keynote address at the two days long (July 21-22) virtual
India Ideas Summit 2020 which was hosted by US-India Business Council (USIBC) under the theme
“Building a Better Future”.

CONFERENCE
1. Union Minister of Defence, Rajnath Singh, inaugurated the Air Force Commanders Conference (AFCC) at
the Air Force Headquarters (Vayu Bhawan), New Delhi.
 AUGUST
SUMMITS
1. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and Road Transport &
Highways addressed the “India@75 Summit – Mission 2022”
2. The 8th East Asia Summit Economic Ministers’ Meeting (EAS-EMM) was held virtually which was
attended by Economic Ministers from the ten ASEAN Member States

EVENTS
1. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
organized the two-day long 6th Round Table of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)-India
Network of Think Tanks (AINTT) through video conference on the theme “ASEAN- India: Strengthening
Partnership in the Post COVID Era”.

CONFERENCE
1. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Union Minister for Education inaugurated the global conference on
“Reimagining and Transforming the University: Confluence of Ideas during andBeyond the COVID-19
Disruption” hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) and International Institute for Higher
Education Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd) on 6th and 7th August 2020.
2. IC-IMPACTS (The India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate
Community Transformation and Sustainability) 2020 Annual Research Conference held Virtually on Aug
6-7, 2020 to discuss the ways to elevate the inter-country cooperation to the next Level by strengthening
existing international connections
3. Piyush Goyal, Union Commerce and Industry & Railways Minister virtually inaugurated the 4th edition
of 2-day ‘National Public Procurement Conclave (NPPC) 2020: Digital Exhibitions and Conferences’, on
August 9, 2020 under the theme “Technology enabled Govt Procurement – Towards efficiency,
transparency, and Inclusiveness”.
4. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare; Science & Technology and Earth Sciences
virtually addressed the inaugural session of the two-day long CII Public Health Conference, where he
inaugurated “India Healthcare Week” with the theme “Redefining Healthcare Ecosystem”
5. The 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament (5WCSP) was inaugurated virtually (1st time in
virtual mode). It was organised jointly by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva and the
Parliament of Austria with the support of the United Nations (UN).
6. The Naval Commanders’ Conference 2020, a biennial conference was held in New Delhi, India from
August 19 to 21, 2020. Rajnath Singh, Union Defence Minister addressedthe opening session of the
conference.
15.SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
(feb-aug)
FEBRAURY
National
 In a first IAF’S AN-32 aircraft landed at Leh with indigenous bio-jet fuel
 ISRO to unveil low-cost satellite launch vehicles
 ICAR & IVRI released Classical Swine Fever (CSF) cell culture vaccine in New Delhi
 IIT-Madras develops new AI tech to convert speech Impaired Humans Brain Signals into Meaningful Language
 IIT-H finds molecule to cure rare ALS neurodegenerative disease
 IT department introduced e-calculator to compare due tax under new and old regime
 Indian leopard population declined by 75-90% as per study conducted by CWS & WII
 Northern Coalified Limited sets up R&D centre for sustainable coal mining
 Ananth Technologies first Indian private firm to build foreign-owned satellites
 BARC’s Bhabha Kavach inducted in CISF
 ISRO to launch 10 surveillance satellites in 2020-21
 Lithium reserve found in Mandya near Bengaluru
 Cabinet approved Procurement of 24 US made MH-60R Seahawk helicopters
 IRCTC ‘ASKDISHA’ upgraded to converse with Railway Customers in Hindi Language
 4,000-year-old crafts village unearthed near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh by Banaras University
 INCOIS launched three new advance warning systems
 Union Minister of Defence Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurates new Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Production Hangar at
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) complex in Bengaluru
 Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the Universe since the Big Bang in Ophiuchus galaxy cluster
 Indian Army, pvt firm develop world's cheapest gun shot locator
 Great Indian bustard, Asian elephant added to ‘facing extinction’ list
 NIT, Trichy develops a mobile app for Self Help Group products
 Top IITs, IIMs launch iVEIN to promote entrepreneurship
 IIT Madras to join hands with AIIMS Mangalagiri for quality healthcare delivery
 HAL to make advanced armed UAVs with Israeli Co

INTERNATIONAL
 NASA decommissioned its Spitzer Space Telescope after 16 years
 UAE discovers new natural ‘Jebel Ali gas field’ between Abu Dhabi, Dubai
 World’s oldest Bamboo Fossil Discovered turns out to be Conifer
 NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth after record longest stay in ISS
 Astronomers discover monster galaxy XMM-2599 from early universe
 Iran unveils new ballistic missile ‘Raad-500’; dedicated to former Major General Qasim Sulemani
 NASA’s ‘SuperCam’ to study mineralogy of Mars during Mars 2020 rover mission
 US scientists discover the newborn massive planet closer to earth called “2MASS 1155-7919 b”
 Netherlands Scientists discovered new snail species; named after Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg
 Scientists discover breathable oxygen in galaxy outside of Milky Way for 1st time
 HPF validated its 1st exoplanet called G 9-40b
 Astronomers discovered a mini-moon or planet’s 2nd moon, “Dubbed 2020 CD3”
 Astronomers at UBC Astronomy club discovers 17 new planets, including earth-sized world
 8,000 years old Carbon founded inside The Yongle Blue Hole (YBH)
MARCH
NATIONAL
 RaIDer-X, a new explosive detection device unvieled in National Workshop on Explosive Detection (NWED-2020)
held in Pune, Maharashtra
 SCTIMST develops Flow Diverter Stents Technology for the treatment of Aneurysms of brain
 AI-powered drone developed by IIT Madras team counters rogue drones
 IASST researchers have found endophytic Actinobacteria -to replace fertilizers & fungicides in tea plants
 ARCI develops Fuel Cell Technology for Disaster Management
 Scientists at ARCI- Hyderabad develops ‘solar receiver tube technology’ for industrial process heat
 Scientists from INST develops starch-based ‘hemostat’ material to stop rapid blood loss during accidents
 Microsoft & US CDC ties-up to create a COVID-19 self-screening bot, “Clara”
 Pune based ARI scientists develop biofortified high-protein wheat variety ‘MACS 4028’
 ARCI, Hyderabad develops ‘ultrafast laser surface texturing technology’ to improve the fuel efficiency of IC
engines
 IIT Bombay makes glass substrates for 5G devices, consumer electronics
 IIT Guwahati students develop drone to sanitise large areas
 Facebook launches messenger chatbot to share authentic information on Covid-19
 IIT Gandhinagar launches Project 'Isaac' to engage students in creative projects during Corona lockdown
 IIT Delhi makes anti-infection fabric to curb hospital infections
 Tech Mahindra, have developed a district-wise tracking app to help locate COVID-19 cases in the country
 CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (CSIR-IHBT) based in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
develop new hand-sanitizer
 Scientists from the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials
(ARCI), Hyderabad, an autonomous institution under the Department of Science and Technology (DST),
have developed a cost-effective solar receiver tube technology for industrial process heat applications
 CSIR-National Physical Laboratory develops Ink to Curb Fake Printing of Passports and Counterfeiting of
Currency Notes
 Scientists at International Advanced Research for Powder Metallurgy & New Materials (ARCI),
Hyderabad,) have developed Polymer Electrolyte Membrane fuel cells (PEMFC)
 Ranchi University will launch its own Community Radio Station -- Aap Sabka Radio on International
Women's Day
 Researchers at IIT Madras have developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered drone that can counter
‘Rogue Drones.’
 An helpline number has been launched for women students, researchers, entrepreneurs and scientists on
international women’s day on March 8. The Helpline No. 011-2656 5285 would clear doubts cleared related
to programs of Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST)
• INTERNATIONAL
 Doctors from Oregon Health and Science Institute, Portland uses gene editing tool CRISPR (Clustered Regularly
Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technologyto cure blindness for the very first time
 Nasa’s named Mars 2020 rover as Perseverance
 Swiss scientists discover rain of molten iron on distant exoplanet ‘WASP-76b’
 NASA’s CNEOS detects 4 asteroids approaching the earth
 After Covid-19 pandemic “Hantavirus” death reported in China
 ULA’s Atlas 5 launches AEHF-6 communications satellite in its first mission for U.S. Space Force
 North Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the
Korean peninsula.
 Researchers in United States discover communication network in plants
 The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international
team of palaeontologists.
 WhatsApp launches COVID-19 information hub with WHO; grants $1mto IFCN for fact-checkin
 Microsoft launches interactive map to provide COVID-19 global updates
 Astronomers have discovered the biggest explosion in the universe since the Big Bang, in a galaxy far away.
APRIL
• NATIONAL
 Pune Woman behind First Indian made testing tool “Pathodetect Covid-19 Kit”
 IISc Bengaluru develops indigenous ventilator prototype: COVID-19 crisis
 DRDO develops bio suit with seam sealing glue for personnel in front line combat COVID-19 safe
 Press Information Bureau (PIB) sets up COVID-19 fact check unit, started daily bulletin
 Pune based company develops technology- “Scitech Airon negative ion generator”
 Bione launches India’s 1st home screening test kit for COVID-19
 Coronavirus: IIT Roorkee in association with AIIMS-Rishikesh prepares low-cost portable ventilator ‘Prana-vayu’
 Indian Railways’ RCF unit developed low-cost ventilator ‘Jeevan’ to fight COVID-19
 Start-up Aerobiosys Innovations at IIT-Hyderabad develops low-cost ventilator called ‘Jeevan Lite’
 DRDO develops Personnel Sanitisation Enclosure & Full-Face Mask: COVID-19
 DST set up CAWACH at SINE, IIT-B for supporting startups with funding to tackle COVID-19
 Commerce Ministry designs online platform to issue certificate of origin for exporters
 Larsen & Toubro gets big contract from Indian Army to install state-of-the-art IT enabled network
 DRDO & Wipro 3D team together to create full face shield for healthcare personnel treating coronavirus patients
 CSIR- National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune ties up with BEL to produce medical devices
 COVID-19: JNCASR develops antimicrobial coating to stop spread of viruses
 Indian Immunologicals ties up with Australian university to develop vaccine for Covid-19
 Centre launched Aarogya Setu IVRS for non-smart phones in collaboration with TN govt and IIT-Madras
 Biofortified carrot variety ‘Madhuban Gajar’ developed by Vallabhhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya-farmer scientist
 Bharat Biotech ties-up with FluGen & US virologists to develop intranasal vaccine for coronavirus ‘CoroFlu’
 DST to fund for development of Nasal passage gel for COVID-19
 COVID-19: SCTIMST scientists develop disinfection gateway & face mask disposal bin
 BEL & AIIMS- Rishikesh jointly develops remote health monitoring system for coronavirus cases
 COVID-19: IIT-Bombay researchers develop ‘digital stethoscope’ which can hear heartbeat from a distance
 Google and Apple ties-up to create coronavirus contact tracing technology by smartphone+
 Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog & National Informatics Centre (NIC) jointly launches CollabCAD in ATL schools
 DST funds SBPL to develop Immunodiagnostic kits & Active Virosome Vaccine: COVID-19
 NIF developed herbal dewormer “wormivet” for livestock owners
 C-DOT and Telecom Service Providers develop COVID Quarantine Alert System
 DRDO develops COVSACK for COVID-19 sample collection
 Researchers at NIT-Karnataka develops cost-effective disinfectant chamber called ‘ZERO-COV’
 Government launches ‘CovidGyan’ a science communication initiative
 Central Government unveils PUSA decontamination, sanitizing tunnel
 ‘Bat coronavirus’ in 2 Indian bat species: ICMR
 COVID-19: Kerala institute develops Chitra GeneLAMP-N test kit gives results in 2 hours
 Automatic Mist Based Sanitisers Dispensing Unit & UV Sanitisation Box and Hand-held UV device introduced: DRDO
 Gujarat’s GBRC: 2nd Indian institute to decode COVID-19 genome sequence; 3 new mutations found
 Indian Navy develops air evacuation pod for COVID-19 patients
 Researchers at CeNS designs portable sensor to detect heavy metal in water
 Researchers at IIA, Bengaluru discovers hundreds of Li-rich giant stars
 New model to predict ionospheric electron density to help communication & navigation
 Road Ministry launches dashboard link in its website with list of Dhabas and Truck Repair Shops
 CSIR-NAL develops Personal Protective Coverall suit to fight against COVID-19
 Fish gills used to develop efficient low-cost electro-catalysts: INST
 TDB approves funds for MYLAB for production of COVID-19 diagnostic kits
 IIT-Mandi team develops magnetic RAM to enable higher data storage & faster computation
 ARI researchers developed “bug sniffer” for detection of pathogens in 30 minutes
 CSIR-IGIB scientists develops” Feluda” a low-cost coronavirus test strip
 Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute developed magnetic nanoparticle-based RNA extraction kit for PCR and LAMP tests for
COVID-19
 IIT-Delhi develops first low-cost probe free detection assay approved by ICMR
 IIITM-K develops AI search engine, ‘vilokana’ for COVID-19 studies
 IIT Delhi develops Dashboard PRACRITI to predict Covid-19 spread
 ARCI in collaboration with Nanomechanics Inc., has developed NanoBlitz 3D
 CSIR-IICT collaborates with LAXAI Life Sciences to reduce dependency for APIs and drug intermediates
 CeNS develops TriboE masks to protect healthy individuals from COVID-19
 National Innovation Foundation (NIF) boosts new varieties of Anthurium, by VasiniBai, lady innovator from Kerala
 Low-cost mechanical ventilator Ruhdaar developed by a team led by IIT Bombay
 IIT Ropar designs ‘WardBot’ to deliver food, medicines to COVID-19 patients
 Scientists at JNCASR develop Berberine based Alzheimer inhibitor ‘Ber-D’
 MyGov, VMate collaborates to disperse information on Covid-19
 IIT-Roorkee professor develops software to detect COVID-19 within 5 seconds using X-ray scan

• INTERNATIONAL
 NASA to launch new mission ‘SunRISE’ to study the Giant Solar Particle Storm
 NASA’s Artemis: First human base camp on Moon’s South Pole by 2024
 For the first time, NASA scientists measure wind speed on a brown dwarf
 US clears sale of Harpoon missile and torpedoes priced a total of $155 million to India
 Pharma majors Sanofi & GlaxoSmithKline joined hands to prepare vaccine for coronavirus
 Scientists observe biggest star explosion ever seen
 Scientists at NASA discovers Earth-like planet ‘Kepler-1649c’ found to be hidden in early Kepler data
 NASA to launch 1st US astronaut mission to ISS since 2011
 Swiss scientists discovered six-planets system with near 3:2 resonance
 NASA develops VITAL, a high-pressure ventilator to fight COVID-19
 Unified Geologic Map of the Moon: 1st ever digital geological map of moon released by US Geological
Survey
 Brazilian Astronomers discover 19 interstellar asteroids between Jupiter & Neptune
 Pak Navy successfully test-fires anti-ship missiles in North Arabian Sea
 First black hole merger of uneven massed observed by LIGO-VIRGO; indicated by GW190412 signal in
April 2019
 Near-Earth asteroid 1998 OR2 to pass within 3.9m miles of Earth: NASA
 China to launch communications satellite named after Wuhan
 NASA unveils plan for Artemis 'base camp' on the moon beyond 2024
 Scientists discover fossilised remains of a 90-million-year-old rainforest underneath Antarctic ice
 Cognizant hit by 'Maze' ransomware attack
• SOME IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES
• DRDO -Bio suits
• IIT Roorkee- Low-cost face shields
• IIT Hyderabad- Low cost ventilator named ‘Jeevan Lite’
• DRDO & Wipro-Full face shield for doctors
• IISc Banglore- GoCoronaGo App
• IIT Ropar -Sampark-o-Meter
• IIT Bombay -CORONITE
• IIT Bombay -Nasal gel for capturing COVID-19
• IIT Kanpur- Personal Protective Equipment
• NIPER – Guwahati- 3-D printed hands free object & 3-D printed antimicrobial face shield Atal Innovation Mission,
• NITI Aayog & NIC -CollanCAD
• IIT Guwahati -Spray based coating for PPE DRDO Kiosk for COVID -19
• NIT - Karnataka -Zero-Cov IIT Ropar WardBot
• DRDO -Automatic Mist based Sanitiser Dispensing Unit and UV Sanitisation Box and Hand-held UV device
• Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum-Chitra GeneLAMP-N Microsoft
Plasmabot Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali low-cost electro-catalyst from fish gills
• Agharkar Research Institute, Pune -Bug sniffer
• IIT Mandi -Magnetic RAM
• CSIR's Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology -Feluda
• IIT Roorkee -A Software to detect COVID-19 within 5s using XRay Mohanlal’s
• Viswasanthi Foundation -KARMI-Bot
• CSIR La -HCARD
MAY
• NATIONAL
 COVID-19: Glenmark Pharma becomes the first company to get Nod from DCGI for clinical trials of Favipiravir tablets
 IMD releases list of 169 names for upcoming tropical cyclones: North Indian Ocean
 COVID-19: HCARD, a robot, to assist frontline healthcare warriors
 Pune-based defence institute develops microwave steriliser Atulya to kill COVID- 19
 35 thousand-year history of river erosion in Ladakh Himalayas revealed: WIHG
 CSIR-CSIO transfers its Electrostatic Disinfection Technology for commercialization
 Indian-origin girl Vaneeza names NASA’s 1st Mars helicopter as ‘Ingenuity’
 National Institute of Animal Biotechnology(NIAB), Hyderabad developed a biosensor “eCovSens” to detect the novel
coronavirus
 IIG developed 1D fluid simulation code to study electric field structure in Earth’s Magnetosphere
 DRDO Develops “UV blaster”, an Ultraviolet Disinfection Tower
 SNBNCBS develops Nanomedicine to alter oxidative stress to treat COVID-19
 COVID-19: CIMAP’s Herbal products ‘CIM-Paushak’ and ‘Herbal Cough Syrup’ boost immunity
 SCTIMST develops 2 types of swabs and viral transport medium for COVID-19 testing
 JNCASR Researchers Invent Economical, Energy-Efficient Wafer-Scale Photo detector for security
 IIT-Delhi start-up launches reusable antimicrobial mask Nsafe
 CSIR receives approval for clinical trial of two drugs, ‘phytopharmaceutical & favipiravir’ to treat COVID-19
 ICMR-NIV develops 1st indigenous antibody detection kit “COVID KAVACH ELISA” for COVID-19
 Parakh: DRDO- DFRL’s mobile microbial containment lab handed over to MMCRI
 DRDO lab develops DRUVS, an automated UV system to sanitise electronic gadgets, papers & currency notes
 ICMR ties up with BBIL to develop the 1st fully indigenous COVID-19 vaccine
 CSIR approves project to develop ‘hmAbs’ that can neutralize SARS-CoV-2 in patients; BBIL to lead
 CSIR-NAL develops BiPAP non-invasive ventilator ‘Swasth Vayu’
 Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank launches Central University of Odisha helpline ‘Bharosa’ to help students in distress
 TVS Group, IIT-M develop automated respiratory assist device “Sundaram Ventago”
 IITGN develops interactive dashboard “MIR AHD Covid-19 Dashboard” to help contain COVID-19 community
infection post lockdown
 CSIR collaborates with Intel India and IIIT-Hyderabad to develop solution and strategies to combat COVID-19
 Scientists of JNCASR Develops Injectable Silk Fibroin-based hydrogel for Insulin delivery in diabetic patients
 Bhopal’s CSIR-AMPRI faculty Rajeev Kumar develops lightweight carbon foam that can replace lead batteries
 COVID-19: University of Hyderabad, CSIR-CCMB ties up with Vins Bioproducts for antibody therapy
 A novel tool to help gain deeper insights into Parkinson’s disease
 NDMA developed an online Dashboard National Migrant Information System to track migrants’ movements
 IIT- Kanpur joins hands with Bharat Dynamics Ltd for development of affordable ventilators for Covid-19 treatment
 National Institute of Virology develops country's 1st indigenous antibody-based testing kit COVID KAVACH ELISA
 South Central Railway develops Rail-Bot to strengthen hospital care
 ZSI Lists 20 Species Of Amphibians As 'critically Endangered’
 Vanora Robots launches AI-powered product for hospital disinfection
 Jaipur based company 'Club First' made robots to help masse
 IIT Guwahati discovers new ways to prevent memory loss due to Alzheimer
 IIT Madras develops light-weight alloy to replace steel, aluminium in cars
 IIT Madras dredging methodology helps Odisha’s Chilika Lake to triple Irrawaddy Dolphin population

• INTERNATIONAL
 Jupiter like cloud bands on closest brown dwarf discovered by astronomers
 Astronomers of the University of Canterbury discovered new one in a million Super-Earth
 South African & US scientists use MeerKAT telescope to solve the mystery of ‘X galaxies’
 Researcher of CSIRO develops “heat resistant” coral to fight bleaching
 NASA renames its WFIRST Telescope after ‘Mother of Hubble’ Nancy Grace Roman
• Important discoveries (Revision)
• LU Researchers -Oxigeno (Algae-based respirator)
• IIT Madras Light-weight Alloy
• IIT Delhi -Lighter, Breathable PPE
• Devesh Ranjan & Kumuda Ranjan Low - cost portable emergency ventilator
• DRDO’s RCI AI based Attendance Application
• IIT Madras Solar parabolic trough collector
• IIT Guwahati New ways to prevent memory loss due to Alzheimer
• Club First -Robots to help masses Vanora Robots AI – powered product for hospital disinfection
• South Central Railway -Rail-Bot
• IIT Gandhinagar Interactive COVID-19 dashboard
• CSIRO Developing of ‘Heat resistant corals to fight bleaching
• CSIR - NAL Non-Invasive Ventilator I
• CMR & Bharat Biotech Indian COVID-19 Vaccine
• CSIR Developing of HmAbs
• DRDO Lab UV systems to sanitize electronic gadgepapers & currency notes
• National Institute of Virology, Pune -ELISA test kit – COaVID KAVACH
• Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune Microwave steriliser ATULYA
• DRDO Ultra violet based area sanitiser
• Indian Council of Medical Research & IBM India’s Frontline Testing Facilities on Covid-19
• BDL & IIT Kanpur Ventilators developed by Nocca Robotics
• Nanosafe Solutions -NSafe masks
JUNE
National
 Irrawaddy Dolphin population at Odisha ‘s Chilika lake increased with the help of IIT Madras’ dredging methodology
 Karnataka launches COVID-19 tracking platform built by NASSCOM
 DRDO develops ‘Ultra Swachh’ to disinfect PPE and other materials
 For the comfort of PPE Wearers DRDO Develops “SUMERU-PACS”
 ASI team discovers 1100-year-old Shiva lingam in Vietnam during temple excavation
 Scientists at ARCI develops magnetocaloric material for the treatment of Cancer
 Thane engineer develops world’s first ‘Internet-controlled’ robot ‘Coro-bot’ for COVID-19 hospitals
 DRDO develops Ultra Swachh for disinfection of PPEs, electronic items, fabrics
 Rare scorpionfish found in Gulf of Mannar
 Millipede from Scotland is world’s oldest-known land animal
 South Africa, Nasa collaborate to support human missions to Moon, Mars and beyond
 DRDO develops device to keep PPE wearers comfortable, without sweating
 IIT-Ropar’s machine to sterilise products using UV rays
 IIT, Hyderabad researchers develops low cost and Artificial Intelligence-based test kit for COVID-19
 Scientists develop indigenous nasopharyngeal swabs
 ARCI develops Rare earth based magnetocaloric material for cancer treatment
 Four satellites launched by China in two days
 23-year-old Maharashtrian boy makes world’s first ‘Internet-controlled’ robot to help Covid-19 patients
 DIAT develops disinfectant spray to combat Covid-19
 IIT-Guwahati students develop mobile app for contactless air travel
 Health-tech startup, Arvi launches contactless thermal scanning kiosks
 Kerala Startup launches mask disposal smart bin & UV light-based disinfection device
 DRDO develops ‘GermiKlean’ to sanitise uniforms of security forces
 Central Railways launches robotic 'Captain Arjun' for screening of passengers for COVID-19 and surveillance in Pune
 Scientists discover ‘mirror image’ of the Earth and the Sun 3,000 light-years away
 India's gets its first infectious disease diagnostic lab
 Central Railway sets up Body Screening Facility ‘FebriEye’ In Mumbai's CSMT, LTT Stations
 Minister Kishan Reddy launches GermiBAN in Hyderabad
 India sets up first mobile Covid-testing lab
 New fish species discovered in Arunachal Pradesh
 500-year-old Odisha Temple Submerged in Mahanadi River Resurfaces
 Indian Railways installs automated ticket checking machine at Nagpur station
 IIT Hyderabad researcher develops AI-based low-cost testing kit
 Air-Venti’: Mumbai gets app for real-time information on ICU beds, ventilators
 Bose-Einstein Quantum "Fifth State Of Matter" Seen For 1st Time In Space
 IIT Mandi team develops infusion technology for herbs in mid-Himalayan region to help farmers
 IIT-Madras, GE tie as much as construct 3Dprinted combustor
 Annular solar eclipse with majestic Ring of Fire, witnessed in several parts of India
 ISRO receives patent for protective garment for human spaceflig
 IIT-Bombay develops chip Dhruva to be used in smartphones and navigation devices to find locations
 Indian Institute of Science develops Nanozymes
 Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport becomes 1st in India with this new tech at both ends of runway
 IISc in process of commercialising ICU-grade ventilator 'Project Praana’
 CSIR-NCL and BEL manufacture Oxygen Enrichment Unit useful in Covid-19 treatment
 Bharat Biotech Announces India's First COVID19 Vaccine Candidate 'COVAXIN' With DCGI Approval For Human
Clinical Trials

• INTERNATIONAL
 NASA astronauts fly SpaceX spacecraft ‘Dragon’ first private company to dock with ISS
 SANSA & NASA collaborates to support human spaceflight missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond
 Rare ‘first of its kind’ Trojan asteroids called 2019 LD2 detected near Jupiter’s Orbit by astronomers at the “ATLAS”
Institute of Astronomy
 Scientists discover new star Kepler-160 & planet KOI-456: ‘mirror image’ of Earth and Sun
 For the first time in human history, French astronomers witness signs of planet birth
 NASA Scientists Observe Bose-Einstein Quantum “Fifth State of Matter” in Space for The First Time
 NASA Astronomers Discover 240-year-old Neutron Star ‘Swift J1818.0−1607’ After Recent X-ray Burst
 Astronomers of RedDots Team Discovered Super Earths Gliese 887b and Gliese 887c Near Red Dwarf
 Russia is Set to Take First Tourists on Space Walk in 2023
 AUGUST
NATIONAL
1. IIT MADRAS joined hands with Helyxon to launch first remote patient monitoring solution for COVID-
19
2. DCGI approved Phase 2,3 trials of oxford university vaccine by Serum Institute,Pune
3. Central Pollution Control Board has developed COVID 19 BWM APP to track Bio medical waste
4. Sky Root Aerospace tests upper stage rocket engine “RAMAN”
5. 77 Species of New Butterflies were found in Matheran,Maharastra
6. Ammuniation Factory Khadki,Pune handed over 40mm Under Barrel Granade launcher to BSF
7. IIT ROPAR developed “UV SAFE”,UVGI based disinfectant device
8. Indian Institute of Aerophysics enhanced star among Omega centauri
9. Indian Coast Guard (ICG) offshore patrol vessel “Sarthak” launched; manufactured by Goa Shipyard Ltd
10. ISRO’s Chandrayan-2 Captured images of Crater of Moon;one of the craters named “sarabhai centere”
11. IISc Bangalore & ISRO developed suistainable process to make brics on lunar surface
12. National Stock Exchange (NSE) & Indian Institute of Management Banglore to offer platform for Investor
Education
13. Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched Tribal Nuitrition Portal- “Swastya” & “Alekh”
14. A health assistant robot “Rakshak” designed by the Mumbai Division of Central Railway
15. A COVID prevention kiosk named “UV Baggage Bath” inaugurated at Bengaluru railway station
16. Ministry of Jal Shakti launched a New Version of the India Water Resources Information System
17. IIT Guwahati, in collaboration with Imperial College London, develops nanoparticle ‘meta-grid’
18. SII Partnered with Gavi and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the manufacture &
Delivery of COVID-19 vaccines for India
19. IIT Kanpur in Collaboration with Agnys Waste Management Pvt. Ltd Developed Indigenous SeedBalls,
‘BEEG’ for Farmers
20. World’s Lightest Attack Helicopter -HAL’s Two LCH Deployed for Operations at Leh, Ladakh
21. IISc and ISRO developed sustainable process to make bricks on lunar surface
22. NSE, IIMB join hands to offer Platform for Investor Education
23. Astronomers Found SPT0418-47, a Look-alike of the Milky Way at 12 Billion Light Years Away
24. Indian Railways Introduces Drone Based Surveillance System for Railway Security
26. Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan Launches Online Registration and Renewal of Gold Hallmarking
Centres
27. Govt Introduced a New Feature, ‘Open API Service’ of Aarogya Setu to Help People, Businesses &
Economy to Return to Normalcy
28. India’s ASTROSAT Detected Extreme UV light from AUDFs01 Galaxy
29. First in Indian Railways: Ahmedabad Railway Division Introduces Baggage Sanitization and Wrapping
Machine
30. NHAI has Developed, ‘Vendor Performance Evaluation System’ to Establish a Transparent and
Comprehensive Performance Rating System
31. IIT Alumni Council Partnered with Russoft & Moscow State University to Build World’s Largest &
Fastest Hybrid Quantum Computer
32. ARIES Discovered the Accelerated Formation of the Stars of Dwarf Galaxies
 International
1. National Bank of Bahrain selects Infosys Finance for digitally transformation
2. US conducted test flight of unarmed Minuteman 3 missle (LGM-30G Minuteman-3)
3. NASA & ULA launched MARS 2020 perserverance rover mission
4. NASA TESS completed primary mission, finds 66 new Exo planets & around 2100 ‘candidates’
5. Israel Shares High end equipment with AIIMS to help combat COVID-19
6. Dwarf planet ceres is now named as “Ocean World”
7. Israel shares AI-based technology, high-end equipment with AIIMS to help combat COVID-19
8. Iran Unveiled Locally Made Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, Martyr Qassem Soleimani &Cruise
Missile, Martyr Abu Mahdi
9. NASA observes the Slowly Splitting South Atlantic Anomaly, a dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field
16.INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS
(FEB-AUG)
 FEBRAURY
1. Maldives readmitted and becomes 54th member of Commonwealth family
2. Pakistan, Somalia declare locusts a ‘national emergency’ after worst locust invasion
3. Bhutan ends free entry for Indian tourists
4. Prince Charles unveils children’s protection fund for India & Katy Perry as new Ambassador
5. G7 to work with WHO, EU, China to tackle nCoV; Hong Kong reported 1st Coronavirus death
6. U.S. announces launch of International Religious Freedom Alliance
7. UN releases USD 30mn for humanitarian operations in Syria’s ldlib province
8. Treating female genital mutilation annually costs $1.4 bn globally: WHO
9. India stands 17th on a list of countries at risk of importing coronavirus, Thailand tops: Study
10.WHO renames deadly coronavirus from China as ‘COVID-19’
11.Mobile World Congress 2020 cancelled
12.Thailand hosts 13th Asian Business & Social Investor Forum 2020 & 4th Asia’s Greatest Brands &
Leaders 2020
13.UAE becomes 1st Arab Nation to issue license to operate a reactor at its Nuclear power plant
14.Hindi is the 3rd most spoken language in the world after English & Mandarin Chinese :22nd edition of
World language database, Ethnologue
15.Indian Pavilion inaugurated by external affairs minister Dr S. Jaishankar at 70th Berlinale 2020
16.Pakistan continues at grey list of FATF for another 4 months
17.Sri Lankan Govt withdraws from UNHRC resolution on war crimes
18.Pak High Commission issues visas to Indian pilgrims to visit Katas Raj temples
 MARCH
1. US and Taliban seals historic agreement aimed at ending war in Afghanistan in Doha,Qatar;India
addressed for the 1st time
2. Luxembourg becomes the world’s 1st nation to make all public transport free from Feb 29
3. China assumes presidency of UN Security Council for March 2020
4. European commission launches global coalition for biodiversity to raise public awareness
5. Indian female labour-force participation dropped from 34% in 2006 to 24.8% in 2020: UNGC Study
6. India joins Indian Ocean Commission (IOC) as its 5th observer to boost Indo-Pacific vision
7. UN adopts political declaration on women’s rights during CSW64 meet in New York, US
8. Jack Ma overtakes Mukesh Ambani & becomes Asia’s richest man with networth of $44.8
billion:Bloomberg Billionaires Index
9. WEF launched 1st global COVID Action Platform for private-sector businesses to fight against
coronavirus
10. Among 5 Indians Byju Raveendran & Zomato’s Gaurav Gupta in WEF’s Young Global Leaders list 2020
11. World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 as pandemic
12. Philippines shut Financial Market due to COVID 19 outbreak
13. WhatsApp launched Coronavirus Information Hub, donated $1 million to IFCN
14. Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan jointly contribute $3.5 mn to SAARC corona emergency fund
15. Sri Lanka contributes $5 mn to SAARC corona emergency fund
16. WHO initiated mega trial “Solidarity” of 4 promising drugs to cure Covid-19
17. ITU launches “Global Network Resiliency Platform”: COVID-19
18. 25 worshippers killed by ISIS suicide bombers attacking Gurudwara in Kabul, Afghanistan
19. Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri named in FIFA campaign against Coronavirus
20. North Macedonia officially joins NATO as its 30th member
21. US announced $174 mn aid to 64 countries including $2.9 mn to India to tackle COVID-19
22. IMF launches Government Policy Tracker: COVID-19
 APRIL
1. Nasa – study mission – SUNRISE
2. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg appointed a group of experts to study strengthen political
dimension
3. World’s oldest man - Bob Weighton ( 112 - UK)
4. Dominos & ITC food – Home delivery
5. Google – 6.5 $ million (fact checkers and non-profit organisations )
6. IBM has offered ‘Watson Assistant for Citizens (covid-19 related queries) – 13 languages
7. China will launch the first of its two communications satellites rename wuhan
8. Operation Sanjeevani – INDIA to Maldives
9. Dubai Expo 2020 postpned to oct 2021
10. Google maps - to display public food and night shelters
11. NASA - ‘Artemis’ the first human base camp in South pole of moon (2024)
12. Jclean weather Technology private limited- ScitechAiron negative ion generator – control corona
13. Malaysia – BAN ( weightlifting games – tokyo olympics)
14. Nadia tiger - New York’s Bronx zoo & infected with Covid-19
15. L & T - 'large' contract from which petroleum company
16. African Development Bank- 10 billion - billion Response Facility to curb COVID-19
17. CoroFlu – bharat biotech & FluGen and virologists at University of Wisconsin-Madison
18. Apple & google – contarct tracing
19. North korea has fired a barrage of cruise missiles on the eve of its founder's birthday
20. The United States has approved the sale of Harpoon Block II missile to india.
21. US stop funding to WHO .
22. Airtel & Apollo - AI based self-assessment tool for Covid 19 risk profiling of people
23. IMF (1trillion) to support countries battling covid 19 pandemic
24. WHO (HEALTH ALERT) launched an interactive COVID-19 service on Facebook Messenger
25. 'journalism relief fund,’- google
26. 44th Session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has been postponed.( held in china)
27. Microsoft – plasmabot
28. Facebook has launched a third party fact checking system – bangaladesh
29. The founders of Instagram have launched a COVID-19 tracking website
30. South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s party wins election amid COVID-19 pandemic
31. China - testing of its digital currency
32. Facebook - Covid-19 symptom tracking survey globally to identify potential hotspots.
33. India has approved USD 1 million to antigua 20..first military satellite vehicle into orbit – IRAN
 MAY
1. USAID announces 3 million USD to support India’s efforts to combat COVID-19
2. Disasters, conflicts trigger 5 million displacements in India in 2019: IDMC
3. Iran approves currency denomination bill to slash 4 zeros from Rial and covert to Toman
4. WHO and UN’s postal agency releases commemorative stamp on 40th anniversary of smallpox eradication
5. COVID-19: United Nations and partners to raise $ 6.7 billion for vulnerable nations
6. BRICS’ New Development Bank provides USD 1 billion loan to India to fight COVID-19
7. CDC of the United States promises 3.6 million USD to India to combat COVID-19
8. Forest loss rate globally declined from 2015 to 2020: FRA 2020
9. Israel names street in Tel Aviv after Rabindranath Tagore on his 159th birth anniversary
10. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sworn-in for the 5th time
11. Italy develops ‘iFeel-You’ bracelet for social distancing
12. Nepal approves new political map including India’s Kalapani, Lipulekh as its territory
13. Airtel Africa with UNICEF extends e-learning support to students
14. India sets up military war game centre called ‘INDIA’ for Ugandan Defence forces
15. India’s crude steel output slips 65.2% to 3.13 MT in Apr: Worldsteel April 2020 report
16. WHO and IOC team up to improve health through sport amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
17. US left open skies surveillance treaty due to non-compliance of Russia towards treaty
18. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen re-elected for second term; 2 Indian MPs sent congratulatory video
messages
19. U.S. joins G7 artificial intelligence group to counter China
 JUNE
1. WHO Launches 'COVID-19 Technology Access Pool' For Equitable Access To Life-saving Tech
2. UNSC extends South Sudan arms embargo until May 2021
3. 60 million could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2020 : World Bank President
4. India to rebuild 56 schools destroyed in Nepal's 2015 earthquake
5. Bangladesh launches plasma network for COVID 19 treatment
6. Kathy Lueders to become first female head of human spaceflight
7. American DFC to invest $350 million in India firms
8. ADB Convenes High-Level Advisory Panel to Support COVID-19 Recovery in Southeast Asia
9. China’s unmanned submersible sets new record! Dives to world’s deepest ocean point
10. India, with 12 nations, leads initiative at UN to counter misinformation on COVID-19
11. India elected as non-permanent member of UN Security Council for a two-year term
12. India pledges to build sanitation facility at Nepal's Pashupatinath Temple
13. India will be United Nations Security Council President for August 2021
14. France commits 200 million Euros for India's Covid response
15. One billion children experience violence every year as countries fail to protect them: UN report
16. Exim Bank extends USD 20.1 mn credit line to Nicaragua govt
17. World Bank approves $1.05 billion to Bangladesh for jobs, economic recovery
18. China To Join UN Arms Trade Treaty To Enhance ‘peace And Stability’
19. Terror financing watchdog FATF decides to continue Pakistan in Grey List
20. World’s first yoga university outside India launched in Los Angeles
21. India's NTPC wins PMC job for 500-MW solar project in Mali
22. USAID Announces A Contribution Of $356.2 Million From The U.S. Government For Sudan's
Democratic Transition
 JULY
1. UNGA President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande Launched ‘Alliance for Poverty Eradication’; India Joins as
Founding Member
2. WTO Dispute Settlement Body Sets Up Panel Against India’s ICT Duties Based on EU’s Complaint
3. New Zealand Cancels the 2021 APEC’s Auckland Summit & opts to Virtual Summit
4. Uganda, First African Country to Submit Results of REDD+ to UNFCCC
5. 77.9% Russians Grant Putin Right to Extend His Rule Until 2036
6. New School Infrastructure worth Rs 1.94 cr Funded by India inaugurated in Nepal via Video
Conferencing
7. US formally notified UN of its Decision to Withdraw from WHO; Serves Notice Period till July 6, 2021
8. Maldives & Sri Lanka are the 1st two countries in South-East Asia to eliminate Rubella and measles ahead
of 2023 target: WHO
9. Germany to Become First Major Economy to Phase out of Coal, Nuclear Power
10. PM Modi addresses inaugural session of 3-day virtual India Global week 2020 organized in UK
11. New Admin and Academic block of Shree Mahadev Masta Chaturdev Campus Funded by India
inaugurated virtually in Nepal
12. Mean Average Global Temperature could rise by 1.5° Celsius in 5 years: WMO
13. WHO sets up Independent Panel Co-chaired by Helen Elizabeth Clark & Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for
evaluation of global COVID-19 response
14. NITI Aayog presented India’s 2nd Voluntary National Review at UN’s High-Level Political Forum; held
virtually
15. India in partnership with Chile & UN’s FAO Co-Hosted Event, “On the road to the International Year of
Fruits and Vegetables 2021”
16. India & Bhutan Opens New Trade Route to Improve Trade and Connectivity
17. UNICEF India Partners with SAP India to Provide Career Counselling to Young People
18. PM Modi delivers keynote address virtually at High-Level Segment of UN’s ECOSOC held at in New
York, US
19. India Remains as Lower-Middle-Income Economy: World Bank Country Classifications by Income Level
2020-2021
20. Turkmenistan became 25th country with Observer Status in World Trade Organization
21. Nicaragua becomes the 87th Country to sign the International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement
22. ‘COVID-19 Law Lab’ Initiative launched to provide legal information worldwide
23. Climate-friendly Cooling can cut 460 Giga Tonnes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Cooling Emissions and
Policy Synthesis Report
24. 22 million children from South Asia missed out on early childhood education due to COVID-19:UNICEF
25. Maldives launched 9 development projects under USD 5.6 million Indian Grant for HICDP
26. A 300-year-old temple, Sree Sree Joy Kali Matar temple reconstructed with Indian support in Natore,
Bangladesh
27. UNICEF Publishes First of its kind report on Health crisis states 1 in 3 children poisoned by lead
28. Narendra Modi & Pravind Jugnauth virtually inaugurated Supreme Court building in Port Louis,
Mauritius
29. SABIC in Spain to Become World’s First Large Scale Chemical Production Plant to Completely Run on
Renewable Energy
 AUGUST
1. USA banned tiktok
2. Amazon gets FCC approval for project Kuiper satellite consellation
3. Russia chaired 6th BRICS Environment ministers meeting
4. Russia chaired 4th meeting of BRICS Antidrug working group
5. India & Mauritius PM inaugurate New Supreme Court building in port louis
6. India to participate in “Kavkaz 2020” exercise in Russia
7. Mahinda Rajapakshe taken charge as the PM of Srilanka
8. Bangladesh to construct war memorial for Indian soldiers
9. India-Canada IC IMPACTS Annual research conference discusses ways of talking cooperation to new
level
10. Russia is the first country to register COVID-19 Vaccine
11. Alexander Lukashenka becomes Betarus president for 6th time
12. Abu Dhabi’s Crown prince “Dhabi Sheik Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan” has committed USD 25Mn to
expand Unified Champion Schools to 6 countries
13. Historic peace agreement between UAE & ISRAEL has been signed
14. India sends 58MT of emergency humanitarian aid to Lebanon
15. European Union (EU) to provide 1.65 Mn Euros in humanitarian aid funding to support victims of south
asia
16. Around 818Mn Children Across the world lack basic handwashing facilities in the school:WHO &
UNICEF
17. INDIA & NEPAL to speed up implementation of projects in the Himalayan Nation
18. Ibrahim Boubacar keita resigned as Mali’s President
19. India & Israel signed cultural agreement to strengthern Bilateral relations through people to people
Exchange
20. Iran announces locally made ballistic & cruise missiles named Qassem Soleimani
21. Uttar Pradesh partners with isreal to resolve Bandalkhand water crisis
22. Minisrty of External Affairs in partnership with Foreign Ministry of Thailand to Organise 6th Roundable
of ASEAN –India; Network of Thinktanks
23. Turkey discovers a large natural gas reserve in blacksea
17.ECONOMY &
BUSSINESS
(FEB-AUG)
 FEBRUARY
ECONOMY NEWS
1. Fiscal deficit reached 132.4 % of budget estimate for 2019-2020 till December: CGA
2. Unemployment rate in India was 6.1% in 2017-18 as per new PLFS
3. Govt data: $118.3 billion received in remittances since 2018-19
4. GSTN formulates panel to improve IT system
5. BSNL, Air India and MTNL saw highest losses for 3rd consecutive year, ONGC most profitable: DPE
survey
6. Retail inflation rises to 7.59%
7. SEBI Constituted municipal bonds development committee headed by Surjit prasad
8. DPIIT allows FDI policy to allow 100% FDI insurance intermediaries
9. Fiscal deficit reached 128.5% of budget estimate at the end Jan 2020

BUSSINESS NEWS
1. Amazon India partnered with Eastern Railways to set up kiosk at Sealdah railway station in Kolkata
2. CCI Nod for Combination between Yum Restaurants & Devyani Intl
3. Amazon Web Services to invest $1.6 billion for 2 data centres in India
 MARCH
ECONOMY NEWS
1. NMDC & i-TIC Foundation of IIT Hyderabad signed pact to support Deep-Tech Start-Ups
2. UNCTAD estimated trade impact of Coronavirus epidemic: India’s trade impact at $348 million;EU tops
3. Board of Approval headed by Anup Wadhawan approved TCS, DLF proposals to set up SEZs for IT in
Haryana, UP
4. India’s thermal coal imports rose 12.6% to 197.84 million tonnes in 2019; coking coal import declined:
Govt Data
5. Gold imports down 8.86 % to $ 27 bn during April-February of FY 2019-20: Commerce ministry
6. FinMin declared relief measures for financial sectors amid COVID-19 outbreak; Extension for return
filing till June 30, 2020
7. IMF declared recession in World due to COVID-19 impact

BUSINESS NEWS
1. Paytm, Hyderabad Metro tie up for QR-based tickets
2. Google India unveils women skill development programme ‘DigiPivot’ in association with Avtar & ISB
3. OIL signed Crude Oil agreement with Numaligarh Refinery
4. Microsoft India & NASSCOM Foundation launches ‘Innovate for accessible India campaign’ to
empower people with disabilities
5. IOC becomes 1st company to begin the supply of BS-VI fuel across country
6. India’s first dedicated COVID-19 Centre set up by Reliance in Mumbai, Maharashtra; to produce
1,00,000 face-masks per day
7. Make in India: Pune-based Mylab becomes the 1st Indian firm to make diagnostic test kits for
Coronavirus
8. COVID- 19: Invest India Business Immunity Platform launched
 APRIL
1. India’s 8 core industries growth registers 11-month high of 5.5% in February 2020
2. Global economy may shrink by almost 1% in 2020: UN-DESA
3. India’s economic growth decelerated to 4 pc in FY21 due to COVID-19 pandemic: ADO 2020
4. CPI inflation likely to ease from 4.8% in Q1 to 4.4% in Q2: RBI’s MPR
5. India’s Fiscal deficit of 5.07% in February makes it difficult to meet its revised target of 3.8%: GOI
6. India becomes top Hydroxychloroquine producer & exporter with 70% annual global share
7. Retail inflation lowers to 5.91% in March 2020 against 6.58% in February 2020
8. India’s GDP to contract by 6.1% in April-June: Japan’s Nomura
9. Bank credit growth decelerated to 5-decade low of 6.14% in FY20
10. Telangana CM recommended the implementation of “Helicopter Money”
11. Exports declined by 34.57% in March & 4.78% in FY20; Q1 FY21 remain sluggish
12. Asia to stall at 0% growth in 2020 for 1st time in 60 years: IMF
13. 23% decline projected in Migrants Remittances to India in 2020 due to COVID-19: World Bank Report
14. Chemicals, Petrochemicals contributed 14.35% of total exports; becomes top exporting sector for 1st time
15. APEC region to post 2.7% economic contraction in 2020 due to Covid-19: Report

BUSINESS NEWS
1. NCAER Business confidence index (N-BCI) declined to 77.3 in Q4 FY20
2. IT firm Tech Mahindra joins hands with IBM to set up innovation centres
3. NIIT’s US arm signs agreement with US-based EdTech company
4. In a 1st, NTPC to launch 20 hydrogen fuel bus and cars for Leh & New Delhi; seeks global EOI
 MAY
ECONOMY
1. IIT Hyderabad to collaborate with Hong Kong firm to create venture ecosystem
2. Government hikes its market borrowing to Rs 12 lakh crore from Rs 7.80 lakh crore for FY 21: COVID-19
impact
3. FM Nirmala Sitharaman launches INR-USD futures and options contracts on BSE, NSE at Gift city
4. UN WESP forecasts India to grow at 1.2% in CY20 and global economy to shrink by 3.2%
5. Finance ministry exempts B2B firms from using only BHIM, RuPay for accepting payments
6. Indian exports to fall by 20% during FY 21: FIEO
7. Bharat Biotech and Thomas Jefferson University to develop a new vaccine candidate for COVID-19
8. IRDAI’s working committee recommended enhancing trade credit policy (TCI) cover to 90% from 85%
9. FDI raised 18% to $73.46 billion in FY20: DPIIT

BUSINESS NEWS
1. Fintech startup Zaggle ties up with Visa to launch innovative payments solutions for SMEs & start-ups
3. REC Ltd ties up with TajSATS to provide nutritious meals to medical staff in New Delhi
4. Tech firm Vakrangee joins hands with LIC to distribute micro insurance products
5. HIL (India) to supply 25 tonnes of pesticides to Iran to control locust invasion
6. Infosys ties-up with Zurich-based Avaloq for digital wealth management services

JUNE
ECONOMY NEWS
1. Tech Mahindra signs UNGC Initiative to reduce CO2 emissions; Target to raise renewable energy to 50%
by 2025
2. India’s foreign exchange reserves cross $500 bn for the first time
3. Indian Economy to contract by 4% in 2020-21: ADB Forecast

BUSINESS NEWS
1. Indian Energy Exchange rolls out real time electricity market
2. Recykal partnered with UNDP, HCCB for plastic waste management Project Prithivi
3. TCS partners with NSDC to provide its training partners access to the TCS iON Digital Glass Room
4. Infosys becomes 1st Indian Company to sign Climate Pledge with Amazon and Global Optimism to
Become Net-Zero Carbon
5. RIL Becomes India’s 1st Firm to Hit Rs 11 Tn Market Cap on June 11, 2020 after Valuing at Rs 11.15 tn;
Mukesh Ambani became world’s 9th richest
6. Republic of Mali Grant the Project Management Consultancy Contract of 500 MW Solar Park to NTPC

JULY
ECONOMY
1. India’s External debt increased by 2.8% to $558.5 bn in FY20: RBI data
2. NLC, Coal India to form 50:50 JV to develop solar and thermal power assets
3. Global economy to contract by 5.2 pc in 2020: D&B’s Country Risk and Global Outlook Report
4. US remain India’s top trading partner in 2019-20 with USD 88.75 billion bilateral trade
5. Google Launches $10 Billion Digitization Fund in India
6. CBDT launched revised Form 26AS; Details of Specified Financial Transactions included
BUSSINESS
1. CBDT launched revised Form 26AS; Details of Specified Financial Transactions included
2. NSDC Collaborates with Microsoft India to Provide Digital Skills to Indian Youth
3. India’s HIL supplied 20.60 MT of DDT 75 % WP to South Africa for malaria control
4. RIL becomes the 1st Indian company to reach Market Cap of Rs 13 lakh crore; Becomes 48th largest
company in market cap globally
5. RIL becomes world’s second most valuable energy company, overtaking ExxonMobil
6. IOC and France’s Total S.A. formed 50:50 JV to make superior quality bitumen
 AUGUST
ECONOMY
1. ₹ 87,422 crore gross GST revenue collected in July
2. Retail inflation rose to 6.93% in July
3. Global remittances may lose $108.6 bn in 2020: ADB
4. Unitus Ventures Received Rs 75 Crore from SIDBI; will Strengthen the Deployment of its Fund II
5. ReNew Power & UNEP Partnered to Increase Access to Clean Energy
6. MCX Launched India’s 1st Tradeable Real-Time Bullion Index, ‘MCX iCOMDEX Bullion’
 BUSSINESS
1. Digit launches SME Buddy to Simplify insurance for SMEs and Startups
2. Muthoot finance, Kotak Mahindra General Insurance tiedup to offer COVID 19 Cover
3. Airtel and Bharati Axa tied up to offer Shop insurance
4. Airtel announce multiyear strategic collaboration with Amazon to tap Startups & SMEs
5. Mastercard & Goal101.in team up to offer banking more personalised automated & delightful
6. Reliance Power, JERA ink loan agreement with banks for new power plant in Bangladesh
7. Airtel Announced the Multi Year Strategic Collaboration with Amazon to Tap Start-ups and SME
8. Reliance Foundation partnered with USAID to Launch the W-GDP Women Connect Challenge Across
India
9. Google Partners with CWC of India for Flood Forecasting Initiatives
10. IBM Collaborates with NSDC to Offer Free Digital Education Platform for Skill Development
11. Google Launches ‘The Anywhere School’ to Boost Online Learning
12. Tech Mahindra, NITI Aayog’s WEP Partnered to Support Women Entrepreneurs in India
 UPDATED GROWTH RATES

S.no ORGANISATION YEAR RATE

1 Fitch Ratings Inc FY 2021-22 8% FY 2021-22 8%

2 CARE Ratings Limited FY21 6.4 % contraction

3 FICCI FY2020-21 (-) 4.5%

4 ICRA Limited FY21 Contract by 9.5% (-9.5%)

5 India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) FY21 Contract by 5.3% (-5.3%)

6 Nomura Holdings, Inc FY21 Contract by 6.1% (-6.1%)

7 DBS FY21 Contract by 6% (-6%)

8 Moody’s Fiscal 2021 4%

s.no ORGANISATIONS YEAR RATE

10 Economic Co- operation and Development FY 2020-2021 -3.7%

(OECD)

11 India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) FY20-21 % Contract - 5.3

12 International Monetary Fund (IMF) FY 20 -4.5%

13 S&P Global Ratings FY 21 5%

14 Goldman Sachs FY21 5%

15 CRISIL FY 2020-21 1.8%

16 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) FY21 1.5%

17 World Bank FY21 -3.2%

18 RBI FY21 -4.5%

19 National Statistical Office (NSO) FY20 Quarter 1 -23.9%

20 SBI FY20 quarter 1 -16.5%

18.BANKING &
FINANCE
(FEB-AUG)
 FEBRUARY
RBI NEWS
1. RBI-increased-Insurance cover on bank deposits to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh & it is covered by Deposit
Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC).
2. RBI- eased CRR requirement of commercial banks for 5- years-for lending to auto, housing, MSMEs.
3. Printing of One Rupee Currency Notes Rules, 2020:
• 9.7 x 6.3 cms, with its paper made of 100% (cotton) rag content.
• Note will be 110 microns thick, weighing 90 GSM (Grams per Square Meter)
• Pink green colour note will have a design of grains, which depicts the “agricultural dominance of the
country
• In the Reverse side of one rupee note design consist of picture of ‘Sagar Samrat’ the oil exploration
platform.
4. RBI draft framework for New Umbrella Entity (NUE) for retail payment systems
5. RBI conducts 3- year Long Term Repo Operations (LTRO)’s for Rs.25,000 crore.
6. RBI unveils 5-year National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI): 2019-2024
7. RBI released a report titled “Assessment of the progress of digitisation from cash to electronic”
8. RBI introduced 12 indicators for calculating India’s growth – in - “Nowcasting Indian GDP growth using a
Dynamic Factor Model”. They are,
• Index of industrial production (IIP) –consumer goods, IIP- core sectors, Automobile sales, Non-oil non-
gold imports, Exports, Rail freight, Air cargo, Foreign tourist inflows, Government tax receipts, Nominal
Effective Exchange Rate (NEER), Sensex, Bank Credit.
9. RBI- ordered banks to link all their new floating rate loans to medium enterprises with an external
benchmark effective from April 1, 2020.

APPROVAL BY RBI
1. Kotak Mahindra Bank gets RBI’s approval for reducing the promoter’s stake to 26%.
2. Approves Bandhan Bank- to open new branches.

SBI IN NEWS
1. SBI Card join hands with Landmark group to launch 3 new retail co-branded credit cards viz Lifestyle
Home Centre SBI Card, Max SBI Card and Spar SBI Card —with 4 Landmark Group brands – Lifestyle,
Home Centre, Max and Spar.
• OTHER BANK IN NEWS
1. Paytm Insurance Broking-received-brokerage licence from IRDAI.
2. NABARD- granted Rs 1.46 lakh crore in the rural banking system during the current fiscalFY (2019-20).
3. Centre imposed moratorium on Yes Bank o Withdrawals restricted to Rs 50,000 per month till April 3,
2020 o Prashant Kumar appointed – administrator
4. Interest rate on EPF deposits for 2019-20 - 8.5% reduced from 8.65%.
5. Tata AIA Life Insurance -provide football coaching to under-privileged girls under - ‘Bachhpan Ka
Rakshakaran’ program.
6. NABARD provides Rs 42,313 crore for building rural infrastructure.
7. SFBs - provide risk-free simple financial services without seeking RBI’s nod.
8. Merger of 10 state-run banks into 4 to come into force from April 1: RBI
• Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India will be merged into Punjab National Bank;
• Syndicate Bank into Canara Bank; o Allahabad Bank into Indian Bank; and
• Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank into Union Bank of India.
9. PNB releases new logo ahead of merger with UBI & OBC on April 1, 2020 FEBRUARY •
10. Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) & SBI- rated as “good” in digital transactions for December 2019 by MeitY.
• Target by govt- 4000 digital transactions for the current fiscal FY2020.
11.Reliance General Insurance Company Limited-launched-‘Reliance Health Infinity’- minimum sum insured
will be Rs. 3 lakhs while maximum will be Rs. 1 crore.
12. Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA)- doubled the minimum net worth to Rs.50
crore from the Rs.25 crore.
13.ADB- secured Rs 850 crore (about $118 million)- through offshore India rupee linked 10- year bonds.
14.Non-scheduled urban & district central cooperative banks-will be included in following schemes.
• Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE), Credit Linked Capital
Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS) & Interest Subvention Scheme. •
• Capri Global Capital Limited (CGCL)-launched- “UDAAN” for women entrepreneurs o Will provide
secured loans up to Rs.40 lakhs. o Repayment period of 10years to 15 years.
15. Finance Secretary Shri Rajiv Kumar has inaugurated the ‘Baroda Startup Banking’ service with the
objective of making Bank of Baroda (BoB) a preferred ally of startup companies and connecting more
than 2,000 startups over the next 2- years
16. HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation)bank, an Indian banking and financial services
company,has entered into a partnership with IndiGo airlines tolaunch its first travel credit card named
‘Ka-ching’-powered by Mastercard.
FINANCE NEWS
1. Reliance general insurance introduces comprehensive health insurance plan “Infinity”
2. PFRDA doubles minimum net worth for pension fund managers to Rs 50 cr from Rs 25 cr
3. Union Ministry of Finance has notified ‘Printing of One Rupee Currency Notes Rules, 2020’
4. SEBI to tighten eligibility criteria for investment advisors
5. Securities market regulator SEBI redefines ‘pledge’ to protect client securities
6. Sweden’s Riksbank begun testing world’s 1st digital version of currency, e-krona
7. IRDAI forms 9-member panel led by Srinivasan to examine the possibility of allowing life insurers offer
indemnity based health policies
8. Bharti AXA General Insurance becomes the 1st non-life insurer in India to use Whatsapp for deliver policy
& renewal documents
9. Capri Global Capital Ltd launched UDAAN new SME lending scheme for Women Entrepreneurs
 MARCH
RBI NEWS
1. India’s CAD narrows to $ 1.4 bn in October-December 2019 quarter: RBI

2. RBI issues guidelines for Ind AS implementation by NBFCs, ARCs

• NBFCs covered by Rule 4 of the Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, are required to
comply with Ind AS for the preparation of their FS.

3. RBI- revises exposure limits -urban cooperative banks (UCBs) of tier-1 capital to a single borrower to 15% and
a group of borrowers to 25%.

4. RBI issued new guidelines for payment aggregators-under Section 18 read with Section 10(2) of the Payment
and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.
• MCR reduced for new PAs to Rs 15 crore from Rs 100 crore. • RBI opens 6-month dollar-swap window along
with infusion of Rs 1,00,000 crore through Long Term Repo Operations (LTROs).

5. RBI - Business Continuity Plan for smooth functioning national payment systems. • RBI -increased repo auction
amount to Rs 50,000 cr from Rs 25,000 cr
RBI APPROVALS

1. RBI -extended authorisation to Vakrangee Ltd for white label ATMs till Mar 31, 2021

2. RBI extends regulatory restrictions on PMC Bank for 3 more months till June 22, 2020.

3. RBI -extended the priority sector classification for bank loans to Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) for
on-lending for the FY 2020-21.
• ‘Term Lending’ under agriculture -Rs 10 lakh per borrower.
• Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs)- Rs 20 lakh per borrower.
• Housing sector-enhanced from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.

SBI IN NEWS

1. SBI has switched to “Cash Budget Based Assessment (CBBA)” from “Projected Balance Sheet (PBS)” method
of Fund Based Working Capital (FBWC) limits for assessment of the working capital. o
• It is initiated for total FBWC exposure of more than Rs.50 crore from the banking system.

2. SBI Board approved -Rs 7,250 cr fund infusion into Yes Bank, Stake remains under 49%
OTHER BANK IN NEWS
1. Paytm Insurance Broking-received-brokerage licence from IRDAI. NABARD- granted Rs 1.46 lakh crore
in the rural banking system during the current fiscal-FY (2019-20).
2. Centre imposed moratorium on Yes Bank
3. Withdrawals restricted to Rs 50,000 per month till April 3, 2020 Prashant Kumar appointed –
administrator
4. Interest rate on EPF deposits for 2019-20 - 8.5% reduced from 8.65%.
5. Tata AIA Life Insurance -provide football coaching to under-privileged girls under - ‘Bachhpan Ka
Rakshakaran’ program.
6. NABARD provides Rs 42,313 crore for building rural infrastructure.
7. SFBs - provide risk-free simple financial services without seeking RBI’s nod.
8. Merger of 10 state-run banks into 4 to come into force from April 1: RBI o Oriental Bank of Commerce
and United Bank of India will be merged into Punjab National Bank;
• Syndicate Bank into Canara Bank;
• Allahabad Bank into Indian Bank; and
• Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank into Union Bank of India.
9. PNB releases new logo ahead of merger with UBI & OBC on April 1,2020.
FINANCE NEWS
1. Paytm Insurance Broking secures brokerage licence from IRDAI
2. EPFO cuts interest rate to 8.5% for 2019-20 from 8.65%; restored pension commutation under EPS
3. Tata AIA Life Insurance to provide football coaching to under-privileged girls under its ‘Bachhpan Ka
Rakshakaran’ program
4. Flipkart teamed up with Aegon life insurance to sell quick-access life insurance policies
5. ICICI Lombard introduced ‘COVID-19 Protection cover’ for Coronavirus positive case
6. Star health unveils ‘Star novel coronavirus policy’ for corona victims

LOANS ISSUED
1. NABARD granted Rs 1.46 lakh crore Rural Banking System
2. World Bank granted US$80 million (about Rs 600 crore) to Government of Himachal Pradesh(HP) To
improve water management practices & also to increase agricultural productivity in selected Gram
Panchayats (Village Councils)
 APRIL
RBI

1. RBI has raised the Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limit – 2 LAKHS

2. Government has launched the Sovereign Gold Bonds Scheme 2020-21( 8 years)

3. Reverse repo rate – 3.75%

4. 50,000 crore will be provided to refinance NABARD, SIDBI & NHB

5. RBI has announced special OMO Of Purchase And Sale of Government Securities worth – 10000 CRORE

6. RBI cancels license of Goa’s oldest bank, Mapusa urban co-operative bank of Goa Ltd

7. RBI extends Madhavan Menon’s term as part-time Chairman of CSB

8. RBI has announced a Special Liquidity Facility for Mutual Funds – 50,000 crore

9. RBI TLTRO – 1,00,000 crore

10.Reserve Bank of India launched a twitter campaign

SBI
1. SBI Cards is offering a moratorium of 3 months
2. SBI has slashed (MCLR) – 35 basis point
3. State Bank of India has listed green bonds of $100 million on BSE’s India International Exchange

OTHER BANK NEWS

1. BOB has launched four schemes for the agriculture sector
2. BOM various schemes for the corporate, retail and agriculture sector
3. IOB Nominated for pm cares fund
4. IOB launches Working Capital Demand Loan for agriculture sector
5. IOB launches special scheme for self help group
6. Jana SFB - digital banking platform - open a savings and fixed deposit account instantly
7. small finance banks has taken steps to bring in digital banking services like Selfie based Instant fixed
deposit account service
8. Paytm Payments Bank partnered with Mastercard to issue virtual and physical debit cards
FINANCE NEWS
1. In a 1st, BhartPe partners with ICICI lombard to launch ‘COVID-19 protection insurance cover’ for
shopkeepers
2. Centre reduced small savings schemes interest rates for Q1FY20-21; PPF interest lowered to 7.1%
3. Corona Care: India’s first coronavirus hospitalization insurance by PhonePe for Covid-19 treatment
4. All standard health insurance policies to cover COVID-19 hospitalization treatment including “Arogya
Sanjeevani”: IRDAI
5. ‘Force majeure’ not applicable to COVID-19 death claims in life insurance policies
6. Flipkart partners with ICICI lombard & Go Digit to offer two COVID-19 health insurance policies
7. Tata AIA becomes the 1st Life Insurance company in India to announce additional benefits:COVID-19
8. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance in partnership with GOQii launches ‘BAGIC GOQii Co-pay Option’

LOANS ISSUED
1. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a loan agreement worth of $60 million with Aavas Financiers
Ltd (an affordable housing loan provider) to provide housing finance to women in low-income
communities either as primary borrowers or co-borrowers.
2. The World Bank has offered USD 1 billion to India for the proposed a 4-year COVID-19 emergency
response & health systems preparedness project which aims to develop the preparedness of India’s health
care systems in the time of the pandemic & also to respond and mitigate the pandemic.
3. World Bank (WB) offers US$82 million to Himachal Pradesh gvt For the upgradation of major roads and
modernization of the Public Works Department (PWD) in Himachal Pradesh (HP).
4. The Asian Development Bank approved the loan of 1.5 Billion USD (Rs.11,400 crore) to India to fund the
actions to take against the novel coronavirus pandemic
5. The Asian Development Bank offers $346 million to Maharastra For to provide reliable power connection
in rural areas of the state, where the labour force is mostly engaged in agriculture and related activities.
6. The Punjab National Bank Housing Finance (PNBHF) has signed an agreement with Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) to raise USD 75 million (about Rs 566 crore) & with Citibank for USD 25
million (about Rs 188 crore) to provide loans to affordable housing segment so as to improve the lives of
low-income households & to promote sustainable economic growth in India.
 MAY
RBI IN NEWS
1. RBI extends regulatory benefits under SLF-MF scheme dated 27.4.2020 to all banks
2. Reserve Bank extends interest subsidy scheme for exporters till 31 March 2021
3. Reserve bank cancels Mumbai’s 105-year-old CKP co-op bank license

OTHER BANKING NEWS

1. ‘Vikas Abhaya’ loan scheme launched by Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB),
2. USD 400 million multi-year financial support to India: World Bank
3. ‘India SME Services Platform’ to be launched: SIDBI
4. NABARD disburses Rs 12,767 crore to State Co-op Banks & RRBs to extend credit to farmers
5. NABARD extends Rs 20,500 crores special liquidity facility to co-op banks & RRBs
6. Canara Bank launches special gold loan business vertical
7. Rs 1,500 crores sanctioned for Punjab to ensure continuous credit flow to farmers: NABARD
8. Kotak Mahindra becomes 1st bank in India to introduce video-KYC facility for SA customers
9. MoneyGram International, global leader in P2P payments tied up with Federal Bank Limited, a private
bank in India to provide the customers a cost-effective way to receive deposits directly in their bank accounts
in India.
10. The Government of India and West Bengal Government have inked two loan agreements with Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and World Bank (WB) each $145 million ($290 million cumulative) for
the “West Bengal Major Irrigation and Flood Management Project” to improve irrigation services and flood
management in the Damodar Valley Command Area (DVCA) of West Bengal.
11. Franklin Templeton appoints Kotak Bank as an advisor to assist in monetising assets of 6 Wind-
up Schemes
12. World Bank announces $160 billion assistance to 100 countries
13. ICICI introduced ‘ICICI Bank Golden Years FD’ a special FD with interest rate of 6.55% p.a. for
senior citizens
14. Airtel Payments Bank joined hands with Mastercard to develop customised payment solutions
for farmers, SMEs
15. NABARD grants Rs 1,050 crore to West Bengal during FY 21 for the benefit of farmers & poor
people
FINANCE NEWS
1. Flipkart ties up with Bajaj Allianz General Insurance for digital motor insurance policy
2. IBM ties up with Intellect Design Arena to launch iTurmeric FinCloud platform for cloud services of
banks, financial institutions
3. Maruti Suzuki ties-up with Cholamandalam Investment & Finance to launch ‘Buy Now Pay Later’offer
4. Edelweiss General Insurance launched app-based OD floater policy
5. LIC launches modified PM Vaya Vandana Yojana pension scheme
6. Maruti Suzuki partners with ICICI Bank to provide retail financing schemes to customers
7. Annual listing fee reduced by 25% for SMEs: BSE & NSE
 JUNE
RBI IN NEWS
1. RBI creates Payments Infrastructure Development Fund with initial corpus of Rs 250 cr to boost
digitization
2. RBI proposed Draft Frameworks for Sale of Loan Exposures and Securitisation of Standard Assets
3. RBI bars People’s Co-operative Bank from granting fresh loans, accepting deposits for 6 months
4. RBI sets up 5-member Internal working group headed by P K Mohanty to review ownership and control
of Private banks
5. RBI Releases New Framework for Financial Market Infra, Retail Payment System; NPCI & NEFT
classified as FMI
6. RBI Proposes to Set Upper Age Limit of CEOs, Whole-Time Directors of Banks to 70 Years
7. RBI Proposes New Rules for Housing Finance Companies; Increases Min NOF to Rs 20cr
8. RBI doubles withdrawal limit to Rs 1 lakh for PMC Bank depositors; 4 other banks withdrawal limit
increased
9. RBI Extends Rs 50,000 Crores Special Liquidity Window for YES Bank by 3 months
10. Reserve Bank Extends Enhanced Borrowing Limit to Banks Under MSF Till Sept 30, 2020
 OTHER BANKING NEWS
1. DBS Bank India partners with TCIL to facilitate real time payments for truck drivers by DBS RAPID
solutionIndusInd Bank rolls out India’s 1st mobile app based facility for opening current accounts
2. ICICI Bank launches ‘Insta Flexicash’ an Online OD facility for its salary account customers
3. HDFC Ergo & Tech firm Tropogo Jointly Launches India’s 1st ‘pay as you fly’ Insurance for Drones
4. Yes Bank & Affordplan Jointly Launches Co-Branded Healthcare Card Called ‘Swasth Card’
5. PhonePe Partnered with ICICI Bank on UPI multi-bank model
6. Axis Bank, MasterCard and Worldline launches ‘Soft POS’, first financial payments service: Transform
SmartPhones for Merchant POS terminals
7. SBI launches separate FI&MM vertical for agriculture and small businesses
8. NABARD provides Rs 270 crore Special Liquidity Facility to Assam Gramin Vikash Bank
9. POS solution in Africa promoted by the partnership between ePaisa and First Alliance Bank
10. Exim Bank sanctions $215.68 mn LoC to Malawi govt for Drinking Water Supply Schemes
11. Airtel Payments Bank launches ‘Suraksha Salary Account’ for MSMEs
12. SEBI panel headed by Anil Dave suggested measures to strengthen enforcement of SEBI
13. Bank of Baroda to Fully Digitize Lending Operations
14. EXIM Bank Extends Line of Credit of USD 20.10 Million to Nicaragua Govt
15. Hyundai Motor India Ltd Partners with HDFC Bank offers 1st Online Auto Retail Financing: ‘Click to Buy’
16. UCO Bank Ties Up with 4 Insurers to Offer Various Insurance Products
• SBI Life Insurance Company, the Oriental Insurance Company and Religare Health Insurance Company,
Star Health and Allied Insurance Company to offer various insurance products for its customers.
17. Karnataka Bank launches ‘KBL Micro Mitra’ for MSMEs
18. Yes Bank Launches Digital Wallet Solution ‘Yuva Pay’ in Partnership with UDMA Technologies to Enable
Contactless Payments
19. Lt Governor G C Murmu Launches Two Customized Loan Schemes of J&K Bank for Business Communities
20. SOLV partnered with Standard Chartered Bank to Launch Credit Card for MSMEs
21. World Bank Grants $500 Million to Bangladesh For Cross Country Road Projects
22. World Bank Approves $500 mn Under ‘STARS’ Project to Improve Education Quality in 6 Indian States
23. World Bank Enhances the financial Support for Ganga rejuvenation with $400 million through SNGRBP

FINANCE NEWS
1. SEBI Extends Deadline for Power of Attorney Norms till August 1, 2020
2. American DFC to invest $350 million in India firms
3. PhonePe along with ICICI Lombard launches ‘first of its kind’ domestic trip travel insurance
4. India becomes 2nd nation to have contact-free ATM cash withdrawals; Empays Payment Systems partners
with Mastercard
5. ICICI Home Finance Launches SARAL, Affordable Housing Loan Scheme
6. SEBI amends SEBI (SAST) Regulations, 2011 to enhance promoter’s shareholding
7. Karnataka Bank Launches Health Insurance Policy to Cover COVID-19 in Partnership with Universal
Sompo General Insurance Company
8. Tata AIA Life Insurance Partners with East Consultancy Services to Offer Aadhaar-Based Paperless
Offline e-KYC Service
9. World’s First Gold-backed US Digital Gold Currency Launched in India, GCC, Middle East and Africa by
IBMC
10. SIDBI Set Up ‘Swavalamban Crisis Responsive Fund’ to Facilitate Free Onboarding of MSMEs on TReDS
platform

LOANS ISSUED BY BANKS

1. According to the Chief Minister (CM) of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, the World Bank (WB) has
granted loan worth of Rs. 1,950 crores to the state for tackling COVID-19 situation and developmental
work. Out of the total amount, Rs.1,100 crores will be allocated for creating Industrial infrastructures and
the balance Rs. 850 crores will be spent for various Social-Welfare schemes
2. (AIIB) approved a 2nd loan of USD 750 million to India under the bank’s USD 10 billion COVID-19 Crisis
Recovery Facility (CRF);
 JULY
RBI IN NEWS
1. FDI Up by $19 bn in FY20; Portfolio Investment Down by $13.7 bn: IIP Data Released by RBI
2. RBI conducted OMO of purchase and sale of G-secs for Rs 10,000 cr each; Borrowing facility to banks
extended till Sept 30, 2020
3. Tamil Nadu Tops Market Borrowings Among States in India with a Collection of ₹30,500 crores for 2020-
21: RBI
4. RBI Releases Report of Committee for Analysis of QR Code headed by Prof. Deepak B Phatak
5. RBI Signed USD 400 mn Currency Swap Facility for Sri Lanka
6. Gross NPA of banks may rise to 12.5% by March 2021: RBI Financial Stability Report

OTHER BANKING NEWS

1. World Bank Approves USD 750 Million MSME Emergency Response Program for India
2. Swiggy in Partnership with ICICI Bank Launches an Industry- First Instant Digital Wallet, ‘Swiggy
Money’
3. ICICI bank Launched a Facility, ‘Insta Loans against Mutual Funds’, in Partnership with ComputerAge
Management Services
4. HDFC Bank to Offer ‘ZipDrive’, an Online Instant Auto Loans to its Customers
5. YES Bank Launches a Digital Solution, ‘Loan in Seconds’ for Instant Disbursement of Retail Loans
6. Bank of Baroda Launched ‘Insta Click Savings Account’, 100% Paperless Digital Self-Assisted Online
Savings Account
7. World Bank & Government of India Signed an agreement along with the Government of Tamil Nadu to
help the low-income groups in the state of Tamil Nadu to get access to affordable housing.
8. Karur Vysya Bank (KVB) has joined hands with Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd for
bancassurance, through which KVB will market wide range health insurance products of the Star Health
through its 780 branches.
9. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has renewed a MOU with Paris headquartered International Energy
Agency (IEA) during IEA’s Clean Energy Transitions Summit 2020 with the aim to further increase the
collaboration on sustainability with a focus on energy sector resilience in Asia and the Pacific.
10. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) agreed to partner toward the
“Green Recovery”.
11. ADB Joins Network for Greening the Financial System as Observer
12. Kotak Mahindra Bank & Innoviti Collaborates to Offer EMIs on Kotak Debit Cards Swiped on Innoviti
POS Terminals
13. Kotak Mahindra Bank & Innoviti Collaborates to Offer EMIs on Kotak Debit Cards Swiped on Innoviti
POS Terminals
14. SBM Bank India Partnered with Mastercard to facilitate Real-time domestic & cross-border payments &
remittances through ‘Mastercard Send’
15. Fino Payments Bank launches ‘Bhavishya’ Savings Account for Minors Aged between 10-18 years
16. Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud to Enter into a Multi-Year, Strategic Partnership
17. Karur Vysya Bank Enters into Bancassurance Corporate Agency Partnership with Bajaj Allianz Life
Insurance
18. ADB & EAA Foundation Collaborated in $100 million Project to Provide Quality Primary Education for
out of school children
19. Visa Partners with Federal Bank to Deploy Visa Secure to the Bank’s Cardholders
20. NABARD organised a ‘digital choupal’ to mark its 39th Foundation Day; 2 schemes each of Rs 5,000 cr
announced
21. NABARD disbursed Rs 2.51 cr grant assistance to SHGs & Rs 221.89 cr to support 298 watershed project
in Karnataka
22. CBDT launched tool for banks, co-operative societies & post offices to ascertain TDS applicability rates on
cash withdrawals
23. NABARD Launched Development Projects worth Rs 44 lakhs in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
24. NABARD Sanctioned Rs 795 crore to West Bengal for Reconstructing Infrastructure Damaged by Cyclone
Amphan
25. NABARD Sanctioned Rs 795 crore to West Bengal for Reconstructing Infrastructure Damaged by Cyclone
Amphan
26. LIC-UBI announced corporate agency pact
27. FamPay launched India’s 1st numberless card, Famcard
28. Airtel Payments Bank Partnered with NSDC to Skill Rural Youth for Financial Services Sector Jobs
29. Bank of Maharashtra joined hands with Uniken for Omni-channel security
30. SBI provided USD 16.20 million liquidity support for local businesses in Maldives as COVID-relief
31. ADB Approves 3 Million USD Grant to India to Support COVID-19 Response

FINANCE NEWS
1. GoI approved special liquidity scheme for NBFCs and HFCs through SBICAP as SPV
2. Edelweiss AMC to Launch Second Tranche of ‘BHARAT Bond ETF’; Target to Raise Rs 14000 crore
3. India First Life Insurance Associates with BOB Financial to Offer COVID-19 cum Hospital Cash Cover to
BOB Credit Cardholders
4. Liberty General Insurance launches 1st of its kind innovative service ‘Liberty Assure’
5. Ola Enters into a Strategic Partnership with PhonePe to Enhance its Digital Payments Experiencefor its
Customer
6. AIIB Releases USD 50 mn as 1st Tranche to L&T Infrastructure Finance for Renewable Energy
7. IRDAI Revised Arogya Sanjeevani Policy limit; Minimum Insurance limit Rs.50000 & Maximum
Insurance limit beyond 5 Lakh
8. Mastercard to Invest Rs 250 cr to Support SMEs in India Amid COVID-19 Crisis
9. IRDAI mandated insurance companies to launch ‘Corona Kavach’ & ‘Corona Rakshak’ amid increasing
COVID-19 cases
10. World’s largest 1st Global Fintech Fest held virtually; UPI AutoPay, RuPay commercial card & OCEN
protocol launched
11. Amazon Pay partnered with Acko General Insurance Ltd to offer auto insurance in India
12. ICICI Lombard in partnership with PhonePe launched Hospital Daily cash benefit
13. IRCTC and SBI Card launched a Co-Branded Contactless Credit Card on RuPay Platform
14. Bharti AXA General Insurance Launched Crop Insurance Campaign, ‘Bohot Zaroori Hai’ for Farmers
15. BOB Financial Solutions Limited ropes Fiserv, Inc for Digital Transformation
 AUGUST
RBI IN NEWS
1. RBI has setup panel under KV Kamanth for one time restructuring of loan
2. RBI has announced a special liqidity fund of 5000 cr each for NABARD and NHB
3. RBI has enhanced loan amount to 90% value of gold pledged
4. RBI permits banks to invest in debt instruments through mutual funds
5. RBI announces “Positive pay” feature to help avert cheque frauds
6. RBI Mandates System based asset classification for Urban Co-operative Banks
7. RBI tightens Norms for core investment companies formation of Group risk management committee
mandated
8. RBI approves Rs.57,128cr to central government
9. BI-Monthly policy Rates
 Reporate- 4.00%
 Rev reporate- 3.35%
 MSF- 4.25%
10. RBI released framework for Authorisation of Pan India Umbrella Entity for retail payments
11. RBI released Draft framework for self regulatory body for payment system operators
 OTHER BANK NEWS
1. SEBI to setup virtual museum of security market
2. Axis bank launches Voicebot “AXAA”
3. Bank account opened under Jan Dhan account cross 40 cr mark
4. Kotak Mahindra Bank launches two months campaign “Kona Kona Umeed”
5. Canara bank tiesup with three insurers (Bajaj Allianz, New India Assurance company Ltd,& HDFC
ERGO Health ltd) to provide “Corona Kavach” policies
6. Aditya Birla Health insurance launches New service and products for COVID-19
7. ICICI Pru MF launches ICICI Prudential Alpha Vol 30 ETF
8. SBM Bank joined hands with Instarem to enhance outband remittance experience
9. Paytm launces India’s 1st pocket android POS Device
10. LIC starts “Special Revival Campaign” to revive lapsed policies
11. HDFC Bank launches “Shaurya KGC Card” for Indian Armed personals
12. PNB launches “Digital APNAYEN” to promote digital banks
13. Fino Payment Bank launches “Jan Bachat Khata” Aadhar authentication based digital Savings account
14. SBI rolls out “KCC Review option” for farmers
15. Lakshmi Vilas Bank launches “LVBDigiGO” instant savings account opening facility
16. YES Bank launches unique facility “loan against securities”
17. Bharathi AXA life insurance entered Bancassurance partnership with SBM India
18. Fino payment bank ltd launched “Jan Bachat Khata” Aadhar authentication based digital savings account
19. HSBC launches “Green Deposit Programme”
20. Axis Bank launches hiring initiative named “Gig a Oppurtunities”
21. RBL bank partners Accenture to accelerate its digital journey
22. Paytm Payments bank enables banking services through Aadhar cards
23. ICICI Bank becomes 1st bank in India uses satellite data to Asses credit worthiness of farmer
24. NABARD rolls out debt and credit guarantee product
25. SBI General Insurance launches “Shaugan-Gift Insurance”
 Finance news
1. International Finance Corporation to invest Rs.75 cr in Endiya Partners Fund 2
2. Credit Guarantee Scheme to larger firms Self-employed ;GoI
3. LIC acquired 4.23% (105.98%) stake of YES bank
4. Craft Silicon & PayU Partnered to Advance Digital Loan Repayment
5. MobiKwik Launched mpay.me, a Personalized UPI Payment Link
6. BOB Financial Solutions Partnered with Innoviti Payment to launch the New Credit Card EMI offering on POS
Terminal
7. Aditya Birla Health Insurance Launches New Services and Products for COVID-19
8. SEBI revised IFSC guidelines, 2015’ eligibility, shareholding limit for clearing corp at IFSC
9. International Financial Corporation to Invest Rs.75 Crore in Endiya Partners Fund II
10. Paytm Launched India’s 1st Pocket Android POS Device, ‘Paytm All-in-One Portable Android Smart POS’
11. Muthoot Finance Partnered with Kotak Mahindra General Insurance to Offer COVID-19Insurance Cover
Against Gold Loan
12. Muthoot Finance Partnered with Kotak Mahindra General Insurance to Offer COVID-19 Insurance
Cover Against Gold Loan
13. Bharti AXA Life Insurance Entered into Bancassurance Partnership with SBM Bank India
14. Universal Sompo General Insurance Company Ltd Collaborates with BSE EBIX to sell General Insurance
products
15. Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance Partnered with Element AI for AI Transformation
16. NPCI Launched its Subsidiary Firm, ‘NPCI International Payments Limited’; Appointed Ritesh Shukla as
its CEO
17. Tata Capital Ltd Launched a New Service, ‘Swift Insta Personal Loans’ on Whatsapp
18. SBI General Insurance Launched a 1st of its Kind offering, ‘Shagun – Gift an Insurance’ Policy for
Personal Accident
19. HSBC India Launched Omni Collect, a One Stop Solution to Businesses
20. Innoviti and Visa Partnered to develop installments platform for face-to-face transactions
21. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Launched 1st of its Kind ‘Smart Assist’, a Real-time Assistance Service
22. Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance & Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank Entered into a
StrategicPartnership through VC to Offer Life Insurance
Loans issued
1. AIIB talks with India for financing of $8bn health infrastructure fund
2. AIIB plans to approves loan worth $3 bn over next 12 month infra projects
3. MSME debt restructuring allowed till March 2021
4. EXIM bank offers $250Mn LOC to Mozambique for power supply quality in the Country
5. Over one lakh loans sanctioned under PM-SVANITHI Scheme
6. ADB approved USD 1bn loan for rapit transit system in India
7. ADB approved USD 1bn for Delhi Meerut regional rapid transit system
8. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Government of Maharashtra ,Mumbai Railway Vikas
Corporation(MRVC) $500 million
19.GOVERNMENT
SCHEMES
(FEB-JULY)
 FEBRUARY
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
1. 73.47 Lakh people trained under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana from 2016-20
2. Soil health card cuts fertiliser use by 10%: National Productivity Council study
3. Ministry Food Processing Industries sanctioned 39 Mega Food Parks & 298 Integrated Cold Chain
Projects under PMKSY
4. Around 38 Cr bank accounts opened under PMJDY till January 2020 : Finance ministry
5. Sum of Rs 6,717.18 crore released under Amended Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme between FY16
and FY20
6. LPG coverage reached 96.9 % as on Jan 1, 2020: Dharmendra Pradhan
7. Soil health card scheme completes 5 years on 19 February 2020
8. Parsi population went up by 233 since the launch of Jiyo parsi scheme: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
9. Centre paid Rs 50,850 crore to farmers under Pradhan Mantri Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme
10. MP tops in the list of outgoing patients for treatment under PM-JAY: NHA
11. Government approves Rs 162 crore under Operation Green Scheme
 MARCH
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
1. Stand Up India Scheme has more than 81% Women account holders; over 43% Women subscribers in
APY; 70% Women borrowers in MUDRA; Over 40% women member enrollments in PMJJBY & PMSBY
2. Women’s ownership of bank accounts rose to 77% in 2017 under PMJDY: MSC Report
3. 10 projects of Rs 301.54 crores sanctioned for Food Processing Sector
4. LPG scheme PM Ujjwala Yojana closed; only 3 States & 5 UTs become kerosene-free
5. Govt sanctioned Rs 20,466.94 crore loan to women under ‘Stand up India scheme’: Anurag Singh
6. Premium subsidy sharing pattern between Centre & NER changed: PM-KISAN Scheme reached more
than 8 crore beneficiaries
7. Rs 6.16 lakh crore approved so far under PMAY(U)
8. COVID-19 will be tested and treated under Ayushman Bharat scheme
9. Indian Railway Stations Development Corporation Limited (IRSDC) is developing 1st of its kind “Form-
Based Codes”: Railway land
10. FinMin provided Rs 1.70 Lakh Cr relief package under PMGaribKalyanYojana for the poor to tackle
Corona Virus
State Government Schemes
1. Assam Government to construct 33 stadiums under Uttaran scheme

APRIL
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
1. Tamil Nadu topped in micro-irrigation coverage under PMKSY for FY 2019-20
2. Government increases loss coverage for micro loan defaults under CGFMU scheme
3. Central Government releases 7,300 crore rupees to State & UTs under MGNREGS
4. Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) to handle the Central Public Sector
Undertaking (CPSU) Scheme Phase-II: MNRE
 MAY
Central Government Schemes
1. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ announces modifications in Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)
Scheme to boost research
2. Atal Pension Yojana completed 5 yrs on May 9, 2020 with 2.23 crore enrolment
3. Coir Geo textiles to be used in rural road construction under PMGSY-III: Govt
4. 1 crore treatments provided under AB-PMJAY, created webinar, launched Ask Ayushman & Hospital
Ranking Dashboard: Harsh Vardhan
5. Rs. 20,050 cr PMMSY detailed by Giriraj Singh: Fish production target set to 220 LMT by FY24-25

State Government Schemes

1. Chhattisgarh tops among other states in providing employment under MGNREGS
 JUNE
1. 200 Urban forests in 5 next years: ‘Nagar Van’ scheme
2. Rs. 4000cr allocated to State Governments under Per Drop More Crop (PDMC) component of PMKSY for
FY 2020-21
3. Migrants facing job loss amid lockdown to get health insurance under AB-PMJAY
4. PM Modi launched Rs 50,000 cr Garib Kalyan Rojgar Abhiyaan to boost employment and livelihood for
migrant workers
5. Government Introduced New Floating Rate Savings Bonds, 2020 (Taxable) Scheme w.e.f July 1,2020
 JULY
Central Government Schemes
1. Harsimrat Kaur Badal virtually launched Rs 10,000 cr PM-FME Scheme; Operation Greens scheme
extended to 18 more fruits, vegetables
• 35% Credit-linked capital subsidy for upgradation of micro food processing units
• NIFTEM & IIFPT will be supported by MoFPI for training of units
• Operation Greens scheme extended to 18 more fruits, vegetables
2. 5 years of PMAY (U), Smart Cities Mission (SCM) and AMRUT completed on June 25, 2020
3. PM announced extension of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana till November 2020
4. DFPD estimated Rs 1,48,938 cr as cost for distribution of food grains and pulses under PMGKAY during
April – Nov 2020

State Government Schemes

1. Odisha Launches 1st of its kind scheme, ‘Balaram’ to provide Rs 1,040 crore credit to 7 lakh Landless
Farmers
2. Home Minister Amit Shah Distributed 100 Electric Potters Wheels to Artisans of Gujarat under KVIC’s
‘Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana’
 AUGUST
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SCHEMES
1. Central extended partial credit guarantee Scheme (PCGS) 2.0 by 3 months till Nov 11, 2020
2. National Health Authorities approves to integrate health Schemes of central ministers with Ayushman
Bharat
3. “Vidyarthi vigyan manthan” a national programme for popularising science among school students
launched by Dr. Harsha Vardhan
4. PM launched financial facility of Rs 1lakh cr under Agriculture Infrastructure fund & Rs 17000cr as 6th
instalment of PM-Kisan
5. Gujarat Launched Mukhya Mantri Kisan Sahay Yojana Replacing PMFBY to Compensate Crop Loss of
Farmers for FY21
6. Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) Completed Six Years of Successful Implementation
 STATE NEWS
1. “Mukya mantri Doodh Uphar Yojana” & “Mahila Evam Kishori Samman yojana” is launched by
Haryana CM for welfare of woman
2. “Mukya mantri kisaan sahay yojana” launched by Gujarat for the insurance of crop
3. “Indira Van Mittan Yojana” launched by chattisgarh government for the welfare of tribals
4. “Orunodoi scheme” has been launched by assam for women’s financial empowerment
5. “Karma Sathi Prakalpa” – soft loans subsidies to youth-West Bengal
6. “YSR Cheyutha”- to improve livelihood of women- AP
7. “Mukya Mantri Slum Swastya yojana” to offer health facilities to the people at doorstep at chattisgarh
8. Chhattisgarh govt launched Shaheed Mahendra Karma Tendupatta Sangrahak Samajik SurakshaYojana
for tendu leaves collectors
20.CABINENT
APPROVALS
(FEB-AUG)
 FEBRAURY
1. Cabinet approves amendment to bring cooperative banks under regulatory control of RBI.
2. Cabinet approves to infuse Rs 2500 crore as capital in OICL, NICL and UIICL.
3. Cabinet approves-signing of updated Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) pact
between SEBI and UK’s FCA.
4. Cabinet approves- upgrading of Gandhinagar (Gujarat) based Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space
Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG) as Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications
and Geo-informatics (BISAG(N))
5. Interest subvention for Dairy processing & Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF) raised from 2% to
2.5%.
6. 22nd Law Commission of India for a term of 3years-to be formed.
7. Cabinet gave its nod for the exemption of the India Ports Global Ltd (IPGL) from the Department of
Public Enterprises (DPE) guidelines.
8. National Technical Textiles Mission approved with the outlay of Rs 1,480 crore.
9. Cabinet approves amendment of the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands Land Revenue and
Tenancy Regulation, 1965 to give occupancy rights to Scheduled tribes of Lakshadweep.
10. Union cabinet approves relaxation of rules to Alliance Air in operating flights between India & Sri Lanka
11. Cabinet gives in-principle approval for setting up a new Major Port at Vadhavan in Maharashtra
12. Cabinet approves the Indian Institutes of Information Technology Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2020
13. Cabinet okays signing of updated Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) pact
between Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the UK’s (United Kingdom) Financial Conduct
Authority (FCA).
14. Cabinet approves upgrading Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space Applications and Geoinformatics
(BISAG) as Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-
15. informatics (BISAG(N)) under Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITY).
16. Cabinet clears Phase II of Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen)
17. Cabinet approves to raise interest subvention for Dairy processing & Infrastructure
18. Development Fund (DIDF) from 2% to 2.5%
19. Cabinet approves Rs 4,458 crore scheme for dairy sector
20. Cabinet approves scheme for “Formation and Promotion of Farmer Producer Organizations
21. (FPOs) ” to form and promote 10,000 new FPOs
22. Cabinet clears Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation Bill 2020
23. Cabinet nod to set up a 12-member Technology Group headed by VijayRaghavan
24. Cabinet okays revamping of PMFBY & Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme
25. Cabinet approves formation of 22nd Law Commission of India for a term of 3years
26. Cabinet approves the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020.
27. Cabinet approves placing 37 Central laws in the concurrent list for the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu
and Kashmir (J&K) under Section 96 of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act,2019.
28. Cabinet gave its nod for the exemption of the India Ports Global Ltd (IPGL) from the Department of
Public Enterprises (DPE) guidelines, except reservation and vigilance policies.
29. Cabinet approves National Technical Textiles Mission costing Rs 1,480 crore.
30. Cabinet has approved a bill to give the status of Institute of National Importance (INI) to 2 National
Institutes of Food Technology at Kundli, Haryana and Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu (TN).
31. Cabinet approves amendment of the Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Islands Land Revenue and
Tenancy Regulation, 1965 to confer occupancy rights to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) population in the union
territory (UT) of Lakshadweep.
 MARCH
1. Cabinet approves amended FDI policy on Civil Aviation: The Union Cabinet has approved an amended
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy on civil aviation which permits non-resident
2. Indian (NRI) nationals to own 100% stakes of Air India.
3. Cabinet approves Mega Consolidation of ten PSBs into four w.e.f. 1.4.2020
4. Cabinet approves Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019: The Union Cabinet has approved the
Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 to amend the Companies Act, 2013. With this approval 72
amendments will be made to the Companies Act
5. Union Cabinet approves Yes Bank reconstruction plan; SBI, HDFC, ICICI, Axis are among others to
invest
6. Cabinet clears 4% DA hike for central government employees to 21% from 17%
7. Cabinet approves scheme for “Remission of Duties and Taxes on Exported Products (RoDTEP)” for
enhancing Exports to International Markets
8. Govt approves Rs 7,660 crore green highway project in four states of HP, RJ, UP & AP
9. Cabinet approves removal of ambiguities in the Modified NPS-III for determination of fixed costs for the
urea units
10. Cabinet approves Minimum Support Price for Copra for 2020 season
11. Cabinet approves inclusion of 12,500 AYUSH Health-Wellness Centres in National Ayushman Mission
12. Cabinet approved Rs 3,762.25 crore Modified Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC 2.0) Scheme
13. Cabinet approves Rs 3,420 crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme and Rs 400 crore Promotion of
Medical Device Parks Scheme
14. Cabinet approves Rs 3,000 cr Promotion of Bulk Drug Parks Scheme; Rs 6,940 crore PLI scheme approved for
(KSMs)/Drug Intermediates
15. Cabinet approves Rs 40,995 crore Production Linked Incentive Scheme for Large Scale Electronics
Manufacturing
16. Cabinet approves Rs 3,285 crore Scheme for Promotion of manufacturing of Electronic Components and
Semiconductors
17. Cabinet approves expenditure for reimbursing the losses under MSP operations for cotton during the cotton
years (October to September) 2014-15 to 2018-19
18. Prices of alcohols used in making hand sanitizers capped under Essential Commodities Act
19. Cabinet approves extension of RoSCTL scheme for export of garments, made-ups from April 1, 2020
20. Cabinet continued recapitalization of Regional Rural Banks with CRAR of less than 9% till FY20- 21; Rs1,340
cr approved
21. Cabinet increases subsidised foodgrains supply by 2Kg to 7Kg via ration shops during the lockdown
22. Cabinet approves construction of Rs. 1285 crore Aligarh-Harduaganj flyover
 APRIL
1. PM-KISAN: Aadhaar seeding process for beneficiaries of Assam, Meghalaya, J-K, Ladakh extended till March,
2021
2. Cabinet approved Rs. 15,000 Crore for” India COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System
Preparedness Package”
3. Cabinet approves fixation of NBS rates for P&K fertilizers for FY 20-21; Subsidy on non-urea fertilisers
declined to Rs 22,186.55 crore
4. Cabinet approved Ordinance to protect healthcare personnel from attacks; imprisonment upto 7 yrs

MAY
1. Cabinet approves Rs 10,000 cr “Scheme for formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (FME)”
2. Cabinet approves extension of ‘Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana till 2023
3. Cabinet approves Rs 20,050 cr Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana
4. Cabinet approves Rs 30,000 cr Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFCs/HFCs to address their Liquidity Stress
5. Cabinet approves waiver of interest of Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited
 JUNE
1. Cabinet approves extension of repayment date for short term loans for agriculture and alliedactivities by
banks till August 31, 2020
2. Minimum Support Prices (MSP) for Kharif Crops for marketing season 2020-21 increased
3. Cabinet approves Upward revision of MSME definition and modalities/ road map for implementing
Atmanirbhar Bharat Packages for MSMEs
4. Cabinet approves renaming of Kolkata Port Trust as Syama Prasad Mukherjee Trust
5. Govt approved setting up of an “Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS) and Project
6. Development Cells (PDCs)” in Ministries/Departments for attracting FDIs
7. Cabinet approved historic amendment to the Essential Commodities Act, 1955
8. Cabinet approved ‘The Farming Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Ordinance,
2020’
9. Cabinet approved ‘The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm
Services Ordinance, 2020’
10. Union Cabinet approved MoU between India and Bhutan on Cooperation in the areas of Environment
11. Centre approved funds for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Odisha, Meghalaya, Assam & Bihar
 Centre approves Rs 812 crore for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Odisha
 Centre approves Rs 175 crore for implementation of JJM in Meghalaya
 Centre approves Rs 1,407 crore for implementation of JJM in Assam during 2020-21
 Centre allocates over Rs 1,832.66 cr for implementation of JJM in Bihar
 Arunachal Pradesh plans to provide tap connection to all rural households by March 2023
 Puducherry plans to provide tap connections to all rural households in 2020-21
12. Cabinet approves declaration of Kushinagar Airport in Uttar Pradesh as an International Airport
13. Union Cabinet Approves Term Extension of Commission to Examine Sub-Categorization of OBCs till Jan
31, 2021
14. Historic Reform: Private sector participation in Space activities approved
15. Urban, multi-State cooperative banks to come under RBI supervision
16. 2% Interest Subvention approved on prompt repayment of Shishu Loans under PMMY for 12 months
 JULY
1. Cabinet approved Rs. 1 Lakh cr financing facility under ‘Agriculture Infrastructure Fund’
2. Cabinet approved Rs. 12,450 crore capital infusion for 3 Public Sector General Insurance Companies–
OICL, NICL & UIICL; their merger halted
3. Cabinet approves developing of Rs 600 crore Affordable rental housing Complexes for urban migrants /
poor
4. Cabinet approved 3-months extension of “Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana- Ujjwala” for
beneficiaries w.e.f. 01.07.2020
5. Cabinet approved National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 by replacing NEP, 1986; HRD ministry renamed
as Ministry of Education
6. Cabinet approves MoU between India and Zimbabwe on Traditional System of Medicine and Homeopathy
 AUGUST
1. Cabinet approves setting up of National Recruitment Agency to conduct Common Eligibility Test;
Rs.1517.57 cr sanctioned
2. Cabinet approves proposal for leasing out three airports – Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram of
AAI through PPP
3. Cabinet approves liquidity measure in the Power Sector amid financial stress caused by COVID-19
21.STATEWISE NEWS
(FEB 2020-AUG 2020)
FEBRUARY
Andhra Pradesh

 Andhra Pradesh flagged off Indias first ‘fruit train’ with bananas
 AP Govt made history with ‘Intivadhakey Pension’ scheme by covering 94 % within few days
 YSR Pension Kanuka doorstep pension scheme launched in AP; pensioner age reduced to 60 from 65
 CM Jagan Mohan reedy inaugurates AP’s 1st Disha police station in Rajamahendravaram
 AP govt inks MoU with 11 Agri institutions to help farmers
 AP CM Jagan Mohan Reddy launched Nadu-Nedu scheme for modernising hospitals
 AP CM Jagan Mohan launches ‘Jagananna Vasthi Deevena’ scheme for Students

Bihar

 Bihar govt launches `Pyaar ka Paudha` campaign to promote the practice of planting trees
 Bihar 1st NDA state to adopt resolution against NRC, and to implement NPR
Haryana

 Haryana Launches Rs.1500 crores Mukyamantri Parivar Samridhi Yojana

 Haryana Government launched ‘Reading Mission’
 Haryana Govt announced Rs 6 crores cash rewards to gold medal winners at Olympics games
 Ambala city bus stand renamed after late Sushma Swaraj by Haryana Govt
 Govt of Haryana to open Atal kisan – majdoor canteens to provide affordable meals to farmers
 Haryana CM Manohar lal khattar presents Rs 1,42,343-crore budget for 2020-21

J&K

 Jammu & Kashmir admin renames PHE & IFC department as 'Jal Shakti Dept’
 GOI sanctioned 9 Medical colleges and 2 AIIMS for Jammu & Kashmir

Karnataka

 Karnataka CM launches Janasevaka Scheme to Provide delivery of Govt Services at Doorstep

Kerala

 Kerala budget 2020: 1000 Kudumbashree hotels to serve meals at Rs 25.

 Dial 112: Kerala gets integrated number for police, medical and fire emergencies
Madhya pradesh

 Narmada Mahotsav 2020 celebrated at Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh (MP)

 For the first time in MP, drones are used for mapping villages

Maharashtra

 Uddhav Thackeray approves renaming of Latur Medical College after former late CM Vilasrao Deshmukh
 M.H Assembly passed bill, teaching Marathi language compulsory across all schools in the state
 Maharashtra: ”Smart gram yojana” will be named after ex-minister R R Patil

Manipur

 Manipur’s ‘Anganphou Hunba’ programme launched at Arapti Mayai Leikai in Imphal East

Odisha

 Odisha government presented Rs 1.5 Lakh crore paperless budget 2020-21

Puducherry

 Puducherry becomes 1st UT to pass resolution against CAA, NRC, NPR in Assembly Punjab

 Online lottery scheme sales banned by Punjab govt to check illegal sales
Punjab

 Online lottery scheme sales banned by Punjab govt to check illegal sales
 Punjab to honour cops under ‘Appreciate and Commend’ scheme
 Manpreet Singh Badal presented Punjab govt’s 1.54 lakh cr budget for FY20-21

Tamil Nadu

 Cauvery Delta Region to be declared as Protected Agricultural Zone by TN Govt

 Tamil Nadu CM Inaugurates SCF cricket ground in Salem
 TN govt announced 5 girl child welfare scheme & will celebrate former CM Jayalalitha’s birth anniversary as ‘State
Girl Child Protection Day’ on Feb 24

Uttarakhand

 Uttarakhand Govt launched First Helicopter Services under UDAN Scheme

Uttar Pradesh

 UP govt allots 5 acres of land to Sunni Waqf Board to construct mosque in Ayodhya
 Ground water act 2020 approved by Uttar Pradesh cabinet
 “Operation Nakail” for Auto-rickshaws in Ghaziabad to bear unique number aim to curb crime
 UP Govt. Inks MoU with eGov Foundation for State-wide Implementation of Municipal Financial Accounting Platform
 Board Exam 2020: UP Govt launched toll free helpline numbers for students
 Central and UP government renamed 4 railway stations of Prayagraj

 Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti Urdu, Arabi-Farsi University renamed as Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti languages University
in Lucknow
 MARCH
Chhattisgarh
 Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel presents a Rs 95,650-crore budget for fiscal 2020-21

Delhi
 Senior IPS officer S N Shrivastava gets additional charge of Delhi Police Commissioner

Himachal Pradesh
 Himachal CM Jai Ram Thakur presents Rs.49,131 crore budget for FY21
 Himachal Pradesh Government launched Police Station Visitor Survey System and e-Night Beat Checking System

Jammu & Kashmir

 J&K: Historic city Chowk renamed as ‘Bharat mata chowk’
 Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu launched Student Health Card scheme for school children in Jammu and
Kashmir
 ECI appoints Hirdesh Kumar as New Chief Electoral Officer of Jammu and Kashmir
 Nirmala Sitharaman presented highest budget for J&K, Rs. 1,01,428 cr, for FY20-21
 Jammu & Kashmir announces Rs 5 lakh Free Health Insurance under Ayushman Bharat
 J&K Government sets up Social and Educational: BC commission
 Jammu & Kashmir administrative council to implement the dairy cooperative scheme

Jharkhand
 Jharkhand government released Rs 86, 370 crore Budget for Financial year 2020-21
 After Maharashtra & Odisha, J’khand becomes the 3rd state in India to launch ‘Star Rating program’ for industries

Karnataka
 Karnataka CM Yediyurappa presents state budget for the FY 2020-21
 Karnataka Govt launched ‘Namaste over Handshake’ campaign to prevent from COVID-19

Kerala
 Kerala to launch digital literacy drive named “I am also digital” in the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation

Madhya Pradesh
 Madhya Pradesh Cabinet approved to form trust for ‘Ram Van Gaman Path’ project
 M Gopal Reddy appointed as Chief Secretary of MP
 Iqbal Singh Bains appointed as Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary

Maharastra
 Ajit Pawar presented Maharashtra Government’s Rs 1.15 Lakh crore budget for Financial Year 2020-21
 Maharashtra Govt approved auto rickshaws “happy hours”, reducing 15% of fare prices from 12 pm
 Justice Bhushan P Dharmadhikari as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
 Maharashtra Chief Secretary gets another 3-month extension: COVID-19

Manipur
 CMAST and CMAT scheme for welfare of sportspersons & artistes announced: Manipur CM

Meghalaya
 Meghalaya CM presented Rs 17,375 crore budget for FY 2020-21

Odisha
 Coronavirus: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik launched “Mo Jeeban Programme”

Punjab
 Punjab prohibits online supply of food from FBOs not possessing hygiene rating

Tamil Nadu
 TN CM Edappadi Palaniswami launched Tamil Nadu Health System Reform Programme (TNHSRP)
 Sanitary personnel in Tamil Nadu to be called as ‘cleanliness workers’: CM
 Mayiladuthurai to become Tamil Nadu’s 38th district: CM

Telangana
 Telangana’s Finance minister Harish Rao presents 1.82 lakh crore budget for FY21
Uttarakhand
 Gairsain will be the summer capital of Uttarakhand
 Uttarakhand cancels quota in promotion for state government employees

Uttar Pradesh
 UP Govt to provide monthly grant of Rs 900 for adopting a stray cattle
 CM Yogi Adityanath launched 3 schemes during ‘Kaushal Satrang’ programme held in Lucknow, UP
 ‘Recovery of Damage to Public Properties Ordinance 2020’: UP cabinet
 UP CM Yogi Adityanath sets up ‘Team-11’ to beat Coronavirus
 APRIL
Andhra Pradesh
 Andhra Pradesh to purchase ‘Portable Multi-feed Oxygen Manifold’
 25 lakh poor in AP to get house sites under Navaratnalu- Pedalandariki Illu programme
 Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy launches ‘YSR Nirman’ online platform
 Jagan Mohan Reddy re-launches zero interest loan scheme for Women SHGs
 AP launched ‘Covid Pharma’, a mobile application to trace people buying medicines for fever, cold
 Andhra govt launches fee reimbursement scheme for students namely Jagananna Vidya Deevena

Assam
 Assam govt launches new medicine delivery scheme called ‘Dhanwantari’

Gujarat
 Gujarat’s water conservation scheme Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan initiated amid Lockdown
 Gujarat govt launches unique initiative ‘Umbare Aanganwadi’ to help children during lockdown
Himachal Pradesh
 Himachal Pradesh starts to use eSanjeevaniOPD

Jharkhand
 COVID 19: Jharkhand Government launched PRAGYAAM app to issue e-passes for essential deliveries

Karnataka
 Karnataka Government Launches “Apthamitra” to combat COVID-19

Madhya Pradesh
 Madhya Pradesh govt launches ‘Chief Minister COVID-19 Yoddha Kalyan Yojana’ to benefit Anganwadi
workers & Assistants
 MP CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan launches Jeevan Shakti Yojana
 Madhya pradesh CM Shivraj singh unveils ‘Jeevan Amrit Yojana’ to help people fight against COVID-19
Manipur
 Manipur Govt introduces ‘Food Bank’ initiative for poor and needy people
 The Imphal East District Administration of Manipur state Government has launched

Nagaland
 Nagaland CM launched Self Declaration COVID-19 App

New Delhi
 Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announces 5T plan to control the spread of COVID-19
 Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launches “Operation SHIELD” in 21 Containment Areas against COVID-19
 Delhi govt: Use ‘Assess Koro Na’ app for door-to-door survey in containment zones

Odisha
 Odisha Govt in collaboration with UNICEF launches “Mo Prativa” programme to engage kids during
lockdown

Rajasthan
 Rajasthan government partners with healthcare startup MedCords to tackle COVID-19
Uttar Pradesh
 UP govt launches Annapurna, Supply Mitra portals for citizens’ food needs
 MAY
Andhra Pradesh
 Andhra Pradesh CM rolls out ‘CMAPP’ to monitor farming needs
 AP govt forms 5-member panel headed by Neerabh Kumar Prasad to probe Vizag gas leak
 AP’s CM Jagan Mohan Reddy launches Rs 1,110 crores ‘ReStart’ to revive MSME sector

Assam
 Himanta Biswa Sarma presented Rs 1,03,762 cr Assam Budget for FY 2020-2021

Bihar
 Sushil Kumar Modi presented Rs 2,11,761 cr Bihar’s budget for FY 20-21; Max. allocation towards education
 India Post & Bihar’s Horticulture dept. partnered to supply” Shahi Litchi” & “Zardalu Mango” to the people at
doorstep

Chhattisgar
 Chhattisgarh Govt rolls out Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana for farmers
Gujarat
 Gujarat Govt launches ‘Atmanirbhar Gujarat Sahay Yojna’ to provide loans to small businessmen

Himachal Pradesh
 HP govt to launch ‘Mukhya Mantri Shahari Rojgar Guarantee Yojna ‘for urban employment
 Himachal Pradesh to launch ‘Nigah’ to aware family members of migrant returnees

Jammu and Kashmir

 J&K promotes e-learning under Samagra Shiksha programme
 J&K starts an initiative ‘SUKOON’ – COVID-19 Beat the Stress
 Jammu and Kashmir notified new rules for issuing domicile certificates
 SKIMS in Srinagar gets its first of its kind Infectious Disease Block facility
 Ladakh inaugurates the 1st Solar Lift Irrigation Plant of Kargil

Jharkhand
 Jharkhand launches three schemes for rural job creation
 Jharkhand: Education dept with Doordarshan starts online classes for School children
 Ranchi district launches “Tatpar” programme to transport migrants
Karnataka
BBMP, Bengaluru launches “Pranavayu” to track oxygen levels of ILI patients
Karnataka launches first accelerator for cyber security start-up

Kerala
Senior IAS officer Vishwas Mehta appointed as new Chief Secretary of Kerala

Madhya Pradesh
Sanjeevani a unique vehicle developed at the local level in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan re-launched Sambal Yojana for dalits tribals and
poor
Madhya Pradesh launched 1st of its kind campaign for migrant labourers: Charan Paduka
MP: Rural Livelihood Mission begins Didi Vehicle Service for safe delivery of rural women
MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to inaugurate ‘Everybody will get employment’ scheme
through video conferencing
Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh launches ‘Rozgar Setu’ Yojana for skilled workers
Maharashtra
 ‘Mee Annapurna’ initiative launched for farmers welfare across Maharashtra
 The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 modified by
Maharashtra Gov.

Mizoram
 Mizoram becomes the 1st state to give industry status to sports

Nagaland
 Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio presented Rs. 21049.87 crore state budget for FY 20-21

New Delhi
 Delhi Police & AIIA jointly launches ‘Ayuraksha’ programme to fight COVID-19

Punjab
 Punjab govt promulgates ‘Punjab Good Conduct Prisoners Amendment Ordinance, 2020’

Sikkim
 Sikkim Assembly passes a budget of Rs 9,100 crores for FY21
Tamil Nadu
 TN constitutes a 24-member high-level committee headed by ex-governor of RBI C Rangarajan to assess
COVID-19 impact
 Tamil Nadu starts Implementation of Solar Fence Farmland Protection Programme
 Tamil Nadu govt inks 17 investment MoUs worth ₹15,128 cr with corporates

Tripura
 Tripura government launches agro entrepreneur facilitation desk to boost economy
 Tripura CM launches national scholarship online portal under ‘Mukhyamantri Yuba Yogayog Yojana’

Uttarakhand
 Uttarakhand CM launches ‘HOPE’ a portal to help unemployed youths
 Uttarakhand CM Rawat presented Rs 53,527-cr budget for FY20-21; 25 public welfare goals in focus
 Uttarakhand launches Mukhyamantri Swarozgar Yojana for returnee migrants

Uttar Pradesh
 Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Ayush Kavach-Covid’ App
 UP passes ordinance to suspend most Labour Laws for 3 years
 Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Pravasi Raahat Mitra’ app for migrant Workers
 UP presents largest ever Rs 5.12 lakh crores budget in state assembly
 UP launches ‘Startup Fund’ signs MoU with SIDBI to promoted young entrepreneurs
 UP govt to create migration commission to provide employment to migrant workers
 Uttar Pradesh Government develops 800 Km roads as Herbal roads

West Bengal
 West Bengal govt launches exit app for stranded people of other states
 West Bengal govt launches ‘Matir Smristi’ scheme to utilise 50,000-acre barren land in 6 districts
 Government of West Bengal announces two new schemes- ‘Sneher Porosh’ & ‘Prochesta’
JUNE
Andhra Pradesh
 AP Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launches India’s 1st online waste managementplatform
 Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launches ‘Jagananna Chedodu’ scheme
 AP, 1st Indian State presented its Budget amid COVID-19: Rs 2.24 lakh cr Budget publicized by Buggana
Rajendranath for FY21
 Andhra CM Jagan Mohan Reddy Launches YSR Kapu Nestham Scheme for Women of Kapu

Chandigarh
 V P Singh Badnore & Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurates Battery Swapping Facility Quick Interchange Service
virtually

Chhattisgarh
 Chhattisgarh becomes the 1st state to launch “Godhan Nyay Yojana”, to Procure Cow Dung from Livestock Owners
 Chhattisgarh government to launch Adarsh police station scheme from July 1, 2020
Gujarat
 Nitin Patel presented Rs 2.17 lakh crore Gujarat budget for 2020-21
 2nd & 3rd phase of Gujarat’s SAUNI scheme to be completed by August 2020 & March 2021
 Gujarat Govt’s Online Aid” At One Click” Initiative of Rs 1,369 Crore for MSMEs, Textile Industry

Haryana
 Government of Haryana and Reliance Jio TV partners to educate 52 Lakh students

Himachal Pradesh
 Himachal Pradesh CM Jai Ram Thakur launched ‘Panchvati Yojana’ for the senior citizens of rural Areas

Jammu & Kashmir

 J&K Lt Governor launches salary tracker mobile app “MeraVetan (Version – 1)” for government employees
 Jammu and Kashmir UT Rolls Out Poultry Policy 2020
 Agri Dept of J&K Changed its Name to Agriculture Production & Farmers Welfare Department
Jharkhand
 Jharkhand to Launch Employment Guarantee Scheme “Mukhyamantri SHRAMIK Yojna” for Urban Poor

Karnataka
 Karnataka launches “Meghasandesha” App for real time information & ‘Varunamitra’ portal for real-time
information on weather
 Karnataka Observes Mask Day on 18th June 2020

Kerala
 Kerala announces K-FON to provide free internet by December 2020, first state to declare internet as a fundamental
right

Madhya Pradesh
 Madhya Pradesh launches Welfare programme for Street Vendors
 Madhya Pradesh starts a plantation drive named “Thank Mom”
 Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Introduces Nishtha Vidyut Mitra Scheme for Women
Empowerment
Maharashtra
 Maharashtra cabinet approves to rename its Environment Ministry as Environment and Climate Change Ministry
 Govt of Maharashtra Appoints Sanjay Kumar as Chief Secretary & Ajoy Mehta as Principal Advisor to CM
 Maharashtra Announced “Maha Parwana” to Attract Fresh Industrial Investment
 29.53 sq km Tillari Forest Area in Dodamarg and Sawantwadi Range Declared as Conservation Reserve Area:
Maharashtra

Manipur
 Manipur CM N. Biren Singh inaugurates three projects undertaken by PHED through VC
 Manipur Observes the 19th Great June Uprising Day – June 18

Mizoram
 Green Mizoram Day 2020: June 11

Odisha
 The Cabinet of Odisha gives state anthem status to “Bande Utkala Janani”
 Odisha becomes 1st state in India to receive ISO certification for tribal hostels
Punjab
 Punjab CM Amarinder Singh launches surveillance app ‘Ghar ghar nigrani’ app to detect COVID-19
 IAS Officer Vini Mahajan Becomes Punjab’s First Woman Chief Secretary

Rajasthan
 Rajasthan CM launches Raj Kaushal Portal through video conference
 Rajasthan Signs Pact with POWERGRID & EdCIL to Setup Smart Classrooms in 100 Schools
 Rajasthan Government to Launch ‘Indira Rasoi Yojna’

Tamil Nadu
 Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary K. Shanmugam gets 3-month extension
 Petroleum Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan & CM Edappadi K.Palaniswami Inaugurates CBG Plants in Tamil Nadu
 Centre Allocates Rs 4125 cr to Rejuvenate Small, Medium & Tiny Industries Sector in Tamil Nadu

Telangana
 Kondapochamma Sagar project inaugurated by Telangana CM
 Hyderabad City Security Council along with Hyderabad City Police launches a programme‘STREE’ for women
 Telangana Govt Issues Ordinance to Defer Payment of Employees, Pensioners

Tripura
 Tripura Government to launch ‘Ektu Khelo, Ektu Padho’ for school students
 Tripura govt launches Mukhyamantri Matru Pushti Uphaar Scheme to Provide Nutrition Kits to Pregnant and
Lactating Women

Uttarakhand
 Gairsain in Chamoli district declared as summer capital of Uttarakhand

Uttar Pradesh
 UP introduces MoU Monitoring Mechanism for implementation of investment proposals and tracking of MoU
 UP govt. clears “Cow Slaughter Prevention (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020” to prevent cow Slaughter
 UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launches ‘Bal Shramik Vidya Yojana’ through video conference
 UP Govt Decides to Adopt Flatted Factory Model

West Bengal
 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched “Karmo Bhumi”, a job portal to help IT professionals
 JULY
Andhra Pradesh
 Andhra Pradesh celebrates Rythu Dinotsavam (Farmer’s Day) on Birth Anniversary of YS Rajasekhara
Reddy – July 8
 Government of Andhra Pradesh Announces Renewable Energy Export Policy 2020

Assam
 CoM of Assam passes MSME Ordinance
 Assam: Guwahati gets “BANDICOOT” the first manhole cleaning robot in Northeast

Goa
 Goa Government Allots Land to 49 MSME Units to Set Up India’s First Marine Cluster

Haryana
 Haryana passed “Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Ordinance, 2020” to reserve
75% private sector jobs for locals
 Central Govt Provides Rs 1500 crore to Haryana for its Crop Diversification and RejuvenatePonds
 Nitin Gadkari Inaugurates and Lays Foundation Stones of 11 Highway Projects Worth Around Rs 20,000 crore in
Haryana Virtually
 Haryana Cabinet approved ‘Samadhan se Vikas’ to Recover External Development Charges dues
 Haryana CM Launched E-Sachivalaya Portal, for Online Appointments with CM, Deputy CM and Various Heads
of Dept.
 5-day Sub-Tropical Fruit Expo 2020 was organised by Horticulture dept of Haryana

Jammu and Kashmir

 Lt. Governor, G.C Murmu announced the ‘Macadamisation Program’ for improvement of roads across J-K

Karnataka
 Karnataka Chief Minister Launches a Portal, ‘Skill Connect Forum’ to Connect Job Seekers and Employers
 Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yediyurappa Launched a Scheme “Weavers Samman Yojana”
 Karnataka Cabinet Approved the New Industrial Policy for 2020-2025

Kerala
 Kerala announced new Chief Minister’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme to address working capital
shortage
Ladakh
 UT Administration launched Ladakh Food Security Scheme
 Ladakh LG RK Mathur E-Launches Mission Organic Development Initiative & Greenhouse Project

Madhya Pradesh
 Madhya Pradesh launches “Hamara Ghar-Hamara Vidyalaya” scheme
 Madhya Pradesh: “Intzaar Aap Ka” Social Media Campaign to Attract Tourists
 MP Govt to Launch ‘Roko -Toko’, a Campaign for those who do not Wear Masks

Maharashtra
 Maharashtra CM Launches ‘Platina’, World’s Largest Convalescent Plasma Therapy-Cum-Trial Project
 Dadasaheb Phalke and Sahitya Akademi Winner Ratnakar Matkari Posthumously Honoured
byMaharashtra Government
 Maharashtra CM Launches ‘Maha Jobs portal’, an online platform to Provide Employment Opportunities
 Maharashtra Govt & SBI to Set up Stress Fund to Revive Slum Rehabilitation Authority projects
Manipur
 Manipur CM N. Biren Singh Virtually Inaugurates 5 Water Supply projects, worth Rs 48.39 crore and Rapid
Antigen Detection Testing Centre

Mizoram
 Harsimrat Kaur Badal E-Inagurates First Operationalized Mega Food Park of Mizoram: Zoram Mega Food Park

New Delhi
 Arvind Kejriwal Launched India’s First Plasma Bank for COVID-19 Treatment
 Delhi Govt to Launch ‘Podhe Lagao Prayavaran Bachao’, a 17-day Campaign to Reduce Air Pollution
 Delhi Govt Launches an E-Portal, ‘LEAD’ for its Students
 Delhi Cabinet Approved Mukhya Mantri Ghar Ghar Ration Yojana, doorstep delivery of ration scheme
 Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, launched a free website portal named ‘Rozgaar Bazaar’ for job seekers, employers

Odisha
 Odisha Government to Implement an Initiative ‘Sabuja Odisha’ to Increase Green Cover through Extensive
Plantation
 Odisha Government included Transgender Community under Madhu Babu Pension Yojana

Punjab
 Punjab Cabinet Approved a USD 285.71 million project for canal-based water supply

Puducherry
 Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy Presented Rs 9000 Crore Tax Free Budget for FY 20-21

Rajasthan
 Rajeeva Swarup was appointed as the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan
 Rajasthan Launches “Pure for Sure” Week Long Campaign to Ensure Purity of Dairy Products –July 8 – 14
 Rajasthan Cabinet Approved ‘One-Stop Shop’ Scheme to Fast-Track Investments

Tamil Nadu
 117th birth Anniversary of Former CM of Tamil Nadu K Kamaraj, observed as Educational Development
Day – July 15
 Tamil Nadu Government Signed 8 MoUs worth Rs 10,399 crore with Industrial Groups for Employment Creation
 TN government signed 16 MoUs worth Rs 5,137 crore with companies for employment creation

Telangana
 Telangana amends state FRBM Act 2005; accepting govt’s decision to extend borrowing limit to 5% from 3%
 Telangana Police launch ‘CybHER’, Virtual Awareness Campaign to Tackle Cyber Crime against Women & Children

Uttarakhand
 Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat Inaugurated ‘Smriti Van’ on Harela festival

Uttar Pradesh
 UP CM Yogi Adityanath inaugurates “Mission Vriksharopan-2020” to plant 25 crore saplings across UP
 UP Government Approves Uttar Pradesh Start-up Policy 2020
 Yogi Adityanath launched “Navin Rojgar Chhatri Yojana” for Scheduled Castes

West Bengal
 West Bengal CM launches “SelfScan” document scanning app
 AUGUST
Andhra Pradesh
 AP Governor cleared three State-capital Bills and CRDA Repeal Bills 2020
 Andhra Pradesh CM Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy launched cybercrime awareness programme ‘E-Raksha
Bandhan’
 Andhra Pradesh CM Launched “YSR Cheyutha” scheme to ensure sustainable livelihood for women
 Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Launches UPI-based Payment facilities in Village, Ward Secretariats

Assam
 Assam CoM approves “Assam Non-Government Education Institutions (Regulation of Fees) Rules 2020”
 Assam Government to Launch ‘Orunodoi’ Scheme to provide Financial Assistance
 TERI launches Early Warning System for Guwahati, Assam
 Assam Cabinet Approves ‘Assam Skill Development University Bill’
Chhattisgarh
 Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel Announced the Launch of “Indira Van Mitan Yojana” To Support Forest
Dwellers
 Chhattisgarh’s Jagdalpur Became the First Municipal Corporation of India to Provide Forest Land Right
Certificates to Urban People
 Chhattisgarh Govt Launched ‘Padhai Tuhar Para’ scheme for school students

Gujarat
 Gujarat Announced New Industrial Policy 2020
 Anil Mukim, Gujarat Chief Secretary gets 6 Month Extension
 Gujarat Names Two Flyover of Ahmedabad After Late Arun Jaitley & Sushma Swaraj

Haryana
 Haryana’s Forest department used drone for aerial seeding to increase green cover in Aravallis
 Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched Parivar Pehchan Patras
 Haryana Minister Anil Vij Launches “Works Management System” Web Portal to its ULBs
 Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched Anti Bullying Campaign of Faridabad Police over Social
Media
Himachal Pradesh
 Himachal Pradesh gets approval from Centre for projects worth Rs 7922.69 Crores

Jammu and Kashmir

 Jitendra Singh Laid Foundation Stones Virtually & E- Inaugurated Various Construction Works under
PMGSY-II in J&K
 JK Government Launches E-Auction Portal for Kashmir Saffron
 ‘Iraada’ Campaign Launched to Cover Eligible Left-Out Beneficiaries under Social Welfare Schemes: J&K

Jharkhand
 Jharkhand introduced new State Logo at Ranchi

Karnataka
 India’s first mobile RT-PCR COVID lab was inaugurated by Karnataka’s Medical Education Minister Dr. K
Sudhakar in Karnataka

Kerala
 Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan Inaugurates State’s First Marine Ambulance ‘Pratheeksha’ in Kochi
Madhya Pradesh
 Madhya Pradesh launched “Ek Mask-Anek Zindagi” public awareness campaign from August 1-15
 MP Police’s ‘Ek Sankalp – Bujurgo ke naam’ campaign proves to be boon for senior citizens

Maharashtra
 Maharashtra Govt. Approved MagNet project worth Around Rs 1,000 crore to Help Farmers; 70% funded
by ADB
 Maharashtra Became the First State to Partner with Google India to Provide Learning Tools for Schools

Manipur
 Rajesh Kumar appointed as Manipur Chief Secretary
 Manipur Observed its Patriots’ Day 2020 on August 13

Meghalaya
 Meghalaya Cabinet Approves Policy on Reservation of Seats for Women in Village Employment Councils
 Meghalaya CM Launched Restart Meghalaya Mission Worth Rs. 14,515 Crore to Revive Activities Stalled
due to COVID-19
Nagaland
 Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio launches ‘Yellow Chain’ e-commerce platform on Independence day 2020

New Delhi
 Delhi Government Launched Niraman Mazdoor Registration Abhiyan for Construction Workers
 Delhi Government Launched ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’ Fitness Campaign for Students Confined in
Homes

Odisha
 Odisha Cabinet Approved 20 Proposals including 4 Mega Drinking Water Projects
 Odisha to Promulgate Ordinance to Enhance Punishment for Non-Compliance of Covid-19 regulations
 Odisha Govt launched a new scheme ‘Promotion of Intensive Aquaculture through Introduction of Bio-
flocTechnology during the year 2020-21’

Punjab
 Punjab CM Amarinder Singh launches ‘Pride of Punjab’ partnership of State Govt, YuWaah for youth
development
 Punjab CM Amarinder Singh Launched ‘Punjab Smart Connect Scheme’ to Provide Free Smartphones for
more than 1.74 Lakh Students
 Punjab gets First Rank in Health, Welfare Centre Operationalisation: Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare (MoHFW)

Rajasthan
 Government of Rajasthan Approves 5% Reservation in Judicial Service for MBC

Telangana
 Telangana launched AI for Agricultural Innovation Program in Collaboration with C4IR & WEF,India

Uttar Pradesh
 UPEIDA Signed a Deal with BOB-led Consortium of 6 Banks to Fund Bundelkhand Expressway Project
 UP govt launches ‘Major Dhyan Chand Vijaypath Yojana’ to Build Roads to 19 International Player’s
houses

West Bengal
 West Bengal Govt Launched ‘Karma Sathi Prakalpa’ scheme to Provide Soft Loans, Subsidies to Youth
22.NATIONAL NEWS
(FEB-AUG)
 FEBRAURY
PARLIAMENT NEWS
1. Govt amends Arbitration and conciliation act 1996 for making arbitration user friendly
2. Govt amended provisions of Arms Act, 1959 and Arms Rules, 2016 for renowned shooters

LAUNCHES & INAUGURATION

1. President of India Inaugurated 34th Surajkund International Crafts Mela in Surajkund,Haryana
2. DST launches SATHI initiative to address need for building strong science & technology Infrastructure
3. SAI and Hockey India Launch 7 High Performance Hockey Centres across the Country
4. FICCI & Central Asian countries jointly launches India-Central Asia business council in New Delhi
5. MP CM Inaugurates National Water Conference at Bhopal
6. Union minister Jitendra singh attends National workshop on e-office in New Delhi; CPGRAMS reforms
launched
7. Nitin Gadkari inaugurated first inter-city electric bus service in Maharashtra
8. Facebook launched digital literacy training to 1 lakh women in 7 Indian states
9. Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Inaugurated India’s First Floating Jetty & Immigration office in
Goa
10. Ministry of MSME launched national level awareness programme (NLAP) 2020
11. Union HRD Minister launched UKIERI-UGC Higher Education Leadership Development Programme
Administrators in New Delhi
12. Madhya Pradesh becomes the 1st state to launch unified vehicle registration card & 2nd tolaunch unified
driving license
13. National Cyber Research, Innovation and capacity centre, inaugurated by MoS G.K.Reddy in Hyd, T.S
14. Atal Innovation Mission partnered with Nasscom to launch AI-based module in 5000 ATLs
15. Tribal affairs ministry launches Capacity building programme of ST Representatives in LSG & ‘1000
Springs Initiatives’ in Bhubneshwar, Odisha
16. Indian Railways launched its First “Restaurant on Wheels” at Asansol Station, West Bengal

FESTIVALS
1. Tripura’s 1st Hornbill festival was celebrated in Tripura on Feb 8, 2020
2. First ‘Jerusalem-Mumbai Festival’ will be held in Mumbai on Feb 15 & 16, 2020
3. Government of India hosts National Organic Food Festival in New Delhi
4. Manipur: Seed sowing festival ‘Lui-Ngai-Ni’ celebrated at Ukhrul
5. Union Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal & Union Minister of WCD Smriti Irani
inaugurated National Organic Food Festival for women entrepreneurs in New Delhi
6. A 2-day long first-ever Bharat-Bangla tourism festival 2020 held in Agartala, Tripura
7. Losar festival was celebrated in Himachal Pradesh
8. 1st “Nimad Chilli Festival 2020” begins at Kasrawad in Khargone district,Madhya Pradesh; mascot
named “chilli chacha” released

OTHER NATIONAL NEWS

1. India banned export of all kinds of personal protection equipment
2. RCS-UDAN marked 250th route through Bhubaneswar-Varanasi daily flight operations
3. GoM headed by MoH&FW Harsh Vardhan to monitor novel coronavirus outbreak constituted
4. India’s biggest rural technical festival ‘Antahpragnya 2020’ in Telangana
5. MSME implemented new scheme SFURTI to set up traditional industries clusters
6. SC directs States to notify setting up ‘Gram Nyayalayas’ within 4 weeks
7. PM Modi announced 15-member trust named ‘Sri Ram Janma Bhoomi Tirtha Kshetra trust’ for Ayodhya
temple
8. Only 7 in 100 anganwadi beneficiaries are in urban areas
9. India signs 1st ever term contract with Russia for Importing Russian Crude Oil
10. Financial closure of Arun-III hydropower project inked b/w India and Nepal
11. Railway Line between India and Bangladesh project to End by 2021
12. Uttarakhand’s iconic Lakshman Jhula to be replaced by India’s first Glass floor bridge
13. Hyderabad Metro Rail becomes Country’s 2nd Largest Operational Metro Project
14. DPIIT releases quality order for LPG rubber hose
15. Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs pairs up 20 best performing smart cities with poorly performing 20
cities
16. An 18-day Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat Campaign begins across India to promote cultural unity
17. 20th ‘Hunar Haat’ 2020 held in New Delhi
18. Union health ministry notifies medical devices used on humans and animals into the category of “drugs”
19. NIFM, Faridabad renamed ‘Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management’
20. Mumbai to get India’s largest air quality monitoring network
21. SNA to compile a National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
22. Union HRD Minister and Union Health Minister jointly release curriculum for School Health Ambassador
Initiative under Ayushman Bharat
23. India bans E-Cigarettes on Flights and Airports
24. Government renames two Famous Institute after Sushma Swaraj
25. Gandhinagar railway station in Gujarat to be the 1st in India to add 5-star hotel above the tracks: VK Yadav
26. TB notifications to Govt up 38% to 23.98 lakhs in 2019: Ministry of Health and family welfare
27. South Central Railways zone becomes India’s 1st to have energy-neutral stations
28. Nitin gadkari flags off KVIC’s ‘Apiary on wheels’ for bee keeping in New Delhi
29. 15th finance commission forms 5-member panel led by NK singh on defence & Internal security fund
30. Delhi-based IGIA becomes 1st single-use plastic-free airport of India
31. UP becomes 1st in India to enforce Performance regulation act 2019 for Power department
32. SC approves permanent commission to women officers in the army
33. Govt plans to double of Milk processing capacity to 108 million MT by 2025
34. AICTE bars universities from offering PGDM and MBA courses simultaneously
35. India to switch to World’s Cleanest petrol and diesel from April 1, 2020: Bharat Stage(BS)-VI
36. Northeast Frontier Railway Construction built India’s tallest pier bridge in Manipur
37. India to end Thermal coal import from FY 2023-2024- Pralhad Joshi
38. 8th edition of Ganga Kayak Festival celebrated in Uttarakhand
39. Centre Changes Pension Rules of Government Employees recruited before January 1, 2004 but joined later
40. India’s foodgrain production to hit a record high of 291.95 million tonnes for crop year 2019-20
41. Smart City Mission: Centre devises 20-20 model to help backward cities
42. IRSDC installs India’s 1st squat machine at Delhi’s Anand Vihar railway station; Free platform ticket will
be given for 30 squats
43. Shyama Prasad Mukherji National Rurban Mission completes 4 years on Feb 21, 2020
44. Mumbai airport gets world’s largest ‘Export Cold Zone’ to Store Agro, Pharma Products
45. Himachal Pradesh: 1st State to achieve 100% LPG coverage
46. Ordnance factory boards becomes the 1st govt entity to adopt centralised invoicing platform,TreDS
47. President gives nod for delimitation exercise in NE States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and
Nagaland
48. 76% of Jan Dhan account holders have RuPay debit cards: Govt Data

INDIA VISITS
1. Overview of UNESCO DG Audrey Azoulay three day visit to India from Feb 4-6, 2020
2. Highlights of Sri Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa visit to India from Feb 7-11, 2020
• PM Modi hold talks with Mahinda Rajapaksa in New Delhi.
• India & Sri Lanka agreed to strengthen cooperation to combat terrorism ,boost trade and investment
• Sri Lankan PM Rajapaksa offers prayers at Tirupati & Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi.
3. Vietnam’s Vice President visited India from Feb 11 – 13, 2020; holds bilateral level talks with Venkaiah
Naidu
4. Portugal’s President Mr Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s 4 day (Feb 13-16) visit to India
5. Amit Shah holds talks with Maldivian home minister Sheikh Imran Abdulla
6. President Donald Trump visit to India on February 24-25
7. New Zealand Deputy PM & Finance Minister, Winston Peters’s 4-day visit to India

FOREIGN VISITS
1. Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal’s 3- day visit to Dubai, UAE

OTHER VISITS
1. PM Modi visit to Varanasi, UP on Feb 16, 2020
• PM unveils 63 feet Statue & inaugurated memorial of Pt. Deendayal Upadhyay.
• He dedicated 36 developmental projects worth Rs 1254 crore to the nation.
• PM Modi flagged off the IRCTC’s (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) Maha Kaal
• Express through video link. The train will connect 3 Jyotirling Pilgrim Centres – Varanasi, Ujjain and Omkareshwar.
• PM Modi inaugurated ‘Kashi Ek Roop Anek’ a cultural arts and handicrafts exhibition in Varanasi.
2. The president of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind paid a 2-day official visit to Dadra & Nagar Haveli and
Daman & Diu from February 17-18, 2020. He laid the foundation stone and inaugurated various
developmental projects at a function held at Swami Vivekanand Stadium in Daman.
3. World’s largest solar telescope reveals never-before-seen images of Sun’s turbulent surface
4. 60-year-old Mo O’Brien becomes world 1st deaf person to row across Atlantic Ocean
5. Kerala Government declares outbreak of novel coronavirus as state disaster
 MARCH
PARLIAMENT NEWS
1. MoPP&P issued format for filing complaints with Lokpal under Lokpal (Complaint) Rules, 2020
2. Govt approves Companies (Second Amendment) Bill, 2019 with 72 changes to Companies Act 2013; 66
compoundable offences decriminalized
3. Parliamentary panel ‘Demands for Grants 2020-21 Analysis for Education’
4. RS Approves Minor Changes in Bill to Include Tribal Communities of Karnataka in ST Category
5. Centre invokes ‘Epidemic Act 1897’ and ‘Disaster Management Act 2005’ to prevent spread of COVID-19;
Karnataka, first state to enact 1897 Act
6. Road accidents reduced by 10% after the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act 2019

LAUNCHES & INAUGURATION

1. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla launched ‘Suposhit Maa Abhiyan’ in Kota, Rajasthan
2. BEE introduces Deep freezer and Light commercial air conditioners under star rating programme
3. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched Rs. 1,40,881 crores SBM (G) Phase-II from New Delhi; study by
UNICEF & BMGF also released
3. Lt General Milind Hemant Thakur inaugurated the renovated Animal Memorial in Bengaluru, Karnataka
4. MSDE launches Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MGNF) in IIM-Bengaluru
5. India post launches India’s 1st digital parcel locker service in Kolkata, West Bengal
6. Crime Multi-Agency Centre and National Cybercrime Training Centre were launched on 35th Inception
Day of NCRB
7. Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurates ROPAX Service from BhauchaDhakka to Mandwa in Maharashtra
8. SIDBI to launch a special train ‘Swavalamban express’ on June 5, 2020, for new entrepreneurs
9. TRIFED launches ‘Tech For Tribals’ program to bring technology to tribal entrepreneurs
10. Goa becomes the 1st Indian state to launch assessment tool for COVID-19
11. National Book Trust of MHRD Launches #StayHomeIndiaWithBooks
12. Indian Army launches Operation Namaste: COVID-19
13. Dr. Harsh Vardhan launches National Teleconsultation Centre (CoNTeC)

FESTIVALS
1. 3 day Namaste Orchha festival begins in Madhya Pradesh
2. Fourth Global Ayurveda Festival to be held at Kochi from May 16 -20, 2020
3. Chapchar Kut, the biggest and most joyful festival of Mizos, being celebrated on March 6 2020
4. Traditional ‘Fagli’ festival celebrated in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur on March 10, 2020
5. Hola Mohalla’ festival celebrated at Sri Anandpur Sahib in Punjab
6. Phool Dei festival was celebrated in Uttarakhand

OTHER NATIONAL NEWS

1. National Chambal Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh received eco-sensitive zone tag
2. Govt approves Indian airlines to provide in-flight wi-fi services to its passengers; Vistara to be first in line
3. Rs 33 cr for Kaziranga under Project Tiger scheme; Rs 1.51 crore under CAMPA for FY2018-19 & FY19-20
4. MCA introduced LLP settlement Scheme, 2020 to allow one-time condonation of delayed filing of required documents
with ROC
5. MHA approved automated facial recognition system (AFRS) for identification of bodies, missing children, criminals
6. 70% reduction in insurgency incidents, 80% drop in civilian deaths and 78% decline in security forces casualties in
2019 as compared to 2013: Shri G Kishan Reddy
7. Govt aims to replace all level crossings on NH with Over/under Bridges under the Setu Bharatam scheme
8. APEDA inks MoUs with various organisations for Implementation of Agri Export Policy
9. Maharashtra Government renamed Aurangabad Airport as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Airport
10. Agartala and Ghojadanga approved as authorised land immigration check posts
11. Government reconstructs The National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (NPDRR), appoints Amit
Shah as chairman
12. Narendra Singh Tomar announced that Government plans to achieve 75 lakh SHGs by 2022
13. Odisha becomes the 1st state to introduce department for SHGs: “Mission Shakti”
14. Sanitary napkin disposal bags for each pad, mandatory from January 2021: Prakash Javadekar
15. Gujarat tops in domestic solar rooftop installations in 2020
16. Centre constitutes Delimitation commission for J&K, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal, chaired by former SC
judge Ranjana Prakash Desai
17. Jewar Airport, UP receives international recognition for strategic infrastructure
18. HAL set to build logistics base in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Sri Lanka for the purpose of selling
aircraft
19. DST sanctioned Rs 7.25 crore to IIT Mandi to setup a Technology Innovation Hub
20. WCD ministry notifies new POCSO rules 2020 with stringent punishments for sexual offences against
children
21. Ministry of Home Affairs sanctions Rs 365 crore for Sabroom ICP in Tripura
22. Mumbai Central station to be renamed as Nana Shankarsheth Mumbai Central railway station
23. Rs 1.83 lakh crore spent under MGNREGA in 2017-2020
24. The government proposed masks & hand sanitizers under Essential Commodities Act 1955
25. PM Modi proposed the creation of COVID 19 emergency fund; SAARC: India offers the US $10 million
26. Haryana’s Amin village renamed as Abhimanyupur
27. India to provide NPR 107.01 million to build 3 schools in Nepal
28. Share of Indian vendors increased in defence contracts from (2015-16) to (2019-20) by over 35%
29. Government targeted to achieve sales around 70 lakh hybrid & electric vehicles by the end of 2020
30. Rooftop solar power plants in India installed at 1,922 MW
31. Banihal to Katra railway link to be completed by 2022
32. Odisha’s Konark sun temple & Statue of Unity in Gujarat finds place in iconic tourism sites list: Prahlad
Singh
33. Indian Railways to electrify all broad-gauge routes by December 2023
34. PM Modi formed COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force headed by Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman
35. PM Modi announces to observe “Janata Curfew” from 7 am to 9 pm on March 22, 2020
36. Gujarat Police becomes first in India to introduce taser guns
37. 101 Special Economic Zones denotified: Government
38. UK becomes 1st co-chair of India-led global climate initiative ‘CDRI’
39. Bridge constructed by BRO over Teesta River in North Sikkim opened for traffic
40. ICMR recommended hydroxychloroquine for caregivers of COVID-19 patients
41. IIT-Madras to organize India’s 1st Global Hyperloop Pod Competition
42. PM Modi declared 21-day (Mar 25-April 14, 2020) lockdown to break COVID-19 infection chain; Rs
15,000 cr allotted for healthcare by Centre
43. COVID-19 outbreak: Labour ministry directs state govt/UTs to pay 3.5 cr construction workers from Rs
52,000 cr fund
44. Coronavirus-outbreak: Punjab becomes the 1st state to impose curfew after lockdown fails
45. Indore becomes the 1st city in India to use drones to sanitize the city: COVID-19
46. Maharashtra overtakes Tamil Nadu &Telangana in organ donation, transplants for 2019
47. Health ministry categorises hydroxychloroquine as schedule H1 drug
48. DST sets up COVID-19 Task Force to map technologies by start ups
49. Odisha to set up the largest COVID-19 hospital in the country
50. Government approves Rs 5,751.27 crores as additional assistance to 8 disaster-hit states
51. JICA signs agreement worth Rs 15,295 crore with India: Rail Infrastructure
52. Ministry of DoNER grants Rs 25-crore to combat the coronavirus in north eastern states
53. PM Narendra Modi formulated PM-CARES fund to fight coronavirus outbreak
54. Centre approves medical insurance scheme for health workers dealing with COVID-19
55. Government set up 11 different empowered groups: Lockdown
56. Rajasthan police launched a mobile app named “RajCop citizens app”

INDIA VISITS
Overview of Myanmar President U Win Myint visit to India from Feb 26-29, 2020
• PM Modi and President Myint held talks; 10 agreements inked.
• India attaches highest priority to its partnership with Myanmar.
• India, Myanmar commits to early conclusion of discussion on bilateral Motor Vehicles Agreement (MVA).
• President U Win Myint paid two days visit to Bodh Gaya, Bihar.

OTHER VISITS
Overview of PM Modi Visit to Uttar Pradesh on Feb 29, 2020
• PM laid the foundation stone of 296-km-long Bundelkhand Expressway in Chitrakoot. The UP government is constructing the
Bundelkhand Expressway at a cost of Rs 15,000 crore.
• PM launched 10,000 farmers producer organisations (FPOs) all over country at Chitrakoot
• Completion of one year of launch of PM-KISAN scheme.
• The prime minister launched a saturation drive for distribution of Kisan Credit Cards (KCC).
• PM Modi addressed Samajik Adhikarita Shivir in Prayagraj; breaks 2017 Rajkot record
 APRIL
PARLIAMENT NEWS
1. Centre has amended FDI Policy, 2017 for curbing opportunistic takeovers
2. FDI policy, 2017 amended under FEMA, 1999

LAUNCHES & INAUGURATION

1. MCA introduces the “Companies Fresh Start Scheme, 2020” and revised the “LLP Settlement Scheme, 2020” as
a relief measure from COVID-19 for companies and LLPs
2. ICCR: “United Against Corona- Express through Art”
3. Jitendra Singh launched DARPG’s National Monitoring Dashboard for COVID- 19 Grievances
4. Lifeline Udan flights launched by MoCA transported 37.63 tonnes of medical cargo across India in 6 days
5. Agriculture Ministry launched 3 new features of e-NAM platform to prevent crowding in mandis
6. Sanjay Dhotre launched “Hack the Crisis – India” online Hackathon to find working solutions to beat COVID-
19
7. Hindustan Unilever joins hands with UNICEF to launch ‘BreakTheChain’ campaign against coronavirus
8. TRIFED along with UNICEF & WHO launched digital campaign to ensure work safety of TribalGatherers
9. Union HRD minister launches ‘Bharat Padhe Online’ campaign
10. Agri Ministry launches a call centre for agri logistics
11. Union minister Prahlad Singh Patel launches the National list of intangible cultural heritage of India in
New Delhi
12. CM Pema Khandu inaugurated revamped Hangpan Dada Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh through video
conferencing
13. Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ e-launches VidyaDaan 2.0 program on DIKSHA platform
14. Defense Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurates India’s 1st mobile laboratory by DRDO to test COVID-
19 samples
15. #MyBookMyFriendcampaign launched by HRD Minister on World Book Day
16. KGMU becomes the 1st govt hospital in India to successfully launch CPT Treatment: COVID-19

OTHER NATIONAL NEWS

1. Govt extended upto Rs 3 lakh crop loan interest benefits to farmers till May 31
2. Govt extends implementation of uniform stamp duty for capital market instruments to July 1, 2020 from 1
April 2020
3. Central govt redefines domicile for J&K; Perks and Privileges of ex-CMs of J&K Withdrawn
4. COVID-19 outbreak: DGFT extends foreign trade policy 2015-20 for one year till March 2021
5. Government notifies regulation of 24 medical devices
6. NIC to facilitate the implementation of Supreme Court order on Limited registration of BS-IV vehicles:
MoRTH
7. Donations for PM-CARES Fund granted 100% tax exemption under IT Act, 1961
8. Coronavirus outbreak: Kerala based SCTIMST joins hands with Wipro 3D to make automated ventilators
9. Dr Jitendra Singh released National Corona Survey conducted in 410 districts
10. Civil services associations form an initiative called ‘Caruna’ to fight COVID-19
11. Finance Ministry issues Rs 17, 287 crores to states to tackle COVID-19
12. COVID-19: NHA partnered with Uber India to provide transport services to frontline healthcare workers
13. 1st time Blue chip VC firms & startup CEOs to set up ‘Action Covid-19 Team’ Grants
14. ICMR approves TB machines for COVID-19 testing
15. COVID-19 testing, treatment free for Ayushman Bharat beneficiaries
16. Central government constitutes 10-member group headed by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant to fight corona
17. NHAI achieved record 3,979 km highways construction in FY 19-20
18. HRD Ministry has designated DigiLocker as National Academic Depository (NAD)
19. HRD Ministry along with AICTE initiated “Samadhan” challenge for students to fight covid-19
20. DGFT lifted export restriction on 24 pharma ingredients, medicines
21. Smart cities joining hands with medical practitioners to provide online consultation; Ahmedabad India’s
No.1 Smart City
22. India’s 40.59% environment-related crimes reported in Rajasthan during 2014-16: CAG
23. Ministry of Health to divide health centers into 3 categories for corona patients
24. WCZ of Indian Railways designed mobile doctor booth called ‘CHARAK’ for zero-contact check-ups
25. GoI approved Rs.15000 cr for COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health System Preparedness Package
26. SC extended tenure of TDSAT Chairperson Shiva Kirti Singh by three months
27. ICMR approves use of TB diagnostic machine for coronavirus
28. Government approves ex-gratia compensation for life insurance cover for FCI employees:COVID-19
29. India jobless rate hits 23.4% amid COVID-19 lockdown: CMIE
30. COVID-19: Jitendra Singh distributed 2200 Essential kits prepared by Kendriya Bhandar to needy
families in Delhi
31. Ahmedabad railway station becomes first station of IR to install sanitizing tunnel
32. ICMR nods: Kerala becomes the first state to commence clinical trial plasma therapy treatment
33. IFFCO organizes continual awareness campaigns ‘Break the CORONA Chain’ on ground zero
34. CSIR forms core strategy group to find early measures to prevent COVID-19
35. India tightens curb on import of refined palm oil; import license validity reduced to 6 months
36. Goa becomes the first state to integrate allopathy and Ayurveda to treat COVID-19 patients
37. CII report “Exit From The Lockdown” recommended phase-wise lifting of lockdown
38. Nationwide lockdown extended till May 3, 2020 to contain COVID-19 spread
39. Fit India and CBSE organizing first-ever live fitness sessions for school students amid lockdown
40. Uttar Pradesh became first state to initiate Pool Testing of COVID-19
41. External affairs ministry announced COVID-19 training program for healthcare professionals from
SAARC countries
42. Jim Corbett National Park of U’khand becomes India’s 1st quarantine centre for animals
43. Govt to set up “Suraksha Stores” and “Suraksha Circle” under PPP mode amid COVID-19 lockdown
44. India heading towards Ayurveda for COVID-19 treatment; Task force created for scientific validation
45. NIRDPR and UNICEF training community leaders online to combat COVID-19
46. Health Ministry formulated colour codes for Lockdown 2.0 to manage COVID-19 pandemic
47. Rajasthan: First Indian State to carry out Rapid Testing for Covid-19
48. Centre formed high-level task force headed by Vinod Paul & K Vijay Raghavan for development of Covid-
19 vaccine
49. Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to geotag community kitchens
50. DCGI clears ICMR plasma therapy trial in Covid-19 patients; 99 applications received
51. MNRE urges states to set up renewable energy equipment parks
52. FCI allowed to convert surplus rice to ethanol: Government
53. DCGI approves trial of a drug “Sepsivac”to reduce mortality rate in critically ill COVID-19 patients
54. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute becomes 1st in country to carry out plasma research in view of Covid-
19
55. BRO builds Rs 17.89 cr, 484-meter permanent bridge connecting Punjab’s Kasowal enclave with rest of
the country
56. India approves US$ 1 million to Antigua as project outlay
57. Govt reconstituted National Shipping Board; to be headed by ex DG Shipping Malini Shankar
58. Uttar Pradesh becomes the 1st state with a software based in-house facility of virtual courts
59. Government freezed DA & DR for 1.1 crore employees & pensioners: COVID-19
60. Govt to suspend 3 sections of IBC, 2016 upto 1yr to avoid insolvency proceedings amid COVID-19
61. Pralhad Joshi sets 710 MT coal production target for Coal India Limited in FY 20-21
62. Virtual interactive session with Health Ministers of member countries of World Health Organization
(WHO) held: Harsh Vardhan participates
63. COVID-19: Home ministry constitutes 5 new IMCT’s to assess situation & augment State efforts to fight
against COVID-19
64. Labour Ministry declared banking industry as public utility service under ID Act 1947 till October 21,
2020
65. COVID-19: India facilitates $ 150 million foreign currency swap facility to Maldives
66. Government establishes IFSCA to regulate all financial services in IFSCs
67. Govt launches dedicated Twitter handle: COVID-19 updates
68. Webinar series “DekhoApnaDesh” launched: Tourism ministry
 MAY
PARLIAMENT NEWS
1. SC Ruling: Cooperative banks come under SARFAESI Act, 2002; Parliament can prescribe recovery
process for cooperative banks
2. Central Board of Direct Taxes amends 44G of Income-tax Rules 1962
3. Govt amends rules to ban global tender for procurement up to Rs 200 crores to benefit MSMEs

LAUNCHES & INAUGURATION

1. Coal Ministry launched Project Monitoring Unit for early operationalization of coal mines
2. DST launched ‘Year of Awareness on Science & Health (YASH)’on health & risk communication focusing
COVID-19
3. IIT Alumini Council Launches India’s first COVID-19 test bus in Mumbai
4. CSIR launches Compendium of Indian Technologies to tackle COVID-19 pandemic
5. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates 80 km link road for Kailash Mansarovar through VC
6. India launched Mission Sagar to assist 5 island nations Indian Ocean amid COVID-19
7. National Gallery of Modern Art launches a virtual program ‘NGMA Ke Sangrah Se’ to showcase artworks
8. MP becomes 1st in the country to launch ‘FIR Aapke Dwar Yojana’
9. Arjun Munda launches ‘GOAL’ Programme for digital skilling of tribal youths
10. 6 Cities rated 5 Star, 65 Cities rated 3 Star and 70 Cities rated 1 Star for garbage free cities: MOHUA
11. Nirmala Sitharaman announces several initiatives to boost education sector
12. Centre launches scheme for 100% solarisation of Konark sun temple & Konark town in Odisha
13. Prakash Javadekar launched five key initiatives to conserve biodiversity during IDB virtual celebration on
May 22, 2020
14. Former Supreme Court Justice A K Sikri inaugurates Indian Dispute Resolution Centre
15. Nirmala Sitharaman launched Instant allotment facility of PAN through Aadhaar based e-KYC
16. Karnataka to launch State Health Register, a first-of-its-kind in India
17. Missile Park ‘Agneeprastha’ to be set up, 2 MW Solar Power Plant inaugurated at INS Kalinga

OTHER NATIONAL NEWS

1. Cauvery Water Management Authority brought under the Jal Shakti Ministry: Central government
2. Manipur black rice, Gorakhpur terracotta & Kovilpatti kadalai mittai gets GI tag
3. NLC India Limited, a Navratna Public Enterprise under the Ministry of Coal commences coal production
4. NBWL permits coal mining in part of Assam’s Dehing Patkai elephant reserve
5. Kashmir saffron gets GI tag
6. Five more States/UTs integrated with ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ platform, taking the total to 17
7. Maharashtra the first state government to announces free and cashless insurance to the people
8. 200 new mandis added to the e-NAM platform from 7 States: Narendra Singh Tomar
9. NMCG & NIUA organized IDEAthon, a webinar; collaborated on urban river management plan
10. Surakshit Dada-Dadi & Nana-Nani Abhiyan campaign to protect senior citizens during COVID- 19: NITI
Aayog
11. MP becomes the first state in country to provide Mid-Day Meal ration
12. India’s unemployment rate shoots up to 27.11% amid COVID-19 crisis: CMIE
13. Govt to run awareness campaign in 1 lakh villages on balanced use of fertilisers for FY20-21
14. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approves abolition of 9,304 posts in Military Engineering Service
15. ICMR ties-up with India Post for lab delivery of Covid-19 testing kits
16. SRS Bulletin released: National infant mortality rate at 32, MP worst performer; Kerala achieved SDG
target
17. Department of Consumer Affairs partners with Safejob and Seekify to power Suraksha Store Initiative
18. Gujarat based Macpower produces India’s 1st indigenous Seam Sealing Machine for PPEs
19. PM Modi announces Rs 20 lakh cr special economic package and Lockdown 4.0
20. 4 new products from three states receive Geographical Indication (GI) tag
21. ICMR, NCDC to initiate a population-based sero-survey in selected districts to monitor COVID-19
prevalence
22. New initiative by the Railways and postal department for delivery and pick up
23. In a 1st, PoK’s Gilgit-Baltistan & Muzaffarabad included in the meteorological forecast list of IMD
24. PM CARES Fund trust allocates Rs 3,100 crore: COVID-19
25. ICMR fast-tracks roll out of ‘Solidarity’ trial to find treatment: COVID-19
26. Centre sets up “Rice Export Promotion Forum” to promote rice export
27. Jal Jeevan Mission: Haryana and J&K to provide tap water to every household by Dec 2022
28. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan Part-1: MSME focused package detailed by Nirmala Sitharaman; EPF
contribution reduced
• Rs 3 lakh crore Emergency Working Capital Facility for Businesses, including MSMEs for 4 years
• Rs 50,000 crores equity infusion for MSMEs through Rs 10,000 cr Fund of Funds
• 2500 crore Employees Provident Fund (EPF) Support for Business & Workers for 3 more months
• EPF contribution reduced for Business & Workers for 3 months- Rs 6750 crores Liquidity Support
• Rs 30,000 crores Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFC/HFC/MFIs
• Rs 45,000 crores Partial credit guarantee Scheme 2.0 for Liabilities of NBFCs/MFIs
• Reduction in Rates of ‘Tax Deduction at Source’ and ‘Tax Collected at Source” by 25% for the remaining period of FY 20-21
29. Govt introduces new scheme of 2% interest subvention on working capital loans for dairy sector
30. Dr Harsh Vardhan dedicates COBAS 6800 testing machine to the nation
31. 4 Ayush formulations against COVID-19 by AYUSH ministry & CSIR
32. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan Part-2: Package for Poor, including migrants and farmers detailed by
Nirmala Sitharaman
• One Ration Card fully rolled out by March 2021
• 2% Interest Subvention for 12 months for Shishu MUDRA loanees- Relief of Rs. 1,500 crores
• Rs 6000 crore employment push using CAMPA funds
• Rs 30,000 crore Additional Emergency Working Capital for farmers through NABARD
33. Delhi Police gets India’s first ‘Thermal Corona Combat Headgear’ to enhance social distancing
34. India’s CO2 emissions falls for the 1st time in four decades: Carbon Brief
35. Rajnath Singh approves Rs 400 crore Defence Testing Infrastructure Scheme
36. Centre approves modified DPR of Ujh Multipurpose Project in Jammu and Kashmir
37. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan Part-3: Package for agriculture Fisheries and Food Processing Sectors
detailed by Nirmala Sitharaman
• NABARD anchored Rs 1 lakh crore Agri Infrastructure Fund for farm-gate infrastructure for farmers
• 20,000 crores allocated for fisherman through Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY)
• Rs. 13,343 cr National Animal Disease Control Programme launched
• Amendments to Essential Commodities Act, 1955 to enable better price realisation for farmers
38. 3rd advance estimates of production projects all time high food grain production of 295.67 million tonnes
for 2019-20
39. e-NAM reaches target 1000 mandis across 18 states and 3 Union Territories
40. GoM headed by Thawar Chand Gehlot proposes land pooling to corporatise agri, merging MGNREGA
with skilling programmes
41. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan Part-4: New Horizons of Growth detailed by Nirmala Sitharaman
• Coal Sector: Rs 50,000 cr infused for building evacuation infrastructure
• Defence sector: FDI to be raised from 49% to 74%
• Power sector; Privatization of PDCs in UTs
• Atomic Energy Sector
42. Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan Part-5: Government reforms detailed by Nirmala Sitharaman
• Rs 40,000 crores increase in allocation for MGNREGS to provide employment boost
• Technology Driven Education with Equity post-COVID by launching PM eVIDYA
• Enhancement of Ease of Doing business through IBC related measures
• Ease of Doing Business for Corporates
• Public Sector Enterprise Policy for a New, Self-reliant India
43. India Provides 2 million USD to support UN agency working for Palestinian refugees
44. Army proposes 3-year stint for civilians under “Three-Year Short Service” Scheme
45. Indian Railways operationalised its 1st 12,000 hp electric made in India Locomotive- WAG12
manufactured by MELPL
46. Labour ministry notifies EPF contribution to 10% from 12% for three months
47. Defence Ministry approves procurement of 26 defence items from local suppliers to boost ‘Make in India’
48. Centre gives environmental clearance for drilling & testing of hydrocarbons in Assam’s Dibru Saikhowa
Park
49. Local to Global: Khadi Masks to export in Foreign Markets
50. Uttarakhand becomes the 1st state to release report on conservation of endemic, threatened floras
51. Chardham Project: BRO constructs 440-meter long tunnel below Chamba town in Uttarakhand
52. DST, Rajasthan in association with TRIFED, M/O Tribal Affairs organised Webinar on “Van Dhan
Scheme: learnings for post COVID-19”
53. Government withdrew 7.75% Savings (Taxable) Bonds scheme due to declining interest rates
54. CIPET renamed as Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering &Technology
55. One Sun One World One Grid: India initiated talks on West to SE Asia solar grid
56. KARMI-Boot robot deployed by Kerala government hospital
57. Indian Railways starts Shramik Special Trains
58. 177 new mandis from 10 States & UTs integrated with the e-NAM platform for marketing of Agricultural
produce
59. ‘Hunar Haat’ with the theme “Local to Global” to restart from September 2020
 JUNE
PARLIAMENT NEWS
1. Karnataka Becomes the First State to Amend Industries (Facilitation) Act for Small, Medium and Large-
scale Industries
2. President Promulgates Banking Regulation (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 amending Banking Regulation
Act, 1949

LAUNCHES & INAUGURATION

1. “My Life, My Yoga” Video Blogging contest launched; announced by PM Modi in Mann Ki Baat
2. Kisan Credit Cards campaign launched for 1.5 crore dairy farmers: Government
3. R. K. Singh launches Pan-India Real Time Market in electricity through VC
4. MEITY launched 3 new schemes worth Rs 50,000 cr to boost electronic manufacturing in India
• Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing,
• Scheme for Promotion of Manufacturing of Electronic Components and Semiconductors (SPECS)
• Modified Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMC 2.0) Scheme
5. HRD & Urban development ministries & AICTE jointly launches 1st of its kind student
internshiprogramme, “TULIP”
6. Citizen skill mapping under Vande Bharat Mission called “SWADES” launched by Govt.
7. Nitin Gadkari launches UNDP national awareness campaign on ‘Prevention of Human and Animal
Mortality on Highways’
8. Dr. Jitendra Singh launched COVID BEEP, India’s first physiological parameters monitoring system for
COVID-19 patients
9. Vice-Admiral Atul Kumar Jain of ENC inaugurates a Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicle Complex in
Vizag
10. Narendra Singh Tomar virtually launched ‘Sahakar Mitra’ scheme to provide paid internship to the
Youth; NCDC initiative
11. CM Uddhav Thackeray and Dr Harshvardhan e-launched ‘I-FLOWS’ a flood warning system in Mumbai
12. Dharmendra Pradhan Launched Nation’s 1st “Indian Gas Exchange”, an Online Delivery-Based Gas
Trading Platform
13. Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) Launches Multi-Location Claim Settlement
14. Dr Harsh Vardhan Launched India’s 1st I-Lab, a DBT – AMTZ Mobile Diagnostic Unit for COVID-19
Testing
15. Coal Ministry & FICCI Initiated e-Auction Process of 41 Coal blocks for Commercial mining;Launched
by PM Modi
16. FPI Minister Harsimrat Kaur Launches Food Processing Edition of Exclusive Investment Forum Hosted
by Invest India
17. MSMEs Launches Funding Scheme “Distressed Assets Fund–Sub-ordinate Debt for MSMEs” to Help the
Distressed MSME Sector
18. NITI Aayog & ITF Launch Decarbonizing Transport Project in India
19. Jitendra Singh e-Inaugurates” Puneja Bridge” & “Devika Bridge” in J&K
20. MSDE & IBM Joins Hands to Launch SkillsBuild Reignite and Skills Build Innovation Camp
21. Prime Minister Inaugurates ‘Aatma Nirbhar Uttar Pradesh Rojgar Abhiyan’
22. NITI Aayog Launched Behaviour Change Campaign, ‘Navigating the New Normal’, and Website
23. 1st Online Edition of Cannes Film Market 2020 Launched; Virtual India Pavilion Inaugurated by Union
Minister Prakash Javadekar
• Union Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar inaugurates Virtual India Pavilion at Cannes Film Market 2020
• NFDC’s Film Bazaar partnered with Marche du Film (Cannes Film Market) 2020
24. Shri Mandaviya Inaugurates India’s 1st ever largest Virtual ‘Healthcare & Hygiene EXPO 2020’organised
by FICCI
25. Nasha Mukt Bharat: Annual Action Plan (2020-21) for 272 Most Affected Districts E-Launched by Rattan
Lal Kataria

FESTIVALS
1. Odisha celebrates Raja Parba – Festival of Menstruation and Womanhood
OTHER NATIONAL NEWS
1. Ministry of Jal Shakti sanctions Rs. 445 crores for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Chhattisgarh
during 2020-21
2. 23 additional Minor Forest produce items in Minimum Support Price List announced: M/O of Tribal
affairs
3. India’s access to USD 50-60 billion worth of carbon credits can be achieved if it propagates agroecology:
NITI Aayog
4. Odisha, Sikkim and Mizoram included in ‘One Nation-One Ration Card’ scheme
5. MoD places orders with OFB to supply 156 upgraded tanks worth of Rs 1,094 crore for Army
6. Govt starts process of consultation for 5th science, technology and innovation policy 2020
7. Power Minister RK Singh initiated ‘#iCommit’ campaign on the occasion of WED on June 5, 2020
8. Amritsar included in Delhi-Katra expressway; Punjab stretch to be converted into Greenfield Expressway
9. DPIIT revises public procurement order to Encourage “Make in India” and enhance employment
10. India loses 750 tigers during 2012-2019; Madhya Pradesh topped: NTCA Data
11. Task Force formulated to examine matters pertaining to age of motherhood, and related issues headed by
Ms. Jaya Jaitly
12. CSIR and Atal Innovation Mission sign a Letter of Intent to foster Innovation in India
13. “Healthy and Energy Efficient Buildings” Initiative by the EESL and USAID
14. Western Coalfields Ltd opened 3 new coal mines for Rs 849 cr; 100 MT coal production target by FY26-27
15. Govt changes public procurement rules, more preference to local suppliers
16. India to set up first coal trading exchange
17. 56 schools to be reconstructed by Govt. of India in Nepal
18. Diversion of forests for non-forestry projects: Govt. of India
19. MHRD & Fit India collaborates to produce series of special films to promote 10 indigenous sports of India
20. Centre approved funds for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand & West
Bengal
• Govt approves Rs 1280 cr for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Madhya Pradesh
• Government of India approved Rs 572.23 Crore for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Jharkhand
• Central Government pushes for 100% household tap connections in rural areas of West Bengal
21. Gir Sanctuary Gujarat’s Asiatic Lion population risen to 29% in 5 years; “Poonam Avlokan” survey
22. ‘Turant customs’ a flagship programme launched in Bengaluru and Chennai by CBIC
23. Shipping Ministry approved revised cost estimates of Rs. 123.95 cr for Ship Repair facilities in Andaman
& Nicobar Islands
24. First in the world: Indian Railways runs Double-Stack Container Train in OHE electrified region
25. NHAI Becomes First Fully Digitalised Organisation in Construction Sector
26. Madhya Pradesh becomes the top wheat procurer; Purchased for Rs 25,000 crores from farmers
27. India Builds First Ever Infectious Disease Diagnostic Lab
28. India to construct Rs 2.33 cr sanitation facility at Nepal’s iconic Pashupatinath Temple
29. Ministry of Sports Identified 8 State-Owned Sports Facilities to Upgrade into Khelo India State Centres of
Excellence
30. Formal Jobs in India Increases by 28.6% to 78.58 Lakh in 2019-20: EPFO
31. MNRE Sets Up Project Development Cell Under Amitesh Kumar Sinha For Investment in Green Energy
Sector
32. UP provided employment to 57 lakh 12975 migrant workers under MGNREGA; Highest in India
33. India’s 1st ever Climate Change Assessment – Climate Change Tracker
34. Centre Approved Funds for Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Maharashtra, Karnataka, and
Tripura
• Central Govt approved funding of Rs 1,829 Crore for implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission in Maharashtra
• Central Govt has approved fund of Rs 1,189.40 Crore for implementation of JJM in Karnataka in 2020-21
• Central Govt allocated Rs 156.61 Crore for FY20-21 to Tripura for implementation of JJM in State
35. NITI Aayog Forms Panel Led by Amitabh Kant to Develop Job Platform for Migrant Labours
36. Centre sanctions Rs 190 cr for augmentation of healthcare facilities in North Eastern States
37. CIL Joined Hands with NITI Aayog’s AIM to Boost Innovation Ecosystem in India
38. 15th Finance Commission Grants First installment of Rs.15187.50 cr to Rural Local Bodies (RLBs)
39. IIT-Delhi, UN-WFP to offer research-based solution to storage, supply of food grains
40. Centre to allocate Rs 3,000 crore from PM CARES for ventilator supply & migrants’ welfare
41. Central Govt Approved Rs. 412.19 Crore for Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Telangana
42. Ministry of Sports to Establish 1000 District Level Khelo India Centres to Engage Former Champions in
training
43. Union Government Granted Rs 500 cr Emergency Funds to Armed Forces for War Preparedness
44. Culture Ministry celebrating “Sankalp Parva” to plant trees from 28th June to 12 July 2020
45. Centre Sanctions Additional Rs 1,691 crore For Road Construction in J&K, Uttarakhand
46. Uttarakhand Develops India’s First Lichen Park to Conserve Jurassic Era Plant in Munsiyar

FOREIGN VISIT
1. Rajnath Singh 3-day Visit to Russia from 23- 25, 2020 to Attend 75th Victory Day Parade of World War II
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attends Victory Day Parade in Moscow, Russia on June 24
• 75-member Tri-service: Indian military contingent participates in Victory Day Parade in Russia
• Rajnath Singh met Russian Deputy PM Yury Borisov to review India-Russia defence cooperation
• Rajnath Singh holds talks with Myanmar Military Chief
 JULY
PARLIAMENT NEWS
1. Central govt Implemented Amendments in the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 and Rules from 1st July, 2020
2. Consumer Protection Act, 2019 comes into force; Replaces Consumer Protection Act 1986
3. Rajya Sabha Launches Employees Welfare Scheme in Arun Jaitley’s Name: “Arun Jaitley Financial Assistance
for Group C Employees”

LAUNCHES & INAUGURATION

1. Dharmendra Pradhan Inaugurates Asia’s First Continuous Galvanized Rebar Production Facility in Punjab
2. Giriraj Singh Launches the 1st Edition of “Matsya Sampada” – Fisheries and Aquaculture Newsletter
3. HRD Ministry Launches the World’s First Online B.Sc Degree in Programming and Data Science– Prepared by
IIT Madras
4. Dr. Harsh Vardhan Released the Good Clinical Practice Guidelines Handbook and Prospectus for FPIS of NBE
5. Union HRD Minister and Union Health Minister Launched Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020 (DDH2020)
6. Union HRD Minister and Sports MoS launched ‘Fit Hai to Hit Hai India’ webinar & ‘Fit India Talks’ Sessions
for School Students
7. Maharashtra CM, Uddhav Thackeray E-Inaugurates NM1, Yotta Data Centre Near Mumbai –World’s
2nd Largest & Asia’s Largest Data Centre
8. Harsh Vardhan & Narendra Singh Tomar released ‘Guidelines for Evaluation of Nano-based Agri-input
and food products in India’
9. Rajnath Singh e-Inaugurated Rs 43 cr Six Strategic Bridges in J&K; Built by Border Road Organisation
10. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik Launches BLUIS, first of its Kind in India to Use Space Technology &
Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Government Lands
11. PM Modi Inaugurates Asia’s Largest Solar Power Project – Rewa Solar Project in Madhya Pradesh
12. Ministry of Culture Released the First Five Re-Printed Volumes of Mongolian Kanjur Manuscripts
13. Union Minister Harsh Vardhan Releases White Paper by TIFAC on “Focused Interventions for Make in
India Post COVID 19”
14. Smart City Mission opens the registration for India Cycles4Change Challenge
15. UNICEF India & FICCI’s SEDF joined hands to Initiate “#Reimagine Campaign” to Support Vulnerable
Populations and Children in India
16. Defence Minister of State Shripad Naik inaugurated 5th edition of conference on Aerospace and Defence
Manufacturing Technologies
17. First online NISHTHA programme launched for 1200 Key Resources Persons of Andhra Pradesh by
MHRD
18. Power Minister RK Singh launched India’s 1st public EV Charging Plaza in New Delhi & RAISE initiative
19. Union HRD Minister Launched MANODARPAN initiative to provide psychosocial support to students for
their Mental Health and Well-being
20. Prakash Javadekar virtually launched piloting of National Transit Pass System (NTPS); undertaken in MP
& Telangana
21. Union Home Minister Launches Tree Plantation Campaign-2020 “Vriksharopan Abhiyan” of the Coal
Ministry
22. DST launched Rs 15 Crore fund to support India-Russia collaboration joint R&D and cross-country
technology adaptation
23. First by Indian Government: World Class State of the Art Honey Testing Lab was e-inaugurated by Shri
Narendra Singh Tomar at Anand, Gujarat
24. PM Modi Launched High Throughput COVID-19 Testing Facilities at Kolkata, Mumbai & Noida
25. Green-Ag project launched in Mizoram to bring transformative change in the farm sector
26. Dr. Harsh Vardhan released ebook titled “Standard Treatment Guidelines for the Management of
Substance Use Disorders and Behavioural Addictions”
OTHER NATIONAL NEWS
1. Government bans 59 Chinese mobile apps prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India
2. Government Declares Entire Nagaland ‘Disturbed Area’ for 6 more Months Under AFSPA Act 1958
3. Government to release commemorative stamp to honour former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao
4. Indian marine fish landings rose 2.1% to 3.56mt in 2019: CMFRI; Tamil Nadu tops
5. NHAI to set up India’s 1st govt sponsored InvIT, Forms Committee to Appoint Senior Management for its
Investment Manager Board
6. M.V Asiatic Moon: A New Shipping Service b/w Kolkata Port & Chattogram Begins to Ease Indo-Bangla Trade
7. Indian Railways Sets up Solar Plant in Bina, MP & Becomes the 1st Organization in the World to Directly
Supply Power to Railway Overhead Line
8. CBSE Partners with Facebook For Curriculum on Digital Safety, Augmented Reality
9. DRDO to establish a research cell at IIT-H to meet the future defence technological requirements
10. New Building of IARI, Jharkhand named after Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee
11. Assam Government to Upgrade Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary to National Park amid Coal Mining Row
12. Central Govt approved funds for Implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) in Himachal Pradesh & Goa
• HP to provide tap connections to all rural households by 2022; Received Rs. 326.20 Cr funds from Central Govt for FY21
• Goa plans to provide 100% FHTC in rural areas by 2021; Received Rs. 12.40 Cr funds from Central Govt for FY21
13. USAID’s SAGE Partnered with MNRE’s National Technical Institutions for Clean Energy Development
14. IIT-H collaborates with NVIDIA to establish India’s 1st NVIDIA AI Technology Centre
15. T-Hub Partners with MeitY and Digital India to Lead Scale Up Program for Hardware Startups
16. Chhattisgarh organises India’s first e-Lok Adalat
17. Ministry of Shipping approved Rs 107 Crore for Modern Firefighting Facilities in Haldia Dock,Kolkata
18. Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ released PRAGYATA Guidelines on Digital Education
prepared by MoHRD
19. CoalMin to link mining plan portal with PARIVESH website
20. Anji Khad bridge: India’s 1st cable-stayed rail bridge by Indian Railways to connect Katra and Reasi in
J&K
21. Poba Reserve Forest in Assam’s Dhemaji to be upgraded to wildlife sanctuary
22. Mansukh Mandaviya reviews deployment activities of India’s 1st trans-shipment hub –Vallarpadam
Terminal of Cochin Port, Kerala
23. Atal Innovation Mission Teams with Ministries to Support Start-ups with COVID-19 Solutions
24. Govt to Increase Public Health Expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025
25. Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya virtually flagged off 1st container ship from Kolkata Port to
Agartala via Chattogram port (Bangladesh)
26. CBSE collaborates with IBM to integrate AI in High School Curriculum of 2020-2021
27. Harsimrat Kaur Badal virtually addressed the Digital Indo- Italian Business Mission on Food Processing’
28. ICWA-RIAC conference: India & Russia to explore Joint Projects in Asia and Africa
29. Capitals of NE states to be connected through rail network by 2023
30. India Established Individual Bilateral ‘Air Bubbles’ with France, Germany and US
31. Indian Railways to launch 1st set of private trains by 2023, all 151 by 2027
32. Maharashtra becomes the 1st State to use drones to inspect power lines and transmission towers
33. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Partners with UNICEF’s YuWaah to Mobilise 1 Crore Youth
Volunteers to Achieve Goals of Atmanirbhar Bharat
34. MoCA set up Investment Clearance Cell for Assistance & Clearance of Proposals in Aviation Sector;
Headed by Amber Dubey
35. Prakash Javadekar: Government approved the Zonal Master Plan of Bhagirathi Eco-Sensitive Zone
36. PM Narendra Modi Laid Foundation Stone for Manipur Water Supply Project
37. Kakrapar Atomic Power Project’s Unit 3 in Gujarat: India’s First 700 MWe unit to Achieve Criticality
38. India to Have 60% Renewable Energy by 2030: R K Singh at Webinar On Energy Transition
39. Rs 8767 crore Approved for 81 projects under Special Window for Affordable and Mid Income Housing
Investment Fund I
40. APSEZ Becomes the 1st Indian Port and 7th Port Globally to Sign Up for the Science-Based Targets
initiative
41. SPRING Project-India & EU Partnered to Purify Sewage Water in Ganga & Godavari Rivers
42. HRD Ministry Conducts First Ever Ind-SAT Test 2020 Under its Study in India Programme
43. India extended medical assistance worth about USD 1 million to North Korea under WHO’s anti-
tuberculosis programme
44. Govt imposed restrictions on public procurement from countries sharing land border with India by
amending GFRs 2017
45. First in the World: India builds electrified rail tunnel capable to run double-stack containers
46. GoI funded 10 Broad Gauge Locomotives handed over to Bangladesh by Indian Railways in a virtual
ceremony
47. Govt released guidelines for 4 schemes to boost domestic manufacturing of bulk drugs & medical devices
Parks
48. Central Govt. with World Bank decides to convert ravines of Chambal region into arable land
49. India to set up Solar Power Plant in Sri Lanka
50. Madhya Pradesh to launch ‘Kill Corona’ campaign
51. Himachal Pradesh becomes first state with 100% LPG Connections
52. Road in Lucknow named after former MP Governor Lalji Tandon: UP
 AUGUST
PARLIAMENT NEWS
1. Centere approves Meghalaya goverments proposal for setting up Directorate of AYUSH
2. India’s New National Educational Policy unveiled after 34 years
3. Centere releases Rs 553cr to states for Agriculture Mechanization
4. Centre releases over 890cr as second trance for 22states
5. Centere constitutes National Council for Transgender persons

LAUNCHES & INAUGRATION

1. MSME minister launched Khadi’s gift box of silk mask
2. Education Minister laid foundation stone of IIM-Dhaula Khan
3. Narenda Sing Tomar launches Sahakar Cooptube NCDC Channel
4. RT-PCR COVID lab has inaugurated by Karnataka Education Minister Dr.K.Sudhakar
5. Telengana launches Growth in Dispersion (GRID) policy to give incentives to IT Companies that will setup their
units
6. GoI proposes to launch National clinical registory for data collection
7. PM Narendra Modi launched Submarine Cable Connectivity to Andaman & Nicobar islands (1224cr)
8. PM inaugurated Rashtriya Swacchata Kendra at Raj Ghat which is an interactive experience centere on
Swachh Bharat Mission
9. PM to launch Platform for “Transparent Taxation Honouring the Honest”
• Corporates Tax rates reduced- 30% to 22%
• Divident Distribution tax abolished
• New Manufacturing unit -15% tax reduction
10. IMPACT training programme commerces in Srinagar under Samagra Shiksha
11. Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched Swach Bharat Mission Academy
12. Reliance Foundation launches “W-GDP Women Connect challenge”for the empowerment of women
entreprenuers
13. Kailash satyatri’s foundation launches anti-child trafficking drive Bihar
14. Ministry of AYUSH launches AYUSH for Immunity Campaign
15. PM Modi launches National Digital Health Mission;Every Indian to have health ids
16. TERI launches flood & heavy rain warning system for Guwahati in collaboration with National Disaster
Management Authority (NDMA)
17. Kiran Rijiju (Sports Minister) launches “Fit India Youth Clubs”
18. Ministry of Social justice & Empowerment launches “Nasha-Mukt Bharat” Campaign in J&K
19. Defence Minister Launches Bharat Dynamics limited indiginised Konkur missile test equipment
20. Ravishankar prasad launches Swadeshi Microprocessor challenge innovate solutions for Atmanirbhar
Bharat
21. Nitin Gadkari launches portal to buy groceries directly from farmers (Vedkrishi.com)
22. Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) launches “Pavitrapatti (facemask)” & “Aushadatara
(Biosuit)” to fight against COVID-19
23. Tech Mahindra launches “UPSkilling” as a service platform
24. Tribal Minister launches “Trifood project”of TRIFED for Tribal Entreprenuership development
25. Harshvardhan launches game on COVID-19 “The Corona fighters”
26. Santhosh Gangwar launches official logo of “Labour bureau”
27. NPCI launches new subsidiary to promote its international business
28. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched Indigenous portal “SRIJAN” (Defence production) portal
29. European Union launched “Nirmanshree” for Odisha & Maharastra women in Housing sector
30. Piyush Goyal virtually inaugurated 4th edition NPPC 2020 Digital Exhibitions & Conference
31. Prakash javedekar launches DD Assam 24*7 channel VC
33. Indian Coast Guard (ICG) launches Interceptor boat “ICGSC-454”
34. India’s largest river ropeway inaugurated in Assam
35. Arogya setu introduces “Open API Services” for organisation to check corona test for workers.
36. Tourism Ministry partners with Travel Agents Association of India (TAAI) and FICCI ladies organisation
to promote tourism
37. Delhi government launches mega registration Campaign Niraman Mazdoor Registration Abhiyan for
construction workers
38. Ahemedabad Railway Division Launches Baggage Sanitization & wrapping machine
39. Delhi government launched “Healthy body healthy mind” fitness campaign
40. NITI Aayog to launch Nationally Determined Contribuition Transport Initiative of India (NDC-TIA)
41. Ministry of social justice to launch mental health rehabilation helpline
42. Union Minister Piyush Goyal launches National GIS-enabled Land Bank system
43. Department of Economic Affairs & UNDP India Launched Sustainable Finance Collaborative to Promote
Sustainable Finance in India
44. IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Launched “Chunauti”, Next Generation Start-up Contest; Foundation
stone laid for NIELIT at Muzaffarpur, Bihar
45. Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Addresses Inaugural session of World Urdu Session
 OTHER NATIONAL NEWS
1. Northern Railway runs first ever “Vyapar Mala” Express train for Jirana in Tripura
2. International Webinar on “lokamanya tilak-swaraj to self reliant India” in 100th death anniversary of tilak
organised by Indian Council for Cultural Research
3. Defence Ministry released draft 2020 Defence production & Export policy
4. Indian Railways uses New Track Construction (NTC) machine for track construction to be completed by
2022
5. The electronic vaccine (evin) to strengthen Immunisation Supply Chain reached 32 states & UT
6. Webinar series on “Hydro Meterological Hazards Risk Reduction
7. Unique COVID Prevention kiosk “UV Baggage Bath” inaugurated in banglore railway station
8. Indian Railways installs automatic lighting systems at the three Railway stations (Jabalpur,
Narasinghpur& Bhopal)
9. Arjun Munda flags off “medicine van” for Bihar flood victims
10. Piyush goyal & Prahalad joshi dedicated the railway museum at Hubbali to the Nation over Video
conference
11. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh restricted import of 101 defence equipments
12. Webinar on “Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh; Health and Education” was released
13. Central Depository Services Ltd gets UIDAI nod for e-KYC Aadhar authentication
14. NTPC group achieves 100Bn unit power generation mark
15. Ministry of corporate affairs released report of the committee on Bussiness Responsibility Reporting
16. STUDS inaugurated Asia’s largest helmet manufacturing plant IN Haryana
17. Goa’s Moia banana, Harmal Chillies, Khaje gets GI Tag
18. India Extends an assistance of USD 1Mn to Antigua and Barbudas COVID 19 Response
19. Katra-Delhi Express Road Corridor to be completed by 2023
20. Indian Coastal Guard forth offshore patrol “Sarthak” launched
21. Rajnath Singh launches Naval Innovation & Indigenous organisation launched 15 products developed by
PSU & OFB
22. India aims to achieve zero road fatalities by 2030; Nitin Gadkari
23. India granted USD 500mn Aid for Maldives connectivity project & USD 250 Mn as Budgetry support
24. India will fund greater male connectivity project through USD 400Mn LOC & USD 100Mn grant
25. New Educational Policy aims at ensuring 100% gross enrolment in schools by 2030
26. Renewable energy ministry received over 10GW of fresh solar power equipment
27. Education Minister notified “Council of Architecture Regulations”
28. PM Modi announces One sun, One world, One grid
29. Gwalior-Chambel Express way in Madhya Pradesh will be named shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Chambal
progress way
30. Indian Railways Constructing world’s tallest pier bridge across River Ijai in Manipur
31. UK provides 3 million euros fund to India to tackle COVID 19 & Climate Change
32. India Post issued 5 Commermorative postage stamps & 1 miniature sheet on UNESCO world Heritage
sites in India-3
33. Indian Railways introduces Drone based surveillance systems
34. Consumer Affairs Minister says hall marking of precsious metals will be mandatory from June next year
35. E-auction portal rolled out to promote trading of “Kashmir Saffron”
36. Nitin Gadkari laid foundation stone for 45 highway projects for Madhya Pradesh
37. Beaurau of police research and council celebrates its golden jubilee anniversary on 28 th Aug 2020
38. Ministry of culture announces 7 new circles of Archeology Survey India
39. NHAI develops “Vendor Performance Evaluation system”
40. Niti Aayog Task Force headed by Ramesh Chand Recommends Linking of Sugarcane Prices to Sugar
Rate
41. CMIA Partnered with UNDP to Set up Help Desk for MSME amid COVID-19
FESTIVALS
1. Odisha, Chhattisgarh Celebrates ‘2020 Nuakhai Juhar’, Agricultural Festival on August 23
2. Kerala State Dragonfly Festival 2020 aka “Thumbimahotsavam 2020” Launched; Mascot is“Pantalu”
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