Current Affairs 23 & 24 August 2020

1 Ministry Of Tourism Inked MoU with TAAI & FICCI Ladies Organisation for Women’s Economic Empowerment through Tourism

2 National Commission on Population: Projects India’s Population to be More Feminine by 2036

3 6th Round Table of ASEAN-India network of think tanks (AINTT) held

4 WHO Urged Developed Nations to Join Covax Facility to Counter “Vaccine Nationalism”

5 Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank and SBI General Insurance Co Ltd Signed MoU to Sell General Insurance Products

6 RBL Bank Partnered with Accenture to Accelerate its Digital Transformation

7 SBI Partners with AddaCorner to Launch ‘Online Home Carnival’

8 Tata Capital Ltd Launched a New Service, ‘Swift Insta Personal Loans’ on Whatsapp

9 National Sports Awards 2020 Announced; 73 Awardees in 7 Categories

10 Anand Mahindra, Shantanu Narayen to Receive 2020 Leadership Awards from USISPF

11 Ashwani Bhatia Appointed as Managing Director of SBI; Succeeds PK Gupta

12 Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar Appointed as New Election Commissioner

13 ICICI Lombard & Bharti AXA Signed Definitive Agreements to Merge their Insurance Businesses

14 Nitin Jairam Gadkari launched ‘Harit Path’, Mobile App developed by NHAI to monitor highway plantation

15 Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan Launches Online Registration and Renewal of Gold Hallmarking Centres

16 Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh releases book on Cancer edited by noted Oncologist Dr Ashok Vaid

17 International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief 2020 – August 22

18 Earth Overshoot Day 2020: August 22

19 Religare Health Insurance renamed  Care Health Insurance

20 Centre Formulated India’s First 30 member National Council for Transgender Persons; Chaired by Union Minister of SJ&E

21. Odisha, Chhattisgarh Celebrates ‘2020 Nuakhai Juhar’, Agricultural Festival on August 23

22. CMIA Partnered with UNDP to Set up Help Desk for MSME amid COVID-19

23 India’s Longest River Ropeway Inaugurated in Guwahati, Assam




24 India and Uzbekistan Co-chaired the First National Coordination Committee Meeting: Discussed on Trade and Investment

25 M Venkaiah Naidu Released 2 Research Reports of IAPPD- ‘Status of Sex Ratio at Birth in India’ and ‘Elderly Population in India: Status and Support Systems’

26 Kerala State Dragonfly Festival 2020 aka “Thumbimahotsavam 2020” Launched; Mascot is “Pantalu”

27 The Naval Commanders’ Conference 2020: 19th – 21st August 2020

28 Google Launches ‘The Anywhere School’ to Boost Online Learning

29 Kallis, Sthalekar and Zaheer Abbas inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

30 Wabag Wins 2020 Global Water Award for Koyambedu TTRO Plant in Chennai

31 China Successfully Launched New Optical Remote-Sensing Satellite “Gaofen-9 05” along with 2 Smaller Payloads

32 Govt Introduced a New Feature, ‘Open API Service’ of Aarogya Setu to Help People, Businesses & Economy to Return to Normalcy




33 Indian Coast Guard Ship C-449 Commissioned in Chennai

34 The Book “Delhi Riots 2020: the Untold Story” is Set to be Published

35 International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition 2020: August 23

36 Odisha Govt launched a new scheme ‘Promotion of Intensive Aquaculture through Introduction of Bio-flocTechnology during the year 2020-21’


37 Delhi Government Launched Niraman Mazdoor Registration Abhiyan for Construction Workers