August 21 Current affairs in English...

🔶Cabinet Approvals on August 19, 2020

🔶NSC, JCI Sign MoU for Supply of Certified Jute Seeds to Farmers in 2021-22

🔶Report of NCRP 2020: Cancer in India may rise from 13.9 Lakh in 2020 to 15.7 lakh in 2025

🔶IIT Roorkee, BIS Sign MoU to Cooperate in Standardisation and Conformity Assessment

🔶L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Signed MoU with NTPC Ltd for CO2 to Methanol Demonstration Plant

🔶NRDC and NAL Partners to Establish Incubation Centre for Startup in Aerospace Technologies

🔶India Ranked 57th in Digital Quality of Life 2020, Denmark tops: DQL Index 2020 by SurfShark

🔶India and Israel Signed Cultural Agreement to Strengthen Bilateral Relations through People to People Exchange

🔶The ILO’s “Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs, Education, Rights and Mental Well-being”: 50% of World’s Youth Are Under Anxiety or Depression

🔶NPCI Launched its Subsidiary Firm, ‘NPCI International Payments Limited’; Appointed Ritesh Shukla as its CEO

🔶Lakshmi Vilas Bank Launched ‘LAKSHMI digiGO’, a Contactless Online Instant Savings Account Opening Facility

🔶Unitus Ventures Received Rs 75 Crore from SIDBI; will Strengthen the Deployment of its Fund II

🔶Keith Rowley Becomes Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for a 2nd Consecutive Term

🔶Francisco Asue is Reappointed as the Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea

🔶First Rockets Produced by Private Sector Successfully Test Fired: Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL)

🔶Dwarf Planet Ceres is now an ‘Ocean World’

🔶Iran Unveiled Locally Made Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, Martyr Qassem Soleimani & Cruise Missile, Martyr Abu Mahdi

🔶Air Unique-quality Monitoring, an Indigenous Photonic System Developed for Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Air Quality Parameters

🔶NASA observes the Slowly Splitting South Atlantic Anomaly, a dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field

🔶Former India Goalkeeper Bhaskar Maity passed away at 67

🔶Former Cricketer Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan dies of heart attack at 89

🔶Book titled “India Tomorrow: Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders” released on August, 2020

🔶Sadbhavan Diwas 2020 – August 20

🔶World Mosquito Day 2020: August 20

🔶INOX Group to sponsor Team India for Tokyo Olympics: IOA

1   Cabinet Approvals on August 19, 2020

2   NSC, JCI Sign MoU for Supply of Certified Jute Seeds to Farmers in 2021-22

3   Report of NCRP 2020: Cancer in India may rise from 13.9 Lakh in 2020 to 15.7 lakh in 2025

4   IIT Roorkee, BIS Sign MoU to Cooperate in Standardisation and Conformity Assessment

5   L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Signed MoU with NTPC Ltd for CO2 to Methanol Demonstration Plant

6   NRDC and NAL Partners to Establish Incubation Centre for Startup in Aerospace Technologies

7   India Ranked 57th in Digital Quality of Life 2020, Denmark tops: DQL Index 2020 by SurfShark

8   India and Israel Signed Cultural Agreement to Strengthen Bilateral Relations through People to People Exchange

9   The ILO’s “Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs, Education, Rights and Mental Well-being”: 50% of World’s Youth Are Under Anxiety or Depression

10   NPCI Launched its Subsidiary Firm, ‘NPCI International Payments Limited’; Appointed Ritesh Shukla as its CEO

11   Lakshmi Vilas Bank Launched ‘LAKSHMI digiGO’, a Contactless Online Instant Savings Account Opening Facility

12   Unitus Ventures Received Rs 75 Crore from SIDBI; will Strengthen the Deployment of its Fund II

13   Keith Rowley Becomes Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for a 2nd Consecutive Term

14   Francisco Asue is Reappointed as the Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea

15   First Rockets Produced by Private Sector Successfully Test Fired: Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL)

16   Dwarf Planet Ceres is now an ‘Ocean World’

17   Iran Unveiled Locally Made Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, Martyr Qassem Soleimani & Cruise Missile, Martyr Abu Mahdi

18   Air Unique-quality Monitoring, an Indigenous Photonic System Developed for Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Air Quality Parameters

19   NASA observes the Slowly Splitting South Atlantic Anomaly, a dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field

20   Former India Goalkeeper Bhaskar Maity passed away at 67

21   Former Cricketer Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan dies of heart attack at 89

22   Book titled “India Tomorrow: Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders” released on August, 2020

23   Sadbhavan Diwas 2020 – August 20

24   World Mosquito Day 2020: August 20

25   INOX Group to sponsor Team India for Tokyo Olympics: IOA

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