TODAY - CURRENT - AFFAIRS...18.08.2020 In English

 

             

🔶PM Narendra Modi delivered its 7th consecutive speech on 74th Independence Day; Announced Launch of New Projects

🔶MP CM: Gwalior Chambal Expressway will be Named Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Chambal Progressway

🔶Indian Railways Constructing World’s Tallest Pier Bridge Across River Ijai in Manipur

🔶M/o SJ&E R Launched ‘Nasha-Mukt Bharat’ Campaign; National Institute of Social Defence Building Inaugurated in New Delhi

🔶Union Minister Nitin Gadkari lays foundation stone for 13 highway projects in Manipur among other measures for the NE states

🔶UK Launched £1.5 million Fund for India to Tackle Covid-19 Challenges & Climate Change

🔶India Post Issued 5 Commemorative Postage Stamps and 1 Miniature Sheet on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India-III

🔶Piyush Goyal Virtually Inaugurated 4th edition of NPPC 2020: Digital Exhibitions and Conferences

🔶PNB Launched ‘DIGITAL APNAYEN’, a Campaign to Promote Digital Banking

🔶Google Partners with CWC of India for Flood Forecasting Initiatives

🔶AAIB forms 5 Member Panel Headed by Captain S S Chahar to Investigate the Kozhikode Plane Crash

🔶AIFF and SAI Jointly Launched “E-pathshala” a Web Platform to Promote Football

🔶Astronomers Found SPT0418-47, a Look-alike of the Milky Way at 12 Billion Light Years Away

🔶Indian Cricketers MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina retire from international cricket

🔶Lewis Hamilton Claims Record

🔶6th Podium Finish with Win at Spanish GP

🔶Arjuna awardee, UP Cabinet Minister and  Former Indian Cricketer Chetan Chauhan Passed Away at 73 Due to COVID-19

🔶Actor Sharon Stone’s Memoir “The Beauty of Living Twice” to Release in March 2021

🔶Ex-Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam Authored a New book titled, “Full Spectrum: India’s Wars 1972-2020″

🔶Chhattisgarh Govt  Launched ‘Padhai Tuhar Para’ scheme for school students

🔶Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio launches ‘Yellow Chain’ e-commerce platform on Independence day 2020

🔶Meghalaya CM Launched Restart Meghalaya Mission Worth Rs. 14,515 Crore to Revive Activities Stalled due to COVID-19

🔶Fit India Freedom Run launched : Kiren Rijiju

🔶AYUSH Ministry launches campaign “Ayush for Immunity”

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