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 23 September 2020

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🌍 International

- ‘The Disciple’, Marathi movie directed by Chaitanya Tamhane, wins Amplify Voices Award at Toronto International Film Festival

- UNGA adopts ‘Declaration on the Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations’

- International Red Panda Day 2020

🏆 Awards

- ⭐️ PM Modi awarded Ig Nobel Prize 2020 for medical Education

🇮🇳 India

- Parliament passes Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020; provides for up to seven years in jail for those attacking healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus

- Lok Sabha passes Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020; limits administrative expenses drawn from foreign donations to 20%

- IDFC Mutual Fund launches ‘SIP in Fixed Income’ campaign

- Volvo Car India launches “Volvo Car Financial Services”

- Logo and song for “Destination North East-2020″ festival unveiled

- HDFC Bank launches video Know Your Customer facility

- ⭐️ Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu suspends 8 MPs from opposition parties over unruly behaviour

- Suspended Rajya Sabha MPs: Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen from Trinamool Congress, Sanjay Singh from AAP, Rajeev Satav, Nasir Hussain and Ripun Bora from the Congress, and KK Ragesh and E Kareem from the CPI (M)

- There can’t be universal policy on right to protest: SC in anti-CAA blockade case in Shaheen Bagh, Delhi

- In a first, two women officers to be deployed on Indian Navy warships; Sub Lieutenant Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lieutenant Riti Singh graduated as Observers (airborne tacticians) in the helicopter stream

- India launches direct cargo ferry service to Maldives from Tuticorin port

📈 ECONOMY & CORPORATE

- Parliament approves changes in IBC (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code) to protect Covid-stressed firms

- Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for all six Rabi crops hiked in crop season 2020-21 (July-June)

- Rabi crops: Wheat, Gram (chana), Rapeseed & Mustard, Lentil (masur), Barley and Safflower

- Govt sets foodgrain output target at record 301 mn tonnes for 2020-21 crop year

🗾 State

- Bihar: PM launches ‘Har Gao Mein Optical Fibre’ project to connect state’s all 45,945 villages

🏇 Sports

- Italian Open Tennis: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic (men’s), Romania’s Simona Halep (women’s) win singles titles

👨🏻‍💼 Appointment and Resignations

- Anil Dhasmana becomes new chief of NTRO

😔 Honorable Death

- Former Canadian PM John Turner passes away

- Nepal’s Legendary Mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa passes away

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