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CURRENT AFFAIRS 2020 –


1. World Milk Day is celebrated on 1 June.

2. Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar, who passed away recently, was the former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

3. International Literacy Day observed every year on 8th September.

4. Haryana has taken up a new approach of Aerial Seeding to plant seeds across Aravalli hills.

5. NASA has detected the first Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) called FRB 200428 in our Milky Way Galaxy.

6. Manushi Chhillar has been roped in by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to spread awareness about menstrual hygiene.

7. Chen Meng won the 2020 ITTF Women’s World Cup title.

8. IND – SAT (Indian Scholastic assessment Test) was the first online test conducted online under “Study in India Programme” on July 22.

9. Vikas Baja has been appointed as the president of the Association of Forging Industry of India (AIFI).

10. M Rajeshwar Rao has been appointed as the new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

11. Japan has set a target of achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050.

12. As per the report by TERI, demand for electricity in India will be lower by 7 to 17% due to covid- 19 by 2025.

13. Andhra Pradesh has launched the Jagan Anna Vidya Kanuka scheme.

14. Ministry of Shipping has been renamed as Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterway.

15. Kerala was ranked first in the Sustainable Development Goals Index 2019-20.

16. State Bank Of India has launched the ‘Second Innings Tap VRS-2020’ scheme.

17. BCCI has nominated cricketer Rohit Sharma for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award 2020.

20. India’s first honey testing laboratory has been set up at Anand district of Gujarat?

21. Malayalam writer S Hareesh has won the JCB Prize for Literature 2020 for his novel called Moustache.

22. The Pinaka, a multi- barrel rocket –launcher (MBRL) system named after Shiva’s Bow, can fire a salvo of 12 rockets over a period of 44 seconds.

23. World Post Day 2020 celebrated on 9th October.

24. Natkhat movie of Vidya Balan has become eligible for Oscar nominations.

25. Assam governments have launched the Abhinandan scheme.

26. Maharashtra government launched Project Platina, a plasma therapy trial on COVID-19 patients.

27. DPIIT has launched an online discovery plaform for startups called “Startup India Showcase”.

28. Bank of Baroda has topped the EASE Banking Reforms Index 2.0 in the ‘Top Performing Banks’ category.

29. Be The Revival: India and a Better New World is the theme of the India Global Week 2020.

30. The Union Home Minister Amit Shah has laid the foundation stone for India’s first transit-oriented development (TOD) project with a 48-storey signature tower in New Delhi.

31. Ministry of Culture celebrated “Sankalp Parva” from June 28 to July 12, 2020.

32. Ministry of Human Resource Development has been renamed as Ministry of Education.

33. Aditya is the name of the India’s first solar-powered ferry which has won the prestigious Gustave Trouve Award for Excellence in Electric Boats and Boating.

34. Nilesh Shah has been re-elected as the Chairman of Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).

35. According to the Centre of Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), India’s unemployment rate stood at 6.98% in October in urban and rural areas.

36. Chhattisgarh government launched the Adarsh Police Station scheme.

37. The first State Level ‘E-Lok Adalat’ of India was conducted successfully by the High Court of Chhattisgarh.

38. Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has developed P-7 Heavy Drop System which is capable of para dropping military stores.

39. The Government of India has launched the “Central Equipment Identifiy Register” portal to trace lost Mobiles.

40. NGT has constituted a committee under whose chairmanship to investigate the blowout at Assam’s Bhaghjan oil well of Oil India Limited (OIL).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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