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NATIONAL NEWS: virtually inaugurated 45 highway projects Ministry of Tourism organizes the 50th in Madhya Pradesh. webinar titled "Cultural heritage of These projects includes construction of 1,361 Hyderabad" under DekhoApnaDesh km of Road, two over bridges and six bridges series: at an estimated cost of Rs 11,427 crore. The webinar showcased the culture of Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Hyderabad which is quite distinct from the Welfare to integrate e- Pension Payment rest of Telangana with its strong Islamic Order with Digi Locker: influences inherited from the period of the It will create a permanent record of their PPO Nizam rule which is starkly visible on in their Digi Locker and at the same time Hyderabad's architecture, food, lifestyle. eliminate delays in reaching the PPO to new Himachal Pradesh government signs Pensioners, as well as the necessity of Rs.110 crore MoU with Micro Tek New handing over a physical copy. The facility has Technologies for setting up electronics been created with Bhavisya Software. manufacturing unit in Baddi: Gujarat tops Niti Aayog's first ever Himachal Pradesh government signed a Export Preparedness Index 2020, memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth followed by Maharashtra and TN: Rs.110 crore in the presence of chief Gujarat has topped the Niti Aayog's Export minister Jai Ram Thakur with Micro Tek Preparedness Index 2020 followed by New Technologies Private Ltd for setting Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu in the second up a manufacturing unit of thermometers, and third place respectively, according to the online/offline UPS, high capacity invertors, government think tank's report. oxymeters and other electrical products in Niti Aayog in partnership with the Institute Solan district’s Baddi area. of Competitiveness released the first Export Nitin Gadkari inaugurates 45 Highway Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020. projects worth around Rs 11,427 cr in Haryana Government Signed MoU with Madhya Pradesh: M3M Foundation to Enable Students to Union Minister for Road Transport, get into Government Jobs: Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Department of

Employment, Haryana and the M3M frequently asked questions, on one platform. Foundation in order to facilitate the online The NCC imparts values of unity, discipline, preparation, training and mentoring for the service to the nation. government jobs for the students. Union Minister of State Som Parkash Tamil Nadu women top the list of MUDRA addresses 5th virtual BRICS Industry loan scheme beneficiaries: Minister’s Meeting: Women of Tamil Nadu have topped the list The Industry Ministers of BRICS (Brazil, of women borrowers under the Pradhan Russia, India, China and South Africa) Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) since its countries held a meeting through video mode inception. Tamil Nadu followed by West on 24 August 2020 to discuss ways to boost Bengal and Karnataka are at 2nd and 3rd cooperation in areas including 5G and place. Artificial Intelligence. More than 15 crore loans amounting to From India, the Union Minister of State for Rs.4.78-lakh-crore have been disbursed to Commerce and Industry, Shri Som Parkash, women borrowers under the Pradhan Mantri participated in the 5th edition of the Industry Mudra Yojana (PMMY). Ministers’ meeting. Andhra Pradesh sets up entity to finance Delhi government launches fitness social economic development projects: channel on YouTube for students stuck at Andhra Pradesh government established home: the Andhra Pradesh State Development Delhi government launched 'Healthy Body, Corporation (APSDC), a new avenue to Healthy Mind' campaign for students borrow more money and channelize donations confined to their homes as schools remain from different sources. The new entity will be closed in view of Coronavirus pandemic. A a 100 percent state-owned Public Limited video will be uploaded which the students can Company. practice for the week. Defence minister launches app for online Union Minister Piyush Goyal launches training of National Cadet Corps cadets National GIS-enabled Land Bank system: The mobile app, called "DGNCC", aims at Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, providing NCC cadets all training materials, Piyush Goyal e-launched the National including syllabus, training videos, and GIS(Geographic Information System) -

enabled Land Bank system Government Launches 'Chunauti' (https://iis.ncog.gov.in/parks) for six Contest To Identify And Support Startups states. From Small Towns: The platform will provide a database of Government launched a contest to give a fillip industrial areas/clusters across the to homegrown startups and software product country and will serve as a one-stop solution companies with special focus on firms from to the free and easy accessibility of all small towns of the country. industrial information. The government's "Chunauti" - Next Ministry of Social Justice launches Generation Startup Challenge Contest, aims Mental Health Rehabilitation helpline to identify 300 startups working in select ‘KIRAN’: areas which will be provided with a seed fund Department of Empowerment of Persons of up to Rs 25 lakh along with other with Disabilities (DEPwD) under the necessary support to help them grow. Ministry of Social Justice and First marine ambulance boat Empowerment has launched a 24×7 ‘PRATHEEKSHA’ commissioned in Kerala: Mental Health Rehabilitation helpline Kerala Chief Minister Shri Pinarayi Vijayan number under the name ‘Kiran’ to assist inaugurated the first ever marine ambulance people to cope with mental health issues, named ‘PRATHEEKSHA’. Pratheeksha is first particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. in the series of 3 fully equipped marine Centre to develop three Bamboo Clusters ambulance boat built by Cochin Shipyard in Jammu, Katra and Samba areas of Limited (CSL), for the Department of J&K: Fisheries, Govt. of Kerala. Minister of Development of North East- The other two other boats namely Region, Dr Jitendra Singh said that 3 ‘Prathyasha’ and ‘Karunya’ were also Bamboo Clusters will be developed in launched on the same day. Jammu, Katra & Samba areas for making of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath Bamboo basketry, Agarbatti & Bamboo launches NRI unified portal: Charcol that will provide direct employment to Uttar Pradesh Government under Chief nearly 25000 people. Minister Yogi Adityanath has launched an ambitious ‘NRI unified portal’ to provide

assistance to overseas Indians and NRIs of NITI Aayog begins NDC- Transport the state during any emergency. The website Initiative for Asia(TIA) : can be assessed at nri.up.gov.in. NITI Aayog has started off NDC Union Minister Piyush Goyal addresses (Nationally Determined Contributions) – ASEAN-India Business Council Meet: Transport Initiative for Asia (TIA). the Union Minister of Commerce and Industry main purpose of it is to set up a multi- Shri Piyush Goyal addressed the ASEAN- stakeholder dialogue and create a team. the India Business Council virtual meet. The team will provide their support on business council meeting provided a forum to Greenhouse Gas emission reduction across discuss concerns and best practices, share the country. ideas, and flag the problems, so that together Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar both the partners are able to succeed, secure Prasad launches completely wireless future, work together, attain prosperity, and BSNL Bharat AirFibre for rural areas in achieve a target of $300 billion trade. Bihar: He emphasized 3 C’s Cooperation, Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Collaboration & Commitment as guide for Prasad inaugurated a next-generation the strategic partnership between India and network telephone exchange at New Bihar ASEAN countries. Vidhan Mandal compound and Bharat Air Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana Fibre service at Danapur Telephone (PMJDY) Completed Six Years of Exchange in Bihar through video conferencing Successful Implementation: from New Delhi. 6th anniversary of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan First newspaper for kids 'The Young Yojna (PMJDY) was observed which was Minds' launched in Assam: launched. On this occasion, Union Minister for Two Guwahati-based women entrepreneurs Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala have launched a newspaper specifically Sitharaman reiterated the importance of this designed for kids, to promote creative biggest financial inclusion initiative in the thinking among children and inculcate in them world. the habit to read and write. It is the brainchild The Slogan of PMJDY: “Mera Khata – of Neelam Sethia and Neha Bajaj. The Bhagya Vidhaata.”

Young Minds, will cater to kids of 4-14 years It was organized by National Council for of age. Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL). Assam Government to set up Skill Department of Economic Affairs & UNDP University worth Rs 900 Crore at Darrang India Launched Sustainable Finance district: Collaborative to Promote Sustainable Assam Cabinet has approved the Assam Finance in India: Skill Development University Bill which Department of Economic Affairs Ministry of allows for setting up a state-of-the-art skill Finance in partnership with the United University at Mangaldoi in Darrang district Nations Development Programme (UNDP) of Assam. The University at Mangaldoi will be India launched the Sustainable Finance the Centre of Excellence and first ever Skill Collaborative (SFC). University in north eastern states of the In this regard, a three days consultation country. centered on the broad scope of Sustainable The total cost of setting up the University is Finance architecture in India was held to estimated at Rs 900 crore with financial accelerate Green Finance by bringing assistance from the Asian Development together leading experts and organizations. Bank. Assam government has also inked a President Ram Nath Kovind honours 74 memorandum of understanding recently with sportspersons with National Sports and the ITE Education Service Singapore for Adventure Awards: training resource persons of the university President Ram Nath Kovind virtually Union Education Minister addresses conferred the National Sports & Adventure inaugural session of World Urdu Award 2020 namely- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Conference organized by NCPUL: Ratna Award, Arjuna Award, Education Minister made an important Dronacharya Award, Dhyan Chand announcement and said that Urdu writers Award, Tenzing Norgay National and literators will be honoured with awards Adventure Award & Rashtriya Khel and honours in the name of important Protsahan Puraskar. personalities of Urdu like Amir Khusrow, Twenty-seven sportspersons were Mirza Ghalib, Agha Hashar, Ram Babu honoured with the Arjuna Award. Saxena, etc.

51st International Film Festival India to Central Hospital of the Diesel Rail Engine be held in Goa from Nov 20: Factory of Indian Railways. 51st IFFI will be held in Goa, from November Kerala to set up India’s first 20th to 28th. This film festival being a hybrid International Women’s Trade Centre: film festival due to Covid 19, would screen Kerala will set up India’s first International films on official digital platform along with the Women’s Trade Centre (IWTC), in theatrical screenings. The festival is an annual consonance with the United Nations event since 1975. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Utter Pradesh government launches This initiative aims to accelerate women ‘Major Dhyan Chand Vijaypath Yojana’ to entrepreneurship and secure gender parity Build Roads to 19 International Player’s while providing women with a safe place houses: away from home to start new businesses, Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh set up or expand, and get their products Keshav Prasad Maurya launched the Major marketed globally. Dhyan Chand Vijaypath Yojana under MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates which 19 international players from the Technology Centre at Bhiwadi in state will get road connectivity to their Rajasthan: houses. MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated a Indian pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar, former technology centre at Bhiwadi in Rajasthan pacer Praveen Kumar, Piyush Chawla and via video conferencing. 15 new technology Mohammad Kaif are among the 19 athletes centres are being set up & 18 existing ones who will be benefited from the scheme. are being upgraded to create skilled Indian Railways has developed a remote- manpower, as part of efforts to make India a controlled medical trolley named manufacturing hub. The manufacturing sector ‘MEDBOT’ to help deliver food and contributes around 22-24% in GDP. medicines to COVID-19 patients: PM Modi inaugurates Rani Lakshmi Bai Indian Railways has developed a remote- Central Agricultural University in Jhansi: controlled medical trolley named ‘MEDBOT’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi digitally to help deliver food and medicines to COVI- inaugurated college and administration 19 patients. It is providing service in the buildings of the Rani Lakshmi Bai (RLB)

Central Agricultural University. Named More than 10,000 Cantonment after the iconic freedom fighter, Rani Employees: Lakshmi Bai, the RLB University is located in Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched a Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. life insurance scheme that will provide a cover India To Invest Over Rs 4 Lakh Crore To of Rs 5 lakhs each to more than 10,000 Achieve 100 Million Tonne Coal employees working in cantonment areas Gasification Target By 2030: across India. India aims for 100 million tonne (MT) coal ‘Chhavni Covid: Yodha Sanrakshan gasification by 2030 with investments worth Yojana’, a group life insurance scheme over Rs 4 lakh crore, said Union Minister of through the Life Insurance Corporation, was Coal and Mines Prahlad Joshi. launched by Rajnath Singh during a webinar The webinar was organized by Ministry of Coal attended by presidents, vice-presidents and (MoC) in New Delhi for discussing the road chief executive officers of all 62 cantonment map for achieving the target. The webinar boards. was attended by around 700 delegates from Coal India to invest over Rs 1.22 lakh government of India, Coal India Limited crore on 500 projects by 2023-24: (CIL) and the coal sector. Coal India to invest over Rs 1.22 lakh crore Andhra Pradesh Government to launch on development of 500 projects related to two schemes for pregnant women on coal evacuation, infrastructure, exploration September 1: and clean coal technologies. It aims to make Andhra Padesh Chief Minister YS Jagan India self-reliant & achieve production target Mohan Reddy will launch two new schemes of 1 billion tonnes by 2023-24. for pregnant women. The schemes, “YSR Karnataka CM flags off RO-RO train Sampoorna Poshana” and “YSR service between Bengaluru and Solapur: Sampoorna Poshana Plus” to be launched Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on September 1, 2020 aim at providing flagged off Roll-On/Roll-Off (RO-RO) train nutritious food for pregnant women and between Bengaluru (Nelamangala) to lactating mothers along with children. Solapur (Maharashtra) through video Defence Minister Rajnath Singh conferencing. CM Yediyurappa flagged off the Launched Life Insurance Scheme for

RO-RO train from Nelamagala station on the European Investment Bank To Invest outskirts of Bengaluru at 9.15 am. €650 Million Into Kanpur’s First City Explaining about the RO-RO service, the Metro Line: South Western Railway (SWR) stated it European Investment Bank (EIB) is set to will have open flat wagon on which trucks with invest a total of €650 million into the goods are loaded. The driver and cleaner of construction of Kanpur city’s first metro line, the lorries sit in their vehicles. marking its second-biggest operation outside Odisha CM launched “Ama Sahar” and the European Union. “Swachha Sahar Odisha” Mobile app on The 32.4 km urban rail line, with 18 elevated Local Self Government Day: and 12 underground stations is EIB’s 2nd Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik biggest operation outside the European launched two citizen-centric mobile phone Union(EU) till date. It is the 2nd metro rail applications- AMA SAHAR and SWACHHA project supported by the EIB in Uttar SAHAR ODISHA at the Lok Seva Bhawan Pradesh(UP). here on the occasion of Local Self Government Union Cabinet approves ‘Mission Day. With the launching of web app, the Karmayogi’ for Civil Servants: urban local bodies (ULBs) will be able to Union Cabinet has approved “Mission submit utilisation certificate online which will Karmayogi” for civil servants across the bring better fiscal management. country to help them meet the challenges in Uttar Pradesh government decides to set the society. A council headed by PM having up exclusive anti-electricity theft police CMs as members will approve the civil stations in every district: services capacity building plans under the Uttar Pradesh government decided to set up scheme. exclusive Anti-Electricity Theft police Madhya Pradesh government launches stations in every district of state to address ‘Gandagi Bharat Chhodo’ campaign: the problem of frequent cases of power theft. Madhya Pradesh government has launched One police station dedicated to deal with the a 15-day campaign named ‘Gandagi Bharat issue of power theft to be opened. Chhodo’. Under the campaign awareness programmes were organized in seven thousand 178 settlements. About 35 lakh

people from 378 urban bodies in Madhya US-India Strategic Partnership Forum Pradesh took part in the campaign. (USISPF) ‘s 3rd Annual Leadership Summit is Gandagi Bharat Chhodo campaign is divided going to be organized. On this occasion, The into 5 themes- Cleanliness Oath, Continuous Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to reduction in urban waste emissions, address a Special Key Note via a video Cleanliness in COVID conditions, Separation conference. The theme of the 5-day Summit: of waste from sources of houses & launching “US-India Navigating New Challenges“. a cleanliness campaign for public places. Lakshadweep and Ladakh joined One Union Power Minister RK Singh launches Nation-One Ration Card scheme: “Green Term Ahead Market”: Two more UTs Ladakh and Lakshadweep Minister of State (MoS) (Independent Charge) have decided to join the ‘One Nation-One for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Raj Ration Card’ scheme. now, 26 States /UTs Kumar Singh launched the Pan-India Green have joined this scheme and this Yojana will Term Ahead Market (GTAM) in New Delhi give benefits to almost 70 crore citizens. virtually, for electricity. GTAM is the World’s Jal Shakti Ministry launched ‘Water First Exclusive Product Market for the Heroes’ Contest: renewable energy sector. The Jal Shakti ministry has launched a Cabinet approves MoU between India “Water Heroes – Share Your Stories” and Finland for cooperation in Geology contest with an aim to reach out to people and Mineral Resources: with the important message of water The MoU facilitates cooperation in the field of conservation and management. The primary geology, training, mineral objectives of the Ministry of Jal Shakti are prognostication, 3/4D modelling, to make water conservation a people’s Seismic and other Geophysical surveys movement and strengthen the water finalized with the intent of reinforcing and consciousness in the country. strengthening scientific links between the two Sadananda Gowda launches 8 Organizations. Nutraceutical-immunity boosting PM Modi to address Leadership Summit products under PMBJP for sale through of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum: Janaushadhi Kendras:

Government is also providing one-time grant Maharashtra Government and SIDBI ink of Rs 2.00 lakh for store set-up to persons pact to develop MSME ecosystem: belonging to SC, ST, women & divyang Small Industries Development Bank of category and to any applicant opening store India (SIDBI) has entered into a in North-Eastern States, aspirational Memorandum of Understanding with the districts & Himalayan states under Pradhan Maharashtra Government to develop the Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Priyojana Micro, Small And Medium Enterprise (PMBJP). (MSME) ecosystem in the state. India’s First Regional Voters’ Awareness Under the agreement, a Project Centre to Come Up in Jaipur: Management Unit (PMU) will be deployed Election Commission of India (ECI) will set by SIDBI with the Government of up the country’s first regional voters’ Maharashtra. awareness centre in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It Punjab Govt launches 'I Rakhwali' app to will cater to four states — Rajasthan, make citizens 'Greenery Saviours': Haryana, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh. Punjab State Forest Department launched The centre will carry out various awareness 'I Rakhwali' application to help netizens to activities under the Systematic Voters’ become 'Greenery Saviours'. Launching the Education and Electoral Participation application, Punjab Forest Minister Sadhu (SVEEP) programme. Singh Dharamsot said that the application Arjun Munda inaugurates ‘2 Days has been developed to ensure greenery and National Tribal Research Conclave’ being to protect the environment in Punjab, and its held virtually: main aim is to inspire people to plant more Ministry of Tribal affairs is funding 26 Tribal trees. Research Institutes for research under Rajasthan government inks MoU with Grant to TRIs and is engaged in quality ShriVallabh Pittie to invest Rs 4,000 cr in research in collaboration with various aviation, textile sectors: institutes. National Institute for Tribal Rajasthan government signed a research is being set up in partnership with Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IIPA (Indian Institute of Public ShriVallabh Pittie (SVP) International Administration).

Group for development of facilities related to ever International Day of Clean Air for aviation, defence and textile sectors. Blue Skies. He will review the progress of the Investment of Rs 4,000 crore is estimated activities under the National Clean Air under the projects which would generate Programme (NCAP) during the course of employment for more than 4,000 people, an the webinar. official release stated. Andhra Pradesh tops Business Reform Festival Pang Lhabsol Celebrated In Action Plan (BRAP) ranking of states Sikkim: 2019: Pang Lhabsol is one of the most historically Andhra Pradesh has topped the 4th edition significant festivals celebrated in Sikkim. of the Business Reform Action Plan Pang Lhabsol is a unique festival of Sikkim (BRAP) ranking of states for 2018-19. It is and commemorates the consecration of also known as The Ease of Doing Business Mount Khangchendzonga as the guardian rankings. The ranking was announced by deity of Sikkim. Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister Tripura receives first ever inland of Finance and Corporate Affairs. shipping cargo from Bangladesh: Uttar Pradesh is ranked second and The Daukandi (Bangladesh) – Sonamura Telangana is ranked third in the ranking. Till (Tripura) Inland Waterway Protocol route date, State Rankings have been released for was operationalised marking a milestone in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017-18. The latest India-Bangladesh relations. one is the fourth edition for 2018-19. “Bangladeshi vessel, MB Premier carrying Andhra Pradesh to float India’ largest cement started from Daukandi and will reach solar tender for 10 GW capacities: Sonamura traversing 93 km along the river Andhra Pradesh government to float India’s Gumti. largest solar tender for setting up 10 GW Union Environment Minister Prakash capacity. AP has around 7.7 GW of solar and Javadekar to chair a webinar on first ever wind projects & has India’s second-largest International Day of Clean Air For Blue installed capacity of clean energy. AP Green SkiesL: Energy Corporation Ltd (APGECL) to be Union Environment Minister Prakash the nodal agency. This mega solar bid aims to Javadekar to chair a webinar on the first- entail a Rs.35,000 crore investment.

Andhra Pradesh government signs MoUs Union minister Jitendra Singh announced with Netherlands, 7 firms on food that the first-ever cannabis medicine project processing, marketing: will soon be set up in Jammu. The cannabis Andhra Pradesh State government signed medicine project will be set up with the Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with the collaboration of Canada at the Indian Netherlands government and seven Institute of Integrative Medicine (IIIM) companies in food processing, marketing in Jammu. and technologies, to benefit the horticulture J-K LG Launches SPARROW System For J- and aquaculture farmers across the State. K Administrative Service Officers: The MoUs were signed in the presence of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha launched Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Smart Performance Appraisal Report Agriculture Minister K Kannababu, Andhra Recording Online Window (SPARROW) Pradesh State Agriculture Mission vice- system for Jammu and Kashmir chairperson MVS Nagi Reddy and Special Administrative Service officers, at Raj Chief Secretary (Agriculture) Poonam Bhavan. Malakondaiah. 3rd Rashtriya Poshan Maah being Assam re-launches self-employment celebrated in September 2020 to scheme SVAYEM worth Rs 1,000 crore: promote nutrition among Women and The state government of Assam re-launched Children: an old scheme titled ‘Swami Vivekananda The 3rd Rashtriya Poshan Maah is being Assam Youth Empowerment (SVAYEM) ’ celebrated in September 2020 to address which aims to provide self-employment to the problem of malnutrition among women around 2 lakh youths of the state. and young children. Every year Poshan Maah The SVAYEM scheme was launched by the is celebrated all over the country under government in 2017-18. Under the scheme, POSHAN Abhiyaan, launched in 2018. The the state government would provide Rs aim behind the celebration of Poshan Maah is 50,000 each as seed money to selected to encourage Jan Bhagidaari in order to youths to start business ventures. ensure health and nutrition for everyone. First-ever cannabis medicine project to come up in Jammu:

Karnataka approves Rs. 600-cr medium enterprises, especially in the fire watershed project ‘REWARD’ with World crackers and allied sectors, has been selected Bank assistance: by the Central Government as the state's Karnataka Cabinet has approved a project first Fully Digital Economy district. titled ‘Rejuvenating Watersheds for These include widespread use of ATM debit Agriculture Resilience through cards, increased usage of internet banking, Innovative Development’ (REWARD). The widespread use of QR codes etc. REWARD project is designed to ensure soil Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri e- and water conservation in 20 taluks with low launches Kochi Metro Thykoodam-Petta groundwater levels in Karnataka. stretch: The total cost of this project is Rs 600 crore. Housing & Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep The World Bank will fund 70% of the project Singh Puri launched Thykoodam-Petta amount, which amounts to Rs 420 crore, stretch of Kochi Metro through video whereas, 30% of the expenses (Rs 180 conference. The launch marks the completion crore) will be borne by the state government of Phase I of Kerala Metro service which is of Karnataka. estimated to be completed at a cost of Rs State of Young Child in India Report Rs.6218 crore. Kochi metro has a dedicated released by Vice President Venkaiah Automated Fare Collection system. Naidu: Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission Kerala, Goa, Tripura, Tamil Nadu & signs MoU with Northeast Small Finance Mizoram are among the top 5 States for well- Bank: being of children according to a report by NGO Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission Mobile Creches. The index was constructed (ASRLM) signed a Memorandum of for 2 time periods - 2005–2006 and 2015– Understanding (MoU) with North East Small 2016. India spent Rs.1,723 per child in Finance Bank (NESFB) on Saturday to work 2018–2019. in cohesion in support of Bank Linkage of the Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu Self-Help Groups (SHGs) and Producer selected as fully Digital Economy district: Groups/ Enterprises under ASRLM. Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu, ASRLM is the first amongst all the State which houses a large number of small and Livelihood Missions to initiate the signing of

MoU with the new generation small finance NITI Aayog has constituted a banks. The MoU was signed by Utpala Multidimensional Poverty Index Saikia, SMD, ASRLM and Rupali Kalita, Coordination Committee (MPICC). The Managing Director cum CEO, NESFB. MPICC is chaired by Ms. Sanyukta Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Relaunches '10 Samaddar, Adviser (SDG). Hafte 10 Baje 10 Minute' Anti-dengue NITI Aayog is the nodal agency for the Global Campaign: Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) Delhi's Chief Minister Arwind Kejriwal will and has been assigned the responsibility of kicked-off the second edition of the 10-week leveraging the monitoring mechanism for it long anti-dengue campaign. The aim of this and to drive reforms. campaign is to create awareness on Tamil Nadu CM releases state’s prevention of vector-borne diseases like Electronic Hardware Manufacturing dengue among the people of Delhi, said the Policy-2020 officials. Last year, the '10 Hafte 10 Baje 10 Tamil Nadu government announced a new Minute' campaign received support from electronics & hardware manufacturing many celebrities as well as government policy to increase the State's electronics officials. industry output to $100 billion by 2025. It Gujarat will be first to implement hopes to contribute 25 per cent of India’s National Education Policy 2020: total electronic exports to the world by 2025. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said his It undertakes skill training for more than government aims to become the first to 1Lakh people by 2024. implement the National Education Policy Union Minister Thaawarchand Gehlot (NEP) 2020 and will soon form a task force launched ‘24×7 toll-free Mental Health to create a road map for the same. It Rehabilitation Helpline ‘KIRAN’: comprises of 15 politicians, administrative Union Minister for Social Justice and officials and academicians. It is to study NEP- Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot 2020 and take implementation measures. virtually launched the 24×7 Toll-Free Mental NITI Aayog constitutes Multidimensional Health Rehabilitation Helpline “KIRAN” Poverty Index Coordination Committee (1800-500-0019). The aim is to provide relief (MPICC) : and support to persons with Mental Illness.

Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurates 22 NABARD organizes awareness cum bamboo clusters in nine states: sensitization programme for newly Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar proposed FPO in J&K: inaugurated 22 bamboo clusters in nine In Jammu and Kashmir awareness cum states by virtual mode. Indian Forest Act 1927 sensitization programme for newly proposed was amended in 2017 to remove bamboo for Farmer Producer Organizations (FPO) the category of trees so that anyone can was organized by NABARD in coordination undertake cultivation and business in with District Administration in Anantnag. bamboo. The programme was organized to promote India and ADB sign 500 million US dollar sustainable and equitable agriculture and loan for Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid rural prosperity through effective credit Transit System corridor: support related services, institutional India and the ADB signed a 500 million US development and other initiatives. dollar loan for Delhi-Meerut Regional Fruits & vegetables in J&K covered under Rapid Transit System (RRTS) corridor. ‘Operation Green’s TOP to TOTAL’ This is the first tranche of a total one-billion- scheme: dollar facility. The 82-km long corridor will Centre has brought majority of fruits and reduce the journey time to one hour. vegetables grown in Jammu under a fresh Haryana CM Launches 1st of its Kind initiative of Aatmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. Educational Chatbot “Apka Mitra” & All the fruits and vegetables in J&K will be Online Admission Platform for UG covered under the ‘Operation Green’s TOP courses: to TOTAL’ scheme. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal The scheme has been extended from Tomato, Khattar virtually launched an online platform Onion and Potato (TOP) to all fruits and for admission to undergraduate courses in vegetables (TOTAL) for a period of six government-aided and self-financed colleges. months. Khattar also launched first-of-its-kind Prime Minister virtually inaugurates educational whatsapp chatbot 'Apka Mitra' Patrika Gate in Jaipur, Rajasthan: to resolve any admission related queries of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi the students. inaugurated the Patrika Gate in Jaipur,

Rajasthan through video conference on 8th Kerala tops literacy rate chart with September 2020. 96.2%; Andhra Pradesh worst performer The Iconic Gate is built by the Rajasthan- at 66.4%: Report by NSO: based Patrika Group of Newspapers on the Kerala has once again emerged as the most Jawaharlal Nehru Marg in Jaipur, to bring literate state in the country With 96.2 per cent together the art, craft, and cultural heritage literacy while Andhra Pradesh featured at of all the regions of Rajasthan at one place. the bottom with a rate of 66.4 per cent, Cabinet approves asset monetization of showed a report based on National subsidiaries of PGCIL through Statistical Office (NSO) survey. Infrastructure Trust: On the other hand, Rajasthan is the second Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs worst performer with literacy rate at 69.7 per approved Asset Monetization of subsidiaries cent, followed by Bihar at 70.9 per cent, of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited Telangana at 72.8 per cent, UP at 73 per cent through Infrastructure Investment Trust and Madhya Pradesh at 73.7 per cent. (InvIT). It will undertake monetization of its The report on 'Household Social Tariff Based Competitive Bidding assets. Consumption: Education in India as part of World Bank approves USD 82 mn for 75th round of National Sample Survey - Himachal Pradesh State Roads from July 2017 to June 2018' provides for Transformation project: state-wise detail of literacy rate among the World Bank has approved loan amount persons aged seven years and above. worth $82 million for the implementation of Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurates Himachal Pradesh State Roads webinar on Enhancing Water Use Transformation Project which will Efficiency: strengthen transport and road safety Government set target of covering 100 lakh institutions of Himachal Pradesh by improving hectares in 5 years under micro-irrigation. the condition, safety, resilience, and Dedicated Micro Irrigation Fund (MIF) of engineering standards of state road Rs. 5000 crores with NABARD was created network. to facilitate states in mobilizing resources for expanding coverage of Micro Irrigation.

UiPath partners with Andhra Pradesh Delhi CM launches online portal for filing State Skill Development Corporation of consumer complaints: (APSSDC) to train youth in robotic skills: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated the Robotic Process Automation software government’s online portal for e-filing of company UiPath partnered with the Andhra consumers’ complaints. It has been Pradesh State Skill Development developed by National Informatic Centre Corporation as part of its academic alliance (NIC) in coordination with SBI which is programme which is designed to build RPA providing payment gateway for payment of resiliency among more than 50000 students fees digitally. in the coming year. Karnataka CM Launches India's First Second Kisan train to transport Agri Integrated Air Ambulance Service with products from Andhra Pradesh to New ICATT: Delhi, linking farmers directly to Karnataka CM B.S. Yediyurappa unveiled markets: India’s first integrated air ambulance service India’s second and South India’s first jointly launched by the International Kisan Train was flagged off to provide a Critical Air Transfer Team (ICATT) and the seamless supply of perishable produce. The Kyathi in the city. The ambulance is equipped first Kisan Rail flagged off between with state-of-the-art German Isolation Pod. Maharashtra and Bihar. It aims to help in Education Ministry to organise 2 -day doubling farmers’ income by 2022. conclave on School Education in 21st PM Modi digitally launches Pradhan Century under Shikshak Parv: Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana and e- Shikshak Parv is celebrated from 8th Gopala App: September- 25th September, to felicitate the PM Matsya Sampada Yojana is a flagship Teachers and to take New Education Policy scheme for focused and sustainable 2020 which was approved and forward. development of the fisheries sector in India Education Ministry is to organize a two-day with an estimated investment of Rs 20,050 conclave on School Education in 21st Century. crores for its implementation from FY20- CIPET to establish two new Centres for FY25. E-Gopala is a breed improvement Skilling and Technical Support at marketplace. Bhagalpur & Varanasi:

Central Institute of Petrochemicals Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Engineering & Technology (CIPET) under the Kumar Gangwar chaired the 227th Meeting Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers will be of the Central Board of Trustees of shortly establishing two new Centres for Employees' Provident Fund. The Central Skilling and Technical Support- CSTS at Board has recommended the same interest Bhagalpur (Bihar) and Varanasi (UP). rate at 8.50% to the Central Government. Mumbai International airport put in place Tamil Nadu CM Edappadi Palaniswami QR code-enabled check-in mechanism: launched portal for Eye Donation: Mumbai International airport has put in Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami place a QR code-enabled contactless launched the website hmis.tn.gov.in/eye- check-in mechanism for the passengers. donor designed by the National Health Mumbai International Airport Limited stated Mission Tamil Nadu to help donors. He has that the touch less technology solution is a pledged to donate his eyes during National vital step in reducing passenger contact with Eye Donation Fortnight in Tamil Nadu. kiosk surfaces and is in full compliance with He has initiated the state-led portal for eye the civil aviation ministry’s passenger donation enabling people who are willing to processing guidelines. pledge to donate their eyes. Nagaland launches Naga Telehealth Telangana Government and UK India aiming at providing affordable Business Council renew their MoU to healthcare services: strengthen the state's industrial Naga Telehealth is an initiative of the development: government of Nagaland in partnership with UK India Business Council (UKIBC) USAID, NISHTHA and Jhpiego. Telehealth renewed its' Memorandum of Understanding is a method wherein communication (MoU) with Industries and Commerce technologies like computers and mobile Department, Government of Telangana. phones are used to delivery healthcare, public This collaborative partnership between the health and health education services. UKIBC and the Government of Telangana is Santosh Kumar Gangwar chairs 227th well-established and has already led to two Meeting of Central Board of Trustees of UK business delegations to the State and a Employees' Provident Fund: further delegation of leading UK universities.

Uttar Pradesh government signs pact SAROD-Ports consist of members from the with UN for take-home-ration scheme for Indian Ports Association (IPA) and Indian women self help groups: Private Ports and Terminals Association Take-Home ration will now be manufactured (IPTTA). and supplied through women Self-Help Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Groups (SHGs) in Uttar Pradesh. The State attends 73rd session of WHO South East Rural Livelihood Mission (SRLM) has Asia Region: signed a Memorandum of Understanding Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare (MoU) with the UN World Food Programme for Dr. Harsh Vardhan has attended the73rd this. session of WHO South East Asia Region Around 200 women SHG enterprises are (SEARO) through video conference. expected to gain business with Rs 1,200 This is the first time the two-day event is crore annual turnovers through this being held entirely through virtual platforms collaboration. owing to the COVID pandemic. The 73rd India Post launches Five Star Villages session is being hosted by the Government of Scheme to ensure 100% rural coverage Thailand (from Bangkok) while the previous of postal schemes: session was held in New Delhi. Department of Posts has launched a Government forms three-member expert scheme called Five Star Villages, to ensure panel to assist in assessment of relief to universal coverage of flagship postal bank borrowers: schemes in rural areas of the country. The Finance Ministry set up an expert scheme seeks to bridge the gaps in public committee to assess the impact of waiving awareness and reach of postal products and interest payments on loans under moratorium services, especially in interior villages. and suggest measures to provide relief to SAROD ports launched by Shipping borrowers. It will be headed by former CAG Ministry to resolve disputes: Rajiv Mehrishi. Union Shipping Minister Mansukh Madhya Pradesh reintroduces Deendayal Mandaviya launched a dispute resolving Rasoi Scheme for meals at Rs 10: mechanism to ease affordable and timely Deendayal Antyodaya Rasoi Scheme to resolution of disputes for the maritime sector. provide meals at a subsidized rate to

underprivileged people was re-introduced in highlighted the importance of imparting Madhya Pradesh. Now the rate per thali has learning in the mother tongue, preserving been increased to Rs 10 from Rs 5, said an culture and protecting the nature. officer from the urban development and Atal Innovation Mission Launches housing department. Aatmanirbhar Bharat ARISE-ANIC Five Petroleum and Gas sector PSUs to Initiative: join International Solar Alliance: Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Five Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) Aayog has launched the Aatmanirbhar under Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry will Bharat ARISE-Atal New India Challenges to be joining International Solar Alliance foster innovation in Indian MSMEs and (ISA) 's Coalition for Sustainable Climate startups. The programme will support Action (ISA-CSCA) as Corporate Partners and research-based innovations by providing will be contributing to ISA's Corpus Fund, said funding support to MSMEs and startups up to Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. Rs 50 lakh. Hubballi railway station to be renamed Gujarat government announces state's after Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji: first Heritage Tourism Policy: Hubballi railway station headquarters of The policy has provisions to permit use of pre- South Western Railway is being changed 1950 historical buildings such as heritage for the second time in last 5 years. It was palaces and forts, as heritage hotels, changed in 2015 from Hubli to Hubballi. It is heritage museums, heritage banquet halls being renamed after Shree Siddharoodha and heritage restaurants, provided that basic Swamiji who was a Hindu Guru and heritage structure is not disturbed. Philosopher. Housing Ministry launches Climate Smart Vice President inaugurates 125th Birth Cities Assessment Framework (CSCAF Anniversary celebrations of Kavi Samrat 2.0) and Streets for People Challenge: Shri Viswanatha Satyanarayana: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu virtually (MoHUA) launched the Climate Smart Cities inaugurates the 125th Birth Anniversary Assessment Framework (CSCAF) 2.0, celebrations of the Kavi Samrat Shri along with the ‘Streets for People Viswanatha Satyanarayana. He had

Challenge’ in a virtual event organized by February 2021. Raksha Mantri, Shri Rajnath the Smart Cities Mission. Singh has launched the website for Aero India's 'largest piggery mission' India 2021. Aero India is Asia’s largest air launched in Meghalaya: show and aviation exhibition held biennially in Meghalaya has launched India’s Biggest Bengaluru since 1996. The website can be “Piggery Mission” with an outlay of Rs 209 accessed at aeroindia.gov.in. Crores. It is being launched under the aegis Government increases scholarship of Meghalaya Livestock Enterprises amount under ‘Pragati and Saksham’ Advancement Society (MLEADS) and schemes for J&K students to Rs 50,000: funded by the National Cooperative Central government has increased the Development Corporation (NCDC). scholarship amount under ‘Pragati and The main objective of the Piggery Mission is Saksham Scholarship Schemes’ for to reduce the annual import of Pork worth Rs students of Jammu and Kashmir from Rs 150 Crore and make Meghalaya self- 5,000 to Rs 50,000 per annum. sufficient (“Aatma Nirbhar”) in pork Pragati scheme provides scholarships to the production over the next 3 years. girls of UT Jammu and Kashmir who belong to Food processing minister inaugurates families having an annual income of less than Organic India unit in Uttar Pradesh: Rs 8 lakh and who shall be admitted in the Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur AlCTE approved institutions for the session Badal through video conferencing 2020-21. inaugurated Organic India Pvt Ltd's plant at Union Home Minister e-launches Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh that has been development projects worth Rs 221 set up at a cost of Rs 55 crore. The food crore in Ahmedabad: processing sector is growing at 8.5 percent Home Minister Amit Shah e-dedicated and e- annually. launched development projects worth Rs 221 13th Aero India-21 to be held in crore in Ahmedabad district. The works e- Bengaluru, Karnataka in Feb 2021: dedicated include Rs 130.91 crore pipeline The 13th edition of Aero India-21 is network to carry water from Vaishnavdevi scheduled to be held at Air Force Station, Circle to Shantipura and Sarkhej. Yelahanka, Bengaluru from 3 to 07

Union Home Ministry grants FCRA development. The Union housing and urban registration to Golden Temple: affairs minister also launched 'Streets for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has People Challenge', which aims to inspire approved registration of the Sri Harmandir cities to create walking-friendly and vibrant Sahib under the Foreign Contribution streets through quick, innovative, and low- Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 on 9 cost measures in response to COVID-19. September 2020. Sri Harmandir Sahib is MoRTH organized the Orientation and famous as Golden Temple in Amritsar. Training Programme of “iRAD” App: Andhra Pradesh CM Launches 'YSR Ministry of Road Transport & Highways Aasara' Scheme For Women conducted 2-days Orientation and Training Empowerment: programme on iRAD (Integrated Road Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy Accident Database Project) App on 7 & 8 launched YSR Aasara scheme to empower September for the selected districts of women socially and economically. The Karnataka, and on 10th & 11th September beneficiaries will have the full freedom on how 2020 for some districts of Uttar Pradesh. they would like to utilize the amount. Jammu and Kashmir announce Rs 5 lakh Andhra Pradesh has released Rs 6,792.20 annual health insurance for residents: crores towards the first installment of the Lt Gov Manoj Sinha announced Jammu total due of Rs 27,168.83 crores to banks and Kashmir health scheme intended to of 87,74,674 women belonging to 8.7 lakh provide universal health insurance cover. It Self Help Groups (SHG) in a virtual meeting will have the same benefits as available under with all district collectors and some of the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan beneficiaries. Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) with an annual Hardeep Singh Puri launches framework health insurance cover of Rs. 5 lakh per for cities to inculcate climate-sensitive family on floater basis. approach to urban planning: Government Sets up Empowered Group Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri of Ministers Headed by Rajnath Singh to launched a framework which provides a Oversee OFB's Corporatization: roadmap for cities to inculcate a climate- Central Government has constituted an sensitive approach to urban planning and Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) to

oversee the process of the corporatisation of sanitation workers and their families covering the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB). one lakh population are likely to be Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is the benefitted. chairman of this EGoM. The ordnance Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicates factories form an integrated base for to the Nation three key projects related indigenous production of defence hardware to Petroleum sector in Bihar: and equipment. PM dedicated 3 key projects related to the Central discom first to adopt e-office in Petroleum sector in Bihar. The projects India; Madhya Pradesh: include the Durgapur-Banka (D-B) section Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company and 2 LPG Bottling Plants in East Champaran Bhopal is the first power Distribution and Banka. It will empower the Company in India in which e-office system is ‘Atmanirbhar Bihar' by meeting the rising operated from corporate office to local circle demand for LPG. offices level. It has implemented e-file & e- Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh correspondent system through NIC e-office. Launches Smart Ration Card Scheme To PM Modi addresses the ‘Grih Pravesham’ Cover 1.41 Crore Beneficiaries: event in Madhya Pradesh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi rolled out a "smart ration card" scheme for addressed the ‘Grih Pravesham’ event in providing subsidised food grains to 1.41 crore Madhya Pradesh through video beneficiaries in the state. He also announced conferencing. Under this, 1.75 Lakh Families a separate state-funded scheme to provide in Madhya Pradesh were delivered pucca subsidised rations to 9 lakh beneficiaries not houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas covered under the National Food Security Yojana- Grameen (PMAY-G). Act (NFSA). Odisha Government Launches "GARIMA" India’s First Airport Coronavirus Testing Welfare Scheme For Sanitation Workers: Facility Launched in Delhi: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched India’s first coronavirus airport testing facility “GARIMA” a new Scheme to ensure Safety has been launched at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi and Dignity of Core Sanitation Workers of the International Airport. Passengers can book State. Under this scheme, about 20,000 core the testing the slot an hour before the time of

arrival and around four-six hours before the use will be treated at par with ambulances as departure flight. The test results are available emergency vehicles in Maharashtra for a within four-six hours. period of 1 year. The notification was issued Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel under Disaster Management Act, 2005. inaugurates Sangeet Sandhya as a part Maharashtra CM announces ‘My Family- of 550th Birth Anniversary celebrations My Responsibility’ campaign to fight of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji: Covid-19: Prahlad Singh Patel inaugurated Sangeet Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Sandhya programme as a part of the 550th Thackeray announced the launch of 'My Birth Anniversary celebrations of Sri Guru family-My responsibility' from September Nanak Dev. The Sangeet Sandhya was 15 to fight the pandemic. organised by the Indira Gandhi National Under this campaign, Brihanmumbai Centre for Arts under the aegis of Ministry of Municipal Corporation (BMC) will reach out Culture. to every family residing in the financial capital Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches and will provide medical help and guidance seven urban infrastructure projects in if needed. Bihar: HIKAI Online academic classes Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated at Ramakrishna Mission Sec inaugurated seven urban infrastructure School in East Khasi Hills district, transformation projects in Bihar, which is Meghalaya: scheduled to go to polls this year. Among the Online academic classes of HIKAI (Hybrid seven projects, six are under the Atal Interactive Knowledge Assimilation Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Initiative) were inaugurated at Transformation (AMRUT) scheme, while one Ramakrishna Mission Secondary School is under the Namami Gange Mission. demonstrating the technological capability of Maharashtra government accords conducting online classes in a no-internet ambulance status to vehicles carrying zone by using intranet medical oxygen for one year: Government formed 16-Member For an uninterrupted supply of oxygen, Committee To Study Ancient Indian vehicles carrying oxygen cylinders for medical Culture; Prahlad Singh Patel:

Central Government formed an expert First-ever Special Economic Zone (SEZ) committee for conducting a study on the was laid to foundation stone by the Chief origin and evolution of Indian culture Minister Biplab Kumar Deb at Sabroom which 12,000 years ago. The 16-member is the southernmost town of the state committee will include KN Dikshit Chairman bordering Bangladesh. It is around 120 km Indian Archaeological Society & former Joint from Agartala. The estimated investment in Director General ASI, among others. the project will be around Rs 1550 Crore. Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package virtually lays foundation stone of Arun Insurance Scheme for Health Workers Jaitley Memorial Sports Complex in Fighting COVID-19’ Extends for another Jammu: 6 months: Union Minister of State, Development of North The Insurance Scheme announced under Eastern Region (DoNER), Dr Jitendra Singh Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package for along with Youth Affairs & Sports Minister health workers who are fighting to contain Kiren Rijiju and Jammu and Kashmir COVID-19 has been extended for another six Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha laid the months till March 2021. foundation stone for the construction of Arun This is the second extension given to the Jaitley Memorial Sports Complex at scheme, which aims to provide an insurance Hiranagar, in Kathua district of Jammu & cover of Rs 50 lakh to around over 22 lakh Kashmir through video conferencing. public healthcare providers. Rajasthan government signs pact with Union Cabinet approves establishment of SIDBI to develop MSME ecosystem: new AIIMS at Darbhanga, Bihar: Rajasthan's Department of Industries and Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, SIDBI will work together to provide financial, Shri Narendra Modi has approved technical, marketing and export support to establishment of a new All India Institute MSMEs in the state, Industries Minister of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Parsadi Lal Meena. Darbhanga, Bihar. The AIIMS at Darbhanga Tripura gets it’s first-ever Special will be established under the Pradhan Economic Zone (SEZ) : Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY).

The total cost of setting the project will be CAPEX scheme at Panchyat Jaswan in Marh Rs.1264 crore and is likely to be completed block of Jammu district. Under the within a period of 48 months. programme at least three fruit plants costing Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor gets nod Rs. 200 will be distributed among the farmers from cabinet: at 90% subsidy covering 600 households. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs Postage Stamp on India's First A-SAT approved 121-km Haryana Orbital Rail Released On Engineers' Day: Corridor, which will connect Palwal and Department of Post launched a customized Sonipat. It will be implemented by Haryana stamp on India's First Anti-Satellite Missile Rail Infrastructure Development (A-SAT). Defence Research and Corporation Ltd at an estimated cost of Rs. Development Organisation (DRDO) had 5,617 crores in 5 years. successfully conducted an Anti-Satellite (A- Union Education Minister presents first SAT) missile test “Mission Shakti” from Dr ever AICTE Visvesvaraya Best Teachers APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha on March Award 2020 to 12 faculty members of 27, 2019. AICTE: A DRDO developed A-SAT Missile successfully The first ever AICTE Visvesvarya Best engaged an Indian orbiting target satellite in Teacher Awards 2020 were presented by Low Earth Orbit (LEO) in a 'Hit to Kill' Union Minister of Education Shri Ramesh mode. Pokhriyal‘Nishank’ to 12 faculty 111th Birth Anniversary of 1st CM of members of AICTE approved institutes on Tamil Nadu C. N. Annadurai being the occasion of Engineers Day (September celebrated: 15). 111th Birth Anniversary of the first Chief Jammu and Kashmir Horticulture Minister of Tamil Nadu C. N. Annadurai is Department launches “Backyard popularly known as Arignar Anna celebrated Horticulture” programme under CAPEX on 15th September. He was also a Member of scheme in Jammu district: Rajya Sabha from 1963 to 1967. Well known In Jammu and Kashmir, the Horticulture for his powerful oratorical skills, Anna was a Department has launched the Flagship prolific writer too. programme “Backyard Horticulture” under

Uttar Pradesh to get special security solution named ‘Health as One’ and force with powers to search and arrest ‘Immunity through Ayurveda’. without any warrant: Global Ayurveda Summit is being organized Uttar Pradesh Special Security Force will be by the CII (Confederation of Indian able to arrest any person without the orders Industry) -Kerala in partnership with of a magistrate or a warrant. Five Ministry of Ayush (Ayurveda, Yoga and battalions of the force to be constituted in the Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and first phase and it will be headed by an ADG- Homeopathy). ranked officer at an expense of Rs 1747 Gujarat government and SIDBI ink MoU crore. to help MSMEs amid COVID-19 crisis: Provision of Rs 40,000 cr made under Gujarat government signed an MoU with the MGNREGA Scheme through Aatma Small Industries Development Bank of Nirbhar Bharat Package: India (SIDBI) to increase self-reliance and Government has made a provision of 40 provide capacity building and market support thousand crore rupees under MGNREGA to the state's 35 lakh micro-small-medium Scheme through Aatma Nirbhar Bharat enterprises (MSMEs). State Additional Chief Package to provide employment to the needy Secretary of Industries and Mines MK Das workers. It is in addition to allocation of 61 and SIDBI Deputy Managing Director thousand 5 hundred crore rupees under Vasantharao Satya Venkata Rao signed MGNREGA for Financial Year 2020-21. the MoU in the presence of Chief Minister Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu Vijay Rupani in Gandhinagar. inaugurated 4th Global Ayurveda Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister to Summit virtually: inaugurate ‘Poshan Sarkar’ programme: The 4th edition of Global Ayurveda Summit ‘Poshan Sarkar’ programme is being started was virtually inaugurated by Vice-President to ensure participation and leadership of local Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu on the bodies-Gram Panchayats and Urban theme “Emerging Opportunities for Bodies in the nutrition campaign. Chief Ayurveda during Pandemic”. The objective Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will of the summit is to showcase the Ayurveda inaugurate this programme. immunity model to the global level as a

The main objective of the Poshan Sarkar are the top three union territories in the programme is to eliminate the malnutrition happiness rankings. by helping the Gram Panchayat and the Urban Maharashtra, Delhi and Haryana have Bodies in the nutrition campaign. shown the worst possible impact of COVID-19 Parliament approved the Institute of on happiness. Teaching and Research in Ayurveda Bill: Telangana minister KT Rama Rao Rajya Sabha has given its approval to launches farm cooperative society implement the Institute of Teaching and website: Research in Ayurveda Bill. as per the New Telangana IT and Industries Minister KT Bill, Institute of Teaching and Research in Rama Rao (KTR) launched the Primary Ayurveda (ITRA) will be built at Jamnagar, Agricultural Co-Operative Society Gujarat. (PACS), Pothgal web portal. He launched the The Bill will also provide the status of web portal www.pacspothgal.com. This Institution of National Importance (INI) society is located in Pothgal village of to the Institute. Mustabad Mandal in Rajanna Siricilla Mizoram, Punjab, Andaman and Nicobar District. Islands Top List; India Happiness Report Prakash Javadekar attends G20 2020: Environment Ministerial Meeting India Happiness Report 2020 has been virtually: released and it covers all States and Union Environment Minister Shri Prakash Territories in India. The survey was conducted Javadekar represented India in G20 and covered 16,950 people between March Environment Ministerial Meeting was held 2020 and July 2020. through video conferencing. The meeting was Among smaller states Mizoram, Sikkim, and chaired by Saudi Arabia. Arunachal Pradesh all from the Northeast Karnataka Govt launches loan disbursal are the top three states in happiness programme “Arthika Spandana”: rankings. Among the big states, Punjab, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa Gujarat, and Telangana are among the top launched the “Arthika Spandana” three states. Andaman and Nicobar programme which loans worth Rs. 39,300 Islands, Puducherry, and Lakshadweep crore would be disbursed through various

cooperative institutions, for helping people Government has set a target to increase during the times of COVID-19 and floods. the number of Janaushadhi Kendras to Of the total amount approved under the 10500 by the end of March 2025: scheme, Rs. 15,300 crore would be Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers Shri disbursed to the agriculture sector while Rs. D V Sadananda Gowda has said that with a 24,000 crore would be earmarked for the vision to provide quality medicines at an non-agricultural sector. affordable rate for the common man Union minister Harsimrat Badal resigns especially the poor. over protest against agri bills: Government has set a target to increase the Minister of Food Processing Industries number of Pradhan mantri Janaushadhi Harsimrat Badal resigned and the President Kendras PMBJK to 10500 by March 2025. of India, as advised by Prime Minister As on 15th September 2020 the number of accepted her resignation from the Union stores has increased to 6606. Council of Ministers with immediate effect, Prime Minister Narendra Modi to under clause (2) of Article 75 of the inaugurate Kosi Rail Mega Bridge in Constitution. Agriculture Minister Narendra Bihar: Singh Tomar given additional charge of Food Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi Processing Industries Ministry dedicated the historic Kosi Rail Mahasetu Tamil Nadu to launch SkillTech varsity (Mega Bridge) of the Indian Railways to the for varied courses: nation through video-conference. The length Tamil Nadu is taking the lead in imparting of the rail bridge is 1.9 kilometres and has students with training on future skills with been constructed at the cost of Rs 516 crore. plans to launch a SkillTech University to PM Modi also inaugurated 12 other Indian offer courses in different sectors, including Railway projects in Bihar related to automotive and power. SkillTech University passenger facilities for the benefit of the will be an online platform and will be state. The approximate cost of these projects beneficial to all stakeholders, including is worth almost Rs 3,000 crore. government, industries and students. Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airportopens India's First And Exclusive Private Jet Terminal:

Delhi international airport has opened an Coordinator (NCSC) Rajesh Pant, India’s exclusive terminal for private airplanes. Chief Coordinator on Cyber Security to This is India's first terminal for private jets to examine the reports of digital surveillance on cater to the high and mighty rich population. Prominent Indian Nationals including Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh President, Army Chief by Chinese firm Puri inaugurated the terminal at Indira Shenzhen Zhenhua Data Information Gandhi International Airport has 57 Technology Company Ltd. parking bays and will allow movement of 150 Maharashtra government approves private jet flights daily, over 50 passengers an accidental insurance scheme named hour. after Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Gujarat government launches Thackeray: Mukhyamantri Mahila Utkarsh Yojana Maharashtra has launched a new accidental (MMUY) to Give Interest Free Loans To insurance scheme in the state that will Women’s Groups: provide free treatment up to Rs 30,000 to Chief Minister of Gujarat Vijay Rupani has any person injured in a road accident. Around launched a scheme named Mukhyamantri 74 types of treatment that are needed in Mahila Utkarsh Yojana (MMUY) that will case of road accidents have been included in provide interest-free loans to women’s the scheme. groups in the state. The scheme has been named Balasaheb Joint liability and earning group (JLEG) of Thackeray Accidental Insurance Scheme women will be formed in the state. Each JLEG to commemorate the founder of the Shiv Sena group will have 10 members. 50,000 such and father of the current Chief Minister of the JLEGs will be formed in urban areas and state Uddhav Thackeray. 50,000 such groups will also be formed in Ministry of AYUSH partners with Ministry rural areas. Women and Child Development to Government forms Expert Committee control Malnutrition: Headed by Rajesh Pant to probe reports A Memorandum of Understanding has been of snooping by Chinese firm: signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and Government of India formed an Expert Ministry of Women and Child Committee led by National Cyber Security Development to control Malnutrition as a

part of POSHAN Abhiyaan. The MoU will see The VAIBHAV Summit is a collaborative some time-tested and scientifically proven initiative by Science & Technology and AYUSH-based solutions being adopted for Academic Organisations of India to enable controlling malnutrition in the country. deliberations on thought process, practices Eight Indian Beaches recommended for and R&D culture with a problem-solving “Blue Flag” International Eco-Label: approach for well-defined objectives. Blue Flag certification is a globally Tamil Nadu becomes first state in India recognized eco-label accorded by to launch ethical AI, blockchain, international agency 'Foundation for cybersecurity policies: Environment Education, Denmark' based Tamilnadu has become the first State in the on 33 stringent criteria in 4 major heads. country to launch Safe and Ethical Artificial International Coastal Clean-Up Day is Intelligence (AI), Blockchain and observed on 19th September. Cybersecurity policies. The policies were Goa Government signs MOU with GIM to unveiled by Chief Minister Edapaddi K carry out vocational training for ITI Palaniswami during the valedictory session trainers: of the 19th edition of Connect 2020. Goa Minister for Industries, Trade and State Family Data Base (SFDB) and Block- Commerce and Skill Development Vishwajit Chain Backbone infrastructure will be Rane said that Directorate of Skill established in the state for the Development and Entrepreneurship has implementation of these policies. signed a Memorandum of Understanding PM Narendra Modi launches 'Ghar Tak (MoU) with Goa Institute of Management Fibre' Scheme and lays foundation stone (GIM) to carry out vocational training for ITI for 9 highway projects in Bihar: trainers to enhance their skill set. Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi India to conduct Vaishwik Bharatiya inaugurated the “Ghar Tak Fibre” project, Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit: under which all the 45,945 villages of Bihar Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi will be connected through Optical Fibre will inaugurate the Vaishwik Bharatiya Internet Service. He also laid the foundation Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Summit on 2nd stone of nine highway projects worth Rs. October 2020 through video conferencing.

14,258 crore in Bihar through video Civil Aviation Ministry approves 78 new conferencing. routes under UDAN, sanctions Rs 108 Centre Approves an Outlay of Rs 600 crore for up-gradation of 3 airports in crore for PM Svanidhi Scheme: Chhattisgarh: Government of India has approved a total Ministry of Civil Aviation identified and outlay of Rs.600 crores for the PM approved 78 new routes under the first SVANidhi scheme. This was informed by phase of UDAN 4.0 Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban (UdeDeshkaAamNagrik). Airports Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri. Authority of India, the Implementing Agency The Prime Minister Street Vendor’s Amta is in the process of awarding these routes to Nirbhar Nidhi Scheme (PM SVANidhi) was the Selected Airline Operators (SAOs). launched by the Ministry of Housing and Government has sanctioned Rs 108 crore Urban Affairs has on 01 June 2020. under UDAN for up-gradation of 3 Government Increases minimum support Chhattisgarh Airports. Rs.48 crore have price for wheat and five other rabi crops: been allocated for Jagdalpur, Rs.27 crore for Union Government has announced an Ambikapur and Rs.33 crore for Bilaspur under increase in the Minimum Support Prices UDAN scheme for upgradation and (MSPs) for all mandated Rabi crops. MSP of development. 6 Rabi crops including Wheat, Chana, Nutrition park to be set up in Masoor, Mustard, Jowar and Safflower Chandrasekharapuram, Namakkal: has been hiked in the range of 50 to 300 Steps are being taken up to set up a nutrition rupees. park in Chandrasekharapuram, Southern Railway’s Chennai Division Namakkal. This is part of the National launches “Freight Seva” app: Nutrition Month programme undertaken in Chennai Division of Southern Railways Tamil Nadu. 3acre ground has been (SR) has launched an in-house mobile identified for organic drumstick cultivation in application Freight Seva to serve customers Namakkal district. better. The app will be a one stop destination President Ram Nath Kovind to confer for information needs, and have requisite National Service Scheme Awards for details for access by freight customers. 2018-19:

President Ram Nath Kovind will confer the Kisan Samman Nidhi. Under the announced NSS Awards for the year 2018-19 virtually scheme, the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri from Rashtrapati Bhawan. The NSS Award for Kisan Samman Nidhi, getting Rs. 6,000 per the year 2018-19 will be given to 42 annum, will be getting additional financial awardees in 3 diff. categories like University, assistance of Rs. 4,000 making their total NSS Units and their Officers & NSS annual assistance to be Rs. 10,000 per Volunteers. annum. India’s first Coast Guard academy to Government has launched National come up at Mangaluru: Conservation Strategy for Indian One- India’s first Coast Guard academy will be Horned Rhino: established at Mangaluru, Defence Union Minister Prakash Javadekar stated Spokesperson (PRO) Bengaluru. Around 158 India is home to the largest number of acres Karnataka Industrial Area Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros in the Development Board (KIADB) land has been world with population in the range of 3000 taken over for setting up ICG Academy. animals in Assam, West Bengal and UP. Madhya Pradesh celebrates 4th day of Mr Javadekar stated Environment Ministry has ‘Gharib Kalyan Week’ as ‘Vanadhikar launched a National Conservation Diwas’: Strategy for Indian One-Horned Rhino. Gharib Kalyan Week is being organized from Indian Cricketer Suresh Raina to set up 16th to 23rd September to mark the Birthday cricket academy in Jammu and Kashmir: of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Madhya Former India cricketer Suresh Raina would Pradesh. On the fourth day of the week, set up a cricket academy in Jammu and ‘Vanadhikar Diwas’ was celebrated in the Kashmir to train aspiring cricketers, State. particularly youngsters from remote areas of Madhya Pradesh Government announces the union territory. Mukhya Mantri Kisan Kalyan Yojana to Lt Governor Manoj Sinha agreed to set up benefit farmers: five schools in Kashmir division and an Madhya Pradesh government has equal number in Jammu division to train announced ‘Mukhya Mantri Kisan Kalyan aspiring cricketers. Yojana’ on the lines of Pradhan Mantri

Government launched “YuWaah” a multi- Gambhir Singh Chauhan, Deputy Inspector stakeholder platform to make young General of Police (DIG), ITBP, and Prashant people career ready: Arya, Director of UTDB signed a Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports and memorandum of understanding. United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) SIDBI and CRIF India collaborate to have signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) introduce sector-based insight reports with Generation Unlimited (GenU), a global 'Industry Spotlight': multi-stakeholder platform in India, to Small Industries Development Bank of establish YuWaah to make young people India (SIDBI) has partnered with CRIF High career ready. This information was passed by Mark, a leading Indian credit bureau owned the Union Minister of State (IC) for Youth by CRIF, for the launch of sector-based Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju. insight reports called 'Industry Spotlight'. Maharashtra CM launches “e- Peek The first edition of the report will present a Pahani” app to reduce hardships of deep-dive analysis into the Indian Drugs farmers: and Pharmaceutical Industry. Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Rajasthan government approves Thackeray has stated that “e- Peek “Moksha Kalash Yojana 2020” free travel Pahani” mobile application of the State to Haridwar for ashes immersion: Government will reduce hardships of farmers Rajasthan roadways will now take and help them get the right price and good passengers going to Haridwar, for market for their produce. ''Peek pahani'' immersion of ashes of their deceased family roughly translates to crop survey. members in the Ganga river, free of cost ITBP Joins Hands With Uttarakhand Govt after chief minister Ashok Gehlot approved For Promoting Adventure Tourism At the ‘Moksha Kalash Yojana-2020’ to be Tehri Lake: run by the Rajasthan State Road Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Transport Corporation (RSRTC). Uttarakhand Tourism Development Indian Navy and Royal Australian Navy Board (UTDB) joined hands to promote Passage Exercise (PASSEX) underway in adventure sports activities at Tehri Lake. Eastern Indian Ocean:

PASSEX underway is held between Royal Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Australian Navy and Indian Navy in launched the “Mukhyamantrir Grammya Eastern Indian Ocean Region. Air Warfare Paribahan Achoni” and distributed vehicles Destroyer HMAS Hobart, Stealth Frigate INS under the scheme to beneficiaries at a Sahyadri and Missile Corvette INS Karmuk programme held at Assam Administrative are engaged in complex Maritime Staff College by transport department. Exercises. The scheme aims to improve rural IEA and NITI Aayog launch Special connectivity and generate employment in the Report on Sustainable Recovery Post: villages. In the first phase of the scheme, International Energy Agency (IEA) in 10,000 villages would be covered with alliance with NITI Aayog released Special financial outlay of Rs 100 crore. Report on Sustainable Recovery. Part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to IEA’s flagship World Energy Outlook series, inaugurate the summit ‘Responsible AI the report proposes a no. of actions that could for Social Empowerment 2020: be taken over the next 3 years to revitalize Ministry of Electronics and Information economies & boost employment. Technology (MeitY) and NITI Aayog will Government Increases limit for use of organize a Mega Virtual Summit on SDRF funds by states from 35 per cent to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Responsible AI 50 per cent to tackle COVID situation: for Social Empowerment 2020 (RAISE) from Prime Minister Narendra Modi has October 5-9, 2020. RAISE 2020 will be a announced that the limit of using the State global meeting of minds to exchange ideas Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for COVID and chart a course for using AI for social specific infrastructure has been increased transformation, inclusion and empowerment from 35 per cent to 50 per cent. It will help in areas like Healthcare, Agriculture, States have more finances at their disposal to Education and Smart Mobility, among fight the virus. other sectors. Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal launches 51st IFFI to be held from 16th to 24th “Mukhyamantrir Grammya Paribahan January 2021 in Goa: Achoni” to improve rural connectivity: The 51st Edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be held from

16th to 24th Jan, 2021 in Goa. Earlier it was Bharatiya Jana Sangh (forerunner of scheduled to be held from 20th to 28th Nov, Bharatiya Janata Party). 2020. The festival will be conducted in a PM Narendra Modi launches “Fit India Virtual and Physical format. Age Appropriate Fitness Protocols” on 'Saubhagya' scheme completes three first anniversary of 'Fit India Movement: years since its inception: Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar with fitness experts, citizens and influencers Yojana- “Saubhagya” was launched on the from across the country during a nation-wide 25th Sept, 2017 to ensure electrification of all online Fit India Dialogue on 24 September willing households in the country in rural as 2020, to mark the one-year anniversary of Fit well as urban areas. Scheme aims to achieve India Movement. PM Modi also launched the universal household electrification. ‘Fit India Age Appropriate Fitness Union Minister S Jaishankar attends Protocols’ during the event. Special Ministerial Meeting of Foreign Union HRD Minister Harsh Vardhan Ministers of CICA: chairs ‘Aarogya Manthan’ 2.0: Union Minister of External Affairs S Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Jaishankar participated in the Special chaired ‘Aarogya Manthan’ 2.0 celebrating Ministerial Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the its 2nd Anniversary of Ayushman Bharat ‘Conference on Interaction & Confidence Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (AB- Building Measures in Asia’ (CICA). CICA is PMJAY). He also presented awards to the an inter-governmental forum for enhancing winners of the AB-PMJAY Start-up Grand cooperation towards promoting peace, Challenge to support the implementation of security and stability in Asia. Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana. Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya 104th Birth Uttar Pradesh State government Anniversary 2020: introduce “U-Rise” portal to counsel Deendayal Upadhyaya was born on students in learning, career counselling September 25, 1916 in Mathura. He was a and employment: veteran politician and a social thinker. He Uttar Pradesh State government introduce started the weekly Panchjanya and the daily ‘U-Rise’ portal to counsel students in Swadesh. He was the co-founder of learning, career counselling and employment.

The State Government of Uttar Pradesh has up in East Midnapore by a German initiated a unified portal named ‘U-Rise’. company. This portal is launched by the State CM Yogi Adityanath in the capital city, Lucknow. The INTERNATIONAL NEWS: main aim for launching this portal is to guide Germany to issue 'Green Bonds' worth up students in learning, career counselling, and to $13B: getting employment in the state. German government plans to generate up to West Bengal Transport Corporation 11 billion euros for clean transportation and Introduces India’s First ‘Tram’ Library in renewable energy projects this year by Kolkata: issuing so-called “Green Bond”. Each green West Bengal Transport Corporation bond will mirror a regular debt issuance by (WBTC) introduced a tram library in the city's the German government, known as as iconic College street area. Tram Library is a "bunds". special tram with books & magazines that can India and Nepal to expand energy be read while travelling. In addition to books, cooperation, explore new pipeline: free Wifi will be provided to passengers to India and Nepal are exploring to see if state- read online. owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) could West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee look at another petroleum pipeline that runs Inaugurates Two Green Projects To Be into the northern and eastern parts of India. Built In Collaboration With EU Countries: Nepal is aiming to meet its rising fuel West Bengal chief minister Mamata demands by extending cooperation. Banerjee virtually inaugurated two major India, Vietnam Agree To Add "New green projects worth around Rs 1226 crore Momentum" To Economic and Defence to be built by European Union countries in Ties: Kolkata and East Midnapore district. India and Vietnam have agreed to add new One project involves waste management and momentum to their economic and defence sustainable development at the Kolkata engagement besides resolving to explore Leather Complex at Bantala in the eastern closer cooperation in sectors like civil nuclear outskirts of the city. The second is a solar energy and space. power project worth Rs 1200 crore to be set

The decisions were taken at a virtual meeting India co-sponsors UN security council of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on resolution on women peacekeepers: Trade, Economic, Scientific and India has co-sponsored a Security Council Technological Cooperation which was co- resolution that calls for full, effective & chaired by External Affairs Minister S meaningful participation of women personnel Jaishankar and his Vietnamese counterpart in peacekeeping operations which was put Pham Binh Minh. forth by Indonesia. India is one of the India Pavilion Inaugurated at Army- largest troop contributors to UN peacekeeping 2020 International Military and India is a non-permanent member of the Technical Forum In Russia: UNSC for a two-year term. The ARMY 2020 International Military and 14th India-Singapore Defence Policy Technical Forum has been organised in Dialogue (DPD) held with focus on Moscow, Russia from August 23 to 29, maritime security cooperation: 2020. The forum is being organised by the The 14th India-Singapore Defence Policy Russian Defence Ministry since 2015, at Dialogue (DPD) was held virtually to further the Patriot Park near Moscow. boost the defence and security partnership The India Pavilion at the 6th edition of the between the two countries, with a special International Military-Technical Forum was focus on the maritime sphere. inaugurated by Secretary (Defence The meeting was co-chaired by Defence Production) Raj Kumar and Indian Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar and Permanent Ambassador DB Venkatesh Verma. Secretary (Defence), Singapore Mr Chan World Health Organization declares Heng Kee. Africa free of polio: Togo is first African country to end World Health Organization has declared sleeping sickness as a public health Africa free of polio, a landmark in a decades- problem: long campaign to eradicate the notorious Togo has received validation from the World disease around the world. This was Health Organization (WHO) for having announced by WHO Regional Director of eliminated human African Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti. “Trypanosomiasis” or “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem,

becoming the first country in Africa to reach The UAE has launched Agriota (developed this milestone. with India’s CropData Technology) a new Sleeping sickness is caused by parasites technology-driven agri-commodity trading which are transmitted by infected tsetse flies and sourcing e-market platform that will and is only found in 36 countries in sub- bridge the gap between millions of rural Saharan Africa. farmers in India and the Gulf nation's food India withdraws from multilateral industry. It was launched by the Dubai Multi military exercise Kavkaz 2020 in Russia: Commodities Centre (DMCC). India has announced that it is withdrawing CSIR-CMERI develops world’s largest from multilateral Military Exercise Kavkaz solar tree creates models for wider use 2020 to be held in Russia. In view of in agri operations: Pandemic & consequent difficulties in World’s Largest Solar Tree has been exercise, including arrangements of logistics, developed by the CSIR-CMERI. The solar India has decided not to send a contingent. tree has been installed at the Residential Piyush Goyal Attends 8th East Asia Colony of CSIR-CMERI in Durgapur, West Summit Economic Ministers’ Meeting: Bengal. The solar tree has the annual 8th East Asia Summit Economic Ministers’ capacity to generate 12,000-14,000 units of Meeting was held virtually to strengthen the Clean and Green Power while its installed regional supply chains, become resilient capacity is above 11.5 kWp. during this challenging time of Covid-19 6th International Military-Technical pandemic, and to spur economic growth. Forum “Army-2020 held in Russia: The meeting was attended by the Economic 6th International Military-Technical Forum ministers from the 10 ASEAN (Association “Army-2020” was held at the Patriot Park of Southeast Asian Nations) members and near Moscow, Russia which was organized eight other nations, including India, the US, by Russian Defence Ministry and operated China, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Australia by International Congresses and and New Zealand. Exhibitions Ltd. (ICE Ltd). ‘Agriota’ e-market platform launched to During the forum, Indian Pavilion was bridge the gap between Indian farmers inaugurated by Secretary (Defence and UAE food industry: Production) Raj Kumar and Indian

Ambassador to Russia D.Bala Venkatesh This would pave the way for formal diplomatic Varma. and commercial ties and might inspire other India to receive development assistance Arab nations to follow suit in normalizing loan worth Rs 3,500 Cr from Japan to relations with the Jewish state. fight COVID-19: Indian Navy to hold mega exercise with Japan committed an official Development Russia near the Andaman and Nicobar Assistance loan of Rs 3,500 crore for the Islands: COVID-19 Crisis Emergency Response India and Russia will hold bilateral naval Support. The notes were exchanged between exercise INDRA 2020 in Andaman Sea, the Additional Secretary in DEA Dr C S close to strategic Strait of Malacca, while Mohapatra and ambassador of Japan to the Indian Navy is on high operational alert India Suzuki Satoshi. due to the standoff with China in Ladakh. 3 India, Australia and Japan to launch Russian Naval ships will take part in this. resilient supply chains for Indo-Pacific India to host summit of SCO council of Region: heads of government: India, Australia and Japan agreed to launch India will host a summit of the council of an initiative to ensure the resilience of supply heads of government of the SCO on chains in the Indo-Pacific, with the move November 30 with a focus on contributing to coming against the backdrop of tensions the trade and economic agenda of the created by China’s aggressive actions across influential grouping said by Ministry of the region. External Affairs (MEA). The creation of the “Supply Chain Eight-nation regional grouping that Resilience Initiative” was mooted by represents around 42 per cent of the world's Japan amid the Covid-19 crisis. population and 20 per cent of the global First ''historic'' direct flight between GDP. Israel and UAE lands in Abu Dhabi: China boasts world’s largest navy: A chartered El Al airliner carrying Israeli and US Department of defence has released its American diplomats landed in the United ‘2020 China Military Power Report’ Arab Emirates, completing a symbolic first showing that the People’s Republic of direct flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi. China has the largest navy in the world,

surpassing the US Navy. China was on course Indian Army has a requirement for around to expand its fleet to 360 vessels by the end 770,000 AK-47 203 rifles. The rifles will be of 2020. manufactured in India as part of IRRPL. Germany launches Indo-Pacific strategy India attends Senior Officials’ Meeting with ‘key role’ for India: (SOM) Meeting of BIMSTEC: Current EU president and Europe's biggest India participated in the Senior Officials’ economy Germany, has launched its Indo- Meeting (SOM) of the regional grouping Pacific strategy with India that is expected to BIMSTEC to discuss ways to further expand play a key role in Berlin’s outreach in the cooperation among its member nations to region where China’s aggressive foreign effectively deal with key challenges including policy has rattled countries. impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Berlin’s strategy also suggested opening The key meeting of BIMSTEC was held under dialogue with institutions where India plays a the chairmanship of Sri Lanka. key role Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi- Donald Trump announces Wilmington as Sectoral Technical and Economic first World War II Heritage City: Cooperation and Indian Ocean Rim US President Donald Trump announced Associations in the areas of business and Wilmington in southern US state North maritime safety, as well as disaster risk Carolina as the first World War II Heritage management. City at a ceremony held to mark the 75th India-Russia finalise AK-47 203 rifles anniversary of the end of World War II. manufacturing deal, will boost Make in Prahlad Singh Patel Represented India in India: 5th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting Defence Minister Rajnath Singh ongoing Held Virtually: visit, India and Russia have finalised a major The 5th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meeting deal for manufacturing AK-47 203 rifles in was held under the chairpersonship of India, Russia. The AK-47 203 is the latest and Russian Federation. India was represented most advanced version of the AK-47 rifle, by Union Minister of State (I/C) for Culture which will replace the Indian Small Arms and Tourism Shri Prahlad Singh Patel in the System (INSAS) 5.56x45 mm assault 5th BRICS Culture Ministers’ Meet. rifle.

Bangladesh to host FAO Asia-Pacific First World Solar Technology Summit of regional conference for first time in the International Solar Alliance (ISA) 2022: held Virtually: The member states agreed to the proposal of Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi Bangladesh to hold the next session in virtually inaugurated the first edition of the Dhaka at a virtual meeting after the 35th World Solar Technology Summit (WSTS) APRC of the Food and Agriculture of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Organisation, Agriculture Minister Abdur with focus on new Technologies and Razzaque said at a media briefing at Hotel Innovations in the field of Solar. Intercontinental. The World Solar Technology Summit “China, India, Bhutan, Iran, Timor-Leste, (WSTS) was organized by ISA and FICCI. Thailand, Philippines and Cambodia India is to achieve its ambitious target of directly supported and the other states having 100 GW of solar energy by 2022. agreed to the proposal to hold the 36th India, France, Australia hold first conference in Bangladesh. trilateral dialogue with focus on Indo- Eurasian Foundation organised Indo- Pacific Region: Russian Young Scholars International E- India, Australia and France held talks for Conference 2020: the first time under a trilateral framework Indo-Russian Young Scholars International with focus on enhancing cooperation in the E-Conference 2020 on “India-Russia domestic Indo-Pacific, a region that has been and bilateral developments” organized by witnessing increasing Chinese military Eurasian Foundation: India, Institute of assertiveness. Oriental Studies: Moscow, Russia and Russian The virtual meeting was co-chaired by foreign Centre for Science and Culture: New Delhi, secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, India on the eve of celebration of 20th year of secretary-general in French ministry for strategic partnership. 2020 Conference Europe and foreign affairs Fran ois Delattre "India-Russia domestic & bilateral and secretary in Australian department of developments" foreign affairs Frances Adamson.

Ministry of State V. Muraleedharan Technology giant Apple Inc. has announced attends 10th East Asia Summit Foreign that it is going to open it’s first ever Ministers’ Meeting: “Floating” store, in Singapore. The floating East Asia Summit is the premier forum in Apple Store will be located at Singapore’s the Asia-Pacific region to deal with issues posh Marina Bay Sands resort. It will be the relating to security and defence. Since its third retail store of Apple in Singapore. inception in 2005, it has played a significant India and Angola hold 1st joint role in the strategic, geopolitical and commission meet, agree to diversify economic evolution of East Asia. trade ties: U.S. spacecraft named after late Indian- India and Angola held the first Joint American astronaut Kalpana Chawla: Commission Meeting during which the two Northrop Grumman’s commercial cargo sides agreed to diversify their trade spacecraft, NG-14 Cygnus bound for the relationship and discussed cooperation in International Space Station has been named health, pharmaceuticals, defense, after fallen NASA astronaut Kalpana agriculture, food processing, digitization Chawla, the first India-born woman to enter and telecom. space, for her key contributions to human India and Japan sign key agreement for spaceflight. reciprocal supplies in defence sector: Child Mortality Rate in India declined India and Japan sign key agreement for substantially between 1990 and 2019; reciprocal supplies in defense sector. India UNICEF Report: and Japan, signed a landmark defence According to the new mortality estimates agreement for reciprocal provision of supplies released by UNICEF, India’s child mortality and services between their defence forces as rate has declined substantially between 1990 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his and 2019. Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held their The under-five mortality rate (deaths per annual summit over a phone. 1,000 live births) in India declined to 34% in The Acquisition and Cross Servicing 2019 from 126% in 1990. Agreement (ACSA) between Japan’s Self- Apple’s first ‘floating’ store to be Defense Forces and India’s armed forces was launched in Singapore: signed by Japanese ambassador Satoshi

Suzuki and defence secretary Ajay Kumar The two sides also exchanged views on in New Delhi. important regional and international India is yet to take urgent action for developments and discussed ways to eliminating trans fats: WHO report strengthen cooperation to fight the COVID-19 According to Countdown to 2023 report by pandemic, at an ASEAN-India virtual meeting. WHO 58 countries have introduced laws to It was co-chaired by External Affairs Minister protect 3.2 billion people from Trans fats by S Jaishankar and his Thailand counterpart the end of 2021. But more than 100 countries Don Pramudwinai. still need to take actions to remove these Liberia declares rape a national substances from their food supplies. WHO has emergency after spike in cases: set a goal of eliminating trans fats by 2023. Liberian President George Weah has ADB and ENGIE Sign Loan agreement to declared rape a national emergency and Support India’s Renewable Energy ordered new measures to tackle the problem Development after a recent spike of cases in the West Asian Development Bank and ENGIE African state. The nation would install a group signed a long-term loan of up to 4.66 special prosecutor for rape as well as set up a billion Indian rupees to construct and operate national sex offender registry. a 200-MW alternating current solar India beats China to become member of photovoltaic-based power plant at UN's Commission on Status of Women: Raghanesda Solar Park in India’s western India is elected as a member of UN’s state of Gujarat. Commission on Status of Women, a body of ASEAN-India virtual meeting reviews the Economic and Social Council maritime cooperation, adopts 5-year (ECOSOC). India, Afghanistan and China had plan to boost ties: contested the elections. This year is 25th India and the 10-nation ASEAN carried out anniversary of the famous Beijing World a comprehensive review of their strategic Conference on Women. India is to be a partnership in a range of areas, including member for four years from 2021 – 2025. maritime cooperation, and adopted a new India is second-fastest-growing five-year plan of action to further boost freelance market in the world: overall ties.

India is the second-fastest-growing Ministry and Ellen M. Lord from the US freelance market in the world with a massive Department of Defence. increase in the number of freelancers this India, Brazil, South Africa (IBSA) Jointly year, according to a report on ‘Freelancing call for comprehensive reform of UN in 2020: An Abundance of Opportunities’ Security Council: by Payoneer. External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar India joins Djibouti Code of Conduct to chaired the meeting of IBSA Foreign Minister. Enhances Indian Ocean outreach: IBSA emphasized the need for international India has joined the Djibouti Code of community to redouble efforts to achieve Conduct/ Jeddah Amendment, as tangible progress for accelerated & Observer, following the high level meeting of comprehensive reform of the UN Security the Djibouti Code of Conduct/ Jeddah Council. Amendment (DCOC/JA) held virtually New Zealand becomes first country to boosting its Indian Ocean Region mandate climate risk disclosures: outreach. New Zealand has become the first country 10th Indo-US Defence Technology and to pass legislation requiring financial firms to Trade Initiative (DTTI) Group Meeting declare their climate-related risks. New held virtually: Zealand minister for climate change James 10th Defence Technology and Trade Shaw, hailed the passage of the law as a step Initiative (DTTI) Group Meeting through towards a “cleaner, safer planet”. virtual platform held between India and Financial firms will now be expected to comply United States, in the wake of COVID with the framework laid down by the Task pandemic. Force on Climate-related Financial The DTTI Group Meetings are normally held Disclosures (TCFD). The rule will apply to twice a year, alternatively between India banks, insurers, all listed debt and equity and the United States, as a part of Indo-US issuers. Bilateral Defence Cooperation. The virtual Mexico issues world’s first sovereign meeting was co-chaired by Raj Kumar, bond linked to UN sustainable goals: Secretary of Defence Production, Defence Mexico has become the first country in the world to issue a Sovereign Bond linked to

the sustainable development goals set by the Maldives. The assistance is being routed United Nations. It has raised EUR 750 through SBI, Male for which sovereign million ($890 million) by such bonds. guarantee has been provided by Government The SDG bond will mature in September of India. Soft loan has a tenor of 10 years & 2027 and offers a yield to maturity rate of minimal interest rate. 1.603% and a coupon rate of 1.350%. 53rd Annual Meeting of Board of 56th edition of Indian Technical and Governors of ADB 2020 held virtually: Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Asian Development Bank (ADB) will hold Programme observed in Dhaka, the second stage of its 53rd annual meeting Bangladesh: as a virtual event on September 17–18. The 56th Indian Technical and Economic ADB and the Government of the Republic of Cooperation (ITEC) day was observed online Korea have agreed not to proceed with a by the High Commission of India in Dhaka, physical meeting in Incheon. Finance Bangladesh. The Indian Technical and Minister Nirmala Sitharaman represents Economic Cooperation (ITEC) Programme India. was instituted by a decision of the Indian First-ever Direct Cargo ferry service Cabinet in 1964. “MCP Linz” unveiled between India and Israel, UAE, and Bahrain sign Abraham Maldives: Accord: India and the Maldives have launched the Abraham Accord is the first Arab-Israeli first ever Direct Cargo Ferry Service to peace deal in 26 years. Egypt was the first boost trade between the two countries. The Arab State to sign a peace deal with Israel in cargo ferry service will connect the Indian 1979. Jordon signed a peace pact in 1994. ports of Tuticorin and Cochin ports with The agreement between Bahrain and Israel Kulhudhuhfushi and Male ports in the makes no mention of Palestinian land. Maldives. India Extends $250 Million In Financial Tel Aviv to become first city with electric Support To Maldives To Overcome roads that charge public buses: Impact Of Covid-19: The city of Tel Aviv is working on creating India has provided financial assistance of Wireless Electric Roads to charge and 250mn dollars as budgetary support to the power public transportation in the city. Aimed

at reducing air pollution, the electric road Israel's Start-Up National Central and does away with the need for recharging iCreate (India’s International Centre for stations. Entrepreneurship and Technology) inked a The roads will span from Tel Aviv University memorandum of understanding (MoU) for Railway station to Klatzkin Terminal in starting a programme to bring together Israeli Ramat Aviv, a route of about 1.2 miles. and Indian entrepreneurs as well as startups United Nations and Britain to co-host to collaborate on innovative projects. climate summit on 12th December 2020: India and United Kingdom sign MoU on United Nations and Britain will co-host a Water Partnership via video global climate summit on December 12, the conferencing: fifth anniversary of the landmark Paris India and the United Kingdom held a virtual Agreement. The summit is intended to Water Partnership meeting to discuss ways increase momentum ahead of the United to work together on issues pertaining to water Nations Climate Change Conference (COP conservation and building better water 26) to be held in Glasgow in November infrastructure. 2021. The programme was inaugurated by the India and Nepal begin joint security Indian High Commissioner to UK, Gaitri patrol along border in Kapilvastu, Nepal: Issar Kumar with the Ministry of Jal Shakti Security personnel of India and Nepal have Secretary UP Singh. started joint security patrol of the border World Economic Forum's Sustainable between the two countries in Nepal's Development Impact Summit held Kapilvastu district to check illegal Cross- virtually: Border Activities and control the spread of World Economic Forum’s fourth and first corona virus. fully virtual Sustainable Development The Krishnanagar Municipality of the Impact Summit 2020 was held under the Kapilvastu district is a major point of transit banner “Realizing a Great Reset for along the Nepal-India Border. Sustainable Development” to convene Israel's National Start-up and India’s 2100 leaders. The summit was based on the iCreate to collaborate for innovative five themes of Shared Prosperity, Catalysing projects:

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over the lifetime of the dogs from age 3 options on a single platform. It is designed for months to 10 years. businesses to easily collect payments through Axis Bank introduced ‘Liberty Savings various digital methods, thereby allowing Account’ for the Indian Youth: them to easily adapt to the changes in Axis Bank has introduced ‘Liberty Savings consumer spending. Account’ for the Indian Youth, to address the RBI Annual Report 2019-20: Economy To ever-changing lifestyle needs of young and Grow, Inflation To Ease: digitally interested Indians. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its It offers a complimentary hospital cash Annual Report for 2019-20. It is Report of insurance cover of up to Rs 20,000 per year, the Central Board of Directors on the working which covers hospital expenses incurred of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for the under COVID -19, which makes this a 1st of year ended June 30, 2020 submitted to the its kind savings account to cover the Central Government in terms of Section pandemic. 53(2) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 HDFC Bank partners with Adobe to In the report, RBI projected that India’s enhance digital customer experiences: growth at minus 4.5% for 2020-21. It will HDFC Bank announced a strategic be (-) 3.7% in the single hit scenario and (-) partnership with Adobe to enhance the digital 7.3% in the double hit scenario in FY 20-21. experience journey of its customers. Powered RBI announces special OMO worth of Rs by Adobe Experience Cloud solutions, this 20,000 crore in 2 tranches: partnership will enable HDFC Bank to deliver Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a personalised digital experiences to existing simultaneous purchase and sale of as well as new customers, at anytime and Government Securities (G-Secs) under anywhere. Open Market Operations (OMO) for an HSBC India Launched Omni Collect, a aggregate amount of Rs 20,000 crore in two One Stop Solution for multiple payment equal tranches of Rs 10,000 crore on August options: 27, 2020 and September 03, 2020 on account HSBC India has launched Omni Collect, a of current and evolving liquidity and market one-stop solution in India. It supports conditions. businesses to offer multiple payment

SBI integrates YONO Krishi with general economic situation & IESH aims to Government’s Online Seed Portal ICAR capture assessment on inflation IIHR: Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance & YONO (You Only Need One) Krishi Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank Entered platform has integrated with government’s into a Strategic Partnership to Offer Life online seed portal Indian Council of Insurance: Agriculture Research (ICAR) & Indian Tie up with the bank will provide an Institute of Horticulture Research (IIHR) opportunity & onus to create awareness in the to serve the agricultural needs of the farmers, rural market about the need of having life right from sowing till harvesting. insurance, health insurance and pension Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance launches plans. The distribution tie up is for selling ‘Smart Assist’, a real-time assistance Life insurance, health and pension service: products. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance, one of India’s State Bank of India gets global leading Indian private life insurers launched a recognition for HR initiative 'Nayi Disha': first-of-its-kind revolutionary technology State Bank of India to receive Brandon service in the insurance industry ‘Smart Human Capital Management (HCM) Assist’. The service will enable buyers to Excellence Award(also known as the Academy connect with the Company, through a secure Awards of Learning & Development) 2020 a screen sharing feature, to avail real-time global recognition for its HR initiative, “Nayi assistance on completion of their buy journey, Disha”. anywhere. SBI has won the award in The HCM Spring RBI launches surveys on consumer Program under ‘Excellence in Learning and confidence and inflation expectations: Development’ in 3 categories. RBI is conducting the Consumer India’s GDP contracts by 23.9% in Q1 of Confidence Survey and Inflation FY21: NSO data Expectations Survey of Households. CCS As per the official data released by the seeks "Qualitative Responses" from National Statistics Office (NSO), India’s households, regarding their sentiments on GDP has contracted by 23.9% in the first quarter (April-June 2020) for FY21.

This is the first instance of an economic Google Assistant as part of its customer contraction for India in at least four service initiative. This new option will enable decades. It is also the first GDP decline the policyholders to have their queries since India began publishing quarterly addressed by simple voice commands. numbers in 1996. Customers can use commands such as "Ok India’s real GDP may decline by 10.9% in Google, I want to speak to ICICI Prudential FY21; SBI Ecowrap: Life LiGo" or "May I talk to ICICI After a worse-than-expected 23.9 per cent Prudential Life LiGo". decline in GDP in the June quarter, the top Federal Bank & Innoviti Partnered to economist at State Bank of India expects a provide Affordable Options of Federal steeper decline in FY21. Bank Debit Cards by Innoviti POS Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Group Chief terminals: Economic Adviser, State Bank of India, now Federal Bank and Innoviti Payment expects FY21 real GDP growth to decline by Solutions announced today their partnership 10.9 per cent, compared to a previous to provide convenient and affordable options estimate of 6.8 per cent. of Federal Bank Debit Cards through IRDAI sets up panel to study index- Innoviti POS terminals. linked products for Life Insurance This partnership will offer convenient EMI Company: options to over 7.5 million Federal Bank IRDAI constituted a 6-member working Debit Card holders at over 70,000 Innoviti group headed by Dinesh Pant to examine POS terminals across 1000 cities. various aspects for allowing life insurance ICICI Bank launches ‘Home Utsav’, a companies to offer index-linked products. The virtual property exhibition: current regulations do not specifically permit ICICI Bank thas launched a virtual property insurers to sell index-linked products exhibition under the name ‘Home Utsav’. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance The exhibition will digitally showcase real introduces AI-powered voice chatbot estate projects by renowned developers, “LiGo” on Google Assistant: across India. The exhibition can be accessed ICICI Prudential Life Insurance launched by both customers and non-customers of an AI-powered voice chatbot, “LiGo” on ICICI Bank.

IRDAI allows insurance companies to RBL Bank has partnered with Empays use video-based KYC: Payment Systems to launch a cardless India’s Insurance regulator IRDAI is set to cash withdrawal facility from ATMs by soon allow insurance companies to use leveraging the Instant Money Transfer video-based authentication modes to vet (IMT) system. customer credentials for new onboardings. Customers can use RBL Bank’s MoBank app Insurers may use Video-Based Identification for this IMT function and initiate cash Process to enhance the ease of doing KYC. withdrawal by either using his or her mobile LazyPay introduces LazyUPI digital number linked to the account or by following credit cards in India: a few easy steps on the app. Indian online instant credit app LazyPay has RBI Releases Revised Priority Sector launched a digital credit card to offer easy Lending Guidelines: access to credit across online and offline Reserve Bank of India has reviewed the platforms. LazyUPI will help to provide easy priority sector guidelines to align it with access to credit across online and offline emerging national priorities and bring a platforms. LazyUPI is 1st digital credit card sharper focus on inclusive development. that is combined with UPI. Some new categories eligible for finance Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank ceased under the priority sector have been added to be a banking company: RBI like- Bank finance to start-ups (up to Rs 50 Reserve Bank of India has issued a crore). Loan limits for renewable energy notification to all banks stating that “Aditya have been increased (doubled). from Rs 15 Birla Idea Payments Bank Limited” has lakhs to Rs 30 lakhs ceased to be a banking company within the RBI constituted KV Kamath committee meaning of the Banking Regulation Act, names 26 sectors for restructuring: 1949. “Westpac Banking Corporation” RBI released the report a five-member also ceases to be a banking company as committee that the central bank formed announced by RBI. under the chairmanship of former ICICI RBL Bank launches cardless cash Bank CEO KV Kamath for recommending withdrawal facility through ATMs via parameters for loan restructuring. The MoBank app: committee made recommendations for 26

sectors that could be factored by lending (FY21) and now expects the GDP to contract institutions while finalizing loan resolution 10.5 percent. plans. The downward revision comes after India’s Mahindra Insurance Brokers launches GDP shrank by 23.9% year-on-year in the digital insurance portal PayBima: April-June quarter, the worst performance in Mahindra Insurance Brokers (MIBL) has nearly four decades. launched a digital insurance portal, India GDP to contract 11.8 growth to “PayBima” to help customers directly buy rebound to 9.9 in FY22; India Ratings insurance policies online providing end-to- Domestic rating agency India Ratings and end services. Customers will be able to buy Research revised downward the country's car, two-wheeler, health and life insurance FY21 GDP growth forecast to (-) 11.8 per products. cent, lowest in Indian history, from an earlier Bank of India launches ‘Signature Visa estimate of (-) 5.3 per cent. The rating Debit Card’ for High Net Worth agency also expects India’s GDP to rebound Individuals: and grow at 9.9% year-on-year in FY22 Bank of India (BoI) launched “Signature primarily due to the weak base of FY21. Visa Debit Card” for the affluent/high net The Indian economy contracted by a record worth individuals maintaining an average 23.9% in 1st (April-June) quarter of FY21, quarterly balance of Rs.10 lakhs and above. which is much higher than Ind-Ra’s forecast BOI virtually inaugurated new buildings of of 17.0%. Rural Self Employment Training FM Nirmala Sitharaman Launches Institutes (RSETI) at Barabanki, Doorstep Banking Services For Public Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) and Giridih Sector Banks and EASE 2.0 Index results: (Jharkhand). Public sector banks will now provide Fitch Ratings Projects Indian economy to Doorstep Banking Service that will bring contract 10.5% in FY21: convenience of banking services to the US-based Fitch Ratings Global Economic customers at their homes through the Outlook (GEO) has sharply lowered the universal touch points of the call centre, web forecast for the gross domestic product (GDP) portal or mobile app. growth of India for the current fiscal 2020-21

BoB, SBI and erstwhile Oriental Bank of Benefit Fund - Investment Plan last week. It Commerce were felicitated for being the top is an open-ended equity-oriented fund for three in the Top Performing Banks. Bank of investment for goals related to your child. Maharashtra, Central Bank of India & According to the fund house, SBI Magnum erstwhile Corporation Bank were awarded in Children's Benefit Fund- Investment Plan is the Top Improvers category basis EASE 2.0 suitable for child aged 1 to 14 years. Index. Goldman Sachs predicts India’s GDP for SBI Modernizes its Payment Switching FY21 at -14.8%: System with ACI Worldwide Technology: Goldman Sachs has predicted India’s GDP ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of for FY21 at -14.8%. For Calendar Year 2020 real-time Digital Payment software and it has projected a contraction of 11.1%. For solutions, has modernized payments FY22, Goldman Sachs predicts India’s GDP to infrastructure for ATM and point-of-sale (POS) grow at 15.7% and for Calendar Year 2021 at State Bank of India, India’s largest bank at 9.9%. with more than 440 million account holders. Mastercard launches Central Bank Digital SBI to launch loan product ‘SAFAL’ for Currencies (CBDCs) testing platform: organic cotton growers: Mastercard has launched a Digital SBI managing director C S Setty has Currency testing platform aimed at helping announced that State Bank of India will central banks test their digital currencies. The launch a loan product, SAFAL, for organic system will also demonstrate how consumers cotton growers who don’t have any credit can use central bank digital currencies to pay history. It stands for Safe and Fast for goods and services wherever Mastercard Agriculture Loan (SAFAL). SBI will use is accepted worldwide. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine ICICI Bank launches iStartup 2.0, Learning (ML) for this purpose. dedicated offering for start-ups: SBI Mutual Fund Launched SBI Magnum ICICI Bank has launched iStartup 2.0, for Children’s Benefit Fund (Investment start-ups with improved features. Under this, Plan) : ICICI customers to get a current account in SBI Mutual Fund has launched the New Fund three variants that will offer additional Offer (NFO) of SBI Magnum Children's

services, salary accounts for employees, now authorised to build and do forex business dedicated relationship manager, etc., under the brand name RapiMoney. iStartup 2.0 is a startup bank account (in form RIL becomes first Indian company to of current account) that can be opened within cross $200 billion in market valuation: 10 years of date of incorporation of the The market valuation of Reliance Industries business. (RIL) hit another milestone by becoming the ICICI Prudential Life signs corporate first Indian firm to cross $ 200 billion. agency pact with NSDL Payments Bank: Apple Inc is the world's most-valued company Private Life Insurer ICICI Prudential Life with a market value of $2 trillion followed by Insurance entered into a corporate agency Saudi Aramco at $1.9 trillion. agreement with NSDL Payments Bank, a RBI issues guidelines for appointment of subsidiary of NSDL. Under this, the insurer Chief Compliance Officer in banks: will provide its protection and savings RBI has issued guidelines for the products to customers of NSDL Payments appointment of Chief Compliance Officer Bank. (CCO) in banks to ensure a uniform approach CRISIL projects India’s GDP for FY21 at - with regard to compliance and risk 9%; For FY22 at 10%: management culture across the banking CRISIL has projected India’s GDP rate for industry. A person should be a senior 2020-21 (FY21) at -9% For FY22, Crisil has executive of the bank. projected India’s GDP to grow at 10%. Tenor for the appointment of CCO is minimum For the next three years, between fiscals 2023 fixed tenure of not less than 3 years. Age is and 2025, CRISIL projects the Indian GDP to not more than 55 years. average a growth of 6.2% annually. Union Cabinet gives approval to increase Capital India Finance gets forex business FDI limit from 49% to 74%: licence from RBI: The new policy raising the cap of foreign Capital India Finance Ltd (CIFL) received direct investment through automatic approval Authorised Dealer Category II licence from in the defence sector from 49 per cent to 74 RBI for conducting forex business, the first per cent now has a ‘National Security’ listed NBFC in India to receive a licence. It is clause as a condition.

The government has been focusing on the Securities and Exchange Board of India defence sector to act as an engine for tweaked the categorisation rules for multi-cap boosting manufacturing in the country, and is funds increasing the minimum equity aiming to achieve a turnover of Rs 1.75 lakh investment. Multi cap funds to invest crore, including exports worth Rs 35,000 minimum 75% of total assets in equities with crore, by 2025. 25% each in large-cap, midcap & small-cap Moody’s forecasts India’s GDP at -11.5% companies. for FY21 and 10.6% for FY22: CARE Ratings projects India’s GDP to Ratings agency Moody’s has projected the contact between 8 and 8.2% in FY21: GDP growth rate for India to contract 11.5 Domestic rating agency CARE Ratings said percent in the fiscal 2020-21 (FY21) due to the country's economy is likely to see a the coronavirus pandemic. For 2021-22 sharper contraction of 8-8.2 per cent in the (FY22), Moody’s projected the economy of current financial year 2020-21 (FY21) India to grow at 10.6 percent. compared to a decline of 6.4 per cent it had PNB launches festival offer ‘Festival projected earlier. The forecast for GVA growth Bonanza Offer’ waives processing in FY21 is -7.7%. charges on some loans: ICICI Lombard announces State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) bancassurance tie-up with Yes Bank: launched ‘Festival Bonanza Offer’ for its India's leading private sector non-life customers to give a push to subdued loan insurance company ICICI Lombard General demand due to the COVID-19 crisis. Insurance Company Limited has entered Under the ‘Festival Bonanza Offer’, the bank into a Bancassurance tie-up with Yes Bank. will waive all upfront or processing fees and The partnership will provide the Bank's documentation charges on some of its major diverse customer base access to the retail products like housing loans and car insurer's portfolio and make insurance loans. more accessible to its customers across India. SEBI issues clarification on asset S&P Global Ratings Projects India’s GDP allocation framework for multi-cap at -9% in FY21 & 6% in FY22: Mutual Funds: S&P Global Ratings has projected the GDP of India to contract by 9% in the fiscal year

2020-21 (FY21), as against its previous will be offered to YES BANK’s customers estimate of a 5% contraction, due to the across 28 states and 8 Union Territories. impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. For the Indian economy to shrink by 9% in FY21; FY-22 (2021-22), S&P expects GDP growth Asian Development Bank: of 6%. For the FY-23 (2022-23), GDP is According to ADB’s Asian Development projected at 6.2%. Outlook (ADO) 2020 Update, India's RBI directs banks to complete economy is expected to contract by 9% this automation of NPA recognition, year worse than the 4% contraction it had provisioning calculation by June 2021: forecast three months ago. However, it Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked banks expects India to bounce back with 8% growth to complete the automation of bad-loan FY22. recognition and provisioning calculation OECD projects India’s GDP at -10.2% in processes by 30 June, 2021. The system- FY21 & 10.7% in FY22, Global GDP at - based asset classification will improve 4.5% in 2020: efficiency and transparency and will enable Organisation for Economic Cooperation the participants (investors, depositors, and Development (OECD) expects the regulators, etc.) to have enhanced Indian economy to contract by 10.2% in confidence over controls and reporting in this FY21 (2020-21) as compared to its previous critical area. estimate of 16.7% in June. India’s gross SBI General Insurance signs corporate domestic product (GDP) to grow at 10.7 % agency agreement with YES BANK to For FY22 (2021-22), make non-life insurance solutions OECD expects the global GDP at -4.5% in accessible to customers: 2020, which is an upward revision from its SBI General Insurance Company and Yes previous estimate of -6%. Bank signed a Corporate Agency India's GDP to contract by 8.6% in FY21; Agreement for the distribution of retail UBS Securities: products of SBI General Insurance Company Swiss brokerage UBS Securities said it for its corporate and retail customers. The forecasts a GDP contraction of 8.6 per cent products of SBI General Insurance Company (Earlier it was -5.8%) in FY21 as against its earlier prediction of 5.8 per cent, citing factors

including the “modest” government response State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest to the crisis for its estimate. UBS Securities public sector lender, and Titan Company projects India’s GDP to grow by 10% for have partnered to launch contactless FY22. payment services through watches, called Lok Sabha Passes Bill To Bring “Titan Pay”. With this SBI account holders Cooperative Banks Under RBI can tap their Titan Pay watch on contactless Supervision: payment POS machine without swiping or Lok Sabha passed an amendment to the inserting SBI bank card. Banking Regulation Act to bring SBM Bank India Partners With cooperative banks under the supervision of Mastercard To Debut ‘Premium’ Debit the RBI. Card: The Banking Regulation (Amendment) Mumbai-based lender SBM Bank India and Bill, 2020 replaces an ordinance that was Mastercard have introduced a Premium issued on June 26. It will bring 1,482 urban Debit Card for high-net-worth customers. and 58 multi-state cooperative banks The SBM World Debit Card will club niche under the supervision of the central bank. The banking solutions and carefully curated amendments do not apply to Primary lifestyle privileges including some of the Agricultural Credit Society (PACS). finest shopping and dining opportunities. State Bank Of India Extends OTP-Based RBI issues draft Rupee interest rate ATM Withdrawal Facility: derivatives (IRDs) : To safeguard customers from frauds and to RBI proposed allowing Foreign Portfolio minimize unauthorised transactions OTP- Investors (FPIS) to undertake exchange- based withdrawals of Rs. 10,000 and traded rupee interest rate derivatives above will be available 24x7 at SBI’s ATMs transactions subject to an overall ceiling of with effect from September 18. SBI which Rs.5,000 crores. IRDs are contracts whose introduced this for 12 hours on Jan 1 is value is derived from one or more interest extended now. rates. SBI Partners with Titan to launch India’s ICICI Home Finance launched “Apna first contactless payment watch “Titan Ghar Dreamz” Home Loan Scheme: Pay”:

ICICI Home Finance launched “Apna Ghar Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) Dreamz”, its new home loan scheme for has launched a special gold loan scheme skilled laborers like electricians, mechanics, “Vikas Laghu Suvarna” with a reduced painters, grocery store owners etc in the interest rate of 7.25%. The rate has been informal sector of Delhi. The credit amount of reduced considering the pandemic and also to this loan ranges from Rs 2 lakh to 50 lakhs. provide easy and affordable credit to DBS Bank India Unveiled Online Loan customers at a cheaper cost. Platform ‘DBS Digital Business Loans for IDFC Mutual Fund launches ‘SIP in Fixed SMEs’: Income’ marketing campaign: DBS Bank India launched an online platform IDFC Mutual Fund has began a brand new “DBS Digital Business Loans” for making marketing campaign known as “SIP in Fixed loans available to small and mid size Income (SIFI) ” to make traders extra privy businesses in a hassle-free manner, with to the advantages of investing in fastened credit facility up to Rs.20 crore. The platform earnings merchandise by way of Systematic is enabled to auto-generate an e-offer letter Investment Plans. According to the fund if the lending criteria are met. home, most individuals sometimes affiliate Canara Bank launches i-Lead 2.0 SIPs with fairness mutual fund Initiative to improve Customer services: investments. Canara Bank has launched a Lead HDFC Bank ranked as India's most Management System (LMS) named as i- valued brand for 5th year in a row; Lead 2.0(Inspiring Leads System version BrandZ report: 2.0). HDFC Bank was ranked as India’s top brand Customers can use internet banking, mobile for the seventh consecutive year in a row banking, call centre, SMS and missed call in the 2020 BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable services to enquire and get services rendered Indian Brands rankings. It has a total brand to them. They can also use CANDI mobile app value of more than $20.2 billion. LIC is of Canara Bank. ranked second while Tata Consulting KVGB launches special gold loan scheme Services has been ranked at no.3. “Vikas Laghu Suvarna” for pandemic:

SBI starts “Mahila Atmanirbharshil It will enable users to safely transact with Aachani” (Women Self-Reliance their cards and use Tap-to-pay feature on programme) in Assam: Near-Field Communication (NFC) -enabled State Bank of India has launched a Point Of Sale (POS) terminals and online programme named “Mahila merchants. Atmanirbharshil Aachani” (meaning- Finance ministry expects India’s nominal Women Self-Reliance programme) in order to GDP to grow 19% in FY22: accelerate Self Help Group (SHG) finance in India’s economy is likely to bounce back to the Bank. grow by as much as 19% in nominal terms in The main objectives of “Mahila FY22, albeit on a low base, as per, chief Atmanirbharshil Aachani” are to create a economic advisor Krishnamurthy strong bonding with the SHG member. Subramanian in the finance ministry. SBI Life Insurance and YES Bank sign Kazakhstan Financial Regulator Cancels bancassurance Agreement: Licence of PNB Subsidiary: State Bank of India (SBI) Life Insurance State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) signed a bancassurance agreement with YES stated the financial regulator of Kazakhstan Bank to provide a range of insurance has revoked licence of its associate for failure solutions to the customers of YES Bank across to meet prudential standards and other the nation. YES Bank aims to provide mandatory norms. PNB holds 41.64 per cent financial security to its customers and in JSC Tengri Bank, the bank stated in a reduce the protection gap in india. regulatory filing. JSC Tengri Bank has nine SBI Card collaborates with Google to branches in Kazakhstan. enable cardholders to make payments SEBI constitutes technical committee on “Tap-to-pay” through Google Pay: social stock exchange under the SBI Credit Cards to make card payments chairmanship of Harsh Kumar Bhanwala: using the Google Pay app on their Android SEBI has set-up a technical committee on the smartphones, SBI Card (legally- SBI Cards Social Stock Exchange (SSE) to develop a and Payment Services Limited) has framework for onboarding Profit and Non- collaborated with Google. Profit organisations on such bourses and prescribe disclosure requirements relating to

financials and governance. The technical stated at the 25th AGM of the Association of group would be chaired by NABARD former Mutual Funds in India (AMFI). chairman Harsh Kumar Bhanwala. BOB Financial Solutions Limited partners HDFC Life enters into partnership with Signzy to unveil its ‘Video KYC’: YES Bank to sell insurance policies: BOB Financial Solutions Ltd (BFSL) has HDFC Life and YES Bank Limited entered selected RegTech firm Signzy, to digitize its into a Corporate Agency (CA) arrangement. customer verification through ‘Video KYC’. It It will enable customers of YES Bank to avail will enable BFSL a quick, zero-contact & HDFC Life's wide range of life insurance paperless KYC that omits the requisite for products, which include solutions for physical submission of documents. protection, savings and investment, Bajaj Finserv Launched “Bajaj Finserv retirement and critical illness. Health Ltd (BFHL) ”, Health Tech India’s GDP is forecast to contract 5.9% Solutions Business: in 2020 and recover to 3.9% in 2021; Pune based Bajaj Finserv has recently UNCTAD: announced the launch of its fully owned United Nations Conference on Trade and subsidiary Bajaj Finserv Health Limited Development (UNCTAD) has predicted that (BFHL), a health-tech solutions business, the GDP of India will contract by 5.9% in the aimed at improving the health outcomes of year 2020. For the year 2021, UNCTAD Indian consumers through smarter, projects the Indian economy to grow by connected and holistic care plans. 3.9%. The projection was made in its Trade This new venture will offer “Aarogya Care” and Development Report 2020. an industry-first product, providing SEBI to set up ‘Backstop Entity’ to buy preventive, personalised, prepaid Health MFs’ illiquid corporate bonds: Care Packages. SEBI plans to set up a ‘Backstop Entity’ to IDFC First Bank to launch contactless buy Illiquid Investment-Grade Corporate debit card payment facility “SafePay”: Bonds from mutual funds in a bid to reduce IDFC First Bank will launch a contactless the stress in debt schemes. A backstop will debit card-based payment facility, ensure that a part of the offering is purchased “SafePay”. It will allow transactions up to Rs if it goes unsold. SEBI Chairman Ajay Tyagi 20,000 per day. Per transaction limit will be

Rs 2000 under this payment facility of ACQUISITIONS AND MERGERS: SafePay. It will allow payments by simply APEDA signs MoUs with AFC India waving one's smartphone against a Near Limited and NCUI of India: Field Communication (NFC) -enabled PoS Agricultural and Processed Food Products terminal. Export Development Authority (APEDA) has RBI suggests five-pillared approach signed MoUs with AFC India Limited, and 'GUARD' to deal with cybersecurity National Cooperative Union of India issues in UCBs: (NCUI), Delhi to synergize the activities in Reserve Bank brings five-pillared strategic the interest of agriculture and allied sectors. approach 'GUARD' to deal with cybersecurity TVS Automobile Solutions and Google tie threats being faced by Urban Cooperative up to digitise auto aftermarket: Banks (UCBs). It comprises Gov. Oversight, TVS Automobile Solutions Ltd has selected Utile Tech. Investment, Appropriate Google Cloud as its technology partner to Regulation & Supervision, Robust build its Digital Transformation Strategy. Collaboration & Developing necessary IT, The initiative would be seen as an accelerator & cybersecurity skills set. in digitizing the global aftermarket landscape. The RBI said in its document 'Technology The industry has over 40K retailers. Vision for Cyber Security for Urban Cognizant to acquire Tin Roof Software Cooperative Banks 2020-2023' that the to expand digital engineering services: number, frequency and impact of cyber The acquisition is expected to expand incidents and attacks have increased manifold Cognizant’s software product engineering in the recent past, more so in the case of the footprint in the U.S.& connect Tin Roof’s financial sector, including UCBs. experts with Cognizant’s broader global software development capabilities. Transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2020. Mahindra and Israeli firm REE Automotive Sign an MoU To Co-Develop Electric Commercial Vehicles:

Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has inked a Center) e-Governance Services India pact with Tel Aviv-based REE Automotive Limited. The partnership aims to enable to explore the production of electric delivery of UMANG services to citizens commercial vehicles. The aim is to explore the through the network of 3.75 lakh CSCs. development and manufacturing of electric ISRO Signs MoU with VSSUT to Set up commercial vehicles for global markets. First of Its Kind Innovation cum Greenko Signs MoU With NTPC to Explore Incubation Centre to Promote Space Renewable Energy and Storage Research: Solutions: Indian Space Research Organisation Energy solutions provider Greenko Energies (ISRO) signed a Memorandum of has announced that it has entered into an Understanding (MoU) with Veer Surendra agreement with NTPC to explore energy Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), storage and Renewable Energy (RE) power Burla, Odisha, a technical institute, to set up supply solutions. The company has signed a the first of its kind innovation cum incubation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with centre, VSSUT Space Innovation NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, a wholly- Centre(VSSSIC) in India to promote space owned subsidiary of NTPC. research. CCI approves Carlyle Group's stake UTIITSL ties up with National Health acquisition in Airtel's data centre biz: Authority to provide print services for Competition Commission of India (CCI) PMJAY e-cards: has approved acquisition of compulsorily UTI Infrastructure Technology And convertible preference shares and equity Services Limited will be providing printing shares in Airtel's data centre business, Nxtra services & support the beneficiary Data, by Carlyle Group's Comfort Investments identification and verification process in the II. issuance of e-cards to beneficiaries of AB PM- NeGD signs MoU with CSC E-Governance JAY scheme. It will also provide the services Services India Limited: of printing of e-cards through its branches. National e-Governance Division (NeGD), Ericsson and UNICEF in partnership to Ministry of Electronics & IT (MeitY) has map school Internet connectivity in 35 partnered with CSC (Common Service countries:

Swedish telecom company Ericsson and the signed an agreement with Russian state- United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) owned companies, Lomonosov Moscow announced a global partnership Wednesday State University and Russoft, to build the to help map school Internet connectivity in 35 world’s largest and fastest hybrid quantum countries by the end of 2023. computer in India. Mapping the Internet connectivity Quantum Computing is several million landscape for schools and their surrounding times faster than the largest supercomputer communities is a critical first step toward in India, and once operational it will make providing every child with access to digital existing supercomputers obsolete. learning opportunities, said UNICEF in a press Reliance buys Kishore Biyani’s Future release. retail for Rs 24,713 crore: Innoviti partners with Visa to develop Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL), installments platform for face-to-face subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited will transactions: buy Kishore Biyani’s Future retail for Rs Innoviti had entered a partnership with 24,713 crore. Visa, the leader in payments technology to The first step in this acquisition will be the develop a platform that will enable issuers to merger of five Future Group’s listed entities extend credit to their cardholders at Face- including Future Retail, Future Lifestyle and To-Face point-of-sale (In India). Future Consumer – into Future It provides shoppers the ability to choose how Enterprises (FEL). they pay during the purchase with the Vedanta ties up with SBI for long-term introduction of a suite of platform capabilities syndicated loan of Rs 10,000 crore: leveraging Innoviti’s uniPAY Next platform Vedanta tied up with State Bank of India and Visa’s APIs. for long-term syndicated loan facility worth IIT Alumni Council partners with Russia Rs 10,000 crore. A syndicated loan is to build world’s largest & fastest hybrid offered by a group of lenders who work quantum computer: together to provide credit to a large borrower. With the objective to achieve the mission of SBI has committed Rs 5000 crores as a Atma Nirbhar Bharat, the Indian Institute lender. of Technology’s (IITs) Alumni Council has

Adani Group buys 74% stake in Mumbai The Government of India has recently International Airport: launched a scheme for the development of Adani Group has acquired 74% stake in three bulk drugs and four medical device Mumbai International Airport Limited parks with grants-in-aid to states with a (MIAL) that operates Mumbai Airport. maximum limit of Rs 1,000 crore. Mumbai Airport is the second largest airport Infosys to acquire US-based firm in India. Kaleidoscope for $42 million: Under this, Adani Group will acquire 50.5% Infosys has announced that it would acquire stake of GVK group. Additionally, Adani will product design and development firm, also acquire 23.5% stake of minority partners Kaleidoscope Innovation for up to $42 Airport Company of South Africa (ACSA) million. Kaleidoscope is a US-based firm and Bidvest. and would bring to Infosys a diverse talent Tata Power and Tata Motors collaborate pool with extensive knowledge of design and to set up India’s largest solar carport: engineering. The solar carport set up by signing Power WhatsApp partners with Cyber Peace Purchase Agreement (PPA) will have a Foundation to drive cyber safety capacity of 6.2 MWp and is expected to help awareness: the automaker cut down 1.6 lakh ton of Facebook-owned WhatsApp has partnered carbon emissions in its lifetime. It is expected Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF) to create to generate 96 lakh units per year. awareness on cyber safety among students. Andhra Pradesh Industrial The partners aim to reach about 15,000 Infrastructure Corporation ltd signs MoU students in five Indian states Delhi, Madhya with CSIR-IICT to establish a bulk drug Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and park: Maharashtra by the end of this year under CSIR-IICT is the knowledge partner and will the first phase of a pan-India programme, offer needed technical backing to make the IIT Roorkee inks MoU with NIUA for proposal which will be submitted by the collaboration in building accessible, safe Andhra Pradesh government to the and inclusive Indian cities: Department of Pharmaceuticals to seek The National Institute of Urban Affairs financial assistance from the Centre. (NIUA) has signed an MoU with IIT Roorkee

for collaboration in areas of universal design resources for digital skills that are in principles and inclusive development in the demand. backdrop of ‘Building Accessible Safe According to LinkedIn data, Indian Inclusive Indian Cities’ (BASIIC) professionals with digital skills were 20 per program. cent more in demand than professionals SREI Equipment Finance bags €10-m without digital skills in 2020. loan from KfW IPEX-Bank: STEPapp Partnered with Tribal Affairs SREI Equipment Finance has bagged a Ministry to implement gamified learning €10-million (about 87 crore) loan from KfW app across all tribal schools: IPEX-Bank to facilitate German exports to Student Talent Enhancement Program India. The financing is backed by cover from Application (STEPapp) has received a Euler Hermes. mandate from the Indian Ministry of Tribal Through this arrangement, KfW IPEX-Bank Affairs to implement its gamified learning will provide modern and energy-efficient app across all tribal schools in the country. construction machinery for use in Indian This is the first time a government institution infrastructure projects. has tied up with an Indian EdTech startup Atal Innovation Mission partners with on a monetised project. This initiative will Freshworks to empower AIM start-ups: benefit more than 1.5 lakh students from To provide robust support to innovators and grades 1 to 12 across the country entrepreneurs, Atal Innovation Mission of immediately and will expand the scope NITI Aayog has partnered with Freshworks TCS partners with TPT South Africa for to increase the efficacy of the institutions and pioneering Logistics Supply Chain start-ups in the AIM portfolio and foster Transformation: innovation among innovators. IT major, Tata Consultancy Services NSDC and Linkedin Partner To Accelerate (TCS), has partnered with Transnet Port Digital Skills Training For Youth: Terminals (TPT) in South Africa to help the National Skill Development Corporation latter develop an integrated online (NSDC) and LinkedIn announced a marketplace platform by bringing together partnership to provide access to free learning cargo owners, shipping lines, clearing and forwarding agents, and road haulers.

International Solar Alliance Signs MoUs Secure Travel' an insurance policy to With NTPC, MNRE And World Bank: consumers who book airline travel through Ministry of New and Renewable Energy SpiceJet's website and mobile site. along with World Bank will design the plan The sum insured in the event of a ticket for implementing ‘One Solar One World cancellation is Rs. 5000/-. The premium for and One Grid’; NTPC will implement the a single passenger on a single flight booking solar projects in 47 ISA member countries will vary anywhere between INR 399/- for Silver Lake to invest Rs 7,500 crore in bookings made in advance of a minimum of 7 Reliance Retail: days to INR 643/- for a maximum of 30-90 Silver Lake Partners has picked up 1.75 per days. cent stake in the retail arm of Reliance IIT Roorkee inks MoU with OUAT for Industries for Rs 7,500 crore. This cooperation in agricultural research and investment values RRVL at a pre-money education: equity value of Rs 4.21 lakh crore. Silver IIT- Roorkee has signed MoU with Odisha Lake’s investment will translate into a 1.75 University of Agriculture & Technology per cent equity stake in RRVL on a fully (OUAT) to generate frontier technologies and diluted basis. produce quality manpower in the field of WE HUB and NutriHub partner to Scale- agricultural research & education for resolving up Agriculture Businesses: the challenges faced by the rural India’s first state-led incubator WE HUB to communities. foster and promote women entrepreneurship HCL Technologies joins NVIDIA partner to start-up, scale-up and accelerate with network will pursue opportunities in AI global market access, announced its space: partnership with NutriHub, first of its kind HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global incubator to cater start-ups needs in the technology company announced it has joined Nutricereals sector. NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN), the US- Liberty General Insurance Partners with based technology company’s partner SpiceJet to Offer Travel Insurance: program, with plans to pursue expanded Liberty and India's leading airline SpiceJet opportunities in the Artificial Intelligence have partnered together to offer 'Liberty (AI) space.

Microsoft and Nasscom FutureSkills advisory, consulting, implementations, launch AI classroom series to prepare training and support. India's AI workforce by 2021: HCL and Google Cloud Expand Microsoft joined hands with Nasscom Partnership to Deliver Accelerated FutureSkills to launch a nation-wide Business Intelligence Platform: initiative that aims to skill 10 lakh students in HCL and Google Cloud partnered to bring Artificial Intelligence by 2021. Partnership HCL’s Actian portfolio starting with Actian is an ext. of Microsoft's global skilling initiative Avalanche to Google Cloud. Actian Avalanche to help 25 mn people to acquire new digital is a high-performance hybrid cloud data skills. warehouse designed to power an enterprise’s International Financial Services Centre most demanding operational analytics Authority Inks Mou With India Gold workloads Policy Centre Of IIM Ahmedabad: BHEL ties up with SwissRapide AG to International Financial Services Centre bring Maglev trains to India: Authority (IFSCA) and India Gold Policy State-run engineering firm BHEL announced Centre (IGPC) – IIM Ahmedabad signed a its tie up with SwissRapide AG to bring Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Maglev trains (magnetic levitation) to India. IFSCA, GIFT City Gandhinagar, Gujarat for Aimed at expanding its footprint in the urban providing consulting to facilitate the transportation sector as part of its establishment of International Bullion diversification initiatives, BHEL has entered Exchange in India. into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Infosys to acquire Europe-based with SwissRapide AG for Maglev Train GuideVision for €30 million: projects in India. IT major Infosys has signed a definitive WhatsApp partners with Common agreement to acquire European consultancy Services Center to deliver Digital Literacy firm GuideVision for up to Euro 30 million Services via Chatbot: (approximately $35 million). GuideVision is WhatsApp announced that it has partnered one of the largest Service Now Elite Partners with Common Services Centers (CSC). in Europe, specialized in offering strategic With this partnership, the Facebook-owned platform launched a chatbot that will enable

citizens to receive digital literacy services and mobile communications announced that resources. It also aims to “bridge the digital India's fifth largest tech services provider divide and spur rural entrepreneurship”. will be a preferred partner for global go-to- Volvo Car India Partnered With HDFC market opportunities for the Rakuten Bank To Launch Volvo Car Financial Communications Platform (RCP). Services: Competition Commission of India Volvo Car India has introduced Volvo Car approves merger of Medlife with Financial Services in collaboration with PharmEasy: HDFC Bank to enable buyers to receive easy Competition Commission of India has finance for a Volvo car of their choice. Loans approved the proposed merger of e-pharmacy can be availed for upto 7 years. There is also companies Medlife and PharmEasy, the an option to finance insurance, extended country’s fair-trade regulator. This comes a warranty, service package and accessories. month after Medlife made a formal filing to NITI Aayog and Indian School of Public merge with the Temasek-backed company. Policy join hands for capacity building: PharmEasy was set to acquire 100% equity Development Monitoring and Evaluation shares of Medlife. Office (DMEO) of the Aayog has signed a statement of intent with the ISPP to build SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: collaboration for faster intermediation of Indian Satellite AstroSat Detects knowledge and use within the public system. Extreme UV Light Coming from Galaxy To provide training, mentoring and other 9.3 Billion Light-years Away: activities to strengthen the knowledge, AstroSat, India's first multi-wavelength ability, skills of Government Officials and satellite, has detected an extreme public policy scholars. Ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy which is Tech Mahindra partners with Japan's 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, the Rakuten Communications Platform to Inter-University Centre for Astronomy bring Rakuten Communications and Astrophysics (IUCAA). Platform: A release from the Pune-based Inter- Tech Mahindra and Rakuten Mobile, Inc., University Centre for Astronomy and a Rakuten Group company responsible for Astrophysics said a global team led by

IUCAA scientists has achieved the major Railway Division at Ahmedabad Railway breakthrough. Station, Gujarat. The machine is a first of its IIT Madras and Stuttgart University kind across the Indian Railways. develop method to dispose pharma The recently launched machine aims to waste: ensure safe travel amid the pandemic. It uses Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ultraviolet Radiation for 360 degree Madras along with German researchers have sanitization of the luggage. developed ‘Co-Composting’ methods that Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals can be used to safely dispose of toxic Ltd & Serum Institute of India join hands pharmaceutical wastewater and sludge. for Covid-19 vaccine: Their method converts the waste into The two entities have announced that BPL will compost of high quality and within just 20 be investing with SII, for the development of days. the Covid-19 vaccine less than 10 days after Researchers from Andhra University find Foreign Secretary’s visit to Dhaka. The BPL rare fish ‘Mahseer’ in Sileru river: will be the exclusive distributor of SII for this A team of researchers from the Department vaccine in Bangladesh. of Zoology, Andhra University has spotted IIT Bombay students launch AI-powered a species of rare fish called Mahseer document scanning app: (scientific name Tor) on 24 August 2020, from AIR Scanner app does not collect any the upper part of Sileru river, in Andhra information about the user and all the Pradesh. documents are stored in the phone's local This species of fish is listed under the storage. Any cloud storage to store the endangered category by IUCN documents of the users has not been used. (International Union for Conservation of The app guarantees complete user security. Nature). CISF launches 'Pension Corner' app for Ahmedabad Railway Division launches its retired personnel: Baggage Sanitization & Wrapping With the help of this new digital initiative, machine: pensioners will get connected to the Central Baggage Sanitization & Wrapping machine Industrial Security Force (CISF) units has been launched by the Ahmedabad spread across the country, and receive

invitations, over SMS, on important occasions This light weight device can be used at home, in the nearest unit. in an ambulance, on hilly terrain like army IIT Guwahati collaborates with base camps, hospitals, and portable university in Czech Republic for data applications like wheelchairs and gurneys, protection project: according to the airlines. A team of researchers from Indian Institute SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites, of Technology Guwahati, in collaboration inches closer to faster internet: with scientists from the University of Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully sent 60 Pardubice, Czech Republic, is working Starlink internet satellites aboard the Falcon towards developing indigenous algorithms 9. The satellites are meant to provide that can protect the Nation’s digital data from ‘Cheaper And Faster’ internet to cyber-attacks by advanced computers. inaccessible areas. The satellites in its initial IIT Delhi incubated startup launches tests had provided over 100 Mbps speeds. ‘Chakr DeCoV’ to decontaminate N95 China Launched Reusable Experimental masks; Atmanirbhar Bharat: Spacecraft on a Long March-2F Carrier IIT Delhi has Designed in the shape of a Rocket: cabinet ‘Chakr DeCoV’ is built with an China’s experimental reusable spacecraft innovative decontamination mechanism, landed safely after orbiting the Earth for two which utilises the high penetrability of Ozone days. It was launched with a Long March-2F gas for cleaning the pores of the N95 mask, rocket from the Jiuquan satellite centre. ensuring complete decontamination of its Details of the craft remain secret but it may intricate layers. act like the US X-37B spaceplane. SpiceJet launches portable ventilator DRDO successfully flight tests SpiceOxy for patients with breathing Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator issues: Vehicle (HSTDV) : SpiceJet introduced a portable ventilator for A product of the Defence Research and patients ‘SpiceOxy’, the compact ventilator Development Organisation (DRDO), the was designed by engineers of SpiceJet vehicle supposedly utilizes air-breathing Technic, a subsidiary of SpiceJet. scramjet technology to propel it to hypersonic speeds. The cruise vehicle

attained 6 times the speed of sound. India Chandrayaan-3 launch likely to take has now joined a group of nations including place in early 2021: Jitendra Singh the US, Russia & China that have Minister of State for the Department of demonstrated hypersonic technology. Space Jitendra Singh stated that WIHG Developed a Neural-Based Chandrayaan-3, India’s mission to Moon, Practical Approach for Automatic would be launched in early 2021. Singh Interpretation of 3D Seismic Data: added that Chandrayaan-3 will be different In order to accelerate the analytical process, from Chandrayaan-2 as the former will not scientists from the Wadia Institute of have an orbiter, but will include a lander and Himalayan Geology (WIHG), an a rover. autonomous Institute under the IIT Guwahati in Collaboration with Department of Science & Technology, Workspace Metal Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Govt. of India, have developed a neural- Develops a First-of-its-kind Self-Check based (machine learning-based) practical Kiosk: approach for automatic interpretation of 3D Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati seismic data. in collaboration with Workspace Metal Dell Technologies and NITI Aayog’s AIM Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Udaipur, has developed Launches “SheCodes Innovation a first-of-its-kind self-check kiosk. The small Challenge”, Aimed at Championing Girl- structure helps by streamlining the flow of Led Innovation: people through the kiosk. Dell Technologies in association with NITI The Kiosk only takes about 30 seconds to Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) check whether the person safe to enter the launches ‘SheCodes Innovation premises or not. Challenge’, aimed to encourage girls to SCTIMST Develops Low-cost Indigenous create, tinker, sustain and innovate. Device For Preventing Blood Clot In Deep This collaboration has proved to be useful for Vein: students and educators alike, for that has Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical enabled them to work with state-of-the-art Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum technologies, systems and software. (SCTIMST), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, has

developed an indigenous low-cost device for partnered to develop vaccines for COVID-19. the prevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis Aurobindo is already developing a vaccine (DVT). The device by the SCTIMST costs less through its wholly-owned US subsidiary Auro than 1 Lakh. Vaccines. IPFT Develops 'Disinfectant Sprays' To Delhi Metro Launched India’s 1st Prevent Microbial Infections And To Indigenous Signalling Technology ‘i-ATS’ Decontaminate Vegetables, Fruits: under Make in India: Institute of Pesticide Formulation Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has Technology (IPFT) an autonomous taken a major step towards the development Institution under the Department of of an indigenously built signalling technology Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Ministry of for metro trains in line with the government’s Chemicals & Fertilizers has successfully flagship ‘Make in India’ initiative. i- developed two new technologies namely ATS(Automatic Train Supervision) is an “Disinfectant spray for surface important sub-system of the signalling application” and “Disinfectant spray for system. Vegetables & fruits”. Byju’s launches ‘Education for All’ to China successfully launches nine empower 5 mn children by 2025: satellites into orbit from ship stationed in Bengaluru based edtech company Byju’s the Yellow Sea: has launched a social initiative ‘Education China successfully launched a solid- for All’. Objective: To empower 5 million propellant carrier rocket from a ship in the children from underserved communities by Yellow Sea, sending nine satellites into orbit 2025. in the second such sea-based launch mission. Through ‘Education for All’, millions of The Long March 11-HY2, the 10th member children from underserved and economically of the Long March 11 family blasted off. deprived communities will get equal access to CSIR Collaborates With Aurobindo quality learning opportunities. Pharma To Develop COVID-19 Vaccines: IIT Kharagpur researchers develop AI- Council of Scientific and Industrial based system to detect arsenic pollution: Research - Centre for Cellular & Molecular Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have Biology & Aurobindo Pharma Limited developed an artificial intelligence-based

prediction model for detecting arsenic Abhyas High-speed Expendable Aerial pollution in drinking water. Target (HEAT) in Balasore. This is the The researchers have mapped the high and second time that the target vehicle was flight- low arsenic zones across the entire Gangetic tested successfully. The first successful test delta using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and was in May 2019. the number of people exposed. ‘Kritagya’ Hackathon Launched by Drug Controller Approves Commercial National Agricultural Higher Education Launch Of Low Cost Covid Test "Feluda": Project of ICAR: Drugs Controller General of India has Indian Council of Agricultural Research approved the commercial launch of (ICAR) under the National Agricultural "Feluda", the Tata CRISPR (Clustered Higher Education Project (NAHEP) has Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic launched a hackathon named “KRITAGYA”. Repeats) COVID-19 test, the Council of The aim is to promote potential technology Scientific and Industrial Research solutions to enhance farm mechanization with (CSIR). special emphasis on women-friendly IIIT-Bhubaneswar Students Make equipment. Ventilation Device “Swasner” To Ease IIT Madras develops AI model to process Mild Breathing Issues Among COVID-19 text in 11 Indian languages: Patients: The Indian Institute of Technology IIIT Bhubaneswar students developed a Madras (IIT-M) faculty and AI4Bharat have new low-cost device to aid COVID-19 developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) patients. They have designed a hyperbaric models and datasets to process texts in 11 chamber, first of its kind ventilation device to Indian languages. ease breathing. Device ‘Swasner’ to let According to IIT-Madras researchers and patients breathe more conveniently. AI4Bharat released AI models and datasets DRDO conducts second successful flight- for the following languages: Tamil, Hindi, test of missile target vehicle ABHYAS: Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Defence Research and Development Bengali, Odia, Assamese, Gujarati, and Organisation (DRDO) conducted successful Marathi. flight-tests of the indigenously designed

DRDO Successfully Test Fires Laser Middle Income Countries) to build Guided Anti Tank Missile From MBT capacities for Covid-19 vaccine trials. Arjun: Department of Biotechnology has initiated the Defence Research and Development first phase of the training program in Organisation (DRDO) successfully test fired partnership with Ministry of External the Laser-Guided Anti Tank Guided Affairs, Government of India. Missile (ATGM) from MBT Arjun at KK Kineco flags off India’s first commercial Ranges, Armoured Corps Centre and indigenously manufactured Sonar Dome School (ACC&S) Ahmednagar. It is for Indian Navy Warships: developed with multiple-platform launch Goa based Kineco Limited, one of India’s capability & is currently undergoing technical leading composite technology provider for evaluation trials. defence, aerospace, railway and NASA outlines $28 billion plan to land the industrial sectors, flagged off India’s first first woman on the Moon by 2024: ever commercial Sonar Dome, at the hands of NASA has formally outlined its $28 billion State Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. (£22bn) plan to return to the Moon as part of The Sonar Dome is a critical component of a a programme called “ARTEMIS”, NASA will warship as it houses the Sonar (Sonar send a man and a Woman to the lunar Navigation and Ranging) Array – which is surface in the first landing with humans since used for detection, navigation, and ranging. 1972. Indian Railways extends pact with IIT- Department of Biotechnology launches Kanpur to facilitate research on railway Programme for “Strengthening Clinical modernization: Trial Research Capacity in Neighbouring IIT-Kanpur signed a MoU with Indian Countries”: Railways for research on railway Department of Biotechnology has launched infrastructure modernisation. MoU will the programme for “Strengthening Clinical facilitate research in the core areas of Trial Research Capacity in Neighbouring electrical locomotive, comm. systems, Countries”. The programme will help traction installation, etc. through the Centre neighbouring countries, and LMICs (Lowand for Railway Research.

Indigenously Developed Prithvi-II appointed on its board. Prasad is a 1993- Missile Successfully Test Fired from batch Indian Audit and Accounts Service Chandipur, Odisha: officer, Coal India Ltd (CIL). India conducted a successful night testfire of Indian Energy Exchange MD & CEO Rajiv its indigenously developed nuclear capable Srivastava resigns: surface-to-surface Prithvi-II missile as part Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), Managing of a user trial by the Army from a base in Director and Chief Executive Officer, Rajiv Odisha. The state-of-the-art missile was Srivastava has resigned from the post. The testfired from the Integrated Test Range Board of Directors of Indian Energy (ITR) at Chandipur near here in darkness Exchange (IEX) accepted his resignation. and the trial was successful in meeting all the He was relieved from his position with parameters immediate effect from 24th August 2020. Vinay Tonse appointed as MD and CEO of APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS: SBI Mutual Fund: DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy gets two- Vinay Tonse has been appointed as the year extension till August 2022: managing director and chief executive officer Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has of SBI Mutual Fund (MF). He has replaced approved the extension of the tenure of Ashwani Bhatia, who has been now renowned scientist G Satheesh Reddy as the appointed as the managing director (MD) of Chairman of Defence Research and State Bank of India. Development Organisation (DRDO), and DRDO sets up 5-member committee to as the Secretary of the Department of overhaul its labs to meet future defence Defence Research & Development for a period needs: of two years. He was appointed as the chief in DRDO constituted a 5-member committee, August 2018 for two years. headed by the IIT-Delhi director professor V. Yatinder Prasad appointed on Coal India Ramagopal Rao to overhaul its 52 board: laboratories for current and future defence State-owned Coal India said Yatinder and battlefield needs. This is the 2nd attempt Prasad, joint secretary and financial advisor being made in recent years to overhaul the with the Ministry of Coal, has been DRDO.

Former IOC Chairman Sanjiv Singh joins Japan's longest-serving PM and a Reliance as Group President: champion of economic reforms Shinzo Former Indian Oil Corp (IOC) chairman Abe resigns for health reasons: Sanjiv Singh has joined Reliance Industries Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has announced his Ltd as Group President for billionaire Mukesh resignation for health reasons. The 65-year- Ambani-run firm's oil-to-chemicals business. old has suffered for many years from He will lead and drive the Group ulcerative colitis. Last year, he became manufacturing services (GMS) Japan's longest serving prime minister. organisation. His current period in office began in 2012. His TikTok Chief Executive Officer Kevin aggressive economic policy is known as Mayer resigns: "Abenomics". TikTok Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kevin Mustapha Adib set to be become Mayer has decided to give resignation from Lebanon's new Prime Minister: the post. he left the company within a period Lebanon's Ambassador to Germany, of three months. U.S. General Manager Mustapha Adib is set to become the Vanessa Pappas is going to take place of country's next Prime Minister. Adib was Kevin Mayer as interim CEO. named by four former Lebanon Prime Banks Board Bureau recommends Dinesh Ministers as their choice for the post. His Khara as next SBI chairman: designation will come on the eve of French Banks Board Bureau recommended Dinesh President Emmanuel Macron's second trip Kumar Khara for the post of chairman of the to Lebanon in under a month. State Bank of India (SBI). The board Retired IAS Officer Utpal Kumar Singh further said that Challa Sreenivasulu Setty Appointed Secretary In Lok Sabha: will be in the reserve list for vacancy. Dinesh Retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Kumar Khara and Challa Sreenivasulu Setty officer Utpal Kumar Singh has been are both managing directors of SBI. appointed as Secretary in Lok Sabha with effect from September 1. The appointment was approved by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. Utpal Kumar Singh was earlier the chief secretary of Uttarakhand.

Myntra appoints Kiara Advani as brand Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes ambassador: (CBDT) for a period of six months. The E-commerce website Myntra has appointed CBDT is headed by a chairman and can have Kiara Advani as its brand ambassador. a maximum of six members. It frames policy Actress Kiara Advani will be the brand for the Income-Tax Department. ambassador and nationwide celebrity Hemant Khatri takes over as CMD of endorser for Myntra. Hindustan Shipyard: Tamil Nadu Appoints India’s First-ever Hemant Khatri succeeds Rear Admiral L V Woman Ambulance Driver: Sarat Babu (Retd) and assumed charge as M Veeralakshmi was appointed driver of one the Chairman and Managing of the newly launched ‘108’ ambulances in director(CMD) of Hindustan Shipyard Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu has appointed limited(HSL), Visakhapatnam, Andhra India’s first-ever woman ambulance driver Pradesh, is a Miniratna public sector under a new initiative by CM Palaniswami. undertaking (PSU) of the Ministry of Defence. Aveek Sarkar elected new Chairman of Previously he was serving as the Director of Press Trust of India: Strategic Projects HSL. Aveek Sarkar has been elected as the M V Raja Sekhar takes charge as Director Chairman of the Press Trust of India. He (R&D) of Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) : replaces Vijay Kumar Chopra, Chief Editor M V Raja Sekhar took charge as Director of the Punjab Kesari Group of newspapers. (R&D) of Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Aveek Sarkar is the Vice Chairman of the Electronics Ltd. He was a Chief Scientist of Ananda Bazar Group of Publications. He was BELs Central Research Laboratory-Bangalore also the founding Managing Director of & Officer on Special Duty at BELs corporate Penguin India. office. He joined BELs Ghaziabad Unit in 1985. Central Board of Direct Taxes Chairman Charu Sinha becomes first woman IG to Pramod Chandra Mody Gets 6-Month lead CRPF in Kashmir: Extension: IPS officer Charu Sinha has become the first Appointments Committee of the Cabinet woman commander to head the Central (ACC) has approved extension in the re- Reserve Police Force formation in Kashmir. appointment of Pramod Chandra Mody as She is appointed as the IG of CRPF’s Srinagar

sector that oversees the deployment of the Gas. He succeeds D Rajkumar who paramilitary forces’ battalions in Srinagar. superannuated after attaining 60 years on Vice Admiral S R Sarma assumes charge August 31, 2020. as Chief of Materiel of the Indian Navy: Bureaucrat Kshatrapati Shivaji Vice Admiral SR Sarma assumed charge as appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Chief of Materiel of the Indian Navy. In Statistics and Programme recognition of his distinguished services, the Implementation: Admiral was awarded Ati Vishisht Seva Government of India appointed Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal. He is also Kshatrapati Shivaji, a 1986-batch a recipient of Lt VK Jain Gold Medal in 1994. Maharashtra cadre IAS officer as the Usha Padhee becomes 1st woman DG of secretary in the Ministry of Statistics and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security: Programme Implementation. Secretary at this Joint secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, ministry is by design, known as the chief Usha Padhee has been given additional statistician of India. charge as Director-General of the Bureau of India Trade Promotion Organisation CMD Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). She is the L C Goyal gets one-year extension till Sep first woman and third IAS officer to have been 1, 2021: appointed to the post. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet The central deputation tenure of Usha is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi scheduled to end on 16th July 2022. She has approved one-year extension in tenure of succeeds Rakesh Asthana (IPS) who was L C Goyal as the Chairman and Managing appointed as the Director-General of Border Director of India Trade Promotion Security Force (BSF). Organisation (ITPO). K Padmakar takes additional charge as The 1979 batch Kerala cadre IAS (retired) BPCL CMD as D Rajkumar retires: Goyal will continue in the post from K Padmakar, Director of Bharat Petroleum September 1, 2020 till September 1, 2021. Corporation Limited (BPCL) has been given Former Australian Cricket Icon Matthew additional charge as Chairman and Managing Hayden As A Trade Envoy To India: Director (CMD) of BPCL until further orders by Australian government appoints former the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden as a

trade envoy for broadening business ties with Manjula Rangarajan has been appointed India along with Lisa Singh, an Indian-origin Member, Finance. Australian politician and former Victoria S Krishnan becomes new MD & CEO of premier Ted Baillieu. Punjab & Sind Bank: Australia-India Council plays a vital role in Appointments Committee of the Cabinet developing business relationships and (ACC) has approved the appointment of S broadening Australia’s foreign and Economic Krishnan as the Managing Director and Chief Policies with India. Executive Officer of Punjab & Sind Bank. He Murali Ramakrishnan appointed as MD will replace S Harishankar. and CEO of South Indian Bank: Dwayne Bravo becomes first cricket Murali Ramakrishnan will take over as the ambassador for “SBOTOP” sportsbook new Managing Director & CEO of Kerala- brand: based South India Bank. He retired from West Indies cricketer Dwayne Bravo has ICICI Bank as Senior General Manager at been chosen as an ambassador for Strategic Project Group. He will succeed “SBOTOP” sportsbook brand. due to this, he incumbent VG Mathew. becomes the first cricketer. Isle of Man ACC approves appointment of VK Yadav betting group Celton Manx has made an as Railway Board's first ever Chairman announcement for his appointment for its and CEO: flagship sportsbook. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has Bajaj Allianz Life ropes in Ayushmann approved the appointment of the current Khurrana as brand ambassador: chairman of the Railway Board VK Yadav as Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company the CEO, making him the first to hold such a Limited has appointed bollywood actor post in the railway's history. Ayushmann Khurrana as its brand Pradeep Kumar has been appointed ambassador. As the brand ambassador of the Member, Infrastructure, PC Sharma has life insurer, actor will be promoting the been appointed Member, Traction and Rolling products as well as the digital services of the Stock, PS Mishara has been made Member, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited. Operations and Business Development and Justice Arun Kumar Mishra retires from Supreme Court:

Justice Arun Kumar Mishra, who took over Dr Rajiv B. Lall has decided to take as a Supreme Court judge back in the year resignation from the post of Part-Time Non- 2014, retires from the apex court. He recently Executive Chairman of IDFC First Bank due delivered key judgments including granting to prolonged personal health issues. 10-year time to telecom firms like Vodafone Lall was the founder MD and CEO of the IDFC Idea, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices for Bank since October 2015, he ceased to be paying the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) the MD and CEO after the bank got merged dues to the Department of with Capital First in December 2018. Telecommunications (DoT). Manisha Kapoor appointed as ASCI's Maruti Suzuki India MD & CEO Kenichi secretary-general: Ayukawa appointed as SIAM President: Advertising Standards Council of India Society of Indian Automobile has named Manisha Kapoor as its new Manufacturers (SIAM) elected Maruti secretary-general. Her mandate includes the Suzuki India Managing Director and Chief consumer complaints redressal process as Executive Officer Kenichi Ayukawa as its well as marketing, public relations and social new President. media initiatives. Kenichi Ayukawa, who has been the MD and She has been part of ASCI's Consumer CEO of the country's largest carmaker since Complaints Council (CCC) for the past five 2013, succeeds Rajan Wadhera. Ayukawa years. She will take over from Shweta was earlier the Vice President of SIAM. Purandare. Dr Neena Malhotra named India’s next SEBI’s Manoj Kumar joins GIFT City’s envoy to Italy: regulatory body: Diplomat Dr Neena Malhotra has been Manoj Kumar, Chief General Manager at appointed as the next Ambassador of India SEBI, has moved to Gujarat International to Italy, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Finance Tech (GIFT) City. He has joined as stated. Malhotra is a 1992-batch Indian an Executive Director (ED) with the Foreign Service (IFS) officer and is International Finance Services Centres presently Additional Secretary in the ministry. Authority (IFSCA), which regulates GIFT City Rajiv Lall resigns as IDFC First Bank non- institutions and exchange trading. executive chairman:

Raj Srivastava appointed as India’s Justice R F Nariman appointed as Ambassador to Republic of Croatia: chairperson of Supreme Court Legal Raj Kumar Srivastava has been appointed Services Committee: as the next Ambassador of India to the Central Authority nominated Justice R F Republic of Croatia. He is an IFS officer of Nariman as the chairperson of Supreme 1997 batch and is presently serving as the Court Legal Services Committee. SCLSC is Deputy Chief of Mission in the Embassy of constituted for implementing legal services India, Tokyo. programme insofar as it relates to the ITC appoints Supratim Dutta as new CFO: Supreme Court. He will replace Justice Arun Diversified conglomerate ITC has appointed Mishra. Supratim Dutta Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Vinkesh Gulati Appointed As Fada's 35th as part of its organizational restructuring. He President For The Year 2020-22: would be replacing Rajiv Tandon. Rajnikant Federation of Automobile Dealers Rai has been made the chief executive of Associations (FADA), the apex national body agri-business. of Automobile Retail in India has announced WHO Appoints Former Health Secretary the appointment of Vinkesh Gulati as Preeti Sudan To Its Panel For Pandemic FADA's 35th President for the year 2020-22. Preparedness: He is also the first President from Uttar World Health Organisation’s independent Pradesh. panel for pandemic response has appointed Vinkesh Gulati took over the new role from India’s former health secretary Preeti Sudan Ashish Harsharaj Kale, who presided on the as one of its 11 panellists from across the body for the last two years. world. However, the decision by the panel’s R Masakui Appointed As Next High head, former New Zealand PM Helen Clarke Commissioner Of India To Jamaica: and former Liberia President Ellen Johnson Diplomat R Masakui has been appointed as Sirleaf, received a subdued response from the next High Commissioner of India to India. Jamaica. Masakui is presently Ambassador of India to the Republic of Zimbabwe. He has also served as Director in the Ministry of External Affairs.

Cricketers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and of global consumer banking since 2019, will Smriti Mandhana roped in as Playerzpot join the board of directors immediately. brand ambassadors: Actor Paresh Rawal appointed Fantasy sports gaming platform Playerzpot chairperson of National School of Drama: announced ace cricketers Bhuvneshwar Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel Kumar and Smriti Mandhana as its brand said that actor Paresh Rawal has been ambassadors. The partnership will see the appointed the chairperson of the National cricketers in the brand’s upcoming campaigns School of Drama. Rawal replaces veteran and promote Playerzpot through engagement theatre artist Amal Allana as the chairperson activities. of the esteemed institution. Anil Jain becomes new President of All World's 2nd largest miner's CEO Jean India Tennis Association: Sébastien Jacques quits after All India Tennis Association (AITA) has destruction of 46,000-yr-old caves: elected Anil Jain as its new president, while Jean Sébastien Jacques, CEO of world's Anil Dhupar was chosen as its secretary- 2nd largest mining firm Rio Tinto, has general. India’s Davis Cup captain Rohit resigned after criticism over the decision to Rajpal was elected as the treasurer for a four- legally blow up two 46,000-year-old year term till 2024. Aboriginal rock shelters in Australia. It All the office-bearers, as well as the new enabled Rio to access $135 mn of high-grade executive committee members, were elected iron ore. unopposed. Anil Jain will replace Praveen Subhash Kamath elected as chairman of Mahajan as AITA president. Dhupar will Advertising Standards Council of India replace Hironmoy Chatterjee. (ASCI) : Citigroup names Jane Fraser to succeed Subhash Kamath, chief executive at Michael Corbat as CEO: advertising agency BBH & Publicis Worldwide, Citigroup named Jane Fraser as its next India, has been unanimously elected chief executive tapping a woman to lead a chairman of the board of governors of the giant Wall Street bank for the first time. Advertising Standards Council of India Fraser, who has served as president and CEO (ASCI). Kamath, who was serving as ASCI

vice-chairman, will replace Rohit Gupta, Haryana IAS officer Rajesh Khullar president, Sony Pictures Networks. appointed executive director of World NS Rajan, managing director at public Bank: relations firm Ketchum Sampark P. Ltd. was Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Manohar elected vice-chairman and Shashidhar Lal Khattar and Senior Haryana IAS officer Sinha, chief executive; Mediabrands India Rajesh Khullar has been appointed Pvt. Ltd was reappointed as honorary executive director of the World Bank in treasurer. Washington DC for three years. As executive UNICEF India and Indian youth icon director, Khullar will represent India, Ayushmann Khurrana join hands to Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka in the advocate for Child Rights: World Bank. UNICEF India announced popular Indian film Sameer Kumar Khare appointed actor and thought-leader, Ayushmann Executive Director at Asian Development Khurrana, as its celebrity advocate for Bank: promoting rights #ForEveryChild. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet Ayushmann Khurrana will support UNICEF (ACC) has approved the appointment of towards its work around ending violence Sameer Kumar Khare as new Executive against children. Director of Asian Development Bank Yoshihide Suga elected as Prime Minister (ADB), Manila. Khare is a 1989-batch Indian of Japan, to succeed PM Shinzo Abe: Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Assam Yoshihide Suga has been elected leader of cadre. He is currently serving as Additional Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party Secretary in the Department of Economic (LDP), paving the way for him to become the Affairs under Ministry of Finance. country's next prime minister. Suga won Harivansh Narayan Singh re-elected as internal vote to pick a successor to Prime Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha: Minister Shinzo Abe, who announced in NDA candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh August that he would step down due to health has been re-elected as the Deputy problems. Suga is currently the chief Chairman of Rajya Sabha. This would be Cabinet secretary of Abe's government. Harivansh’s second innings as the Deputy Chairman of the Upper House. Deputy

Chairman presides over the proceedings in assistant. Amitabh Bachchan is the first the absence of the chairman. Harivansh will Indian celebrity to lend his voice to Alexa. be the 12th Deputy Chairman of Rajya Alexa users will be able to access Amitabh Sabha. Bachchan’s voice on Alexa by purchasing the Paytm First Games announces Sachin Amitabh Bachchan voice experience. Tendulkar as brand ambassador: Asian Development Bank appoints Takeo India's homegrown digital financial service Konishi as Country Director for India: platform Paytm announced that its Asian Development Bank (ADB) has subsidiary Paytm First Games ( PFG) has appointed Takeo Konishi as its new Country roped in global sporting legend Sachin Director for India. Konishi will replace Tendulkar as the brand ambassador. The Kenichi Yokoyama who has taken over as firm in partnership with Tendulkar will Director-General of ADB’s South Asia increase its reach in smaller cities and Department. India is the fourth-largest towns. shareholder of ADB and has been its largest Virat Kohli roped in as Brand borrower since 2010. Ambassador by EdTech major Great Facebook India appoints Arun Srinivas as Learning: Director of Global Business Group: One of India’s leading Edtech companies for Facebook India appoints Arun Srinivas as professional and higher education, Great Director of Global Business Group. Facebook Learning announced the appointment of announced the appointment of Arun Srinivas Virat Kohli, as its brand ambassador. The as the Director of Global Business Group. captain of the Indian cricket team and the Srinivas will spearhead the strategy and world’s No.1 batsman, who also topped a delivery of the India Marketing Solutions recent ranking of India’s most powerful which aims to tap large advertisers and celebrities, will now be the face of the Great agencies. Learning brand. Indian Cricketer Suresh Raina appointed Amazon signs Amitabh Bachchan for its as brand ambassador of online poker Alexa voice assistant: platform 9stacks: Amazon.com Inc has signed up Bollywood Online poker platform 9stacks has signed actor Amitabh Bachchan for its Alexa voice Suresh Raina as its brand ambassador. A

left-handed batsman and a spin bowler, Raina Simanchala Dash Appointed As Advisor will anchor the brand and help in creating a To IMF Executive Director: higher brand recall amongst the key target Appointments Committee of Cabinet has audience. He announced retirement from approved the proposal to appoint the International Cricket last month. Simanchala Dash as an advisor to Executive Bandhan Bank appoints Kumar Ashish to Director, International Monetary Fund head Emerging Entrepreneurs Business (IMF), in Washington. He has been vertical: appointed for a period of three years. Kumar Ashish has been appointed as the Former RAW chief Anil Dhasmana head of Emerging Entrepreneurs Business appointed as new chief of National (EEB). He is a former executive of ICICI Technical Research Organisation: Bank. Bandhan Bank has launched a new Former Research and Analysis Wing vertical named “Emerging Entrepreneurs (R&AW) chief Anil Dhasmana appointed as Business (EEB) ” to focus on small the new chief of National Technical businesses. Research Organisation (NTRO). He will The vertical Emerging Entrepreneurs Business take charge on Saturday and serve till 65 (EEB) will focus on microloans, micro home years of age. He will replace former loans, micro bazaar loans, and micro- Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Satish enterprise loans. Jha. ICICI Bank to seek approval to appoint Former PM HD Deve Gowda Takes Oath Sandeep Batra as whole-time director: as Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka: ICICI Bank will resume seeking approval Former Prime Minister of India, Shri H D from RBI for the appointment of Sandeep Deve Gowda took oath as a member of the Batra as a whole-time director (designated as Rajya Sabha from Karnataka. The 87-year- Executive Director) of the Bank. old President of the Janata Dal (Secular) party The appointment should be for a period of was elected to the Rajya Sabha in June 2020. five years or date of retirement, whichever Senior bureaucrat S Aparna to take is earlier, effective from September 17, 2020, charge as Department of or the date of approval from RBI, whichever Pharmaceuticals secretary: is later.

Senior bureaucrat S Aparna, an Indian Colonel Dr Girija Mungali appointed in Administrative Services (IAS) officer of Asian Football Confederation task-force: Gujarat cadre of 1988, has been appointed as Colonel Dr. Girija Shanker Mungali has Secretary, Department of been appointed a member of the Asian Pharmaceuticals (DoP), under the Union Football Confederation’s task force. The ministry of chemicals and fertilizers. S Aparna task force consists of 7 members. The force is presently principal secretary to Gujarat aims to regulate football clubs in Asia and Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. Australia. In 2017, she was appointed to the post of ED, RBI appoints AK Dixit as new World Bank, representing the Constituency administrator of PMC Bank: of India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Retired IAS Officer Raghvendra Singh former Union Bank of India general Appointed India’s Culture Secretary: manager AK Dixit as the new administrator Raghvendra Singh was appointed as the of crisis-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Co- Culture Secretary in place of Anand operative (PMC) Bank with effect from Kumar, who has shifted as the secretary of September 23. The present administrator Jai the National Commission for Backward Bhagwan Bhoria has stepped down due to Classes. Singh, at present, is the CEO, health reasons. Development of Museums & Cultural Spaces. Former Mali Defense Minister Bah Ndaw Rajesh Verma gets One-year extension appointed as interim president: as head of Company Law Committee: Former Mali defense minister and retired Ministry of Corporate Affairs has extended colonel Bah Ndaw has been named the the tenure of the Company Law Committee by President of the country's new transition one year until September 2021. Corporate government. He will be in power for 18 affairs secretary Rajesh Verma is the months before holding elections and returning present chairperson of the committee. The Mali to civilian rule. Colonel Assimi Goita was 11-member committee has a mandate to appointed as Vice President. submit periodic recommendations to the Mohamed Hussein Roble appointed as government in phases and subject-wise, as Somalia Prime Minister: may be decided by the chairman.

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Services Limited group by one year till Farmaji has appointment the replacement of October 2, 2021. Kotak was appointed by former Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire the Government as the head of the lender's who was impeached by parliament. The board in 2018. president appointed Mohamed Hussein Rajat Sud appointed as new managing Roble, a humanitarian, as the country’s new director of Energy Efficiency Services prime minister. Limited (EESL) : Former Rebel Leader Ishmael Toroama Energy Efficiency Services Limited elected as president of Bougainville: (EESL), a joint venture of PSUs under the President John Momis elected Former rebel Ministry of Power, Government of India has military commander Ishmael Toroama as announced the appointment of Rajat Sud as president of Bougainville, an autonomous its new Managing Director. Sud takes over region of Papua New Guinea. This was the from S. Gopal Director (Commercial), who first general election, since Bougainville voted had taken on the additional charge of interim. overwhelmingly to separate from Papua New Bollywood actor Sonu Sood appointed as Guinea in November 2019. Brand Ambassador of Acer India: Belarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko Acer India appointed actor Sonu Sood as its sworn in for a sixth term: brand ambassador. As the brand ambassador President Alexander Lukashenko of of Acer India, Sonu Sood will support the Belarus was sworn his sixth term in office at range of innovative products of Acer over the an inaugural ceremony that was not social media and campaign on the announced in advance amid weeks of huge commitment of Acers in improving the lives protests of the authoritarian leader’s of the people through technology. reelection. CITI appoints Arjun Chowdhry as acting Government extends term of Uday Kotak head of consumer banking business in as non-exec IL&FS chairman by one India: year: Citigroup has appointed Arjun Chowdhry Government extended the term of Uday as the acting head of its consumer banking Kotak as a non-executive chairman of debt- business in India. Chowdhry, who has been ridden Infrastructure Leasing and Financial with Citi for 25 years, currently serves as the

head of credit cards, payments and unsecured The main purpose of this programme was to lending for the American bank in India. He offer training the vast reservoir of talent in the took charge from Shinjini Kumar. Indian Army in selected 7 disciplines such as Archery, Athletics, Boxing, Diving, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS: Fencing, Weightlifting, and Wrestling. Delhi University student Neelakanta 29-year-old Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Bhanu Prakash wins ‘World’s Fastest becomes youngest author to win Human Calculator’ title at age 21: International Booker Prize: Neelakanta Bhanu Prakash, a 21-year-old Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's “The boy of Hyderabad has won the title ‘World’s Discomfort of Evening” a dark story about Fastest Human Calculator’ after winning a devout farming family in a strict Christian first-ever gold for India in Mental community in the rural Netherlands, was Calculation World Championship at Mind announced as the winner. This year the Sports Olympiad (MSO). The championship judges considered 124 books, translated was held in London. from 30 languages. He has created a new All Time Record and has Renowned folk musician Archana beaten the records of Math Maestros like Mahanta Passes Away: Shakuntala Devi and Scott Flansburg. One of Assam’s legendary singers, Archana India’s Aryan Shukla finished fourth with a Mahanta, who was at home in both the score of 96. traditional and modern genres and belonged Army Sports Institute of Pune Awarded to a committed generation of singers for With Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar whom singing was a "devotional" act, died. 2020: Pioneering computer designer Arnold Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports has Spielberg passed away at 103: given the Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Arnold Spielberg helped design the GE-225 Puraskar 2020 to Army Sports Institute, mainframe computer that enabled Pune on 24th August 2020. Army Sports researchers at Dartmouth College to develop Institute (ASI) is serving as the part of Indian the coding tool known as BASIC, which Army’s “Mission Olympics” program. ushered in the era of personal computers. He assisted his son in the making of Firelight.

Writer-journalist Gail Sheehy passes Para swimmer Satyendra Singh 1st away at 83: Divyang sportsperson of country to get Gail Sheehy, the journalist, commentator prestigious Adventure Award: and pop sociologist whose best-selling Satyendra Singh Lohia of Madhya Passages, has passed away. Sheehy’s honors Pradesh is the 1st Divyanga Indian included the National Magazine Award, the sportsperson of the country, to be awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a citation from with Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award. He is the American Psychological Association. also the 1st Asian Divyang swimmer to cross Noor Inayat Khan Becomes First Indian- the 42-km Catalina Channel in US in just 11 Origin Woman To Be Honoured With Blue hours 34 mins. Plaque: Amul (16th) becomes first Indian dairy Noor Inayat Khan was an undercover radio company to be in Rabobank’s Global Top operator in Nazi-captured France in 1943 20 list; Top- Nestle: working for Britain’s Special Operations Amul, Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Executive (SOE). The memorial plaque will Federation (GCMMF) has been ranked 16th in be installed at her family home in central the Rabobank’s Global Top 20 Dairy London, 4 Taviton Street at Bloomsbury Companies list. Amul has achieved an annual where she lived. turnover of $5.5 billion. Panjab University wins prestigious Switzerland’s Nestle topped the list with a Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy for 2nd turnover of US $22.1 billion. Amul is the first consecutive year: Indian company to enter the top 20 ranking The Panjab University has been conferred of Rabobank’s Global Top 20 Dairy Companies with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad list. (MAKA) Trophy for the year 2019. This is the Hyderabad International Airport wins second consecutive year in a row that Panjab CII-GBC 'National Energy Leader' award: University has won this coveted trophy, which The GMR led Hyderabad International is given to overall top performing University Airport was awarded at the 21st National in Inter-University Tournaments. Awards for Excellence in Energy management organized by CII and GBC during the 19th edition of Energy Efficiency

Summit, Virtual Conference and Exposition on Biju Patnaik Bravery Award was presented Energy Efficiency. to two girls from Kendrapara, Purnima Giri Air Force Sports Control Board Conferred and Sabita Giri, who received cash award of with ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar Rs 1 lakh each, medal and citation. 2020’: Biju Patnaik Sports Award for excellence in Air Force Sports Control Board, apex body coaching went to chess coach Satya Ranjan for planning and conduct of sports activities, Patnaik. was conferred with ‘Rashtriya Khel ABB India’s Factory to Be Awarded Green Protsahan Puruskar 2020’ for outstanding Factory Building Certification By IGBC: contribution in helping sportsperson to excel ABB India has won a gold certification by the & implement robust sports welfare measures. Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) for ‘Vattatha Uravakkayi Jalasamrudhi’ wins its environmentally-friendly smart factory, award for excellence at the National becoming the first to be certified as a green Water Innovation Summit: building within the Nashik industrial area The ‘Vattatha Uravakkayi Jalasamrudhi’ which houses about 10,000 factories across project for water conservation in the various industries. Kattakada constituency has won the award Eklavya Model Residential School for excellence at the National Water teacher selected for National Award to Innovation Summit organized by Elets Teachers 2020: Technomedia Pvt. Ltd. in association with For the first time, a teacher of Eklavya Model the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti. Residential Schools (EMRS) established Deep Grace and Jayanti Behera get Biju under the Ministry of Tribal Affairs has been Patnaik awards on National Sports Day: selected for the National Award to Teachers Indian women’s hockey team defender Deep (NAT). Sudha Painuli, a vice-principal of Grace Ekka and para-athlete Jayanti EMRS-Kalsi, Dehradun, Uttarakhand was Behera received the Biju Patnaik sports selected for the award, according to a release award for outstanding performance from by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik through Isha Ambani Piramal and Akash Ambani video conference on the occasion of the in Fortune global 40-under-40 National Sports Day. technology list:

Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh British Broadcaster David Attenborough Ambani is the most successful businessman Awarded Indira Gandhi Peace Prize: in the country. With a net worth of $80.5 Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh billion, Ambani is currently the 8th richest conferred the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize on person in the world and the only Indian in the British broadcaster David Attenborough at a top 10. virtual event. The twin children of billionaire Mukesh The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Ambani, Akash and Isha, have made it to the Disarmament and Development was Fortune’s latest ‘40 Under 40′ list of instituted in the memory of the former prime influential people around the world. minister by a trust in her name in 1986. It Memphis’ Ja Morant wins 2019-20 Kia consists of a monetary award of Rs. 25 lakh NBA Rookie of the Year Award: along with a citation. The Memphis Grizzlies’ Ja Morant has been USA President Donald Trump named for named the 2019-20 Kia NBA Rookie of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize: Year. He is the second player to win the USA President Donald Trump has been Rookie of the Year Award with the Grizzlies, named for Nobel Peace Prize 2021. he joining Pau Gasol (2001-02). Morant played an important role as broker peace received 99 first-place votes from a global between nations Israel and the United Arab panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters Emirates (UAE). and earned 498 total points. The Norwegian Parliament member Christian Police Officer Poonam Khatri crowned Tybring-Gjedde named Trump. Along with Wushu World Champion: it, he also praised Trump for his work and Indian Wushu stalwart Poonam Khatri solved conflicts worldwide. claimed World Championship status after her Lifetime Achievements Award to Prof. silver medal at Wushu World Aditya Prasad Padhi: Championship last year was upgraded to a Indian Chartered Accountancy Parivar and Gold medal. Poonam had lost the final to Delhi University Ramanujan College Professor Iranian opponent Mariyam but she recently Aditya Prasad Padhi, former Vice – failed the dope test. Chancellor of Berhampur University has been honoured with “Lifetime Achievements

Award” for his outstanding contribution to Mumbai-based filmmaker Chaitanya higher education in India. Tamhane's Marathi language feature film DBS Rated as World's Best Bank; “The Disciple” has bagged the prestigious Reported by New York-based financial award for Best Screenplay at the 77th annual publication: Venice International Film Festival 2020. Southeast Asia’s biggest lender DBS has Kevin De Bruyne and Beth England win been recognized as the world’s best bank by 2020 PFA player of the year awards: New York-based financial publication Global Kevin De Bruyne and Beth England win Finance. 2020 PFA player of the year awards. DBS latest global best bank accolade comes Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne from the New York-based financial publication was named men’s Player of the year while Global Finance, which named DBS Best Bank Chelsea forward Bethany England won the in the World’ for the second time in three women’s award, England’s Professional years in its World’s Best Global Banks Footballer’s Association (PFA). 2020 Awards. Aditya Puri conferred Lifetime West Bengal government wins WSIS Achievement Award by Euromoney award 2020 for its Sabuj Sathi scheme in Awards of Excellence 2020: WSIS Price Contest: Managing Director of HDFC Bank Aditya Puri West Bengal government wins WSIS has been conferred the Lifetime Achievement award 2020 for its Sabuj Sathi scheme in Award by Euromoney Awards of WSIS Price Contest. After Kanyashree Excellence 2020. He has been awarded for scheme, another West Bengal government his skills in building a world-class bank in project has received a global prize. The India at a time where there were no similar World Summit on the Information institutions in existence. Society (WSIS) handed over the winner Lionel Messi Remains Ahead of Cristiano prize 2020 to the state government for Sabuj Ronaldo as World's Richest Footballer: Sathi project through a virtual ceremony. According to a list compiled by Forbes, Indian filmmaker Chaitanya Tamhane's Messi's total earnings this year are 126 film “The Disciple” wins Best Screenplay million dollars. Cristiano Ronaldo comes in award; Venice Film Festival 2020: second although earnings of 117 million

dollars will soften the blow for the Juventus among the six honorees named by the forward. leading organisation. Neymar comes in third on the Forbes list (96 Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra million dollars) with his Paris St Germain team felicitated “EMINENT ENGINEERS mate, 21-year-old Kylian Mbappe, up in AWARD 2020” on the Occasion fourth spot (42 million dollars). Engineer’s Day: Fiumicino International Airport in Rome Honourable Governor of Rajasthan and becomes World’s First Airport to earn Chancellor of State Universities Kalraj “COVID-19 5-star airport rating” from Mishra felicitated the Eminent Engineers Skytrax: Awards to Prof. H. D. Charan, Vice- Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) in Chancellor, Bikaner Technical University as Rome,Italy has become the first airport in Visionary Leader of the Year, Dr Manish the world to be certified with “COVID-19 5- Kumar Goyal, IIT Indore, Best Researcher of star airport rating” from Skytrax, a U.K.- the Year, and Dr. Shamsher Bahadur based airport and airline review firm. Singh, Birla Institute of Technology and FCO, also known as the Leonardo Da Vinci Science Pilani, as Best Academician of the International Airport, is the busiest Year Award 2020 in Individual Category. airport in Italy. Columbian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima Chef Vikas Khanna honoured with Asia wins Golden Pen: Game Changer Award 2020 for feeding The Golden Pen of Freedom annual press millions in India amid Covid crisis: freedom award of the World Association of New York-based Michelin-star chef Vikas News Publishers has been awarded to Khanna will be honoured with the prestigious Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima. 2020 Asia Game Changer Award for Star Media Group Bhd (SMG) currently sits on feeding millions across India amid the COVID- the board of WEF. It is also a member of 19 pandemic through a massive food WEF’s Asia Chapter. distribution drive “FeedIndia”. Indian Teenager Udit Singhal, named in He coordinated from thousands of miles away UN’s 2020 list of Young Leaders for in his Manhattan home. He is the only Indian Sustainable Goals:

An 18-year-old Indian boy Udit Singhal has Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, been included by the United Nations (UN) in Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald the 2020 Class of 17 Young Leaders for the Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Udit is the founder of Glass2Sand, a zero- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of waste ecosystem that addresses the growing Turkmenistan. menace of glass waste in Delhi. Prakasam police’s ‘Dasha Sutras’ Schitt's Creek Wins All Major Comedy nominated for SKOCH award: Awards At The 2020 Emmys: ‘Dasa Sutras’, a project initiated by Schitt’s Creek set a new record for most Prakasam SP Siddharth Kaushal as a wins in a single season for a comedy series, precautionary measure to protect the police winning 7 Emmys in a row including the and public from Covid-19, has been awards for Outstanding Comedy Series, nominated for the prestigious “SKOCH Outstanding Writing, and Directing. Award 2020”. To a three member jury of Succession & Watchmen, both from HBO, won SKOCH Award led by MD K. Gurusharan 4 awards each. Dhanjal. PM Narendra Modi awarded Ig Nobel Prime Minister Modi named in Time Prize 2020 for medical education: Magazines 100 Most Influential People Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi won 2020 List: the Medical Education Prize of Ig Nobel Time Magazine has released the TIME 100 Prize 2020 at the 30th First Nobel Prize Most Influential People List 2020. Prime Ceremony over virtual platform. Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi is the Modi became the 2nd Prime Minister from only politician on the list. He has been named India to win the Ig Nobel Prize after Atal Bihari in this for the fourth time since coming in Vajpayee who won the 1998 Peace award for power in 2014. “Aggressively peaceful explosion of Among four Indians Professor Ravindra atomic bombs”. Gupta (Pioneer) is a Professor of Clinical Besides Modi, the medical education prize was Microbiology and has worked for the cure of jointly awarded to Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, HIV, Bollywood Actor Ayushmann Khurrana Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, (Artists), Bilkis (Icons) the ‘dadi from

Shaheen Bagh’ and PM Modi. The List has Shashank Nimkar from the National named people in five categories- Pioneers, Institute of Design (Ahmedabad) has won Artists, Leaders, Titans, Icons. the James Dyson India Award 2020 for his GAIL wins Leaders Award at the Frost & invention– ‘Earth Tatva’. He used ceramic Sullivan and TERI's Sustainability 4.0 rejects called ‘Grog’ from the surrounding Awards 2020: production cluster and clay to make new GAIL (Gas Authority of India Limited) products. Limited has won the Leaders Award in the Lieutenant Shivangi Singh set to become Mega Large Business, Process Sector India’s first woman fighter pilot to fly category in the 11th edition of Frost & Rafale: Sullivan - MEASA and TERI - The Energy Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh is set to and Resources Institute's Sustainability 4.0 become the first woman fighter pilot of India Awards 2020. The award recognises to fly the Rafale combat aircraft. Shivangi corporates in sustainable development Singh, who hails from Uttar Pradesh’s practices that provide a measurable and Varanasi, was commissioned into the Indian verifiable framework for sustainability. Air Force (IAF) in the year 2017 as part of the 17-Year-Old Surat Girl Khushi Chindaliya second batch of women fighter pilots. Is Named UNEP's Green Ambassador For Indian Navy to deploy Kumudini Tyagi Her Efforts To Save Environment: and Riti Singh to become the 1st Women Seventeen-year-old Khushi Chindaliya from Observers to Operate from Warships: Surat has been passionately involved in the Sub Lieutenant Kumudini Tyagi and Sub protection of the environment. Her passion Lieutenant Riti Singh would be the first has now resulted in her being appointed as women “Airborne Tacticians” in India to Regional Ambassador (RA) for India by the operate from the deck of warships. They were United Nations Environment Programme a part of a group of 17 officers of the Navy, (UNEP) Tunza Eco-Generation (TEG). who were awarded ‘Wings’ on graduating as NID-Ahmedabad student Shashank ‘Observers’ at a ceremony held at (Indian Nimkar’s zero waste manufacturing Navy Ship) INS Garuda, Kochi, Kerala. process wins James Dyson India award:

BOOKS AND AUTHORS: journalist MS Unnikrishnan and published by A Book titled ‘Cricket Drona’ on Vitasta. Renowned Coach Vasudev Jagannath The book portrays the personal and Paranjpe to be Released: professional life of Gurcharan Singh, who ‘Cricket Drona’ a book on one of India’s trained numerous young talents. most renowned cricket coaches, Vasudev Karan Johar writes his first children's Jagannath Paranjpe will be released on book “The Big Thoughts of Little Luv”: September 2, 2020. The Book is written by Bollywood Filmmaker Karan Johar authored Vasudev Paranjpe’s son and current national a children’s picture book titled “The Big selector Jatin Paranjpe along with Cricket Thoughts of Little Luv” inspired by his Journalist Anand Vasu and published by Twins Yash and Roohi. The book will be Penguin.s published by Juggernaut Books. Army Chief releases book titled "National Hollywood Actor Channing Tatum is Set Security Challenges: Young Scholars' to Publish His First Children’s Book “The Perspective": One and Only Sparkella”: Indian Army Chief, General Manoj Mukund Hollywood Actor Channing Tatum Naravane has released a book titled (American) announced the release of his first “National Security Challenges: Young book, a Children’s picture book titled “The Scholars’ Perspective” penned by One and Only Sparkella” dedicated to his university students, ranging from the daughter Everly. The book featuring the undergraduate level to doctoral candidates. illustrations of Kim Barnes is set to be The book published by the Army think-tank published by Feiwel & Friends. Centre for Land Warfare Studies Pope Francis’ new book “Let Us Dream” (CLAWS). to hit stands on 1st December: Indian Cricket Coach Gurcharan Singh The book titled “Let Us Dream” is a product Co-authored his Memoir “Pitching It of the numerous exchanges between Pope Straight” with MS Unnikrishnan: Francis and his biographer Austen Indian Cricket Coach Gurcharan Singh Ivereigh, in the weeks following the penned his memoir titled “Pitching It coronavirus outbreak. It will hit the stands on Straight” which is co-authored by sports

December 1 in English and Spanish editions. the incidents are set in. The book ends with a It has been published by Simon & Schuster. moving poem written on the eve of her UNEP Launches New Book “The Little husband’s first death anniversary. Book of Green Nudges” For Universities: A Book titled “The End of an Era; India UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has Exits Tibet” authored by Claude Arpi: launched a new publication titled “The Little Claude Arpi’s four volumes on Tibet’s Book of Green Nudges”, which aims to relations with India show how China inspire around 200 million students around developed its Tibet playbook that includes the globe to adopt environmentally friendly encroachment, occupation, and the habits and greener lifestyles. spinning of a narrative of false claims. The last The book is UNEP’s first on behavioral science book in the series focuses on the last five and nudge theory, which focuses on years of India’s diplomatic presence in encouraging more sustainable practices Tibet. among students and staff for reducing the Gauri Khan announces her debut book campus’ environmental impact through ‘My Life in Design’: behavioural change. Interior designer, Gauri Khan has authored Mr Goonmeet Singh Chauhan’s New Book her first book titled “My Life In Design”, ‘Invertonomics’ Talks about which will be published by Penguin Random Transforming India: House India in 2021. It is a coffee-table book, Invertonomics is a book of ideas presenting in which Gauri has written about her journey pragmatic models for solving chronic as a designer. problems of the country arising from the A New Book titled “Azadi: Freedom. spectrum of Social Inequality, Pollution, Fascism. Fiction” Authoured by Gender disparity, and Decadent Rural Arundhati Roy: Economy. Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy Author Radha Nair on her book 'Breaking has come up with her new book titled “Azadi: The Cocoon @ 40': Freedom. Fascism. Fiction”. The book has Radha Nair’s 'Breaking The Cocoon @ 40' been published by the Penguin Books Ltd. is a delightful collection of select events from her life, which also holds a mirror to the time

A Promised Land”: First Volume of Actor Neena Gupta To Release Her Former US President Barack Obama’s Memoir Titled “Sach Kahu Toh” in 2021: Memoir: National Award-winning actor Neena Gupta The first volume of former President Barack is coming out with a memoir, titled “Sach Obama's memoir is coming out November Kahu Toh”. In the book, the actress will talk 17, two weeks after Election Day. It's called about her life, spanning from her childhood in "A Promised Land" and will cover his swift Karol Bagh, Delhi to her 35 years of and historic rise to the White House and his professional career. The book will be first term in office. It will published by published under Penguin ‘Ebury Press’ Penguin Random House. imprint and is scheduled to be out in 2021. A New book titled “Kitchens of Gratitude” authored by Chef Vikas RANKINGS: Khanna: India ranks 72nd on global list with Star chef Vikas Khanna has authored a book average monthly wage of Rs.32,800; titled “Kitchens of Gratitude” in which he Reported by Picodi.com: has written about his Feed India initiative. With an average monthly wage of Rs.32,800 The book will be released in 2021. Feed India (USD 437), India has been ranked at 72nd initiative is one of the largest food drives in position among 106 countries surveyed by the world serving meals to the Picodi.com. Picodi.com is an international e- underprivileged. He will also be honoured with commerce platform, headquartered in Poland, the 2020 Asia Game Changer Award in provides discount coupons. October. The ranking has been topped by A Book Titled “Voices of Dissent” Switzerland, where the average wage authored by Historian Romila Thapar”: converted into rupees amounts to Rs New book titled “Voices of Dissent” 4,49,000 (USD 5,989). authored by Historian Romila Thapar. Elon Musk becomes world’s third richest Penguin Random House India and man; Bloomberg Billionaires Index: Seagull Books have come together to publish Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has the book. The book is set to publish in October surpassed Facebook chief Mark 2020.

Zuckerberg's net worth to become the third universities from India qualified for the richest person in the world. ranking, however, none could make it to the Musk, 49, saw his wealth increase by over top 300. $11.7 billion in a single day after Tesla Inc China’s Tsinghua University becomes the stocks continued to surge, according to the first-ever Asian university to make the overall Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The Tesla top 20. US were the most represented boss is now worth Rs 115.4 billion, nearly $5 country. UK’s Oxford University placed in billion more than Zuckerberg’s $111 billion. top for 5th consecutive year. India ranks 48th in Global Innovation India ranked 105th in Global Economic Index; Switzerland Tops: Freedom Index 2020; Topped by Hong India has joined the group of top 50 countries Kong: in the Global Innovation Index for the first India has been ranked 105th in the Global time, moving up four places to the 48th rank Economic Freedom Index 2020 released by and keeping the top position among the the Fraser Institute, Canada. HongKong nations in central and southern Asia. has topped the ranking followed by According to the Global Innovation Index Singapore at the second spot. (GII) list, 2020 released jointly by the World India has fallen 26 spots from 79th spot in last Intellectual Property Organization year’s ranking. Venezuela has been ranked (WIPO), Cornell University and INSEAD last among 162 countries. The rankings are Business School prepared based on the data of the year 2018. Switzerland, Sweden, the US, the UK and Gujarat tops States Startup Ranking the Netherlands lead the innovation Results 2019; Andaman and Nicobar ranking, and the top 10 positions are Islands tops in small state/UT category: dominated by high-income countries, WIPO. Department of Promotion of Industry IISc Bangalore among top 350; THE and Internal Trade (DPIIT) released the World University Ranking 2021: much-awaited State Startup Ranking on the India records it’s highest ever number of basis of the startup policy framework that was universities to qualify for the Times Higher announced. Gujarat and Andaman & Education (THE) World University Nicobar Islands have been named the best Ranking (WUR) 2021. A total of 63 performers, while Karnataka and Kerala

were named top performers. Aspiring Leaders 2020 Smart City Index. The index has been are Haryana, Jharkhand, Punjab, topped by Singapore followed by Helsinki Telangana, Uttrakhand. and Zurich as top three smart cities. TCS Becomes Second Indian Firm to Hyderabad was placed at the 85th position Cross Rs 9 Lakh Crore-market Valuation (down from 67 in 2019), New Delhi at 86th Mark: rank (down from 68 in 2019), Mumbai was Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) became at 93rd place (in 2019 it was at 78) and the second Indian firm to attain a market Bengaluru at 95th (79 in 2019). valuation of over Rs 9 lakh crore after Reliance Industries Limited. The OBITUARY NEWS: company’s market valuation went past Rs 9 Veteran Filmmaker AB Raj passes away lakh crore in early trade helped by a rally in at 95: its share price. Veteran filmmaker AB Raj passed away, India ranked 116 in the World Bank's following a cardiac arrest. He was 95. A B Raj Human Capital Index: Singapore Tops; began his career as a filmmaker in Sri Lanka. World Bank released the report titled “The He directed more than 10 films in Sinhalese Human Capital Index 2020 Update: under the name A Bhaskar Raj. Human Capital in the Time of COVID-19”. Former Republic of Congo president India has been ranked 116 in the list of 174 Pascal Lissouba dies at 88: countries. Last year, India was ranked 115 Former President of the Republic of Congo, in the list of 157 countries. The country of Pascal Lissouba passed away. He became Singapore topped the score with 0.88 the minister of agriculture in 1960 after Congo followed by Hong Kong at 0.81 and Japan at became an independent country. He served 0.80. as the president from 1992 to 1997. He Hyderabad Placed 85th Position in IMD’s served as the Prime minister under the Global Smart City Index 2020; Singapore Presidency of Alphonse Massamba Debat. Tops: Film academician Father Gaston Roberge Institute for Management Development passes away at 85: in collaboration with Singapore University for Film academician Father Gaston Roberge Technology and Design, has released the who mentored thousands of young

filmmakers in his three-decade-long career India in the IVth Junior Asian Cup TT died. He was 85.He started television Championship 1989 held at New Delhi and the programmes for UGC for Doordarshan US Open TT 1990 held at Baltimore USA. National TV channel which is still running. ‘Scooby Doo’ Co-Creator Joe Ruby Passes Veteran Athletics coach Purshottam Rai Away at 87: passed away at 79: Joe Ruby who helped invigorate children’s Veteran athletics coach Purshottam Rai died television as the co-creator of Scooby-Doo, due to a cardiac arrest in Bengaluru. He was the long-running animated franchise about a to be conferred the prestigious Dronacharya group of teenage private eyes and their Award in the lifetime category at the age of chicken-hearted, snack-guzzling Great Dane, 79. died. He was 87. 'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman Veteran Athletics coach Purshottam Rai passes away at 43: passes away at 79: Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons The veteran athletics coach Purshottam Rai Jackie Robinson and James Brown before has passed away due to a cardiac arrest. Rai finding fame as Black Panther in the Marvel was to be conferred the prestigious cinematic universe, died of cancer. Dronacharya Award in the lifetime category Congress MP and Vasanth & Co founder on 29 August 2020, on the ocassion of the H Vasanthakumar dies at 70: National Sports Day. Tamil Nadu Congress Committee Working Former Supreme Court judge Justice AR President and MP from Kanyakumari H Lakshmanan passes away at 78: Vasanthakumar, died. He was 70. He was Justice AR Lakshmanan served at the the founder of Vasanth & Co, a successful Supreme Court from 2002-2007. Prior to his chain of consumer electronics and home elevation, he was a judge at the Madras and appliances stores. Kerala High Court. He also served as Chief Former Indian TT Player Nipjyoti Barua Justice of the Andhra Pradesh & Rajasthan Passed away: High Courts. He was 78 years old. Assam's Nipjyoti Barua, who represented Former President Pranab Mukherjee India in various Table Tennis passes away at 84: championships, passed away. He played for

Former President of India Pranab internationals for England from 1987-1990, Mukherjee passed away. The Coalition has died after a long illness. He has Years, Turbulent Years, The Dramatic Decade represented England between 1987 and are some of the books written by him. He was 1990. In the first-class career, he played 270 awarded India's highest civilian honour, the matches for Northants between 1981 and Bharat Ratna by President of India, Ram 1998. Nath Kovind. He was the 13th President of Veteran Producer-Director Johnny India. He was from Congress. Bakshi passes away at 82: India's first female cardiologist Dr Siva Veteran producer-director Johnny Bakshi Ramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, dies at has passed away after suffering a cardiac 103: arrest. He was 82. Johnny Bakshi mostly Dr Siva Ramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, worked as a producer, in his career spanning India's first female cardiologist, passed over four decades. away at the age of 103 of coronavirus disease He was best known for producing films such (COVID-19) -related complications. She is as Raavan (1984), Phir Teri Kahani Yaad popularly known as the God Mother of Aayee (1993), and Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain Cardiology. She was the founder of NHI (1974). hospital. Tom Seaver, Mets legend and Baseball Former envoy Katyayani Shankar Bajpai Hall of Famer, passes away at age 75: Passe Away at 92: Longtime big leaguer and Hall of Famer Tom Katyayani Shankar Bajpai, former Seaver has passed away. He was 75. Seaver ambassador to China, US and Pakistan and was named the NL Rookie of the Year after Secretary in MEA passed away. His father throwing 251 innings with a 2.76 ERA in 1967. Girija Shankar Bajpai was the first secretary- He won three Cy Young awards (1969. general of the Ministry of External Affairs of a 1973, 1975) and was selected to 12 All-Star newly independent India. Games. Former England cricket allrounder David Renowned radio astronomer and Padma Capel dies at 57: Shri Govind Swarup dies at 91: David Capel, the former cricket all- Globally acclaimed scientist Govind Swarup, rounder who played 15 Tests and 23 one-day one of the pioneers in radio-astronomy,

passed away. He played a key role in building Telugu films, died. Jaya Prakash Reddy highly innovative, world-class radio featured in a number of Telugu and Tamil telescopes such as Ooty Radio Telescope films like Brahma Puthrudu, Samarasimha and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope Reddy, Uthamaputhiran, Aaru, etc., (GMRT). Diana Rigg, Avengers and Game of Oscar-winner Czech Director Jiri Menzel Thrones star, dies aged 82: died at 82: Award-winning British actress Diana Rigg, Czech film director Jiri Menzel has taken his who shot to fame in the 1960s television last breath. He was born in Prague, series The Avengers and won new fans in Czechoslovakia. in the year, he earned an Game Of Thrones, passed away at the age of Academy Award (Oscars) for Best Foreign 82. She won Emmy, Tony and Bafta awards Language film “Closely Watched Trains“. during her lengthy career. Kesavananda Bharati Swamiji of Edneer Ashok Leyland’s Chairman Emeritus R J Mutt passed away at 80: Shahaney passes away: Swami Kesavananda Bharati, head of Ashok Leyland’s Chairman Emeritus, R J Edneer Mutt in Kerala's Kasaragod, passes Shahaney passed away after a brief illness. away at 79. The pontiff of Edneer Mutt Swami Shahaney was Ashok Leyland’s first Indian Keshavananda Bharathi attained samadhi at managing director and served in that capacity Kasargod in Kerala. from 1978 till 1998. He subsequently served Former BSF DIG Dr Mahesh Kumar as the company’s chairman until 2010. Dwivedy passes away at 73: Social activist and Arya Samaj leader Former DIG of BSF (Medical Wing) Dr Swami Agnivesh passed away at 81: Mahesh Kumar Dwivedy passed away after Swami Agnivesh founded Bonded Labour prolonged illness. Dr Dwivedy, a native of Liberation Front in 1981 and worked against Sukinda in Jajpur district served in North- bonded labour. He also led numerous East Punjab and various parts of the country movements against alcoholism. Swami as a doctor in the BSF. Agnivesh also served as president of the Actor Jaya Prakash Reddy Dies At 74: Sarvadeshik Arya Pratinidhi Sabha, World Actor Jaya Prakash Reddy, who was best- Council of Arya Samaj. known for his comic and villainous roles in

Former Union minister and Bihar leader classical dance and Founding Director of the Raghuvansh Prasad Singh passed away Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, at 74: passed away at the age of 92 at her home in Veteran Socialist Raghuvansh Prasad New Delhi. Singh represented the state's Vaishali Lok Sabha MP Balli Durga Prasad Rao constituency and was the Union Minister for passes away at 65: Rural Development in the Congress-led UPA-I Tirupati MP and YSRCP leader Balli Durga govt. He served as the Union MoS for Animal Prasad Rao passed away after testing Husbandry, & Food as well as Consumer positive for COVID-19. Rao had been a three- Affairs. term MLA in the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Former Chhattisgarh Minister Chanesh Assembly and a minister in the Chandrababu Ram Rathiya passes away at 78: Naidu Cabinet in undivided Andhra Pradesh. Veteran Congress leader and former Mali’s Former President Moussa Traore Chhattisgarh minister Chanesh Ram passes away at 83: Rathiya has passed away due to COVID-19. Mali’s former president Moussa Traore, He was 78. He had served as animal who ruled the West Africa nation for more husbandry minister in the Digvijay Singh led- than 22 years, has passed away at age 83. Congress government in erstwhile Madhya Traore ruled the country as its military leader Pradesh. until 1979 when he installed himself as civilian Former Maharashtra Cricketer Sadashiv president of a one-party state. Patil passes away at 86: Former RBI governor Amitabha Ghosh Former Maharashtra cricketer Sadashiv passed away at 90: Patil, who played as medium-pacer, has Amitabha Ghosh, Re•serve Bank of In•dia passed away. Patil had represented India in (RBI) governor for 21 days, passed away at only one Test and played 36 first-class the age of 90. Ghosh had the shortest stint as matches between 1952 and 1964. RBI gover•nor, from January 15, 1985 to Padma Vibhushan art scholar Kapila February 4, 1985. Vatsyayan passes away at 92: Veteran Ayurveda physician from Tamil Kapila Vatsyayan, Member of Parliament, a Nadu PR Krishnakumar passes away at major scholar of art, architecture, Indian 69:

P R Krishnakumar, CMD of the Arya Vaidya Veteran BJP leader and Maharashtra Pharmacy (AVP) Coimbatore Limited, who legislator Sardar Tara Singh passes away had devoted his entire life to creating at 82: awareness on Ayurveda, died of Covid-19. He BJP leader and former MLA from Mulund was also the Chancellor of the renowned Sardar Tara Singh passed away due to Avinashilingam University in Coimbatore. prolonged illness. Singh developed & was Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Gasti passé away associated with Education Trust & played a at 56: proactive role in promoting welfare works of Karnataka MP of Rajya Sabha Shri Ashok several gurudwaras in Mumbai and Nanded. Gasti has taken his last breath at the age of Fashion Designer Sharbari Dutta passed 56. He was suffering from COVID-19. Ashok away at 63: was born in the year 1965 and was from Eminent fashion designer Sharbari Dutta Raichur district. On July 2020, he took oath was found dead under mysterious as Rajya Sabha MP. circumstances at her Kolkata residence. Former Mumbai cricketer Sachin She was 63. Her label became popular for a Deshmukh passes away at 52: unique blend of ethnicity and modernity in Former Mumbai cricketer Sachin fabric and vibrancy in colour. Deshmukh, who played Cooch Behar Forrest Gump author Winston Groom Trophy and Ranji trophy, has passed away, dies aged 77: after he developed coronavirus complications. Writer Winston Groom, whose novel Forrest The 52-year-old player was referred to as Gump was made into the hugely successful ‘Mini Gavaskar’ in local cricket. Oscar-winning 1994 film starring Tom Veteran Tamil Director Babu Sivan Hanks, has died aged 77. The book, about passes away at 54: the childlike optimism of a slow thinking but Tamil filmmaker Babu Sivan has passed kind-hearted man, won six Oscars. away in Chennai following multiple organ Assam musician Bibhuranjan Choudhury failure. Babu Sivan made his directorial debut Passes away at 71: in 2009 with the film Vettaikaaran starring Renowned Music composer, singer, lyricist Vijay and Anushka Shetty. and actor Bibhuranjan Choudhury passed away at the age of 71 years due to cancer.

Choudhury composed the music of Guwahati 'Vicky Donor' actor Bhupesh Kumar Doordarshan's first serial 'Jibonor Batot', Pandya passes away: retired as the superintendent of the Assam Theatre personality and Bollywood actor State Film (Finance and Development) Bhupesh Pandya, who is best known for his Corporation. role in Ayushmann Khurrana’s debut film Nepal Mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa, first ‘Vicky Donor’ has passed away due to lung Person to climb Mount Everest 10 times, cancer. Pandya was an alumnus of National passes away at 72: School of Drama (NSD). Nepal-based Ang Rita Sherpa, the first man Minister of State for Railways Suresh to climb Mount Everest 10 times, has passed Angadi passes away at 65: away suffering brain and liver ailments for a Union Minister of State for Railways long time. He was 72. He was therefore also Suresh Angadi has passed away after he known as the “Snow Leopard” for his contracted coronavirus disease. He was a climbing skills. four-time Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka’s Former Canadian Prime Minister John Belagavi constituency. He was elected in Turner Passed Away at 91: 2004, 2014 and 2019. He is the first member Canada’s 17th Prime Minister John Turner of the Union Cabinet to die due to has died at the age of 91. He served as the coronavirus. Prime Minister for just 79 days in 1984, the Veteran Marathi Actor Ashalata 2nd shortest term in the office recorded in Wabgaonkar Passed Away at 79: the history of Canada. Veteran Marathi actor Ashalata Former Rajasthan minister Zakia Inam Wabgaonkar, passed away at the age of 79 Passed away at 71: at Satara, Maharashtra after testing positive Former Minister of Rajasthan Zakia Inam for COVID-19. Ashalata Wabgaonkar was from the Congress Party and three times born on 2nd July 1941 in Goa. MLA from Tonk constituency has passed Former Australian Cricket Legend Dean away due to coronavirus infection. She was Jones passes away at 59 in Mumbai: the only woman candidate who became MLA Former Australia cricket commentator, three-time in Rajasthan. coach and legendary batsman Dean Jones has passed away on 24 September 2020 after

suffering a heart attack. He was in Mumbai as a commentator for the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020. SPORTS NEWS: Jones had represented Australia in 52 Tests James Anderson Becomes First Fast and 164 ODIs. He was also part of Australia’s Bowler To Take 600 Test Wickets: 1987 World Cup-winning squad. England's James Anderson became the first Karnataka Congress MLA Narayan Rao fast bowler to take 600 Test wickets. He is passes away at 65: fourth on the all-time list of Test wicket- Karnataka Congress MLA B Narayan Rao takers, behind spinners Muttiah passed away due to the novel coronavirus. He Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil was the MLA from Bidar district in North Kumble. Glenn McGrath took 563 Test Karnataka. In the 2018 elections, he wickets. defeated Mallikarjun Khutba of the BJP and Olympic badminton gold medalist Ayaka PGR Sindhia of the JD(S). Takahashi to retire: Justice Ashutosh Mohunta passes away Ayaka Takahashi (30) and her Partner at 67: Misaki Matsutomo (28) became Japan’s Justice Ashutosh Mohunta, former acting first Olympic gold medalists in badminton Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High when they overcame Christinna Pedersen and Court and incumbent member of Punjab State Kamilla Rytter Juhl of Denmark in Brazil. She Human Rights Commission passed away. He has announced that she will retire at the end was appointed as a member of Punjab State of the month. HRC in Sept. 22, 2016. Seven-time National Table Tennis Renowned Nuclear Scientist Dr. Sekhar Champion Poulomi Ghatak announces Basu passes away at 68: retirement, to focus on coaching: Veteran atomic scientist and former chairman Veteran Indian table tennis player from of Atomic Energy Commission Dr. Sekhar West Bengal, Poulomi Ghatak, has Basu succumbed to COVID-19. Dr. Basu was announced her retirement from the game to the brain behind the designing, construction, shift focus on coaching career. The Kolkata- and operation of nuclear recycle plants at born athlete is a seven-time national Tarapur and Kalpakkam. champion, winning between 1998 and 2016.

Legendary tennis pair Bryan brothers Sri Lanka Cricketer Tharanga announce retirement: Paranavitana retires from International Identical twins Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan, Cricket: now 42, are leaving the sport in the same way Sri Lankan Opening batsman Nishad they had won tournament after tournament in Tharanga Paranavitana announced a decade-spanning three decades- together. retirement from all forms of International They finish their legendary careers with a Cricket at the age of 38. He has represented 1,108-359 team win-loss record. Sri Lanka in 32 Test Matches scoring 1792 AIFC and Football Coaches Australia sign runs including two hundreds and 11 fifties. MoU for development of game in India: He is Sri Lanka’s highest ever run-getter in Association of Indian Football Coaches first-class cricket with 12, 522 runs. (AIFC) has signed a Memorandum of Dwayne Bravo becomes first bowler to Understanding (MoU) with Football Coaches scalp 500 wickets in T20 cricket: Australia (FCA) to assist each other in West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo development of football in the two countries. became the first bowler to reach the mark of According to a statement issued by AIFC, the 500 wickets in T20 cricket. The pacer two bodies will look to encourage the achieved the feat in the ongoing Caribbean involvement of more female coaches and Premier League (CPL) match between increase access to football for all participants. Trinbago Knight Riders and St Lucia Zouks. India plans to host BRICS Games during India and Russia declared joint winners Khelo India Games in 2021: of the Chess Olympiad: India will get the chairmanship of the five- India team at the FIDE Online Olympiad nation independent international group in created history by winning its first ever gold. 2021. BRICS Games 2021 will be held However, in another first, this was shared during the same time and at the same venues with Russia, following an internet failure that as of Khelo India Games 2021 so that our affected two games. players from various parts of the country who India No. 2 Grandmaster Vidit Gujarati was will gather for Khelo India Games will have Captain of the Indian Team. Teenage the benefit of witnessing BRICS Games from grandmasters (GM) Nihal Sarin and R close quarters. Praggnanandhaa led them to the

quarterfinals; Koneru Humpy, women’s season’s FA Cup, Arsenal at the Wembley chess. Stadium in London. Lewis Hamilton wins Belgian Grand Prix Sumit Nagal is first Indian in seven years to secure 89th victory of career: to win main draw match at a Grand Slam: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton Sumit Nagal became the first Indian to win dominated the Belgian Grand Prix to take a round at a Grand Slam in 7 years when he his fifth victory in seven races this year and downed Bradley Klahn in his US Open first the 89th of his career. round, setting up a contest against Dominic Hamilton headed team-mate Valtteri Bottas Thiem. Somdev Devavarman was the last to a Mercedes one-two, from Red Bull's Max Indian to win a main draw match at a major. Verstappen. He is two victories away from Cycling Federation of India is set to Host Michael Schumacher's all-time record and the First Ever Cycling Summit in 2021: sets to equal his seven titles. Cycling Federation of India (CFI) is all set Chennaiyin FC Appoint Csaba Laszlo As to host the first-ever Cycling Summit in Head Coach For 2020-21 Season: 2021, with an aim to promote the culture of Csaba Laszlo has more than two decades of cycling in the country. This one-day summit is coaching experience at the club and designed to promote the culture of cycling international level. The Romania-born Laszlo and exchange knowledge with budding and had coaching stints in eight countries, professional cyclists. including two national teams -- Uganda and The Cycling Summit 2021 will be hosted in Lithuania. Laszlo replaced Owen Coyle. Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and is Arsenal beat Liverpool on penalties to expected to be a unique confluence of cycling win 2020 FA Community Shield: enthusiasts, renowned athletes, and Arsenal beat Premier League champions businesses from all over the country. Liverpool by 5–4 on penalties to claim the Olympic and Giant Slalom ski Champion 2020 FA Community Shield after a 1–1 Viktoria Rebensburg retires at 30: draw. The annual football match was played Germany’s Olympic Ski Champion Viktoria between the winners of the previous season’s Rebensburg announced her retirement from Premier League, Liverpool, and the previous Alpine Skiing. Rebensburg was a German World Cup-winning Alpine Ski Racer.

The 30-year-old German, who won the gold Team NTPC emerges as winner at AIMA medal in giant slalom at the 2010 Chanakya National Management Games Vancouver Olympics, was injured in a crash 2020: during a World Cup super-G race in February Team NTPC Vallur from Tamil Nadu has in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. overcome stiff challenge to emerge as winner World Cup host Qatar set to play in Gold at the recently concluded AIMA Chanakya Cup in 2021 and 2023: (Business Simulation Game) National World Cup host Qatar is set to play in the Management Games(NMG) 2020, an all Gold Cup next year in the United States after India competition for corporate. The accepting an invitation from soccer’s competition was organized by All India governing body for North and Central America Management Association. and the Caribbean. Pierre Gasly wins Italian Grand Prix, Asian Cup champion will participate in the Lewis Hamilton finished seventh after a 2021 and 2023 Gold Cup tournaments as a time penalty: guest under a memorandum of understanding France’s Pierre Gasly won an astonishing signed in Bahrain in 2017. Italian Grand Prix thriller for Italy-based Indian Grandmaster P Iniyan clinches AlphaTauri. McLaren's Spaniard Carlos Sainz victory at prestigious World Open online finished a close second. The victory was a first chess tournament: in F1 for Gasly, the first for a French driver Indian Grandmaster Paneerselvam Iniyan since Olivier Panis in 1996. won the 48th edition of the prestigious Annual England cricketer Ian Bell announces World Open online chess tournament retirement from professional cricket: held recently. The Tamil Nadu player scored Cricketer Ian Bell from England has 7.5 points from nine games with six victories announced that he will retire from all forms of and three draws to finish on top. cricket at the end of the 2020 domestic The 17-year-old Iniyan tied his score with GM season. Ian Bell, 38, retired from ODIs in Sanan Sjugirov (Russia) but emerged 2015 to focus on Test cricket. winner because of a better tie-break score. He is a five-time Ashes winner and has spent his entire career with Warwickshire.

Afghanistan Cricket Board bans Coach Dominic Thiem became Austria’s 2nd Grand Noor Mohammad for 5 years on Slam singles champion. He became the corruption charges: youngest Grand Slam champion and 1st Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has maiden Grand Slam champion since Marin banned domestic-level coach Noor Cilic in 2014. He became the 1st player to win Mohammad ‘Lalai’ from all forms of the from two sets down since Pancho Gonzales in game for five years after he was found guilty 1949. He defeated Alexander Zverev of of approaching a national team player to Germany with 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6. spot-fix matches. Mercedes Lewis Hamilton wins F1 Tuscan Swiss Parachutist Raphael Domjan Grand Prix 2020: makes world’s first jump from solar- Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) powered plane: has won the Formula One Tuscan Grand Prix A parachutist Raphael Domjan has 2020. This was his 6th win of the season and completed the world’s first jump from a solar- 90th F1 win of his career. Valtteri Bottas powered aircraft. Raphael Domjan reached a (Mercedes-Finland) came second followed by speed of 93mph (150kph) before releasing his Alexander Albon (Red Bull – Thailand) at parachute and landing safely in Payerne, third place. western Switzerland. Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first Naomi Osaka wins second US Open title European men's footballer to score 100 after beating Azarenka: international goals: World number nine Naomi Osaka of Japan Cristiano Ronaldo became the first defeated world number 27 Victoria European to score 100 international Azarenka in the US Open women's singles goals. He became the second male final to clinch her second title in three years footballer after Ali Daei, to score 100 at Flushing Meadows. The 22-year-old Osaka international goals after scoring against clinched her third Grand Slam title. Sweden in Tuesday's UEFA Nations League Dominic Thiem Beats Alexander Zverev match. Ali Daei scored 109 times for Iran. To Lift Maiden Grand Slam Title; US Open Thomas and Uber Cup Finals postponed 2020: to 2021 by Badminton World Federation:

Badminton World Federation (BWF) has Novak Djokovic wins fifth Italian Open by announced that the Thomas Cup and the defeating Argentine Diego Schwartzman Uber Cup, which were scheduled to be held to make Masters History: from 3 to 11 October 2020 in Denmark, has World number one Novak Djokovic been postponed for 2021. overcame a sluggish start to lift his fifth This decision has been taken following the Italian Open title defeating Argentine Diego withdrawal of many participating countries Schwartzman 7-5 6-3 for a record 36th ATP from the tournament due to the COVID-19 Masters crown. pandemic. And also, Men’s Doubles won by Marcel International Tennis Federation Granollers /Horacio Zeballos. Women’s Renames Fed Cup as Billie Jean King Cup: Doubles won by Hsieh Su-wei / Barbora International Tennis Federation (ITF) has Strýcová. renamed the Fed Cup, an annual team Tennis world No.1 player and former competition in women tennis, as the “Billie cricketer Ashleigh Barty wins golf Jean King Cup”. Billie Jean King was a tournament: pioneer in women’s tennis who helped the The 24-year-old, world number one United States win the inaugural event. Australian has won the Brookwater Golf Club Simona Halep wins first title in Rome women’s championship. Multi-talented after Karolina Pliskova retires injured; Ashleigh Barty has conquered tennis, been Italian Open 2020: a professional cricketer and has now added World number two Simona Halep won her another string to her sporting bow by winning first Italian Open title after defending a golf tournament. champion Karolina Pliskova retired while trailing 6-0, 2-1. Simona was competing in her third Rome WTA final, having finished runner-up in 2017 and 2018 on the clay at the Foro Italico.

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ENGLISH VOCABULARY: Antonym: forbid, fearfulness 1. INEFFABLE (adjective) Example: He kept harping on about Meaning: too great or extreme to be something. expressed or described in words. Synonyms: inexpressible, indescribable, 5.RE-LITIGATING (Verb) marvelous, wonderful Meaning: To dispute, debate, contest again. Antonyms: definable, describable, utterable Synonym: prosecute, dispute Example: I breathed an air of ineffable Antonym: agree sweetness. Example: This litigation filled the state and federal courts for many years. 2.TRAILBLAZING (Adjective) Meaning: introducing new ideas or methods; 6.POTENT (ADJECTIVE) innovative or pioneering. Meaning: having an abundance of some Synonym: innovative, radical characteristic quality (as flavor) Antonym: conservative Synonyms: vigorous, influential, competent Example: He could drum up the support of Antonyms: ineffective, insignificant the municipal council for the trailblazing idea. Example: The potent poison killed him within seconds 3.PROTRACTED (Adjective) Meaning: lasting for a long time or longer 7.INTRANSIGENCE (Noun) than expected or usual. Meaning: refusal to change one’s views or to Synonym: prolonged, extended agree about something. Antonym: curtail, shorten Synonyms: inflexibility, stubbornness, Example: In the Senate, there was a obstinacy protracted struggle. Example: I can’t understand Rachel’s intransigence, considering that we have 4.HARPING (Verb) undeniable proof that her idea is incorrect. Meaning: talk or write persistently and tediously on (a particular topic). Synonym: dwell, reiterate, repeat

8.DEBASE (Verb) 11. QUAINT (adjective) Meaning: reduce (something) in quality or Meaning: attractively unusual or old- value; degrade. fashioned. Synonyms: degrade, demean, disgrace, Synonyms: picturesque, charming, undermine. attractive, unconventional. Antonyms: enhance Antonyms: ordinary, common, usual, Example: The politician tried to debase his prosaic rival’s good reputation by spreading false Example: The quaint village does not appear rumors about him. to have changed since it was first settled in the early 1900s. 9.STAID (ADJECTIVE) Meaning: marked by settled sedateness and 12. PROTEAN (adjective) often prim self-restraint Meaning: tending or able to change Synonyms: dignified, composed, earnest, frequently or easily. grave, humorless, no-nonsense Synonyms: variable, inconsistent, erratic, Antonyms: indecorous, frivolous, hilarious fluctuating. Example: She was given a staid title-‘The Antonyms: consistent. continual, incessant, Iron Lady’. constant. Example: I am unable to make a final 10.NEUROSIS (NOUN) decision because of my protean nature which Meaning: a mental and emotional disorder makes me indecisive. that affects only part of the personality Synonyms: aberration, dementia, 13. ARRANT (adjective) hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia Meaning: Complete, utter. Antonyms: lucidity, rationality, rationalness, Synonyms: total, absolute, thorough, sheer. reasonability Antonyms: minor, light, unclear, obscure. Example: These are givers whose Example: These people crumble when their philanthropy has been absent neurosis and arrant nonsense is confronted with simple aggression. common sense.

14. STARK (adjective) 17. ATROPHY (verb) Meaning: Unpleasantly or sharply clear. Meaning: gradually decline in effectiveness Synonyms: blunt, plain, unembellished, or vigour due to underuse or neglect. harsh. Synonyms: dwindle, deteriorate, decline, Antonyms: lush, bleak, cheerful, opulent. wane. Example: His evidence in chief stood in stark Antonym: strengthen, revive, advance, contrast to his evidence on cross- flourish. examination. Example: When the gang leader died, his organization’s hold on the city began to atrophy as other gangs moved into the area. 15. PREPONDERANCE (noun) Meaning: the quality or fact of being greater 18. SEMINAL (adjective) in number, quantity, or importance. Meaning: Strongly influencing later Synonyms: prevalence, predominance, developments. majority, generality. Synonyms: Influential, Formative, Antonyms: subservience, disability, Important, Primary. inferiority, flaw Antonyms: Dull, Inessential, Minor, Example: The preponderance of unemployed Unsubstantial. workers is linked to the manufacturer’s desire Example: Newton’s laws are seminal in the to cut costs by sending jobs overseas. field of physics.

16. EPICENE (adjective) 19. PURPORTEDLY (adverb) Meaning: Effeminate; effete. Meaning: As appears or is stated to be true, Synonyms: Sissy, womanish, unmanly, though not necessarily so; allegedly. girlish. Synonyms: professedly, supposedly, Antonyms: manly, mannish, masculine, seemingly, superficially. virile. Antonyms: absolutely, authentically, Example: More epicene than handsome, if certainly, earnestly. you asked me,’ he muttered a bit darkly.’ Example: The woman found a letter purportedly signed by the Prime Minister.

20. MALFEASANCE (noun) 23. Intimidate(verb) Meaning: wrongdoing, especially by a public Meaning: frighten or overawe (someone), official. especially in order to make them do what one Synonyms: misconduct, mistreatment, wants. malpractice, misdoing. Synonyms: dishearten, dismay, terrify Antonyms: openheartedness, propriety, Antonyms: please, praise dignity, manners. Example: Her boss intimidates her Example: In almost every section of his speech, malfeasance or illegal practices were 24. COUP (noun) mentioned. Meaning: an instance of successfully achieving something difficult. 21. Indigenous(adjective) Synonyms: accomplishment, achievement, Meaning: originating or occurring naturally attainment, triumph. in a particular place; native. Antonyms: debacle, failure, downfall, fiasco. Synonyms: native, innate, inborn, primitive, Example: Since our team is usually congenital eliminated early in the competition, we Antonyms: alien, foreign considered it a major coup when we won the Example: They were our indigenous peoples, championship.: our first peoples, our first speakers and our first hearers. 25. MELLOW (adjective) Meaning: (especially of a sound, flavour, or 22. Futuristic(adjective) color) pleasantly smooth or soft; free from Meaning: having or involving very modern harshness. technology or design. Synonyms: dulcet, euphonious, melodious, Synonyms: innovative, modern, cutting mellifluous, mellifluent. edge, visionary Antonyms: rugged, abrading, gruff, Antonyms: old, retro. abrasive, harsh. Example: It almost seems futuristic in Example: His mellow voice and his design, but you can have it right now. qualitative speech made everyone applaud him.

26. REPINE (verb) 29. Jeer (noun) Meaning: feel or express discontent; fret. Meaning: a rude and mocking remark. Synonyms: mope, languish, despondent, Synonyms: hoot, ridicule, scuff, taunt lament. Antonyms: compliment, praise, flatter Antonyms: complacent, fulfilled, rejoice, Example: ViratKohli asked the crowd not to contented. jeer Steve Smith Example: The soldiers repine for their families when they are stationed overseas. 30. Quandary (noun) Meaning: a state of perplexity or uncertainty 27. PRECARIOUS (adjective) over what to do in a difficult situation Meaning: dependent on chance; uncertain. Synonyms: dilemma, plight, bewilderment, Synonyms: unsure, unpredictable, doubtful, uncertainty dubious. Antonyms: enhance, certainty Antonyms: certain, stable, confirmed, Example: Finds himself in the most awkward definite. quandary situation. Example: As Finance Secretary I found that the finances of the state were in a precarious 31.SEDATE: (adjective) condition. Meaning: avoiding excitement or great activity and usually calm and relaxed. 28. SMUG (adjective) Synonyms: calm, composed, recollected, Meaning: having or showing an excessive tranquil. pride in oneself or one’s achievements. Antonyms: agitated, discomposed, Synonyms: bighead, complacency, egotism, flustered, perturbed. vainglory. Example: Dean stepped back further, the Antonyms: diffidence, bashfulness, smile fading from his face as the two men demureness, shyness. drove away at a very sedate pace. Example: Because Rocky had a smug attitude during his meeting with the principal, 32.BEDECK (verb) he projected the image he was proud of his Meaning: to decorate or cover. misdeeds.

Synonyms: adorn, bedizen, embellish, Example: A nurse ushered us into the emblaze. hospital room. Antonyms: denude, blemish, deface, disfigure. 36.VERNACULAR (noun) Example: The cars were all bedecked with Meaning: used in or suitable for speech and flowers for the wedding ceremony. not formal writing. Synonyms: colloquial, jargon, argot, patois. 33. MOTE (noun) Antonyms: standard, undialectical, genteel, Meaning: a tiny piece of a substance; a formal. speck. Example: While the author never stated the Synonyms: bit, dribble, fleck, nugget. novel’s setting, the vernacular of the Antonyms: lump, abundance, bushel, heaps. characters identified the location as Example: Feeling anxious about the state of somewhere in Asia. her home, the obsessive housewife scrubbed away every tiny mote of dust. 37.SACK (verb) Meaning: dismiss from employment. 34. ENVIRON (verb) Synonyms: bounce, discharge, dismiss, Meaning: surround; enclose. terminate, Synonyms: encircle, envelop, cloak, swathe. Antonyms: recruit, employ, engage, hire. Antonyms: unbridle, free, open, release. Example: Any official found to be involved Example: The stone circle was environed by would be sacked on the spot. an expanse of peat soil. 38.SUBTERRANEAN (adjective) 35. USHER (verb) Meaning: secret; concealed. Meaning: show or guide (someone) Synonyms: covert, subversive, sunken, somewhere. private. Synonyms: lead, accompany, conduct, Antonyms: aboveground, surface, open, assist. palpable. Antonyms: retract, conclude, cease, stop. Example: The robbers are digging a subterranean path that will allow them to

enter the bank from underneath the vault’s Example: He looks around for a place to floor. stash the dough and start a new identity.

39. SUBVERT (verb) 42 HEFT (verb) Meaning: undermine the power and Meaning: lift or carry (something heavy). authority of (an established system or Synonyms: lift, heave, hoist, haul. institution). Antonyms: lower, drop, fix, dodge. Synonyms: destabilize, unsettle, overthrow, Example: Reluctantly, she hefted herself up depose. and picked up the phone. Antonyms: dignify, exalt, honor, ameliorate. 43. SUPERANNUATED (adjective) Example: She subverted my noble desire to Meaning: outdated or obsolete through age do a good deed without reward. or new developments; Synonyms: anachronistic, antiquated, 40.CLINCH (verb) defunct, obsolete. Meaning: to make final, definite, or beyond Antonyms: modern, modish, newfangled, dispute. modernized. Synonyms: settle, conclude, finalize, wrap Example: The information on my website up. was superannuated and needed updating Antonyms: confuse, unsettle, release, unfasten. 44. STEER (verb) Example: Her work on the project should Meaning: Guide the movement or course of. clinch her a promotion. Synonyms: guide, conduct, direct, lead. Antonyms: abandon, ashore, fuddle, trail. 41. STASH (noun) Example: I held back a smile at his obvious Meaning: A store or supply of something, attempt to steer me back on course. typically one that is kept hidden or secret. Synonyms: hoard, stockpile, store, 45. Brickbat: (noun) reservoir. Meaning: an act or expression showing scorn Antonyms: cast, discard, dump, jettison. and usually intended to hurt another’s feelings

Synonyms: affront, barb, epithet, indignity. Synonyms: prelude, introduction, opening, Antonyms: accolade, commendation, voluntary. compliment, acclaim. Antonyms: conclusion, epilogue, aftermath, Example: The candidates were reduced to coda. hurling brickbats at each other. Example: He spent more time with the orchestra, with the overture in the beginning 46. TREASON: (noun) of the show than the whole block of the show. Meaning: the action of betraying someone or something. 49. SMUG (adjective) Synonyms: betrayal, disloyalty, falsity, Meaning: having or showing an excessive treachery. pride in oneself or one’s achievements. Antonyms: faithfulness, loyalty, Synonyms: bighead, complacence, egotism, staunchness, steadfastness. vainglory. Example: Reading a friend’s diary without Antonyms: diffidence, bashfulness, permission would have to be regarded as the demureness, shyness. ultimate act of personal treason. Example: Because Rocky had a smug attitude during his meeting with the principal, 47. MEDDLE: (verb) he projected the image he was proud of his Meaning: interfere in something that is not misdeeds. one’s concern. Synonyms: interlope, intrude, poke, pry. 50. DAFT (adjective) Antonyms: shun, disregard, neglect, Meaning: silly; foolish. overlook. Synonyms: balmy, bedlam, demented, Example: Please stop meddling in your deranged sister’s life, even though you mean well. Antonyms: rational, reasonable, judicious, sensible. 48.OVERTURE (noun) Example: We were shocked that Diana was Meaning: an introduction to something more so daft to believe John’s tale substantial.

51. Scoff (Verb) 54. Hoard (Noun) Meaning: speak to someone or about Meaning: to stockpile or store things something in a scornfully derisive or mocking excessively way. Synonyms: accumulation, heap Synonyms: mock, deride, ridicule Antonyms: debt, need Antonyms: flatter, praise, compliment Example: The shopaholic likes to hoard Example: The rude little rich girl thought it clothing and has filled three closets with was fun to scoff at the poor children at her dresses and shoes that she doesn’t need. school. 55. Obscene (Adjective) 52. Enchant (verb) Meaning: offending against moral principles; Meaning: fill (someone) with great delight; repugnant. charm. Synonyms: shocking, scandalous, vile, foul, Synonyms: bewitch, captivate, carry away, atrocious, outrageous charm Antonyms: clean, decent, gentle, Antonyms: annoy, bore, depress magnificent Example: Her singing especially seemed to Example: The salaries some company enchant and fascinate the girl. directors earn are obscene.

53. Coup (Noun) 56. Exotic (adjective Meaning: an instance of successfully Meaning: originating in or characteristic of a achieving something difficult. distant foreign country. Synonyms: success, triumph, feat, Synonym: foreign, non-native Antonyms: failure Antonym: native, familiar Example: There have been seven coup Example: It gave me the notion of an exotic attempts against the beleaguered Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. government. 57. Surreptitiously (adverb) Meaning: in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively.

Synonym: restricted, hidden 61. Throng (Noun) Antonym: open, overt] Meaning: A crowd of people or animals Example: Surreptitiously Naomi pinched her Synonym: stream, swarm, flock, hip till it felt black and blue. Antonym: scantling, take apart Example: we parked the car and made our 58. Hapless (Adjective) way to the little tearoom, packed with throngs Meaning: (especially of a person) of tourists. unfortunate. Synonyms: unfortunate, unlucky 62. Amend (verb) Antonyms: fortunate, lucky Meaning: make minor changes to (a text, Example: When Jason lost his wife and job piece of legislation, etc.) in order to make it on the same day, he knew he was a hapless fairer or more accurate, or to reflect changing soul. circumstances. Synonyms: alter, enhance, lift, modify 59. Plummet (Verb) Antonyms: lower, worsen, break Meaning: fall or drop straight down at high Example: I was for going to Wiscasset, like speed. two prodigals, own our fault, and endeavor to Synonyms: plunge, drop, crush, decline amend. Antonyms: ascend, increase Example: Experts predicted compact disc 63. Substantive (adjective) sales would plummet when the ability to Meaning: having a firm basis in reality and download music became available. so important, Meaningful, or considerable. Synonym: biggish, considerable 60. Vitriolic (Adjective) Antonym: inconsequential, inconsiderable Meaning: filled with bitter criticism or malice. Example: The State Department reported Synonyms: acrimonious, rancorous, bitter, that substantive discussions had taken place caustic, mordant with Beijing. Antonyms: pleasant, kind Example: The newspaper launched a vitriolic attack on the president.

64. Accrual (Noun) 67. Inchoate (adjective) Meaning: the accumulation or increase of Meaning: just begun and so not fully formed something over time, especially payments or or developed; rudimentary. benefits. Synonyms: budding, inceptive, incipient, Synonym: result, arise nascent. Antonym: abatement, decline Antonyms: developed, full-fledged, evolved, Example: Do not confuse limitations on the ripened. accrual of benefits with limitations on Example: Having just come into existence a deductible contribution. few years ago, the new political party is considered inchoate by many historians. 65. Conspire (verb) Meaning: make secret plans jointly to 68. Conflate (verb) commit an unlawful or harmful act. Meaning: combine (two or more sets of Synonym: collude, connive, information, texts, ideas, etc.) into one. Antonym: Neglect, disagree Synonyms: amalgamate, converge, unify, Example: The Culprit conspired to overthrow fuse. the government Antonyms: divide, part, separate, rupture. Example: To conflate art and science, 66. Sulky (Adjective) teachers must design activities that blend the Meaning: morose, bad-tempered, and two. resentful; refusing to be cooperative or cheerful. 69. Pander (Verb) Synonyms: Sullen, surly, pouting, petulant Meaning: gratify or indulge (an immoral or Antonyms: cheerful, amiable distasteful desire or taste or a person with Example: Jay was quite sulky at the such a desire or taste). graduation party, but he tried to hide his Synonyms: indulge, gratify, fulfill, humor apathetic attitude. Antonyms: annoy, frustrate Example: Because Jim wants his son to value a dollar, he does not pander to his whims by giving him everything he wants.

70. Peculiar (Adjective) 73. Incumbent Meaning: different from what is normal or Meaning: necessary for (someone) as a duty expected; strange. or responsibility. Synonyms: strange, unusual, curious, Synonyms: necessary, tenured, compulsory, abnormal officeholder Antonyms: common, general, indefinite, Antonyms: optional, unnecessary ordinary Example: It is incumbent upon all users of Example: My uncle is a peculiar man who this equipment to familiarize themselves with wears the same outfit several days a week. the safety procedure.

71. Compel 74. Retain Meaning: force or oblige (someone) to do Meaning: continue to have (something) ; something. keep possession of. Synonyms: force, oblige, coerce, enforce Synonyms: keep, hold, preserve Antonyms: impede, obstruct, discourage, Antonyms: abandon, release dissuade Example: The union needs to retain the Example: Illness compelled him to stay in allegiance of all its members for the strike to bed. succeed

72. Trail 75.Verdict Meaning: a mark or a series of signs or Meaning: a decision on an issue of fact in a objects left behind by the passage of someone civil or criminal case or an inquest. or something. Synonyms: decision, sentence, judgement Synonyms: track, trace, drag, pursue, path Antonyms: accusation, suggestion Antonyms: lead, surpass Example: In the case of an adverse verdict, Example: The hurricane left a trail of the company could stand to lose millions. destruction behind it.

76. Tarnish Synonyms: charming, captivating, Meaning: lose or cause to lose lustre, enchanting, glamorous especially as a result of exposure to air or Antonyms: repulsive, unrelatable, tedious, moisture. (Verb) abominable, unappealing Synonyms: discolour, stain, sully, besmirch, Example: Not an obviously charismatic blacken, smear, defile figure, Mr Chan’s principal qualities are those Antonyms: improve, purify, clean, brighten, of a high-order bureaucrat. enhance Example: The scandal tarnished his 80. Lopsided reputation. Meaning: with one side lower or smaller than the other 77. Stride Synonyms: uneven, unequal, irregular, Meaning: walk with long, decisive steps in a unbalanced, disproportionate, partial specified direction. (Verb) Antonyms: level, balanced, even Synonyms: pace, tread, advance, progress, Example: After all, such lopsided enthusiasm strut indicates that you feel well equipped to tell Antonyms: drag, hobble, crawl judges how to do their jobs Example: A gang of armed men strode into the bank and approached the teller. 81. Beset Meaning: (of a problem or difficulty) trouble 78. Robust (someone or something) persistently. Meaning: strong and healthy; vigorous. Synonyms: harass, plague, assail, hound, Synonyms: strong, sound, powerful attack Antonyms: weak, feeble, frail Antonyms: protect, defend, aid, assist Example: The company is taking a more Example: A lack of money is the greatest robust approach to management. problem besetting the city today.

79. Charismatic 82. Underscore Meaning: exercising a compelling charm Meaning: emphasize which inspires devotion in others. Synonyms: stress, underline, highlight

Antonym: ignore Example: Your proxy will need to sign the Example: The Labour Department figures form on your behalf. underscore the shaky state of the economic recovery. 86. Stark Meaning: severe or bare in appearance or 83. Vacuum outline. Meaning: a space entirely devoid of matter. Synonyms: crisp, distinct, obvious (Noun) Antonyms: fuzzy, indistinct, pleasant Synonyms: void, emptiness, vacancy Example: The remains of the building stand Antonyms: fullness, abundance as a stark reminder of the fire. Example: The writer criticized the moral vacuum in society. 87. Eponymous Meaning: (of a person) giving their name to something. 84. Disconcerting Synonyms: self-titled, namesake, Meaning: tending to cause discomfort, homonymous, titular uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; Antonyms: anonymous, nameless, upsetting. unknown, incognito Synonyms: unsettling, disturbing, Example: Benko is the author of an embarrassing eponymous opening line for the black pieces. Antonyms: soothing, affable, comforting Example: I found it very disconcerting to be 88. Fillip in the function in which I was not invited. Meaning: something which acts as a stimulus or boost to activity. 85. Proxy Synonyms: incentive, stimulus, boost, Meaning: the authority to represent encouragement someone else, especially in voting. Antonyms: deterrence, disincentive Synonyms: substitute, surrogate, deputy, Example: The news gave a fillip to the representative telecommunication sector.

89. Saving grace Meaning: Kind not seen before Meaning: the redeeming grace of God. Synonyms: Different, Unique, Strange Synonyms: good point, attractive aspect, Example: The computer produced a advantage completely novel proof of a well-known Antonyms: weak point, disadvantage, theorem. difficulty, weakness Example: Dogs are a man’s best friend and 93. Surpassed (verb) Doing something a cop’s saving grace. beyond expectation Meaning: Greater in scope 90. Uptick Synonyms: Outperform, Outpace Meaning: a small increase or slight upward Example: One line of soldiers surpassed the trend. others Synonyms: uptrend, rise, increase, growth, increment, surge 94. Ramped (verb) Going up with a speed Antonyms: downtick, decrement, decline, Meaning: Climbing up loss, abatement, decrease Synonyms: Heighten, Boost Example: Unfortunately, the passage of the Example: The roses ramped over the wall law didn’t translate into an uptick of tenants using vouchers in the city, Martin 95. Steadily (Adjective) That happens at a acknowledged. predictable, reliable, unchanging pace Meaning: Happening at a regular pace 91. Nuance (noun) A slight degree of Synonyms: Regularly difference or distinction in opinion Example: With the growing popularity of Meaning: International Kite Festival in Gujarat, the kite Synonyms: Refinement, Nicety making industry is also growing steadily. Example: Without understanding the finer nuances, you cannot enjoy the humor 96. Sensitivity (Noun) Ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal 92. Novel (Noun) Completely new or environment original

Meaning: Responsivenss to emotional 100. Probable (adjLikely or not certain to be feelings ture or real Synonyms: Nervousness, Feeling Meaning: Apparently Destined Example: The source declined to be Synonyms: Likely identified by name or nationality due to Example: The probable consequences of the sensitivity of the evolving contacts going ahead with the scheme

97. Advisory (noun) Usually advising or warning the public about something. CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ: Meaning: Recommendations Q.1) Name the first multi-wavelength satellite Synonyms: Consultative, Consultatory of India which has recently detected an Example: He also reiterated the agency’s extreme ultraviolet (UV) light from a galaxy plans to consult its 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth? vaccine advisory committee before making a a) CartoSat decision. b) AstroSat c) GSAT 98. Theoretically (adv) In a theoretical d) RISAT manner e) Gaofon Meaning: According to the assumed facts Q.2) 45 highway projects were inaugurated Synonyms: Hypothetically, Apparently by the Union Minister Nitin Gadkari recently in Example: Because I mean, theoretically, you which state for around Rs 11,427 crore? emerged at the same time he was leaving. a) Karnataka b) Madhya Pradesh 99. Stretched (verb) Spread over a wide c) Tripura area or distance d) Assam Meaning: Relieved of stiffness e) Gujarat Synonyms: Flexible, Extended Q.3) Name the Chairman of the Defence Example: Well- stretched muscles are less Research and Development Organisation, susceptible to injury whose tenure has been extended for two more years till 2022

a) Kailasavadivoo Sivan Q.7) Who among the following cricketer has b) G Satheesh Reddy become the first fast bowler to take 600 Test c) A. S. Kiran Kumar wickets? d) Sanjay Mitra a) Kagiso Rabada e) Manik Chandran b) James Anderson Q.4) Which company has partnered with c) Vernon Philander Goals101.ai to create targeted and d) Stuart Broad personalized offers for customers? e) Lungi Ngidi a) Paisa Q.8) Which state government has signed MoU b) Visa with Micro Tek new technologies to set up c) Mastercard electronics manufacturing unit in the state d) Rupay (August 2020) ? e) American Express a) Gujarat Q.5) IIT Madras has collaborated with which b) Arunachal Pradesh university to develop a method to safely c) Maharashtra dispose of toxic pharmaceutical wastewater? d) Himachal Pradesh a) Princeton University e) Chhattisgarh b) Stuttgart University Q.9) Which railway station has introduced c) Harvard University baggage sanitization and wrapping machine d) Oxford University recently? e) Yale University a) Mangalore Railway station Q.6) Who has emerged as the fastest human b) Kanpur Railway station calculator in the world after winning first-ever c) Ahmedabad Railway station gold for India in Mental Calculation World d) Chennai Railway station Championship held in London? e) Mumbai Railway station a) Akshay Venkatesh Q.10) Pascal Lissouba who passed away in b) Nayandeep Deka Baruah August 2020 is the former president of which c) Vimal Soundararajan country? d) Neelakanta Bhanu Prakash a) Burundi e) Sucharit Sarkar b) Congo

c) Rwanda a) Golf d) Ethiopia b) Table Tennis e) Zambia c) Cricket Q.11) Which of the following stock exchanges d) Badminton has launched ‘silver options’ in the commodity e) Football derivatives segment from September 1? Q.15) What is the theme of World Water Week a) Indian Energy Exchange 2020? b) National Stock Exchange a) Water and Climate change: Accelerating c) London Stock Exchange Action d) Calcutta Stock Exchange b) Water, Ecosystems and Human e) Bombay Stock Exchange Development Q.12) Which of the following state has topped c) Water for society – including all the 2020 Export Preparedness Index (EPI) ? d) Water and waste: Reduce and reuse a) Madhya Pradesh e) Water for society;Accelerating Action b) Tamil Nadu Q.16) Which continent was declared wild polio c) Karanataka free by World Health organization in August d) Gujarat 2020? e) Kerala a) Australia Q.1) Which state has topped the list for b) South America having the highest number of women c) Asia beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra d) Africa Yojana (PMMY), since the launch of the e) Europe scheme? Q.17) What is the projected growth rate of a) Rajasthan India for 2020-21 as per Reserve Bank of b) Uttar Pradesh India’s annual report 2019-20? c) Tamil Nadu a) -2.7% d) West Bengal b) -4.5% e) Jharkhand c) -3.5% Q.14) Poulomi Ghatak, has recently d) -5.2% announced her retirement from which sports? e) -0.7%

Q.18) Which state government has signed d) Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals MoU with M3M Foundation to enable students e) Akaltara Power to get into government jobs? Q.22) The IITs Alumni Council has signed an a) Maharashtra agreement with which country to develop b) Punjab world’s largest and fastest hybrid quantum c) Karnataka computer in India? d) Madhya Pradesh a) United States e) Haryana b) Germany Q.19) Who has been appointed as the Group c) France President of Reliance? d) Russia a) Mukesh Ambani e) Japan b) Sanjiv Singh Q.23) Who represented the Indian delegation c) Shrikant Madhav Vaidya at the 2020 BRICS Industry Ministers’ meet d) Nita Ambani held virtually recently? e) Rajiv Kumar a) Rattan Lal Kataria Q.20) ‘Cricket Drona’, a book on renowned b) Nityanand Rai coachVasudevJagannathParanjpe was written c) Arjun Ram Meghwal by whom? d) Som Parkash a) JatinParanjpe e) Naveen Kumar b) Anand Vasu Q.24) Name of the Minister that launched the c) BoriaMajumdar Directorate General National Cadet Corps d) Both a) and c) (DGNCC) mobile app in order to conduct e) Both a) and b) online training of NCC cadets? Q.21) Greenko Energies signed MoU with a) Harsh Vardhan which public sector company to explore b) Rajnath Singh renewable energy power supply solution and c) Amit Shah energy storage? d) Narendra Modi a) Damodar Valley Corporation e) Ramnath Kovind b) Bokaro Transmission Company c) NTPC VidyutVyapar Nigam

Q.25) Which state/UT government has c) Ericsson launched ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’ d) Bharti Airtel campaign for students? e) Reliance Jio a) Ladakh Q.29) Centre has formed a 5-member expert b) Goa panel to redefine the role of the DRDO for the c) Chandigarh current and futuristic defence and battlefield d) Assam scenarios. Who is the Chairperson of this e) Delhi committee? Q.26) Which of the following states has a) S. Somnath established a State Development Corporation b) V. Ramagopal Rao to borrow more money and channelize c) Samir V. Kamat donations? d) Sandeep Singh a) Odisha e) Hari Kumar b) Rajasthan Q.30) Find the company which has partnered c) Haryana with Innoviti Payment Solutions to develop d) Andhra Pradesh installments platform for face-to-face e) Uttar Pradesh transactions. Q.27) Who has become the youngest author a) Capital One to win the International Booker Prize? b) Visa a) David Grossman c) Mastercard b) Olga Tokarczuk d) Rupay c) Han Kang e) American Express d) Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Q.31) Association of Indian Football Coaches e) Jokha Al-Harthi (AIFC) signed MoU with which country’s Q.28) Which company has partnered with coaches’ association recently? UNICEF to map internet connectivity a) United Kingdom landscape for schools in 35 countries by the b) Australia end of 2023? c) Germany a) AT&T d) Argentina b) Verizon e) Portugal

Q.32) Who among the following represented d) Yoshihiko Noda India at the ASEAN-India Business Council e) None of the above virtual meet? Q.36) Who became the first Indian-origin a) Suresh Prabhu woman to be honoured with a memorial Blue b) Piyush Goyal Plaque in London? c) Rajnath Singh a) Noor Inayat Khan d) Nitin Gadkari b) Sheerin Khan e) Nirmala Sitharaman c) Nusrat Ali Khan Q.33) The ‘NRI unified portal’ has been d) Fatima Khan launched by which state for overseas Indian e) Noor Sheikh and NRI residents of the state to provide them Q.37) National Sports Day celebration assistance during the time of needs? highlights the birth anniversary of which a) Tamil Nadu legendary player? b) Odisha a) Milkha Singh c) Uttar Pradesh b) Balbir Singh d) Maharashtra c) Major Dhyan Chand e) Madhya Pradesh d) Dhanraj Pillay Q.34) Name the toll-free helpline by the e) Vikrath Nath Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Q.38) Bob and Mike Bryan who have to enable access to mental health resources. announced their retirement recently played a) Naveen which sport? b) Nistha a) Basketball c) Kiran b) Shooting d) Araha c) Badminton e) Astha d) Rugby Q.35) Japanese PM ______has e) Tennis announced his resignation for health reasons. Q.39) Which of the following country will host a) Shinzo Abe the BRICS Games 2021? b) Naoto Kan a) China c) Yukio Hatoyama b) South Africa

c) India Q.43) Recently, the minister for Electronics d) Brazil and Information Technology Ravi Shankar e) Russia Prasad has launched an Next Generation Q.40) Pratheeksha is the first in the series of Startup Challenge Contest named as three marine ambulances that were launched ______. recently. The first-of-its king marine a) Pratham ambulance boats have been inaugurated in b) Chunauti which state? c) Lakshay a) Andhra Pradesh d) Bhavishya b) Gujarat e) Karthan c) Tamil Nadu Q.44) Who among the following recently d) Kerala launched e-launches “National GIS-enabled e) Maharashtra Land Bank system”? Q.41) The 14th India-Singapore Defence a) Rajnath Singh Policy Dialogue (DPD) was co-chaired by b) Ravi Shankar Prasad Defence Secretary of India and Singapore. c) Piyush Goyal Who is the Defence Secretary of India? d) Amit Shah a) Sanjai Bajpai e) Ramnath Kovind b) Ajay Kumar Q.45) Which among the Universities has been c) Vishal Gagan conferred with Maulana Abul Kalam d) Nivedita Shukla Verma Azad(MAKA) Trophy 2019? e) Mahesh Kumar a) Jamia Millia Islamia Q.42) Recently, Archana Mahanta passed b) Lovely Professional University away. She was a/an ______. c) Indira Gandhi National Open University a) Climate Activist (IGNOU) b) Actress d) Panjab University c) Journalist e) Delhi University d) Politician Q.46) Assam government has signed an MoU e) Singer with which country to set up the Skill University in the state?

a) Singapore Q.50) The mobile app ‘Pension Corner’ has b) Germany been launched by which organisation for its c) Japan retired personnels? d) Russia a) Border Security Force (BSF) e) Maldives b) Intelligence Bureau Q.47) Who participated in the 8th East Asia c) Indian Coast Guard virtual Summit (Economic Ministers’ Meeting) d) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) 2020 from India side? e) Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) a) Nirmala Sitharaman Q.51) Which of the following football team has b) Nitin Gadkari won the 2020 FA Community Shield? c) Piyush Goyal a) Manchester United d) Ravi Shankar Prasad b) Liverpool e) S Jaishankar c) Arsenal Q.48) Name the top ranking Indian company d) Juventus in the Rabobank’s Global Top 20 Dairy e) Barcelona Companies list? Q.52) India has recently been declared as the a) Amul joint winner with which country in the maiden b) Mother Dairy FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020? c) Namaste India a) Russia d) Kwality Ltd b) Belgium e) Honey taste c) France Q.49) Who among the following player has d) Poland won the F1 Belgian Grand Prix 2020? e) Germany a) Valtteri Bottas Q.53) Congress MP Shri Harikrishnan b) Sebastian Vettel Vasantha Kumar died, he was from which c) Max Verstappen state? d) Lewis Hamilton a) Maharashtra e) None of the Above b) Gujarat c) Tamil Nadu d) Kerala

e) Karnataka a) Varun Singh Bhati Q.54) What is India’s rank based on average b) MariyappanThangavelu monthly wage as per the data prepared by c) Deepa Malik Picodi.com (Switzerland tops) ? d) Satyendra Singh Lohia a) 44th e) DevendraJhajharia b) 72nd Q.58) Name the former cricketer/Cricket c) 81st coach who co-authored the book titled, d) 53rd “Pitching It Straight” with MS Unnikrishnan. e) 111th a) J. Arunkumar Q.55) Which of the following state has b) Ranjith Chowdry become the first country in Africa to eliminate c) Sanjay Bangar human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping d) Gurcharan Singh sickness? e) Ravi Shastri a) Zambia Q.59) Governmenthas increases prize money b) Togo of Arjuna Award From 5 lakhs to ______c) Chad lakhs. d) Kenya a) Rs 15 lakh e) Ghana b) Rs 10 lakh Q.56) Who among the following has been c) Rs 7 lakh picked by the former Lebanese prime d) Rs 20 lakh ministers to head the country's next e) Rs 12 lakh government? Q.60) Which country has launched an agri- a) Sadd Hariri commodity trading and sourcing e-1market b) Hassan Diab platform Agriota to bridge the gap between its c) Najib Mikati food industry and r2ural farmers in India? d) Mohammad Mustiff a) Russia e) Mustapha Adib b) Netherlands Q.57) Who is the 1stdivyang sportsperson of c) Japan the country to get prestigious Tenzing Norgay d) UAE Adventure Award? e) Maldives

Q.61) Who has been elected as the new Q.65) Recently, Former President Pranab Chairman of the Press Trust of India to Mukherjee passed away he served as the —— replace Vijay Kumar Chopra? ——–Indian President? a) Vineet Jain a) 13th b) Aveek Sarkar b) 12th c) Mahendra Mohan Gupta c) 15th d) K.N. Shanth Kumar d) 17th e) Naveen Keshav e) 14th Q.62) As per the data released by the National Q.66) Which of the following company tied up Statistical Office, India’s GDP for the April- with State Bank of India for a long-term June quarter slipped by how much percent?? syndicated loan facility worth Rs 10,000 a) 18.5% crore? b) 11.6% a) Vedanta c) 25.7% b) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd d) 23.9% c) Reliance Industries Ltd e) 15.9% d) Coal India Ltd Q.63) Who among these celebrities has been e) Indian Oil Corp roped in as the brand ambassador of Myntra? Q.67) Which of the following Airport is a) Disha Patani bestowed with the 21st National Awards for b) Kriti Sanon Excellence in Energy management organised c) Kiara Advani by CII and GBC? d) Shraddha Kapoor a) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport e) Alia Bhat b) Kolkata International Airport Q.64) Which of the following state has roped c) Lucknow International Airport in India’s first-ever woman ambulance driver? d) GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd a) Tamil Nadu e) Indira Gandhi International Airport b) Andhra Pradesh Q.68) Who among the following has won the c) Maharashtra Biju Patnaik award on National Sports Day? d) Gujarat a) Sakhigopal e) Karnataka b) Varun Bhati

c) Amit Kumar Q.72) The ‘Vattatha Uravakkayi d) Sharad Kumar Jalasamrudhi’of which state has won the e) Jayanti Behera award for excellence at the National Water Q.69) The government of which state will set Innovation Summit in association with the up India’s first International Women’s Trade Union Ministry of Jal Shakti? Centre in consonance with the United Nations a) Mizoram Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ? b) Telangana a) Chattisgarh c) Kerala b) Haryana d) Andhra Pradesh c) Madhya Pradesh e) Karnataka d) Kerala Q.73) Which month of the year has been e) Uttar Pradesh announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Q.70) PM Modi inaugurated the college, to be observed as “Nutrition Month”? administration buildings of Rani Lakshmi Bai a) December Central Agricultural University in which city b) October recently? c) September a) Patna d) November b) Roorkee e) August c) Jhansi Q.74) India has set the target of achieving d) Mandi 100 million tonnes (MT) coal gasification until e) Nainital which year? Q.71) The 6th edition of International a) 2024 Military-Technical Forum “Army-2020” held at b) 2026 which city? c) 2029 a) Geneva, Switzerland d) 2030 b) Washington DC, United States of America e) 2025 c) Moscow, Russia Q.75) European investment bank plans to d) New Delhi, India invest € 650 Million for the 1st metro line of e) Beijing, China which city? a) Lucknow

b) Patna b) 17.1% c) Noida c) 10.9% d) Kanpur d) 11.2% e) Surat e) 12.5% Q.76) Who has become the first woman IG to Q.80) Who has been appointed as the Director lead CRPF in Kashmir? (R&D) of Bharat Electronics Limited? a) Charu Sinha a) R Madhavan b) Sandhya Singh b) Sharma Sekar c) Amitab Bhattacharya c) M V Raja Sekhar d) Kiran Bedi d) Harish Kumar e) Archana Ramasundaram e) Sivarama Krishna Q.77) Which state has announced to set up an Q.81) Name the person who got 6-month exclusive anti-electricity theft police station in extension as the chairman of Central Board of every district? Direct Taxes (CBDT). a) Maharashtra a) Sanjay Gupta b) Uttar Pradesh b) Pramod Chandra Mody c) Andhra Pradesh c) Rajnish Kumar d) Madhya Pradesh d) Rahul Chaudhry e) Himachal Pradesh e) M Ajit Kumar Q.78) The chartered Airliner of which country Q.82) Hemant Khatri assumed charge as the has completed its symbolic First Direct Flight Chairman and Managing director of which to the United Arab Emirates? public sector company (with effect from a) Thailand September 1, 2020) ? b) Qatar a) Hindustan Shipyard limited c) Israel b) Power Grid Corporation of India d) Palestine c) National Thermal Power Corpration e) Japan d) Power Finance Corporation Q.79) As per the estimation of SBI Ecowrap, e) Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers India’s GDPfor the FY21 is ______. a) 13.8%

Q.83) Who is the head of the 6-member e) Leander Paes committee set up by IRDAI to study index- Q.87) Who among the following has been linked products for life insurance companies? appointed as the Secretary in Lok Sabha with a) Dinesh Pant effect from September 1? b) Manish Kumar a) Rajesh Talwar c) Srinivasa Rao b) Anand Singh d) John Caron c) Rajiv Kumar Singh e) Anil Kumar d) Ravi Gupta Q.84) Name the bot developed by Indian e) Utpal Kumar Singh Railways to remotely control medical trolley Q.88) ‘AIR Scanner’ is an AI based Reading to deliver food and medicines to COVID-19 Assistant and Document Scanner app patients? launched by the students of which institute? a) PEDICBOT a) IIT Madras b) HUMANBOT b) IIT Bombay c) MEDBOT c) IIT Delhi d) DAVAIBOT d) IIT Kanpur e) ROBOBOT e) IIT Mandi Q.85) Name the person who has written the Q.89) Name the state which had recently book named “The Big Thoughts of Little Luv”. launched 15 days long Gandgi Bharat Chhodo a) Naseeruddin Shah campaign to make the state garbage free? b) AyushmannKhurrana a) Madhya Pradesh c) Rishi Kapoor b) Haryana d) Karan Johar c) Gujarat e) Twinkle Khanna d) Maharashtra Q.86) Who has become the first Indian to win e) Karnataka a round at Grand Slam in seven years? Q.90) Which of the following university in Asia a) Mahesh Bhupathi has become the first-ever to make the overall b) Sumit Nagal top 20 in THE World University Ranking 2021? c) Yuki Bhambri a) Peking University d) Prajnesh Gunneswaran b) Fudan University

c) Zhejiang University Q.94) Who has become the 1st women d) Oxford University director general of Bureau of Civil Aviation e) Tsinghua University Security? Q.91) What is India's rank in the Global a) Nirmala Devi Innovation Index (Switzerland Tops) ? b) Anshi Sharma a) 53rd c) Usha Padhee b) 33rd d) Meera Mithun c) 44th e) Nirupama Rao d) 56th Q.95) Cycling Federation of India (CFI) e) 48th planned to host the first ever cycling summit Q.92) Who has launched world’s 1st exclusive in ______. product market for the renewable energy a) 2022 sector named Green Term Ahead Market b) 2023 (GTAM) ? c) 2021 a) PiyushGoyal d) 2024 b) Pralhad Joshi e) 2025 c) Giriraj Singh Q.96) Which IIT has collaborated with Czech d) Raj Kumar Singh Republic’s University of Pardubice for data e) Ravi Shankar Prasad protection project? Q.93) Which state government received the a) IIT Madras nod from Insurance Regulatory and b) IIT Kanpur Development Authority (IRDA) recently to c) IIT Guwahati form its own insurance firm? d) IIT Delhi a) Andhra Pradesh e) IIT Bhopal b) Telangana Q.97) Who among the following has assumed c) Madhya Pradesh charge as the Chief of Material of the Indian d) Haryana Navy? e) Chhattisgarh a) Jayant Singh b) Dinesh Gupta c) Ramesh Kumar

d) Robin Singh c) Shashank Singh Bisht e) SR Sarma d) Jyoti Das Q.98) Who is the author of the book titled, e) Hemant Singh “The One and Only Sparkella”? Q.102) Which city of India is set to get the a) Lena Dunham country’s first regional voters’ awareness b) Channing Tatum centre by the Election Commission of India? c) Matt Damon a) Pune d) Tom Hanks b) Delhi e) Ben Affleck c) Mumbai Q.99) Who has been appointed as the d) Jaipur Secretary in Ministry of Statistics and e) Lucknow Programme Implementation? Q.103) Which airlines has launched a portable a) Jayant Sinha ventilator SpiceOxy for patients with b) Dinesh Gupta breathing issues? c) Kshatrapati Shivaji a) Swiss Air d) Robin Singh b) Go Air e) Sarath Sarma c) Jet Air Q.100) Olympic Ski Champion Viktoria d) SpiceJet Rebensburg who announced retirement e) Air India recently belongs to which country? Q.104) Which of the following University has a) Demark topped the “THE World University Rankings b) Sweden 2021”? c) Germany a) University of Oxford d) Switzerland b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology e) Netherland (MIT) Q.101) Who has been appointed as the first- c) Harvard University ever Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the d) Stanford University Railway Board? e) Zhejiang University a) Arun Pratap Maurya Q.105) What is the total number of states and b) Vinod Kumar Yadav Union Territories in India that have been

linked with the ration card portability scheme c) Indian Institute of Science (IISc), ‘One Nation-One Ration Card’ of the GoI Bengaluru (September 2020) ? d) Indian Institute of Technology Madras a) 29 e) None of the Above b) 21 Q.109) Which institution's incubated startup c) 26 launched ‘Chakr DeCoV’ mechanism to d) 23 decontaminate N95 masks? e) 28 a) IIT Kharagpur Q.106) Who among the following has been b) IIT Kanpur given the charge of the Chairman and c) IIT Bombay Managing Director (CMD) of Bharat Petroleum d) IIT Madras Corporation Limited (BPCL) ? e) IIT Delhi a) Sunil Yadav Q.110) Which country appointed cricket icon b) K Padmakar Matthew Hayden as its trade envoy to India? c) Arun Kumar Singh a) Australia d) Rajesh Aggarwal b) Singapore e) Ram Shankar c) Russia Q.107) Name the CMD who has extended the d) England tenure of India Trade Promotion Organisation e) Germany (ITPO) by one year. Q.111) Which country will host summit of a) Ajay Tripathi Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) b) Shashank Priya council of heads of government on 2020 c) L C Goyal November? d) Rahul Kumar Shrawat a) India e) Sanjay Gupta b) China Q.108) Which Indian University has achieved c) Russia the highest rank in the “THE World University d) Japan Rankings 2021”? e) France a) Indian Institute of Technology Delhi b) Indian Institute of Technology Indore

Q.112) SIDBI has inked a pact with the d) Kansas government of which state to develop the e) Kingwood MSME ecosystem? Q.116) Which state signed MoU with Shri a) Madhya Pradesh Vallabh Pittie International Group to invest b) Karnataka Rs. 4000 crores in various sector? c) Maharashtra a) Chhattisgarh d) Himachal Pradesh b) Uttar Pradesh e) Kerala c) Rajasthan Q.113) Which country has the world's largest d) Haryana navy as per the report released by the US e) Madhya Pradesh Department of Defence? Q.117) Name the Indian GM who has won the a) China Annual World Open online chess tournament b) Israel title for 2020? c) Russia a) Gukesh D d) Germany b) R Praggnanandhaa e) India c) Nihal Sarin Q.114) Who becomes the first cricket d) Panneerselvam Iniyan ambassador for “SBOTOP” sports book brand? e) Gunasekaran a) MS Dhoni Q.118) Who is the author of the book “Let Us b) Chris Gayle Dream”? c) Virat Kohli a) Dalai Lama d) Dwayne Bravo b) Sadguru e) Rohit Sharma c) António Guterres Q.115) US President Donald Trump has d) Pope Francis announced which of the following cities as the e) Mark Henry first World War II Heritage City to mark the Q.119) India has inked deal with which 75th anniversary of the end of World War II? country to manufacture AK-47 203 rifles for a) Conroe Indian Army? b) Stafford a) France c) Wilmington b) Israel

c) Germany e) Punjab d) Russia Q.123) 11th INDRA NAVY bilateral exercise e) Japan was held in which place? Q.120) Which Indian company is all set to be a) Bay of Bengal awarded the Green Factory Building b) Arabian Sea Certification By IGBC? c) Indian Ocean a) Schneider d) Pacific Ocean b) Fanuc e) Andaman and Nicobar c) L&T Q.124) CSIR-IICT in partnership with of the d) ABB following states has planned to establish a e) Abbot bulk drug park? Q.121) Name the organization which released a) Telangana the publication named “The Little Book of b) Uttar Pradesh Green Nudges”. c) Gujarat a) United Nations Industrial Development d) Andhra Praesh Organization (UNIDO) e) Madhya Pradesh b) International Labour Organization (ILO) Q.125) Who among the following has been c) United Nations Environment Programme named as India’s next envoy to Italy? (UNEP) a) Ajay Kumar d) United Nations Educational, Scientific and b) Anand Sinha Cultural Organization (UNESCO) c) Neena Malhotra e) United Nations Development Programme d) Ravish Kumar (UNDP) e) Suresh Ranjan Q.122) Which state government has launched Q.126) Which state of India has topped the the app named ‘I Rakhwali’ to make citizens Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) ranking ‘Greenery Saviours’? of states for 2018-19? a) Kerala a) Maharashtra b) Chhattisgarh b) Andhra Pradesh c) Maharashtra c) Uttar Pradesh d) Haryana d) Gujarat

e) Madhya Pradesh b) Bangladesh Q.127) RBI has notified that Start-ups will be c) India eligible for finance under the priority sector d) Bhutan and maximum amount that can be availed e) Nepal is______Q.131) Name of the person who has made an a) Rs 20 crore announcement that Jammu will get first-ever b) Rs 50 crore cannabis medicine project soon? c) Rs 75 crore a) Amit Shah d) Rs 100 crore b) Jitendra Singh e) Rs 40 crore c) Harsh Vardhan Q.128) Which state has launched the d) Rajnath Singh ‘Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agriculture e) Ramnath Kovind Resilience through Innovative Development Q.132) Ian Bell who has announced his (REWARD) ’ scheme? retirement from all forms of cricket played for a) Karnataka which country? b) Assam a) South Africa c) Haryana b) New Zealand d) Maharashtra c) Australia e) Kerala d) England Q.129) Who was the winner of the Italian e) Netherland Grand Prix 2020? Q.133) Which company has partnered with a) Max Verstappen CyberPeace Foundation to launch awareness b) Lewis Hamilton programme on cyber safety among students c) Pierre Gasly in India? d) Lance Stroll a) WhatsApp e) Sebastian Vettel b) Google Q.130) Which country will host the 36th c) Amazon edition of FAO Regional Conference for Asia d) Facebook and the Pacific (APRC) 2022? e) Microsoft a) Japan

Q.134) SVAYEM scheme has been launched c) Virudhunagar by which state to provide self-employment to d) Salem around 2 lakh youths of the state? e) Madurai a) Assam Q.138) Who has been appointed as the b) Uttar Pradesh Secretary-General of the Advertising c) Odisha Standards Council of India (ASCI) ? d) West Bengal a) Manisha Kapoor e) Karnataka b) Yatinder Prasad Q.135) Which IIT signed MoU with National c) Charu Sinha Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) for d) Utpal Singh collaboration in Building Accessible Safe e) Shweta Purandare Inclusive Indian Cities (BASIIC) programme? Q.139) Who among the following has been a) IIT Madras appointed as the next Ambassador of India to b) IIT Delhi the Republic of Croatia? c) IIT Bombay a) Pawan Singh d) IIT Roorkee b) Suresh Mathur e) IIT Bhopal c) ShilpaReddy Q.136) Which country has launched a d) Raj Kumar Srivastava reusable experimental spacecraft on a Long e) Anand Prakash March-2F carrier rocket recently? Q.140) Who among the following has won the a) Japan 2019-20 Kia NBA Rookie of the Year Award? b) Germany a) James Hope c) United States b) Chris Paul d) India c) Kendrick Nunn e) China d) Zion Williamson Q.137) Which of the following district of Tamil e) Ja Morant Nadu has become the first one to be regarded Q.141) Who among the following has joined as a 'fully Digital Economy district'? the International Finance Services Centres a) Chennai Authority as an Executive Director? b) Coimbatore a) Rajesh Gupta

b) Manoj Kumar Q.145) Which state/UT government has c) Pramod Tiwary relaunched 10-week anti dengue campaign d) Amitesh Sinha named “10 Hafte 10 Baje 10 minute”? e) Raj Kumar a) Punjab Q.142) Which of the following companies has b) Chhattisgarh appointed Supratim Dutta as its Chief c) Delhi Financial Officer (CFO) ? d) Jammu and Kashmir a) Reliance Jio e) Haryana b) Tata Motors Q.146) Who has been appointed as president c) ITC limited of Federation of Automobile Dealers d) Google India Associations (FADA) ? e) GMR Group a) Ashish Kapoor Q.143) What was the theme of the first b) Venkatesh Kumar edition of the International Day of Clean Air c) Vinkesh Gulati for blue skies? d) Ashish Harsharaj Kale a) Breathe Clean Air e) Ranjith Kumar b) Breathing Easy in the 21st century Q.147) Who inaugurated 24x7 toll-free Mental c) Clean Air in a Pandemic Health Rehabilitation Helpline KIRAN? d) Clean Air for All a) Thaawarchand Gehlot e) Let's Act Together for better air b) Narendra Singh Tomar Q.144) Who will Chair the Multidimensional c) Rajnath Singh Poverty Index Coordination Committee d) Harsh Vardhan (MPICC) formed by NITI Aayog? e) Krishan Pal a) Rakesh Jain Q.148) Which organization has demonstrated b) Nikunj Sanghi the hypersonic air-breathing scramjet c) Kailash Gupta technology with the flight test of the d) Sanyukta Samaddar Hypersonic Technology Demonstration e) Jai Shanker Vehicle (HSTDV) ? a) CSIR b) DRDO

c) HAL a) Sharad Arvind Bobde d) ISRO b) Arun Bhatia e) GRSE c) Rohinton Fali Nariman Q.149) Who among the following has been d) Indu Malhotra crowned as Wushu World Champion? e) Deepak Mishra a) Sanjitha Singh Q.153) R Masakui has been appointed as the b) Sonam Kapoor Next High Commissioner of India to which of c) Poonam Khatri the following nation? d) Pavithra Raman a) Jamaica e) Poornima Rajan b) West Indies Q.150) Andhra Pradesh government has c) Kenya signed an MoU with which country to help d) Brazil benefit the horticulture and aquaculture e) Zimbabwe farmers across the State? Q.154) Jiri Menzel who passed away in a) Denmark September 2020 is a renowned ______. b) Israel a) Economist c) Germany b) Cricketer d) Netherlands c) Politician e) France d) Painter Q.151) Which of the following companies has e) Film Director bagged a €10-m loan from KfW IPEX-Bank to Q.155) Who has been appointed as the Vice- facilitate German exports to India? President of the Federation of Automobile a) Tata Capital Financial Services Ltd Dealers Associations? b) SREI Equipment Finance a) Sarath Sharma c) Bajaj Finance b) Manish Raj Singhania d) Muthoot Finance Ltd c) Selvakumar Vigneshwar e) HDB Finance Services d) Vinkesh Gulati Q.152) Who among the following has been e) Fathima Kajur appointed as the chairperson of the SC Legal Q.156) Which of the following state has Services Committee? announced a new electronics & hardware

manufacturing policy to increase the State's b) Bhopal electronics industry output to $100 billion by c) Jaipur 2025? d) Agra a) Andhra Pradesh e) Lucknow b) Tamil Nadu Q.160) Atal Innovation Mission has tied up c) Karnataka with which company to provide robust support d) Telangana to innovators and start-ups in AIM portfolio? e) Odisha a) Freshworks Inc Q.157) How many sectors have been b) Infosys identified by the KV Kamath committee which c) Asset Panda, LLC requires restructuring? d) Salesforce a) 24 e) L&T b) 22 Q.161) According to the latest growth c) 25 forecast of the Fitch Ratings, what is the GDP d) 27 growth rate estimated for India in the FY21? e) 26 a) -9.1% Q.158) Name the financial institution which b) -6.4% has recently lend $500 million loan for the 82- c) -10.5% kilometre Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit d) -7.7% System (RRTS) corridor e) -11.4% a) International Monetary Fund Q.162) Which global institution has approved b) Asian Development Bank $82 million for the implementation of c) European Bank for Reconstruction and Himachal Pradesh State Roads Development Transformation Project? d) New Development Bank a) International Monetary Fund e) World Bank b) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Q.159) The Patrika Gate has been c) Asian Development Bank inaugurated in which city by PM Narendra d) World Bank Modi recently? e) New Development Bank a) Dehradun

Q.163) Which state government launched b) Jas Pal Singh first of its Kind educational chatbot named c) David Attenborough “Apka Mitra”? d) Gabrielle Anwar a) Himachal Pradesh e) Upinder Randhawa b) Haryana Q.167) Which of the following states has been c) Maharashtra ranked as the most Literate State in the d) Uttar Pradesh Country With 96.2% Literacy? e) Gujarat a) Uttar Pradesh Q.164) Which of the following institute has b) Chhattisgarh developed a neural-based approach for c) Kerala automatic interpretation of 3D seismic data? d) Tamil Nadu a) Indian Institute of Science Education and e) Madhya Pradesh Research Q.168) Ministry of Tribal Affairs has partnered b) Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology with which app to implement gamified c) Indian Institute of Remote Sensing learning app in tribal schools? d) Aryabhatta Research Institute of a) Super Study Observational Sciences b) STEPapp e) Indian Institute of Engineering Science and c) Byju’s Technology d) Fitness Q.165) According to the estimation of Ind-Ra e) Kiddopia what will be India’s GDP in FY21? Q.169) Who among the following has a) – 12.6% completed the world’s first jump from a solar b) – 10.2% powered aircraft? c) – 13.9% a) Kariem Hussein d) – 11.8% b) Simon Aman e) – 12.6% c) Stan Wawrinka Q.166) Who among the following has recently d) Raphael Domjan been conferred with the Indira Gandhi Peace e) Fabian Cancellara Prize? Q.170) Who is the author of the book named a) Dinesh Bhugra “Breaking the Cocoon @ 40”?

a) Sudha Murthy Q.174) As per the UNICEF report on under- b) Arunthathi Roy five mortality rate, the rate of under-five c) Radha M Nair deaths in India in 2019 declined to __ percent d) Aparajita Vasudev compared to 126% in 1990 e) Sasi Ananth a) 29% Q.171) Fruits & vegetables in which state/ UT b) 42% has been covered under ‘Operation Green’s c) 34% TOP to TOTAL’ scheme for a period of six d) 51% months on pilot basis? e) 63% a) Madhya Pradesh Q.175) Which of the following airports has put b) Jammu & Kashmir in place a QR code-enabled check-in c) Delhi mechanism for passengers? d) Puducherry a) Chennai airport e) Daman & Diu b) Mumbai International airport Q.172) Who has been appointed as the new c) Chandigarh airport President of All India Tennis Association d) Delhi International airport (AITA) ? e) Kempgowda airport a) Praveen Mahajan Q.176) South India's first Kisan Rail was b) Rohit Rajpal flagged off recently. The first Kisan Rail runs c) Anil Jain between which of the following states? d) Rajan Kashyap a) Andhra Pradesh and Delhi e) Ankara Singh b) Tamil Nadu and Goa Q.173) Goldman Sachs has estimated the c) Maharashtra and Bihar Indian economy to grow at ______rate in d) Gujarat and Telangana FY21 e) Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra a) -9.5% Q.177) America's commercial cargo b) -11.5% spacecraft, NG-14 Cygnus was named after c) -14.8% who among the following? d) -10.1% a) Kalpana Chawla e) -13.5% b) Laurel Clark

c) Rakesh Sharma Council to strengthen the state’s industrial d) David M. Brown development? e) APJ Abdul Kalam a) Andhra Pradesh Q.178) Which company partnered with b) Karnataka Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development c) Telangana Corporation (APSSDC) to provide students d) Maharashtra with training in robotic process automation? e) Gujarat a) L&T Q.181) Name the Dispute Redressal b) Robotics Mechanism launched by the Ministry of c) UiPath Shipping for all kind of disputes of the d) MyAct maritime sector? e) DiFacto a) VEENA Ports’ Q.178) Which state government has signed b) Kanjira Ports’ MoU with UN World Food Programme for take- c) SAROD Ports’ home ration Scheme? d) Jal tarang Ports’ a) Uttarakhand e) Rama Ports’ b) Karnataka Q.182) India has signed an agreement with c) Uttar Pradesh which country for Reciprocal Provision of d) Jammu & Kashmir Supplies and Services between the Armed e) West Bengal Forces of the two countries? Q.179) Who has been appointed as the brand a) Russia ambassador of Playerzpot recently? b) Japan a) Bhuvneshwar Kumar c) Israel b) Rohit Sharma d) Iraq c) Smriti Mandhana e) Maldives d) Both a) and b) Q.183) India organized the 72nd session of e) Both a) and c) the WHO South-East Asia Region in which Q.180) Which state government recently city? renewed its MoU with UK India Business a) Delhi b) Mumbai

c) Hyderabad Q.187) Which state government has d) Pune relaunched Deendayal Antyodaya Rasoi e) Chennai scheme? Q.184) Union Home ministry has approved to a) Maharashtra rename the Hubbali railway station in ‘which’ b) Karnataka state as Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji railway c) Madhya Pradesh station? d) Andhra Pradesh a) Sikkim e) Uttar Pradesh b) Madhya Pradesh Q.188) Who has been appointed as the head c) Haryana of the 3-member committee which will assist d) Karnataka GoI in the assessment of relief to bank e) Tripura borrowers? Q.185) India, Australia along with which a) K V Kamath country participated the 1st trilateral dialogue b) Rajiv Mehrishi on economic, strategic challenges in Indo- c) Ravindra H Dholakia Pacific recently? d) Kashturi Rajan a) Germany e) Tarun Balaji b) Belgium Q.189) Who has been Appointed as the first c) Japan woman CEO of an American Multinational d) France Investment bank, Citigroup? e) United Kingdom a) Abigail Johnson Q.186) Who among the following has been b) Mary Barra banned by the Afghanistan Cricket Board c) Meg Whitman (ACB) for five years owing to corruption d) Jane Fraser charges? e) Julie Megha a) Asif Ashraf Q.190) Who represented India at the 10th b) Noor Mohammad East-Asia summit foreign ministers’ meeting c) Shafiquallah Shafaq recently? d) Farhan Yusefzai a) Shripad Yesso Naik e) Bahar Shinwari b) Santosh Kumar Gangwar

c) Prahlad Singh Patel for developing Raghanesda Solar Project in d) V. Muraleedharan ‘which’ state? e) Hardeep Singh Puri a) Gujarat Q.191) Who has been appointed as the b) Maharashtra chairperson of National School of Drama? c) Punjab a) Shatrughan Sinha d) Haryana b) Paresh Rawal e) Chhattisgarh c) Nana Patekar Q.195) As per Moody’s, the GDP growth rate d) Amitabh Kant of India for 2020-21 is projected at e) Anupam Shekar ______. Q.192) Which of the following company a) -9.9% recently launched “Central Bank Digital b) -11.5% Currencies” (CBDCs), a Virtual Testing c) -10.7% Environment for Central Banks to Assess and d) -18.5% Explore National Digital Currencies. e) -12.6% a) Paypal Q.196) which of the following organization b) Rupay has been Launched The Five Star Villages c) Mastercard scheme? d) Visa a) State Bank of India e) Paytm b) Indian Railways Q.193) What is the rank of India in the Global c) Department of Posts Economic Freedom Index 2020 (Hong Kong d) Amazon India Tops the list) ? e) Khadi Villages a) 116th Q.197) Which of the following state has b) 105th topped the list of States’ Startup Ranking c) 113th Framework 2019? d) 132nd a) Madhya Pradesh e) 144th b) Gujarat Q.194) Asian Development Bank signed loan c) Karnataka agreement worth Rs 466-cr with ENGIE group d) Maharashtra

e) Telangana c) Gujarat Q.198) 13th Edition Aero India-21 is scheduled d) Himachal Pradesh to be held in February 2021 in which city? e) Maharashtra a) Chennai Q.202) Who has been appointed as the b) Bangalore celebrity advocate of United Nations c) Lucknow Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ’s children’s rights d) Mumbai campaign ‘For Every Child’? e) Hyderabad a) Alia Bhatt Q.199) Which among the following places has b) Deepika Padkone recently received the approval of the c) Radhika Apte government to be registered under the d) Ayushmann Khurrana Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA), e) Salman Khan 2010, to receive overseas fund? Q.203) Which state government has won the a) Golden Temple WSIS winner prize 2020 under the e- b) Meenakshi Temple government category? c) Vaishno Devi a) Assam d) Lotus Temple b) Jharkhand e) Konark Temple c) Karnataka Q.200) Which of the following Indian state has d) West Bengal announced the state's first Heritage Tourism e) Tamil Nadu Policy (September 2020) ? Q.204) Union cabinet gives approval to a) Assam increase the FDI limit in Defence sector from b) Karnataka 49% to ______(through automatic route). c) Gujarat a) 95% d) Rajasthan b) 65% e) Sikkim c) 74% Q.201) India’s largest piggery mission was d) 100% launched at which of the following state? e) 80% a) Madhya Pradesh b) Meghalaya

Q.205) WE HUB has announced its c) 10-10.7% partnership with which of the following to aid d) 8-8.2% women entrepreneurs in agri business? e) 6-6.7% a) AgriHub Q.209) Name the F1 Racer who has won the b) Shakthi inaugural edition of the Tuscan Grand Prix c) NutriHub 2020. d) L&T a) Sebastian Vettel e) Kisanhub b) Max Verstappen Q.206) GARIMA scheme has been launched c) Valtteri Bottas by which state for the core sanitation workers d) Lewis Hamilton to ensure their economic and social security? e) Nico Rosberg a) Meghalaya Q.210) Name the India film which has won the b) Gujarat award for Best Screenplay at the 77th Venice c) Odisha Film Festival? d) Andhra Pradesh a) You Came Back e) Karnataka b) The Disciple Q.207) Who is the head the Empowered c) Dear Comrades Group of Ministers (EGoM) to oversee the d) The World to Come process of the corporatisation of the Ordnance e) None of the Above Factory Board (OFB) ? Q.211) Who has won the women’s single 2020 a) K V Kamanth US Open Tennis tournament? b) Nirmala Sitharaman a) Victoria Azarenka c) Amit Shah b) Ashleigh Barty d) Narendra Modi c) Naomi Osaka e) Rajnath Singh d) Bianca Andreescu Q.208) As per CARE Ratings, what is the e) Serena Williams projected GDP growth for India in the fiscal Q.212) India’s first coronavirus airport testing 2020-21? facility has been launched at which of these a) 7-7.5% airports? b) 9-9.6%

a) Kempegowda International Airport, a) iRAD Bengaluru b) e-Morth b) Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International c) iRoad Airport, Mumbai d) e-Accident c) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International e) E-Transport Airport, Kolkata Q.216) Which company has partnered with d) Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi NVIDIA to pursue expanded opportunities in e) Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space? Airport, Assam a) Dell Technologies Q.213) Raghuvansh Prasad Singh has passed b) Tata Consultancy Services away recently represented the Lok Sabha c) HCL Technologies from which state? d) Tech Mahindra a) Haryana e) Oracle Financial Services b) Madhya Pradesh Q.217) Which of the following Institution has c) Uttar Pradesh signed an MoU with Odisha University of d) Bihar Agriculture & Technology (OUAT) for e) Maharashtra cooperation in agricultural research and Q.214) Which of the following state launched education? a Smart Ration Card Scheme for providing a) IIT-Roorkee subsidised food grains to 1.41 crore b) IIT-Delhi beneficiaries in the state? c) IIT-Madras a) Haryana d) IIT-Indore b) Punjab e) IIT-Kanpur c) Uttar Pradesh Q.218) The Liberty General Insurance has d) Maharashtra collaborated with which company to offer e) Tamil Nadu ‘Liberty Secure Travel’ insurance policy? Q.215) Name of the App which has been a) AirIndia developed in order to capture the spot b) Vistara accident data using a mobile app configured c) SpiceJet for this purpose? d) IndiGo

e) GoAir c) Madhya Pradesh Q.219) Which of the following has become the d) Bihar first company in India to adopt e-office? e) Maharashtra a) MP Poorv Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company Q.223) What is the estimated GDP growth Limited rate for India in 2020-21 as per the S&P b) Dhakshinachal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited Global Ratings? c) MP Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitran A) -10% Company Limited B) -11% d) Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited C) -9% e) MP Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitran Company D) -8% Limited e) -12% Q.220) Who among the following clinched the Q.224) Who is the author of the book “My Life US Open Men's Singles 2020? In Design”? a) David Goffin a) Twinkle Khanna b) Alexander Zverev b) Gauri Khan c) Dominic Thiem c) Arun Shetty d) Rafael Nadal d) Sussanne Khan e) Roger Federer e) Sudha Murthy Q.221) Who has been recently appointed as Q.225) Who has been elected as the new the Executive Director at World Bank? Prime Minister of Japan? a) Harish Kumar a) Shinjiro Koizumi b) Devendra Singh b) Yoshihide Suga c) Anil Sharma c) Naoto Kan d) Rajesh Khullar d) Taro Aso e) N S Shekar e) Shinzo Abe Q.222) The foundation stone for the Arun Q.226) Chanesh Ram Rathiya who passed Jaitley Memorial Sports Complex has been away due recently, was the former minister of laid in which State? which state? a) Gujarat a) Maharashtra b) Jammu & Kashmir b) Haryana

c) Chhattisgarh achieve effective health care education for the d) Gujarat control of Covid-19 outbreak? e) Madhya Pradesh a) West Bengal Q.227) Name the winner of the Lifetime b) Maharashtra Achievement Award for the year 2020 by c) Uttarakhand Euromoney Awards of Excellence d) Madhya Pradesh a) Ravneet Gill e) Uttar Pradesh b) Deepak Parekh Q.231) Who authored the book titled ‘End of c) Rajnish Kumar an Era, India Exits Tibet’? d) Sunil Mehta a) William Dalrymple e) Aditya Puri b) Ramachandra Guha Q.228) Sameer Kumar Khare has been c) Claude Arpi appointed as the Executive Director at which d) Khushwant Singh of the following organizations? e) Rohinton Mistry a) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Q.232) What is rank of India among the (AIIB) fastest growing freelance market in the world b) Asian Development Bank (ADB) as per report of Payoneer? c) World Bank (WB) a) 4 d) New Development Bank (NDB) b) 7 e) International Monetary Fund (IMF) c) 2 Q.229) Which Indian company has signed d) 8 pact to acquire European consultancy firm e) 5 GuideVision? Q.233) Who has been re-elected as the A) TCS Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha? B) Reliance Industries a) Surendar Singh C) Infosys b) Harivansh Narayan Singh D) HDFC c) Manohar Manish e) Wipro d) Deepak Kumar Q.230) Which state government has launched e) Jagdesh Singh ‘My Family-My Responsibility’ campaign to

Q.234) Which of the following country has Q.238) Sadashiv Patil who has passed away declared rape as a national emergency after was a renowned player of which sports? spike in cases? a) Hockey a) Lesotho b) Kabaddi b) Ghana c) Football c) Liberia d) Cricket d) Sierra Leone e) Tennis e) Malta Q.239) The horticulture department of which Q.235) Who has been appointed by ADB as its state/UT has launched “Backyard new Country Director for India? Horticulture” Programme under CAPEX a) Sajid Khan scheme to promote organic fruit production? b) Takeo Konishi a) Uttar Pradesh c) Manisha Sharma b) Jammu & Kashmir d) Valeri D Tian c) Puducherry e) Kenichi Yokoyama d) Karnataka Q.236) What is the projected GDP growth rate e) Kerala of India for 2020-21 as per the ADB? Q.240) Union Cabinet has recently approved a) -10% to set up new AIIMS under the Pradhan Mantri b) -11% Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) in which c) -9% city of Bihar? d) -8% a) Begusarai e) -12% b) Gaya Q.237) Who has been appointed by Paytm as c) Darbhanga the brand ambassador for its gaming platform d) Muzaffarpur Paytm First Games (PFG) ? e) Patna a) Virat Kohli Q.241) Which state government has signed b) Rohit Sharma MoU with Small Industries Development Bank c) Sachin Tendulkar of India (SIDBI) to develop MSME ecosystem? d) MS Dhoni a) Karnataka e) Bhuvneshwar Kumar b) Kerala

c) Rajasthan c) Abhinav Verma d) Assam d) Birendra Gowda e) Gujarat e) Dinesh Khara Q.241) Who has been roped in by Amazon to Q.245) Name the Cricketer, Who has been lend voice for its Alexa voice assistant? appointed as the brand ambassador of Great a) Rajkummar Rao Learning? b) Akshay Kumar a) Rishab Pant c) Amitabh Bachchan b) Virat Kohli d) Ajay Devgan c) MS Dhoni e) Ayushmann Khurrana d) KL Rahul Q.242) What is the deadline that was e) Rahul Dravid mandated by the RBI to the banks for Q.246) Which Country has been elected as a automated recognition of NPAs? member of the United Nation’s Commission a) June 30, 2021 on Status of Women (UNCSW) for 4 Years? b) December 31, 2021 a) Australia c) February 28, 2021 b) China d) April 31 2021 c) India e) November 30, 2020 d) Japan Q.243) Cristiano Ronaldo became the 2nd e) Russia Male Footballer To Score 100 International Q.247) ‘Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package Goals. Who was the first to achieve this feat? Insurance Scheme for Health Workers a) Lionel Messi Fighting COVID-19’ has been extended by the b) Gareth Bale government. What is the new extended time c) Ali Daei period of the scheme? d) Diego Maradona a) April 2021 e) Pele b) February 2021 Q.243) Banks Board Bureau has c) January 2021 recommended who as the next SBI chairman? d) March 2021 a) Shashi Thakur e) December 2020 b) Nilesh Sahani

Q.248) The proposed Orbital Rail Corridor will e) Tripura be implemented in which of the following Q.252) Who among the following has been states? honoured with the 2020 Dayton Literary a) Uttar Pradesh Peace Prize? b) Madhya Pradesh a) Salman Rushdie c) Uttarakhand b) Virginia Woolf d) Jharkhand c) Elisabeth Moss e) Haryana d) Margaret Atwood Q.249) India recently held the 10th Defence e) J. K. Rowling Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) Group Q.253) Google Cloud partnered with which of Meeting with which country on virtual mode? the following companies to Deliver a) Russia Accelerated Business Intelligence Platform? b) Afghanistan a) Accenture c) United States b) TCS d) Japan c) Cognizant e) China d) HCL Technologies Q.250) As per OECD, what is the GDP growth e) Wipro prediction for Indian economy for the fiscal Q.254) What is the projected growth rate for 2020-21? the Indian economy in the financial year a) -11.7% 2020-21 according to the UBS Securities? b) -6.9% a) -8.6% c) -10.2% b) -10.5% d) -8.8% c) -9.4% e) -12.6% d) -11.3% Q.251) Which of the following state recently e) -13.5% launched ‘Poshan Sarkar’ program? Q.255) State Bank of India extended the OTP- a) Karnataka based Withdrawal facility 24X7 for withdrawal b) Madhya Pradesh of how much rupees? c) Gujarat a) Rs. 20,000 d) Meghalaya b) Rs. 25,000

c) Rs. 5,000 Q.259) Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) d) Rs. 10,000 is the first airport in the world to get “COVID- e) Rs. 15,000 19 5-star airport rating” from Skytrax. The Q.256) Name the PSU which has partnered airport is based in which city? with SwissRapide AG to bring Maglev a) London (Magnetic Levitation) train projects in India. b) Brussels a) Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited c) Rome (BPCL) d) Dubai b) National Thermal Power Corporation e) Paris (NTPC) Q.260) Which city metro launched India’s 1st c) Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) indigenous signaling technology named ‘i- d) Coal India Limited (CIL) ATS’ (Automatic Train Supervision) ? e) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) a) Chennai Metro Q.257) Which state government has signed b) Kolkata Metro MoU with Small Industries Development Bank c) Delhi Metro of India (SIDBI) to support MSMEs d) Mumbai Metro (September 2020) ? e) Lucknow Metro a) Gujarat Q.261) Moussa Traore who passed away in b) Telengana September 2020 is the former president of c) Sikkim which country? d) Manipur a) Malta e) Tripura b) Ghana Q.258) Name the Cricketer, who has been c) Kenya appointed as the brand ambassador of online d) Guinea poker platform, 9stacks. e) Mali a) Virat Kholi Q.262) Name the first country in the world to b) Bhuvaneswar Kumar pass legislation that requires financial entities c) Suresh Raina to declare their climate-related risks. d) MS Dhoni a) Lebanon e) Rohit Sharma b) United States

c) Russia b) Maldives d) New Zealand c) Mexico e) Japan d) Germany Q.263) Who has been honored with the 2020 e) Australia Asia Game Changer Award for feeding millions Q.267) Which state has launched the “Arthika across India amid the COVID-19? Spandana” programme to disburse loan in a) Aravind Sinha agricultural and non-agricultural sector b) Rajan Lakshmi through various cooperative institutions? c) Vikas Khanna a) Madhya Pradesh d) Karan Johar b) Kerala e) Manish Kapoor c) Karnataka Q.264) Which city of India is the top ranked d) Maharashtra city in the 2020 Smart City Index of IMD? e) West Bengal a) Kolkata Q.268) ‘Education for All’ is a CSR programme b) Hyderabad launched by which edtech company to c) Bengaluru empower 5 million children from underserved d) Mumbai communities by 2025? e) Chennai a) American Express Q.265) Which of the following state (smaller b) Great Learning states) has topped the India Happiness c) Byju’s Report 2020? d) Unacademy a) Gujarat e) E-learning b) Sikkim Q.269) Who represented India in the virtual c) Mizoram G20 Environment Ministerial Meeting 2020, d) Odisha held recently? e) Tripura a) Nitin Gadkari Q.266) Which is 1st country in the world to b) Piyush Goyal issue 7-year sovereign Sustainable c) Ravi Shankar Prasad Development Goal (SDG) bond? d) Prakash Javadekar a) Namibia e) Rajnath Singh

Q.270) Harsimrat Kaur Badal quits in protest d) Ruskin Bond against Agri bills. Who has been given e) Amitav Ghosh additional charge of her portfolio? Q.274) PR Krishnakumar who passed away a) Nirmala Sitharaman recently was a ______. b) Rajnath Singh a) Cricketer c) Narendra Singh Tomar b) Physician d) Arjun Munda c) Writer e) Smriti Irani d) Politician Q.271) Which company has partnered with e) Economist Common Services Centers (CSC) for digital Q.275) Institute of Teaching and Research in literacy service chatbot? Ayurveda (ITRA) will be set up in which state a) Microsoft of India? b) Whatsapp a) Manipur c) Twitter b) Rajasthan d) Facebook c) Karnataka e) SnapChat d) Gujarat Q.272) What is India’s rank in 2020 Human e) Tripura Capital Index (HCI) released by World Bank Q.276) The government of which state is all (Singapore Tops) ? set to launch SkillTech varsity for varied a) 141st courses to offer courses in different sectors, b) 116th including automotive and power? c) 177th a) Chhattisgarh d) 122nd b) Uttar Pradesh e) 133rd c) Tamil Nadu Q.273) Name the Author, Who has authored d) Madhya Pradesh the book titled, “Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. e) Haryana Fiction”. Q.278) which of the following state has a) Sudha Murthy launched Mukhyamantri Mahila Utkarsh b) Arundhati Roy Yojana? c) Vikram Seth a) Karnataka

b) Andhra Pradesh Q.282) According to Rating agency CRISIL c) Punjab has estimated the GDP of India in FY22 at d) Gujarat ______percent. e) Uttar Pradesh a) 7% Q.279) Name the Indian who has been b) 8% selected in the United Nations 2020 list of 17 c) 9% Young Leaders for the Sustainable d) 10% Development Goals (SDGs) ? e) 6% a) Dilip Kumar b) Kishan Gangolli Q.283) Who Heads the expert committee c) Udit Singhal constituted by central government to examine d) Sanjay Sharma the reports of digital surveillance on e) Ranjan Lal prominent Indian nationals by Chinese firm? Q.280) Government of India has set the a) Jagdeesh Singh target to set up 10500 Pradhanmantri b) Rajesh Pant Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBJK) across the c) Shivaji Rao country by which year? d) Sanjay Gupta a) March 2024 e) Mohan Kumar b) December 2022 Q.284) Which of the following mutual funds c) March 2025 has launched the ‘SIP in Fixed Income’ d) December 2023 campaign to make investors more aware e) April 2023 about the benefits of investing in fixed income Q.281) Which of the following bank launched products? service named i-Lead (Inspiring Leads) 2.0 a) Aditya Birla recently? b) Dewan Housing Finance Corporation a) Indian Bank c) UTI Asset Management b) Canara Bank d) Infrastructure Development Finance c) ICICI Bank Company d) UCO Bank e) IDFC Mutual Funds e) IndusInd Bank

Q.285) Which regional rural bank has d) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, launched a special gold loan scheme named Hyderabad ‘Vikas Laghu Suvarna’? e) Cochin International Airport, Cochin a) Assam Gramin Vikash Bank Q.289) ICICI Bank is seeking the re-approval b) Tamil Nadu Gramin Bank of who among the following from the RBI as a c) Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank whole time director of the bank? d) Andhra Grameena Vikas Bank a) Gokul Krishnan e) Kerala Gramin Bank b) Lalit Kumar Q.286) Which among the given sports Cup c) Sandeep Batra has been renamed as Billie Jean King Cup? d) Girish Chandra a) Uber Cup e) Neelam Sharma b) Agha Khan Cup Q.290) Sachin Deshmukh who has passed c) Fed Cup away recently was related to which sports? d) Davis Cup a) Football e) None of the Above b) Weightlifting Q.287) Who has been honoured with the c) Cricket Golden Pen of Freedom award? d) Kabaddi a) Gabriela Cabezon e) Badmindon b) Michele Hutchison Q.291) As per Global Smart City Index 2020, c) Jineth Bedoya Lima which city has topped? d) Margaret Atwood a) Geneva e) Marieke Lucas b) Helsinki Q.288) Which of the following airport opened c) Zurich India's first private jet terminal? d) Singapore a) Kempegowda International Airport, e) Italy Bangalore Q.292) “A Promised Land” is the memoir of b) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, which Personality? Mumbai a) Nelsan Mandela c) Indira Gandhi International Airport, New b) Donald Trump Delhi c) Pranab Mukharji

d) Barack Obama c) Anil Dhasmana e) Narendra Modi d) Sandeep Singh Q.293) The Human Capital Index is released e) Atul Kumar Varma by which organisation? Q.297) Which International Institute of a) Economist Intelligence Unit Information Technology (IIIT) has developed b) World Bank 1st of its kind helmet-like ventilation device c) International Monetary Fund ‘Swasner’? d) World Economic Forum a) IIIT Bhubaneswar e) United Nations b) IIIT Madras Q.294) Which state in India is the first to c) IIIT Hyderabad launch policies on Artificial Intelligence, d) IIIT Raipur Blockchain and Cybersecurity policies? e) IIIT Jabalpur a) Karnataka Q.298) Which among the following Bank has b) Tamil Nadu topped the BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable c) Maharashtra Indian Brands 2020 Rankings? d) Gujarat a) Indian Bank e) Madhya Pradesh b) HDFC Bank Q.295) Mahila Atmanirbharshil Aachani” is a c) Canara Bank Women Self-Reliance programme launched d) State Bank of India by which bank for SHGs in Assam? e) UCO Bank a) Indian Bank Q.299) How many beaches of India has been b) Axis Bank selected for the international eco-label, Blue c) Canara Bank flag certification? d) State Bank of India a) 12 e) UCO Bank b) 11 Q.296) Who has been appointed as the new c) 7 chief of National Technical Research d) 9 Organisation (NTRO) ? e) 8 a) Rajesh Sharma Q.300) India has extended a 250 million b) Ram Kumar dollars support to which of the following

nation to mitigate the economic impact of Q.304) What is the theme of the International Covid-19? Day of Peace 2020? a) Philippines a) Shaping Peace Together b) Myanmar b) Climate Action for Peace c) Sri Lanka c) The Right to Peace d) Maldives d) Together for Peace e) Bangladesh e) Respect, Safety and Dignity for All Q.301) Which of the following comedy series Q.305) Purba Dam who passed away has won Outstanding Comedy Series at recently.He was a/an ______. Emmys 2020? a) Politician a) Watchmen b) Actor b) Stranger Things c) Musician c) Schitt’s Creek d) Cricketer d) FRIENDS e) Photographer e) The Office Q.306) Who has been appointed India’s Q.302) International Day of Peace is observed Culture Secretary? annually on which day? a) SurendraKumar a) September25 b) Aravind Panargiya b) September 20 c) Raghvendra Singh c) September 19 d) Sekhar Sharma d) September 22 e) Rajesh Kumar e) September 21 Q.307) Who has been appointed as Advisor to Q.303) Who represented India in annual IMF Executive Director? meeting of board of governor of Asian a) Ashok Lasava Development Bank (ADB) held virtually? b) Simanchala Dash a) Narendra Modi c) S Aparna b) Nirmala Sitharaman d) Guru Prasath c) Rajnath Singh e) Vasanth Raj d) S Jaishanker e) Harsha Vardhan

Q.308) Name the former Prime Minister who b) Gujarat Takes Oath as Rajya Sabha MP from c) Bihar Karnataka? d) Manipur a) Rabindra Shekwat e) Tripura b) HD Deve Gowda Q.312) Central Government has sanctioned c) Shiva Chandra an amount of Rs.108cr. under UDAN scheme d) P Baswaraj for 3 Airports in which of the following e) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee state/UT? Q.309) The first ever direct cargo ferry a) Punjab service between India and Maldives, will b) Chhattisgarh connect which ports of India with the port of c) Rajasthan Maldives? d) Delhi a) Port Blair and Marmagao Port, Goa e) Karnataka b) Visakhapatnam Port and Mumbai Port Q.313) Which of the following divisions of c) Tuticorin port and Cochin port railways have launched the Freight Seva app d) Kandla port and Mumbai port to serve customers better? e) Mangalore Port and Kamarajar Port a) Central Railway Q.310) Centre has extended the tenure of the b) Northern Railway Company Law Committee by one year until c) Southern Railway September 2021. Who is the head of this d) North Eastern Railway committee? e) Eastern Railway a) Mohan Kumar Q.314) Kazakhstan Financial Regulator has b) Anil Bajaj cancelled the license of the subsidiary of c) Rajesh Verma which bank for failure to meet prudential d) Balkrishna Rajan standards and other mandatory norms? e) Sanam Mukherjee a) HDFC Bank Q.311) PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the b) State Bank of India Ghar Tak Fibre project and laid the foundation c) Axis Bank stone for 9 highway projects in which state? d) Punjab National Bank a) Assam e) Band of Baroda

Q.315) Who has been awarded with the Ig e) Maldives Nobel Prize 2020 for Medical Education? Q.319) SBI Life Insurance signed a a) Harsh Vardan bancassurance agreement with which bank b) Ramesh Pokhriyal (September 2020) ? c) Rajnath Singh a) HDFC Bank d) Narendra Modi b) YES Bank e) Venkaiah Naidu c) Axis Bank Q.316) Union Government has announced an d) ICICI Bank increase in the Minimum Support Prices (MSP) e) RBL Bank for all mandated Rabi crops. Which of the Q.320) According to the estimation of Finance following is not a Rabi crop? ministry, what will be the growth in nominal a) Jowar GDP of India in FY22 (2021-2022) ? b) Masoor a) 13% c) Chana b) 10% d) Mustard c) 19% e) Rice d) 14% Q.317) Who is the winner of Italian Open e) 17% men’s single title2020? Q.321) Who is the winner of the 2020 a) Roger Federer Women’s Italian Open Tennis Tournament? b) Andy Murray a) Karolina Pliskova c) Rafael Nadal b) Serena Williams d) Novak Djokovic c) Simona Halep e) Diego Schwartzman d) Garbiñe Muguruza Q.318) First man to climb Mount Everest 10 e) Sofia Kenin times Ang Rita Sherpa has passed away Q.322) Google has collaborated with which recently. He was from which country? company to enable customers use their cards a) India on Google Pay platform? b) Bhutan a) L&T c) Malaysia b) American Express d) Nepal c) SBI Card

d) Bajaj Finance b) Chennai e) Master Card c) Mangaluru Q.323) John Turner who passed away d) Kochi recently, He is the former prime minister of e) Hyderabad which country? Q.327) HDFC Life has signed corporate a) Brazil agency agreement with which of the following b) South Africa bank? c) Canada a) Federal Bank d) Russia b) Yes Bank e) Mexico c) Axis Bank Q.324) Who has been appointed as the d) DBS Bank central government nominee Director in Coal e) IndusInd Bank India Board with effect from 2020 August? Q.328) Which of the following state has a) Yatinder Prasad Launches Mukhymantri Kisan Kalyan Yojana? b) Rajesh Kumar Sinha a) Gujarat c) Khanindra Pathak b) Madhya Pradesh d) Shyam Nandan Prasad c) Maharashtra e) Vinod Kumar Tiwari d) Uttar Pradesh Q.325) Which of the following projects has e) Haryana been nominated for the prestigious “SKOCH Q.329) Who has been appointed as the Award 2020”? member of Asian Football Confederation a) Natural Farming (AFC) task force? b) Dasa Sutras a) Praful Patel c) Zero Budget b) Girija Shankar Mungali d) Mitra Shakti c) Hementh Kumar e) Sabujha d) Amit Panghal Q.326) India’s first Coast Guard academy is e) Sanjay Dutta all set to come up at which of the following Q.330) Bah Ndaw has been appointed as the cities? interim president of which country? a) Lucknow a) Kenya

b) Rwanda e) Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited c) Bulgaria (HPCL) d) Mali Q.334) Who has been appointed as the e) Nigeria Regional Ambassador for India by the United Q.331) Who has been appointed as the new Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for administrator of the Punjab and Maharashtra Tunza Eco-Generation? Co-operative (PMC) Bank? a) Reshmi Pandey a) Arun Singhal b) Tarini Gandhiok b) Ramanathan c) Khushi Chindaliya c) Rajeev Kumar d) Krithika Varagur d) V Shanmugam e) Athmika Kapoor e) A. K. Das Q.335) Uttarakhand government has inked Q.332) Which among the following Indian has pact with which organisation to promote been named in the TIME 100 Most Influential water adventure sports activities at Tehri People List 2020? Lake? a) Narendra Modi a) Border Security Force b) Ayushmann Khurrana b) Indian Coast Guard c) Ravindra Gupta c) National Security Guard d) Bilkis d) Indo-Tibetan Border Police e) All of the Above e) Indian Air Force Q.333) Which of the following Maharatna Q.336) Who has been elected as president of CPSE has won the leader award in mega large Bougainville? business process sector category in 11th a) Patrick Pruaitch edition of Frost & Sullivan and TERI b) Ishmael Toroama Sustainability 4.0 Awards 2020? c) Bryan Jared Kramer a) Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) d) James Marape b) Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) e) Peter O'Neill c) Steel Authority of India (SAIL) Q.337) Suresh Angadi, who has passed away d) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) due to COVID-19 was the Minister of State in which ministry?

a) Ministry of Power Q.341) Which of the following bank has b) Ministry of Rural Development launched contactless debit card-based c) Ministry of Agriculture payment facility ‘SafePay’? d) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare a) Indian Bank e) Ministry of Railways b) State Bank of India Q.338) What is the GDP growth prediction of c) HDFC Bank India for the year 2020 as per UNCTAD? d) IDFC First Bank a) -6.9% e) Bank of Baroda b) -8.8% Q.342) Which state has approved the c) -9.7% “Moksha Kalash Yojana-2020” to allow free d) -5.9% bus travel to Ganga in Haridwar? e) -6.8% a) Karnataka Q.339) Name the high-speed expendable b) Maharashtra aerial target which was successfully tested by c) Rajasthan DRDO recently? d) Chhattisgarh a) LAKSHYA e) Madhya Pradesh b) DHRUV Q.343) Alexander Lukashenko has been c) ABHYAS appointed as the president of which country? d) YUDHH a) Belarus e) AKASH b) Denmark Q.340) Which of the following bank has c) Ukraine launched contactless debit card-based d) Maldives payment facility ‘SafePay’? e) Latvia a) Indian Bank Q.344) Centre has increases State Disaster b) State Bank of India Response Fund limit that from 35 percent to c) HDFC Bank _____ percent by the seven states where the d) IDFC First Bank coronavirus cases are highest. e) Bank of Baroda a) 55% b) 65% c) 45%

d) 50% b) Ranbir Kapoor e) 40% c) Ayushmann Khurrana Q.345) Which of the following state d) Sonu Sood government has launched “Mukhyamantri e) Amir Khan Grammya Paribahan Achoni”? Q.349) Name the person who got 1-year a) Manipur extension as the non-executive chairman of b) Bihar Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services c) Tripura (IL&FS). d) Assam a) Subhash Chandra Khuntia e) Jharkhand b) Muhammad Mustafa Q.346) Name the author of the book ‘Sach c) Uday Kotak Kahun Toh’. d) Ashok Lasava a) Arunthathi Roy e) Harsha Kumar Bhanwala b) Pankaj Singh Q.350) Mohamed Hussein Roble has been c) Anupam Kher appointed as the new prime minister of which d) Neena Gupta country? e) Sudha Murthy a) Maldives Q.347) Name the state government which has b) Somalia inaugurated 2 major green projects worth c) Belarus around Rs 1226 crore to be set up in d) Djibouti collaboration with European Union countries? e) Malta a) Assam b) Meghalaya c) Gujarat d) Maharashtra e) West Bengal Q.348) Name the Bollywood actor who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of Acer India? a) Akshay Kumar

BANKING AWARENESS QUIZ: b) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd. c) Aviva Life Insurance Co. India Ltd. Q.1) Which is the first bank in India to d) Bharti AXA Life Insurance Co. Ltd. introduce the use of satellite data to assess e) Birla Sun Life Insurance Co. Ltd. credit worthiness of farmers Q.5) Which bank has introduced ‘Liberty a) Yes Bank Savings Account’ for the Indian youth? b) HDFC Bank a) HDFC Bank c) Punjab National Bank b) ICICI Bank d) ICICI Bank c) Axis Bank e) Kotak Mahindra Bank d) Yes Bank Q.2) Who has been appointed as new MD & e) IDBI Bank CEO of the SBI Mutual Funds? Q.6) SBI recently integrated which of the a) Imtaiyazur Rahman following with ICAR IIHR seed portal? b) Manish Mehta a) YONO Khetihar c) Ashwani Bhatia b) YONO Kisan d) Vinay Tonse c) YONO For Farmers e) Sarath Raj d) YONO Krishi Q.3) Which bank has launched one stop e) YONO Health business solution named,‘Omni collect’ in Q.7) The Reserve Bank of India has India? announced the simultaneous purchase and a) HSBC India sale of government securities (G-Secs) under b) Barclays Bank open market operations worth ______c) DBS Bank recently. d) Deutsche Bank a) Rs. 15,000 crore e) Citi Bank b) Rs. 10,000 crore Q.4) Which of the following insurance c) Rs. 20,000 crore company has launched India's only retail d) Rs. 30,000 crore comprehensive pet insurance offering for pet e) Rs. 25,000 crore dogs? a) Aegon Life Insurance Co. Ltd.

Q.8) Which private sector bank has partnered e) Notice with Adobe to enhance the Digital Experiences Q.12) FII is an acronym for ______of Customers. Institutional investment. a) HDFC Bank a) Foreign b) ICICI Bank b) Flexible c) RBL Bank c) Funded d) IDBI Bank d) Fragile e) Axis Bank e) Function Q.9) Which insurance company has launched Q.13) Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance a technology service named ‘Smart Assist’? company has entered into partnership with a) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company which regional rural bank to offer life b) Oriental Insurance Company Limited insurance (August 2020) ? c) ICICI Lombard Life Insurance Company a) Allahabad UP Gramin Bank d) Reliance Life Insurance Company b) Andhra Pragathi Grameena Bank e) TATA AIG Life Insurance Company c) Assam GraminVikash Bank Q.10) Titan Company has partnered with d) Chaitanya Godavari Grameena Bank which bank to launch India’s first contactless e) Karnataka VikasGrameena Bank payment watches ‘Titan Pay’? Q.14) Which bank is to receive Brandon a) ICICI Bank Human Capital Management (HCM) b) State Bank of India Excellence Award 2020 for its HR initiative c) Punjab National Bank “NayiDisha”? d) HDFC Bank a) State Bank of India e) South Indian Bank b) Indian Overseas Bank Q.11) When a loan is granted for one day and c) Bank of Maharashtra is repaid on the second day, it is called d) Canara Bank ______money. e) Punjab National Bank a) Term Q.15) SWIFT code consists of 8 or 11 b) Call characters. Bank/Institution code is c) Current represented in ______. d) Systemic a) 5th & 6th characters

b) 4th character b) Adequacy c) 7th character c) Automated d) First four characters d) Adjusted e) First two characters e) Assets Q.16) Which Insurance provider company has Q.20) Which Private bank has launched a introduced a customer service chatbot ‘LiGo’ virtual property exhibition titled ‘Home on Google Assistant? Utsav’? a) Life Insurance Corporation of India a) Axis Bank b) HDFC Life Insurance Company b) ICICI Bank c) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company c) Bandhan Bank d) Max Life Insurance Company d) HDFC Bank e) Tata AIA Life Insurance Company e) Federal Bank Q.17) What does ‘R’ in FCNR Account stand Q.21) Who has been appointed as MD and for? CEO of Punjab & Sind Bank? a) Regulation a) Sharath Kumar b) Rates b) Murali Ramakrishnan c) Returns c) Rakesh Asthana d) Ratings d) S Krishnan e) Resident e) Rajesh Aggarwal Q.18) Which bank has partnered with Innoviti Q.22) Who has been appointed as MD and to provide affordable options of bank’s debit CEO of South Indian Bank? cards by Innoviti POS terminals? a) Rakesh Kumar a) Yes Bank b) Murali Ramakrishnan b) Axis Bank c) Shashank Singh Bisht c) State Bank of India d) Jyoti Das d) Federal Bank e) Hemant Singh e) ICICI bank Q.23) A foreign company can access Indian Q.19) CRAR is the ratio of a bank’s capital to securities market for raising funds through its risk. What does “A” represent in CRAR? issue of which of the following instruments? a) Assessment a) Listing Agreement

b) Real estate investment trust Q.27) Which of the following is not a c) Indian Depository Receipts Negotiable instrument? d) Masala Bonds a) Promissory Note e) Debt-Public Issue Certificate b) Bill of Exchange Q.24) Which fintech company’s subsidiary c) Cheques LazyPay launched a first of its kind digital d) Postal Money Order credit card named ‘LazyUPI’? e) Demand Draft a) Phone Pe Q.28) Foreign bonds are issued in a domestic b) Mobikwik market by a foreign issuer—but in the c) Paytm currency of the domestic country. What is the d) PayU name of the bond issued in the US Dollars? e) G pay a) Bulldog Bond Q.25) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance has chosen b) Maple Bonds which Bollywood actor as the brand c) Samurai Bonds ambassador? d) Yankee Bonds a) Amir Khan e) Masala Bonds b) Akshay Kumar Q.29) How many digits are there in a CIBIL c) Salman Khan score? d) Ayushmann Khurrana a) 3 e) Varun Dhawan b) 4 Q.26) Which private sector bank in c) 2 partnership with Empays Payment Systems d) 5 launched a cardless cash withdrawal facility e) 7 from ATMs through the Instant Money Q.30) Assam State Rural Livelihood Mission Transfer (IMT) system? has signed MoU with which small finance bank a) Axis Bank recently? b) RBL Bank a) Janalakshmi Small Finance Bank c) Yes Bank b) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank d) HDFC Bank c) ESAF Small Finance Bank e) ICICI Bank d) Northeast Small Finance Bank

e) Utkarsh Small Finance Bank Q.34) What does ‘D’ in DSCR denotes? Q.31) Which of the following companies is set a) Data to enter the business of online insurance b) Debt broking with a soon to be launched portal c) Deficit called PayBima? d) Deposit a) Max Bupa e) Demand b) Mahindra Finance Q.35) Which bank has topped the EASE c) Shriram Finance Banking Reforms Index 2.0 of the Indian d) Bajaj Finserv Banking Association? e) Muthoot Finance a) Punjab National Bank Q.32) Which bank has launched an b) Bank of Baroda international contactless debit card, c) Union Bank of India “Signature Visa Debit Card”? d) State Bank of India a) Indian Bank e) UCO Bank b) Union Bank Q.36) Which bank has announced that it will c) Bank of India launch a loan product, SAFAL, for organic d) Canara Bank cotton growers? e) UCO Bank a) Canara Bank Q.33) Which of the following banks has b) Union Bank of India organized an awareness cum sensitization c) Punjab National Bank programme for newly proposed Farmer d) State Bank of India Producer Organizations (FPO) in Jammu & e) Bank of Baroda Kashmir? Q.37) SBI general insurance company has a) HDFC signed corporate agency agreement with b) ICICI which bank? c) SIDBI a) ICICI Bank d) SBI b) Axis Bank e) NABARD c) IndusInd Bank d) HDFC Bank e) YES Bank

Q.38) Which bank has modernized its c) Axis Bank payment switching system using ACI’s retail d) Federal Bank payments solution? e) RBL Bank a) State Bank of India Q.42) Name the insurance company which b) Punjab National Bank signed a corporate agency agreement with c) Bank of Baroda NSDL Payments Bank. d) United Bank of India a) Bharti AXA Life Insurance e) Indian Bank b) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Q.39) Which bank was recognized as the best c) Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance bank in the world by New York-based financial d) Life Insurance Corporation publication Global Finance? e) Aegon Life Insurance a) Standard Chartered Q.43) Which company launches Central Bank b) DBS Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) testing platform? c) Bank of America a) PayPal d) Sate Bank of India b) Face book e) BNP Paribas c) MasterCard Q.40) What does ‘L’ in CAMELS a rating d) Reliance Jio system used by regulatory banking e) Apple authorities stand for? Q.44) Which of the following Company is the a) Long Term first listed NBFC in India to receive a licence b) Liquidity for forex business? c) Lender a) Bajaj Finance Limited d) Leverage b) Muthoot Finance Ltd e) Limited c) Capital India Finance Limited Q.41) Which Private bank has launched the d) Aegon Life Insurance iStartup 2.0, a startup bank account, to cater e) Life Insurance Corporation to the banking needs of startups and Q.45) Which of the following accounts allows entrepreneurs? only Term Deposits? a) HDFC Bank a) Non Resident Indian (NRI) b) ICICI Bank b) Non Resident Rupee (NRE)

c) Non Resident Ordinary Rupee (NRO) Q.49) Which bank has partnered with d) Foreign Currency Non-Resident Account Mastercard to launch debit card for high net (FCNR) worth costumers? e) All of the Above a) HDFC Bank Q.46) Which among the following banks has b) SBM Bank launched the new vertical ‘Emerging c) Axis Bank Entrepreneurs Business (EEB) ’? d) ICICI Bank a) IndusInd Bank e) IndusInd Bank b) Federal Bank Q.50) Name the company which launched c) Bandhan Bank “Apna Ghar Dreamz” home loan scheme for d) Axis Bank skilled labours in Delhi. e) ICICI Bank a) Bajaj Finserv Limited Company Q.47) The ‘Shishu’ category of PMMY offers b) ICICI Home Finance Company loans up to ______. c) Dewan Housing Finance Corporation a) Rs. 1,00,000 d) Muthoot Finance Company b) Rs. 20,000 e) Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services c) Rs. 50,000 d) Rs. 5,00,000 e) Rs. 10,000 Q.48) Which of the following bank has partnered with ICICI Lombard for bancassurance (September 2020) ? a) IDBI Bank b) ICICI Bank c) HDFC Bank d) Axis Bank e) Yes Bank

BANKING ANSWER KEY 168) b 169) d 170) c 171) b 172) c 173) c 1) d 2) d 3) a 4) b 5) c 6) d 7) c 8) a 9) a 10) 174) c 175) b 176) c 177) a 178) c 179) c b 11) b 12) a 13) b 14) a 15) d 16) c 17) e 180) e 181) c 182) b 183) a 184) d 185) d 18) d 19) e 20) b 21) d 22) b 23) c 24) d 25) 186) b 187) c 188) b 189) d 190) d 191) b d 26) b 27) d 28) d 29) a 30) d 31) b 32) c 192) c 193) b 194) a 195) b 196) c 197) b 33) e 34) b 35) b 36) d 37) e 38) a 39) b 40) 198) b 199) a 200) c 201) b 202) d 203) d b 41) b 42) b 43) c 44) c 45) d 46) c 47) c 204) c 205) c 206) c 207) e 208) d 209) d 48) e 49) b 50) b 210) b 211) c 212) d 213) d 214) b 215) a 216) c 217) a 218) c 219) e 220) c 221) d CA ANSWER KEY 222) b 223) c 224) b 225) b 226) c 227) e 1) b 2) b 3) b 4) c 5) b 6) d 7) b 8) d 9) c 10) 228) b 229) c 230) b 231) c 232) c 233) b b 11) b 12) d 13) c 14) b 15) a 16) d 17) b 234) c 235) b 236) c 237) c 238) d 239) b 18) e 19) b 20) e 21) c 22) d 23) d 24) a 25) 240) c 241) c 242) a 243) c 244) e 245) b e 26) d 27) d 28) c 29) b 30) b 31) b 32) b 246) c 247) d 248) e 249) c 250) c 251) b 33) c 34) c 35) a 36) a 37) c 38) e 39) c 40) 252) d 253) d 254) a 255) d 256) e 257) a d 41) b 42) e 43) b 44) b 45) d 46) a 47) c 258) c 259) c 260) c 261) e 262) d 263) c 48) a 49) d 50) d 51) c 52) a 53) c 54) b 55) 264) b 265) c 266) c 267) c 268) c 269) d b 56) e 57) d 58) d 59) a 60) d 61) b 62) d 270) c 271) b 272) b 273) b 274) b 275) d 63) c 64) a 65) a 66) a 67) d 68) e 69) d 70) 276) c 277) c 278) d 279) c 280) c 281) b c 71) c 72) c 73) c 74) d 75) d 76) a 77) b 78) 282) d 283) b 284) e 285) c 286) c 287) c c 79) c 80) c 81) b 82) a 83) a 84) c 85) d 86) 288) c 289) c 290) c 291) d 292) d 293) b b 87) e 88) b 89) a 90) e 91) e 92) d 93) a 294) b 295) d 296) c 297) a 298) b 299) e 94) c 95) c 96) c 97) e 98) b 99) c 100) c 101) 300) d 301) c 302) e 303) b 304) a 305) c b 102) d 103) d 104) a 105) c 106) b 107) c 306) c 307) b 308) b 309) c 310) c 311) c 108) c 109) e 110) a 111) a 112) c 113) a 312) b 313) c 314) d 315) d 316) e 317) e 114) d 115) c 116) c 117) d 118) d 119) d 318) d 319) b 320) c 321) c 322) c 323) c 120) d 121) c 122) e 123) a 124) d 125) c 324) a 325) b 326) c 327) b 328) b 329) b 126) b 127) b 128) a 129) c 130) b 131) b 330) d 331) e 332) e 333) b 334) c 335) d 132) d 133) a 134) a 135) d 136) e 137) c 336) b 337) e 338) d 339) c 340) d 341) d 138) a 139) d 140) e 141) b 142) c 143) d 342) c 343) a 344) d 345) d 346) d 347) e 144) d 145) c 146) c 147) a 148) b 149) c 348) d 349) c 350) b 150) d 151) b 152) c 153) a 154) e 155) b 156) b 157) e 158) b 159) c 160) a 161) c 162) d 163) b 164) b 165) d 166) c 167) c RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | 188 Official Website: www.raceinstitute.in| Official Blog: www.bankersdaily.in