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Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1st August to 7th August 2020

♦National News

 Four more states/UTs linked with ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme

 Gramodyog Vikas Yojana’: Govt launches programme for artisans involved in manufacturing of agarbatti

 ‘Ek Mask-Anek Zindagi’ drive begins in MP

 IOCL To Invest Rs 13,805 Cr To Set Up New Plant in Odisha

 Nitin Gadkari inaugurated upstream carriageway of Mahatma Gandhi bridge in Bihar

 NASA Astronauts returns safely after successful Demo-2 mission

 I&B Minister Launches ‘DD Assam’ Channel Virtually

 Central Railway designs robot ‘Rakshak’ for health assistant

 AP govt ties up with ITC, HUL and P&G for women”s economic empowerment

 GoI launches NCDC YouTube Channel “Sahakar Cooptube NCDC India”

 Union Ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Smriti Irani launch the book ‘Swachh Bharat Kranti’

 First anniversary of creation of UTs of J&K, Ladakh on August 05

 Haryana CM launched ”Parivar Pehchan Patra”

 Chhattisgarh Chief Minister launched a social security scheme

 Maharashtra govt and Google tie-up to deploy learning tools for schools

 Odisha becomes first state to get ‘tsunami ready’ tag

 Google is set to turn India’s Independence Day musical with AI and people’s voices

 PM Modi to inaugurate submarine cable connectivity to Andaman & Nicobar Islands

♦International News

 Ivory Coast defence minister Hamed Bakayoko nominated as new prime minister

 6th BRICS Environment Minister meeting held in Russia

 Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become world’s most valuable company

 UAE starts up Arab world’s first nuclear plant

 Mohamed Irfaan Ali New President of Guyana

 UK considers Gandhi coin to commemorate Indian independence icon

 FutureBrand Index 2020: Reliance Industries 2 after Apple

 India contributes over $15 mn to India-UN Development Partnership Fund

 India extended US$18 mn Line of Credit to Maldives for expansion of fishing facilities

 Exim Bank extends $250 million line of credit to Mozambique

 Donald Trump imposes US ban on WeChat, TikTok in 45 days

 Google pulls 2,500 China-linked YouTube channels over disinformation

♦Banking and Financial

 Reliance Power, JERA ink loan agreement with banks for new power plant in Bangladesh

 GST collections stand at Rs 87,422 crore in July

 Canara Bank ties up with 3 insurers to provide Corona Kavach policies

 National Bank of Bahrain selects Infosys Finacle for transformation of transaction banking business

 Bharti Airtel inks multi-year strategic pact with Amazon for AWS solutions

 2nd RBI Monetary Policy 2020-21: Bank keeps repo rate unchanged

 Reliance General Insurance launches platform for making payments via Bharat Bill

 Airtel Payments Bank ties up with Bharti AXA General Insurance to offer Shop Insurance

 Home-grown social media app ShareChat to get $100 million funding from Microsoft

♦Committee

 IFSCA sets up a panel to formulate plan to develop international retail business chaired by Pradip Shah

 KV Kamath To Head RBI Committee on Setting Parameters for Loan Restructuring

♦Appointment and Resignation

 Great Eastern Shipping Company Ltd Appointed Former RBI Governor Urjit Patel as Additional & Independent Director

 HP appoints Ketan Patel as India MD

 Sashidhar Jagdishan is the new CEO of HDFC Bank

 J&K Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu resigns and take charge as new CAG

 Manoj Sinha appointed as new lieutenant governor of Jammu and Kashmir

 Ajay Tyagi gets 18 Months extension as SEBI Chairman

♦Awards

 ‘Moothon’, ‘Son Rise’ win awards at 20th New York Indian Film Festival

♦Sports

 Sports Ministry Announces Selection Committee chaired by Retired Justice of Supreme Court Justice Mukundakam Sharma for National Sports Awards 2020

 Lewis Hamilton won British Grand Prix 2020

 India withdraws from Women’s World Team Squash Championship 2020

 VIVO won’t be IPL title sponsors this year: BCCI

♦Book and Author

 Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Released a Book Titled “Siyasat Mein Sadasyata” Authored by Vijay Kumar Choudhary

♦Important day

 1 August – National Mountain Climbing Day

 1 August – Yorkshire Day

 World Breastfeeding Week 2020 – August 1 to 7 (Theme 2020: “Support Breast feeding for a healthier planet”)

 3 August – Sanskrit Diwas 2020

 4th August: Coast Guard Day

 6 August: Hiroshima Day 2020

 First Friday in August (7th August 2020): International Beer Day

 7th August: 6th National Handloom Day

♦Obituary

 Malayalam Actor Anil Murali passed away

 Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh passes away at 64 in Singapore

 Sahitya Akademi Awardee Tamil writer and documentary filmmaker Sa. Kandasamy passed away

 Nobel Peace Prize winner politician John Hume passed away

 Former Arunachal Pradesh Governor R.D. Pradhan passes away

 Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Shivajirao Patil Nilangekar passes away

 ”Father of modern Indian theatre” Ebrahim Alkazi dies at 94

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 8th August to 14th August 2020

♦National News

 Delhi Govt. launches Electric Vehicle Policy

 Over 160 million watched live telecast of Ram temple event

 Flipkart signs MoU with UP government’s one District, One Product scheme

 Delhi Airport Develops Online “AIR SUVIDHA” Portal for International Passengers

 No sale of junk food within 50 metres of schools: FSSAI

 Union Environment Minister launched National Portal on Human Elephant conflict called “SURAKHSYA”

 Chhattisgarh CM launches Indira Van Mitan Yojana

 Gujarat Launches New Scheme Mukhya Mantri Kisan Sahay Yojana

 Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launches ‘Krishi Megh’

 Raksha Mantri launches ‘Atmanirbharta Saptah’ (7 to 14 August)

 Assam Govt Announces Arunodoi Scheme, Boost to Women Empowerment

 CM Amarinder Singh launches ‘Punjab Smart Connect Scheme’

 West Bengal Govt Launched ‘Karma Sathi Prakalpa’ scheme to Provide Soft Loans, Subsidies to Youth

 PM Modi launches Transparent Taxation platform to benefit honest taxpayers

 Goa’s Moira bananas, Harmal Chillies, Khaje gets GI tag

 Odisha bags 1st position in AMRUT scheme

♦International News

 Mauritius declares emergency as stranded ship spills fuel

 Mahinda Rajapaksa takes oath as prime minister of Sri Lanka for fourth time

 Walter Roger Martos Ruiz sworn in as new Prime Minister of Peru

 Russia registers the world’s first coronavirus vaccine

 Reliance rank 96th in the Fortune’s top 100 global companies 2020

 Mohamed Ould Bilal becomes new Prime Minister of Mauritania

 India & Maldives ink contract for development of five eco-tourism zones in Addu atoll

 Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab Government Steps Down

 Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris named US Vice Presidential candidate for Democratic party

 Mukesh Ambani, 4th richest person in the world: Bloomberg Billionaires Index

 India extends assistance of USD 1 million to Antigua and Barbuda to combat COVID-19 pandemic

 Forbes releases “The Highest-Paid Actors Of 2020” list, Akshay Kumar (6th) in top 10

 Donald Trump brokers historic peace deal between Israel and UAE

 India announces USD 500 million help in Maldives Connectivity project

♦Banking and Financial

 LIC acquires 5% stake in YES Bank

 ADB signs 200 million Dollar financing deal with Reliance for power plant in Bangladesh

 NPCI launches omni-channel loyalty platform ‘nth Rewards’

 India GDP to negative growth of 5% (-4.5%) in 2020 due to Covid- 19 pandemic: Dun & Bradstreet report

 South Indian Bank gets RBI’s nod to set up non-financial subsidiary

 Rajesh Verma Released Report of the Committee on Business Responsibility Reporting (BRR)

 Reliance Foundation partners with USAID to bridge gender digital divide in India

 RBI governor announces ‘positive pay’ feature to help avert cheque frauds

 RBI mandates system-based asset classification for UCBs

♦Appointment and Resignation

 P S Ranipse appointed as new IG of CRPF

 Prof Pradeep Kumar Joshi appointed as UPSC chairman

 PNB Housing Finance appoints Hardayal Prasad as MD & CEO

 Govt forms panel to fix ceiling rates under duty reimbursement scheme for exporters chaired by G K Pillai

 Senior IRS Officer Patanjali Jha assumes charge as Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax

 Pramod Bhasin becomes new Chairman of ICRIER

 PESB select Soma Mondal as the next chairman of Steel Authority of India

 Vice Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi assumes charge as Director General Naval Operations

♦Award

 Nitin Sethi and Shiv Sahay Singh win ACJ’s journalism awards

♦Defence

 India to Participate in Kavkaz Exercise 2020 in Russia

 India bans import of 101 defence items to boost self-reliance

♦Science

 Skyroot India’s first private company to test upper-stage rocket engine

 NASA Planet Hunter TESS finds 66 new Exoplanets

♦Sports

 India to host 2021 T20 World Cup, 2022 edition in Australia

 Max Verstappen Won F1 70th Anniversary Grand Prix 2020

♦Book and Author

 ‘Amazing Ayodhya’, a new book by author Neena Rai

 “Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World” – A Book by Dalai Lama to release in November

♦Important day

 8th August: 78th Quit India Movement Day 2020

 August 9: World Tribal Day

 9th August: Nagasaki Day

 9th August: International day of the world’s indigenous peoples 2020 (Theme: COVID-19 and indigenous peoples’ resilience)

 10th August: World Biofuel Day

 August 12: World Elephant Day

 10th August: World Lion Day

 12th August: International Youth Day (Theme 2020: “Youth Engagement for Global Action”)

 August 13: World Organ Donation Day 2020

Obituary

 Noted Urdu poet Rahat Indori passed away

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 15th August to 22nd August 2020

♦National News

 India celebrates 74th Independence Day

 One India One Market for Farmers

 PM Modi announced India will soon introduce a new cyber security policy

 PM Modi launches National Digital Health Mission

 Modi government launches the “world’s largest connectivity project” Optical-fibre connectivity

 India Target to have zero road fatalities by 2030: Nitin Gadkari

 Rajnath Singh launches online portal ‘SRIJAN’ to promote indigenisation in defence production

 Central Water Commission and Google launch Flood forecasting Initiative

 Supreme Court judgment on daughters’ right to property

 Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launches Swachh Bharat Mission Academy

 Nagaland Government launched Centralized e-commerce platform “YellowChain”

 Amazon launches seller driven ‘Itna Aasan Hai’ campaign

 Indian Railways constructing world’s tallest pier bridge in Manipur

 Chhattisgarh CM announces ‘Padhai Tuhar Para’ scheme for school students

 Gwalior-Chambal Expressway to be named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee

 Kozhikode plane crash: AAIB forms five-member inquiry panel Headed by Captain S S Chahar

 Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2020 announced by M Venkaiah Naidu

 Manduadih becomes ‘Banaras’: MHA gives nod for name change of major railway station in UP

 UP Govt. launched the Electronics Manufacturing Policy

 Dhanwantari Rath: Ayurveda at doorsteps of Delhi Police Families

 National Recruitment Agency gets Cabinet’s nod. Common Eligibility Test for govt jobs, PSBs

 Indore wins Swachh Survekshan 2020 for fourth consecutive time

 India ranks first in number of organic farmers

 India attends World Conference of Speakers of Parliament

 National Commission on Population: India’s Population to be more feminine in 2036

 India Ranked 57th in Digital Quality of Life 2020, Denmark tops

 Madhya Pradesh to offer jobs based on CET conducted by NRA

 AP Govt Signed MoU with Reliance Retail, Jio and Allana Group to Help Women SHGs Market Their Products

 MP’s Police launched “Ek Sankalp – Bujurgo ke naam” campaign proves to be boon for senior citizens amid corona pandemic

 Nitin Gadkari launches “Harit Path app” stresses on greener national highways

♦International News

 Taiwan purchases F-16 jets from US

 UAE-Israel agreed for peace agreement namely “Abraham Accord”

 Mali’s President Keita resigns after military mutiny

 Luis Rodolfo Abinader sworn in as 54th President of Dominican Republic

 India & Israel sign cultural agreement to further boost people-to- people ties

 Keith Rowley Became Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for a 2nd Consecutive Term

 India, Japan and Australia to launch “Supply Chain Resilience Initiative” to counter China

 Israel’s MoU with UP to resolve Bundelkhand water crisis

♦Banking and Financial

 HDFC Bank launches Shaurya KGC Card for Armed Forces

 India’s forex reserves surge by $3.62 bn to fresh all-time high

 RBI’s Central Board headed by Shaktikanta Das approved a dividend of Rs 57,128 crore to Central Govt

 PNB launches Digital Apnayen campaign to encourage digital banking

 EU launches 1-mn-euro project in Maharashtra, Odisha for skilling women in housing sector

 UK launches 3 million pounds Innovation Challenge Fund in India

 India’s GDP to contract 5% in Apr-June quarter: SBI report

 ADB approves $1 billion loan for construction of Delhi-Meerut RRTS

 Flipkart signs MOU with IIT Patna, to help students get real world industry exposure

 SBI General Insurance Launches ‘Shagun – Gift an insurance’ policy

 Reliance Retail acquires majority stake in Netmeds for ₹620 crore

 Data & AI have potential to add $500 billion to economy by 2025: Nasscom

 Bharti AXA Life partners with SBM Bank India for insurance distribution

 HSBC India launched green deposit programme for corporate clients

 ICICI Lombard to acquire Bharti AXA General Insurance

♦Appointment and Resignation

 GoAir appoints Kaushik Khona as new CEO, to replace Vinay Dube

 ebikeGo appoints Harbhajan Singh as brand ambassador

 Rakesh Asthana appointed New BSF DG

 Goa Governor Satya Pal Malik Moved to Meghalaya, Third Shift In 2 Years, Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been given additional charge of Goa

 DBS Bank India appoints Prashant Joshi as MD and Head of National Distribution

 Cricketer Rohit Sharma Appointed Oakley’s Brand Ambassador in India

 ‘NPCI International Payments Limited’; Appointed Ritesh Shukla as its CEO

 Ashwani Bhatia appointed as managing director of State Bank of India

 Former Finance Secy Rajiv Kumar Appointed New Election Commissioner

♦Awards

 Nagaland school wins Pallikutam award for innovation in education

♦Sports

 MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina retire from international cricket on the same day on 15th Aug

 Dream11 wins IPL 2020 title sponsorship rights for ₹222 crore

 Lewis Hamilton dominates to win Spanish GP

 Mukundakam Sharma handed over the recommendations for National Sports Award of 2020

 Ronnie O’Sullivan Wins Sixth World Snooker Championship 2020

♦Book and Author

 Michael Cohen’s Book “Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump”

 A Book Titled ‘One Arranged Murder’ Authored by Chetan Bhagat

♦Important day

 19th August: World Photography Day

 19th August: World Humanitarian Day

 CII India launched Healthcare Week from August 17-21, 2020

 20th August: World Mosquito Day

 20th August: Sadbhavana Diwas 2020

 20th August: Indian Akshay Urja Day 2020

 August 21: World Senior Citizen’s Day 2020

♦Obituary

 16th August: Atal Bihari Vajpayee Second death anniversary

 Former India opener Chetan Chauhan passes away

 Bollywood Director-actor Nishikant Kamat passed away

 Legendary classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj passes away

 Former Cricketer Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan passed away

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 23rd August to 31st August 2020

♦National News

 Odisha Celebrated Nuakhai Festival 2020

 Indian Railways generates 6,40,000 mandays of work under Gareeb Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan

 Delhi to London—World’s longest bus voyage to start in 2021

 India’s longest river ropeway over Brahmaputra opened for public

 Delhi Govt. Launched Niraman Mazdoor Registration Abhiyan for Construction Workers

 Karnataka Government to build “Transit Homes” for Migrant Workers

 Tata Digital To Launch ‘Super App’, Integrate Consumer Offerings

 Niti Aayog Task Force headed by Ramesh Chand Recommends Linking of Sugarcane Prices to Sugar Rate

 Kerala’s 1st-ever Dragonfly Festival, christened ‘Thumbi Maholsavam 2020’.

 TN women top the list of MUDRA loan scheme beneficiaries

 NITI Aayog Released Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020: Gujarat Tops

 Rs 1,200 crore plan to link Ladakh with National Grid

 Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh launches mobile App called “DGNCC” for NCC Training

 India’s first International Women Trade Centre to be set up in Kerala

 Delhi Government Launched ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’ Fitness Campaign for Students Confined in Homes

 Indian Railways to meet energy needs of 33 bn units by 2030

 51st IFFI to be held in Goa from Nov 20

 India 72nd on global list with average monthly wage of Rs 32,800, Switzerland Tops: Picodi.com

 UP Govt Launches ‘Major Dhyan Chand Vijaypath Yojana’

♦International News

 Google Launches ‘The Anywhere School’ With 50 New Features To Boost Online Learning

 WHO declares Africa free of Wild Polio

 Russia releases declassified video of largest-ever hydrogen bomb blast

 Ericsson & UNICEF Partnered to Map School Internet Connectivity in 35 Countries

 Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe resigns over health concerns

♦Banking and Financial

 GOI and AIIB sign agreement for $500 million to improve the network capacity of the suburban railway system in Mumbai

 KVG Bank inks pact with SBI General Insurance

 SBI partners with AddaCorner to boost real estate market in Bengaluru

 Adani Group to acquire 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport

 RBI Annual Report 2019-20, the total income in 2019- 20 has increased by 28.97%

 ICICI Bank has announced use of satellite data to assess credit worthiness of farmers

 NABARD launches credit guarantee programme for NBFC-MFIs

 HSBC India Launched Omni Collect, a One Stop Solution to Businesses

 Axis Bank introduced ‘Liberty Savings Account’ for the Indian Youth

 HDFC Bank partners Adobe to enhance customer experience

 keen to reduce stake in 4 public-sector banks

 Reliance Retail acquires Future Group’s retail business for ₹24,713 crore

♦Appointment and Resignation

 DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy gets two-year extension

 SBI Mutual Fund appoints Vinay Tonse as MD and CEO

 Former IOC Chairman Sanjiv Singh joins Reliance as Group President

 TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigns

 Banks Board Bureau Recommends Dinesh Kumar Khara As Next SBI Chairman  Lebanon President Aoun designates Mustapha Adib as New Prime Minister

♦Awards

 Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Ltd (NLCIL) wins Swachhta Hi Seva 2019 award

 Marieke Lucas Rijneveld becomes youngest author to win International Booker Prize 2020

 Sudha Painuli Selected for National Award to Teachers 2020

♦Defence

 India Pavilion at Army-2020 Forum Inaugurated in Russia

 Indian Air Force launches “MY IAF” Application

 First marine ambulance ‘Pratheeksha’ launched in Kerala

 14th India-Singapore Defence Policy Dialogue  India withdraws from Russia’s KavKaz 2020 Military

♦Science

 ISRO signs MoU with VSSUT to set up Incubation Centre

♦Sports

 Jacques Kallis, Sthalekar and Zaheer Abbas inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

 Bayern Munich won UEFA Champions League 2019-20

 England’s James Anderson becomes first fast bowler to take 600 Test wickets

 AIFC signs MoU with FCA for the development of Football in India & Australia

 Dwayne Bravo becomes first bowler to scalp 500 wickets in T20 Cricket

 India, Russia announced joint winners of Chess Olympiad after controversial finish

 Lewis Hamilton win Belgian Grand Prix 2020

 India to host BRICS Games 2021 during Khelo India Games

♦Book and Author

 The Book “Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story” written by by Monika Arora, Sonali Chitalkar and Prerna Malhotra to be Published

 Army Chief releases book on National Security titled “National Security Challenges: Young Scholars’ Perspective”

♦Important day

 26th August: Women’s Equality Day 2020

 World Water Week 2020: 24 To 28 August (theme 2020: ‘Water and Climate change: Accelerating Action’)

 29th August: National Sports Day

 29th August: International Day against Nuclear Tests

 30th August: National Small Industry Day

♦Obituary

 Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer

 Veteran Assamese Folk Singer Archana Mahanta Passed Away  India's first woman cardiologist Dr Padmavati passes away  Former President Pranab Mukherjee passes away at the age of 84 Years : 1935-1920

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