ICDINSTITUTE FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT KOLLAM www.icdkollam.in ICD NEWS DIARY AUGUST 17-23 AUGUST 17 INDIA – SC to examine when corruption allegations against judiciary can be made public – Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda launches Tribal Health and Nutrition Portal ‘Swasthya’ and quarterly e- newsletter ALEKH – IPS officer Rakesh Asthana appointed Director General of BSF – IPS officer V S K Kaumudi appointed Special Secretary (Internal Security) in Home Ministry – Uttarakhand: Woolly flying squirrel, considered extinct 70 years ago, spotted at Gangotri National Park in Uttarkashi – BJP candidate Jai Prakash Nishad elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from UP – Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj dies at 90; belonged to the Mewati Gharana, won: Padma Shri (1975), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padma Bhushan (1990), Padma Vibhushan (2000) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship (2010). – West Bengal: Trinamool Congress MLA Samaresh Das dies at 76 after testing positive for COVID-19 – Manipur: Nitin Gadkari lays foundation stone for 13 highway projects worth Rs 3,000 crore; total road length 316 kms ECONOMY & CORPORATE – India's seafood exports pegged at 12,89,651 MT in FY 2019-20: MPEDA (Marine Products Export Development Authority) WORLD – Nepal, India hold virtual talks on the progress made on various India-aided developmental projects; delegations led by Nepalese Foreign Secretary Shanker Das Bairagi and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra – UK launches £3 mn innovation challenge in India to tackle Covid-19 pandemic – MV Wakashio, the carrier that ran aground, spilled oil off Mauritian coast, breaks up AUGUST 18 INDIA – Contributions to PM-CARES (Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations) Fund need not be credited to NDRF (National Disaster Response Fund): Supreme Court – Satya Pal Malik appointed Meghalaya Governor; Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari given additional charge of Goa – Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) renamed as Ministry of Education – IIT Madras ranked number-one in the ‘Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements’ – UP: Home Ministry approves renaming of Manduadih railway station in Varanasi district as Banaras – Bollywood filmmaker Nishikant Kamat, known for movies such as ‘Drishyam’ and ‘Force’, dies at 50 ECONOMY & CORPORATE – IIT Madras and Center for Development of Advance Computing (CDAC) develop microprocessors named SHAKTI (32 bit) and VEGA (64 bit) – Govt. launches ‘Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge - Innovate Solutions for AatmaNirbhar Bharat’ inviting innovators to use SHAKTI and VEGA to develop technology products – ADB approves USD 1 billion loan for 82-km Delhi-Meerut regional rapid transit system – 41 lakh youth lose jobs in India due to COVID-19 pandemic: ILO-ADB Report – Dream11 bags title sponsorship rights of IPL2020 for Rs 222 crore ICD KOLLAM www.icdkollam.in :: 1:: – RBI frames rules for setting up a new umbrella entity for retail payments in the country WORLD – US Senate condemns China’s aggression against India, calls for diplomacy – US: 54.4 degrees Celsius, world’s hottest air temperature in a century, recorded in Mojave Desert AUGUST 19 INDIA – Cabinet approves setting up of National Recruitment Agency for conducting Common Eligibility Test for various govt. jobs – Health Ministry’s ‘eSanjeevani’ telemedicine service records 2 lakh tele-consultations – Indian Railways procures Ninja drones for security surveillance and passenger safety – SCTIMST & IIT Madras start-up set up portable hospital infrastructure for COVID -19 – All serving and retired soldiers in Maharashtra exempted from panchayat property tax – ‘Grandparents’ Bag of Stories’ announced as title of the forthcoming book of author Sudha Murty – Sushant Singh Rajput case: SC orders CBI probe, asks Mumbai Police to hand over evidence – IIT Kharagpur opens Academy of Classical and Folk Arts ECONOMY & CORPORATE – CCEA approves increase in sugarcane FRP by Rs 10 to Rs 285/quintal for 2020-21 – Cabinet approves proposal for leasing out Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports – Cabinet expands lending limits for power discoms to help them clear dues – Govt operationalises Rs 20,000 crore stress fund for MSMEs; issues guidelines to avail loan from banks – RBI to introduce more security features for cheques via Positive Pay mechanism – RBI removes restrictions on salary of Bandhan Bank CEO Chandra Shekhar Ghosh after compliance with shareholding norms WORLD – LS Speaker Om Birla attends inaugural ceremony of two-day 5th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament – Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina discusses two-year road map with Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla – Mali: President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigns after mutinous soldiers detain him at his home in capital Bamako – Supply Chain Resilience Initiative (SCRI): India, Japan, Australia joining hands to counter China’s dominance – World Humanitarian Day observed on August 19 – World Photography Day observed on August 19 AUGUST 20 SWACHH SURVEKSHAN 2020 – Swachh Survekshan 2020 report released by Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry – Among the cities with population above 1 lakh, Indore was ranked the cleanest for the fourth year in a row – Among citieswith population under 1 lakh, top three cities are Karad, Sasvad and Lonavala– all from Maharashtra – Indore, Ambikapur, Navi Mumbai, Surat, Rajkot and Mysuru rated as 5-star cities, 86 cities as 3-star and 64 cities as 1-star – Chhattisgarh was ranked the cleanest state out of those with over 100 urban local bodies (ULBs) – Jharkhand was ranked the cleanest state among those with less than 100 ULBs – In the category of “Ganga towns”, Varanasiranked the cleanest – In the category of cantonments, Jalandhar got the top rank – In the category of capitals, New Delhi was cleanest – Survey covered 4,242 cities, 62 cantonment boards and 97 “Ganga towns”earlier this year over 28 days INDIA – Chandrayaan-2 completes a year around Moon, adequate fuel for 7 more years: ISRO – Rajasthan govt. launches Indira Rasoi scheme; poor to get food at Rs. 8 per plate – MP to offer govt. jobs on the basis of score in CET (Common Eligibility Test (CET) test conducted by NRA (National Recruitment Agency); claims to be the first state to do so – India was the fifth largest ‘requestor’ among countries for removing content on Twitter during July-December 2019 ECONOMY & CORPORATE – RBI unveils ‘National Strategy for Financial Education 2020-2025’ (NSFE); based on 5Cs: Content, Capacity, Community, Communication and Collaboration ICD KOLLAM www.icdkollam.in :: 2:: – NITI Aayog task force headed by Ramesh Chand recommends linking sugarcane prices to sugar rates – DGCA to implement e-governance project for approvals, licenses by year-end – Religare Health Insurance Company Ltd renamed as Care Health Insurance Ltd WORLD – India, Israel sign cultural agreement to further boost people-to-people ties – Iran unveils missiles martyr Qassem Soleimani (1400-km surface-to-surface) and martyr Abu Mahdi (1,000 km cruise) AUGUST 21 INDIA – Abhijit Paul’s ‘Am I’ wins first prize in Online Patriotic Short Film Contest organised by Ministry Of Information and Broadcasting & NFDC (National Film Development Corporation) – NHAI launches ‘Harit Path’ mobile app to monitor plantation along national highways – Rajiv Kumar appointed new Election Commissioner – Telangana: Nine killed in Srisailam powerhouse unit fire ECONOMY & CORPORATE – Megha Engineering & Infrastructure emerges as the lowest bidder for 14.15 km long Zojila Pass tunnel to provide all-year connectivity between J&Kand Ladakh UTs – Centre eases norms to offer 50% of pay for three months as unemployment allowance to ESIC members between March 24 and December 31 – Foreign exchange reserves down USD 2.939 billion to USD 535.252 billion for the week ended August 14 – YES Bank announces 100% sale of its mutual funds business to GPL Finance for an undisclosed amount – KVIC issues legal notices to Khadi Essentials and Khadi Global for unauthorizedly using the brand name ‘Khadi’ WORLD – MEA & Thailand’s Foreign Ministry organize 6th Round Table of AINTT (ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks) – Myanmar govt, armed groups sign framework accord for ceasefire implementation – International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism observed on August 21 NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS RAJIV GANDHI KHEL RATNA AWARD – Rohit Sharma: Cricket – Mariyappan T.: Para Athletics – Manika Batra: Table Tennis – Vinesh Phogat: Wrestling – Rani Rampal: Hockey DRONACHARYA AWARD: Lifetime Category – Dharmendra Tiwary: Archery – Purushotham Rai: Athletics – Shiv Singh: Boxing – Romesh Pathania: Hockey – Krishan Kumar Hooda: Kabaddi – Vijay Bhalchandra Munishwar: Para Powerlifting – Naresh Kumar: Tennis – Om Parkash Dahiya: Wrestling DRONACHARYA AWARD: Regular Category – Jude Felix Sebastian: Hockey – Yogesh Malviya: Mallakhamb – Jaspal Rana: Shooting – Kuldeep Kumar Handoo: Wushu – Gaurav Khanna: Para Badminton ARJUNA AWARD – Atanu Das: Archery – Dutee Chand: Athletics – Satwik Sairaj Rankireddy: Badminton – Chirag Chandrasekhar Shetty: Badminton ICD KOLLAM www.icdkollam.in :: 3:: – Vishesh Bhriguvanshi: Basketball – Subedar Manish Kaushik: Boxing – Lovlina Borgohain: Boxing – Ishant Sharma: Cricket – Deepti Sharma: Cricket – Sawant Ajay Anant: Equestrian – Sandesh Jhingan: Football – Aditi Ashok: Golf – Akashdeep Singh: Hockey – Deepika: Hockey – Deepak: Kabaddi – Kale Sarika Sudhakar: Kho-Kho – Dattu Baban Bhokanal: Rowing – Manu Bhaker: Shooting