General awareness 8 SEPTEMBER 2020
General awareness 8 SEPTEMBER 2020
🔷 8 September : International Literacy Day
🔷 Theme 2020 : “Literacy teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.”
🔷 Apple’s first ‘floating’ store to be launched in Singapore
🔷 ADB inks $500 Million Loan agreement with India for Delhi-Meerut RRTS Corridor
🔷 Govind Swarup, Pioneer of Radio Astronomy in India, passes away
🔷 Veteran Telugu actor Jaya Prakash Reddy passes away
🔷 Fitch Ratings Projects Indian economy to contract 10.5% in FY21
🔷 Prime Minister virtually inaugurates Patrika Gate in Jaipur
🔷 The gate is built on the busiest Jawaharlal Nehru Marg of Jaipur
🔷 AIM partners with Freshworks to provide robust support to innovators and entrepreneurs in India
🔷 World Bank approves USD82 million loan for implementation of Himachal Pradesh State Roads Transformation Project
🔷 Oscar winning Czech director Jiri Menzel passes away
🔷 Typhoon Haishen wreaks havoc in South Korea
🔷 India and Bangladesh have agreed to hold the 6th meeting of the Joint Consultative Commission
🔷 Tamil Nadu CM releases state’s Electronic Hardware Manufacturing Policy-2020
🔷 At 96.2%, Kerala tops India’s literacy rate chart again, Andhra ranks last at 66.4%
🔷 Liberation war fighter Ziauddin Tariq Ali passes away in Dhaka
🔷 Father of India's Radio Astronomy Govind Swarup passes away
🔷 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize awarded to Sir David Attenborough
🔷 Sir David Attenborough was conferred with the prestigious Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2019
🔷 Andhra Pradesh Government launches YSR Sampoorna Poshana Scheme
🔷 KV Kamath Panel report to RBI 26 sectors identified for loan restructuring
🔷 India-US-Israel Summit Collaboration in 5G Technology
🔷 Svanidhi Samvaad PM to address street vendors in Madhya Pradesh
🔷 Bengaluru tops the list of cities for career in artificial intelligence (AI),
🔷 Assam State Rural Livelihoods Mission and NESFB sign MoU
🔷 Australia appoints cricket icon Matthew Hayden as trade envoy to India
🔷 GoI launches mental health rehabilitation helpline “KIRAN”
🔷 The helpline – 1800-500-0019 will provide relief and support to persons with mental illness
🔷 First World Solar Technology Summit of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) held
🔷 India to achieve its ambitious target of having 100 GW of solar energy by 2022
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