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US & India conduct joint naval exercise

July 21, 2020
  • A US carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz conducted a “cooperative” exercise with Indian warships in the Indian Ocean on Monday.
  • The cooperative exercises took place near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and transited through the Indian Ocean region.

Veteran Odia actor Bijay Mohanty passes away

July 21, 2020
  • Odia film actor and director Bijay Mohanty passed away at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar at the age of 70 after he suffered a cardiac arrest.
  •  He was honoured with the Jayadev Award in 2014. He was also honoured with the National Award for his contribution to art and literature.

KURMA mobile app launched by Prakash Javadekar to conserve Indian turtles

July 21, 2020
  • Union Environment and Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar hailed the KURMA mobile application as a unique tool for tracking and reporting Indian turtles.
  • The Mobile Application, KURMA, was launched on 23rd May this year on the occasion of World Turtle Day. The citizen science initiative aims at the conservation of turtles and tortoises.

The trail of Trans Shipments begins by India

July 22, 2020
trail of Trans Shipments

● Trial of transshipment of goods from India to the North East through the Chittagong port of Bangladesh begins.
● The trial run will be completed after the Indian goods reach Tripura and Assam.
● After unloading from the Chattogram Port, Bangladeshi prime mover trucks would
carry the goods to West Tripura and Assam through Agartala Land Port.

Vice Prez Venkaiah Naidu unveils statue of Babasaheb Dr. B R Ambedkar at CAG office

July 22, 2020
statue of Babasaheb Dr. B R Ambedkar

● The Vice President unveiled the statue of Dr. Ambedkar at the CAG office in New Delhi to work on his vision to ensure independence and a wide mandate to the CAG.
● The Comptroller and Auditor General, CAG is a strong and credible institution and the credit for this must go to the framers of the Constitution, particularly to Dr. BR Ambedkar.

Chennai launched Plasma blood bank

July 22, 2020
Chennai launched Plasma blood bank
  • Chennai health dept. has launched a plasma blood bank to facilitate convalescent plasma therapy to COVID-19 patients.
  • It is inaugurated by the State Health Minister Dr. C Vijayabhaskar at the Government Rajiv Gandhi General Hospital in the city. It has the facility for seven people to donate blood plasma at a time.

Mizoram govt. to set up 5 sports schools in the state

July 22, 2020
Mizoram govt. to set up 5 sports schools
  • The state government of Mizoram has planned to set up five sports schools in different parts of the State.
  • The central government has released the first installment of funds for the purpose. the State government has taken up plans to upgrade the sports infrastructures

“Emergency Medical Services” to be established in Male

July 22, 2020
Emergency Medical Services
  • India and Maldives signed an agreement to establish “Emergency Medical Services” in Male.
  • The Emergency Medical Service is financed by India under grant assistance of 20 million USD for neighboring countries to increase the collaboration between the countries.

UPI AutoPay facility started by NPCI for recurring payment

July 22, 2020
UPI AutoPay
  • NPCI has launched the functionality of UPI AutoPay for recurring payments.

Benefits:

  • Customers can now enable recurring e-mandate using any UPI application for recurring payments such as mobile bills, electricity bills, EMI payments, entertainment/OTT subscriptions, insurance, mutual funds, and loan payments, paying for transit/metro payments among others of up to Rs. 2000. If the amount exceeds Rs. 2000, customers have to execute every mandate with UPI PIN.

By year-end India and Russia will sign the Defence Logistics Agreement

July 22, 2020
Defence Logistics Agreement
  • India and Russia are finalizing Defence Logistics Agreement that will enable seamless access to military bases and support facilities which will be formally signed by the year-end.

CBIC and CBDT sign MoU on Data Sharing

July 22, 2020
Data Sharing
  • The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has signed an MoU with the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) for the bilateral exchange of data.
  • The agreement will help to facilitate the exchange of information between the boards regularly.

Arnab Chaudhuri to be conferred with Legend of Animation award

July 22, 2020
Arnab Chaudhuri
  • Legendary animation director Arnab Chaudhuri has been named as the recipient of this year’s Legend of Animation award instituted by the Toonz Media Group (TMG). 
  • The award will be posthumously conferred to Arnab at the Animation Masters Summit (AMS) 2020– Digital Edition over the Zoom platform.

Karur Vysya Bank appoints Ramesh Babu Boddu as MD & CEO

July 22, 2020
Ramesh Babu Boddu
  • Karur Vysya Bank has selected Ramesh Babu Boddu as an additional director and appointed him as the bank’s new MD & CEO for three years from the date of taking charge.
  • Boddu succeeds PR Seshadri who had resigned citing personal reasons on March 31, 2020.

Rahul Bajaj to step down as Bajaj Finance Chairman and Sanjiv Bajaj to succeed him

July 22, 2020
Sanjiv Bajaj
  • Sanjiv Bajaj will be the new non-executive chairman of Bajaj Finance from August 2020 and he will succeed Rahul Bajaj.
  • Rahul Bajaj will continue to serve the company as a non-executive non-independent director.

India successfully test-fires “Dhruvastra” anti-guided missiles

July 22, 2020
Dhruvastra
  • India successfully conducted the flight trial of Dhruvastra anti-guided missile at the Interim Test Range of Odisha. The trials of the helicopter launched Nag Missile (HELINA) were successful. The missile has now been renamed as “Dhruvastra”.
  • Helina is a third-generation anti-tank guided missile mounted on Advanced Light Helicopter. The missile system can engage targets indirect hit mode and attack mode.

ICC Men’s T20 World Cup postponed to 2022

July 22, 2020
Men’s T20 World Cup
  • The International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia 2020 has been postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Creator of 1980 Olympic Mascot Viktor Chizhikov passes away

July 22, 2020
Viktor Chizhikov
  • Viktor Chizhikov, the Russian illustrator behind the memorable Mishka bear mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, died. He was 84.
  • The artist’s drawings were used in popular magazines, including “Young Naturalist”, “Twinkle”, “Funny Pictures” and “Murzilka”.

23rd of July is observed as National Broadcasting Day

July 23, 2020
National Broadcasting Day
  • ‘National Broadcasting Day’ is observed on 23rd July every year with an aim to celebrate the radio which is an easy medium to entertain people along with the news.
  • The first-ever radio broadcasting went on air in 1927.

‘Vriksharopan Abhiyan’ launched by Amit Shah in New Delhi

July 23, 2020
Vriksharopan Abhiyan
  • Union Minister Amit Shah launched a campaign which is organized by the Ministry of Coal named ‘Vriksharopan Abhiyan’ under which trees will be planted in offices, mines and colonies.
  • He also inaugurated and laid the foundation stones for six eco-parks and tourism sites.
  • The coal ministry’s ‘Going Green’ initiative will kick start through active participation of coal and lignite PSUs as well as private miners

The Pilot project of Nation Transit Pass system is launched by Prakash Javadekar

July 23, 2020
prakash javadekar
  • The Pilot project of Nation Transit Pass system is virtually launched by the Environment Minister  Prakash Javadekar at Indira Paryavaran Bhawan in New Delhi.
  • The main objective of this project is to enhance the seamless movement of forest produce under the Digital  India Movement.
  • People can apply for their transit pass through their mobile phone and can receive e-passes for that.

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