International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The 2020 theme is "Languages without borders". UN declared 2019 as The Year of Indigenous Languages
UNESCO Headquarters: Paris, France
Haryana government will open Atal Kisan - Majdoor canteens in all mandis and sugar mills across the state to provide affordable and cheap meals to farmers and labourers at a concessional rate of 10 rupees per plate.
Governor of Haryana: Satyadev Narayan Arya
Divya Kakran became only the 2nd Indian woman to win a gold medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships defeating junior world champion Naruha Matsuyuki in New Delhi. Navjot Kaur had become the 1st Indian woman to win a gold medal at 2018 championship
Pinki, Sarita Mor won gold in 55kg, 59kg respectively
Central Government has released 19,950 crore rupees as GST compensation to states which gets to a total of over 1.20 lakh crore rupees paid by the government towards GST compensation to the states during current fiscal
Minister of State Finance: Anurag Singh Thakur
Axis Bank, and Max Financial Services signed a confidentiality & exclusivity arrangement to explore the possibility of the private sector lender entering a long-term strategic partnership with Max Life Company Ltd.
HQ: Mumbai; Virtual Bank asst: Axis Aha!
Securities & Exchange Board of India has amended the SEBI (Depositories and Participants) Regulations by including an additional explanation that states that ‘pledge’ would also refer to ‘re-pledge of securities for margin or settlement obligations.’
SEBI Chairperson: Ajay Tyagi
The app will help lakh of railway employees to check their employment record during the tenure of their job in the Indian Railways. The HRMS Mobile App was launched by Railway Board Chairman Vinod Kumar Yadav.
App designed & developed by Centre for Railway Inform. System
India’s proposal to include Great Indian Bustard, Asian Elephant and Bengal Florican in Appendix I of UN Convention on migratory species was unanimously accepted at the 13th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species in Gandhinagar
Govt has declared Indian elephant as National Heritage Animal
The programme that has been launched leads to dual M.Sc. that would see NRTI students obtaining two post graduate degrees from both institutions, after spending a year studying at each institution from academic year 2020-2021
National Rail Transport Institute was set up in 2018 at Vadodara
RBI has approved the appointment of Sunil Gurbaxani as Managing Director and CEO of the Bank for a period of 3 years from the date of taking charge. Dhanlaxmi Bank was removed from the RBI PCA framework
Dhanlaxmi Bank Headquarters: Thrissur
Larry Tesler, the computer engineer most commonly known as the developer of the 'cut, copy and paste' functions, and 'find and replace', for user-friendliness in applications like the word processor, passed away at the age of 74
He was also one of the pioneers of modeless computing
P V Sindhu won the ESPN's Female Sportsperson of the Year award for a 3rd consecutive time while young shooter Saurabh Chaudhary bagged the honour in the male category. Chess player Koneru Humpy won the award for the Comeback of the Year
Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary grabbed Team of the Year honour
Former Karnataka Minister and JD(S) leader C Channigappa passed away in Bengaluru on Friday after a prolonged illness at the age of 57. Channigappa was a three-time MLA from Koratagere. Earlier, he served as the Forest Minister of Karnataka
Karnataka CM: B. S. Yediyurappa; Governor: Vajubhai Vala
Centre has devised a 20-20 model to pair the top 20 cities with the bottom 20 and help the laggard cities to kick-start the smartening up process by borrowing technical know-how and financial studies before the 5th anniversary of Smart City Mission
No.1 Ahmedabad has been paired with Chandigarh, ranked 81