World Day Against Child Labour 2020 focuses on the impact of crisis on child labour.Almost one in ten of all children worldwide are in child labour. World Day against Child Labour 2020 theme-COVID-19: Protect Children from Child Labour, now more than ever.
Child labour is concentrated primarily in agriculture (71%).
The Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Anshuman Sharma, Director, Ministry of Finance, Department of Financial Services, as government nominee director on the board of IDBI Bank. He is currently serving on the board of IDFC Ltd.
Rakesh Sharma, MD & CEO, IDBI Bank.
IRDAI has withdrawn long term-third party insurance cover which is issued for three/five years for new vehicles and two-wheelers. This will be effective from August 1, 2020 and make insurance cover affordable for vehicle owners.
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI).
A weather-based smart automatic irrigation system (SAIS) has been deployed at Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) to manage its sprawling 100-acre landscape.BIAL is the first airport in India to deploy a tech-enabled smart irrigation system.
BLR Airport named after founder of the City-Hiriya Kempegowda.
Indian diets -across states, income groups, and rural and urban sectors -are unhealthy, according to the 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission report. The average daily calorie consumption in India is below the recommended 2,503 kcal/capita/day across all groups.
The EAT-Lancet diet comprises eight food groups.
Two pioneers in restaurant delivery - Just Eat Takeaway.com and Grubhub combined in a $7.3 billion US deal that will create one of the world's largest delivery companies.The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2021.
Just Eat Takeaway.com &Grubhub have about 70 mn.users worldwide.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the food processing sector rose 44 percent to USD 904.7 million in the financial year 2019-20. Currently, 100 percent FDI in the food processing sector is allowed through the automatic route.
Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Minister of Food Processing Industries.
Wipro announced a partnership with CloudKnox Security.The joint solution offering enables enterprises to proactively protect and manage their Hybrid & Multi-Cloud infrastructure by continuously detecting & remediating over-permissioned identities.
Wipro CEO: Abidali Neemuchwala.
UP government is set to launch a state level sample collection campaign to find out the level of corona infection among the different sections of society. The campaign will run for one week in which various clusters of the society will be tested.
There are 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh.
Indian-American soil scientist Rattan Lal has been named this year's recipient of the World Food Prize for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production that conserves natural resources and mitigates climate change.
The World Food Prize was Instituted in the year 1987.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the 40th GST council meeting through video conferencing. The Council decided on ways to garner funds to compensate states for the revenue loss due to GST implementation.
The Union Cabinet in 2016 approved setting-up of GST Council.
UP Govt.has successfully installed Tru NAAT machines in all 75 districts. It will help in getting early results of the tests & with the help of them ANC,Pre-surgical & severe acute respiratory infections SARI Cases may be tested for COVID at all districts.
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh-Yogi Adityanath.
Hyderabad City Security Council (HCSC) along with Hyderabad City Police launched ‘She Triumphs through Respect, Equality, and Empowerment (STREE)’, a programme to support and empower women victims of domestic violence and abuse.
International Women's Day is celebrated on the 8th of March.