The 11-day campaign by the Income Tax Dept will focus on taxpayers who are either non-filers or have discrepancies in their returns for the FY 2018-19. It aims to facilitate taxpayers to online validate their transaction information available with IT Dept.
It also promotes voluntary compliance.
In a subtle message to China, Indian Navy conducted drill near the Andaman & Nicobar Islands with several warships, destroyers, frigates and submarines taking part in the exercise. This exercise was led by eastern naval fleet Rear Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan.
Admiral Karambir Singh – 24th Chief of Naval Staff (CNS).
PM Modi delivered a keynote address virtually at this year’s High-Level Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. This was the first address by PM to the broader UN membership since India’s election as a non-permanent member of the UNSC.
Head of UNECOSOC: Mona Juul.
Headquarters: New York, USA.
The Summit hosted by Indian Business Council convenes business and government leaders for discussions on the future of the U.S-India Partnership and the trends shaping globalization, trade and investment, and the future of work in the COVID-era and beyond.
PM Modi and Mike Pompeo to deliver the keynote address.
United Arab Emirates launched its first-ever interplanetary Hope Probe mission to Mars from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre. The spacecraft is expected to reach Mars orbit in about 200 days from now and then begin its mission to study Mars`s atmosphere.
UAE Capital: Abu Dhabi.
Currency: Dirham.
The state government announced the Andhra Pradesh Renewable Energy Export Policy, 2020. The policy will apply to solar, wind and wind-solar hybrid projects. Under this policy, the land will be effectively used for renewable energy projects.
AP CM: Jaganmohan Reddy.
Governor: Biswa Bhushan Harichandran.
The Centre’s fiscal deficit is expected to touch 7.6% in 2020-21, more than double the Budget Estimate as India spends extra to minimise the impact of the pandemic while facing a shortfall in revenues, according to a report by India Ratings and Research.
It has also predicted a GDP contraction of 5.3%.
According to MoST, India and the United States announced new areas of research on transformational power generation based on supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power cycles and advanced coal technologies, including carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS).
Minister of Science and Technology: Harsh Vardhan.
India has established individual bilateral bubbles with France, Germany and the US that will allow airlines of each country in the pact to operate flights. An air bubble with the UK to also soon to be permitted. India – UAE bubble was recently permitted.
Minister of Civil Aviation: Hardeep Singh Puri.
Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar hailed the KURMA mobile application as a unique tool for tracking and reporting Indian turtles. It was launched on 23rd May this year on occasion of World Turtle Day It aims to conserve turtles and tortoises.
It was developed by Indian Turtle Conservation Action Network.
The International Centre of Automotive Technology (ICAT) headquartered in Manesar, Haryana has announced the launch of the automotive technology e-portal ASPIRE, which stands for Automotive Solutions Portal for Industry, Research and Education.
Nodal Ministry: Ministry of Heavy Industries.
Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology an institute under Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers has been accredited by National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories NABL for Testing and Certification of PPE Kit.
Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers: DV Sadananda Gowda.
Ex-Chelsea attacker and Borussia Dortmund forward Andre Schurrle announced his retirement from professional football. The World Cup winner won 57 caps for his country and feature for Chelsea and Wolfsburg prior to joining the Bundesliga club in 2016.
He represented the German national team from 2010 to 2017.
The Rev CT Vivian, a civil rights veteran who worked alongside the Rev Martin Luther King Jr and later led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), has died. He was 95. His civil rights work stretched back for more than six decades.
Obama honoured him the presidential medal of freedom in 2013.
John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a long-time US congressman, has died.
Speaker of US House of Representatives: Nancy Pelosi.
The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Ethics Committee gave its approval for conducting the human clinical trial of the indigenously developed Covid-19 vaccine candidate Covaxin. The age group of the study population is 18 to 55 years.
It was developed by Bharat Biotech, ICMR & NIV.
Filmmaker Rajat Mukherjee, who was known for directing films like Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya and Road, passed away due to health complications in Jaipur. He also directed the 2004 film Love In Nepal, which starred singer Sonu Nigam.
Jaipur also known as the Pink City is the capital of Rajasthan.
The International Chess Day is celebrated on July 20 every year as the founding day of the FIDE (World Chess Federation). This year will mark FIDE's 96th anniversary. Chess is one of the oldest strategy games in the world. FIDE HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland.
FIDE's motto for 2020: "Teach someone how to play chess."
The Jammu and Kashmir administration announced a life insurance cover of Rs 25 lakh each to all elected members of Panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) and urban local bodies (ULBs) of the union territory in case of death due to a terror-related incident.
Lieutenant Governor: GC Murmu.