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National Sports Day 2020: 29 August 2020

National Sports Day is celebrated on August 29 every year to honour the hockey legend, Major Dhyan Chand since 2012. Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju pay tribute to Major Dhyan Chand at Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi.

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He came to be known as 'Wizard of Hockey', worldwide.

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International Day against Nuclear Tests 29 August

64th session of the UN General Assembly declared 29 August the International Day against Nuclear Tests to signify that effort should be made to end nuclear tests in order to avert devastating and harmful effects on the lives and health of people.

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UN General Secretary: Antonio Guterres

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India co-sponsors UN security council resolution on women peacekeepers

India has co-sponsored a security council resolution that calls for full, effective & meaningful participation of women personnel in peacekeeping operations which was put forth by Indonesia. India is one of the largest troop contributors to UN peacekeeping

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India is a non-permanent member of the UNSC for a two-year term.

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Veteran Athletics coach Purshottam Rai dies at 79

Veteran athletics coach Purshottam Rai died due to a cardiac arrest in Bengaluru. He was to be conferred the prestigious Dronacharya Award in the lifetime category at the age of 79.

He has coached many of top athletes Olympian like quartermiler Vandana Rao

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He coached Indian team for 1987 World Athletics Championship

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Centre to develop three Bamboo Clusters in Jammu, Katra and Samba areas of J&K

Minister of Development of NE-Region, Dr Jitendra Singh said that 3 Bamboo Clusters will be developed in Jammu, Katra & Samba areas for making of Bamboo basketry, Agarbatti & Bamboo Charcol that will provide direct employment to nearly 25000 people.

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Mega Bamboo Industrial Park at Ghati near Jammu to also come up

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Government launches contest "Chunauti" to promote startups in small towns

Govt has launched a contest to boost homegrown startups & software products companies with special focus on firms from small towns. As per "Chunauti"- Next Generation Startup Challenge Contest around 300 startups will be identified & provided seed funds.

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Seed fund of upto Rs 25,00,000 along with other support.

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RBI launches surveys on consumer confidence, inflation expectations

RBI is conducting the Consumer Confidence Survey & Inflation Expectations Survey of Households. CCS seeks "qualitative responses" from households, regarding their sentiments on general economic situation & IESH aims to capture assessment on inflation

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CCS & IESH is conducted in 13 & 18 indian cities respectively

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State Bank of India and Bank of Baroda have biggest share of Jan Dhan outstanding

SBI has seen a 12.2% rise in outstanding Jan Dhan balance in the first four-and-a-half months, while BoB’s outstanding rose 12.9% in the same period in such accounts, more than industry average. Banks have opened around 40 crore Jan Dhan accounts in 5 yrs.

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Jan Dhan Yojana was launched in 2014.

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Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister, quits

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe has announced his resignation for health reasons. The 65-year-old has suffered for many years from ulcerative colitis. Last year, he became Japan's longest serving prime minister. His current period in office began in 2012.

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His aggressive economic policy is known as "Abenomics".

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Banks Board Bureau recommends Dinesh Khara as next SBI chairman

Banks Board Bureau has recommended Dinesh Kumar Khara as the next chairman of SBI. Mr Khara is the managing director of the Global Banking and Subsidiaries (GB&S) wing of SBI & supervises the businesses of non-banking subsidiaries of the bank.

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Bharatiya Mahila Bank merged with SBI in 2017

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Bangladesh’s Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd & Serum Institute of India join hands for Covid-19 vaccine .

The two entities have announced that BPL will be investing with SII, for the development of the Covid-19 vaccine less than 10 days after Foreign Secretary’s visit to Dhaka. The BPL will be the exclusive distributor of SII for this vaccine in Bangladesh.

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The investment amount will be treated as an advance.

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'Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman passes away at 43

Chadwick Boseman, who played Black icons Jackie Robinson and James Brown before finding fame as Black Panther in the Marvel cinematic universe, died of cancer. He was 43. Black Panther was the first major superhero movie with an African protagonist.

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Black Panther movie has won three Academy Awards