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Coal India to invest over Rs 1.22 lakh crore on development of 500 projects related to coal evacuation, infrastructure, exploration and clean coal technologies. It aims to make India self-reliant & achieve production target of 1 billion tonnes by 2023-24.
Coal and Mines Minister: Pralhad Joshi.
Rajnath Singh is visiting Moscow from September 3 – 5 to attend the combined meeting of Defence Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member States.
It is organised on 75th Anniversary of victory in World War II.
Uttar Pradesh government decided to set up exclusive anti-electricity theft police stations in every district of state to address the problem of frequent cases of power theft. One police station dedicated to deal with the issue of power theft to be opened.
Enforcement teams have also been increased from 33 to 88.
According to Finance Ministry, GST revenue collection in August stood at ₹86,449 crores which is 88% collected in August 2019. After settlement for inter-state transactions, centre collected revenue of ₹34,122 cr while states collected ₹35,714 cr in August
In July, the GST collection stood at ₹87,422 crores.
IPS officer Charu Sinha has become the first woman commander to head the Central Reserve Police Force formation in Kashmir. She is appointed as the IG of CRPF’s Srinagar sector that oversees the deployment of the paramilitary forces’ battalions in Srinagar
CRPF is India’s largest paramilitary force.
M V Raja Sekhar took charge as Director (R&D) of Navratna Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd. He was a Chief Scientist of BELs Central Research Laboratory-Bangalore & Officer on Special Duty at BELs corporate office. He joined BELs Ghaziabad Unit in 1985.
BEL - Aerospace and defence company. HQ: Bangalore.
Vice Admiral SR Sarma assumed charge as Chief of Materiel of the Indian Navy. In recognition of his distinguished services, the Admiral was awarded Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and Vishisht Seva Medal. He is also a recipient of Lt VK Jain Gold Medal in 1994.
Chief of the Naval Staff: Admiral Karambir Singh.
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance introduced a chatbot service LiGo on Google Assistant to help policyholders’ queries answered by voice commands such as Ok Google, I want to speak to ICICI Prudential Life LiGo or May I talk to ICICI Prudential Life LiGo.
LiGo to be available in Indian English & 9 Indian languages.
In a step towards Atma-Nirbhar, govt gave its nod to 27 projects under PM Kisan SAMPADA Yojana for development of integrated cold chains and value addition infrastructure. It is to generate employment to 16,000 people and benefit nearly 2,57,000 farmers.
Union Min of Food Processing Industries: Harsimrat Kaur Badal.
139,123 people died by suicide & 421,104 were killed in accidents, according to the Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India report for 2019 released by NCRB. In 2018-19, number of people dying in accidents increased by 2.3% while for suicides it was 3.4%.
Natural Disasters killed 8,000 people 2% of all deaths.
India’s first Multi-Wavelength Space Observatory AstroSat detected extreme-UV light from a galaxy named AUDFs01, located 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by a team of astronomers led by Dr Kanak Saha from the IUCAA Pune.
IUCAA - Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
IndiGrid, an Infrastructure Investment Trust, completed acquisition of GPTL transmission project from Sterlite Power at an enterprise value of Rs 1,080 crore. With this acquisition IndiGrid's assets under management (AUM) increased by 9% to Rs 13,300 crore
CEO & Whole-Time Director of IndiGrid: Harsh Shah.
BSE listed fintech company Niyogin acquired a 51% strategic and controlling stake in financial inclusion solution provider iServeU for Rs 592 million ($8 mn) in a cash plus stock deal. It will offer Niyogin with deep market access to underbanked India.
Niyogin provides unsecured business loans for SMEs in India.
IRDAI constituted a 6-member working group headed by Dinesh Pant to examine various aspects for allowing life insurance companies to offer index-linked products. The current regulations do not specifically permit insurers to sell index-linked products
The committee to submit the report within two months.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his Nigerian counterpart Geoffrey Onyeama recognized and acknowledged the excellent long-standing, multifaceted and strategic bilateral ties between the two countries, based on mutual friendship and cooperation.
Nigeria Capital: Abuja. Currency: Naira.
India, Japan & Australia planned to launch a trilateral Supply Chain Resilience Initiative to build resilient supply chains in Indo-Pacific region to reduce dependence on China. The trio aims to create a free & transparent trade & investment environment.
In 2019, cumulative GDP of these 3 countries was $9.3 trillion.
Elon Musk is now worth $115.4 billion compared with $110.8 billion for Zuckerberg according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife MacKenzie Scott became the world’s richest woman, passing L’Oreal SA heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers.
Mukesh Ambani is the world's eighth-richest person.
According to IMD India received 27% more rainfall than normal in August. Overall rainfall recorded from June 1 to August 31 was 10% more than normal. Rainfall recorded in August 2020 is the fourth highest in the last 120 years and the highest in 44 years.
IMD is an agency of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.
HQ:New Delhi
Sumit Nagal became the first Indian to win a round at a Grand Slam in 7 years when he downed Bradley Klahn in his US Open first round, setting up a contest against Dominic Thiem. Somdev Devavarman was the last Indian to win a main draw match at a major.
US Open Tennis Championships is a hard court tennis tournament.
The first-ever celebration of world coconut day was in 2009. The main objective of celebrating this day is to create awareness across the globe about the importance of the coconut and its benefits. The theme for 2020: Invest in Coconut to save the world.
In India, Kerala tops the production in coconut.