India is elected as a member of UN’s Commission on Status of Women, a body of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). India, Afghanistan and China had contested the elections. This year is 25th anniversary of the famous Beijing World Conference on Women.
India to be a member for four years from 2021 – 2025.
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways is implementing Integrated Road Accident Database Project (iRAD) which will be applicable across India. The development and implementation of iRAD is done by lIT Madras and National Informatics Centre Services Inc.
Initially, it has been decided to implement in six States.
Prahlad Singh Patel inaugurated Sangeet Sandhya programme as a part of the 550th Birth Anniversary celebrations of Sri Guru Nanak Dev. The Sangeet Sandhya was organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts under the aegis of Ministry of Culture.
The constituency of Prahlad Singh Patel: Damoh, Madhya Pradesh.
Japan's ruling party elected Yoshihide Suga as its new leader replacing Shinzo Abe as the country's next prime minister. Suga is currently the chief Cabinet secretary of Abe's government and he will then be confirmed as Prime Minister by a special session.
Japan Capital: Tokyo. Currency: Yen.
My Family, My Responsibility campaign aims to achieve effective health care education for the control of Covid-19 outbreak. A team comprising a health worker and two others will survey and inspect every person and suggest available services for the disease
The campaign will be conducted in two phases.
For an uninterrupted supply of oxygen, vehicles carrying oxygen cylinders for medical use will be treated at par with ambulances as emergency vehicles in Maharashtra for a period of 1 year. The notification was issued under Disaster Management Act, 2005.
Maharashtra CM: Uddhav Thackeray.
Governor: Bhagat Singh Koshyar
Online academic classes of HIKAI (Hybrid Interactive Knowledge Assimilation Initiative) were inaugurated at Ramakrishna Mission Secondary School demonstrating the technological capability of conducting online classes in a no-internet zone by using intranet
The platform makes use of a Wi-Fi zone and local server.
PM Modi to lay the foundation stone of Munger & Jamalpur water supply scheme under AMRUT Mission to help residents get pure drinking water 24 hours. Implementation of the projects has been undertaken by BUIDCO – Bihar Urban Infrastructure Development Corp.
Bihar CM: Nitish Kumar. Governor: Phagu Chauhan.
Capital: Patna.
NDA candidate Harivansh has been re-elected as the Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha. This would be Harivansh’s second innings as the Deputy Chairman of the Upper House. Deputy Chairman presides over the proceedings in the absence of the chairman.
Harivansh will be the 12th Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha.
In 2007 UN General Assembly resolved to observe 15 September as the International Day of Democracy—with the purpose of promoting and upholding the principles of democracy. In Sep 1997 Inter-Parliamentary Union adopted a Universal Declaration on Democracy.
The theme for 2020 is COVID-19: A Spotlight on Democracy.
India celebrated Engineer's Day to mark the Birth Anniversary of the renowned Indian Engineer Bharat Ratna Mokshagundam Viseswaraya. He was the Chief Engineer of Krishna Raja Sagara dam in Mysuru and also designed a flood protection system for Hyderabad.
He was awarded the title of Knight by King George V.
How China developed its Tibet playbook that includes encroachment, occupation, and the spinning of a narrative of false claims is examined in rich detail by Claude Arpi in his four volumes on Tibet’s relations with India. It is the last book in the series.
It focuses on last5 years of India’s diplomatic presence inTibet
Google announced Verified Calls, similar to Verified SMS that identifies the caller, reason for calling. It will state if a caller is authenticated by Google & will state reason for their calls. It is to be rolled out in US, Mexico, Brazil, Spain & India.
Verified Calls can receive competition from Truecaller in India.
Lewis Hamilton took his 90th career victory by beating Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in an incident-strewn Tuscan Grand Prix. This win was his sixth in nine races this season and puts him just one behind Michael Schumacher's all-time record of wins.
Red Bull's Thai-British driver Alex Albon finished third.
Govt formed an expert committee for conducting a study on the origin and evolution of Indian culture 12,000 years ago. The 16-member committee will include KN Dikshit Chairman Indian Archaeological Society & former Joint Director General ASI, among others.
Prahlad Singh Patel is the current Minister of Culture.
ICICI Lombard General Insurance entered into a bancassurance tie-up with Yes Bank to make insurance more accessible to customers across India. It will provide bank’s diverse customer base access to the insurer’s portfolio & make insurance more accessible.
ICICI Lombard CEO: Bhargav Dasgupta
Yes Bank CEO: Prashant Kumar
IFSCA & IGPC – IIM Ahmedabad signed agreement to provide expertise to facilitate the establishment of International Bullion Exchange in India. IBE is intended to strike an equilibrium to reduce the market inefficiencies that exist in Indian bullion trade.
A bullion market is where buyers and sellers trade gold & silver