Democrat Joe Biden has won the White House and he is the oldest candidate ever to the White House. However, the result now condemns 74-year-old Trump to become the first one-term president since George H. W. Bush at the start of the 1990s.
Kamala Harris to be the first female Vice-President of the US.
In a bid to push for electric vehicles, Andhra Pradesh government to set up 400 charging stations in the state. Govt is also considering a proposal to study real-time performance impact of providing electric two-wheelers to ward & village secretariat staff
BEE launched Go Electric campaign along with APSECM.
The Elephant Rehabilitation Centre is located at Kottoor in Thiruvananthapuram. It is being implemented at a cost of Rs 108 crore with funding from Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB). It has facilities to accommodate 50 elephants.
1st phase of the centre will be commissioned in Feb 2021.
A tripartite agreement has been signed between Deendayal Port Trust ,Gujarat Maritime Board & Indigo seaways.The Ropax ferry will decrease the distance between Surat & Saurashtra from 317 km to 60 km & time taken has also decreased from 12 hrs to four hrs.
RoPax is an acronym for roll-on/roll-off a passenger.
Catalyst Management Services (CMS) launched a partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support India’s response to COVID-19 under which it has provided $ 3 mn for comprehensive support the COVID Action Collab (CAC)
USAID HQ: Washington, D.C., USA.
India and Italy signed 15 Agreements in various sectors such as energy, fisheries, shipbuilding, design etc. Italy will assume Presidency of G-20 in December 2021 followed by India in 2022. India and Italy will be part of the G20 Troika from December 2020
Summit was attended by the Prime Ministers of both countries.
After a surge in interest in overseas investments by Indian investors, the SEBI enhanced the foreign investment limit for mutual funds to $600 million from $300 million with immediate effect, while capping the overall industry limit at $7 billion.
SEBI chairperson – Ajay Tyagi.
Fitch Solutions revised its forecast for central government's fiscal deficit for FY 2020-21 to 7.8% from its earlier projection of 8.2%. Fiscal revenue forecast in FY21 for central govt has been revised to 18.2% decline from the earlier forecast of 18.4%.
Fiscal deficit - Difference between total income & expenditure.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is investing Rs 9,555 crore ($1.3 billion) to pick 2.04% stake in Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), becoming the latest high-profile global fund to purchase a stake in India’s largest retailer.
It is largest investment in RRVL so far eclipsing Silver Lake.
Axis Bank has acquired over 57,700 shares in CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd for Rs 36.38 crore. CSC e-Governance Services India Ltd is a special purpose vehicle set up by the MeitY to oversee the implementation of the common services centre scheme.
Axis Bank CEO: Amitabh Chaudhary
HQ: Mumbai
Art historian J P Losty catalogues & describes an eclectic collection of Indian miniature paintings accumulated over the years by textile collectors Praful and Shilpa Shah in his new book named Court and Courtship: Indian Miniatures in the TAPI Collection.
TAPI – Textile and Art People of India.
Harper Collins is presenting Chinmay Tumbe’s India’s Age of Pandemics, the devastation it caused and the far-reaching impact it had on every aspect of life. It is the 1st comprehensive coverage of influenza in India which claimed more casualties than WWI.
The author is a faculty at the Tata Institute of Social Science
Gyanendro Ningombam has been appointed as 10th President of the Hockey India. The former president Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad has been elected as the senior vice-president. Ningombam from Manipur is the first President of Hockey India from the North East Region.
Hockey India formed in 2009 is headquartered in New Delhi.
Indian diplomat Vidisha Maitra was elected to the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), a subsidiary organ of the General Assembly. The ACABQ consists of 16 members appointed by the Assembly in their individual capacity.
India selected as non-permanent member of UNSC for 2 years.
The Indian Railways is set to implement AI and data analytics to improve its operational efficiency & tied up with the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad to analyse data generated by the railways. It will set up a CoE in this regard in next 3 months.
Indian School of Business is located in Hyderabad.
The exercise was launched at Paradip Coast. It is carried out jointly by Odisha & West Bengal govt. More than 10 departments, including Navy, Coast Guard, the Odisha Police, the local fishermen, the forest department & port marine department have joined.
Paradip Coast is located in Odisha.
A special tri-service combat exercise called ‘Bullet Strike’ was conducted at the Teressa Island in the Nicobar group of islands. The high-voltage exercise, with assets and manpower from the Army, Navy and IAF as well as Para-SF and marine commandos.
ANC was India’s first theatre command established in 2001.
More than 11 lakh Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises have registered on the New online system of MSME -Udyam Registration till date. Out of these, 3.72 lakh enterprises are registered under manufacturing sector, 6.31 lakh enterprises under service sector.
11,188 enterprises are owned by divyangjan entrepreneurs.
