Current Affairs : 21st July, 2020

♦️Indian Railways to launch 1st set of private trains by 2023, all 151 by 2027

♦️Maharashtra becomes the 1st State to use drones to inspect power lines and transmission towers

♦️Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attended 3rd G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting virtually

♦️Indian direct selling industry records USD 2.477 bn sales in 2019, ranked 15th globally: WFDSA‘s report

♦️SBI Cards and payment services appointed its new MD & CEO in Ashwini Kumar Tewari

♦️Hope Mission: UAE became 1st West Asian & Arab Nation to Launch Space Mission to Mars; Took off from Japan

♦️CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur Introduced COVID Protection System(COPS) with IntelliMAST, TouF & 360° Car Flusher for Workplace

♦️Prakash Javadekar hails KURMA mobile app as unique tool for conservation of Indian Turtles

♦️Formula One Champion, Mercedes Lewis Hamilton Won the Hungarian Grand Prix 2020; won this Title for 8th Time

♦️CS Seshadri, Padma Bhushan Awardee & Renowned Mathematician Passed Away at 88

♦️John Lewis, Civil Rights Movement Pioneer and Longtime Congressman of U.S, Dies at 80

♦️Shakthiya Akademi Awardee Baldev Singh Sadaknama Authored a book ‘Suraj Kade Marda Nahi’ (sun never dies)

♦️Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandu Released the Book Tangams: An Ethnolinguistic Study Of The Critically Endangered Group of Arunachal Pradesh

♦️1st World Chess Day celebrated on July 20, 2020

♦️Tamil Nadu Government Signed 8 MoUs worth Rs 10,399 crore with Industrial Groups for Employment Creation

♦️Harsimrat Kaur Badal E-Inagurates First Operationalized Mega Food Park of Mizoram: Zoram Mega Food Park

♦️Odisha Government included Transgender Community under Madhu Babu Pension Yojana

♦️Yogi Adityanath launched “Navin Rojgar Chhatri Yojana” for Scheduled Castes