Current Affairs :- 24th July, 2020

♦️PM Narendra Modi Laid Foundation Stone for Manipur Water Supply Project

♦️PM Modi addressed virtual India Ideas Summit 2020; India-US negotiating UAV co-development programme

♦️Kakrapar Atomic Power Project’s Unit 3 in Gujarat: India’s First 700 MWe unit to Achieve Criticality

♦️India to Have 60% Renewable Energy by 2030: R K Singh at Webinar On Energy Transition

♦️Jitendra Singh Launched Restructured Scheme for PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration 2020 and Web Portal Virtually

♦️India, Maldives signed contract for development of Geydoshu Mas Plant in Maldives’ Maradhoo and Hulhudhoo

♦️Turkmenistan became 25th country with Observer Status in World Trade Organization

♦️Nicaragua becomes the 87th Country to sing the International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement

♦️Ravi Shankar Prasad Represented India in the G20 Digital Economy Ministers Virtual Meeting Hosted by Saudi Arabia

♦️Airtel Payments Bank Partnered with NSDC to Skill Rural Youth for Financial Services Sector Jobs

♦️Bank of Baroda Launched ‘Insta Click Savings Account’, 100% Paperless Digital Self-Assisted Online Savings Account

♦️India’s GDP to contract by 6% in FY21: DBS

♦️CBDT launched revised Form 26AS; Details of Specified Financial Transactions included

♦️RIL becomes the 1st Indian company to reach Market Cap of Rs 13 lakh crore; Becomes 48th largest company in market cap globally

♦️Mukesh Ambani, fifth-richest Man in the World with Net Worth $75 billion: Forbes Real-Time Billionaires List

♦️The DG/RPF, Shri Arun Kumar, nominated as the Vice-Chairman of the UIC, security platform

♦️CCI Approved Acquisition of Krishnapatnam Port Company Limited by Adani Ports and SEZ Limited

♦️China Launches Tianwen-1: China’s First Rover Mission to Mars

♦️ISL becomes 1st league in South Asia and 7th in Asia to join the World Leagues Forum

♦️The book titled “The Pandemic Century”, by British Medical Historian Mark Honigsbaum

♦️National Broadcasting Day 2020 – July 23

♦️January 6 2020: World Day of War Orphans

♦️March 9 2020: International commonwealth day

♦️2021: International Year of Fruits and Vegetables

♦️GEDCOL and NHPC signed MoU to develop floating solar power projects in Odisha

♦️CIPET gets NABL accreditation for testing, certification of PPE kits

♦️First-ever container ship “MV Shejyoti” from Kolkata via Chattogram port reaches Agartala