Current Affairs :- 14th August, 2020

♦️PM Narendra Modi Launched “Transparent Taxation – Honoring the Honest” platform of IT department

♦️India Extends an Assistance of USD 1 Million to Antigua and Barbuda’s COVID-19 Response

♦️First-of-its-kind Katra-Delhi Express Road Corridor to be completed by 2023

♦️Daughters have Equal Birthright to Inherit Property with Retrospective Effect: Supreme Court

♦️Goa’s Moira bananas, Harmal Chillies, Khaje gets GI tag

♦️Abu Dhabi’s Crown Prince Committed USD 25mn to Expand Unified Champion Schools to 6 countries Including India

♦️RBI Mandates System-based Asset Classification for Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs)

♦️Federal Bank Partnered with Fiserv, Inc. to Support Launch of their 1st Independent Credit Card, ‘Federal Bank Credit Card’

♦️Ammunition Factory Khadki, Pune Handed Over 40 mm Under Barrel Grenade Launcher (UBGL) to BSF

♦️Israel Successfully tested its Arrow-2 Ballistic Missile Interceptor

♦️NASA’s TESS Completed Primary Mission, Finds 66 New Exoplanets & around 2100 ‘candidates’

♦️Israel shares AI-based technology, high-end equipment with AIIMS to help combat COVID-19

♦️World Organ Donation Day 2020: August 13

♦️International Left handers Day 2020: August 13

♦️Punjab CM Amarinder Singh Launched ‘Punjab Smart Connect Scheme’ to Provide Free Smartphones for more than 1.74 Lakh Students

♦️Odisha Cabinet Approved 20 Proposals including 4 Mega Drinking Water Projects

♦️Goa Signed a First of its Kind Tripartite MoU with GIZ India and Siemens Limited to Provide German Vocational Training in ITIs

♦️West Bengal Govt Launched ‘Karma Sathi Prakalpa’ scheme to Provide Soft Loans, Subsidies to Youth

♦️Andhra Pradesh CM Launched “YSR Cheyutha” scheme to ensure sustainable livelihood for women

♦️Telangana launched AI for Agricultural Innovation Program in Collaboration with C4IR & WEF, India

♦️Odisha to Promulgate Ordinance to Enhance Punishment for Non-Compliance of Covid-19 regulations

♦️Manipur Observed its Patriots’ day 2020 on August 13

♦️Microwave device ‘Atulya’ to disintegrate novel Coronavirus unveiled : Nitin Gadkari

♦️“Atma Nirbhar App Innovation Challenge” winners announced: Govt