Current Affairs :- 21st August, 2020

♦️Cabinet Approvals on August 19, 2020

♦️NSC, JCI Sign MoU for Supply of Certified Jute Seeds to Farmers in 2021-22

♦️Report of NCRP 2020: Cancer in India may rise from 13.9 Lakh in 2020 to 15.7 lakh in 2025

♦️IIT Roorkee, BIS Sign MoU to Cooperate in Standardisation and Conformity Assessment

♦️L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Signed MoU with NTPC Ltd for CO2 to Methanol Demonstration Plant

♦️NRDC and NAL Partners to Establish Incubation Centre for Startup in Aerospace Technologies

♦️India Ranked 57th in Digital Quality of Life 2020, Denmark tops: DQL Index 2020 by SurfShark

♦️India and Israel Signed Cultural Agreement to Strengthen Bilateral Relations through People to People Exchange

♦️The ILO’s “Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs, Education, Rights and Mental Well-being”: 50% of World’s Youth Are Under Anxiety or Depression

♦️NPCI Launched its Subsidiary Firm, ‘NPCI International Payments Limited’; Appointed Ritesh Shukla as its CEO

♦️Lakshmi Vilas Bank Launched ‘LAKSHMI digiGO’, a Contactless Online Instant Savings Account Opening Facility

♦️Unitus Ventures Received Rs 75 Crore from SIDBI; will Strengthen the Deployment of its Fund II

♦️Keith Rowley Becomes Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for a 2nd Consecutive Term

♦️Francisco Asue is Reappointed as the Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea

♦️First Rockets Produced by Private Sector Successfully Test Fired: Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL)

♦️Dwarf Planet Ceres is now an ‘Ocean World’

♦️Iran Unveiled Locally Made Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, Martyr Qassem Soleimani & Cruise Missile, Martyr Abu Mahdi

♦️Air Unique-quality Monitoring, an Indigenous Photonic System Developed for Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Air Quality Parameters

♦️NASA observes the Slowly Splitting South Atlantic Anomaly, a dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field

♦️Former India Goalkeeper Bhaskar Maity passed away at 67

♦️Former Cricketer Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan dies of heart attack at 89

♦️Book titled “India Tomorrow: Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders” released on August, 2020

♦️Sadbhavan Diwas 2020 – August 20

♦️World Mosquito Day 2020: August 20

♦️INOX Group to sponsor Team India for Tokyo Olympics: IOA