Current Affairs :- 5th August, 2020

♦️MoD releases draft Defence Production and Export Promotion Policy 2020; aimed at $5 bn export by 2025

♦️IIT Kanpur and DAR & PG sign agreement with MoD for using AI, ML to address grievances

♦️Listed entities get 3 years to meet criteria of minimum 25% public shareholding

♦️Four more States/UTs linked with One Nation One Ration Card scheme; taking total to 24

♦️For the 1st time in India Railways uses NTC machine for track construction

♦️Canara Bank Partnered with 3 insurers to Provide Individual Short-Term Corona Kavach Policy

♦️National Bank of Bahrain Selects Infosys Finacle to Digitally Transform its Transaction Banking Business

♦️Sunil ydv SS received the Karmaveer Chakra of United Nations and iCONGO at ReX ConcLIVE

♦️RBI Approved Sashidhar Jagdishan as Next MD & CEO of HDFC Bank; will Succeed Aditya Puri

♦️IIT Madras with Helyxon Developed First of Its Kind Remote Patient Monitoring Solution for COVID-19

♦️A health assistant robot “Rakshak” designed by the Mumbai Division of Central Railway

♦️A COVID prevention kiosk named “UV Baggage Bath” inaugurated at Bengaluru railway station

♦️Nobel Peace Prize Winner John Hume Passed Away at 83

♦️Padma Bhushan Awardee & Former Arunachal Pradesh Governor Ram D Pradhan passes away

♦️Government of AP Signs MoU with Hindustan Unilever Ltd, P&G and ITC to Support Economic Empowerment of Women

♦️DNHDD Launched E-Gyan Mitra Mobile Application for Online Education

♦️Two-day international webinar on ‘Lokmanya Tilak – Swaraj to Self-Reliant India’: ICCR

♦️Axis Bank unveils AXAA ,an AI powered conversational banking IVR