Current Affairs :- 7th August, 2020

♦️India extended US$18 mn Line of Credit to Maldives for expansion of fishing facilities at MIFCO

♦️UN’s Policy Brief: Education during COVID-19 and beyond: Around 23.8 Million Children May Drop Out of School Due to the Impacts of COVID-19

♦️Airtel Payments Bank partnered with Bharti AXA General Insurance to offer “Smart Plan Shop Package Policy”

♦️Global remittances may lose $108.6 bn in 2020: ADB

♦️FutureBrand Index 2020: Reliance Industries Ranked 2nd Biggest Brand after Apple on Top

♦️Indian Express Journalist Dipankar Ghose and PARI, a Non-Profit Journalism Website Bags Prem Bhatia award 2020

♦️‘Moothon’ and ‘Son Rise’ wins awards at 20th edition of New York Indian Film Festival

♦️Manoj Sinha appointed as Lt Governor of J&K; Succeeds Girish Chandra Murmu

♦️Ajay Tyagi, Chairman of SEBI gets Another 18 Months Extension

♦️Win Trade Fantasy Sports(WTF) appoints Suresh Raina, Harmanpreet Kaur as global brand ambassadors

♦️Oman India Joint Investment Fund II Acquired 1.63% stake in DCB Bank

♦️Indian Railways introduces OHE Inspection app for real-time monitoring

♦️Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction novelist Shirley Ann Grau died at 91

♦️Yatish Yadav’s new book ‘RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations’ offers a peek into the exploits of Indian spymasters

♦️Hiroshima Day 2020 – August 6

♦️Haryana Govt launched Mahila Evam Kishori Samman Yojana & Mukhya Mantri Doodh Uphar Yojana for state’s girls & women

♦️Chhattisgarh govt launched Shaheed Mahendra Karma Tendupatta Sangrahak Samajik Suraksha Yojana for tendu leaves collectors

♦️Punjab CM Amarinder Singh launches ‘Pride of Punjab’ partnership of State Govt, YuWaah for youth development

♦️India’s first mobile RT-PCR COVID lab was inaugurated by Karnatka’s Medical Education Minister Dr. K Sudhakar in Karnataka

♦️Sahakar Cooptube NCDC Channel launched : Narendra Singh Tomar

♦️Foundation Stone of Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur laid: Himachal Pradesh