♦️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