Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 16th September to 24th September 2020

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 16th September to 24th September 2020

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As we all know that General Awareness/ Current Affairs Part is playing a major role in any exam weather it will be SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government examinations. So here we are providing the weekly one liner current affairs for every upcoming exam which has GA section. Weekly one liner current affairs consist top news in one line which is important for every exams. Check Weekly current affairs below and update yourself with weekly one liner current affairs here.

♦National News

• 70th birthday of PM Modi being celebrated as Seva Diwas
• India to be self-reliant in fertilisers production by 2023: Fertilisers Minister
• Karnataka Govt launches loan disbursal programme “Arthika Spandana”
• M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated 4th Global Ayurveda Summit virtually
• Harsh Vardhan addresses Joint G20 Finance and Health Ministers Meeting
• Gujarat government launches Mukhyamantri Mahila Utkarsh Yojana
• “Swachhta Pakhwara” is being observed by over Indian Railways
• 8 Indian beaches recommended for ‘Blue Flag’ eco-label
• SBI starts women self-reliance programme in Assam
• PM launched Ghar tak fibre Scheme in Bihar
• Airbus to launch World’s first Commercial Hydrogen aircraft by 2035
• Atal tunnel: The world’s longest highway tunnel above 10,000 ft
• MP Launched Mukhya Mantri Kisan Kalyan Yojana to benefit farmers
• Piyush Goyal Participated in G-20 Virtual Meeting of Trade & Investment Ministers
• Rajasthan govt’s launched “Moksh Kalash yojna 2020” for special free bus service

♦International News

• Israel, UAE and Bahrain sign Abraham Accord
• Four Indian cities drop in Global Smart City Index 2020; Singapore on top
• India ranks 116 in World Bank’s Human Capital Index 2020
• India launches first ever cargo ferry with Maldives to boost trade
• India extends $250 million support to Maldives to overcome economic impact of Covid-19
• Bah Ndaw named Mali’s interim president
• Bougainville elects new president Ishmael Toroama as negotiations on independence
• Nepal and India begin joint security patrol along border in Kapilvastu

♦Banking and Financial

• SBI and Titan launch India’s first contactless payment watch
• BHEL ties up with SwissRapide AG to bring Maglev high-speed trains to India
• OECD’s revises forecast India’s GDP to contraction of (-)10.2% in FY 21
• UBS Securities projects India’s GDP at -8.6% in FY21
• Canara Bank introduces i-Lead 2.0 to boost customer services
• forms Expert Committee Under Rajesh Pant to probe reports of snooping by chinese firm
• Government gives one-year extension to Company Law Committee chaired by Rajesh Verma
• SBI Life Insurance inks pact with Yes Bank to sell insurance policies
• KKR to invest Rs 5,550 crore in Reliance Retail Ventures for 1.28% equity
• UNCTAD projects India’s GDP at -5.9% in 2020 & 9% for 2021

Appointment and Resignation

• Suresh Raina named as brand ambassador for 9stacks
• Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigns as Union Minister over Centre’s farm bills
• Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar given additional charge of Food Processing Industries Ministry
• Former RAW Head Anil Dhasmana Appointed as Chief of NTRO
• Simanchala Dash appointed as advisor to IMF Executive Director
• Acer India signs Sonu Sood as brand ambassador
• India’s Khushi Chindaliya appointed as UNEP regional ambassador
• RBI appoints AK Dixit as new administrator of PMC Bank

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1st September to 7th September 2020

♦Awards

• Fiumicino Airport awarded world’s 1st 5-star Anti-Covid award
• Chef Vikas Khanna honoured with Asia Game Changer award for feeding millions in India amid Covid crisis
• Udit Singhal named by UN to 2020 Class of Young Leaders for SDGs
• Margaret Atwood awarded 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
• 72nd Emmy Awards 2020: Schitt’s Creek wons most awards in a single season by a comedy series
• PM Narendra Modi awarded “Ig Nobel Prize 2020” for medical education
• Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima to receive 2020 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

♦Defence

• Centre increases FDI limit in defence from 49% to 74% under automatic route
• In a first, 2 women Navy officers to be posted on Indian warship, will fly helicopters
• Indian Navy conducts Passage Exercise with Royal Australian Navy
• India conducts successful flight test of ABHYAS from Odisha test range
• Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh will be first woman fighter pilot to fly Rafale

♦Sports

• Italian Open 2020: Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep won Men’s and Women’s Singles title
• Professional tennis player, former cricketer Ashleigh Barty wins Golf Championship

♦Book and Author

• Arundhati Roy launch new book “Azadi”
• Obama announces first presidential memoir, ‘A Promised Land,’ Book in November

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 8th September to 16th September 2020

♦Important day

• 17th September: World Patient Safety Day (Theme 2020: Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety)
• 18 September: World Bamboo Day (Theme 2020: BAMBOO NOW)
• 18th September: World Water Monitoring Day (Theme 2020: Solve Water)
• 18 September: International Equal Pay Day
• 21st September: World Peace Day 2020 (Theme 2020: Shaping Peace Together)
• 21st September: World Alzheimer’s Day
• 22nd September: World Rhino Day 2020
• 22nd September: World Rose Day 2020
• 23rd September: International Day of Sign Languages 2020
• Last week of September on Thursday: World Maritime Day 2020 (Theme 2020: Sustainable shipping for a sustainable planet)

♦Obituary

• Former RBI governor Amitabha Ghosh passes away at 90
• Veteran Tamilian Director Babu Sivan passes away
• Actor Ashalata Wabgaonkar passes away
• Nepal’s Legendary Mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa passes away
• Former Australia cricketer and renowned commentator Dean Jones passes away at 59

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