TOP DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (08 AUGUST 2020)

🔷 08 August : Quit India Day

🔷 In 2020, we are celebrating the 78th anniversary of Quit India Day

🔷 Quit India Movement also known as Bharat Chodo Andolan on 8 August 1942

🔷 UP CM Yogi Adityanath inaugurates dedicated 400 bed COVID hospital in Noida

🔷 Hardayal Prasad appointed new MD& CEO of PNB Housing Finance

🔷 NHAI inks MoU with IIT Delhi to set up Centre of Excellence

🔷 Two coastal villages of Odisha declared as Tsunami Ready by UNESCO

🔷 UNESCO Recognises Venkatraipur & Noliasahi of Odisha as ‘Tsunami Ready’;

🔷 Mukund Lath, prominent cultural historian and exponent of Mewati gharana, passes away

🔷 India To Host 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, Australia to Host 2022 Edition

🔷 ‘Amazing Ayodhya’, a new book by author Neena Rai, tells history of Lord Rama’s birth place

🔷 Bangladesh to construct memorial for Indian soldiers martyred in 1971 liberation war

🔷 PM Modi inaugurates Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra in New Delhi

🔷 PM to inaugurate submarine Optical Fibre Cable connecting Chennai and Port Blair

🔷 Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched ‘Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy’

🔷 P S Ranipse appointed as new Inspector General (IG), in CRPF

🔷 KV Kamath committee to help with Covid-19 related stressed assets

🔷 India to participate in Kavkaz 2020 exercise in Russia

🔷 Meghalaya Approves Policy on Reservation of Seats for Women in Village Employment Councils

🔷 SEBI revised IFSC guidelines, 2015’ eligibility, shareholding limit for clearing corp at IFSC

🔷 Harsh Vardhan presided the signing of MoU between CSIR and FSSAI

🔷 Delhi Airport develops ‘Air Suvidha’ portal for all international arriving passengers across India

🔷 Government Forms Panel Under RoDTEP Scheme for Exporters to be Headed by G K Pillai

🔷 Flipkart signs MoU with the U.P. Government under One District, One Product (ODOP) scheme

🔷 IIT Guwahati, in collaboration with Imperial College London, develops nanoparticle ‘meta-grid’

🔷 Minister of Textiles, launched a Mobile App and Backend Website for Handloom Mark Scheme

🔷 Home-grown social media app ShareChat to get $100 million funding from Microsoft