TOP DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (18 JULY 2020) PART- 2

🔷 18 July : Nelson Mandela International Day

🔷 Theme 2020 : “Take action, inspire change”

🔷 Marianna Vardinoyannis of Greece & Guinean Morissana Kouyate wins prestigious 2020 Nelson Mandela Prize

🔷 Indian Navy Conducts Naval Exercises in Andaman and Nicobar Islands

🔷 Andhra Pradesh Announces Renewable Energy Export Policy 2020

🔷 ICAT launched automotive technology e-portal ASPIRE

🔷 PM SVANidhi app launched to provide micro-credit facility for street vendors at their door steps

🔷 Uttarakhand govt to generate electricity from waste

🔷 Tamil Nadu emerges as country’s top investment destination

🔷 Transgenders in Odisha to get benefit under Madhu Babu Pension Yojana

🔷 P Praveen Siddharth IRS appointed as personal secretary to President of India

🔷 RBI approves reappointment of Shyam Srinivasan as Federal Bank MD & CEO

🔷 Priyanka Chopra Jonas appointed as ambassador for Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)

🔷 Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has also been chosen for TIFF 2020

🔷 World Bank Retains India’s Classification as Lower-Middle Income Group Economy for 2020-21

🔷 Bollywood Filmmaker Rajat Mukherjee passes away

🔷 All capitals cities of North-Eastern states to be connected with rail network by 2023

🔷 Eminent Mathematician Prof. C S Seshadri Passes away at 88

🔷 At 273 million, India recorded world’s largest reduction in poverty from 2005-16

🔷 PM Modi Virtually addresses UN ECOSOC on UN’s 75th anniversary

🔷 Pakistan and China sign agreement to construct 700MW Azad Pattan Hydel Power Project

🔷 “Medicab”: Portable Hospital Developed by IIT Madras

🔷 GoI hails KURMA mobile app to conserve Indian turtles

🔷 BlackRock Malware steals credit card details, password from 337 android apps

🔷 Rs 25 lakhs insurance cover approved for J&K Panchayat Members

🔷 COPS: COVID-19 Protection System unveiled by CSIR-CMERI

🔷 International Alliance to Counter China: UK’s Naval Ship to be stationed in the Pacific

🔷 ICMR: Study on Efficiency of BCG vaccine in treating COVID-19

🔷 USFDA approves COVID-19 pool testing for the first time

🔷 India attends third G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meet

🔷 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman participated, meet was presided by Saudi Arabia

🔷 United Nations: Tehrik-i-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud of Pakistan declared global terrorist

🔷 India-US hold ministerial meet on Energy Partnership

🔷 Community Transmission of COVID-19 confirmed in Kerala

🔷 Zonal Master Plan of Bhagirathi Eco-Sensitive Zone approved