TOP DAILY ONE LINERS CURRENT AFFAIRS (23 JULY 2020)

🔷 23 July : National Broadcasting Day

🔷 Nicaragua becomes 87th country to sign International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement

🔷 India’s GDP to contract 6% in FY21: DBS

🔷 China launches its first independent Mars mission ‘Tianwen-1’

🔷 Turkmenistan gets World Trade Organization (WTO) observer status

🔷 Turkmenistan becomes the 25th observer of the organization

🔷 Actor Sonu Sood Launches ‘Pravasi Rojgar’ app to help migrants find job opportunities across India

🔷 Rahul Bajaj steps down as Chairman of Bajaj Finance, son Sanjiv Bajaj to take over

🔷 Arun Kumar nominated as the Vice-Chairman of the International Union of Railways Security Platform

🔷 Greta Thunberg awarded Inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity worth $1.15M

🔷 Prakash Chandra Kandpal Takes Charge as new MD & CEO of SBI General Insurance

🔷 Sumit Deb appointed as CMD of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC)

🔷 DRDO successfully test-fires HELINA ‘Dhruvastra’ from ITR Chandipur in Odisha

🔷 PM Narendra Modi Laid Foundation Stone for Manipur Water Supply Project

🔷 Bank of Baroda Launched ‘Insta Click Savings Account’, 100% Paperless digital

🔷 Airtel Payments Bank Partnered with NSDC to Skill Rural Youth

🔷 India to Have 60% Renewable Energy by 2030

🔷 India, Maldives signed contract for development of Geydoshu Mas Plant in Maldives

🔷 CBDT launched revised Form 26AS; Details of Specified Financial Transactions included

🔷 Ravi Shankar Prasad Represented India in the G20 Digital Economy Ministers Virtual Meeting Hosted by Saudi Arabia

🔷 Employees’ Welfare Scheme Launched In Arun Jaitley’s Name In Rajya Sabha

🔷 Rajasthan Launched ‘One-stop’ scheme to fast-track investments

🔷 US lawmakers pass legislation urging China to de-escalate situation with India along LAC

🔷 India-Israel to develop 30 seconds rapid COVID-19 test

🔷 Karnataka Cabinet approves Karnataka Digital Economy Mission

🔷 UNEP and IEA Report: World will need at least 14 billion cooling appliances by 2050

🔷 75th United Nations General Assembly is to be conducted virtually in 2020 for the first time

🔷 Sahil Seth appointed as advisery for BRICS Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI)

🔷 “Vriksharopan Abhiyan” to be launched by Home Minister

🔷 FamPay launches ‘numberless card’ for teenagers

🔷 LIC signs agreement with UBI to distribute latter’s policies

🔷 Punjab Govt tie-up with IIT-Ropar for skill development

🔷 Oxford Covid-19 vaccine’s human trial shows positive result

🔷 Creator of 1980 Olympic Mascot Viktor Chizhikov passes away

🔷 SpaceX launches South Korea’s military communication satellite ‘ANASIS-II’

🔷 Arnab Chaudhuri conferred with Toonz Media Award 2020 posthumously