Archive | September 2020
News for 30 September, 2020
Important News for Today:
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Cairn seeks $1.4 bn from Centre due to losses from tax demand
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‘Credit demand from priority sectors drops’
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Indian Bank to merge 325 branches
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EU raises concerns over action against Amnesty
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India rejects China’s ‘unilateral’ claims on LAC
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New laws will devastate farmers, says Mamata
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HC strikes down new NLSIU reservation law
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News for 29 September, 2020
Important News for Today:
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RBI postpones policy meeting
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‘Petrol consumption rises, diesel at pre-COVID-19 level’
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RBI extends enhanced borrowing limit for banks till March 31
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Sell defaulter-members’ assets in 6 months: SEBI
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Loan moratorium plan to be ready by Oct. 1
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‘New codes don’t promote hire and fire’
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UPSC reluctant to postpone civil services exams due on October 4
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News for 28 September, 2020
Important News for Today:
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Count on the regulator
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N. Korea accuses S. Korea of intrusion to find official’s body
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Tense LAC makes Ladakhi team call off election boycott
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India, Japan navies match skills in northern Arabian Sea
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Health insurance policy: This new rule will reduce your out-of-pocket expenses
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News for 27 September, 2020
Important News for Today:
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PSU to PSU stake sale just moves funds to govt., says CAG
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‘Temporary retention of GST cess is not diversion’
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CAG moots probe over cess accounting dodge
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India calls Imran Khan’s UN speech an ‘incessant rant’
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The land of peaks, streams and disputes
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Centre for early rollout of mother tongue as medium of instruction
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A new mini-Moon to join Earth’s orbit; could be space junk from 1960s
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Arctic is turning green, hints towards drastic consequences of climate change
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New measurements show moon has hazardous radiation levels
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NASA portrays the fascinating images of storms on Jupiter’s North Pole
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News for 26 September, 2020
Important News for Today:
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GI tag for Dalle Khursani chilli from Sikkim
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Quad discusses Indo-Pacific infrastructure and 5G
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IRDAI lists LIC, GIC, New India as systemically important
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‘One-third of funding by AIIB has gone to India’
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‘Harley exit to impact about 2,000 jobs across dealerships’
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CFO optimism falls to record low amid COVID-19, shows survey
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China aims to make 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses a year
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Facebook critics start rival, independent ‘oversight board’
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U.S. proposes changes to student, media visas
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EU leader hits out at U.K. on post-Brexit plan
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News for 25 September, 2020
Important News for Today
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RBI releases document on UCBs’ cybersecurity
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‘Auto dealers mulling infra, manpower rationalisation’
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China cautious on G4 push for UNSC reforms
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Trump won’t commit to peaceful transfer of power
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India, Pak. trade charges at SAARC, CICA meets
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News for 24 September, 2020
Important News for Today
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CAG: Rafale vendors yet to confirm tech transfer
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SC grants relief to Facebook official
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Priceless artefacts damaged in Indian Museum renovation: CAG
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China vows to go carbon neutral by 2060
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U.S. House panel holds hearing on rights in Asia
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G4 seeks time-bound reform of Security Council
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‘India must focus on reforms as high growth is not a given’
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‘MSMEs, start-ups not for non-personal data policy’
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NASA says bus-sized asteroid to zoom past the Earth’s surface today
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IMPORTANCE OF FOREST CONSERVATION IN INDIA
Forests are provided us wood and also some home used things. In a straight line it can be said, the forests control floods, drought, soil erosion etc. But the regions under forest are gradually decreasing.
News for 23 September, 2020
Important News for Today
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Opposition parties walk out of both Houses of Parliament
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‘Dignity of the Chair devalued’
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Lok Sabha clears 3 labour Bills
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LS passes J&K Official Languages Bill
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Central Vista project will aid economic revival, says Centre
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TRAI recommends body to monitor net neutrality
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‘Resolve Kashmir in line with UN Resolutions’
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Team led by Indian scientists finds X-ray signature of boundary around black holes
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News for 22 September, 2020
Important News for Today
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8 Opposition MPs suspended from RS for ‘unruly behaviour’
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Parliament passes Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Bill
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‘Privatise select PSU banks’
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India, China begin 6th round of talks
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‘World faces a surplus of multilateral challenges’
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Support for Taiwan independence doomed to fail: China
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NASA plans to carry first woman, next man to the Moon in 2024
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Astronomers discover planet similar to the Earth, name it ‘Pi-Planet’
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