ICICI Bank has launched a virtual property exhibition under the name ‘Home Utsav’ which will digitally showcase real estate projects by renowned developers, across India.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has approved the appointment of Murali Ramakrishnan as Managing Director and CEO of the South Indian Bank.

The team of NTPC Limited, the Central PSU under the Ministry of Power, has won the All India Management Association Chanakya (Business Simulation Game) National Management Games 2020.

Former England all-rounder and legendary cricketer, David Capel passed away. He represented England from 1987 to 1990 in 15 tests and 23 One Day Internationals.

Indian Grandmaster P Iniyan has won the prestigious 48th Annual World Open online chess tournament.

The Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Tribal Affairs, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), New Delhi organized 2-days long “National Tribal Research Conclave”.

Saudi Arabia chaired the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting which was held recently in the virtual mode.

Raj Kumar Srivastava has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Croatia.

Indian Navy and Russian Navy has commenced the 11th edition of a biennial bilateral maritime exercise “INDRA NAVY”.

Pope Francis has authored the book titled as “Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future” which will be released in December 2020.

The Capital of Croatia is Zagreb.

Indian Navy and Russian Navy has commenced the 11th edition of a biennial bilateral maritime exercise “INDRA NAVY”.

India proposed the setting up of voluntary ‘G20 Principles on Coordinated Cross-Border Movement of People’ during the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting held recently.

ICICI Bank has launched a virtual property exhibition under the name ‘Home Utsav’ which will digitally showcase real estate projects by renowned developers, across India.

The Daukandi (Bangladesh) – Sonamura (Tripura) Inland Waterway Protocol route has been operationalized giving a further boost to bilateral trade between India-Bangladesh relations under Protocol for Inland Water Trade & Transit (PIWTT). This is the first-ever export consignment from Bangladesh to Tripura through the inland waterways. In the last year, approx. 3.5 MMT (Million Metric Tonnes) of cargo was transported between India and Bangladesh on the protocol routes.

The first children’s newspaper ‘The Young Minds’ has been launched in Assam, an initiative by Guwahati-based duo Neelam Sethia and Neha Bajaj.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced measures in order to ensure orderly market conditions and congenial financial conditions. In this regard Reserve Bank will conduct additional special open market operations (OMO) involving the simultaneous purchase and sale of Government securities (G-secs) for Rs 20,000 crore in two tranches of Rs 10,000 crore each on September 10, 2020, and September 17, 2020. The apex bank also announced term repo operations of Rs 100,000 crore (1 trillion) to infuse liquidity into the market. The Reserve Bank also increased the held to maturity limit (HTM) or the amount that banks invest in G-secs from 19.5% to 22%. Therefore, banks can hold fresh acquisitions of SLR (Statutory Liquidity Ratio) securities acquired from September 1, 2020, under HTM up to an overall limit of 22% of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL) up to March 31, 2021.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reviewed the Priority Sector Lending (PSL) Guidelines to align it with emerging national priorities amid the COVID-19 impact. In this regard, new categories are included under the priority sector for financing viz. start-ups (up to Rs 50 crore); loans to farmers for installation of solar power plants for solarisation of grid-connected agriculture pumps, and loans for setting up Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) plants. Loan limits for renewable energy have been doubled. For the improvement of health infrastructure, the credit limit for health infrastructure (including those under ‘Ayushman Bharat’) has also been doubled.

LazyPay, a part of PayU Finance has launched ‘LazyUPI’, a first of its kind digital credit card that combines Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the Buy-Now-Pay-Later concept. The offering allows the users to access real-time credit using UPI across omnichannel networks, which includes offline merchants and e-commerce platforms.

In order to expand RBL Bank’s suite of contactless banking services, it has launched a cardless cash withdrawal facility from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), through the Instant Money Transfer (IMT) system in partnership with Empays Payment Systems India Pvt Ltd. This service enables the customers of the RBL Bank to withdraw cash without their debit cards from 389 IMT-enabled bank’s ATMs or more than 40,000 other bank ATMs across the country.

The umbrella body for non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) requested the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to review the current account circular dated August 6, 2020, which stated that no bank is allowed to open current accounts for the customer who availed credit facilities in the form of cash and credit (CC) or overdraft (OD) from the banking system. FIDC Headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. On August 6, 2020, RBI issued revised guidelines for banks for opening current accounts in order to maintain discipline among the borrowers. As per the latest RBI guidelines, a bank opening a dedicated current account of any company with Rs 50 crore or more in debt must have at least 10 percent loan exposure in the concerned business entity. Most foreign banks manage current accounts of corporate without providing any loan to them.

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre (ISIC) to identify and find innovations to make quality healthcare affordable and accessible for all. The Collaboration is aimed at building a strong crop of biopharmaceuticals, MedTech, diagnostics, nutraceuticals, and other healthcare interventions in India.

Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Limited appointed Bollywood Actor Ayushmann Khurrana as its brand ambassador to promote its products and digital services across offline and online mediums. He will feature in the life insurer’s next campaign, ‘Smart Living’, which includes its term plan, Smart Protect Goal, and the new digital service, Smart Assist.

Celton Manx, Isle of Man betting group confirmed the appointment of Dwayne Bravo, West Indies cricketer as the first Cricket Ambassador of SBOTOP, the flagship sportsbook brand of Celton Manx.

12th Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Senior Officials Meeting took place virtually, the key areas of cooperation tourism, culture, education, transport, and communications were discussed and reviewed during the meeting. The meeting was attended by Senior Officials from all 6 MGC Member States (India, Cambodia, Lao PDR (People’s Democratic Republic), Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam). It was co-chaired by Vijay Thakur Singh, Secretary (East), Ministry of External Affairs, and Mr. Sok Soken, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Cambodia.

As a part of Sherpa Track for the G20 Leaders Summit 2020, which will be held at the end of 2020, the current chair of G20 (a group of twenty) i.e. Saudi Arabia hosted the virtual G20 Foreign Ministers’ Extraordinary Meeting from Riyadh (Capital of Saudi Arabia) which was focused upon cross-border movement and strengthening international cooperation across borders amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The meet was chaired by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al-Saud where the Indian side was represented by Union Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi incubated startup Chakr Innovation launched an Ozone based decontamination device named “Chakr DeCoV” to decontaminate the N95 masks and reuse up to 10 times. Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State(MoS) for Health and Family Welfare launched the device over a virtual platform. The device was developed by the Chakr Innovation team led by Tushar Batham with the guidance of researchers and professors of IIT Delhi.

The Collision of ‘Impossible’ Black Holes was detected and directly observed by the Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Laboratory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration also known as LVC (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), which includes scientists from the Australian National University (ANU). 2 scientific papers about the discovery of the black hole and its astrophysical implications have been published in Physical Review Letters and Astrophysical Journal Letters respectively.

Indian Grandmaster Panneerselvam Iniyan won the 48th Annual World Open Chess Tournament online with 7.5 points from nine games. The World Open Chess Tournament is organized by Continental Chess Association. It was held from August 7-9, 2020 in online mode following classical time control. The tournament is usually held in Philadelphia, New York in the United States, this time it was conducted virtually due to the ongoing pandemic.

On September 1, 2020, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a new publication, “The Little Book of Green Nudges”, to inspire students around the globe to adopt environmentally friendly habits and greener lifestyles. The Book was drafted by The Behavioural Insights Team and GRID-Arendal.

Goonmeet Singh Chauhan’s new book “Invertonomics: 8 ideas to transform India” presents practical ideas and models to solve the 8 specific fundamental problems of India like Social inequality, Air pollution, Cleanliness, Safer Cities, Women empowerment and rural economy deteriorating, etc. It was published by HarperCollins India. In this book, Goonmeet coined a methodology “Invertonomics”, a model that invert problems into economic opportunities.

2 books on Sheela Birnstiel (Other Name- Sheela Ambalal Patel, popularly called as Ma Anand Sheela), namely ‘Nothing to Lose’, an authorized biography by Manbeena Sandhu, which portrays the woman behind the strong persona and her Memoir, ‘My Story in My Own Words’ to be published in October and November respectively. ‘Nothing to Lose’- Harper Collins, India ‘My Story in My Own Words’- Penguin Random House.

Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’, Union Minister of Education launched a free mobile app “EnglishPro” to develop Indian English Pronunciation in the unique “Indian” way in Hyderabad over a virtual platform. It was developed by the Central University, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) under the University Social Responsibility (USR) program. This is the first initiative by any university in India.

Punjab State Minister for Department of Forest & Wildlife & Preservation Sadhu Singh Dharmsot launched the ‘I Rakhwali’ application. The app was launched to safeguard the forest areas in the state by making common citizens as stakeholders in the process. It will help citizens to become ‘Greenery Saviours’.

Two alumni of IIT-BHU Ravi Teja and Mayur Dhurpate have developed the iMumz app, which was declared the country’s second-best app in the health category in the prestigious “AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge”.

The Konark Sun Temple is a 13th-century Sun Temple (also known as the Black Pagoda), at Konark, in Odisha. Odisha Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday approved the promulgation of  “The Odisha Universities (Amendment) Ordinance 2020” to amend the Odisha Universities Act 1989.

A rare albino sambar deer has been spotted in the Kuno-Palpur Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh, said Divisional Forest Officer PK Verma. As per reports, a solo albino sambar deer was spotted in Navegaon National Park in Gondia in Maharashtra.

The Assam Assembly, on September 2, 2020, passed “The Assam Heritage (tangible) Protection, Preservation, Conservation, and Maintenance Bill-2020”. The targeted sites and items must have been in existence for not less than 75 years. The list includes religious institutions like the xattras, monasteries, stupas, naamghars, mosques, dargahs, churches, besides social and cultural institutions. It will also shield habitation structures having traditional architecture, heritage sites, heritage building structures, monuments, precincts areas or sites, artifacts, sculptures, paintings, handicrafts, and manuscripts as well. The manas wildlife sanctuary is located in Assam.

The MGC was launched in the year 2000 at Vientiane, Lao PDR. It is an initiative by six countries – India and the Five ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam). The main areas of cooperation between MGC are tourism, culture, education, transport, and communications.

The English and Foreign Languages University known as EFLU is a university for English and foreign languages located in Hyderabad, India.