The capital and currency of Trinidad and Tobago are Port of Spain & Trinidad and Tobago dollar respectively.

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

The Odisha government has decided to give a facelift to the 11th century Lingaraj Temple, akin to its pre-350-year structural status.

China has increased its troop deployment near Lipulekh, the place that became a trigger for strained relations between New Delhi and Kathmandu.

NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power generation company, would be able to reduce the transportation cost of coal to fuel to its NTPC Kudgi Super thermal power station in Karnataka, to around Rs 200-500 per metric tonnes (MT) thereby bringing down the cost of electricity generation, the transit time will also be reduced by 8-15 hours.

Joint efforts among local Indian organizations and Microsoft Research Lab have developed an interactive neural machine translation (INMT) app that translates between Hindi and Gondi.

The World Mosquito Day is observed on 20th August every year to raise awareness about the Causes and Prevention of Malaria.

Every year 20th August is celebrated as the Sadbhavana Diwas which is also known as Communal Harmony Day, to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi.

Former Cricketer, Administrator, and Pitch Curator Gopalaswamy Iyenger Kasturirangan passed away at the age of 89 due to a heart attack at his Bengaluru residence.

Former Indian Football Goalkeeper turned Coach, Bhaskar Maity passed away at the age of 67 due to massive stroke at a hospital in Navi Mumbai.

The book will give a snapshot of contemporary Indian politics through interviews with 20 of the country’s most prominent next-generation politicians.

Indian Olympic Association (IOA), a governing body for the Olympic Movement in India and INOX Group has signed a sponsorship agreement to support Team India for Tokyo Olympics, which was rescheduled to be held from July 23 to August 8, 2021.

World Health Organisation (WHO)’s reports show that the worsening state of poor air quality is responsible for more than 7.5 million fatalities worldwide annually. The scientists in India have developed an indigenous photonic system – AUM (Air Unique-quality Monitoring) – for real-time remote monitoring of air quality parameters. The system has been developed by the team (GVP-SIRC & GVP College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam; VIT University, Vellore) with support from the Department of Science and Technology’s Clean Air Research Initiative. The system titled AUM (Air Unique-quality Monitoring) had CATS Eco-Systems, Nashik as the technology transfer partner for commercialization.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) observes the South Atlantic Anomaly(SAA), a strange dent in Earth’s magnetic field over South America and the nearby Atlantic Ocean which was there for more than 10 years is growing and splitting this change in the magnetic field will affect the earth. The scientists of NASA in geomagnetic, geophysics, and heliophysics research groups observe and model the SAA to monitor and predict its future changes to help with the challenges in satellite missions and humans in space.

Iran (officially the Islamic Republic of Iran) has inaugurated a locally made surface-to-surface ballistic missile, called Martyr Qassem Soleimani, which has a range of 1,400 kilometers-km (870-mile) and a new cruise missile, called Martyr Abu Mahdi which has a range of over 1000 km(620-mile).

Researchers have given Dwarf Planet Ceres the status of an “Ocean World”. The scientists have analyzed the data collected by NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft and published the findings as a series of papers in the journals Nature Astronomy, Nature Communication and Nature Geoscience.

In a major boost for Make in India, the first-ever Pinaka rockets fully manufactured by the private sector company “Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL)” have been successfully test-fired by the army at a firing range in Pokhran, Rajasthan. Six Pinaka rockets were test-fired as part of the final developmental trials and are the first munition of its kind made by the private sector in India. These rockets have been manufactured on the lines of the transfer of technology (ToT) agreement between Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the private sector, five years ago. With the entry of the private sector, the single source dependency on Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) will be reduced.

In accordance with the 2nd edition of global research “Digital Quality of Life (DQL) Index 2020” released by online privacy solutions provider SurfShark, India ranked 57th out of 85 countries in terms of overall category “Digital Quality of Life 2020” with 0.5 index points which has been topped by Denmark with 0.79 points.

Francisco Pascual Eyegue Obama Asue was reappointed as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and He was sworn in at the People’s Palace in Malabo before President Teodoro Obiang on 18th August 2020. On 14th August 2020, The Asue government tendered the resignation to President Teodoro Obiang, following the criticism of the president. The capital and currency of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea are Malabo and Central African CFA franc.

Keith Rowley (Full name- Keith Christopher Rowley) sworn in as Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago for a 2nd consecutive 5-year term at the President’s House, following victory in general elections held on August 10, 2020. In addition to him, his new cabinet ministers were also sworn in. He is from the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM).

The National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research- National Aerospace Laboratories (CSIR-NAL), partnered to establish an innovation cum incubation center to promote the startup in the field of aerospace technologies. The CSIR-NAL located in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with power utility major NTPC Ltd (formerly known as National Thermal Power Corporation Limited), a Maharatna PSU. As per the MoU LTHE will be the engineering, procurement, and construction management partner to build a carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol demonstration plant in NTPC Power Station.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee and Bureau of India Standards (BIS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for collaboration in areas of Standardisation and Conformity Assessment based on equality and reciprocity.

National Seeds Corporation (NSC) and Jute Corporation of India (JCI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve the production and productivity of raw Jute in the country. The MoU was signed virtually in the presence of Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar, and Union Minister for Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani.

Unitus Ventures has received an investment of Rs 75 crore (USD 10 million) under Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)’s Fund of Funds for Start-ups initiative enabled by the Government of India. The fund will strengthen the deployment of its second Rs 300 crore fund, which was launched in 2018.

The Chennai headquartered Lakshmi Vilas Bank(LVB) has launched ‘LAKSHMI digiGO’, a contactless digital initiative that will enable customers to open a savings account instantly. This initiative will help people to avail of the most required banking services instantly through the website on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has launched a wholly-owned subsidiary, NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) to internationalize (or export to foreign markets) NPCI’s indigenously developed offerings and technological acumen, i.e. real-time payment system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and card payment network, RuPay along with a few more offerings of NPCI. It is also responsible to co-create payment technologies with other countries. NPCI has appointed Ritesh Shukla as Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of NIPL.

Government of India, Ministry of Minority Affairs is implementing the scheme Nai Udaan- Scheme for Support to Minority Students for preparation of Main Examination, who clear Prelims conducted by Union Public Service Commission, Staff Selection Commission, State Public Service Commissions The objective of the Scheme is to provide financial support to the minority candidates clearing Prelims conducted by Union Public Service Commission, Staff Selection Commission and State Public Service Commissions to adequately equip them to compete for appointment to Civil Services in the Union and the State Governments and to increase the representation of the minority in the Civil Services.

United Nations(UN)’s International Labour Organization (ILO) published the survey report titled “Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs, Education, Rights and Mental Well-being” which found that 50% of young people across the world are possibly subject to anxiety or depression and around 17% of them are already affected by it. and 38% of youths do not have a clear idea about the career or future.

On 20th August 2020 India signed a cultural agreement with Israel, which outlines a three-year programme of cooperation for 2020 to 2023, to strengthen the strategic bilateral relations through promoting the people to people exchange. This is one of a series of agreements which will be followed by the signing of a water agreement by our Ambassador in India.

The Central Government has approved the proposal for leasing out three airports namely Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram airports of Airports Authority of India (AAI) under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to Adani Enterprises Ltd. for Operation, Management and Development Adani Enterprises Ltd. is declared as the successful bidder in a Global Competitive Bidding conducted by AAI, for a period of fifty years.

The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal to set up the National Recruitment Agency (NRA) that will conduct a Common Eligibility Test (CET) for non-gazetted posts (Group B and C) of Staff Selection Commission (SSC), the Railway Recruitment Boards (RRBs) and the Institute of Banking Service Personnel (IBPS). Candidates who qualify CET can apply to any recruitment agencies for a higher level of examination. Therefore, CET will be a first level test (preliminary) to shortlist candidates which will be held twice a year with score validity of three years. NRA will be a Society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru released a new Report of National Cancer Registry Programme 2020. The report estimates that cancer in India will rise by 25% in 2020 and may rise 12% from the 1392179 cases in 2020 to 1569793 cases in 2025 and tobacco-related cancers are estimated to constitute around 27% of all cancers.