Current Affairs Today (13 August 2020)

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Gujarat State and Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has Announced ‘Mukhya Mantri Kisan Sahay Yojana.

 

Soma Mondal has been Appointed as the Next Chairman of Steel Authority of India ( SAIL).

 

Lebanon PM Hassan Diab Resigns Over Deadly Beirut Port Blast.

 

PM Modi to Launch Platform for ‘Transparent Taxation–Honoring the Honest’

Several Tax Reforms including Reduction in Corporate Tax rates from 30 to 22%. Abolition of Dividend Distribution and Reduction in the Rates for new Manufacturing Units to 15%.

 

Russian President, Vladimir Putin has announced that a COVID-19 vaccine named “Sputnik V” developed in the country has been registered for use. Russian Ministry of Health has given regulatory approval for what it claims is the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute. Russia is the first country to register a coronavirus vaccine.

 

Journalists Nitin Sethi and Shiv Sahay Singh were declared winners of the Asian College of Journalism’s (ACJ) Award 2019 for Investigative Journalism.

Nitin Sethi is a journalist in the Huffington Post. He won this award for his six-part series titled “Paisa Politics” published by The Huffington Post India. Shiv Sahay Singh is a journalist in The Hindu. He received the award for his story titled “Death by digital exclusion: On faculty public distribution system in Jharkhand” published in The Hindu.

 

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Rahat Indori Passed Away, he was Related to Which Field?

 

a. Poet

b. Politics

c. Footballer

d. Cricketer

 

Recently, BCCI has Suspended the IPL Sponspership Deal with Which of the Following Company?

 

a. VIVO

b. OPPO

c. AMUL

d. SAMSUNG

 

On Which day, International Youth Day is Observed?

 

a. 10 August

b. 11 August

c. 12 August

d. 13 August

 

 

Who has Launched the Book titled ‘Connecting, Communication, Changing’?

 

a. Parkash Javedkar

b. M. Venkaiah Naidu

c. Ramesh Porkhiryal Nishank

d. Ramnath Kovind

 

Which Among the Following has launched India's First Pocket Android POS Device?

 

a. Airtel

b. Paytm

c. Google

d. Amazon

 

Which of the Following State has Started ‘Indira Van Mitan’ Yojana?

 

a. Gujarat

b. Haryana

c. Chhattisgarh

d. Uttar Pradesh