Current Affairs 2020 July 20

20 July – World Chess Day
India Business Council to host 2020 India Ideas Summit on July 22.
Odisha partners with Flipkart to promote Handloom, Handcrafts.
Budget Session of Puducherry Assembly to begin today.
CM V Narayanasamy to present Annual Budget 2020-21.
Airtel Partners with Verizon to launch video conferencing Service in India.
Mohammed Shaheen Iqbal appointed as new Chief of Naval Staff of Bangladesh.
Delhi Police launches Plasma Donation Campaign at AIIMS, New Delhi.
CSIR-CMERI unveiled COVID-19 Protection System (COPS) for workplaces.
OPHI released 2020 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index.
OPHI: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
1.3 Billion people are still living in Multidimensional Poverty: Report
84% of Multidimensionally poor people live in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Chhattisgarh Govt launches “Mukhyamantri Suposhan Yojana”; AIM: Combat Malnutrition in State.
India has become 2nd largest source of FDI in United Kingdom.
RS 25 lakhs insurance cover approved for J&K Panchayat Members.
Singapore GDP plunged by record 41.2% in the last 3 months.
Dr. Aman Puri takes charge as the new Consul General of India in Dubai.
Lewis Hamilton wins Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix 2020.
Private trains to begin plying by March 2023: Railways Ministry
Indian Spices Export has increased by 23% in June 2020.
Overall Exports of the country in June 2020 was at 21.91 billion USD.