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💎 02 JULY 2020 💎
🔷 01 July : National Postal Worker Day
🔷 01 July : National Doctors’ Day
🔷 Theme 2020 : “Lessen the mortality of COVID 19”
🔷 01 July : Chartered Accountants Day
🔷 02 July : World Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) Day
🔷 02 July : World Sports Journalists Day
🔷 Shrikant Madhav Vaidya took charge as the new chairman of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
🔷 Sanjay Dwivedi appointed as Director General of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC)
🔷 Indra Mani Pandey appointed India's Permanent Representative to UN
🔷 Shashank Manohar steps down as ICC Chairman
🔷 Singapore’s Imran Khwaja has been appointed as interim chairman ICC
🔷 Ravindra Jadeja named India’s 21st century Most Valuable Player by Wisden
🔷 World Bank to give $750 million funding support to MSMEs in India
🔷 World Bank’s total commitment reached to $2.75 bn to support India’s emergency Covid-19 response
🔷 Ashadhi Ekadashi festival celebrated in Maharashtra
🔷 "Dream Kerala project" announced for rehabilitation of Keralites returning from abroad
🔷 Science and Engineering Research Board launched a new scheme called ‘Accelerate Vigyan’
🔷 1st Edition of ‘Matsya Sampada’ launched by Union Minister Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
🔷 Care Ratings Forecast India’s GDP to contract by 6.4% in FY21
🔷 Govt launches Special Liquidity Scheme for NBFC of Rs. 30,000 crore
🔷 HRD Minister & Health Minister jointly inaugurates Drug Discovery Hackathon 2020
🔷 HDFC Bank Unveils ‘e-Kisaan Dhan’ app for farmers
🔷 Govt extends the term of Union Bank of India’s CEO Rajkiran Rai by another 2 years
🔷 India Joins as Founding Member of UNGA’s Alliance for Poverty Eradication
🔷 IIT Madras launches world’s first online BSc degree in Programming & Data Science
🔷 India and Japan conduct PASSEX naval exercise in Indian Ocean Region
🔷 India-Bangladesh sets up 50:50 Joint Venture Company for LPG business in Bangladesh
🔷 Madhya Pradesh launches ‘Hamara Ghar-Hamara Vidyalaya’ campaign
🔷 Ravinder Bhakar takes charge as CEO of Central Board of Films Certification (CBFC)
🔷 Banks sanction over Rs 1 lakh cr loans to 30 lakh MSMEs under ECLGS
🔷 Goa Govt Allocates 14,380 sqm land to set up India first Maritime Cluster
🔷 Karnataka launches portal ‘Skill Connect Forum’ to connect job seekers and Employers
🔷 K K Venugopal re-appointed as Attorney General of India
🔷 Tushar Mehta re-appointed as Solicitor General of India
🔷 India’s first lichen park developed in Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand
🔷 US-based Carlyle Group to Acquire 25% Stake in Nxtra Data For $235 mn
🔷 Siddhartha Mukherjee & Raj Chetty Named among ‘2020 Great Immigrants’ Honourees
🔷 IRDAI Sets Up Panel headed by G Srinivasan to study suitability of Surety Bond issuance
🔷 Rattan Lal & Uma Lele Named by UN Chief to Scientific Group for 2021 Food Summit
🔷 ICICI bank Launched a Facility, ‘Insta Loans against Mutual Funds’,
🔷 Indian marine fish landings rose 2.1% to 3.56mt in 2019
🔷 Tamil Nadu grabbed the top in annual fish production with 7.75 lakh tonnes
🔷India is ranked 3rd after China and Indonesia in marine fish production
🔷 Indian Air Force & CSIO Develops Indigenous ‘Airborne Locust Control System’ on 2 Mi-17 Helicopters
🔷 Gudni Johannesson Re-elected as President of Iceland
🔷 India has placed its bid for the hosting rights of the 2027 Asian Cup
🔷 Modi decided to delete his account on Chinese microblogging website Sina Weibo
🔷 Pakistan Army appointed Nigar Johar as 1st female lieutenant general
🔷 Fitch cuts India’s GDP growth forecast to 8% from 9.5% for FY22
🔷 New Zealand cancels the APEC Summit 2021 due to COVID-19
🔷 IIT Gandhinagar develops AI based tool to detect Covid-19
🔷 IIT-Delhi to launch app ‘COPAL-19’ for patients needing plasma therap
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