Important Day
Defence
- New Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command (ENC), Visakhapatnam - Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta.
International
- First Railway in the world that run Double Stack Container train with high reach pantograph in high rise territory of Over Head Equipment (OHE) - Indian Railways.
- Winner of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Award for the year 2020 - Hyderabad-based Deccan Development Society.
National
- A flagship programme which launched at Bengaluru and Chennai by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) for faster Customs clearance of imported goods - Turant Customs.
- The internship programme which has been launched by National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) - ‘Sahakar Mitra’.
- A joint Science Communication Forum has been constituted by - Department of Science & Technology (DST).
- First Covid-19 hospital based on public-private partnership with Wipro - Hinjewadi, Pune.
Persons in News
- Recipient of the World Food Prize 2020 for developing and mainstreaming a soil-centric approach to increasing food production - Rattan Lal (Indian-American soil scientist).
- Winner of Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award 2020, announced by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) - Masrat Zahra (Srinagar).
- Melbourne-based Indian who will be conferred the Medal of the Order of Australia - Shobha Sekhar.
Sports
- Rank of Indian football team in the latest FIFA world rankings - 108th.
- First position in the latest FIFA world rankings for football team – Belgium.
State Current Affairs
- New permanent Judge of the common High Court of Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir & Ladakh - Justice Javed Iqbal Wani.
- Bal Shramik Vidya Yojna, a scheme for children of labourers to get financial assistance monthly to stop them from working as child labourers, launched by - Uttar Pradesh government.
Science
- An Integrated Flood Warning System for Mumbai - IFLOWS-Mumbai.
General Knowledge
- Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) - Founded: 26 January 1944; Headquarters: New Delhi.
- National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) - Founded: 13 March 1963; Headquarters: New Delhi.
- International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) - Founded: 1990; Location: Washington, D.C.
- Australia - Capital: Canberra; Currency: Australian dollar.
- International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) - Founded: 21 May 1904; Headquarters: Zürich, Switzerland.
