1.Andhra Pradesh Inks Pact With Reliance, Allana Group For Empowering Women:
Andhra Pradesh government has signed MoUs with Reliance Retail, Jio and Allana group to collaborate in the YSR Cheyutha, a scheme for empowering women.Reliance Retail will help women in running groceries retail shops and train them besides providing them provisions at competitive prices.
2.HSBC India Becomes 1st Foreign Bank In India To Launch A ‘Green Deposit Programme’ For Corporate Clients To Finance Green Initiatives:
HSBC has announced the launch of its Green Deposit programme in India for its corporate clients. The first-of-its-kind product for the Indian market, the Green Deposit will enable the bank’s clients to support greener more sustainable projects.
3.Digit Insurance Launches SME Buddy To Simplify Insurance For SMEs And Startups On World Entrepreneurs’ Day:
On world’s entrepreneur day (August 21), technology-driven general insurance company Digit Insurance has launched an exclusive do-it-yourself (DIY) advisory tool for Small And Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and startups, SME Buddy. Digit recently won ‘Insurance Start-up of the Year-India’ Awards by Insurance Asia.
4.Religare Health Insurance To Be Renamed As Care Health Insurance:
Religare Health Insurance is an Indian health insurance firm established by Religare enterprise limited, Union Bank of India and Corporation Bank. The company is headquartered in Gurgaon, Haryana.
5.NHAI Develops Mobile App ‘Harit Path’ To Facilitate Creation Of Green Highways Across Country:
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), a PSU under the Ministry of Road and Transport, has developed a mobile App, ‘Harit Path’ to facilitate creation of Green Highways across the country.The App will also be used to monitor location, growth, species details, maintenance activities, targets and achievements of each of the PSU’s field units for every plant under the Highway plantation projects.
6.Michael Cohen Book ‘Disloyal: The True Story Of The Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump’ To Be Published:
Michael Cohen is completing the last two years of a three-year prison sentence at home after pleading guilty to campaign finance charges and lying to Congress. Skyhorse Publishing is the publisher of the book.
7.China successfully launches new optical remote-sensing satellite ‘Gaofen-9 05’
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China successfully launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China.The satellite, Gaofen-9 05, was sent into orbit by a Long March-2D carrier rocket.A multifunctional test satellite and another satellite named Tiantuo-5 were also launched via the rocket.The Gaofen-9 (05) optical remote sensing satellite follows the launch of the third Gaofen-9 satellite in June and the fourth earlier this month. Previous satellites were capable of providing sub-meter resolution imagery.The term “remote sensing” generally refers to the use of satellite or aircraft-based sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth.It includes the surface and the atmosphere and oceans, based on propagated signals.
8.First female golfer from Germany Sophia Popov wins Women’s British Open
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World number 304 Sophia Popov became the first female golfer from Germany to capture a major title after winning the Women’s British Open by two strokes at Royal Troon in Scotland.Thailand’s Jasmine Suwannapura was the runner-up after shooting 67.It completed one of the most unlikely wins in the tournament’s history.
9.Author Chetan Bhagat’s ‘One Arrange Murder’ to hit stands in September
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A book titled ‘One Arranged Murder’ authored by Chetan Bhagat will be released globally on September 28, 2020.It will be Bhagat’s ninth novel and 11th book overall. His last release was The Girl in Room 105.“‘One Arranged Murder’ is a gripping murder mystery set in a backdrop of an arranged marriage.Beside Bhagat’s two non-fiction titles, What Young India Wants (2012) and Making India Awesome (2015), his previous works of fiction include Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008), 2 States (2009), Revolution 2020 (2011), Half Girlfriend (2014) and One Indian Girl (2016).
