Current Affairs - September 22, 2020 Current Affairs

For the first time ever, two women officers will be joining the helicopter stream of the Indian Navy as "Observers" (Airborne Tacticians). These women officers will be first batch of women airborne combatants to operate from warships. The entry of women officers was earlier restricted to fixed-wing aircraft of Indian Navy.

An iconic interior designer best known for her fine work with The Taj Mahal hotel and other Taj properties, Elizabeth Kerkar passes away at the age of 80.

The Lok Sabha passed the Rashtriya Raksha University Bill 2020. The bill seeks to provide for the establishment of the Rashtriya Raksha University, Gujarat.

World Alzheimer's day take place on 21st September and is part of World Alzheimer's Month. This year, it's focusing on Dementia.

India provided a soft loan of $250 Million to the Maldives. It is budgetary support to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PM Narendra Modi has been awarded the IG Nobel prize 2020 for medical education for using the COVID-19 pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors.

The country's largest lender SBI saw the highest number of fraud cases; However, Bank of India was the worst hit in terms of value.

US Supreme court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an iconic champion of women's rights, has died of cancer at the age of 87.

The Governor of Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel has approved the name change of Manduadih Railway station of Varanasi to Banaras.

The Emmy Awards 2020 were hosted live on September 21, 2020 by Jimmy Kimmel from an empty Los Angeles Staples Center with nominees attending the show live from their homes. The Emmy winners received their trophies at their homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Renowned sitcom Schitt's Creek won the most awards in a single season by taking home 7 Primetime awards and 9 Emmys.

Delhi Government has resumed the services to provide doorstep delivery of driver license, marriage certificate and other public services to the citizens of national capital with effect from September 1, 2020. These services have been resumed after being suspended for nearly five months due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

India has occupied the top position in terms of COVID-19 recoveries worldwide with a total of 4.3 million recovered patients. India now constitutes 19% of the total COVID-19 recoveries globally, which is the highest in world.

Five meetings have already taken place between the 2 countries. 6th India-china corps commander-level talks will take place at the Chushul/Moldo meeting point along the line of actual control(LAC) in a bid to resolve the ongoing border standoff between the two armies.

The proposed university would facilitate and promote studies and research and help achieve excellence in the field of forensic science in conjunction with applied behavioural science studies, law, criminology.

Cybercrimes are increasing in India and a total of 82575 cases of cyber crime have been reported in the country during the year 2014-2018. This was stated by the Minister of state for home affairs G. Krishna Reddy in the Rajya Sabha.

Lok Sabha passed the bilateral netting of qualified financial contracts bill, 2020. The bill seeks to provide a legal framework for Bilateral netting of qualified financial contracts which are over the counter derivatives contracts.

21 states have given their borrowing option proposed by the GST council to meet the shortfall in compensation from the centre amid the pandemic.

Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of nine highway projects worth 14,258 crore rupees in Bihar through Video conferencing.

The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has recently approved to commercially launch the 'Feluda', India's first CRISPER COVID-19 test.

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21st September. The theme for 2020 is "Shaping Peace Together."