23 October 2020: Today’s News Headlines

October 23, 2020

Here are top News Headlines of 23rd October 2020

Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) stealth corvette ‘INS Kavaratti’ commissioned into the Indian Navy in Visakhapatnam
DRDO conducts final user trial of ATGM (Anti-Tank Guided Missile) Nag; will be manufactured by Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL)
AYUSH Minister Shripad Yesso Naik inaugurates Regional Raw Drug Repository at AIIA (All India Institute of Ayurveda), New Delhi
restores all existing visas except in electronic, tourist and medical categories
R&AW chief Samant Kumar Goel meets Nepal Prime Minister K P Oli in Kathmandu

AMFI asks mutual fund distributors to not identify themselves as advisors unless designated by SEBI
RBI fixes minimum Net Owned Fund (NOF) size for HFCs (housing finance companies) at Rs 25 crore
New series of CPI (Consumer Price Index) for industrial workers released with 2016 as base year
RBI conducts first OMO (open market operation) in state development loans (SDLs)
Seeker of a life insurance policy duty bound to disclose all material facts: SC

US designates six more China based media outlets as foreign missions
First Ministerial Meeting of G-20 Anti-Corruption Working Group held; India represented by Union Minister Jitendra Singh
Dhaka-Siliguri passenger train planned to start in March 2021: Bangladesh Railway Minister
Lebanon: Former PM Saad al-Hariri named new prime minister by President Michel Aoun
EU awards 2020 Sakharov Prize to Belarus opposition and its leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya