Current Affairs – September 10, 2020 [Today’s News Headlines]

September 10, 2020

Here are top Current Affairs News Headlines of September 10, 2020.

Inaugural run of South India’s 1st and country’s 2nd Kisan Rail between Anantapur (AP) and New Delhi flagged off
On August 7, the first Kisan Rail was flagged off between Devlali in Maharashtra and Danapur in Bihar as a weekly service.
Union Education Minister confers ‘CBSE Teachers Award’ to 38 Teachers and Principals of CBSE affiliated schools
Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot Inaugurates R&D Building of ALIMCO (Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India), Kanpur
SC stays reservation for Marathas in govt jobs & educational institutions in Maharashtra
HAL’s Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) completes hot and high-altitude trials
Convalescent Plasma therapy didn’t help in reducing Covid-19 deaths: ICMR
India’s under-5 child mortality rate declined drastically between 1990 (126) and 2019 (34), says UN in its report ‘The Levels & Trends in Child Mortality’ Report 2020’

PM held online ‘Svanidhi Samvaad’ with street vendors from MP
Svanidhi Scheme was launched to help the pandemic impacted street vendors restart their livelihood
Centre launches AatmaNirbhar Bharat ARISE-ANIC programme for MSMEs, start-ups
ANIC: Atal New India Challenges, ARISE: Applied Research and Innovation for medium and Small Enterprises
EPFO (Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation) to credit 8.5% to its subscribers for 2019-20 in two tranches
Public Sector Banks’ doorstep banking services launched by FM Nirmala Sitharaman; is part of EASE (enhanced access and service excellence) reforms
Best performing PSBs under EASE (enhanced access and service excellence) Banking Reforms Index felicitated; Bank of Baroda, SBI and erstwhile Oriental Bank of Commerce were the ‘Top Performing Banks’
RBI in process of constructing digital payment index (DPI) to assess extent of digitisation
CDS (Chief of Defence Staff) General Bipin Rawat addresses e-symposium on ‘Catalysing Defence Exports’
Route Mobile’s Rs 600-crore IPO fully subscribed on day 1

First trilateral Indo-Pacific dialogue held; Foreign Secretaries of India, Australia and France participated
Bangladesh launches ‘Asol Chini’ (‘real-sugar’) campaign against fake information, rumours on social media
PM Modi holds talks with Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud over telephone
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Moscow
Valdis Dombrovskis named new EU trade commissioner
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tops Forbes’ list of richest 400 Americans with networth of $179 billion
International Day to Protect Education from Attack observed by the UN on September 9