Top GKToday’s News Headlines-20 March 2020

March 19, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for 20 March, 2020

MP crisis: SC orders reconvening Assembly, directs Kamal Nath led Congress govt to undergo floor test on March 20
Lok Sabha passes bill to accord the status of institution of national importance to a Jamnagar-based cluster of Ayurveda institutes
Tamil Nadu: Sanitary personnel employed by urban and rural civic bodies to be called ‘cleanliness workers’

30-share BSE Sensex fell 581.28 points or 2.01% to end at 28,288.23
50-share NSE Nifty declined 205.35 points or 2.42% to close at 8,263.45
PM announces the setting up of COVID-19 Economic Response Task Force led by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
15th Finance Commission sets up 8-member panel headed by its Chairman N. K. Singh to review fiscal consolidation road map of the both state and central governments
Defence Ministry signs contract to procure 16,479 light machine guns (LMGs) from Israel Weapons Industries (IWI) for Rs 880 crore
No scheduled international commercial passenger flights allowed to land in India from March 22 for a week: Centre
SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) to start Swavlamban Express train on June 5 for entrepreneurs
Coronavirus outbreak: Govt. bans export of all ventilators, surgical/disposable masks and textile raw material used for making masks with immediate effect