Top GKToday’s News Headlines-9 August 2020

August 9, 2020

PM inaugurates Rashtriya Swachhata Kendra – an interactive experience centre on the Swachh Bharat Mission, at the Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti at Rajghat, New Delhi
PM launches ‘Gandagi Mukt Bharat’, a special week-long campaign to free India of garbage, till August 15
18 dead as Boeing Co 737 plane of Air India Express coming from Dubai breaks apart while attempting to land at airport in Kozhikode, Kerala
Kerala: 18 killed in landslide in Rajamalai in Idukki district; people living in tea estate houses were hit
Telangana: Congress leader and six-time Lok sabha MP Nandi Yellaiah dies at 85 in Hyderabad

Russia: India to participate in multi-nation Kavkaz 2020 (Caucasus-2020) military exercise in Astrakhan
US sanctions Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam over curtailing political freedom
Somalia: 8 soldiers killed in blast outside army base in capital Mogadishu
Mauritius declares emergency as stranded Japanese-owned ship MV Wakashio spills fuel