Top GKToday’s News Headlines-24 July 2020

INDIA

• Govt. approves grant of permanent commission to Short Service Commissioned (SSC) women officers in all streams of the Indian Army
• NITs, all other centrally-funded technical institutes to drop Class 12 marks criteria: HRD Minister
• India to boost Rafale capabilities with HAMMER missiles from France via emergency order
• HRD Ministry conducts 1st Indian Scholastic Assessment (Ind-SAT) Test 2020 under its Study in India programme; close to 5000 foreign students appeared
• National Broadcasting Day observed on July 23
• India’s first radio broadcast was from Bombay Station under the Indian Broadcasting Company on July 23, 1927

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• Union MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari launches mentoring platform www.restartindia.in conceptualised by Muthoot Fincorp and INKtalks
• First-ever container cargo from Kolkata via Bangladesh port reaches Agartala: MEA
• Gujarat: Shamalbhai Patel unanimously elected new chairman of Amu brand owner GCMMF (Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation)
• Karur Vysya Bank Ltd. (KVB) appoints Ramesh Babu Boddu as new MD & CEO
• India’s CuraSigna to make NASA-designed ventilators VITAL (Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally)
• Shares of Rossari Biotech list at significant premium against its issue price after successful initial public offering (IPO)
• Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal participates in the 10th BRICS Trade Ministers virtual meeting

WORLD

• Bangladesh: High Commissioner Riva Ganguly Das inaugurates India-funded school building in Chattogram
• China launches first Mars probe ‘Tianwen 1’ (Quest for Heavenly Truth 1) from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site
• Trump launches ‘Operation Legend’ to send federal agents to more U.S. cities to fight violent crime
• Facebook rolls out ‘App Lock’ for Messenger to protect users’ privacy
• Annie Ross, jazz singer and actress, dies at 89 in New York