Important highlights of the day
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10Pointer
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28th Aug, 2020
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- China has proposed to create BRICS innovation base to take forward 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) cooperation among the five countries.
- The Chhavni COVID: Yodha Sanrakshan Yojana is a group life insurance scheme through Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).
- Tata Group is planning to launch an all-in-one super app by the end of this year or early next year.
- India is pushing hard to complete an all-weather strategic route to Ladakh that will link Darcha in Himachal Pradesh to Nimu via Padum in Kargil’s Zanskar valley.
- NITI Aayog Released Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020 in which Gujarat Tops the Overall Rankings.
- World Health Organization (WHO) declares Africa free of Wild Poliovirus.
- NLCIL (Formerly known as Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) India Ltd) bagged the Swacchta Hi Seva (Cleanliness is Service) 2019 award for transforming the Neyveli Township into a plastic-free, clean and green campus.
- The World Water Week of the year 2020 is observed as the World Water Week at Home from 24rd August 2020 to 28th August 2020.
- The World Water Week has been celebrated and organised since 1991.
- The theme of World Water Week at Home 2020 is ‘Water and Climate change: Accelerating Action’.
