Updates of the 2nd September 2020
- Centre Government told to Supreme Court that Loan moratorium is extendable up to two years under RBI’s August 6 circular on COVID-19 resolution framework.
- 25% Domicile Reservation at NLSIU: The Karnataka High Court reserved its order in a batch of pleas challenging the 25% domicile reservation introduced at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
- Tablighi Jamaat members are consolidated and transferred to one court: The Supreme Court has directed Patna High Court that the multiple FIRs filed in Bihar against Tablighi Jamaat members be consolidated and transferred to one court in the state. The court was hearing a plea filed by 34 foreign nationals challenging the decision of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to blacklist over 3,000 of them from travelling to India for a period of 10 years. The foreign nationals were facing trial for the alleged commission of offences under provisions of the Foreigners Act, 1946, the Epidemic Diseases Act, the Disaster Management Act, 2005, as well provisions of the Indian Penal Code.
- The Supreme Court today has given 10 year’s time for staggered payment of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) related dues by telecom giants including Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices. A three-judge bench of Justices Arun Mishra, B.R. Gavai and Krishna Murari, in its verdict today, said that the telecom firms get 10 years to clear their AGR dues with instalments to be paid by March 31, of every succeeding year.
- Reliance Industries Ltd business conglomerate is set to buy the retail business of Future Group.
- ‘Telugu Language Day’ is celebrated on 29 August across India.
- The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution that seeks to cut the peacekeeping force in Lebanon country.
- Noor Inayat Han is the first Indian-origin woman to get a Memorial plaque in London.
- India co-sponsored a Security Council resolution tabled by Indonesia country, which seeks women’s participation in peacekeeping missions.
- Maldives rejoins as member of (CGF) Commonwealth Games Federation.
- The Australian govt has appointed former cricketer Matthew Hayden and Indian origin Politician Lisa Singh as trade envoys for advancing business ties with India.
- Vedanta Ltd has tied up with State Bank of India for a long term syndicated loan facility worth Rs. 10,000 crore.
- Shambhu S Kumaran has been concurrently accredited as the next Ambassador of India to the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of Palau.
- The Defence Ministry has sealed a deal with two leading domestic defence majors to procure Pinaka Rocket Launchers for six army regiments at a cost of Rs. 2, 580 crores.
- China to set to unveil a bronze statue of Indian Doctor Dwarkanath Kotnis.
- SpaceX successfully launched an Earth- observation satellite for Argentina along with two small piggyback satellites on 30 Aug 2020.
- Air Force Sports Control Board has been conferred with ‘Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2020.’
