Daily Updates 16 Aug 2020
- PM Modi announces:
• National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), all Indians to get health IDs
• ‘Project Dolphin’ for the conservation of Gangetic Dolphins
• Project to conserve Asiatic Lions and its landscape in a holistic manner
• All villages to be connected with optical fibre in 1,000 days - Google partners Central Water Commission for flood forecasting initiative.
- WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan honoured with TN CM’s special award for her advisory role in combating the Covid-19 pandemic in the state.
- UNSC defeats U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.
- Donald Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in US TikTok operations within 90 days.
- The US seizes four Iranian fuel shipments to Venezuela, confiscates cargo.
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni (39) retires from international cricket; was captain of the Indian team that won World Cup in 2011.
- A campaign to empower women was launched by Justice N.V. Ramana, judge Supreme Court of India and also the Executive Chairman, National Legal Services Authority (NALSA).
