Daily Updates 16 Aug 2020

Daily Updates 16 Aug 2020

Daily Updates 16 Aug 2020

  1. 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
  2. Google partners Central Water Commission for flood forecasting initiative.
  3. 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.
  4.  UNSC defeats U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran.
  5. Donald Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in US TikTok operations within 90 days.
  6. The US seizes four Iranian fuel shipments to Venezuela, confiscates cargo.
  7. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (39) retires from international cricket; was captain of the Indian team that won World Cup in 2011.
  8. 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).

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