Current Affairs 15 July 2020 in INDIA

🔶 15 July : World Youth Skills Day

🔶 Theme 2020 : " Skills For Resilient Youth "

🔶Ministry of Shipping approved Rs 107 Crore for Modern Firefighting Facilities in Haldia Dock, Kolkata

🔶UNICEF, FICCI joined hands to Initiate “#Reimagine Campaign” to Support Vulnerable Populations and Children in India

🔶8.9% of the world’s population, went hungry in 2019: UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020

🔶UNODC’s World Wildlife Crime Report: Pangolin Scale Seizure Jumped 10 times Between 2014 & 2018

🔶NABARD organized a ‘digital choupal’ to mark its 39th Foundation Day on July 13; 2 schemes each of Rs 5,000 cr announced

🔶IRDAI mandated insurance companies to launch ‘Corona Kavach’ & ‘Corona Rakshak’ amid increasing COVID-19 cases

🔶Legendary Hockey Player Ashok Kumar, Honoured with Lifetime Achievement Award of  Mohun Bagan Football Club

🔶Mukesh Ambani becomes World’s 6th richest man, after surpassing Elon Musk and Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page

🔶Hemang Amin, Appointed as the Interim CEO of BCCI

🔶IIT Kanpur Develops ‘SHUDH’, UV Sanitizing Device to make Surroundings COVID free

🔶ARAD and CARMEL – New Israeli Assault Rifles Are Set to Manufacture in India under Make in India Initiative

🔶Former Australian Skipper Mile Jedinak Announces Retirement from Football

🔶Dutch Football Player Wim Suurbier Passed Away at 75

🔶A new book titled” If It Bleeds” authored by Stephen King released in India

🔶Central Govt Provides Rs 1500 crore to Haryana for its Crop Diversification and Rejuvenate Ponds

🔶Nitin Gadkari Inaugurates and Lays Foundation Stones of 11 Highway Projects Worth Around Rs 20,000 crore in Haryana Virtually