1. PM Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various projects worth 83 crore rupees at the historic Somnath Temple in Gujarat today (20 Aug) through video conference.
2. Union Minister Jitendra Singh has said that govt will set up a separate Civil Services Exam Centre for Ladakh to be located at Leh. Centre at Leh which will operate for the first time for the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2021, scheduled to be held on 10th of October this year.
3. President Ram Nath Kovind underwent Cataract surgery at the Army Research & Referral Hospital in New Delhi,. the surgery was successful and he has been discharged from the hospital.
4. Ministry of Home Affairs has recommended a preliminary enquiry by CBI into the alleged irregularities in procurement of one thousand low-floor buses by Delhi government.
5. Information and Broadcasting Minister, Youth Programme and Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur on five-day tour to Himachal Pradesh as part of his Jan Ashirwad Yatra.
6. Autumn Session of Meghalaya Assembly starts from 10 Sep to 17 Sept.
7. The MK Stalin-led Tamil Nadu government will soon introduce a resolution to scrap the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). The state government has been against having a common medical entrance exam. Tamil Nadu had also constituted a committee to study the relevance of NEET as an entrance exam for medical studies
8. Calcutta High Court tells CBI to probe post-poll violence in West Bengal.
The CBI and Special Investigation Team will submit their findings to the High Court within six weeks will submit their findings to the High Court within six weeks.
9. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said he along with representatives of all the parties in the state will meet PM Modi on August 23 to discuss the issue of a caste-based census.
10. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh during the launch of DISC 5 (Defence India Startup Challange) in New Delhi on 19 Aug (Thursday) through video conferencing. Recently, the Defence Minister had approved a budget of nearly 500 crore rupees for the next five years to support over 300 startups and foster innovation in defence & aerospace sectors.
11. The Defence Research and Development Organisation has developed an advanced chaff technology, which is used to distract enemy’s radar-guided missiles, to safeguard Indian Air Force fighter jets from enemy missiles.
12. A Junior Commissioned Officer of Indian Army martyred in a fierce gun fight with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on 19 Aug (Thursday) in which a terrorist was also killed.
13. Seventy-two women officers from the Indian Army have issued a legal notice to the defence ministry over strict compliance with the Supreme Court order on granting permanent commission to females in the force.
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