Current Affairs 2020 July 20

• 20 July – World Chess Day
• India Business Council to host 2020 India Ideas Summit on July 22.
• Odisha partners with Flipkart to promote Handloom, Handcrafts.
• Budget Session of Puducherry Assembly to begin today.
• CM V Narayanasamy to present Annual Budget 2020-21.
• Airtel Partners with Verizon to launch video conferencing Service in India.
• Mohammed Shaheen Iqbal appointed as new Chief of Naval Staff of Bangladesh.
• Delhi Police launches Plasma Donation Campaign at AIIMS, New Delhi.
• CSIR-CMERI unveiled COVID-19 Protection System (COPS) for workplaces.
• OPHI released 2020 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index.
• OPHI: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
• 1.3 Billion people are still living in Multidimensional Poverty: Report
• 84% of Multidimensionally poor people live in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
• Chhattisgarh Govt launches “Mukhyamantri Suposhan Yojana”; AIM: Combat Malnutrition in State.
• India has become 2nd largest source of FDI in United Kingdom.
• RS 25 lakhs insurance cover approved for J&K Panchayat Members.
• Singapore GDP plunged by record 41.2% in the last 3 months.
• Dr. Aman Puri takes charge as the new Consul General of India in Dubai.
• Lewis Hamilton wins Formula One Hungarian Grand Prix 2020.
• Private trains to begin plying by March 2023: Railways Ministry
• Indian Spices Export has increased by 23% in June 2020.
• Overall Exports of the country in June 2020 was at 21.91 billion USD.