Current Affairs 2020 July 26

• 26 July – Kargil Vijay Diwas
• India is celebrating the 21st anniversary of the Kargil Vijay Diwas.
• Central Railway Mumbai Division launched app “CheckIn Master”.
• AIM: For the Ticket Checking
• V R Chaudhari appointed as the New Western Air Command Chief.
• Indian Railways to RFID tag all wagons by December 2022.
• India and Israel decided to work together to develop a set of COVID-19 tests.
• Book “Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver” authored by former RBI Governor Urjit Patel released.
• 1st e-Governance Centre in the country will be inaugurated in Nashik.
• IIT Delhi and Wells Fargo sign MoU for Home-Based COVID-19 testing kit.
• World class state of Art Honey Testing Laboratory Inaugurated in Anand, Gujarat; set up by National Dairy Development Board.
• Vietnam bans all imports of wildlife dead or alive.
• Renowned Danseuse Amala Shankar passes away in Kolkata.
• Haryana to be the host for the 4th Khelo India Youth Games.
• 4th Khelo India Youth Games will be held in Panchkula, Haryana.
• Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Salman conferred with Pakistan’s highest Civilian Award “Nishan-e-Pakistan”.
• TRIFED signs MoU with IIT, Delhi for Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA).
• RBI signs documents to extend $400 M currency swap facility to Sri Lanka till November 2022.
• India-EU agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation Renewed for next 5 years.
• EU: European Union
• Saffron grown in Kashmir gets Geographical Indication Certification.
• India-UK Hold 14th Joint Economic and Trade Committee Meeting.
• 7th edition of ITUC’s Global Rights Index released.
• ITUC: International Trade Union Confederation
• India is among the 10 worst countries for working people: ITUC
• Middle East and North Africa is the worst region in the world for working people.
• Kemar Roach becomes 9th West Indies bowler to take 200 wickets in Tests.
• Bengal named as best performing state by AIFF under Performance Assessment.
• Maharashtra named 2nd best performing state by AIFF under Performance Assessment.
• Kerala named 3rd best performing state by AIFF under Performance Assessment.
• AIFF: All India Football Federation
• WI-England series named as Richards-Botham Trophy.
• Mahindra Group launched Mahindra University (MU) in Hyderabad.
• Jordan Henderson named as FWA Footballer of the year.
• FWA: Football Writers’ Association
• ‘Legend of Animation’ award instituted by the Toonz Media.
• Arnab Chaudhuri To Ve conferred with Legend of Animation Award.
• India will handover 10 broad-gauge Diesel Locomotives to Bangladesh.
• Adil Hussain conferred Outstanding Achievement Award in LIFF.
• LIFF: London Indian Film Festival
• RBI to set up Rs 500 crore payments Infra Development Fund.
• Reliance Overtakes Exxon as 2nd Most Valuable Energy Firm.
• Dharmana Krishna Das takes charge as Andhra Deputy CM.