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.