✅Current Affairs 17 July 2020
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🔶NITI Aayog & USAID Co-chaired Sustainable Growth Pillar Meeting; India Energy Modeling Forum Launched
🔶Defence Minister of State Shri Shripad Naik inaugurated 5th edition of conference on Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing Technologies
🔶Defence Ministry Entrust Power to Armed Force to Make Emergency Purchase Worth Rs.300 crores
🔶15th India-EU (Virtual) Summit held virtually; co-chaired by Narendra Modi, Charles Michel & Ursula von der Leyen
🔶Minister of State for Shipping Mansukh Mandaviya reviews deployment activities of Vallarpadam Terminal, Cochin Port6Atal Innovation Mission Teams with Ministries to Support Startups with COVID-19 Solutions
🔶Govt to Increase Public Health Expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025
🔶India & Bhutan Opens New Trade Route to Improve Trade and Connectivity
🔶UNICEF India Partners with SAP India to Provide Career Counselling to Young People
🔶NABARD Launched Development Projects worth Rs 44 lakhs in Andaman and Nicobar Islands
🔶The Committee to Protect Journalists Announced 2020 International Press Freedom Awardees
🔶Tunisian Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh Resigns
🔶South American country Suriname elects Indian-origin ‘Chan’ Santokhi as President
🔶CCI Approved Acquisition of upto 58.92% Stake in HealthCare Global Enterprises Limited by Aceso
🔶DRDO developed fully indigenous P7 Heavy Drop System for IL 76 aircraft
🔶Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ E-Launched “Corosure” – World Most Affordable COVID-19 Diagnostic Kit Developed by IIT Delhi
🔶DCGI Approves India’s 1st Fully Indigenously Developed Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine
🔶Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) to construct world’s 1st fully automatic electric ferries for Norway’s ASKO Maritime
🔶117th birth Anniversary of Former CM of Tamil Nadu K Kamaraj, observed as Educational Development Day – July 15
🔶©Telangana Police launch ‘CybHER’, Virtual Awareness Campaign to Tackle Cyber Crime against Women & Children
🔶Cartoonist Avad Bin Hassan Jami passes away
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