Top Best Current Affairs 18 July 2020

The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) headed by Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defence has granted special financial power to the armed forces to make emergency purchases of armed weapons worth upto Rs.300 crores to meet the emerging operational requirement.

Snapdeal's Kunal Bahl to lead CII's e-commerce committee. Confederation of Indian Industry recently announcedSnapdeal's Co-founder & CEO KunalBahl has taken over as the Chairman of its e-commerce committee for the year 2020-21.

The Defence Acquisition Council headed by Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defence has granted special financial power to the armed forces to make emergency purchases of armed weapons worth upto Rs.300 crores to meet the emerging operational requirement.

As a part of Make in India programme, DRDO has developed P7 Heavy Drop System (HDS) which is capable of para dropping military stores ((vehicle/ ammunition/ equipment) up to 7-ton weight class from IL 76 aircraft [Ilyushin Il-76 or Gajraj (elephant king)].

117th birth anniversary of the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu "King Maker" K.Kamaraj was observed as Tamil Nadu's Educational Development Day to remember his contribution to enhance the school education facilities of Tamil Nadu. In 2006 the Government of Tamil Nadu passed a development and celebration bill declaring July 15th, the birth day of Perunthalaivar Kamarajar as the "Educational Development Day".

Atal Innovation Mission, flagship initiative of NITI Aayog teamed with other Ministries and its partners, to organize the series of virtual COVID-19 Demo Days to find the potential startups with innovative COVID-19 solutions and provide support to develop and scale up the solutions. The initiative was launched under the directions of Dr Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India and Dr Vinod Paul, Member Health of NITI Aayog.

Bastille Day is the common English name given to the national day of France, which is celebrated on July 14. In French, the day is formally referred to as Fete Nationale and is it the anniversary day for the storming of the Bastille that took place on July 14, 1789.

India witnessed almost 273 million people move out of multidimensional poverty between 2005-2006 and 2015-2016, as per UN report on Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). The report noted that India recorded the largest reduction in the number of people living in this category. The data was released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).