Top Best Current Affairs 21 September 2020

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and Ministry of Women and Child Development today in New Delhi for controlling Malnutrition as a part of POSHAN Abhiyaan. The MoU will see some time-tested and scientifically proven Ayush-based solutions being adopted for controlling malnutrition in the country.

Gujarat CM launched Mukhyamantri Mahila Utkarsh Yojana Scheme to provide interest-free loans to women's group.

The Chennai division of Southern Railways launched an in-house mobile app called "fright seva", as part of its efforts to boost fright traffic and add more customers to its base.

External Affairs ministry launched FICCI-SAM Report "India-Japan: time to seize new opportunities".

Based on non-filing of Financial Statements (FS) consecutively for two years or more, companies were identified and after following due process of law as provided under Section 248 of the Companies Act, 2013 read with the Companies (Removal of Names of Companies from the Register of Companies) Rules, 2016, there are 3,82,581 number of Companies were struck off during the last three years. This was stated by Shri Anurag Singh Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha.

United Nations First International Equal Pay Day is observed on 18th September 2020 as a step towards eliminating the gender pay gap and to overcome sexual discrimination against women in the employment sector.

American novelist and journalist Winston Groom, the author of "Forrest Gump", passed away at the age of 77 at Alabama, USA.

Parliament today passed two bills aimed at transforming agriculture in the country and raising farmers' incomes. The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 which were passed by Lok Sabha on 17th September 2020, were passed by the Rajya Sabha.