Top Best Current Affairs 8 October 2020 (3)

India and Myanmar are working towards the operationalization of the Sittwe port in the Rakhine state of Myanmar in the first quarter of 2021. The port is part of the Kaladan multi-modal transit transport project which is being viewed as India's gateway to Southeast Asia.

The seventh offshore patrol vessel of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), "Vigraha" was formally unveiled at the Kattupalli port, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The vessel, built by Larsen and Toubro, is the last in the series of seven OPVs contracted to the company by the Ministry of Defence in 2015. It was the first time a private sector shipyard has undertaken the design and construction of offshore patrol vessel class of ships.

Digital payments firm Paytm Monday announced the launch of an 'Android mini-app store' to help Indian developers market their apps, and in a possible attempt to fight Google's dominance in the arena. The 'mini-apps' would help "citizens to save their limited data and phone memory", Paytm said in a press release. According to the firm, mini-apps are mobile websites that can give users an app-like experience without actually downloading it.

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna "for the development of a method for genome editing". The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.