Top Best Current Affairs 8 September 2020 (2)

Amidst the multipronged COVID 19 challenges, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) marked its 60th Annual Convention with a series of virtual plenary sessions deliberating upon the revival and future of the automotive industry. Gracing the occasion for the plenary session on "A Long Term Regulatory Roadmap and Infrastructure Development" was Guest of Honour, Nitin Gadkari, Hon'ble Union Minister of Road Transport & Highways and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, government of India.

The IIT Delhi incubated startup Chakr Innovation has launched a special decontamination device called 'Chakr DeCoV', to decontaminate N95 masks. The Chakr DeCoV device is designed in the shape of a cabinet.

CyberPeace Foundation has partnered WhatsApp to create awareness on cyber safety among students. This is an effort to build on their earlier partnership with WhatsApp under the "e-Raksha" program that reached thousands of students.

England cricketer, Ian Bell has announced that he will retire from all forms of cricket at the end of the 2020 domestic season. He made his debut in 2004. He played 118 Tests, 161 ODIs, and 8 T20Is for England. He retired from ODIs in 2015 to focus on Test cricket. He won five Ashes series out of seven. He was the Player of the Series in the 2013 series, where he scored 562 runs at an average of 62.44.

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired the Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle at 11 am on September 7, 2020 from the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Launch Complex at Wheeler Island, off the coast of Odisha. The successful flight test of the indigenously-developed Hypersonic Technology Demonstration Vehicle (HSTDV) enabled the successful demonstration of the Hypersonic air-breathing scramjet technology, which is a major technological breakthrough for India.

Vodafone Idea has announced its new unified brand identity by renaming all its products under a new name and logo "Vi". The Beleaguered telecom operator, announced the rebranding of the company through a virtual platform. The integration into one brand is believed to be the company's efforts to reduce the cost of maintaining two brands. The rebranding also comes at a time when Vodafone Idea has seen its user base falling from 408 million at the time of the merger to 280 million at the end of June 2020. With Vodafone focusing on premium urban brand, Idea has been a mass rural-focused brand. Following the merger, the urban-rural appeal of the two brands took a hit

The Union Minister of State for Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh informed on September 6, 2020, that Chandrayaan-3, India's mission to Moon, is likely to be launched in early 2021. The Union Minister also added that unlike Chandrayaan-2, this mission will not have an orbiter but it includes a rover and a lander.

Karnataka is set to implement a ?600-crore project for brining 10 lakh hectares of parched land in 10 districts under watershed development with World Bank assistance. The State Cabinet that met on Thursday cleared this proposal, said Law Minister J.C. Madhuswamy. The project titled 'Rejuvenating watershed for agriculture resilience through innovative development' would be implemented for the next six years. Under the project, the State government would provide ?180 crore while the World Bank would extend an assistance of ?420 crore, the Minister said.