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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Current Affairs-September 20, 2022

 

INDIA

– PM Modi meets Deputy PM and Finance Minister of Singapore Lawrence Wong in New Delhi

– Defence Minister Rajnath Singh calls on President of Egypt Mr Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo

– Kazakhstan to host Conference on Confidence Building Measures and Interaction in Asia (CICA) Summit in capital Astana on October 12-13; invites PM Modi

– President Droupadi Murmu meets King Charles III at Buckingham Palace in London

– Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and DONER G. Kishan Reddy addresses the Tourism Ministers’ meeting of the BRICS member countries virtually

– Odisha BJP leader Bishnu Charan Sethi dies at 61 in Bhubaneswar

– Shri Panchkhand Peethadheeshwar Acharya Swami Dharmendra Maharaj dies in Jaipur at 80

– Former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh joins BJP, merges Punjab Lok Congress with BJP

– Manipur CM Biren Singh launches portal ‘CM da Haisi’ (Let’s inform the CM) to address public grievances

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

– Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) amends regulations to boost value of stressed companies

– 9th Session of Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture being held in New Delhi from September 19 to 24

WORLD

– Ukraine says Russia strikes Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant in Mykolaiv region, reactors undamaged

– 94 people killed in border clashes between Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

– Nigeria: Death toll from Lassa fever rises to 171 this year

– International World Snakebite Awareness Day observed on September 19

SPORTS

– WTA Chennai Open tennis: Linda Fruhvirtova (Czech Republic) wins singles; Luisa Stefani (Brazil) & Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada) win doubles