Current Affairs

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SEPTEMBER -19

• The Gujarat government has launched the Mukhyamantri Mahila Utkarsh Yojana (MMUY) will provide interest-free loans to women’s groups in the state.

• Bandhan Bank has set up a new vertical called “Emerging Entrepreneurs Business (EEB)”.

• Public sector lender Canara Bank has launched lead management system (LMS) – i-Lead 2.0 (Inspiring Leads System version 2.0) to provide its services to customers irrespective of where they reside.

• Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has been given the additional charge of Food Processing Industries Ministry due to resignation of Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal 

• Margaret Atwood has won the 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award.

• 10th Meeting of the BRICS High Representatives on National Security was held virtually hosted by Russia.

• Indian teenager Udit Singhal has been named in the 2020 Class of 17 Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is the founder of Glass2Sand, an initiative that is based on a zero-waste ecosystem to tackle the challenge of glass waste in Delhi.