Important highlights of the day

Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand organized the two-day long 6th Round Table of ASEAN-India Network of Think Tanks (AINTT) through video conference on the theme “ASEAN-India: Strengthening Partnership in the Post COVID Era”.
State Bank of India (SBI) has partnered with India’s First Real-Time Group Negotiation E-Platform, AddaCorner to launch ‘Online Home Carnival’, which will help in boosting the Real Estate market in Bangalore.
Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar Appointed as New Election Commissioner.
Earth Overshoot Day 2020 is observed on August 22, 2020.Earth Overshoot Day is the date when the demands of biological resources and services of the year by humanity exceed the generation capacity of Earth in that year.