Important highlights of the day

China has proposed to create BRICS innovation base to take forward 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI) cooperation among the five countries.
The Chhavni COVID: Yodha Sanrakshan Yojana is a group life insurance scheme through Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).
Tata Group is planning to launch an all-in-one super app by the end of this year or early next year.
India is pushing hard to complete an all-weather strategic route to Ladakh that will link Darcha in Himachal Pradesh to Nimu via Padum in Kargil’s Zanskar valley.
NITI Aayog Released Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2020 in which Gujarat Tops the Overall Rankings.
World Health Organization (WHO) declares Africa free of Wild Poliovirus.
NLCIL (Formerly known as Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) India Ltd) bagged the Swacchta Hi Seva (Cleanliness is Service) 2019 award for transforming the Neyveli Township into a plastic-free, clean and green campus.
The World Water Week of the year 2020 is observed as the World Water Week at Home from 24rd August 2020 to 28th August 2020.
- The World Water Week has been celebrated and organised since 1991.
- The theme of World Water Week at Home 2020 is ‘Water and Climate change: Accelerating Action’.