One Liners of the Day, 16 July 2020

International

• India and this nation have finalised a framework agreement on cooperation in the civil nuclear sector during their online summit on 15 July - European Union.
• World’s first Skill-based semester-assist program for Mechanical, Automotive & Aerospace Engineers, was launched by - Skill-Lync (Indians founded).

National

• This social media platform announced a partnership with the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in India to expand its efforts towards handling disaster situations - Twitter.
• Airports Authority of India (AAI) entered into a MoU with this PSU that will provide a platform for collaborative development and support for both the organizations to address the emerging airport business globally - Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).
• India’s first police force which draws civilians as domain experts in IT/Digital, Legal Forensics and Finance to give a high quality cutting edge to its investigation functions - Punjab Police.
• First trans-shipment port of India - Vallarpadam Terminal of Cochin Port, Kerala.

Persons in News

• Next Ambassador of India to Afghanistan - Rudrendra Tandon.
• India's next envoy to Bangladesh - Vikram Doraiswami.
• Author of the book, titled ‘A Song of India’ - Ruskin Bond.
• New vice-president for private sector operations and public-private partnerships in Asian Development Bank (ADB) who will succeed Diwakar Gupta - Ashok Lavasa (Election Commissioner of India).
• First Indian who received the British Society of History of Science’s (BSHS) prestigious John Pickstone Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the history of science and medicine in English - Dr. Shinjini Das (University of East Anglia).
• This Indian and Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet will receive the USIBC Global Leadership Award 2020 - N Chandrasekaran (Tata group Chairman).

Sports

• New interim chief executive officer (CEO) of The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) - Hemang Amin.
• Winner of the ‘Mohun Bagan Ratna’ Award 2020 - Gurbux Singh (Hockey) and Palash Nandi (former first-class cricketer).
• Indian who remains second place in the ICC Test Player Rankings for batsmen - Virat Kohli (First: Steve Smith).

Science and Technology

• For the first time, from industrial waste cotton, a simple, environmentally friendly, low-cost, and sustainable supercapacitor electrode has been developed by the researchers working at the - International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), India.
• World’s most affordable RT-PCR based COVID-19 diagnostic kit, developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi – “Corosure”.

General Knowledge

• Bastille Day (14 July) is the National Day of – France.
• United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) - Founded: 1945; Headquarters: New York, United States.
• Turkmenistan - Capital: Ashgabat; Currency: Turkmenistan manat.
• National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) - Founded: 2006; Headquarters: New Delhi.
• Airports Authority of India (AAI) - Founded: 01 April 1995; Headquarters: New Delhi.
• Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) – Founded: 1954; Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka.