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8th November Current Affairs from The Hindu Newspaper and Press Information Burueau

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TODAY's CURRENT AFFAIRS

1.Tummala Srinivasa Kumar took charge as the new Indian National Centre for Ocean Information System (INCOIS) Director. INCOIS is an autonomous organization of the Government of India, under the Ministry of Earth Sciences

2.Central Minister of Education announced the Centre of Excellence for Indian Knowledge System to be set up at IIT Kharagpur, and also Inaugurated the international webinar titled “Bharata Tirtha” organized by the Institute from November 06 to 08, 2020. Highlights: 

                                                Education through the mother tongue, along with the rejuvenation of Sanskrit, will ease the educational process for India's diverse people and draw from the rich scholarly heritage of India. 

3.Joe Biden has been chosen as the 46th President of the United States. The Democrat Presidential candidate was announced as the new President-elect after most of US media including CNN and the Associated Press called the US election results in favour of Joe Biden.

4.The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched earth observation satellite EOS-01 as primary satellite and 9 customer satellites aboard PSLV-C49 at 3.12 pm on November 7, 2020, from the first launch pad of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. 

5.The Tamil Nadu government has topped the ‘best state’ category under the National Water Awards 2019. In total, the state of Tamil Nadu has won seven prizes in different categories.

6.The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that in order to curb fake, sub-standard and expired drugs drug names and expiry date during tendering will be in Hindi/regional language along with English.

7.The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a subsidiary of NTPC Ltd, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN), to promote usage of electric vehicles and set up solar power plants at the airports managed and operated by AAI.

8.WhatsApp has partnered with five Indian banks to process its payment services. These are State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and Jio Payments Bank. The Facebook-owned messaging platform, WhatsApp Inc., has received the approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based payments services in India, to let users send or receive money across the country.

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