• Leader of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of the Indian Parliament, is the Prime Minister by default if they are a member of the Lok Sabha.

• If the Prime Minister is not a member of the Lower House of Parliament, they can nominate another minister as the Leader of the House. He was nominated as Leader of Lok Sabha by Dr. Manmohan Singh.

• He was never served as Home minster of India.

• He hold post finance minister and External Affairs Minister Twice

- Finance minister from 1982-84 and 2004-2012

- External Affair Minister from 1995-96 and 2006-2009

• He also hold the post of Defence Minister from 2004-2006

• Indian Railways has developed a remote-controlled medical trolley named ‘MEDBOT’ to help deliver food and medicines to COVID-19 patients.

• During Corona crisis, apart from providing transport facilities and essential items like foodgrains to people, Indian Railways has also provided facilities for COVID-19 patients.

• It is providing service in the Central Hospital of the Diesel Rail Engine Factory of Indian Railways.

• Joseph Clemens Ruby was an American animator, television editor, writer, and producer.

• He was the founder of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions, together with Ken Spears.

• They were noted for co-creating the animated series Scooby-Doo.

• World Bank has stopped the publication of its “Doing Business” report to probe data collection irregularities in the annual ranking of countries’ business and investment climates.

• According to World Bank “A number of irregularities have been reported regarding changes to the data in the Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 reports, published in October 2017 and 2019”.

• World Bank would conduct a systematic review of data changes in the last five Doing Business reports, and independent auditors will probe data collection and review processes.

• The last Doing Business report was published in October 2019 in which India was ranked 63rd while New Zealand was on top.

• Mustapha Adib become the crisis-stricken Lebanon's next prime minister after getting the support of senior Sunni politicians.

• He was Lebanon's ambassador to Germany.

• Mustapha Adib was named by four former prime ministers on the eve of binding consultations between the president and parliamentary blocs on their choice for the post.

• World’s Largest Solar Tree has been developed by the CSIR-CMERI. The solar tree has been installed at the Residential Colony of CSIR-CMERI in Durgapur, West Bengal.

• The solar tree has the annual capacity to generate 12,000-14,000 units of Clean and Green Power while its installed capacity is above 11.5 kWp.

• The Solar Tree has been designed in such a way that it ensures maximum exposure of each Solar PV Panel to Sunlight.

• A single solar tree comprises of 35 Solar PV Panels each having a capacity of 330 wp each.

• Para-swimmer Satyendra Singh Lohia of Madhya Pradesh is the first Divyanga Indian sportsperson of the country, who has been awarded today with the Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award.

• He is also the first Asian Divyanga swimmer to cross the 42-kilometer Catalina Channel in the US in just 11 hours 34 minutes.

• Para-swimmer Satyendra Singh was also conferred with the Best Sportsperson National Award by Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on World Divyanga Day.

• He has also been awarded the highest sports award of Madhya Pradesh as well as many other national and international honours.

• Indian women’s hockey team defender Deep Grace Ekka and para-athlete Jayanti Behera received the Biju Patnaik sports award for outstanding performance.

• Both of them received a citation along with cash award of Rs 2 lakh each.

• The GMR led Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad won the ‘National Energy Leader’ and ‘Excellent Energy Efficient Unit’ awards at the 21st National Awards for ‘Excellence in Energy Management’.

• It was organized by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Godrej Green Business Centre (GBC).

• The award was given during the 19th edition of ‘Energy Efficiency Summit’, Virtual Conference and Exposition on Energy Efficiency held from August 6-28, 2020.

• The ‘National Awards for Excellence in Energy Management’ is instituted by CII to recognize significant and innovative practices of the energy efficiency sector, for the energy efficient and sustainable growth of the Indian industry.

• India will receive an Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan of an amount of JPY50 billion (approx. Rs. 3,500 crore) from the government of Japan.

• Japan has committed the loan for the COVID-19 Crisis Emergency Response Support in order to fight the COVID-19 crisis.

• The ODA loan will support India’s efforts in its fight against COVID-19. It will also assist the country to prepare the health system to handle future epidemics. It will also increase the resilience of India’s health systems against infectious diseases.

• Japanese government has also committed Grant Assistance of an amount of JPY 1 billion (approx. Rs. 70 crore) for offering medical equipment to bolster the public health and medical system in India.