1    The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) approved the commercial launch of ‘Feluda’, the TATA CRISPER COVID-19 test. It will be the world’s first diagnostic test to deploy a specially adapted Ca9 protein for successfully detecting the virus that causes COVID-19.
2    Margaret Atwood has won the 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award.
3    In the Global Corruption Perception Index released by Transparency International, India slipped two positions to 80th ranking in the index. 
4    Govt set to amend the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) 2011 to make Aadhaar mandatory for foreign contributions.
5    Retd. Colonel Dr. Girija Shanker Mungali has been appointed a member of the Asian Football Confederation's task force. 
6    Chef Vikas Khanna has been chosen to be honoured with the prestigious Asia Game Changer Award 2020. This award is given to him for feeding millions of people across India in the COVID-19 pandemic through a massive food distribution drive ‘Feed India’.
7    The Gujarat government has launched the Mukhyamantri Mahila Utkarsh Yojana (MMUY) to provide interest-free loans to women’s groups in the state.
8    Public sector lender Canara Bank has launched lead management system (LMS) – i-Lead 2.0 (Inspiring Leads System version 2.0) to provide its services to customers irrespective of where they reside
9    Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has been given the additional charge of Food Processing Industries Ministry.
10    Veteran Tamil film director Babu Sivan passed away. He began his career by assisting director Dharani, who helmed films like Ghilli and Kurvi with Vijay.
11    Arundhati Roy’s new book titled “Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction” is published by Penguin Books Limited. The nonfiction book is a collection of essays that shows the meaning of Freedom in the world of increasing authoritarianism.
12    Niti Aayog has partnered with the Indian School of Public Policy (ISPP) for mentoring, training, and capacity building of government officials and public policy scholars.
13    Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has set up eight advanced technology centres to carry out research on futuristic military applications. 
14    India provided a soft loan of $250 million to the government of the Maldives as budgetary support to mitigate the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
15    In Uttar Pradesh in a loathsome incident, a father of five daughters allegedly ripped open the stomach of his pregnant wife on Saturday evening allegedly to find out if she was going to deliver a son or daughter this time.