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  Former U.S President Barack Obama has announced his first memoir, as a President of U.S.A, titled " A Promised Land ". The book consists of 768 pages. It will be published in November 2020 by Penguin Random House. As per sources the scheduled release will be 17 November. The interesting thing is that it is going to be published in 25 different languages to cater to needs of global populace. This is one of two volumes going to be published. This volume tells about his early political life, his presidential candidacy and campaign in 2008 and ending with the death of most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden in 2011.

The World Bank has released a report on Human Capital Index 2020. India has been ranked 116th. The report was titled " The Human Capital Index 2020 Update: Human capital in the time of Covid-19 ". The index is being prepared with collaboration between Human Development Practice Group and the World Bank's Development Economics. India has been ranked among 174 countries. Singapore has topped the ranking list followed by Hongkong and China. Japan got the third position. The Human Capital Index 2020 update includes health and education data of 174 countries. It covers 98% of the World's population up to March 2020. It provides pre-pandemic situational analysis keeping health and education of children as a baseline. It tracks how the current health and education infrastructure brings about productivity of the coming generation of workers.

M Venkaiah Naidu, the Vice-President of India inaugurated 4th Ayurveda Summit: The summit was inaugurated virtually by M Venkaiah Naidu.   The theme of the summit was "Emerging Opportunities for Ayurveda during Pandemic". The objective of the summit was to showcase the importance of Ayurveda and its immunity build up capability model to the global world through a solution being named as "Health as One " and "Immunity through Ayurveda".

Fiumicino International Airport got world's 1st 5-star Anti-Covid award: Fiumicino Airport is known mainly by "Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport". It is situated in Italy. It is the busiest airport in Italy. It has become the first airport in the world to be certified with "Covid-19 5-star airport rating" from a U.K based airport and airline review firm Skytrax. It has got the distinction  mainly due to checks on its hygiene processes in the airport. The procedural efficiency checks, visual observation anlysis and ATP sampling steps for Covid-19.  

India has now become a member of ECOSOC: India has been elected as a member of Commission on Status of Women, a body under the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) which is a part of United Nations. India is going to have a four year term that is from 2021-2025. Apart from India, countries like Afghanistan, China has also contested to be the member. But they failed to achieve that.  ECOSOC that is Economic and Social Council is part of the United Nations. It is headquartered in New York, USA. It is the central platform to foster sustainable goals and achieve it collectively through consensus among various countries internationally. It is also responsible to follow up major conferences and summits associated with Economic and social well being for the people all over the world.

Tiktok choses Oracle as its technology partner for its U.S operations. TikTok has chosen Oracle as its tech-partner for its U.S operations. There are many companies who were in the race to acquire it. Microsoft was also in a bid to acquire Bytedance company TikTok. But the Chinese major company have chosen Oracle over Microsoft to be its partner. The partnership was signed by the two companies last month. One thing was made very clear as stated by U.S President that TikTok would be blocked in the U.S if it did not sell its entire entities of U.S operations to an American company by 20th September 2020.  Thus U.S is successfully able to make Chinese company bow down to their feet when U.S was suspecting espionage and data theft from TikTok. 

Happy National Engineer's Day: 15th September. National Engineer's Day is celebrated in India specially on 15th September every year since 1968, on account of birth anniversary of Sir Mokshagundam Vishweshvaraya (popularly known as Sir M.V). This day recognised the contribution of engineer's in the development of nation. Sir M.V was diwan of Mysore. He was awarded "Bharat Ratna", India's highest civilian award and honour for his phenomenal contribution towards nation building in 1955. There is a story associated with him. Once he was travelling in a train during British days. He was quietly sleeping on his berth at night. Suddenly he woke up and pull up the emergency chain to stop the train as soon as possible.  People and railway staff became very angry and started humiliating after reaching his boggey in which he was sitting quietly after the train stopped.  He told the staff that there was a broken track few metres away. The staffs thought he was making fun...