International

• Lebanon legalizes cannabis farming for medicinal use

  April 22, 2020

• ADB increases its COVID-19 Response Package to $20 Billion

  April 15, 2020

• IMF chief names Raghuram Rajan in her External Advisory Group

  April 13, 2020

• ADB assures $2.2 bn support package to India to fight Covid-19 pandemic

  April 10, 2020

• SAARC development fund allocates $5mn for Covid-19 projects

  April 9, 2020

• USAID announces $2.9 million aid to India to fight Covid19

  April 8, 2020

• World Bank offers $1 billion for proposed India COVID-19 emergency

  April 2, 2020

• NATO chief appoints experts for reflection process

  April 1, 2020

• IMF declares that World is now in “Recession”

  March 31, 2020

• ADB to invest 100 million USD in India’s infrastructure sector

  March 31, 2020

• UN launches Global Humanitarian Response Plan to fight COVID-19

  March 28, 2020

• US launches advanced high frequency satellite for military communication

  March 27, 2020

• IMF launches Tracker of Govt. Policies in Response to COVID-19

  March 26, 2020

• Sunil Chhetri selected for FIFA campaign against Covid-19

  March 25, 2020

• Canada withdraws from Tokyo 2020 Olympics

  March 24, 2020

• Netflix establishes $100 mn fund for film and TV workers

  March 23, 2020

• WhatsApp launches “WhatsApp Coronavirus Information Hub”

  March 20, 2020

• Greece hands over Olympic flame to Tokyo 2020

  March 20, 2020

• $100 Billion coronavirus relief package signed by Donald Trump

  March 19, 2020

• Iraqi President appoints Adnan al-Zurfi as new PM-designate

  March 19, 2020

• US begun phase one clinical Human trial of coronavirus vaccine

  March 18, 2020

• Top tech giants to jointly fight against COVID-19 misinformation

  March 17, 2020

• Philippines becomes 1st country to suspend all financial markets

  March 17, 2020

• Niue declared world’s first ‘Dark Sky nation’

  March 16, 2020

• High court of Bangladesh declares ‘Joy Bangla’ as national slogan

  March 12, 2020

• WHO officially declares COVID-19 as a pandemic

  March 12, 2020

• “COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator” fund launched

  March 11, 2020

• Ashraf Ghani Sworn in for Second Term as Afghanistan President

  March 10, 2020

• Denys Shmygal becomes Ukraine’s new prime minister

  March 8, 2020

• Annual Festival of St Antony’s Shrine begins in Katchatheevu Island

  March 7, 2020

• Janez Jansa becomes new Prime Minister of Slovenia

  March 6, 2020

• Luxembourg becomes 1st country to make public transport free

  March 5, 2020

• World Bank announces 12 billion USD aid to fight coronavirus

  March 4, 2020

• Indian-American Seema Verma included in US Coronavirus Task Force

  March 4, 2020

• China takes presidency of UN Security Council for March 2020

  March 3, 2020

• ADB sanctions 4 million USD to members countries to contain Corona Virus

  March 2, 2020

• Muhyiddin Yassin becomes new Prime Minister of Malaysia

  March 2, 2020

• Sri Lanka withdraws from UN Rights Resolution

  February 28, 2020

• Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad resigns

  February 25, 2020

• South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar sworn in as vice president

  February 25, 2020

• Bangladesh observes language movement martyrs’ day “Shaheed Dibash”

  February 22, 2020

• Prime Minister of Ireland Leo Varadkar resigns

  February 22, 2020

• Pakistan will remain on the FATF Grey List

  February 21, 2020

• Pakistan successfully tests air-launched cruise missile Ra’ad-II

  February 21, 2020

• Jeff Bezos launches “Bezos Earth Fund” to combat climate change

  February 20, 2020

• Nepal celebrates its 70th National Democracy Day

  February 20, 2020

• Ashraf Ghani wins the Presidential elections of Afghanistan

  February 19, 2020

• Bangladesh will sign Free Trade Agreement with Nepal

  February 19, 2020

• EAM will inaugurate Indian Pavilion at 70th Berlin International Film Festival

  February 19, 2020

• Indian-origin minister Alok Sharma to lead UN climate summit

  February 17, 2020