Top 10 News for today, 22 December 2020

Top 10 News for today
1. Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) informed that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has approved the appointment of Nand Kishore as the group’s Executive Director
2. Bank of Baroda has completed the integration of 3,898 branches of erstwhile Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank with itself. The bank completed the integration of 1,770 erstwhile Dena Bank branches in December 2020
3. IndiGo has partnered with the car rental company Urban Drive. Through this collaboration, IndiGo customers will be able to book a chauffeur-driven cab service across 60 cities which are serving 42 airports on the IndiGo domestic network with options of hourly, intercity, and airport transfer packages
4. Five states have so far completed the stipulated reforms in the Ease of Doing Business. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana have been granted permission to mobilize additional financial resources to the tune of 16,728 crore rupees through open market borrowings
5. Senior IPS officer S K Singhal has been made new Director General of Police (DGP) of Bihar. Mr. Singhal is a 1988 batch Bihar cadre IPS officer
6. In Gujarat, the Ahmedabad division of Western Railway has created a record by loading 10.06 crore liters of milk and running the highest milk special trains in Indian Railways during the current year
7. The UP govt has launched a special campaign ‘Varasat’ to curb property & land-related disputes in rural areas
8. MP CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan has inaugurated a pipe manufacturing unit at village Jamunia and Khejra in Raisen district
9. In Bihar, neither Land Possession Certificate (LPC) nor receipt is required for paddy procurement in the state
10. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver the inaugural address at the India International Science Festival (IISF) 2020 on 22 Dec 2020