- Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced that his government will soon launch the Indira Rasoi Yojna for the poor to ensure that “no one sleeps hungry” in the state.
- Indian Participation at Cannes Film Festival – 2020 began with the e-inauguration of the Virtual India Pavilion by Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar.
- Karnataka Bank has launched a new product KBL Micro Mitra, wherein financial assistance up to Rs.10 lakhs can be provided to the Micro manufacturing and service enterprises either for working capital or for investment purposes.
- The Indian Financial Technology & Allied Services (IFTAS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India announces the appointments of Shri. T Rabi Sankar as the Chairman and Dr N Rajendran as the CEO of the organization effective May 15, 2020, and May 27, 2020, respectively.
- Nobel prize-winning economist and philosopher Amartya Sen has won the prestigious 2020 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade for his “decades-long work on the question “as a question of global justice”.
- Hollywood producer Steve Bing, who financed Tom Hanks movie ‘The Polar Express’ and fathered a child with actress Liz Hurley, has died in US. He was 55.
- Best-selling author and the Director of the Nehru Centre in London, Amish Tripathi, has released his new book of fiction titled ‘Legend of Suheldev: The King Who Saved India’.
- Every year Olympic Day was celebrated on 23 June since 1948 to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games on 23 June 1894 at the Sorbonne in Paris.
