| 1 | Cabinet Approvals on August 19, 2020 |
| 2 | NSC, JCI Sign MoU for Supply of Certified Jute Seeds to Farmers in 2021-22 |
| 3 | Report of NCRP 2020: Cancer in India may rise from 13.9 Lakh in 2020 to 15.7 lakh in 2025 |
| 4 | IIT Roorkee, BIS Sign MoU to Cooperate in Standardisation and Conformity Assessment |
| 5 | L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering Signed MoU with NTPC Ltd for CO2 to Methanol Demonstration Plant |
| 6 | NRDC and NAL Partners to Establish Incubation Centre for Startup in Aerospace Technologies |
| 7 | India Ranked 57th in Digital Quality of Life 2020, Denmark tops: DQL Index 2020 by SurfShark |
| 8 | India and Israel Signed Cultural Agreement to Strengthen Bilateral Relations through People to People Exchange |
| 9 | The ILO’s “Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs, Education, Rights and Mental Well-being”: 50% of World’s Youth Are Under Anxiety or Depression |
| 10 | NPCI Launched its Subsidiary Firm, ‘NPCI International Payments Limited’; Appointed Ritesh Shukla as its CEO |
| 11 | Lakshmi Vilas Bank Launched ‘LAKSHMI digiGO’, a Contactless Online Instant Savings Account Opening Facility |
| 12 | Unitus Ventures Received Rs 75 Crore from SIDBI; will Strengthen the Deployment of its Fund II |
| 13 | Keith Rowley Becomes Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for a 2nd Consecutive Term |
| 14 | Francisco Asue is Reappointed as the Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea |
| 15 | First Rockets Produced by Private Sector Successfully Test Fired: Economic Explosives Ltd (EEL) |
| 16 | Dwarf Planet Ceres is now an ‘Ocean World’ |
| 17 | Iran Unveiled Locally Made Surface-to-Surface Ballistic Missile, Martyr Qassem Soleimani & Cruise Missile, Martyr Abu Mahdi |
| 18 | Air Unique-quality Monitoring, an Indigenous Photonic System Developed for Real-Time Remote Monitoring of Air Quality Parameters |
| 19 | NASA observes the Slowly Splitting South Atlantic Anomaly, a dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field |
| 20 | Former India Goalkeeper Bhaskar Maity passed away at 67 |
| 21 | Former Cricketer Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan dies of heart attack at 89 |
| 22 | Book titled “India Tomorrow: Conversations with the Next Generation of Political Leaders” released on August, 2020 |
| 23 | Sadbhavan Diwas 2020 – August 20 |
| 24 | World Mosquito Day 2020: August 20 |
| 25 | INOX Group to sponsor Team India for Tokyo Olympics: IOA |
