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19 ITBP Officials conferred with Medals on 73rd Independence Day

19 ITBP Officials conferred with Police Medals on 73rd Independence Day

19 ITBP officials have been announced to be conferred with Police Medals on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day, 2019, 05 of them would be conferred with Police Medals for Gallantry, 04 with President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service while 10 would be conferred with Police Medal for Meritorious service. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 […]

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Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences

Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates ABVIMS

“Our responsibility doesn’t end by naming the Institute after Atal ji. We have to follow his footsteps and our commitment should reflect his inherent nature and legacy.” This was stated by Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare at the inauguration of Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences at Dr. Ram

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Indian Railways to get CORAS

The first deployment of the Railway’s commando unit CORAS will be in the Naxal-hit areas of Chhattisgarh, RPF DG Arun Kumar. He said a new state-of-the-art facility will be built in Haryana’s Jagadhari city to train CORAS commandos. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Speaking at the launch of the Commandos for Railway Safety, Railway Minister

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PM Announced Rs 3.5 Lakh Crore For Jal Jeevan Mission

PM Narendra Modi, during his Independence Day address at the Red Fort in New Delhi announced an outlay of Rs 3.5 lakh crore for Jal Jeevan Mission for Centre and states to work together to provide water to every household. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 “Today from the ramparts of Red Fort I announce that

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AePS Crosses 200 million Transactions in July 2019

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced the transactions of Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) Crosses 200 million Transactions in July 2019. AePS is a bank led model which allows basic interoperable banking transactions at PoS (MicroATM) through the Business correspondent of any bank by using Aadhaar authentication. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Aadhaar Enabled

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PM Modi announces Chief of Defence Staff

PM Narendra Modi announced the creation of the post of the Chief of Defence Staff, a four-star officer who will be the government’s single-point military advisor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 “Our forces are India’s pride. To further sharpen coordination between the forces, I want to announce a major decision from the Red Fort: India

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Naval Tata Hockey Academy to groom the sports talent

Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha inaugurated a high-performance hockey centre named Naval Tata Hockey Academy (NTHA) to groom the sports talent in the state. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Patnaik expressed that this newly opened centre will produce young Olympians. “I am glad that the high-performance centre for Hockey has been inaugurated here, I

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National Clean Air Programme to reduce air pollution

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Environment Ministry to modify the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to reduce air pollution which proposes 20-30 per cent reduction of air pollution by 2024. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel noted that as per the Central Pollution Control

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Ladakh celebrates 1st Independence Day

Ladakh celebrated Independence Day with fervour with local BJP MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal saying the region has got “independence from Kashmir”. It will become an Union Territory after the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The parliamentarian, whose speech in the Lok Sabha after abrogation of special status to Jammu and

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16 State Governments Sign MoU with Textiles Ministry

Sixteen State Governments signed MoU with Textiles Ministry at a function in New Delhi to take Samarth – Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector (SCBTS) forward. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Eighteen States have agreed to partner with the Ministry under the scheme out of which Jammu & Kashmir and Odisha were not presentduring

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