September 2019 | Page 5 of 6

India takes over COP Presidency from China for next two years

Union Minister for Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Shri Prakash Javadekar and Executive Secretary, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Mr.Ibrahim Thiaw jointly inaugurated the 12- day 14th Conference of Parties (COP) to UNCCD at India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida. Addressing the Inaugural session of the Conference, the Environment Minister who is […]

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72nd Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia

“Universal Health for all, a disease-free India and global standards of excellence in healthcare is our aim for a new India under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modiji”. This was stated by Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare at the inauguration of the ‘72nd Session of the WHO Regional

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Union HRD Minister attends the 59th foundation day of NCERT

Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ attended the 59th Foundation Day of NCERT in New Delhi. He also laid the foundation stone of the auditorium of the National Council of Educational Research and Training. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Speaking on the occasion the Minister said that NCERT is one of the

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KVIC Launches Terracotta Grinder at Varanasi to Re-use wasted pottery

Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) launched a first ever ‘Terracotta Grinder’ at Sewapuri in Varanasi. This machine will grind the wasted and broken pottery items for re-using in pottery-making. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 KVIC Chairman Shri Vinai Kumar Saxena said that earlier the wasted pottery items were grinded in normal khal-musal (mortar and

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India raises the issue of global oil price volatility with Russia

India has raised the issue of global oil market price volatility with Russia that is hurting the interests of both consuming and producing nations. This was articulated by India’s oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan in a meeting with Russia’s energy minister Alexander Novak. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 India has been urging its long time ally

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Maharashtra set to be first to map out vertical property rules

Maharashtra became the first state to adopt a system whereby owners of flats or commercial structures will be given individual property cards. The decision to implement this system got approval from the state cabinet. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The state Cabinet gave the ambitious project a go-ahead and sanctioned the draft rules in this

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SBI Card to launch RuPay credit cards

SBI Card will soon launch RuPay credit cards, a development which will give a boost to the home grown payment network in the fast growing segment. The credit card segment is dominated by the US-based payment gateways like Visa and Mastercard. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 RuPay is the first-of-its-kind domestic debit and credit card

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Assam to move Supreme Court for NRC reverification in select districts

The government of Assam and the ruling BJP in the State have termed the finalisation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) list there as a “mixed bag” with concerns being raised over several “technical flaws” in the process that may have caused exclusion of Bengali Hindu refugees who had crossed over to Assam before

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Manmohan Singh said that GDP slump due to mismanagement

Former PM of India Dr. Manmohan Singh blamed India’s growth slump on “all-round mismanagement” by the government in a critique of its economic performance. He urged the PM Narendra Modi administration to set aside its “vendetta politics” and reach out to all “sane voices and thinking minds” to find ways of steering the economy out

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DG Shipping completes 70 years of Powering the Shipping Industry in the Country

The Directorate General of Shipping will celebrate its 70th Foundation Day tomorrow, the 3rd September, 2019. Minister of State for Shipping (I/C) and Chemical & Fertilizers Shri Mansukh Mandaviya will launch the celebrations at an event in Mumbai. The special occasion will be dedicated to reflecting on the journey and contributions of the Directorate to

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