Current Affairs 2019

Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India’s top oil and gas producer, has toppledIndian Oil Corp (IOC) to regain the crown of being the country’s most profitable public sector company.  Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) reported a 34% jump in its 2018- 19 fiscal net profit to Rs.26,716 crore.  Whereas, IOC registered a net profit of Rs.17.274 crore for the […]

Flight Lt. Mohana Singh becomes the first woman fighter pilot to fly by day on a Hawk advanced jet aircraft. She landed after a grueling 4-aircraft combat sortie at Kalaikunda Air Force station in West Bengal. The other women officers – Bhawana Kanth and Avani Chaturvedi – joined the fighter stream in June 2016. Last week, Flight Lt.

National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) data showed that India has 20.6 health workers per 10,000 people.  It is less than the World Health Organization’s (WHO)minimum overreach of 22.8 per 10,000 people.Distribution of health workers: Rural areas with 71 % of India’s population have only 36% of health workers. It is uneven between the urban and rural areas. Delhi highest

An international collaboration of astronomers with the University of Warwick, I-JK, have discovered an exoplanet, Next-Generation Transit Survey(NGTS)- 4b, the Forbidden Planet, in the Neptunian Desert. It is smaller than Neptune but 3 times the size of the Earth. The Research was led by Dr. Richard West including Professor Peter Wheatley, Dr. Daniel Bayliss and Dr.

A new species of wasp from the genus Kudakrumia identified by scientists in Goa. It has been named as Kudakrumia Rangnekari after Goa-based researcher Parag Rangnekar. Wasp is a member of a group of insects in the order Hymenoptera, suborder Apocrita. It is neither an ant nor a bee. They are found in Goa and

State Health Department of Goa announced the appointment of Panaji-based, Namrata Menon, Yoga Instructor, and fitness expert, as brand ambassador to promote yoga in Goa. She is appointed to promote the ancient system of physical and mental practices to raise awareness about the benefits of yoga so that people follow it on a daily basis. She

Indian Air Force (IAF)removed all temporary restrictions on all air routes in the Indian airspace. The IAF made the announcement on Twitter. The IAF imposed restrictions following air strikes on a terror camp at Balakot in Pakistan on 27th February.  India imposed restrictions which did not allow any aircraft flying over Pakistan airspace to use

United Nations Security Council decided to cut 1,000 troops from a regional peacekeeping force in Somalia despite a rise in attacks by the Al-Shabaab militia in Mogadishu. The council voted unanimously to draw down the African Union Mission in Somalia but left the door open for the council to revisit that decision if violence worsens.  African

A task force on project management, headed by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, has suggested the development of a National Project Management Policy Framework for the effective execution of public sector and public-private partnership infrastructure projects. It has also recommended the setting up of a nodal body for the certification of chartered project management professionals to create world-class infrastructure. The project

The United States on formally terminated India’s eligibility for a duty-free import scheme for developing countries on 31 May. It cited that India has not given assurances it will provide equitable and reasonable access to its markets to US companies as required under relevant American trade laws. The US President Donald Trump has said the country would end its preferential trade treatment for India on June