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“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 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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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 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 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 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
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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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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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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The Navy and Coast Guard leg of the 2019 edition of the Defence Correspondents Course (DCC) concluded at Mumbai on 31 Aug 19. The course was conducted at Western Naval Command, Mumbai and coordinated by the Maritime Warfare Centre (Mumbai). The course aimed to enlighten journalists on nuances of naval operations and their significance and
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