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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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India’s Largest Rural Sanitation Survey Launched

Jal Shakti Minister Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019 (SSG 2019) in the capital. To be instituted from August 14 to September 30, 2019, SSG 2019 will cover 17,450 villages in 698 districts across India and include 87,250 public places namely schools, anganwadi centers, public health centres, haat/bazaars/religious places, making it

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K Sivan was awarded the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award

Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Sivan was awarded the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award by the Tamil Nadu government. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Kailasavadivoo Sivan, who led ISRO’s successful launch of Chandrayaan-2 mission recently, could not receive the award in person but will receive it from Chief Minister K Palaniswami at a later

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Japanese Maritime Self Defence Ship Visits Kochi

A missile destroyer, JS Sazanami of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF), commanded by Commander Shoji Ishkawa, is on a two day goodwill visit to Kochi from 13 Aug 19. The Commanding Officer accompanied by Coast Guard Superintendent Koichiro Maeda, Commanding Officer, of the Somalia Dispatch Team of the Japanese Coast Guard, and Capt

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Abhinandan Varthaman to be awarded Vir Chakra

Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman and five other Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots who spearheaded the Balakot operation. With tensions having flared along the Line of Control (LC) after Pakistan red-flagged India’s move to scrap the special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, and the positioning of Pakistan’s fighter jets along Skardu near Ladakh,

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