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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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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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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,
The “Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation” for the year 2019 has been awarded to 96 Police personnel. This medal was constituted in 2018 with the objective to promote high professional standards of investigation of crime and to recognize such excellence in investigation by investigating officers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Among the
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India celebrates its 73rd Independence Day on 15 August, 2019. After being ruled by the British for years, India finally gained its hard-fought Independence on August 15, 1947. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,” Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of Independent India
Rajasthan has got the “best innovation and initiative leadership award” for its achievements in higher education in the World Education Summit-2019 held in New Delhi. Minister of State for Higher Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati received the award at the 14th summit organised. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Mr. Bhati threw light on the initiatives taken
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Former Indian athlete and Olympian P.T. Usha has been appointed as a member of the Athletes Commission of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA). P T Usha will be one of the six members of the AAA Athletes Commission, which will be headed by 1992 Olympics gold medallist hammer thrower Andrey Abduvaliyev of Uzbekistan. Daily Current
WhatsApp brings the most awaited features, fingerprint authentication to Android users. The feature is currently available to those who have registered in WhatsApp’s beta programme for Android. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Fingerprint authentication has been around on the platform since last year to iOS users. This is the first time the feature has made
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The Department of IT, BT and S&T in Karnataka has launched the E-Step, an initiative to empower student start-ups. E-Step focuses on boot camps, mentoring and training programmes which cover various aspects of entrepreneurship. E-Step, an initiative from Start-up Cell, is a specially crafted for students/start-ups/entrepreneurs to understand the basics of entrepreneurship from experienced trainers.
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National carrier Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco to fly over North Pole to reduce flight times and fuel costs. The flight is set to use the polar route from August 15 onwards. AI 173’s current flight path after taking off from the capital is over Bangladesh, Myanmar, China and Japan, before crossing
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