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Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman started the process of rolling out a slew of measures to boost industry’s access to credit, including opening a ₹10,000 crore liquidity window for home financiers. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Sitharaman will meet chiefs of all state-run as well as private sector banks on Monday to discuss issues related to […]
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Gross GST collection grows 5.8% to Rs 1.02 lakh crore in July, marginally up from the previous month, official data showed. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Revenue collection from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) had slipped below the Rs 1 lakh crore mark for the first time in the current fiscal in June at
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The Reserve Bank of India allowed Bank of China to offer regular banking services in the country. All commercial banks, like SBI, HDFC Bank, Punjab National Bank and ICICI Bank, are in the Second Schedule. Banks falling under this schedule have to adhere to the norms of the RBI. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 “We
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To sustain the reforms brought in by scheme on ‘End to End Computerization of Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) Operations’ the Department of Food & Public Distribution has launched a new scheme namely “Integrated Management of Public Distribution System (IM-PDS)” for implementation during 2018-19 and 2019-20. The main objective of the scheme is to introduce
For the first time after Partition, nagar kirtan (Sikh religious procession) being carried out as part of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, reached India via the Attari-Wagah border from Nankana Sahib in Pakistan. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The procession crossed the zero line to enter the Indian
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China shot back after President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that the U.S. would impose an additional 10 percent tariff on $300 billion in Chinese goods starting next month. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying called Trump’s move a “serious violation” and warned Beijing would have to take “necessary countermeasures”
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Netherlands — A new Dutch law took effect banning face-covering clothing — including the burqa and niqab worn by conservative Muslim women — on public transportation, in government buildings and at health and education institutions. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The Netherlands, long seen as a bastion of tolerance and religious freedom, is the latest
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Flipkart Samarth is launched by Flipkart– an initiative aimed at bringing India’s artisans, weavers, and handicrafts producers onto e-commerce. This move will open up national market access for these underserved communities, giving them access to a constantly growing pan-India customer base of more than 150 million and empowering them to leverage the benefits of the
Atish Dabholkar is appointed as the new director of Abdus Salam ICTP in Trieste Italy. He is currently the head of ICTP’s high energy, cosmology and astroparticle physics section. He joined the centre in 2014 on secondment from Sorbonne Université and the National Center for Scientific Research, where he has been a research director since
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The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, chaired his thirtieth interaction through PRAGATI – the ICT-based, multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 This was also the first PRAGATI meeting in the new term of the Union Government. The 29 PRAGATI meetings in the previous term, saw a cumulative review
