National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) celebrates Ganga Utsav every year to mark the anniversary of the announcement of River Ganga as the ‘National River’ i.e. 4th November. This year’s Ganga Utsav is being organized from 1stto 3rd November 2021. The 2021 event has been organized under the leadership of the Union Minister for Jal Shakti, […]
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On 30-31 October Rome hosted the G20 Summit, the first held in Italy. At the end of two days of working sessions and side events, the G20 Leaders adopted the Rome Declaration. The document is the final outcome of an intense year of negotiations and events organized in the framework of the Italian G20 Presidency. It
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As world leaders prepared to gather for the UN climate change conference, COP26, in Glasgow in the UK, India launched an online dashboard – the ‘Climate Equity Monitor’ to assess equity in climate action, inequalities in emissions besides energy and resource consumption across the world. The dashboard also tracks the climate policies of several countries
Pensioners can now subscribe for the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) pension scheme via Aadhaar eKYC. Pension fund regulator Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has added these options to expand its subscriber base and make the onboarding process simpler. Aim: to expand its subscriber base and simplify the onboarding process further. PFRDA is allowing enrollment of
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Telangana’s capital city Hyderabad is now home to India’s largest landfill gas-to-compressed biogas plant as Ramky Enviro has inaugurated the facility at the Hyderabad Integrated Municipal Solid Waste (HiMSW) site. The project is focused on the conversion of landfill gas into compressed biogas as an automotive fuel. The project offers significant benefits such as carbon sequestration and
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After analyzing 14.5 billion words used in daily news coverage in 2021, Oxford Languages’ lexicographers have chosen “vax” as word of the year. The reason: “Vax” was used 72 times as much as it was in 2020. Vax is used as a short form for vaccines and means a substance put into a person’s body to prevent them from getting a disease. Due to
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The critically endangered New Zealand long-tailed bat has been named the New Zealand Bird of the Year 2021. The pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat, swooped to victory in the public vote to be crowned 2021’s Bird of the Year! The Bird of the Year competition is organized annually by New Zealand-based independent conservation organization Forest & Bird to raise
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The 7th Indian Navy Frigate of P1135.6 class was launched on October 28 2021 at Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad, Russia, the navy said. During the ceremony, the ship was formally named as Tushil by Datla Vidya Varma, the Navy said in a statement. “Tushil” is a Sanskrit word meaning Protector Shield, it said. The ship has
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The Madhya Pradesh government has announced Mukhyamantri Awasiya Bhu-adhikar Yojna to provide free plots to families that don’t have land to build their own homes. Aim: ensuring that every family has the right to a dignified life with basic necessities It has been started to provide residential plots to the eligible families on Abadi land in each Gram
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Daily Current Affairs Quiz 1 November 2021 is very important for Competitive Exams like SSC, Railway, RRB, Banking, IBPS, PSC, UPSC, etc. We gkseries team compose these Current Affairs Quiz from Newspapers like The Hindu and other competitive magazines.
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