World Diabetes Day is marked on November 14 every year. It coincides with the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who insulin alongside Charles Best. This year’s theme for World Diabetes Day is “Family and Diabetes”. More than 420 million people worldwide affected by diabetes. China has the highest number of patients (11.43 cr.) followed by […]
The Supreme Court has held that office of the Chief Justice of India is a public authority under the transparency law, the Right to Information Act 2005. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi gave the ruling. The Supreme Court is a “public authority” and the office of the CJI is part
India, Russia and China are exploring an alternative to the US-dominated SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) payment mechanism. Russia’s financial messaging system SPFS will be linked with the Chinese cross-border interbank payment system CIPS. While India still does not have a domestic financial messaging system, it plans to link the Central Bank of
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Supreme Court has Directed Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to prevent their farmers from stubble burning owing to the severe dip in air quality in Delhi. State government had planned to set up bio-fuel plants in every district. Farmers could sell the stubble, along with other agricultural waste, to these plants instead of burning it
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Kapil Dev resigned as the chief of the CAC days after Shanta Rangaswamy stepped down from the 3-member committee. Kapil did not reveal the reason for his resignation but wrote an email to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), informing them about his decision. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Kapil Dev was appointed the
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The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has asked the medical fraternity to take lead and launch an awareness campaign on the need to prevent non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cancer, which are assuming disturbing proportions. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 He wanted both private and public hospitals as well as individual
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Mauritius, The Hon’ble Mr. Pravind Jugnauth jointly inaugurated the Metro Express and new ENT Hospital in Mauritius through a video link. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Speaking on the occasion, Prime Minister Modi noted the significance of the Metro and health-care projects in further enhancing the
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The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan made a clarion call for beginning a ‘Swachh PaniAbhiyaan’ or clean water mission in line with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan’. Shri Paswanasserted that it is not a matter of consumer rights but of people’s lives and therefore
