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The Government had constituted an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Virtual Currencies on 2.11.2017 under the Chairmanship of Secy (EA), with Secy (MeiTY), Chairman (SEBI) and Dy. Governor, RBI as Members. The Group’s report, along with a Draft Bill has been received by the Government. This Report ...

Reserve Bank of India or RBI assigned BP Kanungo to run the monetary policy portfolio. The monetary policy department, including forecasting and modelling unit, was earlier looked after by Acharya, who ended his stint as the deputy governor after last month's surprise resignation where the ...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited or HAL delivers Chetak helicopter to Indian Navy. HAL entered into a contract with the Indian Navy in August 2017 for the supply of eight Chetak helicopters with the delivery schedule of first two in August 2019 and the balance in August 2020. Daily Current Affairs ...

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways, PiyushGoyal, launchedthe Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019 in New Delhi. India Ranked 52nd in Global Innovation Index-2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Speaking on this occasion Commerce and Industry Minister first congratulated ...

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and all field offices will be observing and celebrating the 159th Income Tax Day i.e. Aaykar Diwas on 24th July, 2019. It was on 24th July, 1860 that Income Tax was introduced for the first time in India by Sir James Wilson to compensate for the losses ...

Shiva Thapa became India’s first gold medallist at the President’s Cup boxing tournament after getting a walkover in the finals in Astana, Kazakhstan. Making his international debut in the newly-introduced Olympic category of 63kg, Thapa was to fight Kazakhstan’s Zakir Safiullin in the summit ...

FIFA considering a bid from Nigeria for the hosting rights of the U20 Women's World Cup for 2020.The breakthrough came following months of pressure on FIFA by the Nigerian Football Federation whose president is said to be working hard to bring as many FIFA and CAF competitions to the country. ...

Andhra Pradesh became the first state in India to reserve jobs for locals in all private industries after the assembly passed the Andhra Pradesh Employment of Local Candidates in Industries/Factories Act, 2019, which reserves 75 per cent jobs in industrial units, factories, joint ventures and ...

Union Minister Harsh Vardhan launches next-generation DNA sequencing facility in Hyderabad. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) facilityis the fourth such facility in the country, which can sequence 30 human genomes a day. It costs around ₹1 lakh to sequence one genome using this facility. ...