National Current Affairs

Cochin International Airport to become power-positive with new solar plant

Cochin International Airport, world’s 1st airport powered by solar energy, is set to become power positive with the commissioning of its new solar power plant near Payyannur in Kannur district of Kerala. CIAL’s solar plants together generate two lakh units of power a day whereas the daily consumption of power in the airport stands at […]

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India launches mission named Operation Ganga to evacuate Indian nationals from Ukraine

IndiGo is set to join Operation Ganga to evacuate stranded Indian nationals in Ukraine due to the Russia-Ukraine tension. The airline will be flying on the Delhi-Istanbul-Budapest route. The first IndiGo flight has taken off for Istanbul. Due to the ongoing tension between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine has been declared as a no-fly zone by

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Union Minister Pralhad Joshi launches ERP System of Coal India Ltd

Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs, Pralhad Joshi has inaugurated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. ERP will establish best business practices, standardize and unify business process across CIL and its subsidiaries. Implementation of ERP across Coal India will give boost to government endeavor towards Digital and New India. On the occasion, Anil Kumar Jain released book

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PM-KISAN completes three years of implementation; Rs 1.82 lakh crore transferred in farmers accounts through DBT

The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) Scheme celebrated its third anniversary on February 24, 2022. PM-KISAN was launched on February 24, 2019, to provide financial assistance to the farmers. Under this scheme, the financial benefit of Rs 6000 yearly in three equal installments of Rs. 2000 is transferred into the bank accounts of farmers’ families across the

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Signature tune of ‘Vande Bharatam’ released

Minister of State for Culture & External Affairs Meenakashi Lekhi has released signature tune for ‘Vande Bharatam’ The tune is composed by Grammy Award winner Ricky Kej and Oscar contender Bickram Ghosh. It was produced for Vande Bharatam, Nritya Utsav of Ministry of Culture presented at Rajpath, New Delhi for Republic Day event 2022. It was followed

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Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy addresses North East MSME Conclave of CII

Union Minister of Development of North East Region, Tourism and Culture Sri G. Kishan Reddy addressed the ‘North East MSME Conclave: Building Competitiveness for Leveraging Opportunities’, organized by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). The main objective of this conclave was to empower the MSME sector in the North East Region, which has immense potential

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President Ram Nath Kovind reviews Naval Fleet at Visakhapatnam

President Ram Nath Kovind reviews the Indian Naval Fleet comprising over 60 ships and submarines, and 55 aircraft. The 12th edition of President’s Fleet Review is being conducted at Visakhapatnam as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was also present at the event. This is the second time that Visakhapatnam has been hosting the PFR, the first being in the year

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India’s first Biosafety Level-3 mobile laboratory inaugurated in Maharashtra’s Nashik

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pravin Pawar inaugurated India’s first Biosafety level-3 containment mobile laboratory in Nashik, Maharashtra. The mobile laboratory has been set up to investigate newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections that are highly infectious and of lethal potential to human beings, according to the Ministry of Health and

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Government plans ‘Heal by India’ for positioning India as global source for health sector

The government of India is looking to promote ‘Heal by India’ for strengthening the country’s educational institutions in the health sector and enhancing education to churn out quality human resources in health, thus helping them become eligible to work anywhere in the world. The Union Health Ministry recently organised a Chintan Shivir — ‘Heal by

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Career Counselling Workshop ‘Pramarsh 2022’ launched in Bikaner

Minister of State for Culture & Parliamentary Affairs, Arjun Ram Meghwal has launched ‘Pramarsh 2022’, a mega career counselling workshop, for the students of the Bikaner District region in Rajasthan. One lakh pupils from over a thousand schools across the Bikaner district, mostly from rural areas, took part in this session. It is first such incidence in India that more

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