The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment working with major Municipal Corporations has arranged for feeding of more than 1.27 crore destitutes/beggars/homeless persons since lockdown started (till 10.04.2020). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Ministry, in a project, ...

President, Vice President and Prime Minister of India have greeted people on the occasion of Rongali Bihu, Vaisakhi, Vishu, Naba Barsha, Vaisakhadi, Puthandu, Pirappu which are being celebrated in different parts of the country on 13th and 14th April, 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 ...

The pan-India Agriculture trading portal e-NAM completes four years of implementation. It helped in realising the vision of One Nation One Market for agri produce. e-NAM is being expanded to cover additional 415 mandis which will take the total number of e-NAM mandis to 1000 soon. Daily Current ...

The rural economy will get a big boost in the weeks ahead as massive grain purchase by official agencies and direct cash transfers will inject ₹1 lakh crore into villages, which officials said would cheer farmers who feared losses if the lockdown further delayed the harvest. Daily Current ...

Recently, Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has suggested RBI to adopt the concept of Helicopter Money to help state governments tide over the current crisis and kick start economic activity in India. It is aimed to rising concerns over economic crisis that has been triggered by the ...

The Centre to bring an ordinance to give state governments the flexibility to increase the work hours of employees across establishments to 12 hours per day from eight hours, a move aimed at addressing the issue of labour shortage and facilitate companies to maintain social distancing once ...

Government has initiated a dialogue with the exporters of Agri and Allied commodities to address issues affecting the sector as a fall out of the lockdown to check the COVID-19 disease. Government decided to gain a first- hand account of the problems being faced by the exporters of Agri and Allied ...

Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has started supply of coveralls conforming to ISO Class 3 exposure standards. Manufacture of initial order of 1.10 lakh from HLL Lifecare Limited (HLL) is in full swing. This order will be completed in 40 days.  Factories Board has also developed special two-metre ...

With the nationwide lockdown to prevent spread of virus during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, INS Dega of Eastern Naval Command (ENC) ensured that the joint-user airfield at Visakhapatnam remains open round the clock. The manning of the airfield has been modified to ensure that all requisite ...

Ministry of Labour and Employment has set up 20 control rooms under the Office of Chief Labour Commissioner (CLC) (C) on pan India basis due to issues arising in the backdrop of Covid-19. These control rooms have been set up for following purposes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 To address ...

In continuation of the measures taken in the wake of COVID-19 Lockdown, it has been decided that all passenger train services on Indian Railways including Premium trains, Mail/Express trains, Passenger trains, Suburban Trains, Kolkata Metro Rail, Konkan Railway etc shall continue to remain ...

The Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF), has invited Proposals for ‘COVID-19 Indo-U.S. Virtual Networks’ that would allow Indian and U.S. scientists and engineers currently engaged in COVID-related research to carry out joint research activities through a virtual mechanism, leveraging ...