“Our responsibility doesn’t end by naming the Institute after Atal ji. We have to follow his footsteps and our commitment should reflect his inherent nature and legacy.” This was stated by Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare at the inauguration of Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...

The first deployment of the Railway’s commando unit CORAS will be in the Naxal-hit areas of Chhattisgarh, RPF DG Arun Kumar. He said a new state-of-the-art facility will be built in Haryana’s Jagadhari city to train CORAS commandos. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Speaking at the launch of ...

PM Narendra Modi, during his Independence Day address at the Red Fort in New Delhi announced an outlay of Rs 3.5 lakh crore for Jal Jeevan Mission for Centre and states to work together to provide water to every household. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 "Today from the ramparts of Red Fort ...

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced the transactions of Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) Crosses 200 million Transactions in July 2019. AePS is a bank led model which allows basic interoperable banking transactions at PoS (MicroATM) through the Business correspondent of ...

PM Narendra Modi announced the creation of the post of the Chief of Defence Staff, a four-star officer who will be the government's single-point military advisor. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 "Our forces are India's pride. To further sharpen coordination between the forces, I want to ...

Naveen Patnaik, Chief Minister of Odisha inaugurated a high-performance hockey centre named Naval Tata Hockey Academy (NTHA) to groom the sports talent in the state. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Patnaik expressed that this newly opened centre will produce young Olympians. "I am glad ...

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Environment Ministry to modify the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) to reduce air pollution which proposes 20-30 per cent reduction of air pollution by 2024. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar ...

Ladakh celebrated Independence Day with fervour with local BJP MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal saying the region has got "independence from Kashmir". It will become an Union Territory after the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The parliamentarian, whose speech in ...

Sixteen State Governments signed MoU with Textiles Ministry at a function in New Delhi to take Samarth - Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector (SCBTS) forward. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Eighteen States have agreed to partner with the Ministry under the scheme out of which ...

Jal Shakti Minister Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019 (SSG 2019) in the capital. To be instituted from August 14 to September 30, 2019, SSG 2019 will cover 17,450 villages in 698 districts across India and include 87,250 public places namely schools, ...

Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Sivan was awarded the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award by the Tamil Nadu government. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Kailasavadivoo Sivan, who led ISRO's successful launch of Chandrayaan-2 mission recently, could not receive the award in person but will ...

A missile destroyer, JS Sazanami of the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF), commanded by Commander Shoji Ishkawa, is on a two day goodwill visit to Kochi from 13 Aug 19. The Commanding Officer accompanied by Coast Guard Superintendent Koichiro Maeda, Commanding Officer, of the Somalia ...