Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman and five other Indian Air Force (IAF) pilots who spearheaded the Balakot operation. With tensions having flared along the Line of Control (LC) after Pakistan red-flagged India’s move to scrap the special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, and the ...

The “Union Home Minister’s Medal for Excellence in Investigation” for the year 2019 has been awarded to 96 Police personnel. This medal was constituted in 2018 with the objective to promote high professional standards of investigation of crime and to recognize such excellence in investigation by ...

India celebrates its 73rd Independence Day on 15 August, 2019. After being ruled by the British for years, India finally gained its hard-fought Independence on August 15, 1947. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom,” Jawaharlal Nehru, the ...

Rajasthan has got the “best innovation and initiative leadership award” for its achievements in higher education in the World Education Summit-2019 held in New Delhi. Minister of State for Higher Education Bhanwar Singh Bhati received the award at the 14th summit organised. Daily Current ...

Former Indian athlete and Olympian P.T. Usha has been appointed as a member of the Athletes Commission of the Asian Athletics Association (AAA). P T Usha will be one of the six members of the AAA Athletes Commission, which will be headed by 1992 Olympics gold medallist hammer thrower Andrey ...

WhatsApp brings the most awaited features, fingerprint authentication to Android users. The feature is currently available to those who have registered in WhatsApp's beta programme for Android. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Fingerprint authentication has been around on the platform since ...

The Department of IT, BT and S&T in Karnataka has launched the E-Step, an initiative to empower student start-ups. E-Step focuses on boot camps, mentoring and training programmes which cover various aspects of entrepreneurship. E-Step, an initiative from Start-up Cell, is a specially crafted ...

National carrier Air India flight from Delhi to San Francisco to fly over North Pole to reduce flight times and fuel costs. The flight is set to use the polar route from August 15 onwards. AI 173’s current flight path after taking off from the capital is over Bangladesh, Myanmar, China and Japan, ...

Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar, a new book on actress Sridevi, written by author and screenwriter Satyarth Nayak, will be published by Penguin Random House India, in October this year. The book is being published with approval of the late actress' husband, Boney Kapoor. Daily Current Affairs ...

Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Indian Railways launched a Special Drive with a Code Name – Operation “Number Plate” to identify and verify all vehicles parked in Railway premises, circulating area, parkings and even in the ‘No Parking’ areas for longer duration. It was launched under the ...

Union Minister of Textiles and Women and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani, inaugurated Textiles Gallery at National Crafts Museum in New Delhi. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 With this unique collection, the National Crafts Museum takes another leap to exhibit the fine Indian ...

The Indian Navy has announced it has signed an MoU with Cochin International Airport. In a press release issued the Indian Navy announced the MoU was signed between its Naval Air Enclave (NAE) and Cochin International Airport on August 8. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The Naval Air Enclave ...