All digital transactions using RuPay or UPI will not face additional charges from January 1, 2020. The central government has decided to remove the Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) to promote digital payments.  Earlier, the central government amended two acts, Payments and Settlement Systems Act ...

Railway Protection Force has renamed as Indian Railway Protection Force Service by Indian Railway. The ministry has accorded organised Group A status to RPF and renamed it according to an order issued on 30 December 2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The notice in this regard was issued ...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled Rs 102 lakh crore of infrastructure projects that will be implemented in the next five years as part of the government's spending push in the infrastructure sector. These projects are on top of Rs 51 lakh crore spent by the Centre and the states ...

Indian Railways introduced a new Passenger Information System at Anakapalle Railway Station of Vijayawada Division in South Central Railway. The objective of this application is to provide better features and easy guidance to the passengers thereby providing satisfactory user experience. The ...

There will be seen more astronomy events occurring in 2020. The year will start off strong with several stargazing opportunities for all. The new decade starts off big and bright — as it brings four supermoons in a row — beginning with the “Super Snow Moon” in February and ending with the “Flower ...

Delhi woke up to a bone-chilling weekend as the minimum temperature that the city recorded on stood at 2.4 degrees Celsius, making it coldest day of the season. Dense fog enveloped the city reducing visibility and affecting air traffic and vehicular movement in the streets. The mercury even ...

Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has been named India's first Chief of Defence Staff. General Rawat is the first officer to hold the post of the Chief of Defence Staff. The CDS will function as a single-point adivsor to the government on matters related to the military and will focus on ...

After the successful run of Lucknow-Delhi Tejas Express, the second premium Tejas train is ready to run between Ahmedabad and Mumbai. The inaugural run of this second Tejas Train will be flagged off from Ahmedabad on 17th January, 2020. The commercial run of the train will start with effect from ...

Government has decided to give 5G Spectrum for trial to all operators in the country. This may take few years to launch it fully all over the country. UPI Payments interface has become primary means for all online money transactions in the country and we need to make it a Global beacon for making ...

The Khelo India Youth Games tournament will be held between 10 to 22 January, 2020 in Guwahati, Assam. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and officials of the Khelo India Youth Games launched the torch relay of the competition in Guwahati. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 The opening ceremony ...

The women candidates appearing for competitive examinations held by the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (HPPSC) and the state Staff Selection Commission (HPSSC) will not have to pay the entry exam fee. The Cabinet also constituted three companies of the State Disaster Response Force to ...

The phase-1 service of the e-Governance (eGCA) project of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) was launched by Shri Pradeep Singh Kharola, Secretary, Ministry of Civil.  With this launch, the issue of Commercial Pilot License (CPL-A) with Flight Radio Telephony Operators License ...