Kashmir's Untold Story: Declassified, a new book will tell the riveting story of the history of Jammu and Kashmir, from the time of its political and geographic consolidation under Maharaja Gulab Singh to the present-day, publishers Bloomsbury announced in 14 August. Daily Current Affairs Quiz ...

Acknowledging the importance of urban environmental management for improving quality of life in cities, the Environment Ministers of BRICS countries, agreed to work together to resolve the multifaceted environmental issues faced by BRICS cities. These discussions and announcements were made during ...

Wrestler Bajrang Punia was nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, a year after he threatened to move court for not getting his due. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 His name was finalised by a 12-member selection committee on the opening day of a two-day meeting. The panel ...

Ravi Shastri has been appointed as the head coach of the Indian Men's senior cricket team for a second successive term. The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) headed by Kapil Dev interviewed the shortlisted candidates and made the announcement in a media briefing in Mumbai. Daily ...

Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) is investing around Rs 83,000 crore in 25 major projects to boost oil and gas production, which has stagnated over last years, its chairman and managing director Shashi Shanker said. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Addressing ONGC employees on the 73rd ...

The famous Palani panchamirtham, given as ‘prasadam’ at the Murugan temple there, has been granted the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 This is the first time a temple ‘prasadam’ from Tamil Nadu has been bestowed with the GI tag. The application was filed by ...

19 ITBP officials have been announced to be conferred with Police Medals on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day, 2019, 05 of them would be conferred with Police Medals for Gallantry, 04 with President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service while 10 would be conferred with Police Medal for ...

“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 ...