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Ladakh celebrates 1st Independence Day

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 ...

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India’s Largest Rural Sanitation Survey Launched

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, ...

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K Sivan was awarded the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Award

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 ...

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Japanese Maritime Self Defence Ship Visits Kochi

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 ...

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Abhinandan Varthaman to be awarded Vir Chakra

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 ...

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73rd Independence Day of India

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 ...

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PT Usha appoints in AAAs Athletes Commission

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 ...

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