Month: October 2019

Jio ने IUC दरों के लिए ग्राहकों से शुल्क वसूलना शुरू करने के बाद, प्रतिद्वंद्वियों के संचालकों ने इस कदम की निंदा की है और अपने ग्राहकों के लिए ऐसा कोई शुल्क नहीं देने का आश्वासन दिया है। HIGHLIGHTS Jio …

On 4th October, 2019, Cabinet approved new process of strategic disinvestment to privatize selected PSUs – Public Sector Units. The process was approved by PM Modi under which DIPAM – Department of Investment and Public Asset Management operating under Ministry …

The Cabinet Minister of Consumer Affairs, food and public distribution mooted the clean water mission that is to set standards for safe drinking water. The safety of drinking water is measured based on 42 different parameters. The indicators of drinking …

Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s new “Trans Fat-Free” logo was launched recently on October 4, 2019 by the Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan. The Trans Fat-Free logo has been launched as a part of the FSSAI’s movement …

  The centre government has appointed seven Chief Justices to seven High Courts. All these appointments have been made due to some recent elevations in the Supreme Court. Acting Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh Ravi Shankar Jha has become the …

Union Minister of Power (Independent Charge) Raj Kumar Singh and Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi jointly launched ‘PRAKASH – Power Rail Koyla Availability through Supply Harmony’ Portal. It was launched for better coordination among the Indian Railways, …

The RBI named three banks SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank as DSIBs. State Bank of India opened its Melbourne office It is the first Indian bank to have a branch in the Australian state of Victoria. The Melbourne office …

The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind conferred Vayoshreshtha Samman 2019 on Eminent Senior Citizens and Institutions on 3rd October 2019. The awards were presented at an event organized by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in New Delhi. The recipients are from various …

Bikaji Foods International Ltd feature as the face of the brand in a multimedia campaign that will go live in the first week of October. Bikaji Foods is a packaged foods FMCG company that sells popular snacks such as bhujia, namkeen, …

 India got its first-ever Floating Basketball Court in the Arabian Sea near Bandra Worli Sealink. It was installed by the National Basketball Association on 2 October. NBA India Games 2019: On 20 December 2018, NBA India had announced that the first-ever NBA game would be organized …

The government has appointed Ch S S Mallikarjuna Rao as the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Punjab National Bank (PNB). The proposal to appointed Mallikarjuna was initiated by the Department of Financial Services. Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved …

Exercise Ekuverin, the 10th edition of the joint Military exercise, is to be held from 7 to 20 October 2019. The 14 days joint exercise will be held between the Indian Army and the Maldives National Defence Force. It will be organized at …

Exercise Nomadic Elephant-XIV, the 14th edition of Indo-Mongolian joint military training, will commence from 5 October 2019. The exercise will be conducted over a period of 14 days from 5 October to 18 October 19 at Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh.  Aim: Nomadic Elephant-XIV aims to …

A postage stamp bearing the image of Mahatma Gandhi issued by Franch postal service company La Poste to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma. Indian Embassy partnered LaPoste of #France in launching a postage stamp today with an …

Indian Railways unveiled the Sarbat-Da-Bhala Express on the occasion of the 550th Birth Anniversary of Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji. The train was flagged off by Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Science and Technology …

 Tejas express is the first train that will not be run by Indian Railways but instead, by its subsidiary arm, Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC). The premium train will ply between Delhi and Lucknow on all days except …

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has announced that Chandrayaan2’s Orbiter payload CLASS has detected charged particles on the moon in its first few days of observation. CLASS has observed intensity variations in its first passage through Moon’s orbit. ISRO said …

The RBI in its fourth bi-monthly monetary policy statement for 2019-20 has cut repo rate by 25 basis points. This is the fifth consecutive time that the RBI has reduced the repo rate in 2019. The RBI has also reduced the GDP growth forecast from 6.9 …

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart from Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth jointly inaugurated two landmark projects in Mauritius through video conference. PM Modi inaugurated phase-1 of Mauritius Metro Express and a new ENT Hospital in the country. PM Modi …

A team of researchers and experts have found an undiscovered dried-up river during the geophysical survey in the Kaushambi and Prayagraj region in Uttar Pradesh. The most important aspect of this discovery is that this river was a link between Ganga …

India declared ODF: Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared India open defecation free on October 2, 2019, on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary. The Prime Minister said that rural India had itself declared itself open defecation free. The Prime Minister made the …

President Ram Nath Kovind will be conferring ‘Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019’ on Eminent Senior Citizens & Institutions in recognition of their services towards the cause of elderly persons on 3 October 2019. The awards will be conferred at a function organized by …

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare organized first National Nutrition Survey. The ministry took help from UNICEF to complete the survey. The survey was conducted between 2016 and 2018. In India, for the first time the ministry measured malnutrition …

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi has recommended former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajendra Menon as the next chairman of Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT). The other members of bench included Justices SA …

BRAHMOS Supersonic Cruise Missile, with major indigenous systems, was successfully test fired from Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur in Odisha. The missile was test-fired for its full strike range of 290-km during the launch jointly conducted by Defence Research and …

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and Doordarshan, country’s public service broadcaster has join hands to telecast TV bilingual programme ‘Mahatma Lives‘ or ‘Bapu Zinda Hain’ on 1-2 October 2019, to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of the …

Rapidly-moving Typhoon ‘Mitag’ is bearing down on northern Taiwan, where it is expected to bring high winds and heavy rain. With the worst of the weather expected to arrive in the island country, the warnings have been issued for parts …

Union Ministry for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has notified changes in Apprenticeship Rules (1992) as Apprenticeship (Amendment) Rules, 2019 with an aim to increase skilled manpower in the country, and raise minimum stipend payable to trade apprentices. Key Highlights- …

The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in association with IIT Bombay, is organizing the Global Student Solar Assembly on 2 October 2019, to commemorate 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi as well as to promote the Gandhian …