Wait is over now. Indian Railway is going to recruit about 50000 Assistant Station Masters (ASM) this year through Railway Recruitment Board. Here are the details: Name of Post: Assistant Station Master (ASM) Recruitment Agency: Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Indian Read More …
Category: Current Affairs
Pratyush-India’s fastest Supercomputer
Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan on January 8, 2018, dedicated India’s fastest and first ‘multi-petaflops’ supercomputer “Pratyush” to the nation in Pune. ‘Pratyush’, (the sun) is the High Performance Computing (HPC) facility and it has been established Read More …
The Water Shrew found first time in Uttarakhand
-A team of researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), Dehradun has first time found rare Water Shrew (Nectogale elegans) in the state of Uttarakhand. -Although its presence was recorded earlier in India from north Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, Read More …
Sammakka-Sarakka Jatara as a national festival
-The Central Government is in the process of declaring Sammakka-Sarakka/Saralamma Jatara a national festival. Recently Central Ministry of Tribal Affairs released Rs. 2 crore as Centre’s contribution towards conducting this Jatara. -Sammakka-Sarakka/Saralamma Jatara is held in Medaram village of Jayashankar Bhupalpally district, Read More …
Mankidia Tribe of Odisha will get habitat rights!
-Mayurbhanj District administration Odisha, had initiated an effort to provide Mankidia tribe a recognised habitat rights under forest right act (FRA). However state forest department latter denied the habitat right to Mankidia, on the ground of tiger attack. -Mankidia is Read More …
Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme-Food poisoning increased
-According to Recent data released by the Union Health Ministry’s Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), 312 of the 1,649 outbreaks reported till the third week of December 2017 were due to acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) and 242 were due to food Read More …
Bharat Net Project: First phase completed
Ministry of Communication has completed the first phase of Bharat Net project. Under Phase-1, more than one lakh Gram Panchayats of the nation have related to high speed optical fibre network as per the deadline 31 December 2017. The network Read More …
Falcon Heavy: World’s Most Powerful Rocket
-USA’s private space organisation, Space-X will launch ‘the world’s most powerful rocket’, ‘Falcon Heavy’ in January 2018. This rocket will be fired on Mars. -The Falcon Heavy ‘megarocket’ will be fired from Kennedy Space Centre near Cape Canaveral, Florida. It Read More …
A gender gap of 10% in Jan Dhan account application
According to a World Bank paper titled, ‘Making It Easier to Apply for a Bank Account: A Study of the Indian Market’, a 10% gender gap was reported in opening accounts under the Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Jan Dhan Yojana’. Under Read More …
20% Less Depletion in Ozone Layer since 2005
-As per the study published in Geophysical Research Letters, a global effort to contain ozone layer depletion has resulted positively. -Due to decline in ozone depleting chemicals, specifically chlorine, has resulted in 20% less depletion since 2005. – According to Read More …
John Watts Young-first astronaut to fly into space six times, died
-NASA astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died on January 5 at 87. -Young was the only NASA astronaut to go into space as part of the four categories Read More …
Asian waterbird census at Okhla Okhla Bird Sanctuary
-Asian waterbird census was carried out in Okhla Okhla Bird Sanctuary on 6 January, 2017. -During this exercise, there has been an increase in water bird species diversity. A total of 11,622 birds were spotted across 63 species. This is in Read More …
Oumuamua-First known interstellar object
Oumuamua, an cigar like object that passed through our solar system, is now classified as an ‘interstellar object’ by the International Astronomical union. This object was earlier considered a comet, but it didn’t develop a tail passing near the sun, Read More …
The New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2018
The central government on January 5, 2018 tabled ‘The New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2018’ in the Lok Sabha to set up an international arbitration (or dispute resolution) centre in New Delhi. This initiative is the first step Read More …
Aspirational Districts of India
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi on January 5, 2018, interacted with Collectors and Officers-in-charge of aspirational districts, at a Conference organized by NITI Aayog at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi. These are those 115 districts, that Read More …