GoI and ADB sign USD 451 Million Loan Agreement to Strengthen Power Connectivity in Tamil Nadu

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India (GoI) have signed a USD 451 Million(approx Rs 3,200 crore) Loan Agreement for strengthening the power connectivity between the northern and the southern parts of the Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC). CKIC will also build an operational capacity for Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation(TANTRANSCO), for which ADB ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020

Category: States Current Affairs

Topics: Asian Development Bank • Chennai • East Coast Economic Corridor • Government of India • Industrial corridor • Kanyakumari • manila • Philippines • Tamil Nadu

Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Bill withdrawn

The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act passed in 2004 was now been withdrawn by the Government on Wednesday, November 27, 2019. The special provisions under Article 370 were repealed on August 5, 2019, and Jammu and Kashmir were declared a Union Territory, which now applicable the central laws for reservation quota to economically backward class ..

Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs

Topics: article 370 • Constitution • criminal code • economically backward • girish chandra murmu • Jammu and Kashmir • Lieutenant • reservation quota • Union territory

Kartavya Portal launched as a part of Nagrik Kartavya Palan Abhiyan

Union Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD), Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ launched a website, kartavya.ugc.ac.in , on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Constitution of India on Tuesday, November 26, 2019. The government has decided to run a year-long program from 26th November 2019 to 26th November 2020 named ‘Nagrik Kartavya Palan Abhiyan’, to ..

Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs

Topics: Constitution • fundamental duties • HRD • Human Resource Development • kartavya • nagrik kartavya palan abhiyan • Ramesh Pokhriyal • union minister

Uttar Pradesh’s 1st Vulture Conservation to be set up at Maharajganj District

Uttar Pradesh Government has announced the state’s first Vulture conservation and breeding centre to be set up in Farenda area of Maharajganj district. Vulture population in the country has come down to 19,000 in the last three decades from 40 million mainly because of renal failure caused due to diclofenac poisoning. Indian Vulture is listed ..

Category: States Current Affairs

Topics: alipurduar • Assam • Bhopal • Endangered • Haryana • IUCN • Jatayu • Madhya Pradesh • Uttar Pradesh • Vulture

Pinaki Chandra Ghose launches Logo and Motto of Lokpal

The Chairman and first Lokpal of India, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose launched the Logo and Motto of Lokpal on November 26, 2019. The Motto of Lokpal “मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम् ” saying “Ma Gridhah Kasyasvidhanam” is in Sanskrit language meaning Do not be greedy for anyone’s wealth, was adopted as the motto of Lokpal. Lokpal was ..

Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs

Topics: first lokpal • logo of lokpal • Lokayukta • Lokpal • motto of lokpal • MyGov.in • New Delhi • Pinaki Chandra Ghose • prayagraj • uttarpradesh