Page-15 of Current Affairs - August, 2018

Pune tops in Ease of Living Index released by Housing Ministry

Pune (Maharashtra) ranked first among 116 cities (with population of 1 million plus) in Ease of Living Index...

📅 August 14, 2018

Jodhpur, Marwar ranked cleanliest rail stations in Third Party Survey Report on Station Cleanliness

Union Railway Ministry released Third Party Survey Report on Station Cleanliness which ranked 407 railway stations including 75...

📅 August 14, 2018

DAC approves procurement of six Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels

Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman approved procurement of six indigenously designed and manufactured...

📅 August 14, 2018

Ashish Kumar Bhutani appointed CEO of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

Government has appointed senior bureaucrat Ashish Kumar Bhutani as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima...

📅 August 14, 2018

Fateh Mobin: Iran unveils next generation short-range ballistic missile

Iran has unveiled Fateh Mobin (Bright Conqueror) next generation short-range ballistic missile capable of striking targets on land...

📅 August 14, 2018

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes awayFormer Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passes away

Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee passed away following multi-organ failure in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was 89....

📅 August 14, 2018

Justice Manjula Chellur takes oath as Chairperson of Appellate Tribunal for Electricity

Justice Manjula Chellur took oath as Chairperson of Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (ATE), Ministry of Power. Prior to...

📅 August 14, 2018

Government notifies rules for unlocking Rs 66,000 crore compensatory afforestation funds

Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has notified rules for utilisation of more than Rs...

📅 August 14, 2018

India's first genetic bank for wildlife conservation inaugurated in Hyderabad

National Wildlife Genetic Resource Bank was inaugurated at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology’s (CCMB) Laboratory of Conservation...

📅 August 13, 2018

Digital North East Vision 2022 released in Guwahati

The Digital North East Vision 2022 was released in Guwahati, Assam by Union Minister for Electronics & Information...

📅 August 13, 2018