Page-11 of Current Affairs - December, 2011
GePG: The E-payment gateway for retired govt staff
Indian Government’s official account-keeper, the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) has developed a fully secured e-payment gateway for direct credit of dues into the accounts of beneficiaries using digitally signed electronic advice through the new system. Apart from revolutionizing payments ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Tit-Bit Current Affairs : October 2011
Uttarakhand first state to covert 13% rainfed area to irrigated land: Uttarakhand has become the first state to convert its 13 per cent of rain-fed land area into irrigated land and the Centre has granted permission, in principle, for the ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Alternatives for Endosulfan to be studied by FAO
The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) will assume studies on integrated pest management alternatives to Endosulfan, a decision taken by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention. This verdict was taken as a carry out to the ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Janet Baker wins Gramophone Lifetime Achievement Award
British singer Janet Baker won Gramophone magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award recently. Baker was an acclaimed master of both opera and lieder for more than 30 years. Janet Baker was born in August 1933. Her early interest in music was so ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Hwang Woo-suk: The man who cloned first Dog is back to fame
Hwang Woo-suk is a South Korean scientist and researcher, best known for creating Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog. He was a professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University. He was a national hero in South Korea till ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Sam Pitroda: Head of Expert Panel on Modernization of Railways
Government has constituted an expert committee headed by Sam Pitroda to recommend ways and means to modernize Indian Railways. The focus of the panel, which is to submit its interim report in December, will be on modernization of tracks, signalling, ..