Trade apprentices to get minimum monthly stipend: Govt

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 As per the government the minimum stipend payable to trade apprentices will be on qualification ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

Topics: Apprenticeship (Amendment) Rules 2019 • Apprenticeship Pakhwada • Ministry of Skill Development • Trade apprentice

Typhoon ‘Mitag’ approaches Northern Taiwan

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 of island’s east and north, including the capital, Taipei. The Taiwan’s weather bureau has categorized ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019

Topics: Taiwan • Tropical cyclones • typhoon • Typhoon Mitag

‘Mahatma Lives’: UNESCO and DD to telecast TV Show on Gandhi’s 150th Anniversary

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 Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi. The objective of programme is to celebrate his ideas ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019

Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs

Topics: 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi • Bapu Zinda Hain • Doordarshan • Mahatma Lives • UNESCO

DRDO successfully test fires land-attack version of BrahMos missile

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 Development Organization (DRDO) and BrahMos Aerospace. The first extended version of BrahMos missile was successfully ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019

Category: Defence Current Affairs

Topics: Brahmos • DRDO • Missile Techbology • Odisha

National Nutrition Survey

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 that included micro nutrient deficiencies. It was done by collecting urine samples and blood samples. ..

Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019

Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs

Topics: malnutrition • micro nutrients • national nutrition survey • Poshan Abhiyan • under-nutrition • UNICEF • WHO