Garo Hills Current Affairs, GK & News
Assam Baikho Festival
The Baikho festival is celebrated in the state of Assam, which is called as gateway to northeast India. It is celebrated by Rabha tribes of India. About Assam Assam is the state of natural beauty and scenic scapes. It stretches across the Brahmaputra River and encircled by verdant hills. It is having a diverse flora ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2022
Category: Art & Culture Current Affairs • States Current Affairs
Topics: Baikho festival • Brahmaputra River • Dooar region of West Bengal • Garo Hills • Rabhas Tribes
ADB Loan for Meghalaya Power Distribution Sector
The Government of India recently signed 133 million USD loan Agreement with the Asian Development Bank. Agreement was signed to strengthen the power distribution sector in the state of Meghalaya. Also, the loan is to be supplemented with a 2 million USD grant from the Asian Development Bank Japan fund for poverty reduction. This fund ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022 • International / World Current Affairs
Topics: 100% electrification • Asian Development Bank • Asian Development Bank (ADB) • Garo Hills • Hydroelectricity • Khasi Hills • Loan • Meghalaya • power for all
KVIC organizes 150 programmes to empower artisans
On the eve of Gandhi Jayanti, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) is to organize a series of 150 mega events. The events are to be held in north eastern states and other states such as Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat and West Bengal. These states ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2020
Category: Economy & Banking Current Affairs - 2022 • Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: Bibek Debroy • Garo Hills • Honey Mission • Khadi and Village Industries Commission • Kumhar Sashaktikaran Yojana • KVIC • North Eastern States • Potter's wheel • Pottery • West Garo Hills district
Gaj Yatra launched in Garo Hills of Meghalaya
Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) rolled out ‘Gaj Yatra’, an awareness campaign to protect elephants from Tura in Garo Hills of Meghalaya. It was organised by the Wildlife Trust of India in collaboration with the State Forest Department. Under this campaign, an elephant mascot will be taken across districts frequented by jumbo ..
Month: Current Affairs - May, 2018
Topics: Environment • Gaj Yatra • Garo Hills • Meghalaya
Meghalaya: Wangala dance festival
The Hundred Drums or Wangala Festival of the tribal Garos began at Asanang village in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district in the second week of December . The Wangala is the most important post-harvest festival of the Garos and is a thanksgiving ceremony to Misi Saljong and Minima Rokkime , also known as the Great ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011
Topics: Calendars • Culture of Meghalaya • Ethnic groups in Bangladesh • Garo • Garo Hills • Garo people • Harvest festivals • Meghalaya • Northeast India • Thanksgiving • Tourism in North East India • Wangala
Current Affairs June 7 & 8, 2010
Q+A: Global Peace Index 2010The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is a global non-profit research organization headquartered in Sydney, Australia with a branch in Washington, D.C.India ranks 128. Read HereMad Cow Disease : India is among safest countriesThe Mad cow disease known technically as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2010
Topics: Balakrishna • Current Affairs 2010 • Garo Hills • India • K. G. Balakrishnan • Meghalaya • National Human Rights Commission of India • Northeast India • Sangma • States and union territories of India • Subdivisions of India • Tourism in North East India • Tura