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ADIP scheme: First Distribution of Assistive aids to Divyangjan
On June 15, 2020, Government of India organized the first ever ADIP camp. The camp was conducted to distribute free assistive aids to Divyangjans under the ADIP scheme. Highlights The first camp to distribute free assistive aids was organized at Firozpur district of Punjab. The camp was organized by ALIMCO (Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2020
Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs
Topics: ALIMCO • Disabilities • Disability • divyangjans • Guinness book of World Records • Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
World Guinness Record for lighting 4 lakh diyas
On October 26, 2019, in the city of Ayodhya 4 lakh earthen lamps were lit along the banks of Sarayu river. The event was organized by the Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath. It was the third and largest Deepotsav in Ayodhya after he came to power. Last year around 3 lakh lamps were lit. The ..
Month: Current Affairs - October, 2019
Category: Important Days & Events Current Affairs
Topics: Ayodhya • Government of Uttar Pradesh • Guinness book of World Records • Uttar Pradesh • Uttarkhand • Yogi Adityanath
Ladakhi Shondol dance enters Guinness book of world record
Ladakhi Shondol dance has created history by breaking into Guinness book of world records as the largest Ladakhi dance. The Shondol dance was gracefully performed by about 408 women artists in traditional dresses on the occasion of the Annual Naropa Festival. Key Highlights The dance performance was held on concluding day of the annual week ..
Month: Current Affairs - September, 2019
Category: Art & Culture Current Affairs
Topics: Folk Dances • Guinness book of World Records • Hemis Monastery • Naropa festival • Shondol Dance
Australia's Vivid Sydney enters Guinness World Records for Maximum Number of light installations
The World’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney has entered into Guinness World Book of Records. The Guinness World Record have given the Vivid Sydney installation Dreamscape the title for the ‘Largest interactive lighting display’. Vivid Sydney installation Dreamscape has been made up of 124,128 lights and links the entire Circular Quay precinct beginning from the Sydney ..
Month: Current Affairs - June, 2017
Category: Places in News Current Affairs
Topics: Guinness book of World Records • International • Places in News
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka sets record for spending longest time in space
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has set a Guinness World Record for spending longest time in space with a total of 804 days as on July 2015. With this he broke the previous record of 803 days, nine hours and 41 minutes set by Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev (now retired) across six missions from 1998 to ..
Month: Current Affairs - July, 2015
Topics: Current Affairs 2016 • Gennady Padalka • Guinness book of World Records • Persons in News • Russia • Russian cosmonaut