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Saturday, June 9, 2018

09 June 2018
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- Fernanda Espinosa Elected President Of The 73rd United Nations General Assembly

- ⭐️ Sarita Nayyar Appointed To World Economic Forum Managing Board

- Operation NISTAR Successfully Culminates With Safe Disembarkations Of 38 Indian Nationals

- Portal For Job Seekers And Employers Launched In Kerala

- ⭐️ Hyderabad Ranks 3rd In Sound Polluted Cities List

- India Ranks 137th On Global Peace Index 2018 : Economic And Peace report

- World First EPR Nuclear Reactor Begins Work In Taishan , China

- ⭐️ Anupam Kher To Be Given Lifetime Achievement Honour At Upcoming IIFA Awards Ceremony

- Asian Junior Athletics Championships Event In Gifu , Japan

- Smriti Irani Launches GIAN To Boost Higher Education With International Collaboration

- ⭐️ Rajinikanth Starrer 'Kaala' Became The 1st Indian Film To Release In Saudi Arabia

- Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu Has Declared The State Open-Defecation Free

- Andhra Pradesh Is Set To Become 1st State In India To Use Auto-Disable Syringes .

- ⭐️ 8 June : World Ocean Day, Theme Of World Oceans Day 2018 : " Preventing Plastic Pollution And Encouraging Solutions For A Healthy Ocean "

- ⭐️ 8 June 2018 : World Brain Tumor Day

- Indian , US , Japanese Maritime Forces Begin Malabar Exercise

- 17th Round Of Foreign Office Consultations Between India & Myanmar Hold In New Delhi

- Punjab Govt Launches ' Business First Portal '

- Nepal's Chief Of Army Staff On Six-Day Visit To India

- Keshari Nath Tripathi To Hold Additional Charge As Tripura Governor

- Andhra Pradesh Is ODF Now , Declares CM Chandrababu Naidu

- Biopic ‘ Making Of The Mahatma ’ Screened In Pietermaritzburg

- ⭐️ President Declares ‘ Queen Pineapple ’ As State Fruit Of Tripura

- Asia-Pacific Regional Conference On ECD Held In Nepal

Friday, June 8, 2018

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👉🏽First Capital of India: Kolkata.
👉🏽First port of India: Kolkata.
👉🏽Nobel Laureates of India: 6 out of 7 are from Kolkata.
👉🏽National Poet of India: From Kolkata.
👉🏽National Anthem, Song of India: From Kolkata.
👉🏽The only inspiration for youths by whose name International Youth day is celebrated: Swami Vivekananda is from Kolkata.
👉🏽Largest library in India: Kolkata.
👉🏽Largest Museum in India: Kolkata.
👉🏽The city in India where trams run still as a public transport: Kolkata.
👉🏽India's largest cricket stadium: Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
👉🏽India's largest football stadium: Salt Lake stadium Kolkata (also Asia's largest).
👉🏽Largest Botanical Garden in India: Kolkata (Shibpur Botanical Garden).
👉🏽Largest zoo in India: Kolkata (Alipore Zoo).
👉🏽India's first medical college: Kolkata (Medical college, Kolkata).
👉🏽India's first University: Kolkata (Calcutta University).
👉🏽India's only film director who got an Oscar: from Kolkata (Satyajit Ray).
👉🏽First Miss Universe of India: from Kolkata (Susmita Sen).
👉🏽Largest race course in India: Kolkata.
👉🏽Oldest cricket club of India: Calcutta cricket club.
👉🏽First city in India where Metro rail as a public transport started: Kolkata.
👉🏽The only city of India for which the whole bollywood industry depends when it comes for music and direction: Kolkata.
👉🏽Highest number of Scienctists and doctors are from which city in India: Kolkata.
👉🏽Largest railway station of India: In Kolkata (Howrah).
👉🏽Busiest railway station of India: Kolkata (Sealdah).
👉🏽Only riverine port of India: Kolkata Port.
👉🏽Only Cantilever bridge in India : Howrah Bridge (Kolkata).
👉🏽Largest golf course of India: In Kolkata (Royal Calcutta Golf Club).
👉🏽Largest second hand book market in India: College street ( also second in the world).

Green GDP
Green GDP is a term used for expressing GDP after adjusting for environment degradations.
Green GDP is an attempt to measure the growth of an economy by subtracting the costs of environmental damages and ecological degradations from the GDP
The concept was first initiated through a System of National Accounts.
The System of National Accounts (SNA) is an accounting framework for measuring the economic activities of production, consumption and accumulation of wealth in an economy during a period of time.
When information on economy’s use of the natural environment is integrated into the system of national accounts, it becomes green national accounts or environmental accounting.
The process of environmental accounting involves three steps viz. Physical accounting; Monetary valuation; and integration with national Income/wealth Accounts:
Physical accounting determines the state of the resources, types, and extent (qualitative and quantitative) in spatial and temporal terms.
Monetary valuation is done to determine its tangible and intangible components.
Thereafter, the net change in natural resources in monetary terms is integrated into the Gross Domestic Product in order to reach the value of Green GDP.

08 June 2018
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- Rudrendra Tandon Appointed As Next Ambassador Of India To ASEAN

- Madhu Sethi Appointed As The Next Ambassador Of India To The Republic Of Cuba

- Tsewang Namgyal As The Next Ambassador Of India To The Republic of Lithuania

- ⭐️ Iceland Topped In Global Peace Index 2018

- ‘Queen’ Pineapple Variety Declared Tripura’s State Fruit

- Veteran Film Actor Anupam Kher To Be Given Lifetime Achievement Honour At IlFA

- Virat Kohli Set To Receive Polly Umrigar Award ( 2016-17 -- 2017-18 )

- Mithali Raj Becomes First Indian To Score 2000 T20I Runs

- Centre Constitutes Group To Suggest Changes In SEZ Policy

- ⭐️ Harmanpreet Kaur And Smriti Mandhana Will Receive The Awards For Best International Cricketer (women)

- ⭐️ Virat Kohli Has Been Named BCCI's Best International Cricketer (Men)

- Kamila Shamsie’s ‘ Home Fire ’ Wins Women’s Prize For Fiction

- ⭐️ Ravi Shankar Prasad Releases Bhagat Singh’s Jail Diary Book In New Delhi .

- ⭐️ West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi To Hold Additional Charge Of Tripura

- Election Commission Launches Its Online RTI Portal

- India Records 22% Reduction In Maternal Mortality Ratio Since 2013

- IIT Bombay Displaces IIT Delhi As Best-Ranked Indian University

- FDI Inflows To India Fall By $4 Billion Last Year : UN Report

- Chandrabhaga Beach Becomes Asia’s 1st Beach To Get The Blue Flag Certification

- Corporation Bank Bags Best Expectation Management Award For 2017-18

- The 11th Edition Of Geo Intelligence Asia 2018 In New Delhi

- Dhiraj Ram Krishna Won The ‘ National Gopal Ratna ’ Award

- Minister Of State For Chemicals And Fertilizers Launches ‘Jan Aushadhi Suvidha '

- ⭐️ India’s Rank 137 In Global Peace Index

- CM Devendra Fadnavis Inaugurated Web Portal Named Continuous Medical Education (CME)

- Baba Kalyani Heads Group To Study SEZ Policy

- Bihar Govt Launches New Crop Insurance Scheme ‘ Bihar State Crop Assistance Scheme ’

- 31st Edition Of The India - Indonesia Coordinated Patrol Is Held In Belawan , Indonesia.

- Virat Kohli’s Statue Unveiled At Madame Tussauds, New Delhi

Thursday, June 7, 2018

07 June 2018
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- ⭐️ Repo Rate Increased By 25 Bps In Second Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement (2018-19)

- ⭐️ Singapore Launches ‘ World Peace Medallion ’ To Mark Trump-Kim Summit

- World Bank Approves Rs-6000 Crore For Atal Bhujal Yojana

- IBSA Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Was Held In Pretoria , South Africa

- J&K To Host 1st Ever ‘ Global Investor Meet ’ On Hydro-Power In July

- Veteran Producer Pippa Harris Named BAFTA Chairman .

- Polythene To Be Completely Prohibited From 31st July In Uttarakhand

- Madhya Pradesh Announces Outstanding Power Bill Waiver Scheme

- Virat Kohli ( Rank 83rd ) Only Indian In World’s Highest Paid Athletes List

- ⭐️ Corporation Bank Has Bagged The ‘ Investor Relations Award 2018 '

- Calzy 3 Has Won The Apple Design Award 2018

- 4 Year Old Ayan Gogoi Gohain (Assam) Was Honoured With The ‘ Youngest Author Of India ’

- ⭐️ Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces Was Elected The Next President Of The UN General Assembly

- ⭐️ Omar Razzaz Appointed New Prime Minister Of Jordan

- Floyd Mayweather Has Been Named The World's Highest-Paid Athlete

- Malaysia Appoints Ethnic Indian Tommy Thomas As New Attorney General

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- ⭐️ Varanasi Airport 1st To Have National Highway Under Runway

- ⭐️ Bandhan Bank Appoints Former RBI Deputy Governor H R Khan As chairman

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

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1. World Environment Day: 05th June 2018

i. World Environment Day is the United Nations' (UN) most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. Since it began in 1974, it has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is widely celebrated in over 100 countries. World Environment Day is the "people's day" for doing something to take care of the Earth. World Environment Day occurs on the 5th of June every year.
ii. Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern. The theme for the World Environment Day 2018, "Beat Plastic Pollution".

2. Govt Launches 'Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan' To Help Farmers In Aspirational Districts To Raise Their Income

i. The government has announced the launch of 'Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan' under which farmers in select villages will be given assistance and advice on ways to improve farming techniques and raise their income.
ii. The Agriculture Ministry in line with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 has launched the Krishi Kalyan Abhiyaan from 1st June to 31st July 2018.

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Radha Mohan Singh, Hon'ble Minister of Agriculture. The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (formerly Ministry of Agriculture), a branch of the Government of India.

3. Govt Announces Rs. 8,000-Crore Package For Sugarcane Farmers

i. The Union government has announced a package of more than Rs 8,000 crore aimed to provide relief to sugarcane farmers and to clear their dues. According to a government official, the package includes three elements. A buffer stock of 30 LMT (lakh metric tonnes) of sugar will be created with Rs 1,200 crore.
ii. This money will be directly transferred to accounts of sugarcane farmers. Rs 4,400 crore will be used to increase ethanol production to divert sugarcane away from sugar mills which are unable to dispose of their inventories. The government has also decided to ensure a minimum sale price of Rs 29/kg for sugar.

4. MK Jain Appointed RBI Deputy Governor

i. The Centre has appointed MK Jain, Managing Director, and CEO of IDBI Bank, as the RBI’s Deputy Governor. Jain will fill a position that had been lying vacant since August 2017 after the retirement of SS Mundra.
ii. With the appointment of Jain, the Centre has stuck to the tradition of having a commercial banker occupy this post of RBI Deputy Governor (reserved for bankers). The central bank now has four serving RBI Deputy Governors. Jain has been appointed for a term of three years.

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Urjit Patel is Present Governor of RBI.RBI's Deputy Governor- NS Vishwanathan, Viral V Acharya, BP Kanungo and newly appointed MK Jain.

5. French Swimmer Begins Record Pacific Crossing Attempt

i. A French swimmer has set off from Japan aiming to become the first person to swim across the Pacific Ocean.
ii. Ben Lecomte will swim for eight hours a day for more than six months as he heads towards the US west coast. He is hoping to raise awareness for climate change. A team of scientists will conduct research during the almost 8,850-kilometre swim.

05 June 2018
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- ⭐️ Priyanka Das Ambassador Of Promote Science ’ Initiative In France

- Income Tax Department Launches New Benami Transactions Informants Reward Scheme

- IISc Bangalore { Rank 91 } Back In World Top 100 University List

- ⭐️ MK Jain Has Appointed As The Deputy Governor Of The RBI

- Vijay Mahajan Is New CEO For Rajiv Gandhi Foundation

- ⭐️ Employees In Mumbai Work Longest Hours In The World : UBS Study

- G7 Finance Chiefs And Annual Meeting At Whistler In Canada.

- 3 June : World Bicycle Day

- 49th Conference Of Governors Begins In New Delhi

- India Successfully Test-Fires ' Agni-5 ' Off Odisha Coast, Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

- 1st Cargo Of Russian LNG Arrives At Dahej In Gujarat

- Asia's 1st 13 ' Blue Flag ' Beaches To Be Developed In India

- NTPC Adopts Charminar Under Swachh Iconic Places Project

- Financial Literacy Week Begins : 4 June - 10 June

- Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa On 4-Day Visit To Brazil

- India's Sanjana Ramesh Wins MVP Award At Basketball Without Borders Asia

- Kagiso Rabada Wins South Africa's Cricketer Of The Year Award

- ⭐️ Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra Gets Additional Charge Of DRDO Chairman

- OUP To Host 2nd South Asia Conclave On July 4

LIST OF IMPORTANT DAYS WITH THEMES MAY 2018
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1 May
International Labour Day Uniting Workers for Social and Economic Advancement

1 May 2018
(1st Tuesday of May) World Asthma Day
Never Too Early, Never Too Late. It’s Always The Right Time to Address Airways Disease

3 May
World Press Freedom Day
Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of Law

8 May World Red Cross Day
Memorable Smiles From Around the World

11 May
National Technology Day

12 May International Nurses Day Nurses:
A Voice to Lead – Health is a Human Right

12 May 2018
(2nd Saturday of May) World Migratory Bird Day
Unifying our Voices for Bird Conservation

12 May 2018
(2nd Saturday of May) World Fair Trade Day
Live Fair, One Product at a Time

13 May 2017
(2nd Sunday of May) International Mothers’ Day

15 May
International Day of Families Families and Inclusive Societies

17 May
World Hypertension Day
Know Your Numbers

17 May
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
Enabling the Positive Use of Artificial Intelligence for All

18 May
International Museum Day
Hyperconnected Museums: New approaches, New Publics

18 May
World AIDS Vaccine Day

20 May
World Metrology Day
Constant Evolution of the International System of Units (SI)

21 May
Anti-Terrorism Day

22 May
International Day for Biological diversity
Celebrating 25 Years of Action for Biodiversity

23 May
World Turtle Day

25 May
International Missing Children’s Day

25 May
World Thyroid Day
Environment and the Thyroid

28 May
International Day of Action for Women’s Health

29 May
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
70 Years of Service and Sacrifice

31 May
World No-Tobacco Day
Tobacco and Heart Disease

June 04 2018

1. Syrian President to become 1st international leader to meet Kim in N Korea

2. Heli-taxis launched to cut Shimla-Chandigarh travel time to 20 min

3. IDBI Bank CEO Mahesh Jain appointed RBI Deputy Governor

4. SpaceX launches communications satellite on Falcon 9 rocket

5. Govt may merge 4 banks to create India’s second-largest bank

6. India gets first automated vehicle scrapping and recycling facility

7. Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra Gets Additional Charge Of DRDO Chairman

8. India Successfully Test-Fires SFDR Propulsion Based Missile

9. India Ranked 113th On Childhood Index

10. 14th century Maori village discovered in New Zealand

11. India receives first shipment of cheapest LNG from Gazprom Russia

12. 29th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre Observed

13. Taj Declaration to Beat Plastic Pollution adopted in Agra

14. Financial Literacy Week starts with theme ‘Customer Protection’

15. June 4 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

16. HDFC Bank recognized for best practices in payment security

Monday, June 4, 2018

● 3 June : World Bicycle Day

● 49th Conference Of Governors Begins In New Delhi

● India Successfully Test-Fires ' Agni-5 ' Off Odisha Coast

● 1st Cargo Of Russian LNG Arrives At Dahej In Gujarat

● Asia's 1st 13 ' Blue Flag ' Beaches To Be Developed In India

● NTPC Adopts Charminar Under Swachh Iconic Places Project

● Financial Literacy Week Begins : 4 June - 10 June

● Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa On 4-Day Visit To Brazil

● India's Sanjana Ramesh Wins MVP Award At Basketball Without Borders Asia

● Kagiso Rabada Wins South Africa's Cricketer Of The Year Award

● Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra Gets Additional Charge Of DRDO Chairman

● OUP To Host 2nd South Asia Conclave On July 4

● Priyanka Das Ambassador Of Promote Science ’ Initiative In France

● Income Tax Department Launches New Benami Transactions Informants Reward Scheme

● IISc Bangalore { Rank 91 } Back In World Top 100 University List

● MK Jain Has Appointed As The Deputy Governor Of The RBI

● Vijay Mahajan Is New CEO For Rajiv Gandhi Foundation

● Employees In Mumbai Work Longest Hours In The World : UBS Study

● G7 Finance Chiefs And Annual Meeting At Whistler In Canada.

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Financial Literacy Week starts with theme ‘Customer Protection’
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▪️Reserve Bank of India is conducting Financial Literacy Week from June 4 on the theme ‘Customer Protection’. The week-long event is to focus on creating awareness among customers of banks.

▪️According to RBI, the event will emphasise on awareness about different financial products, services, digital applications and good financial practices.

✔️ About Financial Literacy Week

▪️RBI had introduced financial literacy week in 2016 to create a large scale awareness on key topics. Non-Governmental Organisations collaborate with banks and made this initiative successful in the past two years. Last year’s theme of the week was, ‘Know Your Customer’.

▪️The focus of this year is consumer protection messages like, Know your liability. The customers will be educated upon the safe digital banking practices.

▪️RBI underlines that, in cases of unauthorised electronic banking transactions when informed in 3 days, the liability of account holder is zero.

▪️RBI says that resolution of such transactions will be the responsibility of the concerned bank.

▪️The bank should resolve the issue as soon as possible within 90 days from the day of receipt of the complaint. Other focus point of financial Literacy week includes, creating awareness about Banking Ombudsman Scheme of RBI.

▪️Bankers, Financial Literacy Counsellors and other stake holders will be the major participants in the event.

04 June 2018
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- ⭐️ Nepal , Scotland Among 4 Teams Inducted In ICC ODI Rankings

- Deccan Queen Completes 88 Years Of Service

- 2 Day Conference Of Governors And Lieutenant Governors (LGs) Will Be Held At New Delhi

- Indian Navy Launched ‘ Operation Nistar ’ To Evacuate 38 Stranded Indians Around Socotra Island

- Maharashtra Government Has Announced The Opening Up Of A ‘ sandbox ’ To Boost Start-Ups

- Kendrick Lamar Received The Pulitzer Prize For His 2017 Album ' DAMN '

- 3rd National Health Editors Conference On Yoga In New Delhi .

- India Successfully Test-Fires SFDR Propulsion Based Missile

- ⭐️ India Ranks 113th On Childhood Index

- China Successfully Launched A New Earth Observation Satellite ' The Gaofen-6 '

- EAM Sushma Swaraj Begins 5 Day Visit To South Africa

- ⭐️ Pedro Sanchez Sworn In As Spain's New PM

- Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Sworn In As Egyptian President

- Japan Has The " most powerful Passport In The World " - Henley Passport Index

- ⭐️ Indian Passport Secured The 76th Rank In The Henley Passport Index

- National Orchid Garden In Singapore Was Named ' Dendrobium Narendra Modi '

- Andhra Pradesh Has Launched A Zero Based Natural Farming { ZBNF } Scheme

Seva Bhoj Yojna
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- The Union Ministry of Culture on June 1, 2018 introduced a new scheme called ‘#SevaBhojYojna’ to reimburse the central share of CGST and IGST on items for food/prasad/langar/bhandara offered free of cost by charitable religious institutions.

✔️ About the Yojana:

- The scheme seeks to reimburse the central government’s share of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) and Integrated Goods and Service Tax (IGST) on purchase of raw items such as ghee, edible oil, atta, maida, rava, flour, rice pulses, sugar and jaggery, which go into preparation of food/prasad/langar/bhandara offered free of cost by religious institutions.

- The main objective of the scheme is to lessen the financial burden of such charitable religious institutions, which provide free of cost without any discrimination to the general public and devotees.

- The charitable religious institutions including temples, gurudwara, mosque, church, dharmik ashram, dargah, monasteries, which fulfill the following criteria are eligible for the grant:

- The institutions that have been in existence for at least five years before applying for financial assistance/grant.
The institutions that serve free food to at least 5000 people in a month.

- The institutions covered under Section 10( 23BBA) of the Income Tax Act or those registered as Society under Societies Registration Act ( XXI of 1860) or as a Public Trust under any law for the time being in force of statuary religious bodies constituted under any Act or institutions registered under Section 12AA of Income Tax Act.

Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana: Odisha’s Health Insurance Scheme for Journalists
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▪️Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana is a new Health Insurance Scheme for the journalists launched by the state government in Odisha. This scheme provides Rs. 2 Lakh per annum health insurance cover to all working journalists of the state.

✔️ Key Facts

▪️Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana has come into effect from June 1, 2018 and will initially cover around 3200 journalists and their family members from various media groups.

▪️The insurance coverage will be applicable for cashless treatment in government and private hospitals.

▪️The scheme will also cover the injuries and illness faced by journalists while performing their duties.

✔️ Name of Scheme

▪️The scheme has been named after Gopalbandhu Das (1877-1928) a prominent social worker, reformer, political activist, journalist, poet and essayist of Odisha.

▪️His contribution to art, culture and society to Odisha earned him the epithet of Utkalmani (jewel of Odisha).

▪️His contribution to journalism in the state was short but remarkable. In the decade of 1910, he had launched a monthly literary magazine called Satyabadi through which he tried to educate the masses.

WHO adopts resolution on Digital Health proposed by India
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▪️The 71st World Health Assembly held in Geneva, Switzerland has adopted resolution on Digital Health. The resolution was initiated by India and was co-sponsored by 20 countries.

▪️The World Health Assembly is highest decision-making body of World Health Organization (WHO). Its 71st session was attended by delegations from all WHO member states.

✔️ Features of Resolution on Digital Health

▪️It recognises huge potential of Digital health technology has for supporting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and improving accessibility, quality and affordability of health services.

▪️It urges WHO member states to prioritise development and greater use of digital technologies in health sector as means for advancing global health agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, Best Telegram Channel DailyGkZone.

▪️It paves way for WHO to establish global strategy on digital health, identify priority areas and engage member states to optimise their health systems in sync with global digital health agenda.

▪️It is first step towards mainstreaming digital interventions in health sector.

▪️It includes use modern advance technologies such as deep machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT, Best Telegram Channel DailyGkZone ) and other emerging disciplines like genomics.

▪️It also asks member states to identify priority areas in which they will be benefitted from WHO assistance in digital health services and applications, data security, ethical and legal issues.

✔️ World Health Organization (WHO)

▪️WHO is specialized agency of United Nations that acts as coordinating authority on international public health.

▪️It was established on 7 April 1948, it succeeded the Health Organization, which was an agency of the League of Nations. It is a member of UN Development Group (UNDP).

▪️It is headquartered at Geneva. WHO flag features the Rod of Asclepius as a symbol for healing.

R K Agrawal appointed President of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
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▪️The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has appointed former Supreme Court Judge Justice R K Agrawal as President of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC). He will succeed Justice D K Jain, who completed his term.

▪️Justice Agrawal was judge of Supreme Court from February 2014 to May 2018 and had served on bench of the apex court for four years.

✔️ National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC)

▪️NCDRC is quasi-judicial commission set up under Consumer Protection Act of 1986. It addresses grievances of aggrieved ( Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone ) consumer for goods and services having value over Rs. 1 crore.

▪️It was established in 1988 and is headquartered in New Delhi. The commission is headed by sitting or retired judge of Supreme Court of India.

✔️ Statutory Provisions

▪️Section 21 of Consumer Protection Act, 1986 posits that NCDRC shall have jurisdiction to entertain complaint valued more than Rs. 1 crore and also have appellate and revisional jurisdiction from orders of state commissions or district fora as case may be.

▪️Section 23 of Act provides that any person aggrieved by order of NCDRC, may appeal against such order to Supreme Court within period of 30 days.

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Gaj Yatra launched in Garo Hills of Meghalaya
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▪️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 herds for generating awareness among the people.

▪️It was launched to acknowledged good gesture of villagers from Garo Hills who had set aside part of their community-owned land to create village reserve forests for human-elephant harmony.

✔️ Gaj Yatra

▪️Gaj Yatra is 18-month-long national campaign aimed to protect elephants, India’s national heritage animal in 12 elephant range states. For Daily Updates Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

▪️It was launched in August 2017 by Environment and Forest Minister Harsh Vardhan on the occasion of World Elephant Day 2017 (observed on August 12).

▪️The campaign is being led by Wildlife Trust of India (WTI). It aims to involve people from all walks of life in conservation of elephants.

▪️Under this campaign, WTI is securing 101 elephant corridors across in 12 elephant range states through its Right to Passage project, in partnership with Union government’s Project Elephant, state forest departments and various NGOs.

▪️The aim this project is to rehabilitate people affected by man-elephant conflict in corridor areas while ensuring uninterrupted movement of elephants between key habitats.

3 June 2018 .

● India Successfully Test-Fires SFDR Propulsion Based Missile

● India Ranks 113th On Childhood Index

● China Successfully Launched A New Earth Observation Satellite ' The Gaofen-6 '

● EAM Sushma Swaraj Begins 5 Day Visit To South Africa

● Pedro Sanchez Sworn In As Spain's New PM

● Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Sworn In As Egyptian President

● Japan Has The " most powerful Passport In The World " - Henley Passport Index

● Indian Passport Secured The 76th Rank In The Henley Passport Index

● National Orchid Garden In Singapore Was Named ' Dendrobium Narendra Modi '

● Andhra Pradesh Has Launched A Zero Based Natural Farming { ZBNF } Scheme

● Nepal , Scotland Among 4 Teams Inducted In ICC ODI Rankings

● Deccan Queen Completes 88 Years Of Service

● 2 Day Conference Of Governors And Lieutenant Governors (LGs) Will Be Held At New Delhi

● Indian Navy Launched ‘ Operation Nistar ’ To Evacuate 38 Stranded Indians Around Socotra Island

● Maharashtra Government Has Announced The Opening Up Of A ‘ sandbox ’ To Boost Start-Ups

● Kendrick Lamar Received The Pulitzer Prize For His 2017 Album ' DAMN '

● 3rd National Health Editors Conference On Yoga In New Delhi .

Zebu Cattle

Zebu Cattle (also known as indicine cattle or humped cattle), is a species or subspecies of domestic cattle originating in Indian subcontinent. They are characterised by fatty hump on their shoulders, a large dewlap, and sometimes drooping ears. They are well adapted to withstanding high temperatures, and are farmed throughout tropical countries. They are used as dairy cattle, draught oxen and beef cattle.

Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

FATF is an inter-governmental body which monitors the progress of member countries in implementing necessary measures to check money laundering and terrorist financing.

White Tigers

In India, white tigers are predominantly found in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh. In 2016, world’s first White Tiger Safari was inaugurated at Mukundpur in Satna district of Madhya Pradesh.
The first white tiger in Madhya Pradesh’s was spotted in Vindhya region in 1915. However, the rare breed of the big cat spotted for the first time died in 1920. In 1951, a white tiger cub named Mohan was captured by Rewa Maharaja Martand Singh. Later the tiger cub became the progenitor of all known white tigers in the world after the Maharaja arranged for its breeding.
White tigers in India are nothing but a pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger. They have been reported in the wild from time to time in the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal, Bihar. These tigers have white fur because of the lack of the pigment pheomelanin, which is found in Bengal tigers with orange colour fur.

Antibiotic resistance making gonorrhea difficult to treat

According to a new warning from the World Health Organization (WHO), antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhea difficult to treat. . Therefore, developing a vaccine is urgently needed to stop global spread of super-gonorrhoea.

About Gonorrhoea

Gonorrhoea disease (also called the clap) is caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It spreads by unprotected sex. Its symptoms include a thick green or yellow discharge from sexual organs, pain when urinating and bleeding between periods in case of in women. In many cases, no symptoms are seen at all. Untreated gonorrhoeae infection can lead to infertility in both genders, pelvic inflammatory disease in women and can be passed on to a child during pregnancy. According to WHO, about 78 million people pick up the sexually transmitted infection each year due to Gonorrhoea.

South Asia Wildlife Enforcement Network (SAWEN) is an intergovernmental wildlife law enforcement support body of South Asian countries namely - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

SAWEN was officially launched in January, 2011 in Paro Bhutan.

It promotes regional cooperation to combat wildlife crime in South Asia. It focuses on policy harmonization; institutional capacity strengthening through knowledge and intelligence sharing; and collaboration with regional and international partners to enhance wildlife law enforcement in the member countries. SAWEN operates its activities from the Secretariat based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

RPA 1950 vs RPA 1951

Representation of the People Act of 1950 provides for the qualifications of voters, preparation of electoral rolls, delimitation of constituencies, allocation of seats in the Parliament and state legislatures and so on.

Representation of the People Act of 1951 provides for the actual conduct of elections and deals with administrative machinery for conducting elections, the poll, election offences, election disputes, byelections, registration of political parties and so on.

Tobin Tax:

A means of taxing spot currency conversions that was originally suggested by American economist James Tobin (1918-2002). The Tobin tax was developed with the intention of penalizing short-term currency speculation, and to place a tax on all spot conversions of currency. Rather than a consumption tax paid by consumers, the Tobin tax was meant to apply to financial sector participants as a means of controlling the stability of a given country's currency.

A Pigovian tax is a tax on a good or service that causes a harm to society that is not paid by the users of that good or service. It is designed to pay for the negative externalities of the good.

A Sin tax is a tax levied against any undesired activity. This includes taxes on alcohol and cigarettes.

A ghetto tax is a term used to describe how people with low incomes pay higher prices for goods and services, particularly those living in poverty-stricken areas.

Sunday, June 3, 2018

June 01 2018

1. India is the world’s largest producer of milk

2. ICC induct Nepal, Scotland, Netherlands, UAE in ODI rankings

3. PM Modi gives Padma Shri award to ex-Singaporean diplomat

4. PM Modi launches BHIM, RuPay and SBI apps in Singapore

5. Andhra to give ₹1,000 monthly allowance to unemployed youth

6. Govt approves construction of 1.5 lakh houses for urban poor

7. Indian-American teen wins US’ Scripps National Spelling Bee

8. US imposes steel, aluminium tariffs on EU, Canada and Mexico

9. Foundation laid for India’s first Advanced DNA Forensic Lab in Chandigarh

10. RIMPAC 2018: 26 countries including India to participate in biennial exercise in US

11. India, Japan, US: Malabar Exercise 2018 to be held off coast of Guam in Philippine Sea

12. Former Himachal Pradesh Governor Urmila Singh passes away

13. Yuvraj Singh Awarded ‘Most Inspiring Icon Of The Year For Social Welfare’

14. Infosys concludes acquisition of US based Wongdoody at $75 million

15. India, Singapore exchange eight key agreements

16. Be an informer to Income Tax dept; earn up to Rs 5 crore

17. IRCTC joined hands with delivery service partners TRAPIGO

18. North and South Korea hold high level talks at Panmunjom

19. Pedro Sanchez takes charge in Spain

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May 31 2018

1. Kuwait proposes ‘international protection’ for Palestinians

2. Kim Yong-chol 1st N Korean official to visit US in 18 years

3. Singer Zubeen Garg to receive PETA award

4. Indian economy grew 7.7% in Q4

5. GOI and World Bank signs $500 Million Additional Financing for Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Rural Roads Project

6. Facebook partners with NCW to launch Digital Literacy Programme

7. Andhra Pradesh notifies new state symbols after bifurcation

8. Government launches India’s first ever guidelines for Adventure Tourism

9. Mission Raftar: Ministry of Railways organizes one day workshop to raise speed of trains

10. Lt Gen Ranbir Singh appointed Northern Army Commander

11. Defence Minister inaugurates IAF Commanders’ Conference

12. CRY receives USD 100,000 grant from Oracle

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28 May - 2 June 2018.*

● India's 1st Advanced DNA Forensic Laboratory In Chandigarh

● Government Launches New Scheme ‘ Seva Bhoj Yojna '

● Giuseppe Conte Sworn In As Italian PM To New Populist Government

● Nirmala Sitharaman Inaugurated 1st IAF Commanders Conference In New Delhi

● Tata Motors Signs MoU With Maharashtra To Promote e-Mobility

● US Pacific Command Renamed As Indo-Pacific Command

● Indian Economy Grows 7.7% In 4th Quarter : Central Statistics Data

● Kendrick Lamar Receives Pulitzer Prize In Music

● Kailash Satyarthi And ISRO Chief Gets ' Santokbaa Humanitarian ' Award

● Patanjali Launches New Messaging App ' Kimbho '

● India And World Bank Signs $500 Million Additional Financing For PMGSY

● 3rd Meeting of India-UK Home Affairs’ Dialogue Held In New Delhi

● Kamaljit Bawa 1st Indian To Receive Linnean Medal

● Kerala Cartoonist Thomas Antony Wins International Award

● Yuvraj Singh Awarded ' Most Inspiring Icon Of The Year For Social Welfare '

● Power Minister Launches Web Portal And App Called ' PRAAPTI '

● Gujarat Government Launches ' Reuse Of Treated Waste Water Policy '

● Justice R.K. Agrawal Appointed NCDRC Chairman

● Virat Kohli Emerged As International Cricketer Of Year : CEAT Ratings

● NIC Launches India's 4th Data Centre In Bhubaneswar

● Main Event Of 4th International Yoga Day Celebrations To Be Held At Dehradun

● Cochin International Airport , World’s 1st Fully Solar Energy-Powered Airport : UNEP

● Sudha Balakrishnan Appointed 1st CFO Of RBI

● ' Sangeeta Bahl ' Oldest Indian. Woman To Scale Mount Everest

● Indian Singer Zubeen Garg To Receive PETA Award

● Gopabandhu Sambadika Swasthya Bima Yojana Is Odisha’s Health Insurance Scheme

● Pedro Sanchez Was Sworn As New PM Of Spain

● 3rd Annual Meeting Of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Begins In Pune

● Andhra CM Launches 3rd Year Of Chandranna Bima Yojana

● India’s Ranks 113 Out Of 175 In Childhood Index

● Justice Nasirul Mulk Takes Oath As Caretaker Pakistan PM

● Lt. Gen Devraj Anbu Appointed As Vice Chief Of Army Staff .

● Microsoft Becomes 3rd Most Valuable Firm Globally After Apple And Amazon

● HDFC Bank’s Aditya Puri Figures In Barron’s Top 30 Global CEO List

● Gaj Yatra Launched In Garo Hills Of Meghalaya

● Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra Gets Additional Charge Of DRDO

● Alicia Pucheta First Woman Interim President Of Paraguay

● Himachal Govt Launches ‘ Prakriti Kheti Khushhaal Kissan Yojana ’ To Promote Organic Farming

● ‘ Polythene Hatao , Paryavaran Bachao Campaign ’ Launched By Himachal Pradesh CM

● 1st Edition Of Global Wind Summit In Hamburg , Germany

● India , US , Japan Start 22nd Malabar Exercise In Guam

● Ibrahima Kassory Fofana Sworn In As Prime Minister Of Guinea

● BCCI , UN Environment Sign Agreement To Promote 'Green’ Cricket In India

● PM Modi Gives Padma Shri Award To Former Singaporean Diplomat Tommy Koh

● IOC Most Profitable State Owned Company For 2nd Consecutive Year

● Andhra Pradesh’s State Official Bird – Rose Ringed Parakeet

● Justice Murari To Be Chief Justice Of Punjab & Haryana High Court

● EAM Sushma Swaraj Embarks On Five-Day Visit To South Africa.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

30 May 2018================- Today (29th May 2018) is International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.

- New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Nepal's Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest on this day (29th May) in the year 1953, becoming the first people to stand atop the world's highest mountain.

- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today embarks on a 5 day visit to Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

- Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs Javad Zarif is on 1 day visit to India.

- To protect elephants from Tura in Garo Hills of Meghalaya, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) rolled out an awareness campaign titled ‘Gaj Yatra’.

- ⭐️ In collaboration with State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali launched 'Swadeshi Samriddhi' SIM cards.

- ⭐️ The Finance Ministry today clarified that renting or leasing of land by farmers for agriculture, forestry, fishing or animal husbandry is exempt from Goods and Services Tax (GST).

- Tto press for higher wage revision, the union of bank employees has called for 2-day nationwide bank strike on 30th and 31st May 2018.

- French billionaire industrialist and the Chairman of aerospace giant Dassault Group, Serge Dassault (93), passed away.

- Former Supreme Court Judge Justice R K Agrawal has been appointed as the President of National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC).

- ⭐️ NIC Launches India's 4th Data Centre in Bhubaneswar

- Main Event of 4th International Yoga Day Celebrations To Be Held At Dehradun

- DAC Approves Procurement of Equipment for Defence Forces

- ⭐️ Cochin International Airport, World’s 1st Fully Solar Energy-Powered Airport: UNEP

- ⭐️ Sudha Balakrishnan Appointed 1st CFO of RBI

♦️**Expected Essay Topics for SBI PO MAINS 2018** ♦️

1. is bank recapitalization a panacea for the banking sector?

2. The non-Performing Assets (NPA) and their impact

3. Impact and scope of GST Bill in India

4. Merger of associate banks with SBIs impact on in Indian economy

5. Has Modi government lived up to it’s claims

6. Are digital payments and E – Wallets the future of transition in India?

7. Ambit and Expansion of Aadhaar Card’s scope in India

8. National Payment Scheme advantages & Disadvantages

9. The bharat Mala project

10. Demonetization – Gains and the loses

11. Triple Talaq

12. Farmer’s-suicide-issue

13. Should India accept Rohingya Refugees

14. Improvements in our Education System?

15. Impact of Consolidation and merger in Banking Sector- Merger of SBI Associate and Bharatiya Mahila Bank with SBI

16. Future of Banking Industry

17. What is the impact of Reliance Jio to other telecom operators?

18. What is Bharat QR Code?

19. Demonetization and its impact on Indian Economy

20. Reason behind increasing NPA in PSU Banks while private sector banks making profit

21. What is Cyber Swachhta Kendra?

22. What is Mobile Wallet/e-wallet- like PayTM, Jio Money, Airtel Money PayUMoney & its impact on society?

23. GST and its impact on Indian Economy

24. Goods and Services Tax

25. Sanitation and Cleanliness in India

26. Pros and cons of allowing 10 year old children to open bank accounts

27. Demonetization of old 500 & 1000 rupees notes – Is it a good move?

28. Sexual harassment in workplace causes and remedies.

29. China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) Project

30. Present Education System in India

31. Women Empowerment in India

32. SBI merger with associate banks – Good or Bad?

33. Loan waiver for farmers – Good or Bad?

34. Impact of Demonetization on Indian Economy

35. Union Budget 2017-18 – Is it beneficial for the common man?

36. Is India ready to be a Cashless Economy?

37. Is it really worth to become a cashless economy?

38. How can we deal with increasing Cyber Crimes?

39. India’s fight against ‘Black Money’

40. Alcohol Ban in India – Pros and Cons

41. Consequences of Brexit

42. Merger of SBI with its associates

43. Resentment over 7th Pay Commission

44. MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) formation

45. Rising NPAs of Indian Banks

46. India’s NSG Debacle

47. What to expect from the new RBI Governor

48. 7% Growth in Indian Economy : Figures and Realities

49. Make In India: Where we have reached

50. Modi Government : Achievements and Challenge

28 May 2018- CSK defeat SRH to clinch record equalling 3rd IPL total

- 4th Element - ruthenium ( Ru ) showing magnetism at room temperature found

- PM inaugurated india's 1st 14 lane highway

- TCS First Company To Achieve Market Cap Rs7 Trillion Mark

- Navy Conducts Security Exercise ' Prasthan ' In Mumbai

- Kerala Tourism Will Inaugurate The World’s Largest Bird Sculpture

- Manipur First North Eastern State To Get Solar Toilet

- India Ranks 145th In Terms Of Healthcare Access And Quality Index

- Arjun Vajpai Successfully Climbed Kanchenjunga The World’s 3rd Highest Peak

- Sushil Chandra’s Term Extends For 1 Year As Chairman Of CBDT

- Anubrata Biswas New MD & CEO Of Airtel Payment Bank

- Columbia The First Latin American Nation To Join NATO

- Saad Hariri As The Prime Minister Of Lebanon For The Third Time, Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

- 1st Smart & Green Highway Eastern Peripheral Expressway At Baghpat In UP

- Japanese Women’s Badminton Team Has Clinched The Uber Cup 2018

- IIT Bombay Have Been Awarded The Clarivate Analytics India Innovation Award 2018

- Rustom-2 Drone To Be Delivered To Armed Forces By 2020 - DRDO .

*27 May 2018 .* ● TCS First Company To Achieve Market Cap Rs7 Trillion Mark

● Navy Conducts Security Exercise ' Prasthan ' In Mumbai

● Kerala Tourism Will Inaugurate The World’s Largest Bird Sculpture

● Manipur First North Eastern State To Get Solar Toilet

● India Ranks 145th In Terms Of Healthcare Access And Quality Index

● Arjun Vajpai Successfully Climbed Kanchenjunga The World’s 3rd Highest Peak

● Sushil Chandra’s Term Extends For 1 Year As Chairman Of CBDT

● Anubrata Biswas New MD & CEO Of Airtel Payment Bank

● Columbia The First Latin American Nation To Join NATO

● Saad Hariri As The Prime Minister Of Lebanon For The Third Time

● 1st Smart & Green Highway Eastern Peripheral Expressway At Baghpat In UP

● Japanese Women’s Badminton Team Has Clinched The Uber Cup 2018

● IIT Bombay Have Been Awarded The Clarivate Analytics India Innovation Award 2018

● Rustom-2 Drone To Be Delivered To Armed Forces By 2020 - DRDO .

Saturday, May 26, 2018

26 May 2018================- 25th May is International Missing Children's Day.

- Netherlands Becomes 64th Signatory Member of International Solar Alliance

- Nepal, 1st Country in South-East Asia to Eliminate Trachoma, DGZ: WHO

- ⭐️ Airtel Payments Bank Appoints Anubrata Biswas As MD and CEO

- ⭐️ Tejaswini Strikes Gold at Munich Grand Prix

- Surya Kiran-XIII, the 13th edition of India-Nepal joint military exercise will be held at Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand during 30th May to 12th June 2018.

- UK's Prince William, who is second-in-line to the British throne, will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories in June.

- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the Bangladesh Bhavan in West Bengal's Santiniketan in the presence of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.

- The Congress-JD(S) alliance today proved its majority with the support of 117 MLAs during the floor test in Karnataka Assembly, making .

- A 2-day offshore security exercise, code named 'Exercise Prasthan', conducted by the Eastern Naval Command in the Offshore Development Area (ODA) off the coast of Mumbai.

- ⭐️ The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) launched Samagra Shiksha scheme to improve quality of school education.

- India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has reported a loss of Rs. 7,718 crore in the January-March quarter, hurt by higher provisions for bad loans. Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

- The 5th India-CLMV (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam) Business Conclave was held at Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

- The 15th Finance Commission has constituted High Level Group to explore and give recommendations for a balanced expansion of the health sector.

- One of India's most decorated Generals, Lieutenant General Zorawar Chand Bakshi (97), passed away.

- The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Common Service Centres (CSC) Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) signed MoU for providing financial support village level entrepreneurs in CSCs.

- Six-time Congress MLA Ramesh Kumar has been unanimously elected as the Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly after the BJP withdrew nomination for its candidate Suresh Kumar.

- ⭐️ Power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has appointed Pravin L Agrawal as the part-time official director on its board.

- Arunachal Pradesh-based NGO Singchung Bugun Community Reserve (SBVCR) won the India Biodiversity Award 2018 in the “Conservation of wildlife species” category.

15 Important Revolutions in India
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▪️ Black Revolution Related with Petroleum Production

▪️ Blue Revolution Related with Fish Production

▪️ Brown Revolution Related with Leather, Cocoa

▪️ Golden Fibre Revolution Related with Jute Production

▪️ Golden Revolution Related with Overall Horticulture, Honey, Fruit Production

▪️ Green Revolution Related with Agriculture Production

▪️ Grey Revolution Related with Fertilizers

▪️ Pink Revolution Related with Onions, Prawn

▪️ Red Revolution Related with Meat, Tomato Production

▪️ Evergreen Revolution Intended for overall agriculture production growth

▪️ Round Revolution Related with Potato Production

▪️ Silver Fibre Revolution Related with Cotton Production

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▪️ Silver Revolution Related with Egg Production

▪️ White Revolution Related with Dairy, Milk Production

▪️ Yellow Revolution Related with Oil Seed Production Round Revolution Related with Potato

25 May 2018 - India-Nepal Joint Military Exercise SURYA KIRAN To Be Held In Uttarakhand - Sushant Singh Rajput to Promote 2 Major Initiatives of NITI Aayog
- NITI Aayog, ABB India Sign Pact to Benefit India From AI, Robotics
- Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 Presented to INSV Tarini Team
- India has jumped one spot to 44th this year in Global competitive rankings released by Switzerland-based IMD World Competitiveness Center.
- The United States has "disinvited" China from the 'world's largest international maritime exercise' Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) over China's continued militarisation of the disputed South China Sea, according to the Pentagon.
- The United States has "disinvited" China from the 'world's largest international maritime exercise' Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) over China's continued militarisation of the disputed South China Sea, according to the Pentagon.
- Palestine has become the 193rd nation to join the Chemical Weapons Convention. - Pakistan hosted its 1st ever Shanghai Cooperation Organisation-Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (SCO-RATS) legal experts meeting in Islamabad.
- Uttar Pradesh government is planning to change the name of Allahabad to 'Prayagraj' before Kumbh Mela in the city next year.
- The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) has ordered the closure of the Sterlite Copper plant in Tuticorin amid ongoing protests by locals.
- The union Cabinet has approved implementation of Comprehensive Telecom Development Plan (CTDP) Project for North Eastern Region (NER) in Meghalaya to improve mobile services.
- Late actress Sridevi was posthumously conferred with the BRICS Business Forum Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement in Indian Cinema.
- The Cabinet has approved promulgation of an ordinance to amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).
- Venezuela's envoy to India Augusto Montiel has announced that the South American country is willing to accept oil payments from India in rupees.
- Governments of India, Netherlands and Sweden launched first-of-its-kind collaborative research programme on HIV/AIDS.
- North Korea today completed dismantling its Punggye-ri nuclear test site in a ceremony attended by journalists.
- 3 Banks New Chair Person Charan Singh - Punjab & Sind Bank, Anjali Bansal - Dena Bank, Tapan Ray - Central Bank of India
- Former Supreme Court judge CK Prasad has been appointed the Chairperson of the Press Council of India (PCI) for a second term.
- Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo has been named as the World's Most Famous Athlete for the third straight year in ESPN's annual rankings.
- The Union Cabinet has approved an ordinance to set up India’s first national sports university in in Imphal (west), Manipur.

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Tuesday, May 22, 2018

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MPLAD Scheme
Why in news?
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal to continue the MPLAD Scheme beyond the 12th Plan period (2012-17) up to March 31, 2020, an official statement said today.

What is MPLAD scheme?
Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme provides that each MP has the choice to suggest to the Head of the District works to the tune of ₹5 crore per year, to be taken up in his/her constituency.
Initially, this scheme was administered by Ministry of Rural Development. Later, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI) has been looking into its working.
Elected Members of RajyaSabha and nominated members of both Houses may select works for implementation in one or more district(s) as they may choose.
It also allows MPs to spend up to ₹10 lakh in any other constituency in India.

National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)

NSAP comprises of five sub-schemes namely-

1. Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme (IGNOAPS),
2. Indira Gandhi National Widow Pension Scheme (IGNWPS),
3. Indira Gandhi National Disability Pension Scheme (IGNDPS),
4. National Family Benefit Scheme (NFBS) and
5. Annapurna Scheme.

♻️The above schemes of NSAP are implemented both in urban and rural areas, by the Social Welfare Department in the States.