LEGEND MAGAZINE (AUGUST - 2019) Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue: 21 | Page : 48 | Topic : Legend of August 2019 | Price: Not for Sale AUGUST CURRENT AFFAIRS system uses existing CCTV cameras to gather live survey will take place in 18 thousand villages of traffic video feed, and automatically evaluates the 698 districts. People can also directly give their traffic density using Artificial Intelligence, and feedback through the mobile app. NATIONAL NEWS sets the signal timers accordingly. ➢ Swachhata activities have also been planned at around 87 thousand public places where 2ND ALL INDIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF Haryana Assembly Passes Resolution To community meetings will be organized. Under the IIS OFFICERS HELD IN NEW DELHI Thank Centre For Scrapping Article 370 Swachh Survekshan Grameen, districts and ➢ The Second All India Annual Conference ➢ Haryana Assembly today passed a states will be ranked on data collected from of Indian Information Service Officers was resolution by voice vote to support and thank the citizen feedback, direct observation and service- organized at Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra in New Central government for deciding to repeal Article level progress. Delhi today. 370 of the Constitution granting special status ➢ The second edition of survey was launched by ➢ The Conference was organized with a view to to J&K. The government announced Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh attain greater integration of all Media Units under the repealing of Article 370 which grants Shekhawat in New Delhi. the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in special status to Jammu and Kashmir. order to further amplify government ➢ Bifurcation of the state into two Union PM Modi Inaugurates New Lighting System communication. territories – Jammu and Kashmir, which will In Parliament House ➢ The Conference included sessions on Adoption have a legislature, and Ladakh, which will be ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the of Integrated and Theme Based Communication without a legislature. Leader of the house Dynamic Facade Lighting of the Parliament Approach; Regional Expansion of Social Media Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal House Estate. As many as 875 energy-efficient and use of Integrated Dashboard and also the presented the resolution in the house. LED lights have been installed in the Parliament Adoption of Government Communication Impact ➢ The main aim is providing good governance, Complex. These are power efficient and uses Assessment Framework; Roadmap for celebration social justice and economic development in only one-fifth of the electricity compared to of 550th Anniversary of Guru Nanak, 150th Jammu and Kashmir. The Upper House also other types of lights. Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, 75 Years of passed the Jammu and Kashmir ➢ The long-lasting, excellent intensity LED bulbs India’s Independence and Golden Jubilee Reorganization Bill, 2019 by voice vote. are capable of creating 16 million colour Edition of International Film Festival of India. Jammu And Kashmir Reorganisation Bill combinations and the LED lighting is Rajasthan Assembly Passes Bills To Curb 2019 To Be Tabled In LS programmable and electronically controlled Honour Killings And Mob Lynching ➢ The government will move Jammu and through computers. The dynamic lighting system ➢ Rajasthan legislative assembly passed Kashmir Reorganisation Bill through intermittent multi-colour lights creates two important bills to curb honour killings and 2019 for consideration and passage in Lok an aura and enhances the grandeur of Parliament Mob Lynching in the state. Sabha. The Lower House will also take up House. ➢ ‘The Rajasthan Protection from Lynching the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation ➢ These beautiful lights will illuminate the Bill, 2019‘ and ‘The Rajasthan Prohibition of (Second Amendment) Bill 2019 having beautiful Parliament building all-round the Interference with the Freedom of provisions of 10 per cent reservation year. Earlier, such lightings were installed in Matrimonial Alliances in the Name of Honour for Economically Weaker Sections among the North Block and South Block. Lok Sabha and Tradition Bill, 2019’ was passed by the general category. Speaker Om Birla, and Union Ministers assembly. ➢ Home Minister Amit Shah assured the including Hardeep Puri and Jitendra Singh ➢ Rajasthan has become the second state members that he would move the bill and the were present on the occasion. after Manipur which passed a law to curb resolution for consideration of the House. Rajya lynching cases. Provision of Life term Sabha adopted resolutions to scrap Article 370 J&K Govt To Host Global Investors Summit imprisonment and a fine up to Rupees 5 lakh and Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir. The Bill In Srinagar From October 12 to convicts in cases of mob lynching has been seeks to make Jammu and Kashmir a Union ➢ Jammu and Kashmir government will host a made in the bill. Territory with the legislature and Ladakh Union three-day Global Investors Summit from 12th Territory without legislature. October this year in Srinagar. It was announced Mohali Gets First 3-D Traffic Signal ➢ The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation by J&K Principal Secretary of Industries ➢ In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the (Second Amendment) Bill 2019 having Naveen Choudhary while addressing a press country, Mohali traffic police have launched 3- provisions of 10 per cent reservation for conference in Jammu. D Smart Traffic Signal devised by the students Economically Weaker Sections of upper ➢ The first ever summit in the state will provide of a Chandigarh university. caste in the state was also passed by the Rajya J&K an opportunity to showcase its strengths, ➢ The wireless system, called ‘Intelights’, has Sabha. strategies and potential. Choudhary further been installed at the traffic crossing near the Jal Shakti Minister Launches Swaccha informed that the summit will also provide an Airport Road, on a pilot project basis, and will Survakshan Grameen opportunity to allay fears and apprehensions in regulate traffic signals with a smart bird’s eye ➢ Centre launched the country’s largest the minds of outside trade and business view wireless sensor system. sanitation survey Swachh Survekshan community. ➢ The team worked to develop one-of-its-kind, Grameen-2019. real-time solution for defending ‘Green ➢ The aim of this survey is to engage rural Former PM Manmohan Singh Files Rajya Corridors’ for ambulances while controlling the communities in improvement of the Sabha Nomination From Rajasthan movement of vehicles on roads. sanitation status of their districts and states ➢ Intelights proposes a 360-degree solution to through intensive campaign. The 45-day long curb the rising problem of traffic congestion. The ________________________________________________________ 7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 2 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | AUGUST - 2019| ➢ Former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh SC Orders That List Of Those Excluded From in Class 11. According to the revised norms, the filed nomination papers as a Congress candidate Final Assam NRC Be Published Only Online Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students for the by-poll to Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. On Aug 31 will have to pay Rs 1,200 for five subjects, while ➢ Dr. Singh filed four sets of nomination papers ➢ The Supreme Court ordered that the list of earlier they were supposed to pay Rs 50 for the in the chamber of Returning Officer in the those excluded from the final Assam NRC be same, a hike of 24 times. Rajasthan Assembly. This seat fell vacant in June published only online on 31st of August. A ➢ The general category students, who were this year after demise of BJP Member Madan Lal bench comprises Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi paying Rs 750 earlier, will now pay Rs 1,500 for Saini. Rajasthan Assembly has 200 seats but and Justice R F Nariman informed that like five subjects. The students enrolled in CBSE currently there are 198 MLAs and two seats are Aadhaar data, an appropriate regime be enacted schools abroad will have to pay Rs 10,000 vacant. Congress has 100 MLAs and also enjoys for securing the Assam NRC data. for five subjects for both Class 10 and 12. the outside support of 12 out of 13 independents ➢ The apex court also said, the on-going NRC Earlier it was Rs 5000. For them, the fees for and the legislators of BSP. exercise cannot be ordered to be reopened on the an additional subject in Class 12 have been fixed basis of certain legal challenges raised before at Rs 2,000, as against Rs 1,000 earlier. NGT Directs Govt To Submit A Report On it. The top court had earlier announced, the final Chhattisgarh: 15-Km Long National Flag Standards For Lead In PVC Pipes Assam NRC would be published on or by 31st Unfurled In Raipur ➢ The National Green Tribunal has directed the August. ➢ In Chhattisgarh, thousands of students and Centre to submit a report on standards of lead India Celebrates Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th members of several social organisations unfurled and to phase out lead as a stabiliser in Polyvinyl Birth Anniversary a 15-km long national flag by forming a human Chloride (PVC) pipes that are commonly used in ➢ Country celebrated the 100th birth chain in Raipur, ahead of the Independence most buildings. anniversary of scientist and innovator Day. ➢ A bench headed by NGT chairperson Vikram Sarabhai, with a people. Dr. Sarabhai is ➢ The event, organised by Vasudhaiv Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel expressed concern considered as the father of India’s space Kutumbakam Foundation, entered the that the notification has not been finalised despite program, and his centenary comes just weeks Champions Book of World Records (for the its direction. It directed the Ministry of after India’s Chandrayaan-2 mission to the moon. longest tricolour), a statement issued by Environment and Forests to submit a report ➢ He was born in Ahmedabad in 1919; Dr.