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NATIONAL NEWS Centre sets up 7-member GoM led by projected on the capital expenditure in Rajnath singh to review crop insurance infrastructure sectors in India during the fiscals Government creates new Department of scheme-PMFBY: 2020 to 2025. The capital expenditure will be military affairs headed by Bipin Rawat: Government has formed a 7-member group of shared by the Centre, States and the private Following the change in the Government of India ministers (GoM) headed by Defense Minister sector in the ratio 39:39:22 respectively. (Allocation of Business), Rules 1961, the Ministry Rajnath Singh to review the crop insurance of Defence (MoD) has got it’s 5th department scheme, “Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana 2nd National GST Conference to streamline namely 'Department of Military affairs (DMA) (PMFBY) ” for making improvments as per the GST system held in New Delhi: ’, which is to be headed by Chief of Defence Staff need of the farmers. This move comes after the 2nd edition of the National GST Conference of the (CDS) General Bipin Rawat. The new concerns over growing dissent among farmers Commissioners of State Tax and Chief department works for the unity of the three forces about the scheme, dropping out of 4 insurance Commissioners of Central Tax was held in New Army, Navy and Air Force and will also monitor companies (ICICI Lombard, Tata AIG, Delhi under the chairmanship of Dr Ajay the services except for capital acquisitions Cholamandalam MS, and Shriram General Bhushan Pandey, Revenue Secretary of the according to prevalent rules and procedures. Insurance), and exit of states like Bihar, West Ministry of Finance (MoF). The conference was Bengal and Andhra Pradesh (AP) from the held to streamline the GST (Goods and Service 107th Indian Science Congress held in scheme. Tax) system and also to plug revenue leakages. Bengaluru, Karnataka: Committee constitution: A committee of the Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi India hosts Asia Pacific drosophila research centre and state officers for examining and inaugurated the 107th edition of the Indian conference 1st time; 5th edition overall: implementing quick measures to curb fraudulent Science Congress (ISC) also known as ISC The Asia Pacific drosophila research conference refund claims was decided to be constituted. The 2020 at the University of Agricultural Sciences (APDRC) is being conducted in India for the 1st committee will be implemented by the end of (UAS) in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The theme of time from January 6-10 in Pune, Maharashtra. January 2020. ISC for the year 2020 was “Science and Overall this is the 5th edition of the biennial CBDT, CBIC and GSTN Mou Signing: A Technology: Rural Development”. conference and is known by the name APDRC5. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) would be Objective: The main objective of the summit was It is organised by Indian Institute of Science signed among Central Board of Direct to bridge the gap between farmers and tech- Education and Research (IISER). Taxes(CBDT), Central Board of Indirect Taxes and developers. The key highlights of the event are as Aim: The conference aims to promote the Customs (CBIC) and GST-Network (GSTN) to follows: interaction of Drosophila researchers in the Asia- exchange data through Application Program a) The Defence Research and Development Pacific region with the rest of the world. Interface (API) among them. Organization (DRDO) participated in the “Pride of Data sharing: This data will be shared on a India- Science Expo- 2020” at the 107th ISC. Cabinet approval with foreign countries on quarterly basis instead of yearly basis. b) Prime Minister also launched the Indian January 8, 2020: Science Technology and Engineering facilities Map a) Approval for MoU between India & United Maharashtra celebrates January 6, 2020, as (I-STEM) Portal during ISC. Kingdom (UK) for enabling energy self State’s Journalists’ Day: c) During the ISC, Women Science Congress was sufficiency for Indian railways. The Government of Maharashtra celebrates the held. DRDO Aeronautical Systems Director b) Approval for MoU between India & Sweden on 6th of January as a state’s Journalists' Day General Dr.Tessy Thomas famously known as cooperation in Polar Science. every year. It was celebrated in the memory of Missile Woman of India was the chief guest for the c) Approval for ratification of migration and late thespian journalist Balshastri Jambhekar. He event. mobility partnership agreement between India & was born on January 6, 1812, in the village of d) During ISC 2020, for the 1st time Farmer’s France. Pombhurle in Devgad taluka in the Konkan region Science Congress was conducted. d) Approval for agreement between India & of Maharashtra..He was known as ‘The Father Mongolia on cooperation in the exploration of Marathi Journalism’, for his efforts in For the 1st time, Vizag (Andhra Pradesh) to and uses of outer space. starting journalism in the Marathi language. He host 14th Global healthcare summit in 2021: came out with the first newspaper in the Marathi The American Association of Physicians of Indian Kerala became 1st State to pass resolution language named ‘Darpan’ in 1832. He was the Origin (AAPI), a professional association for against citizenship Amendment Act: first Indian to have published research papers in Indian American physicians, is set to organize a Kerala has become the 1st state in the country the quarterly journal of the Asiatic Society and 3-days long 14th Global Healthcare Summit to pass a resolution scrapping the Citizenship was the first person to print Dnyaneshwari in (GHS) in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). The resolution 1845. (AP) from January 3, 2021 for the 1st time to was moved by Kerala’s Chief Minister Shri focus on public health hazards, eradication of Pinarayee Vijayan and was seconded by the 5th Swachh Survekshan League: Indore tuberculosis(TB), preventing maternal mortality, Leader of Opposition Ramesh Chennithala. As per tops ranking among cities having 10lac+ control of Hepatitis B etc. Kerala cabinet, Citizenship Act was passed in population: 1955 followed all international conventions but The result of Swachh Survekshan League Pragati Maidan metro station renamed as present act is not adhering them. (Quarter 1 and Quarter 2) was announced by Supreme Court metro station in New Delhi: Union minister of State (MoS- Independent The Delhi Government’s renaming committee, 2019-2025 National Infrastructure Pipeline Charge) Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) Shri headed by Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, has report: Rs 102 lakh crore infrastructure plan Hardeep Singh Puri, at an event in New Delhi. renamed Pragati Maidan metro station as unveiled: The 5th edition of the Swachh Survekshan 2020 Supreme Court metro station following the The Union Minister of Finance Smt. Nirmala (urban cleanliness survey), which is to commence demand made by Supreme Court (SC) in Sitharaman released a report of the task force from 4 January 2020 by MoHUA was also rolled September 2019. The committee has also decided on National Infrastructure Pipeline for 2019-2025 out across India exept West Bengal. The key to rename Mukarba Chowk and its flyover after (NIP 2019-25) in order to achieve the $5 winners were: Kargil war martyr Captain Vikram Batra, MB trillion economy by 2024-25. Based on the a) >10lakh population: Indore Road as Acharya Sri Mahapragya Marg and The information compiled by the task force headed b) 1-10 lakh population: Jamshedpur Lajpat Nagar flyover to Jhulelal Setu. by Economic Affairs Secretary Atanu (Jharkhand) Chakraborty, Rs 102 lakh crores has been ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 2 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | JANUARY - 2020|

10k cameras to be used for 2020 Asiatic lion India and Pakistan exchanged list of Nuclear arrived at the yelahanka air base in census in Gujarat: Installations in their countries: Bengaluru. Following are the key highlights: Wildlife Institute of India (WII),an autonomous India and Pakistan exchanged lists of nuclear a) 3rd installment of Rs 2000 to 6 crore institution under the Ministry of Environment installations agreeing to not be targeted incase beneficiaries under PM KISAN released. Forest and Climate change(MoFCC), is set to of hostilities, through diplomatic channels b) 5 high-tech DRDO labs with under 35year conduct the Asiatic Lion Census in May 2020 by simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad aged scientists inaugurated. using around 8,000-10,000 cameras across (Pakistan). The exchange is based on the c) TN farmers handed over with deep sea fishing 25,000 sq.km (Square kilometre) area spanning agreement of prohibition of attack against nuclear vessels. 7 districts in Gujarat. National Tiger Conservation installations between India and Pakistan that d) 107th Indian Science Congress (ISC) Authority (NTCA) ’s technology will be used for came into force on January 27, 1991, under which inaugurated at the University of Agricultural the lion census. In the 2015 census, the area of the list is shared every year on January 1st. Sciences (UAS) in Bengaluru with Indian Science 15,000 sqkm surveyed where 523 lions reported Congress (ISC) 2020 theme: “Science and by WII in Gujarat. Gujarat to set up Vikram Sarabhai Children Technology: Rural Development”. Innovation Center soon: Ritualistic Festival ‘Lai Haroba’ begins in Gujarat will set its Vikram Sarabhai Children NEST division is formed by Ministry of Tripura: Innovation Center (VSCIC) soon. The objective of External Affairs: The five-day long Lai Haroba, a ritualistic festival the center is to identify, nurture and promote The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has set up observed by Manipuri meitei communities in innovation of children up to 18 years in the a New, Emerging and Strategic Technologies Agartala, Tripura was inaugurated by Speaker state.The innovation centre will come up in Dr APJ (NEST) division which helps to deal with new and of State legislative Assembly, Rebati Mohan Das. Abdul Kalam Centre for Extension Research and emerging technologies by partnering with 5G and The festival was organized by Department of Innovation at Gujarat University. artificial intelligence areas of other countries. Information and Cultural Affairs, Government of This division acts as the intermediate agency Tripura in collaboration with Puthiba Lai Haraoba 1st of-its kind turtle rehab centre comes up within the Ministry for issues pertaining to new Committee and Puthiba Welfare & Cultural in Bihar: and emerging technologies. Society, Agartala. The fest is celebrated through A 1st of its kind rehabilitation centre for oral literature, music, dance and rituals. freshwater turtles is to be inaugurated in January Visakhapatnam to host naval exercise 2020 in the Bhagalpur forest division of Bihar, ‘MILAN’ in March 2020: Gujarat CM unveiled world’s 2nd tallest which can shelter 500 turtles at a time. The centre The Vishakhapatnam city of Andhra Pradesh will statue of Vallabhbhai Patel in Ahmedabad: will also treat turtles that are sick, severely host International naval exercise ‘MILAN’ in Chief Minister of Gujarat Shri Vijay Ramniklal injured or smuggled, and then returned safely March 2020. The theme of the exercise for the Rupani unveiled the world’s 2nd largest statue into their natural habitat. year 2020 is ‘Synergy Across the Seas’. Milan of Sardar vallabhbhai Patel at Sardardham exercise which will be hosted by Eastern Naval campus near Vaishnodevi circle in Ahmedabad, J&K registers highest Inpatient Department Command (ENC) aims to enhance professional Gujarat. This bronze statue which is 50 feet tall (IPD) care in the country: interaction between foreign navies and also make weighing 70,000 kilograms was built at a cost of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K),Union territory of use of the best practices in the maritime domain. Rs 3.25 crores by Padma Bhushan awardee Ram India has registered the highest Inpatient 41 navies of different countries were invited Vanji Sutar(Sculptor) who also designed the Department, IPD care in the country. The state- so far, of which 30 navies have confirmed their world’s tallest, ‘statue of unity’ of Sardar Patel at wise fact sheet was released by National Health participation in MILAN 2020. Visakhapatnam Kevadiya in Narmada district of Central Gujarat at Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC), New Delhi. previously hosted International Fleet Review a cost of Rs 3000 crores. Overall, all women in J&K are availing Antennal (IFR) in February 2016. Care Services (ANC). Indian Railways launches integrated KVIC’s 1st Silk Processing Plant opens in helpline number 139 for passengers: Eight Crore farmer families benefited under Gujarat to boost Patola Saree production: The Indian Railways launched an integrated PM Kisan Scheme: Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) helpline number 139 for quick grievance, needs Nearly eight crore farmer families have benefited opened its first Silk Processing Plant in and enquiries by the passengers during journeys. under PM Kisan (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Surendranagar district of Gujarat to increase the It is an integrated form of existing helpline Nidhi) scheme. The scheme was launched on 24 production of Gujarat Patola Sarees. The Plant numbers (except 182) to avoid the inconvenience February 2019 by Prime Minister Shri Narendra was set up at a cost of Rs 75 lakh by Khadi over multiple helpline numbers. The helpline Modi in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. institution where Rs 60 lakh was contributed by number will be available in 12 languages and it KVIC. Patola Sarees are the trademark of Gujarat. will be based on an interactive voice response 2nd phase of Intensified Mission system. Indradhanush (IMI) 2.0 begins in Uttar Eight North-Eastern states to celebrate Pradesh: Madhavpur Mela in Gujarat on 2nd April 30% of Poshan Abhiyaan funds used in 3 The Union Government has launched 2nd phase 2020: years as per data shared in parliament: of vaccination drive under Intensified Mission Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for According to an analysis of the data shared by Indradhanush (IMI) 2.0 at block level in 35 Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER) Minister for Women and Child Development districts of Uttar Pradesh (UP). chaired a high- level meeting for the preparation (MoWCD) Smriti Irani in the Parliament, merely It is the 2nd phase of the nationwide of the annual festival Madhavpur Mela of 30% of the Poshan Abhiyan funds have been immunization drive to mark the 25 years of Pulse Gujarat which will be held at Madhavpur Ghed in used in 3 years. Apart from Mizoram, polio program. The previous version (IMI 1.0) Porbandar district of Gujarat on 2nd April 2020. Lakshadweep, Himachal Pradesh and Bihar, none was launched by the centre in 2017. Prior to this, The seven days festival celebrates the immortal of the state govt has used the fund granted to Mission Indradhanush launched in the year 2014, journey of Lord Krishna and Rukmini from them in the past 3 years. As per the data, a total which sought to achieve 90 % immunisation Arunachal Pradesh to Gujarat.The eight North- of Rs 4,283 crore was disbursed by the Centre to coverage in India by 2020. Eastern states namely Arunachal Pradesh, different States and Union Territories (UTs). From The 1st round of IMI 2.0 was completed in Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, this amount, Rs 1,283.89 crore was utilised until December 2019 and the next/ 3rd round of the Sikkim and Tripura will participate in this festival. October 31, 2019, which is just 29.97% of the mission will be launched in February 2020, where funds granted. it will cover 425 blocks of 73 districts of Uttar Chapchar kut festival to be celebrated in Pradesh (UP) state and 4th round will be launched Mizoram: 31st International Kite Festival launched in in March 2020. Chapchar Kut, the biggest and most important Ahmedabad, Gujarat: festival of the Mizos, will be celebrated by the The 31st International Kite Festival has been Overview of PM Modi’s 2-day visit to Government of Mizoram on March 6, 2020. The launched at Sabarmati riverfront in Ahmedabad, Karnataka: festival is generally celebrated after the Gujarat. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has The Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi completion of the Jhum cultivation, which is also inaugurated the colourful kite festival in the paid a 2 day visit to Karnataka to attend events known as the slash and burn agriculture. presence of Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat on in Tumakuru and Bengaluru cities of the state. He this occasion.

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Gujarat ranked top for water efficiency, for eligibility under the new Citizenship Food sector: The food tech industry in India is Delhi among worst performing states Amendment Act (CAA) 2019. This exercise will estimated to grow at a CAGR (Compounded Gujarat has been ranked the best for parameters identify the people living illegally in UP. The state Annual Growth Rate) of more than 12% between on efficiency targets in the review of state and government will also update the Ministry of Home 2016 and 2021. Central government water departments by the Affairs (MoHA) on illegal Muslim migrants in the ministry of Jal Shakti. Rajasthan is the third state and they could also be deported back to Eight States finalized Agriculture Export best and Delhi is among the worst performing their countries. Policy by the Government of India: states, according to the ranking for 2019 As per Agricultural and Processed Food Products circulated to different state governments 2019 Forest Survey of India report: one-fifth Export Development Authority (APEDA), eight recently. (21.40%) of India’s forests prone to fires: states namely Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Among the seven Central departments reviewed, According to a 2019 report by the Forest Survey Kerala, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Punjab, the Survey of India has got the top billing followed of India (FSI), about 21.40% of forest cover and Karnataka finalized an action plan for by the National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) of the country has been prone to fires. Among the Agriculture Export Policy (AEP) to enhance and Central Water Commission. The Central total forest areas, the north-eastern region in the exports. Agriculture Export Policy was approved Pollution Control Board, the country’s pollution country was found to be more vulnerable. by the Union Cabinet in 2018. It aims to increase watchdog, has got the lowest rank, in the ranking Mizoram topped among all the states with the the potential of Indian agriculture to make India for the year 2019. highest number of fire alerts at 2,795. The forest a global power in agriculture. fire points (FFP) identified during the 13 years Department of Heavy Industries sanctioned (2004-2017) were 2,77,758. While overall green 171 hospitals de-empanelled & Rs 4.5 cr fine 2636 EV charging stations across the cover in the country has been increased but forest imposed for fraud under Ayushman Bharat country: cover in the north east states have decreased scheme: Department of Heavy Industries headed by drastically. National Health Authority (NHA) which is the apex Prakash Javadekar had sanctioned 2636 EV body regulating and implementing ‘Ayushman (Electric Vehicles) charging stations in 62 cities Chandigarh railway station is fifth in the Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB- across 24 State/UTs under FAME India (Faster country and first in North India to PMJAY) ;’ has de-empanelled a total of 171 Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in inaugurate Navigation facilities for visually hospitals and also imposed penalty of Rs 4.5 India) phase II scheme to clean the mobility in impaired: crore on hospitals for committing fraud and Road Transport Sector. It aims to increase the Navigation facilities for visually impaired was indulging in malpractices under the Ayushman electric vehicle users and also encourage Original inaugurated in Chandigarh railway station in Bharat health insurance scheme. The PMJAY Equipment Manufacturer’s (OEM) to launch new Mohali, Punjab by Shri Gurinder Mohan Singh, health insurance cover provides health cover of electric models. FAME India II was started in April Divisional Railway Manager- Ambala Division. It Rs 5 lakh per family and not just Rs 5 lakh per e- 1, 2019 with the total outlay of Rs 10000 crore is fifth in the country and first in North India to card. for a period of three years. have this facility for visually impaired. It was developed by Indian Railway Stations Indian Railways to installs IP based Video Amit Shah to head group of ministers to Development Corporation (IRSDC) and Surveillance System and AI based Face examine the proposed National Tariff Policy: Makemytrip Foundation through NGO (Non- recognition systems in stations: Minister of Home Affairs (MoHA) Shri Amit Shah government organization) 'Anuprayaas'. Mysuru Face recognition technology developed using will head the Group of Ministers (GOM) to discuss Railway Station in Karnataka was India's first Artificial Intelligence (IP) has been installed in and examine the proposed National Tariff Policy visually impaired-friendly railway station Bengaluru, Manmad and Bhusawal stations as 2016. The policy if implemented, will bring a inaugurated in Nov 2015. test cases. The objective of the Railway Protection major reform in the stressed power sector but is Force (RPF) is to link the facial recognition system opposing by the state govts and discoms EC of India and Mauritius renewed MoU on with existing databases and identify the criminals. (Distribution Companies) due to clauses like cooperation in electoral management: Indian Railways is also in the process of installing penalties for load shedding. The interministerial The Election Commission of India(ECI) has Internet Protocol (IP) based Video Surveillance group will have 10 ministers comprising of 8 renewed its Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) System (VSS) at railway stations. In the last ministers in the cabinet rank and 2 ministers with on cooperation in the field of electoral budget Rs 250 crore was allocated to Indian independent charge. In the proposed draft management with the electoral commission of Railways from Nirbhaya funds for installation of amendments, the cross subsidies on industries Mauritius. The renewal was done at Port Louis of VSS in 983 railway stations. should not exceed 20% and subsidy is to be Mauritius and was signed by India’s Chief Election provided through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT). Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora and Mohammed 4th Buxa bird festival 2020 commenced in Irfan Abdool Rahman, Electoral Commissioner of West Bengal: Home ministry issues revised guidelines for Mauritius. A 3-day long 4th edition of the Buxa Bird Festival mutual legal assistance treaties 2020 has begun in Buxa National Park in the The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has CCI report: ‘Market Study on E-commerce in Alipurduar district of West Bengal(WB). The issued revised guidelines to expedite the delivery India:Key Findings and Observations’ festival, organized by West Bengal Forest of mutual legal assistance and justice in criminal released: Department, will see the participation of around matters with other countries under the The Competition Commission of India (CCI) 50 people, including prominent ornithologists, government’s policy of zero tolerance for crime at released a report titled “Market Study on E- birdwatchers and bird enthusiasts from Andaman all. commerce in India: Key Findings and and Nicobar Islands, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh In this regard, India has signed Mutual Legal Observations” after it was initiated by CCI in April and Delhi. Assistance Treaty (LLAT) with 42 countries in 2019 for better understanding a functioning of e- November 2019 for cooperation in criminal commerce in India. The study was also launched Kolkata Police started 3rd edition of matters & the MHA is also designated ‘Central to identify impediments (obstructions) to 'Sukanya' project: Authority of India’ for it. competition. Kolkata police of West Bengal started the 3rd The guidelines, issued in December 2019, are Revenue sector: Revenue from the e-commerce edition of the ‘Sukanya’ project in the state. The steps to speed up the delivery of justice. The sector is expected to increase from $39 billion in project provides self- defence training to girls revised guidelines will provide investigative 2017 to $120 billion in 2020, growing at an studying in school and colleges of Kolkata city. In agencies with step-by-step guidelines on drafting annual rate of 51%, the highest in the world. the 3rd batch of the project, 100 city based and moving request letters, mutual legal aid Internet sector: The no. of internet users have schools and colleges lying in the Kolkata police requests or Letters Rogatory (LR) and summon increased from 445.96 million in 2017 to 665.31 jurisdiction were given training. Sukanya project requests, notices and other judicial documents. million in 2019 and is also expected to increase to is an initiative by the Kolkata Police's Community 829 million in 2021. Policing Wing and is funded by Women and Child Uttar Pradesh became 1st state to shortlist Goods sector: E-commerce in the goods Development (WCD) and Social Welfare migrants for citizenship: category in India has grown at a compound Department (SWD) of the West Bengal Uttar Pradesh (UP) became the 1st state in annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57% in the last 7 government. India to conduct an exercise to shortlist migrants years, and is expected to grow by 18.6% till 2022 from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan

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BEE: New Energy Performance Standards for Courts for POCSO cases: Out of the 1023 1st Solar section in South Central Railways ACs set; default AC temp at 24°C from Jan 1, FTSCs, 289 courts were proposed in 2019 to be comes up in Nandyal-Yerraguntla section in 2020: set up exclusively for POCSO Act related cases in Guntakal division of Andhra: The central govt. in consultation with the Bureau Districts having more than 100 such cases. The Nandyal-Yerraguntla section in Guntakal of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has notified new Cases to be heard in a year: Each FTSC is Division of Andhra Pradesh has been declared as energy performance standards for room Air expected to dispose of 41-42 cases in each the first solar section in South Central Railway. In Conditioner (AC) as on 30th October 2019. Under quarter and at least 165 cases in a year. 2016 August Indian Railways opened Nandyal- the ambit of BEE star-labelling program vide the Yerraguntla section in Kadapa district of notification, the default temperature setting for India to set its New World-Class Facility Andhra Pradesh. all ACs has been made mandatory at 24°C with centre in Karnataka’s Challakere to train a) All the 8 stations in the Nandyal-Yerraguntla effect from January 1, 2020. The Indian Seasonal astronauts: section has been provided with solar panels which Energy Efficiency Ratio (ISEER) will also be The new World- Class facility centre for training are capable of meeting all the power needs in ranging from 3.30 – 5.00 for split ACs and 2.70 – astronauts will come up in India in the next three these railway stations. 3.50 for window air conditioners. This will become years at Challakere in Chitradurga district of b) Anticipated savings in terms of revenue is effective from January 1, 2021 onwards. Karnataka.The Indian Space Research around Rs 5 lakh per annum and it also helps in Organisation (ISRO) has proposed Rs 2700 reducing carbon footprint to the tune of 49 metric NCRB 2018: 50 lac crimes registered & is crores, to set its young House Space Flight Centre tonnes per annum. 1.3% more than 2017; UP tops in economic (HSFC) in Bengaluru, Karnataka, which will be the c) By 2021-22,Indian Railways has planned to offence: single-top for all space related activities for space source about 1000 MegaWatt (MW) Solar Power National Crime Record Bureau’s (NCRB) report on travellers. Four pilots of India will train at the and about 200 MW of wind power across Zonal Crime in India for the year 2018 was released. “Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre” in Railways & Production Units. The report finds that over 50 lakh crimes have Russia for Gaganyaan mission 2022. been registered in 2018 which is 1.3% more HLC chaired by Amit shah sanctioned Rs than that of 2017. The report findings in detail 1st tri-dimensional expedition ‘Maha-Navy 5908 crore to 7 states from National are as follows: Connect 2020’ launched by Indian Navy in Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) : a) The report stated that Uttar Pradesh (UP) Maharashtra: A High Level Committee (HLC) led by the Union accounted for the maximum number of economic The first tri-dimensional expedition ‘Maha-Navy Minister for Home Affairs Shri Amit Shah, has offences in 2018 with 22,822 cases recorded. It Connect 2020’ was launched by Indian Navy in released Rs. 5908.56 crores to 7 states was followed by Rajasthan (21,309 cases), Mumbai. It aims to promote the heritage of including Assam, Himachal Pradesh (HP), Maharashtra (14,854 cases), Telangana (10,390 Indian Navy and to spread awareness about Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh (MP), Maharashtra, cases) and Bihar (9,209 cases) in the 2nd, 3rd, Coastal Security amongst the coastal Tripura and Uttar Pradesh (UP) to help in the 4th and 5th rank respectively. communities in Maharashtra. It was launched by losses suffered by various disasters in 2019. The b) Crimes in 2018: Totally 50,74,634 cognizable Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Western amount was released to seven states under crimes were committed in 2018. It included Naval Command Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar P. The additional central assistance from the National 31,32,954 Indian Penal Code (IPC) crimes and expedition continues till January 11, 2020. The Disaster Response Fund (NDRF) in the high-level 19,41,680 Special and Local Laws (SLL) crimes. tri-dimensional expedition consists of yachting, meeting held in New Delhi. c) IPC crimes: crimes under IPC have increased running and cycling teams of 50 naval personnel. by 2.3% and stood at 61.7% in 2018. Chenab Bridge: World’s highest rail bridge d) SLL crimes: Crimes under SLL have declined 4 Indian airports received international by Indian Railways to connect Kashmir to by 0.1% compared to 2017 and stood at 38.3% recognition for reducing emissions as per rest of India by 2021 in 2018. ACI: Government of India set a new deadline for the The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has completion of the world’s highest railway bridge- Mizoram set to organize 1st edition of Zo announced that 4 Indian airports have received Chenab bridge. Kashmir will be connected to the Kutpui festival 2020 in 10 states & US, international recognition for reducing the carbon rest of India by Indian railways by December Myanmar, Bangladesh: emission level as per the standards set by 2021. Konkan railway is the implementing agency In a bid to unify different tribes of Mizo Airports Council International (ACI) for the of this project. community, the state Government of Mizoram will grading. The 4 airports are as follows: The Chenab bridge will be 35m taller than the organize the 1st edition of Zo Kutpui festival 1) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. 2020 across 10 states in India & also in countries Airport (West Bengal) such as Maryland in the US (United States), 2) Biju Patnaik International Airport (Odisha) Forest Committee approves Green Credit Tahan in Myanmar and Bangladesh from 3) Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport (Uttar Scheme to ‘trade’ in forests: January 9, 2020. The 1st such festival, organized Pradesh) On January 09, 2020 the Forest Advisory by the Mizoram tourism department, would be 4) Trivandrum International Airport (Kerala) Committee (FAC) which is an apex body that held at Vanghmun, a hub of Mizos in neighbouring The reduction in emissions was achieved by considers questions on the diversion of forest land Tripura, from January 9 – 11, 2020.Then festival constituting Carbon Management Plan(CMP) and for non-forest uses such as mining, industrial will carry forward to other states which have reducing carbon emissions at airports as per the projects, townships etc and also issues granting significant Mizo population. Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) Program. of forest clearances has approved Green Credit ACI’s grading system is based on 4 categories. Scheme that would allow forests to be traded as 1023 Fast Track Courts under safety of They are mapping, reduction, optimization and a commodity. women mission to be set up in 24 states: neutrality. 24 states and union territories (UTs) have joined UPSRTC launched ‘Damini’ helpline service together to set up a total of 1,023 ‘fast-track 12th naval exercise 'Naseem-Al-Bahr' for women in Uttar Pradesh: special courts’ (FTSCs) to dispose of over 1.60 between India and Oman held in Goa: UPSRTC (Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport lakh cases of rape of children below the age of 12 2 ships of the Royal Navy of Oman (RNO) arrived Corporation) has launched ‘Damini’ helpline years and women pending in various courts at Mormugao Port in Goa to participate in the service considering the safety of the women across the country. This has been done to bring 12th edition of the Indo-Oman bilateral naval passengers in Uttar Pradesh (UP). As the out fast and time bound completion of trial of exercise 'Naseem-Al-Bahr'. The meaning of the extension of ‘Nirbhaya Yojana’ the unique number these cases for which Criminal Law (Amendment) biennial exercise Naseem-Al-Bahr that has been “81142-77777” has been subscribed for this Act, 2018 was enacted. The FTSC will be set up conducted since 1993 between India and Oman is helpline, which was launched by transport as part of National Mission for Safety of Women sea breeze. Among the Indian Navy ships (INS) minister Ashok Kataria in Lucknow, UP. Using (NMSW). Beas and Subhadra are participating while 2 naval these helpline women passengers can lodge their Project cost: Total financial implication of the ships of the RNO i.e, RNOV (Royal Navy of Oman complaints by calling the helpline number and by project is over Rs 767.25 crores. Vessel) Al Rasikh and RNOV Khassab are using WhatsApp service from 9 a.m to 6 p.m Operational courts: 216 POCSO courts have participating. everyday. After 6 p.m complaints can be lodged already been operationalized in 12 States under using general helpline number 1800-180-2877. the scheme.

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5th edition of ‘The pulses conclave 2020’ will fighter and revolutionary Shaheed Ashfaqullah Share of variable renewables: The share of be held in Lonavala, Maharashtra: Khan. variable renewables in India is already above India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), the 15%. apex organisation of the import and export trader ‘K-RERA’ launched in Kerala to bring Reduction in energy demand: The of pulses and grains in India will host the 5th transparency in real estate sector: improvements made in energy efficiency helped edition of its biennial conference, ‘The Pulses The Chief Minister of Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan India to avoid 15% of additional energy demand, Conclave 2020’ from February 12 – 14, 2020 at launched K-RERA (Kerala Real Estate oil and gas imports, and air pollution as well as the Aamby Valley City in Lonavala, Regulatory Authority) to bring confidence and 300 million tonnes of CO2 (carbon dioxide) Maharashtra. transparency in real estate sectors among the emissions between 2000 and 2018. Aim: The Conclave aimed at increasing domestic customers. As per the Real Estate (Regulation production and consumption & other areas of the and Development) Act 2016, State governments MP cabinet approves Mukhyamantri trade like improving processing efficiencies, needs to establish RERA for the effective karmchari swasthya bima yojana, rollout increasing consumption, exports, value addition, regulations in real estate sectors. The buildings from April 1,2020: post-harvest crop management, etc. with more than eight apartments and real estate Madhya Pradesh (MP) state Cabinet led by its projects with 500 sq meters land or more will not Chief Minister (CM), Kamal Nath has approved the 2020 declared as AI year in Telangana, 8 be registered under RERA. Mukhya Mantri Karmchari Swasthya Bima Yojana MoU inked: (Chief Minister Employees Health Insurance Telangana Information Technology (IT) minister AP CM launches Rs 6,318 cr ‘Jagananna Scheme) implementation from April 1, 2020, for Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao has declared 2020 Amma Vodi’ scheme for indigent mothers: the welfare of all 12.55 lakh employees of the as year of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and has Andhra Pradesh (AP) Chief Minister (CM) Yeduguri state. Under this, Rs 5 lakh for general illness and signed 8 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy launched his 10 lakh for critical illness & Cashless treatment with various companies and Indian Institute of government’s flagship programme ‘Jagananna facility up to Rs 10,000 per annum in OPD Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP) to make way for Amma Vodi’ scheme in Chittoor, AP. The scheme (Outpatient Department) will be provided / free technological advancements in the Telangana. is to support lakhs of poor and needy mothers to medicines will be distributed. All the current and The MoU with IIT-KGP is for setting up centre of educate their children. retired employees of the state will get the benefit excellence in AI and research and Development a) The Amma Vodi scheme is a first of its kind in of the scheme. Apart from this, a loan waiver Park. the country to bring about historical changes in scheme called “Jai Kisan Fasal Rin Maafi OPPO, IIT-Hyderabad to take up joint R&D the education system of the state of Andhra Yojana” was also launched. projects Pradesh. OPPO, the global smartphone brand, and IIT- b) An annual financial assistance to the tune of DPIIT launches paperless licensing process Hyderabad have joined hands to take up joint R Rs.15,000 credited into the accounts of indigent for petroleum road tankers & D projects in advanced and emerging mothers to educate their children. Department for Promotion of Industry and technologies. The areas identified are battery, Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce camera & image processing, networks (5G), ‘Cyber Safe Women’ campaign launched in and Industry, has launched paperless licensing system performance & AI among others. Maharashtra by state cyber police: process through Petroleum and Explosives Maharashtra cyber police launched ‘Cyber Safety Organization (PESO) for road tankers Union Power Minister RK Singh released 2nd Safe Women’ campaign to mark the birth for transportation of petroleum under the State Energy Efficiency Index 2019 in New anniversary of a social reformer, Savitribai Phule Petroleum Rules,2002. Delhi: in Maharashtra. It is a joint initiative of the This is a significant move towards paperless and The Minister of State (MoS- Independent Charge) Maharashtra state government, Maharashtra green India that provides ease of doing business for Power and New & Renewable Energy who is Cyber and Maharashtra police. for petroleum road tankers. Moving towards also MoS for Skill Development & digitalisation the process will include filing the Entrepreneurship Shri Raj Kumar Singh has CM Jagan mohan reddy inaugurates YSR applications through online processing of the released the State Energy Efficiency Index 2019 Aarogyasri scheme at Eluru, Andhra application at every stage will be intimated via e- in New Delhi. The index tracks the progress of Pradesh: mail (electronic mail) and SMS (Short Message Energy Efficiency (EE) initiatives undertaken in 36 In a bid to provide free medical treatment to the Service) whether discrepancy or approval or states and Union Territories (UTs) based on 97 poor, The Chief Minister (CM) of Andhra Pradesh grant of license. indicators. (AP), Yeduguri Sandinti Jaganmohan Reddy has Progressive states: The progressive states and inaugurated “YSR Aarogyasri scheme” at Eluru Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launches a 10- UTs of the 2019 index which was grouped into 4 in West Godavari district of AP. The revamped point shorter election manifesto “Kejriwal for rational comparisons were Haryana, Kerala, healthcare scheme is aimed at providing free Ka Guarantee Card”: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, medical treatment to people having an annual Delhi Chief Minister (CM) and AAP (Aam Aadmi Uttarakhand, Puducherry and Chandigarh. income of up to Rs 5 lakh & those eligible people Party) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has will also be given Aarogyasri cards. Free launched the “Kejriwal Ka Guarantee Card”, a Odisha govt launches India's 1st e-Gazette treatment will be provided to the person whose 10-point shorter election manifesto of the party. portal for all gazette notifications: treatment cost is more than Rs 1,000. The The State Government of Odisha has launched flagship scheme will cover 2,059 medical CM Jai ram launches Himachal MyGov portal an online platform called “e-Gazette portal”( ailments. & CM app for HP: http://egazetteodisha.nic.in),a first-of-its-kind Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister (CM) Jai Ram initiative in India designed and developed by the IEA launched 1st in-depth review of India Thakur has launched the Himachal MyGov portal NIC (National Informatics Centre) for all 2020 energy policy review in New Delhi: – (https://himachal.mygov.in/en) to departments. The portal was launched by Odisha The International Energy Agency (IEA) in strengthen public participation in the government Chief Secretary Asit Kumar Tripathy as a part of partnership with NITI (National Institution for system. He also launched CM App during the state’s 5T initiatives (Transparency, Teamwork, Transforming India) Aayog has released the first occasion in Shimla, HP. Himachal is the 11th Technology, Time and Transformation). Since e- in-depth review of India’s energy policies 2020. state in India to provide this app. publication is covered under Section- 8 of the The IEA conducts review on energy policies of its a) Himachal MyGov portal: The portal will help Information Technology Act, 2000, it will save the member countries. This is the 1st time the review the people of Himachal to take their views, transportation of trucks of papers & reduce is done for India after it became an IEA- suggestions, feedback and complaints to the wastage. association country in March 2017. government. Renewable energy growth: India has strong b) CM app: With this app, citizens of Himachal Uttar Pradesh government announced to growth in renewables in India accounting for will be able to get direct and quick information build a 121-acre zoo named after almost 23% of the country’s total installed about various policies and programs of the Ashfaqullah Khan: capacity. government. The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved a Doubling of energy demand: India’s energy proposal to set aside Rs.234 crore for a zoological demand is expected to be doubled by 2040 and Delhi gets First 20-feet-tall Smog Tower to garden spread across 121 acres in Gorakhpur, also the electricity demand may triple. Help Tackle Rising Levels of Air Pollution at Uttar Pradesh to be named after the freedom Lajpat Nagar:

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Delhi gets its first 20-ft tall smog tower, which is Office (NSO) of the Ministry of Statistics and 'Mission Purvodaya' will drive India's march used to purify the air, has been installed at south Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Growth in towards $5 trillion economy, by Dharmendra Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar market. It can remove up manufacturing sector has resulted in 128.4 in Pradhan: to 80% of the particulate matter (PM 2.5 and November 2019, which is 1.8 % higher as Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel PM10). compared to the level 126.1 in the month of Dharmendra Pradhan launched mission November 2018.The result turning positive after PURVODAYA, which aims at accelerated India welcomes highest number of New born 3 consecutive months (August to October 2019) development of eastern India through integrated babies on first day of 2020, Surpasses China: of decline. steel hub in Kolkata, West Bengal. The mission UNICEF: Manufacturing sector: As per the data, the will drive India's march towards USD 5 trillion As per UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), manufacturing sector (13 of the 23 industry economy set by the government. India has recorded the highest number of births groups in the manufacturing category ) grew by of 67,385 children on the first day of 2020 in the 2.7 % in November 2019, compared to a decline Smriti Irani launches Yashaswini Scheme for world. A Total of 3,92,078 babies were born of 0.7 % in the same month in 2018. Women entrepreneurship in Goa: around the world. Electricity generation: While there was a 5.1 % Smriti Irani launches Yashaswini Scheme for increase in power generation in November 2018, Women entrepreneurship in Goa. Union Minister ‘Wings India 2020’ to be held at Begumpet it declined by 5 % in November 2019. for Women and Child Development and Textiles, Airport of Telangana in March 2020: Mining sector: Mining sector production was Smriti Irani today launched Yashaswini Scheme Wings India 2020, an international exhibition and down 1.7 % as compared to a decline of 2.7 % in for Women entrepreneurship in Goa. The event conference on civil aviation sector, will be held at the reporting period. was held at Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad, Telangana Stadium at Taleigao near Panaji. from March 12-15, 2020. The theme of the event Kolkata Port Trust renamed after Syama is “Flying for all”. The biennial event will be Prasad Mukherjee, Modi attended it: Pulses Conclave 2020 Will be held in inaugurated by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of M Narendra Modi on Sunday celebrated the 150th Maharashtra: India, Narendra Modi in presence of Minister for anniversary of the historic Kolkata Port Trust and India Pulses and Grains Association (IPGA), the Civil Aviation and Minister of State for Civil renamed the port after Bharatiya Jana Sangh nodal body for India’s pulses trade & industry Aviation. founder Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. announced that the 5th edition The Pulses PM Modi announced at an event at the Netaji Conclave, their biennial global pulses conference New Zealand batsman Leo Carter becomes Indoor Stadium on Sunday, "This port will now be will be held from 12th to 14th February, 2020 at seventh cricketer to hit six sixes in an over: known by the name of Shyama Prasad Amby Valley City in Lonavala, Maharashtra. Leo Carter, the first New Zealand batsman, Mukherjee." became the seventh player in world cricket to National Youth Festival 2020 to be held in hit 6 sixes across all formats in both domestic and 2 Coast Guard ships Annie Besant and Amrit Lucknow: international level and only the fourth batsman to Kaur commissioned at Kolkata, West Bengal: The 23rd National Youth Festival (NYF) 2020 has achieve the feat in T20(Twenty20) Cricket. Two Indian Coast Guard Ships (ICGS) - Annie been scheduled to be held from 12-16 January at Besant and Amrit Kaur were commissioned by Indira Pratishthan, Lucknow. The festival will be Union Home Minister Amit Shah dedicates Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar at Kolkata. jointly inaugurated by Chief Minister, Uttar National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal to the Director General of Indian Coast Guard K. Pradesh Yogi Adityanath and Minister of State Nation: Natarajan, Additional Director General and Coast (I/C) for Youth Affairs & Sports, Shri Kiren Rijiju. National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal was Guard Commander (Eastern Seaboard) V.S. dedicated to the Nation by Union Home Minister Pathania, and other officials from Central and Transport Minister Gadkari inaugurates 31st Amit Shah in New Delhi. He also inaugurated State agencies, were present during the RoadSafety Campaign in Nagpur: Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre impressive ceremony. In Maharashtra Union Transport Minister Nitin (I4C) during the event. Gadkari inaugurated 31st Road Safety Campaign a) National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal India’s 1st Cyber Crime Prevention Unit organised by Regional Transport Office,Traffic www.cybercrime.gov.in portal was launched AASHVAST and two other projects were Police and District Road Safety Committee in on August 30,2019 which helps the citizens of the launched in Gandhinagar, Gujarat: Nagpur. Nation to report cyber crimes through online. The Union Home Minister Amit Shah has launched b) The scheme to setup I4C was approved in the first Cyber Crime Prevention Unit of India Statue of Unity finds place in '8 Wonders of October 2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 415.86 "AASHVAST" in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Along SCO': crore to deal with all types of Cyber crimes. with AASHVAST, he also launched 2 other The 182-meter tall Statue of Unity in Gujarat c) 15 States and UTs have given their consent to projects: VISWAS & Netrang. has been included in the Shanghai Cooperation set up Regional Cyber Crime Coordination The AASHVAST project will act as a helpline for Organisation's '8 Wonders of SCO' list, External Centre’s at respective States/UTs. the cyber crime victims. Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced The e-governance initiative Video Integration and The 'Statue of Unity', the world's tallest statue, is 2019 recorded 7th Warmest Year in India State Wide Advanced Security (VISHWAS) was a monumental tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Since 1901: IMD also launched with an objective to improve Law Patel, independent India's first home minister as According to the India Meteorological Department and Order Management, Proactive traffic well as deputy prime minister. The statue was (IMD), India has recorded 7th warmest management and control, Crime detection with inaugurated in October 2018 by Prime Minister year(2019) since 1901, however it was lower the help of video analytics and post incident Narendra Modi on the occasion of Patel's 143rd than the highest warming, that was observed in investigation and video forensics. birth anniversary. 2016. Command and Control Room will be established in 33 districts of the state in the project Venkaiah Naidu to inaugurate classical Global investor meet ASCEND 2020 held in 'Netrang'. Telugu centre in Andhra's Nellore: Kochi, Kerala: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu is scheduled to A two day organised Global Investors Meet Lohri, a harvest Festival of North India is inaugurate a new Centre of Excellence for Studies ASCEND 2020 was held in Kochi, Kerala at Lulu celebrated in Jan 13: in Classical Telugu in Nellore district of Andhra Bolgatty International Convention Centre, Grand Lohri is popular festival in north India, Pradesh. "The establishment of this Centre at Hyatt, from January 9-10. The meet was particularly in the Indian state of Punjab, Nellore would facilitate to focus its activities for inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Kerala Shri Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Jammu and the development of this rich classical Telugu Pinarayi Vijayan and was organised by states Chandigarh. It falls on 13th of January every through Research, seminars, debates and various Department of Industries. Totally Rs 1 lakh crore year. This is the time the Sun starts moving activities," said an official statement. worth investment proposals were received. towards the northern hemisphere marking the Union Human Resource Development Minister auspicious period of Uttarayan. Lohri is observed Ramesh Pokhrial 'Nishank' is also set to attend Industrial production grows 1.8% in a night before Makar Sankranti, a festival that the event. Andhra Pradesh governor Biswabhusan November 2019: NSO’s IIP data marks the end of the winter solstice and Harichandan, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS According to the Index of industrial production beginning of longer days. Jagan Mohan Reddy, Telangana Chief Minister K (IIP) data released by the National Statistical

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Chandrashekar Rao and other dignitaries have During the meet, initiatives of sustainable Ladakh hosts first ever Food Processing also been invited. development in the identified Islands were taken Summit to attract investors: under Island Development Agency. The initiative Union Territory Ladakh is hosting the first ever Captain Tania Shergil, the 1st woman aims to create jobs for the island population by Food Processing Summit to attract investors to Republic Day parade adjutant: promoting tourism as well as boosting the the region. With the help of Ministry of Commerce Captain Tania Shergill, an officer with Army's seafood and coconut-based products export from and Industry and the Ministry of Food Corps of Signals, will be the first woman parade the Island. The above initiative will be Processing Industries, the UT Administration adjutant for the Republic Day parade. A implemented in 5 islands of Lakshadweep as well of Ladakh is organizing the Summit. parade adjutant is responsible for the parade. as 4 islands of Andaman & Nicobar. In 2019 during Republic Day parade, Captain Postal Ballot facility made available for Bhavna Kasturi was the first woman officer to lead India's first e-waste clinic opens in Bhopal: Super Senior Citizens and Person with an all-men contingent. The country’s first e-waste clinic is being Disabilities: opened in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. It will Postal Ballot facility has been made available 'Parshuram Mela' begins at Parshuram Kund enable segregation, processing and disposal of for the Super Senior Citizens (over 80 years of in Arunachal Pradesh on the eve on Makar waste from both household and commercial units. age) and PwDs in the Delhi Assembly Election. Sankranti: The e-waste clinic is jointly setting up by the Earlier it was only available to armed forces and The famous Parshuram Kund Mela began in Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and those assigned in poll duties. Arunachal Pradesh on the eve of Makar Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC). In the Sankranti. Devotees from across the country and absence of a safe disposal mechanism, electronic Om Birla inaugurates 7th Conference of CPA Nepal visit the sacred place to take a holy dip in waste at present is being disposed along with India Region in Lucknow: the Kund on the occasion of Makar Sankranti other waste. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said that the belief every year. The Arunachal government has made "The e-waste clinic is being started on the basis in the democracy has increased and so is the many facilities for the pilgrims like tourist lodges, of a three-month pilot project. If this project is responsibility of the representatives. He was guest houses, transit hospital, and a Mela office successful, e-waste clinics will be established at speaking after inaugurating the 7th Conference of to help the devotees. A police outpost and other other places in the country. BMC officials Commonwealth Parliamentary Association India facilities have been made by the district informed that electronic waste will be collected Region in the legislative assembly building in administration. door-to-door or could be deposited directly at the Lucknow. e-waste clinic. The theme of the conference is “ROLE OF Exhibition ‘India Heritage in Digital Space’ LEGISLATORS”. inaugurated: India, Bangladesh sign MoU for content Union Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad exchange programe between All India Radio DV Sadananda Gowda launches APNA UREA Singh Patel launched an exhibition and Bangladesh Betar: – SonaUgle” brand of HURL: titled “Indian Heritage in Digital Space” at India today signed an MOU with Bangladesh for DV Sadanand Gowda Chemicals and Fertilizers National Museum, New Delhi. This exhibition is content exchange programme between All India Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda today launched first of its kind in the country. The exhibition will Radio and Bangladesh Betar. An MoU between the APNA UREA - SonaUgle brand of Hindustan stay online until February 15, 2020. National Film Development Corporation, India Urvarak and Rasayan Limited (HURL) at a The exhibition also consists of a special and Film Development Corporation, Bangladesh, function in New Delhi. HURL is Joint Venture installation called “VIRAASAT”. Viraasat in Hindi was also signed. Company promoted by the three Maha Ratna means heritage. It provides mixed reality The MoUs were signed in the presence of Companies - Coal India Limited, NTPC Limited experience to visitors through 3D printing. Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash and Indian Oil Corporation Limited. Javadekar and Bangladesh Information Minister Om Birla inaugurates 7th Conference of CPA Muhammad H Mahmud in New Delhi. Vice President addresses gathering at Dr B India Region in Lucknow: R Ambedkar Auditorium at Port Blair: The 7th conference of Commonwealth Mega campaign on fuel conservation Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has said that Parliamentary Association, India region will be 'Saksham' inaugurated in New Delhi: Andaman Nicobar Islands is place of pilgrims and held in State capital Lucknow from 15th to 19th Petroleum and Natural Gas MM Kutty has called every Indian should visit Cellular Jail once in their January, 2020. The conference will be for putting earnest efforts for petroleum life. He was addressing a gathering at Dr. B.R. inaugurated by Lok sabha speaker Om Birla, conservation to bring down the huge import Ambedkar Auditorium at Port Blair. chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary burden for energy requirements. Mr Kutty Association along with State Chief Minister Yogi inaugurated fuel conservation mega campaign - State of Art Tejas express train between Adityanath. Saksham of Petroleum Conservation Research Mumbai-Ahmedabad flagged off: Association, PCRA in New Delhi. The state of art- new Tejas Express train between Fuel conservation mega campaign of PCRA Ahmedabad and Mumbai Central has been Saksham 2020 launched: Rajnath Singh dedicates 51st K9 Vajra-T flagged off by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani 'Saksham', an annual one-month long fuel guns to nation: at Ahmedabad Railway Station. conservation mega campaign of Petroleum Defence Minister Rajnath Singh dedicated to the The fully air-conditioned Tejas has several Conservation Research Association (PCRA) under nation the 51st K9 Vajra self-propelled modern features such as sliding doors, the aegis of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Howitzer gun made by L&T at Hazira in personalized reading lights, mobile charging Gas, was launched today by Dr. M.M Kutty, Gujarat. The gun weighs 50 tonnes and can fire points, attendant call buttons, bio-toilets, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum& Natural Gas in 47-kilogram bombs at targets up to a distance of automatic entry and exit doors, CCTV cameras, a function held in Delhi. 43 kilometres. It can also turn around at zero reclining facility, comfortable seats, etc., radius. 5th Raisina Dialogue Begins in New Delhi: 15 new investment proposals worth Rs 6608 The 5th edition of the prestigious Raisina Fifth Science Film festival kick-starts in Goa: cr approved in Tamil Nadu: Dialogue kicked-off in New Delhi on 14 January The fifth edition of Science Film Festival of India, In Tamil Nadu, fifteen new investment 2020. The three-day conference will continue till SCI-FFI 2020, was kick-started on Wednesday in proposals worth Rs 6608 crore have been 16 January 2020. The Dialogue has been jointly Goa's capital city Panaji. The four-day-long approved, which will generate 6763 direct organized by the Ministry of External Affairs festival was inaugurated by Chief Minister, Dr. employment. They have been cleared by the (MEA) and the Observer Research Foundation. Paramod Sawant. higher-level committee on industrial guidance A special workshop titled 'Million SoUL' will also and single window system, led by the state chief- Amit Shah chairs 6th meeting of the Island be conducted by IIT Bombay on training about minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy. Development Agency: making solar lamps. The workshop is aimed at The 6th meeting of the Island Development empowering people from backward communities. Ravi Shankar Prasad to inaugurate second Agency (IDA) was chaired by the Union Home edition of NIC Tech Conclave-2020: Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi. NITI Union Minister for Electronics and Information Aayog has been given the onus of steering the Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad will inaugurate process of "Holistic Development of Islands". the second edition of NIC Tech Conclave-2020 in

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New Delhi. The two-day event is being organized their profession and, despite immense The theme “Access for all: Leveraging by the National Informatics Centre. challenges, produced work that sustains public Innovations, Investments and Partnerships This Conclave will contribute immensely to the trust in the media and impacts the lives of people. for Health” at World Economic Forum at Davos, capacity building of Government officers across The awards are meant to felicitate those who hold Switzerland. the country and help in delivering high-quality their pen for truth. citizen-centric services. This year’s theme is Cabinet approves over Rs 4300 cr to “Technologies for Next-Gen Governance”. PM Modi chair 32nd interaction through establish permanent campuses for new PRAGATI platform: NITs: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani launches Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the 32nd Union Cabinet approved to Revised Cost 7th Economic Census process in Gujarat: interaction through PRAGATI- the ICT-based, Estimates for establishment of permanent Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has launched multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance campuses of new National Institutes of the 7th Economic Census process in the state. and Timely Implementation in New Delhi. Technology, NITs, at a total cost of 4371.90 Economic Census process is being carried out by Prime Minister had launched the multi-purpose crores rupees for the period till 2021-2022. Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme and multi-modal governance platform PRAGATI NITs were established in the year 2009 and Implementation with the help of Common on 25th March 2015. PRAGATI is an integrating started functioning from academic year 2010- Service Centres. Nearly 40 thousand and interactive platform aimed at addressing the 2011 in their temporary campus with very limited enumerators will use mobile application for the common man’s grievances. space and infrastructure. These NITs will be fully first time to gather information under the PRAGATI also helps in simultaneously monitoring functional from their permanent campuses by guidance of 6,500 supervisors. and reviewing important programmes and 31st March, 2022. projects of the Centre as well as projects flagged It also approved the extension of tenure of the President Kovind lays foundation stone of by various State governments. Commission constituted under Article 340 of the Lakshadweep’s 1st super specialty hospital Constitution, to examine the issue of sub- at Kavaratti: Rs 70,000 crore loan amount disbursed till categorization within Other Backward Classes The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Jan 13 under MSMEs scheme: in the Central List. Briefing media in New Delhi on who was on a first ever 2-day State Visit to the Finance Ministry has said that a loan amount of Wednesday, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar Union Territory of Lakshadweep, has laid the nearly Rs 70,000 has been disbursed till 13th of said, the tenure has been extended by six months foundation stone for Lakshadweep’s 1st Super this month under the scheme of providing loan to till 31st July, 2020. Specialty Hospital at Kavaratti. Micro Small & Medium Enterprises through a dedicated online portal- www.psbloansin59 Election Commission to host 1st Sukumar ‘cVIGIL’ and ‘Voter Helpline app’ won e- minutes.com. Sen Memorial Lecture: Governance Award of Excellence 2019 in Election Commission will host the first Sukumar Bhubaneswar Odisha: India opens its first Mahatma Gandhi Sen Memorial Lecture. Former President Award of Excellence for the year 2019 was given convention centre in Niger: Pranab Mukherjee will deliver the first of the by Computer Society of India (CSI) and Special External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and Lectures. The EC has decided to institute an Interest Group on e-Governance (CSI SIG e-Gov) Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou jointly Annual Lecture Series as a tribute to the first at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology inaugurated the first convention centre Chief Election Commissioner of India, Sukumar in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. established in Africa by India to honour the Sen. The two innovative Information and memory of Mahatma Gandhi. He commendably conducted the first two General Communication Technology (ICT) applications The External Affairs Ministry said in a statement Elections to the Lok Sabha and State Legislative developed by Election Commission of India (ECI), that the establishment of the Mahatma Gandhi Assemblies, thereby putting India firmly on the ‘cVIGIL’ and ‘Voter Helpline App’ has won the e- International Convention Centre (MGICC) is map of democracy. Governance award. a landmark for India-Niger friendship, as also a symbol of India's firm commitment towards Nation pays homage to Subhas Chandra 15th Raising Day celebrated by National Africa. Bose on his 123rd birth anniversary: Disaster Response Force: The nation pays homage to Netaji Subhas The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Govt to de-criminalise Income Tax Act, anti- Chandra Bose on his 123rd birth anniversary on was founded on 19th January 2006. NDRF money laundering law: 23rd January. It was on this day in 1897, Netaji celebrated its 15th Raising Day on 19th January Govt to decriminalise Income Tax Act & the was born in Cuttack, Odisha. A number of 2020. The organization plays an important role in Prevention of Money Laundering Act as part of functions have been organised across the country Disaster Management and Community awareness steps towards taking the country to a $5 trillion to mark the occasion. for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the country. economy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M announced at the Nani Palkhivala centenary Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Atal Innovation Mission & UNDP hosts 3day celebrations in Chennai Modi have paid tributes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Youth Co: Lab National Innovation Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 came Bose. Challenge: into force in 2005. Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) NITI Aayog and Govt is fully prepared to take on challenge of United Nations Development Programme Indian Navy Signs MoU for offshore Data Coronavirus outbreak in China: Health (UNDP) Sunday hosted a three day long Youth with Geological Survey of India: Ministry: Co:Lab -national innovation challenge here in Indian Navy has signed a Memorandum of As regards the spread of Novel Coronavirus in our Delhi after a series of successful challenges held Understanding (MoU) with Geological Survey of country, the Union Health Ministry officials have in past two phases across the country. With India (GSI) for ‘Sharing of seabed sediments said that no case of Novel Coronavirus has been efforts of AIM and UNDP to support young people data, products and expertise for Naval Application detected in India so far. In all, 12,828 by catalysing youth-led innovation, empowering in Meteorology and Oceanography’. passengers from 60 flights have been them through Youth Co:Lab, four winning teams The MoU was signed between Commodore AA screened till yesterday for Novel Coronavirus made it the list to represent India at the Youth Abhyankar, who heads Indian Navy’s Oceanology symptoms in the country and no passenger has Co:Lab Regional Innovation Challenge in and Meteorology Directorate and Shri N Maran, been detected with the virus. Malaysia slated to be held in April this year. Deputy Director General of GSI. Thermal screening is being done at the International airports of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, President of India Presents 14th Ramnath Shri Mansukh Mandaviya participates in the Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin. Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards: Round- table of UNAIDS: Airlines have been asked to follow International The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, The Union Minister of State for Shipping (I/C) and Civil Aviation Organization guidelines for presented the 14th Ramnath Goenka Chemical & Fertilizers Shri Mansukh Mandaviya managing and notifying anybody reporting illness Excellence in Journalism Awards at a participated in the High-level roundtable of on flights originating from China and ceremony held in New Delhi. Ramnath Goenka UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Programme on disembarking in India. Excellence in Journalism Awards honour those HIV/AIDS). journalists from print, broadcast and digital media who have maintained the highest standards of

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ECI to host 10th Annual Meeting of Forum of Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports month appealed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Election Management Bodies of South Asia: Kiren Rijiju flag off ‘Fit India Cyclothon’: preserve the culture and identity of Ladakh. Election Commission of India will host the 10th Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Annual Meeting of the Forum of the Election Rijiju flag off ‘Fit India Cyclothon’ in Panaji, Goa. Income Tax searches detect undisclosed Management Bodies of South Asia (FEMBoSA) in This inaugural event of ‘Fit India Cyclothon’ foreign assets worth Rs 1,000 crores: New Delhi. Election Commission of India will organised by Directorate of Sports and Youth Income Tax Department has conducted take over the Chair of the forum for the year Affairs and Government of Goa. searches on a group which has been on their 2020. On the occasion, International Conference radar for having substantial undisclosed foreign on the theme ‘Strengthening Institutional Madhya Pradesh govt made the reading of assets. The searches led to the detection of Capacity’ is also being organized. Preamble of Constitution mandatory in undisclosed foreign assets of more than Rs. The International Conference is being organized schools: 1000 crore. with the purpose of sharing the experience of In Madhya Pradesh, state government has The operation conducted on 19th of this month different Election Management Bodies, made the reading of Preamble of the covered 13 premises in the National Capital International Institutions and Experts. The Constitution mandatory in schools on every Region of the group. The search operation has so international delegates will also attend the Saturday. The Department of School Education far resulted in seizure of unaccounted assets National Voters’ Day Celebrations in New Delhi stated that orders in this regard have been issued valued at around Rs. 25 crores. on 25th of January. to District Education Officers. The Department said that evidence seized during The order issued by the School Education the search reveals that a large amount of black Arunachal Pradesh adopts new logo for the department said that the Preamble to the money was stashed abroad by the group, through state: Constitution will be read out by the headmaster the mechanism of Trusts, formed in early 1990s Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly or teacher in all the schools after prayer on every in tax havens. (ARLA) adopted a new logo which will reflect the Saturday. The same will be read out by the distinct identity and culture of the state. The new students later. ISRO to send robot 'Vyommitra' to space on logo consists of the National Emblem to signify unmanned Gaganyaan: the federal system of the Indian Constitution Jharkhand's Jharia most polluted city in Before orbiting astronauts on India's first manned and the flower foxtail orchid (Rhynchostylis India: mission to space in December 2021, the Indian retusa) which represents the state, its people and Coal-belching Jharia in Jharkhand continues to Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will send culture, while the blue colour denotes the be the most polluted city in India while Delhi 'Vyommitra', a 'lady robot' in the unmanned autonomy of the assembly secretariat. has made marginal improvement in reducing air Gaganyaan spacecraft. pollution, according to a Greenpeace India report. ISRO Chairman K Sivan told reporters the half Uttarakhand becomes first state to Delhi is the 10th most polluted city in India. It humanoid will simulate human functions in space implement agricultural land leasing policy: was eighth a year ago. and also interact with the environment control life Uttarakhand has become the first state in the Jharkhand's Dhanbad, known for its rich coal support system. country where the government has made a reserves and industries, is the second-most policy to lease agricultural land. In lieu of polluted city in India, according to the report 'Women with Wheels' Cab Service Operated giving land on a 30-year lease, the concerned based on an analysis of PM10 data from 287 cities by Women for Women Begins At IGI Airport: farmer will get the rent for the land. across India. Lunglei in Mizoram is the least 'Women with Wheels', a cab service operated by In the hilly areas of the state, the obstacles of polluted followed by Meghalaya's Dowki, women for women has started at Delhi's Indira leasing land for farming, agriculture, horticulture, according to the report. Gandhi International Airport on Thursday. A herbs, off-season vegetables, milk production, Six of the top 10 polluted cities are in Uttar Vadera, CEO, Sakha Consulting Wings Pvt Ltd, tea plantation, fruit hybridization and solar Pradesh: Noida, Ghaziabad, Bareilly, Allahabad, says, "We give driving training and self-defence energy has been removed with this step. Moradabad and Firozabad. training to women. We have cab services, provide women chauffeurs on demand and for short NITI Aayog, UT of Ladakh signed MoU for TN’s Fishery and Music universities named duration". development of Infrastructure Projects: after the late CM J Jayalalithaa: The National Institution for Transforming India Tamil Nadu (TN) Assembly passed the Bills to Russia to be focal theme of 44th Kolkata (NITI) Aayog has signed a Memorandum of rename ‘Tamil Nadu Fisheries University’ and book fair: Understanding (MoU) with newly developed ‘Tamil Nadu Music and Fine Arts University’, The 44th International Kolkata Book Fair will Union Territory(UT) of Ladakh in order to after the late Chief Minister and AIADMK leader begin from January 29 next year and Russia will promote the development of infrastructures Jayaram Jayalalithaa as ‘Tamil Nadu be the focal country. Around 22 countries in the recently developed UT. Under the MoU, Niti Dr.J.Jayalalithaa Fisheries University from Asia, Europe and Latin America would take Aayog will provide support to ladakh through (TNJFU) ’ and ‘Tamil Nadu Dr. J.Jayalalithaa Music part in the 12-day mega event, known over the ‘Development Support Services to States for and Fine Arts University (TNMFAU) ’ respectively decades for its huge footfall. It will be inaugurated Infrastructure Projects (D3S-i or DSSS for by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Infrastructure Projects) ’. The MoU was signed by Government of Maharashtra makes the Banerjee. senior adviser of Niti Aayog Yogesh Suri and reading of Preamble mandatory in Ladakh’s Lieutenant Governor Umang Narula in Maharashtra schools: Government announces 141 Padma Awards presence of Niti Aayog Chief Executive Maharashtra Government has made the for this year on occasion of 71st Republic Officer(CEO) Shri Amitabh Kant and joint reading of the Preamble of the Constitution Day: secretary MC Jauhari. mandatory for the Maharashtra schools. The The government has announced 141 Padma reading will be done after prayer in all primary Awards for this year on the occasion of 71st Uttar Pradesh Government launches and secondary schools in Maharashtra. Republic Day. The list comprises of 7 Padma Mukhyamantri Krishak Durghatna Kalyan Chief Minister of Maharashtra: Uddhav Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhusan and 118 Padma Yojana Thackeray; Governor: Bhagat Singh Koshyari. Shri awards. 34 awardees are women and 18 Mukhyamantri Krishak Durghatna Kalyan Yojana foreigners. 12 persons are awarded has been launched by the government of Uttar Tribal Affairs Ministry proposes 6th posthumously. Pradesh to provide financial assistance to the Schedule Area status to Ladakh: Former Union Ministers George Fernandes, family of farmers who die or become Union Tribal Affairs Ministry has proposed 6th Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley will be handicapped while working in fields. Schedule Area status to Union Territory of awarded Padma Vibhushan. Ladakh. Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda Former Chief Minister of Goa Manohar Parrikar Meghalaya celebrates 48th anniversary of said that his ministry has sent the proposal to the and Legal luminary and educator NR Madhava its statehood day on 21 January: Union Home Ministry to declare the 6th Schedule Menon to be conferred Padma Bhushan Meghalaya celebrates the 48th anniversary of status to Ladakh. posthumously. Eminent Writer Manoj Das, its statehood day on 21 January and the Tribal Affairs Minister also assured that his Shuttler PV Sindhu, industrialist Anand Mahindra celebrations will continue till the Republic Day ministry will take all necessary measures to will get Padma Bhushan. celebration. preserve and enrich the rich legacy of Ladakh. Environmentalist Sonam Wangchuk had last

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Footballer Oinem Bembem Devi, Film Director showcasing different ethnic communities of the Uttar Pradesh government signs MoU for Karan Johar, Actress Kangna Ranaut will get State & neighbouring areas. efficient e-procurement on GeM Padma Shri. Uttar Pradesh government has signed a Several unsung heroes like Jagdish Lal Ahuja, World’s largest meditation centre coming up memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Javed Ahmad Tak, Tulasi Gowda, Mohammed in Hyderabad: government eMarketplace (GeM), under the Sharif, Satyanayana Mundayoor, S Ramakrishna The world’s largest meditation centre and the Ministry of Commerce & Industry to set up a GeM and Yogi Aeron have been selected for Padma global headquarters of the Heartfulness Institute Organizational Transformation Team (GOTT) Shri. will be inaugurated on January 28. To mark the Project Management Unit (PMU). 75th anniversary of the organisation, Kanha India’s first Super Fab Lab inaugurated in Bharat Parv 2020' begins at Red Fort to Shanti Vanam- spread over 30 acres-will be Kerala celebrate spirit of India: dedicated to Lalaji. Country's 1rst Super Fab Lab, that will give a Bharat Parv 2020, a festival to celebrate the spirit It can accommodate 100,000 practitioners at one major push to the hardware industry in the of India has begun at Red Fort ground in New go. country & the only such facility outside U.S, was Delhi. It will continue till 31st of this month. The Prime Minister to inaugurate 3rd Global launched at the Integrated Start-up Complex of objective of Bharat Parv is to encourage people to Potato Conclave-2020 at Gandhinagar in the Kerala Start-up Mission. CM Pinarayi visit different tourism places of the country and Gujarat Vijayan inaugurated the lab. to inculcate the spirit of ‘Dekho Apna Desh’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the It will collaborate with Massachusetts Institute More than 50 food stalls, 79 handicrafts stalls and 3rd Global Potato Conclave-2020 at of Technology. 27 theme pavilions have been setup. The theme Gandhinagar in Gujarat through video Odisha launches virtual police station of this year’s Bharat Parv is 'Ek Bharat conferencing. Odisha Government has launched a virtual police Shreshtha Bharat' and 'Celebrating 150 Years Netherland is the partner country of this station where people can lodge complaints from of Mahatma Gandhi. conclave. This conclave is being organized by the their respective districts regarding theft of their Indian Potato Association (IPA) in vehicles without visiting Police Station. The e- 2-day ‘Innovation Festival’ begins at Science collaboration with (Indian Council of police station will function from State Crime Centre in Itanagar: Agricultural Research ICAR), Central Potato Records Bureau in Bhubaneswar. Arunachal Pradesh, the two-day ‘Innovation Research Institute, Shimla and International Mumbai International Film Festival got off to Festival’ kicked off at the Science Centre in on Potato Center, Lima, Peru. a colourful start Saturday. The festival is being organized by the Home Minister Amit Shah chairs 22nd The oldest international event for non-feature Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science & meeting of Central Zonal Council in films in South Asia, the Mumbai International Film Technology in collaboration with the National Chhattisgarh Festival for Documentary, Short Fiction and Innovation Foundation. 22nd meeting of the Central Zonal Council is Animation Films, got off to a colourful start in More than 50 innovations are put on display by progressing at Raipur, the state capital of Mumbai. students from various educational institutions, Chhattisgarh. Union Home Minister Amit Shah is Dr. V Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award grassroots innovators, artisans and presiding over the meeting. was conferred on Dr. S. Krishnaswamy. entrepreneurs from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adtiyanath, Dr Jitendra Singh launches Bhuvan and other states. CM of Madhya Pradesh Kamal Nath, CM of Panchayat V 3.0 Web portal Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat and CM of The Union Minister of State (I/C) Ministry of National Integration Camp highlighting 'Ek host state Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel are Development of North Eastern Region, MoS PMO, Bharat, Shrestha Bharat' scheme begins in attending the 22nd meeting of Central Zonal Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Madurai, Tamil Nadu: Council. Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh Five-day National Integration Camp, highlighting Centre & Assam govt to provide 1,500 crore launched the Bhuvan Panchayat V 3.0 web portal the Central Government’s 'Ek Bharat, Shrestha rupees assistance for economic in Bengaluru. Bharat' scheme has begun in Madurai, the development of community under India’s first underwater Metro: To begin in Cultural Capital of Tamil Nadu. Rural artists from agreement March 2022 in Kolkata more than 16 States and Union Territories are Centre signed an accord with the Assam-based Kolkata Metro Rail Corp. expects to complete attending the camp, during which they will be different insurgent groups and civil societies East-West project, which runs partly under the showcasing their unique talents as well as getting including the National Democratic Front of Hooghly river, by March 2022 after several years acquainted with art forms from other parts of the Bodoland. The tripartite agreement was signed in delay. A soft loan of 41.6 billion Rs from Japan country. the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah International Cooperation Agency helps fund Orientation trips to nearby places of cultural and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda 48.5% of the project. importance and afforestation programmes are Sonowal. Indian Railways to run 100% on electricity also being arranged as part of the camp. Cultural Minister of Foreign, European Affairs of by 2024 links between and its 'Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat' Luxembourg arrives in New Delhi on 3-day Railways minister Piyush Goyal stated that the partner Jammu Kashmir - Ladakh are also visit to India Railways is expected to switch completely to being highlighted in the camp activities. Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of electricity by 2024 as diesel locomotives are Luxembourg Jean Asselborn arrived in New steadily being shunted out of service. It will be Ganga Yatra under Namami Gange mission Delhi on a three-day visit to India. During his the 1st railway network in the world to be run on to begin from Bijnor, Ballia in Uttar Pradesh: stay, Mr Asselborn will meet External Affairs 100% electricity. Five-day Ganga Yatra under Namami Gange Minister Dr S Jaishankar. Andhra Pradesh Cabinet nods to abolish mission will kick off today from Bijnor and Ballia Maharashtra govt launches its much- Legislative Council in Uttar Pradesh. UP Chief Minister Yogi awaited 'Shiv Bhojan' scheme YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led govt passed a Adityanath, Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Maharashtra government launched its 'Shiv resolution in the Legislative Assembly to abolish Rawat and Union Minister Sanjeev Baliyan will Bhojan' scheme, which is aimed at providing meal the Legislative Council. It comes after the upper launch the yatra from Bijnor, a place where to the poor for 10 Rs, on the 71st Republic Day. house stalled critical resolutions on shifting the Ganga enters Uttar Pradesh. Lunch plates would be available to people at capital city from Amaravati through their ‘3 Governor Anandiben Patel, Union Minister designated centres during a stipulated time in all capital cities’ plans. Mahendra Nath Pandey and Deputy Chief Minister the districts. NCML released first estimates for 2019-20 of Bihar Sushil Modi will launch it from Ballia in "Shiv Bhojan Thali" canteen was launched in rabi crop production eastern UP, where the holy river leave the state Mumbai. NCML (National Collateral Management to enter Bihar. Arunachal’s ‘eForest Fire app’ bags e- Services Limited) has released its first Governance ‘Jury Award’ estimates for 2019-20 rabi crop production. The First-ever carnival of peace and harmony A digital app to detect forest fire, developed under monsoon season of 2019 witnessed 10% above held in Shillong: district level initiative in e-Governance has normal rainfall. Shillong witnessed the 1st-ever carnival of peace bagged the ‘Jury Award’ under Category-Ill, to Wheat production during 2019-20 is estimated at & harmony as part of the weeklong Meghalaya be given during the 23rd National Conference on 1090 lakh tonnes. Paddy has increased by 5% Day Celebrations. Carnival procession passed e-Governance, to be held on 7 and 8 February in compared to previous year. through the busy streets of Shillong city Mumbai.

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Royal Australian Navy Ship HMAS Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) in New children entering Class I are less than 5 years old, Toowoomba at Mumbai Delhi. which should be 6 years.Report suggests that Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Ship HMAS The Director General of UNESCO Ms Audrey network of Anganwadi Centres should be Toowoomba is currently on a visit to Mumbai. Azoulay. strengthened. Cmde Ray Leggatt, Commander Combined Task Indian Railways implementing Automatic Force (CTF) - 150 and Commander Mitchell Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) of Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Livingstone, Commanding Officer. Rolling Stock (RFID Project) radio Telescope (FAST) : Indian Navy Launches 'Operation Vanilla' to Creating a new segment in the AIDC (Automatic China operationalised telescope with a diameter Provide Humanitarian Assistance and Identification and Data Collection) industry in of 500 Meters, called Five-hundred-meter Disaster Relief at Madagascar India uniquely suited for the Indian Railways Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Indian Navy Ship Airavat, whilst mission deployed requirements. It is a single-dish telescope, located in southwest in the Southern Indian Ocean has been diverted Shri Nitin Gadkari Launches Special Edition China’s Guiyang city. It has receiving area of to Antsiranana based on request recieved from of Khadi Watches around 30 football fields. It is expected to pave Madagascar. On the occasion of Martyrs’ Day, paying tribute way for major discoveries in due course. S Jaishankar lays foundation stone of Sardar on the 72nd death anniversary of Mahatma 1. Dubbed as “China Sky Eye”, FAST is world's Vallabhbhai Patel Centre at Kevadia in Gandhi, Union Minister for MSME, Shri Nitin largest telescope and capable of receiving Gujarat Gadkari, launched the limited edition of Khadi maximum of 38 gigabytes of information per External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar laid the wrist watches in New Delhi. second. foundation stone of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Chairman of Khadi and Village Industries 2. It is world's largest filled-aperture radio Centre for Empowerment and Livelihoods near Commission (KVIC) : Vinai Kumar Saxena. telescope, and second-largest single-dish the Statue of Unity at Kevadia in Gujarat. Delhi airport gets a new women-only cab aperture after sparsely-filled RATAN-600 Bengaluru is the 'Most Traffic Congested service (Russia). city' in the world ‘Women with Wheels’ cab service was started at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), New Tech Firm Visa accquired software startup As per the results of the TomTom Traffic Index, Delhi. The service was initiated by ‘Sakha cabs’ Plaid: a report detailing the traffic situation in 416 cities for the safety of women. US Based Payments Tech Firm Visa accquired in 57 countries, Bengaluru takes the top spot this software startup Plaid in a $5.3 billion deal, year with drivers in the southern Indian city aimed at boosting Visa's access to financial expecting to spend an average of 71 per cent INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS technology space. extra travel time stuck in traffic. World Future Energy Summit: Mumbai at fourth position followed by Pune at World Future Energy Summit Held at Abu Dhabi GEFCO to digitally transform its worldwide fifth place and New Delhi at eighth position. (UAE), with theme Rethinking Global operations: Consumption, Production and Investment. 5 main IT Firm Infosys signed 5 years deal with France Mangalore Smart City and Indian Green pillars os summit are energy, water, solar, based Logistics Firm GEFCO to digitally Building Council ink pact waste and smart cities. It is being conducted transform its worldwide operations. It will help The Indian Green Building Council & Mangalore at Abu Dhabi since 2011. GEFCO to transfrom GEFCO’s next-generation Smart City Ltd have signed a MoU for sustainable business application management services. development in Mangalore. The MoU envisages a International Conclave: joint assessment study to evaluate the green International Conclave on “Globalizing Indian China as a currency Manipulator: criteria of Mangalore as per the IGBC Green Cities Thought” held at IIM Kozhikode (Kerala). US rolled back designation of China as a rating system. currency manipulator. Instead, it placed China Mangaluru Smart City Ltd is the 1st smart city World Economic Forum released its Global along with nine other trading partners like in India to sign an MoU with IGBC. Risks Report 2020: Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea and Vietnam Cabinet approves upper limit for abortion at World Economic Forum released its Global on a monitoring list. 24 weeks Risks Report 2020, identifying global risks. Report Cabinet gave nod to extend the upper gestation has listed 5 top risks in terms of Likelihood and in Dispute settlement body of WTO has set up limit for abortion from the existing 20 to 24 terms of Impact.Risks in terms of likelihood a panel: weeks, amending the Medical Termination of includes extreme weather, climate action failure, Dispute settlement body of World Trade Pregnancy Act,1971. Globally, pregnancies are natural disasters, biodiversity losses and human- Organisation’s (WTO) has set up a panel to aborted even at 32 wks in case there are made environmental disasters.For the first time, examine complaints of United States (US) against substantial foetal abnormalities. all 5 risks of likelihood are climate- India for hiking customs duties of 28 American Flipkart signs MoU with GSHHDC to promote related. Global Risks in terms of impacts include goods in July 2019. US alleged India's move of artisans and craftsmen climate action failure, weapons of mass increasing custom duties for being inconsistent Flipkart Private Limited, an Indian e-commerce destruction, biodiversity losses, extreme weather with 2 global trade norms of GATT (General company, has entered into an MoU and water crisis. Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) 1994 (memorandum of understanding) with the agreement. Gujarat State Handloom and Handicrafts International Film Festival: Development Corporation Ltd (GSHHDC) for Filmmaker Martin Scorsese has been honored by Oxfam Report: India’s richest 1% people’s the promotion of local handicrafts by bringing on 31st Palm Springs International Film Festival as Wealth is 4 times of 70% of population: board thousands of artisans, weavers and recipient of Sonny Bono Visionary Award for film Rights group Oxfam International released a craftsmen. ‘The Irishman’, in California (US). report titled ‘Time to Care:Unpaid and underpaid TERI’s World Sustainable Development care work and the global inequality crisis’. As per Summit 2020 held in New Delhi Indian-American Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari the report, India’s richest 1% of the population TERI’s World Sustainable Development Summit completed Astronaunt Training: has more than 4 times of wealth held by 953 2020 on ‘Energy Future Road Map’ held in New Indian-American Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari is million people making up for the bottom 70% of Delhi. Started in 2001, the Summit has become a among 11 new NASA graduates to have the country’s population. 2,153 of total focal point for leaders and stakeholders across completed over two years' of basic astronaut billionaires globally in 2019 had more wealth than the world to bridge thought and action for training and are set to be a part of NASA's future the 4.6 billion people who make up 60% of the sustainable development. missions. planet’s population. The reports in detail are as Union HRD Minister chairs the meeting of follows: the Indian National Commission For Annual Status of Education Report 2019: Report on India: Cooperation (INCCU) with UNESCO in New Non-Profit Organization Pratham released its Indian billionaires’ wealth: Total combined Delhi annual report Annual Status of Education Report wealth of 63 Indian billionairesis higher than Union Human Resource Development Minister 2019, based on survey covering 36,000 children the country’s total Union Budget for the fiscal year Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ chaired the in age group of 4 to 8 years.Around 56.8% of 2018-19 which stood at Rs 24,42,200 crore. meeting of the Indian National Commission for girls and 50.4% of boys are enrolled in Unpaid care work of Indian females: Women government schools. Also, 4 out of every 10 and girls put in 3.26 billion hours of unpaid care

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The National Security Advisor (NSA) of India Shri conflict; fighting health care inequality; Ajit Doval paid a day-long visit to Colombo in the expanding access to medicines; stopping IIT Kharagpur develops AI-powered tech for Island nation of Sri Lanka (SL). On his visit, Shri infectious diseases; preparing for epidemics; reading legal cases: Doval met the President of SL Shri Nandasena guarding against dangerous products; investing Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have evolved an Gotabaya Rajapaksa and held talks on various in health workers; Protecting the world’s youth; Artificial Intelligence (AI) -aided method to bilateral issues. The highlights of the visit in detail gaining public trust; harnessing new automate the reading of legal case judgments. are as follows: technologies; Protecting lifesaving medicines and Two deep neural models to understand the $50 million assistance: India pledged to finally keeping health care clean. rhetorical roles of sentences in a legal case provide $50 million security assistance to Sri judgment have been developed. Lanka for purchasing equipment for its security World Economic Forum released 15th Global forces. Risk Report 2020: France to train Indian flight surgeons for SL and India vowed to strengthen military ties The World Economic Forum(WEF) released the ISRO’s Gaganyaan Mission: and also to widen their maritime links with 15th edition of the “Global Risk Report 2020: France will train Indian flight surgeons to enable neighbours. After the talks, NSA Ajit Doval An Unsettled World”. This report is a part of them to monitor the health of astronauts selected discussed on setting up of a maritime research WEF’s Global Risks initiative and presents about for the ambitious human space mission coordination centre in SL. the major risk the world is expected to face in the Gaganyaan. The two-week training is a critical future. It is also to be noted that the year 2020 aspect of the Gaganyaan project that is aimed at Lok sabha speaker Om Birla attends 25th marks the 50th anniversary of the World sending three Indians to space by 2022. conference of speakers and presiding Economic Forum, with the 2020 theme being officers 2020 in Ottawa, Canada: “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Aurobindo Ashram Schoolbuilding A parliamentary delegation headed by Lok Sustainable World.”The report in detail are as constructed with India’s assistance Sabha speaker Om Birla has attended the 25th follows: inaugurated in Nepal: edition of the Conference of Speakers and Climate accounts for Top5 crisis: As per the New building of Aurobindo Ashram School in Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth report for the 1st time in the survey’s 10-year Thankot, Kathmandu is constructed with the (CSPOC) 2020 held in Ottawa, Canada from outlook, severe threats to the climate account for Government of India’s grant assistance of 28.25 January 6 -January 10,2020. The conference the top 5 long term risks with extreme weather million Nepali rupees. The three story building aimed at topics of parliamentary engagement: events, human-made environmental damage and comprises eleven class rooms, three labs, four openness, transparency and accountability, and disasters and major biodiversity loss and natural store rooms, two staff rooms. Besides rooms for on Parliamentarians as effective legislators and disasters from earthquakes to tsunamis.Over 78 accounts, administration, record, library and representatives. % of the 750 global experts expect rise in principal, it also has examination and multi- In 2022, Australia will be the host of “economic confrontations” and “domestic political purpose hall. commonwealth speakers meeting & Uganda to polarization” in 2020.The survey rated host 2024 Commonwealth speakers conference “information infrastructure breakdown”will be the ICJ orders Myanmar to take steps to prevent with additional CSPOC Standing Committee 6th most impactful risk in the years until 2030. Rohingya Genocide: meetings to be held in Guernsey in 2021 and The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at Trinidad & Tobago in 2023. Tehran Dialogue Forum-23rd gulf Hague ordered the Myanmar government to take conference; India supports Hormuz Peace measures to prevent the genocide of Rohingyas 10th World Future Energy Summit 2020 held initiative 2020: as part of its obligations under the Genocide in Abu dhabi, UAE; CLIX sustainability India participated in the Tehran Dialogue Convention. In a unanimous decision by 17 summit held: Forum, the 23rd Persian Gulf International Judges of the ICJ, the court observed that there Recently the 10th edition of World Future Conference held in Tehran, Iran from January 06- was prima facie evidence of breaches of the Energy Summit (WFES) 2020 hosted by 07, 2020. During the forum, India supported convention by Myanmar. The ICJ said that the Masdar renewable energy company, was held at the Hormuz Peace initiative 2020. The estimated 600,000 Rohingya remaining in Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre in Abu initiative was done so as to seek stability in one Myanmar were “extremely vulnerable” to Dhabi, United Arab Emirates(UAE) from January of the world’s busiest and strategically located violence at the hands of the military. 13-16, 2020. The theme for the year 2020 was shipping lanes i.e, Strait of Hormuz amid “Rethinking Global Consumption, escalating US-Iran tensions. Oman, India, China Aunties, uncles, tube lights among 26 new Production, and Investment”. and Afghanistan were the key participants. Indian words in Oxford dictionary: Plans under HOPE: The meeting reviewed the Aunties, uncles & tube lights have made it to the 3rd Climate Innovations Exchange: latest developments in the Persian Gulf region latest edition of Oxford dictionary, with 26 new Alongside the World Future Energy Summit, 3rd and also evaluated the regional cooperation plans Indian English words being added to a total of 384 edition of the Climate Innovations Exchange, under the ‘Hormuz Peace Endeavor’ (HOPE), existing ones. 10th edition of the Oxford ‘CLIX’ in short and the Future Sustainability proposed by Tehran at the 74th session of the Advanced Learner’s Dictionary come with an Summit had also held in Abu Dhabi. The event United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Indian English label. showcased innovative ideas related to energy, was held in September 2019. Oxford Dictionaries Hindi Word of the Year for food, agriculture and sustainability in space Strait of Hormuz:The Strait of Hormuz is one of 2018-Nari Shakti. the world’s most strategically important choke WHO released Global health challenges for points.It acts as an important gateway for Qatar signs $470 Million solar deal: 2020; 13 health challenges for the decade significant amount of global oil supplies. Gas-rich Qatar signed a $470-million deal to build identified: Oil & LNG supply to India: 2/3rd of oil and 50% its first solar energy plant, capable of meeting up The World Health Organisation (WHO) released of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported to India to one-tenth of peak national power demand. The the Global challenges for 2020. 13health comes through the strait between Iran and Oman. Al-Kharsaah plant near Doha is a 10-square- challenges in this decade were also identified. The kilometre joint venture with French and Japanese details are as follows: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev partners. Global health challenges for 2020: steps down: China now world's second biggest weapons i. Top global challenges: Antimicrobial The Prime Minister of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev producer: SIPRI resistance (AMR), climate crisis, eventuality of has resigned to lead the Russia’s Security China Ranked World’s Second Largest Arms an influenza epidemic and spread of infectious Council. Paving way to President Putin to do Producer Trailing Behind US. Stockholm diseases such as malaria, HIV (Human reforms the constitution. International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) immunodeficiency virus) and tuberculosis (TB) has hinted on China being world's second largest producer of munitions.

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India & WB signed $210 million loan pact for It will be launched by the Long March-5 Y4 Delhi at 6th position in the list. 7 Indian cities Maharashtra’s Agri & Rural Transformation carrier rocket. feature in the top 20 in 2020 rankings. Project: Boris Johnson defies Trump, grants Huawei Govt of Maharashtra and the World Bank (WB) limited role in UK's 5G network India falls to 51st position in EIU's signed a loan agreement of $210 million for Prime Minister Boris Johnson granted Huawei a Democracy Index: Maharashtra’s Agribusiness & rural limited role in Britain's 5G mobile network, India's overall score fell from 7.23 in 2018 to transformation project. This project will help the frustrating a global attempt by the United States 6.90 on the Index that provides a snapshot of the farmers in Maharashtra to take part in to exclude the Chinese telecoms giant from the current state of democracy worldwide for 165 competitive agriculture value chains, enhance West's next-generation communications. independent states and two territories. On agribusiness investments thereby increasing Passport Seva Kendras started passport India, the report said, the country dropped ten productivity of commodities. renewal reminder service places in the Democracy Index's global 2 SMS are being sent to the concerned passport ranking to 51st. The primary cause of the Department of Biotechnology held holders - one before 9 months & another before democratic regression was an erosion of civil International Summit on Women in STEM: 7 months of the date of expiry of passport. An liberties in the country Department of Biotechnology held an ordinary passport for adults is valid for 10 years International Summit on Women in STEM from the date of issue and can be renewed for India pips US to become 2nd largest (Science, Technology, Engineering and another 10 years.Validity of minor's is restricted smartphone market in 2019: Mathematics) on the theme Theme: Visualizing to 5 years/till attain 18 yrs. Riding on Chinese brands, the India smartphone the Future: New Skylines. ISRO to launch 10 satellites to replace its market surpassed the US for the first time on an Ganga-Volga Dialogue held with Russia to ageing fleet annual level, becoming the second-largest enhance Connectivity: The first such satellite, GSAT-30, which will smartphone market after China globally- The Ganga-Volga Dialogue was held between replace the 15-year-old INSAT 4-A satellite, was reaching 158 million shipments in the calender India and Russia in New Delhi. The dialogue launched on January 17. The satellite carried 12 year 2019 with 7 per cent growth, a report from focused in providing interface between the C band transponders for communication and 12 Counterpoint Research. civilizations of the countries. Highlights The Ku band transponders designed for direct-to- While Xiaomi continued to be the top player dialogue prioritized people-to-people contact. home transmission. K Sivan chairperson of the with 28 per cent market share in the calendar Britain unveils 50 pence coin minted to mark Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). year 2019, Samsung was second with 21 per Brexit NCCS scientists find new microbial species cent and Vivo at 16 per cent market share, said Britain unveiled a new 50 pence coin minted to “Natrialba swarupiae” Counterpoint's 'Market Monitor' service. mark the country’s departure from the European The studies on the microorganism archaea from Union, which bears the inscription “Peace, the Sambhar lake in Rajasthan helped scientists prosperity & friendship with all nations” and at the National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, BUSINESS & ECONOMY the Brexit date of 31 January 2020. Britain to discover a novel archael species called India to place restrictions on non-essential Finance Minister-Sajid Javid. ‘Natrialba swarupiae’. They named the species imports from China by March 2020: UK launches 4-mn pound Innovation after Dr. Renu Swarup. India has decided to place stricter quality Challenge Fund in India India-Bangladesh JT Exercise SAMPRITI-IX standards for importing of 371 items. The UK government has launched about Rs 37 Crore Indo-Bangladesh defence cooperation, a joint proposed rules will be framed by respective fund in India to support collaborative research military training exercise SAMPRITI-IX is being ministries in coordination with the Bureau of into emerging technologies. Fund will encourage conducted at UMROI, Meghalaya, India from 03 Indian Standards (BIS) and spearheaded by industry & academia to collaborate & develop tech Feb to 16 Feb 2020. Union trade minister Shri Piyush Goyal. solutions for social, economic & environmental WHO declares coronavirus as Public Health challenges in India. Emergency of International Concern DPIIT: FDI inflows rose 15% to $26 Bn in Focus is on AI in Karnataka & future mobility in The decision was taken in the second consecutive 1st half of FY2020; Singapore largest FDI Maharashtra. meeting of the Emergency Committee convened source of India: Qatar names Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin by the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom According to the data released by the Department Abdelaziz Al Thani new PM Ghebreyesus. for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz Al Thani Director-General of the World Health (DPIIT), the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in appointed as a new Prime Minister of Qatar. He Organization (WHO) : Tedros Adhanom India rose 15% to $26 billion in the first half of replacing Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Ghebreyesus. FY2020. Singapore continued to be the largest Khalifa Al Thani. India, France to partner to develop source of FDI in India during the first half of Jerusalem will remain Israel's undivided museums, culture spaces and organise FY2020 with $8 billion investments followed by capital exhibitions and festivals Mauritius. United States President Donald Trump said Ministry of Culture would explore partnership Jerusalem will remain Israel's undivided capital as between the National Museum in Delhi and a India's foreign exchange reserve touches a he unveiled his Middle East peace plan aimed at French counterpart to be designated by the record level of $457.46 bn: RBI: solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, describing French government. According to the “Bulletin Weekly Statistical it as historic and a giant step towards peace. Supplement – Extract” released by the Reserve Oxford University Press named RANKINGS Bank of India (RBI), India’s foreign exchange 'Samvidhaan' as Hindi word of 2019 WEF’s 1st Global Social Mobility Index 2020: (Forex) reserves rose by $ 2.520 billion to a Oxford University Press (OUP) named India ranks 76th & Denmark tops the list: record $ 457.468 billion during the week ended Samvidhaan (Constitution) the Oxford Hindi The World Economic Forum (WEF) released 1st 27 December 2019. Word of 2019, saying it received widespread edition of a report titled “The Global Social attention in the year which was witness to the Mobility Report 2020: Equality, Opportunity HAL inks pact with Wipro 3D to make spirit of the Indian Constitution being embraced and a New Economic Imperative”. The global aerospace components: across segments of the society. social mobility index (GSMI) of 82 countries were Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), has The Oxford University Press, which chose launched in this report. As per the Index, India signed a MoU with Wipro 3D, the metal additive th “Aadhaar” as its first “Hindi word of the year ranked at the 76 position with a score of 42.7 manufacturing (AM) business of Wipro 2018. while Denmark topped the list. Infrastructure Engineering (WIN), to jointly China to launch its first Mars probe mission design, develop and manufacture aerospace in July 2020 Hyderabad, Bengaluru top 2 most dynamic components using metal additive technology While NASA is preparing to send its Mars 2020 cities globally in list of 130: (Three Dimensional (3D) printing). rover to explore the red planet, China also Hyderabad has emerged as world’s most announced its plan to launch first Mars mission dynamic city, performing better on parameters CONCOR incorporates CONCOR Last Mile probe in July 2020. A total of 24 high thrust like socio-economic & commercial real Logistics: hydrogen-oxygen rocket engine tests will be estate, as per JLL India report Bengaluru has Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) has conducted for this in 2020. been ranked 2nd, while Chennai is at 5th and incorporated with a wholly-owned subsidiary company with the name CONCOR Last Mile

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Logistics Limited. The authorized share capital of b) GVA estimate growth: GVA has been Ind-Ra predicts India’s GDP to grow at 5.5% the company is Rs 100 crore. The new company estimated to grow in real at 9% in 2019-20 as for FY21: will be engaged in the development, operation, against 6.6% in 2018-19. a) It is to be noted that earlier in November and management of goods sheds. c) Per Capita Income: In real terms (at 2011- 2019, Ind-Ra had estimated India’s GDP to grow 12 prices) during 2019-20 is likely to attain a level by 5.6 % for FY20. As per the agency, earlier it NSE arm launches AI-powered ‘knowledge of Rs.96,563 as compared to Rs. 92,565 for the believes that there would be some improvement hub’ to serve financial sector: year 2018-19. in the next financial year, but the Indian economy National Stock Exchange (NSE) launched ‘NSE d) The growth rate in Per Capita Income is seems to be stuck in a period of low consumption Knowledge Hub’ an Artificial Intelligence- estimated at 4.3% during 2019-20, as against and low investment demand. powered learning platform for BFSI (Banking, 5.6% in the 2018-19. b) Financial loss will exceed target: With the Financial services and Insurance) sectors to Union Budget coming up for 2020-21, the rating enhance skills for their employees, during an World Bank slashes India's GDP forecast for agency has estimated that the fiscal deficit could event in New Delhi. The function was inaugurated FY 20 to 5% from 6%: come down to 3.6% (3.3% in the budget) in FY21 by Piyush Goyal. World Bank (WB),an international financial due to the fall in tax and non-tax revenue. institution, in its report, “January 2020 Global IEA’s India 2020 energy policy review: India Economic Prospects: Slow growth, policy Indian oil signs MOU with NPA Ghana for to surpass China in terms of oil demand challenges”, has Slashed India’s GDP(Gross assistance in LPG programme: growth by mid-2020s: domestic product) growth for financial year –FY On January 22, 2020 Indian Oil According to the report, 'India 2020 Energy 2020 to 5% from 6% estimated earlier in October Corporation (IOC) signed a Memorandum of Policy Review' which covers the key energy 2019. Understanding (MoU) with the National sectors of oil, natural gas and electricity and Petroleum Authority (NPA) of Ghana Oil identify the main energy security issues, released India’s GDP growth to 5.7% from 7.6% for Regulator, for the implementation of Ghana’s by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in FY 2019-20: UN WESP National LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) Promotion collaboration with NITI Aayog stating that India On January 16, 2020, According to the ‘World Policy. The MoU was signed in New Delhi in the will overtake China by mid-2020 in terms of crude Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2020’ presence of Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas oil demand growth. The report noted India’s report released by the United Nations (UN), it has (MoP&NG) & Steel Shri Dharmendra Debendra crude oil demand will rise from 4.4 million barrels slashed India’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) Pradhan and Micheal Aaron, High Commissioner per day in 2017 to 6 million barrels per day in growth forecast for the year 2019-20 by 1.9% to of Ghana. Mr.Alhassan Sulemna Tampuli, Chief 2024. 5.7%. Earlier in 2019, it had projected GDP Executive, NPA, Ghana and Mr. L.K.S Chauhan, growth rate of 7.6% for FY 2019-20 Chief General Manager (LPG), Indian Oil signed Retail inflation rose to 7.35% in December MoU. 2019, highest in last 5 years: NSO UN predicts India’s GDP growth forecast for According to the Consumer Price Inflation (CPI) / 2019-20 to 5%: Airtel joins hands with Google cloud to bring Retail inflation figures, released by the National On January 18, 2020, United Nations (UN), an G Suite to Indian SMBs: Statistical Office (NSO) under the Ministry of intergovernmental organization responsible for Bharti Airtel Limited (also known as Airtel), an Statistics and Programme Implementation maintaining international peace and security, has Indian global telecommunications services (MoSPI), Retail inflation rose to a 5-year high of predicted the India’s GDP (Gross Domestic company, has entered into the partnership with 7.35% in December 2019. Earlier, in July 2014, Product) growth forecast for the year 2019-20 to cloud computing services provider Google the retail inflation had reached 7.39 %. The 5%. Cloud, under which Airtel will offer services reason behind this rise is high food prices. Food provided by Google’s G Suite to small and inflation rose to 14.12% from 10.01% in IMF trims India’s 2019 GDP growth forecast medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in India, November 2019. to 4.8% from 6.1%: which are already clients of Airtel’s information On January 20, 2020, The International Monetary and communications technology (ICT) services. GoM chaired by Amit shah clears EOI & share Fund (IMF), an international organization, in its purchase agreement for privatization of Air World Economic Outlook 2020, has reduced Reliance Jio becomes 1st telecom operator India: India’s economic growth forecast for 2019 to 4.8 to launch UPI payments feature: A Group of Ministers (GoM) chaired by Union % from 6.1% predicted earlier in October 2019. On January 20, 2020 telecom operator Reliance Home Minister (HM) Amit Shah has approved the The growth projections have been lowered, citing Jio of the Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has Expressions of Interest (EOI) and Share pressure from non-banking financial companies become the 1st Indian telecom operator to Purchase Agreement for privatization of Air (NBFCs) and weak income growth in rural India. launch UPI (Unified Payments Interface) India, a debt-ridden state-run airline. In 2019, payments space. Thus Reliance Jio will now the Air India Specific Alternative Mechanism India ranked 8th among the top 10 nations compete with other private UPI payment (AISAM) once again approved the sale of 100% receiving FDI in 2019, US tops: UNCTAD providers such as Paytm, Google Pay and government stake in Air India along with Air India report: PhonePe. Express and the carrier's stake in joint venture On January 20, 2020, According to the “Global AISATS (Air India -SATS (Singapore Airport Investment Trend Monitor report 2020” India opens its first Mahatma Gandhi Terminal Services Private Limited). released by United Nations Conference on Trade convention centre in Niger: and Development (UNCTAD), India ranked 8th External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and SBI revised India's GDP projection to 4.6% among the top 10 countries attracting foreign President of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou jointly for FY 20 from previous 5%: direct investment (FDI) in 2019. During this inaugurated the first convention centre State Bank of India (SBI) Eco wrap report has period FDI in India grew by 16 % to $ 49 billion established in Africa by India to honour the downgraded India’s Gross Domestic Product (bn). This led to a surge in FDI growth in South memory of Mahatma Gandhi. The External Affairs (GDP) growth forecast for FY20 to 4.6% from its Asia (SA), which recorded a 10% increase in FDI Ministry said in a statement that the previous estimate of 5%. to $ 60 billion. The United States (US) remained establishment of the Mahatma Gandhi the largest recipient of FDI in flow, attracting International Convention Centre (MGICC) is a First Advance Estimates of National Income $251 billion, followed by China with flows of $140 landmark for India-Niger friendship, as also a of 2019-20 by NSO released: bn & Singapore with $110 bn. symbol of India's firm commitment towards National Statistical Office (NSO) of the Ministry of Africa. Statistics and Programme Implementation Food delivery startup Zomato acquires Uber It is the first centre to be established in Africa (MoSPI) has released the 1st Advance estimates Eats in all-stocks deal for $350 mn: by India to honour the memory of Mahatma of the national income at both constant (2011- Zomato, an Indian restaurant aggregator and Gandhi whose 150th Birth Anniversary was 12) and current prices for FY (Financial Year) food delivery startup has acquired Uber’s food observed last year. The convention centre has 2019-20. delivery business in India, Uber Eats in an all- been designed as a spacious, modern and eco- a) GDP growth: The growth in real GDP for stocks deal valued at about $350 million (Rs friendly facility, including a 2,000 capacity 2019-20 is estimated at 5% compared to 6.8% 2,485 crore). Plenary Hall, to witness high-level and wide- for 2018-19. ranging participation from African Union member states and other high-level conventions.

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government securities (including treasury bills) or 6 Rakesh Kumar Vats Secretary of India, Bangladesh sign agreement to state development loans. National Medical upgrade Ashuganj-Akhaura road into 4-lane Short-term investment limit has now increased Commission highway: from 20% to 30%. 7 Harjeet Kaur Joshi Chairperson & India and Bangladesh signed an agreement to Managing upgrade the 50.58-km long road between Western Union joins hands with Airtel Director of Ashuganj river port and the Akhaura land payments bank & Airtel Africa for money Shipping port in Bangladesh into a 4-lane highway. The transfer service Corporation of deal to upgrade the 39 km long road between Western Union Company, a leader in cross- India Ashuganj river port to Dharhar area was signed border, cross-currency money movement and 8 Rajiv Rai Bhatnagar Advisor to the Lt between the Roads and Highways Department payments, has partnered with India’s largest Governor of (RHD) of Bangladesh and an Indian Company integrated telecommunications services Union Territory Afcons Infrastructure Limited. The RHD and company, Bharti Airtel’s 2 arms– Airtel of Jammu and an India-Bangladesh joint venture firm will take Payments Bank & Airtel Africa Plc, to enable Kashmir up the work of upgrading the remaining part of millions of latter’s customers in India to receive 9 A Sakthivel Chairman the road from Dharhar to Akhaura. international remittances in their bank accounts of Apparel The project is part of the dollar 2 billion second & and Mobile Wallets across 14 countries in Export line of credit extended by India to Bangladesh in Africa. Promotion 2016. The project will boost connectivity between Janak Raj to succeed Michael Patra at RBI's Council of Bangladesh and North-eastern part of India which monetary policy department India will facilitate sub-regional connectivity among The Reserve Bank of India has appointed Janak 10 M Nagaraj Chairman and South and South-east Asian countries. Raj, principal advisor to the monetary policy Managing department, as executive director. He succeeds Director Vodafone m-pesa's certificate of Michael Patra effective January 24. With this, the of State-owned authorisation cancelled by RBI: RBI will have 12 EDs, its full strength. Housing and The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it has Yes Bank sells shares worth Rs 5.7 crore in Urban cancelled the Certificate of Authorisation (CoA) Reliance Power Development of Vodafone m-pesa on account of voluntary Yes Bank offloaded shares worth over Rs 5.7 Corporation surrender of authorisation. crore in Reliance Power through an open market (HUDCO) Following the cancellation of the CoA, the transaction. 11 Michael Debaprata 4th Deputy company cannot transact the business of ICICI Bank Launches ‘iBox’, A Self-Service Patra Governor of issuance and operation of prepaid payment Delivery Facility For Customers Reserve Bank of instruments, the central bank said. ICICI Bank, announced the launch of a unique India (RBI) self-service delivery facility, called 'iBox', 12 Anand Prakash Director General RBI raises investment limit for FPIs in enabling its customers to collect their deliverables Maheshwari (DG) of Central government and corporate bonds: such as debit card, credit card, cheque book and Reserve Police RBI raised the investment limit for FPIs in returned cheques from a branch close to their Force (CRPF) government and corporate bonds, a move that is home or office.President of ICICI Bank: Sandeep 13 Robert Abela Prime Minister of likely to bring in more foreign funds in the Batra. Malta country. RBI fines HDFC Bank 1 crore for non- 14 Bipul Behari Saha The bureau According to the current norms, short-term compliance of KYC norms member of investments by a foreign portfolio investor (FPI) RBI has imposed a penalty of 1 crore on HDFC International should not exceed 20 percent of the total Bank for non-compliance with its KYC norms.it Union of Pure investment of that FPI in either central has imposed the penalty in exercise of powers and Applied government securities (including treasury bills) or under the provisions of section 47 A (1) (c) read Chemistry state development loans. with section 46 (4) (i) of the Banking Regulation (IUPAC) Act, 1949.CEO Of HDFC: Aditya Puri 15 Lt Col Yuvraj Malik Director of the Reliance Jio the First Telecom to Launch UPI IDFC First Bank shares slump 5% on Q3 National Book Payments Feature: results Trust (NBT) India's largest telecom operator Reliance Jio is Pre-provisioning profit of IDFC First Bank 16 Arjun Munda President of all set to join the UPI bandwagon. Reliance Jio however increased to ₹682 crore in Q3.IDFC First Archery has rolled out a UPI payments facility for selective Bank has provided 50% for the legacy stressed Association of users. This feature is available in the MyJio app telecom account.CEO OF IDFC Bank: V India and can be acquired through an update. Vaidyanathan. 17 Nripendra Misra chairman of Remarkably, the MyJio app also allows "hassle- Nehru Memorial free payments" through Paytm, PhonePe, APPOINTMENTS: Museum and JioMoney, and the recently launched S.N NAME DESIGNATION Library JioAutoPay (for recurring payments). o 18 Dr A Surya Prakash Vice-chairman of

1 Vinod Kumar Yadav Chairman of Nehru Memorial Budget 2020: Nomura Expects India's Fiscal Railway Board Museum and Deficit for FY20 Likely to Slip To 3.7%: 2 Dr Kritika Shukla Andhra Pradesh Library Due to significantly lower nominal growth, a (IAS) M Deepika Govt’s ‘Disha 19 General Bipin Rawat Head of slowdown in tax revenue growth and lower than (IPS) Special Officers’ ‘Department of expected disinvestment proceeds, Nomura the 3 Esmail Qaani Commander of Military affairs government is likely to reveal a fall in fiscal deficit the Iran (DMA) ’ in by around 0.4 percent to 3.7 percent for the Revolutionary the Ministry of current fiscal year at the upcoming Union Budget Guards’ foreign Defence 2020 presentation. operations arm 20 Mr.Umesh Sinha Deputy Election For the fiscal year 2019-20, the government had 4 Abhinav Kumar Inspector Commissioner of budgeted fiscal deficit at 3.3 percent of GDP General of India (gross domestic product). Border Security 21 S Sundar Managing Force (BSF) RBI raises investment limit for FPIs in debt Director and 5 Suresh Chandra Chairman of According to the current norms, short-term Chief Executive Sharma National Medical investments by a foreign portfolio investor (FPI) Officer of Commission should not exceed 20 percent of the total Lakshmi Vilas investment of that FPI in either central Bank

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22 Hillary Rodham Chancellor of 43 Katerina President of of its nine years of its existence and also marked Clinton United Sakellaropoulou Greece 4th consecutive time. England international Kingdom’s 44 Sunil Arora chairman of Lucy Bronze was awarded the best women's Queen’s Forum of the player of the year. University Election 23 Umaro Mokhtar Won in West Management Britain's Prince William unveils prize for Sissoco Embalo African state of Bodies of South climate innovation: Guinea-Bissau’s Asia Prince William Arthur Philip Louis has Presidential 45 Ramesh Joshi Non-Executive announced a multi-million-pound prize for election Chairman of “visionaries” working to solve “Earth’s greatest 24 Arun Kumar Sahu Ambassador of Vakrangee environmental problems,” from climate change to India to the 46 Sunil Mehta Chief Executive air pollution. The Earthshot Prize will be mountainous of Indian Banks’ awarded to five winners, every year, for the next Caribbean island Association 10 years. The initiative’s goal is to provide “at of Dominica 47 Taranjit Singh India's least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest 25 Zoran Milanovic Won in Croatia’s Sandhu ambassador to problems by 2030”. The prize was initially presidential US designed and handled by the Royal Foundation of election 48 Harsh Vardhan Foreign the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and it was 26 Pedro Sanchez Spanish prime Shringla secretary headed by Prince William and Kate Middleton. Perez-Castejon minister (PM) 49 Arvind Krishna CEO of IBM Dubai-based Indian singer, Sucheta Satish 27 Chandra Pal Singh Chairman 50 M Ajit Kumar Head of Union Yadav of Krishak Budget wins Global child prodigy award 2020: A Dubai-based Indian girl, Sucheta Satish, who Bharati 51 Gita Sabharwal UN Resident sings in 120 languages, has won the ‘100 Global Cooperative Coordinator in Child Prodigy Award 2020' in the category of Limited Thailand singing. The award ceremony was held in Ashok (KRIBHCO) 52 Abidali Steps down from Hotel, Delhi. She was awarded by Puducherry 28 Sudhakar Vice Chairman Neemuchwala Wipro ieutenant (Lt) Governor Kiran Bedi. Chowdhary of Krishak

Bharati Singular 'they' voted word of the decade by Cooperative AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Limited US linguists: Telangana’s mountaineer Malavath Poorna: (KRIBHCO) A jury of 350 US linguists of the American 1st and youngest tribal women in the World 29 Tsai Ing-wen Won Dialect Society (ADS) chose ‘they’ as their to scale 6 mountain peaks in 6 continents: Word of the Decade to recognize its growing use the Taiwan’s 18-years-old Malavath Poorna from Telangana presidential to refer to a person whose gender identity is non- scaled Mt Vinson Massif, the highest mountain election binary. The most popular pick for the Word of the peak in Antarctica at 4,892 meters and becomes Year 2019 was “(my) pronouns”. The 30 Haitham bin Tariq Ruler of the the first and youngest tribal women in the recognition comes after US dictionary Merriam- Al Said Oman World to scale six mountain peaks in six Webster in December named ‘they’ as word of 31 Lt General Girish Surveyor continents. Sekhar Babu Bachinepally is her the year. Kumar General of India coach. She scaled Mt. Everest in 2014, Mt. in Survey of Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) in 2016, Mt. Elbrus 1st Antarrashtriya Yoga Diwas Media India (Russia) in 2017, Mt. Aconcagua (Argentina) in Samman to 30 media houses in New Delhi: 32 Mikhail Prime Minister of 2019, and Mt. Cartsnez (Indonesia) in 2019. Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Vladimirovich Russia ‘Poorna’, a biography of Poorna Malavath was (MoIB) Shri Prakash Javadekar conferred the 1st Mishustin written by Aparna Thota. edition of the Antarrashtriya Yoga Diwas Samman 33 Dr Mihir Shah The chairman o (AYDMS) to 30 media organisations in New f the 11- Piyuus jaiswal wins Global Bihar excellence Delhi. The awards were given as an honour to member commi award 2019: media organisations for contributing to the spread ttee Piyuus Jaiswal has been awarded the Global of yoga in the society. The award consists of a to draft the Nat Bihar Excellence Award 2019 by Rajya Sabha medal, plaque, trophy, and a citation. ional Water MP (Member of Parliament) and Padma Shri Policy Awardee Dr CP Thakur & Bihar Women Highlights of 77th Golden Globe Awards 34 Harish Salve Queen’s Commission president Dilmani Devi in Patna, 2019 held in Beverly Hills, California, US: counsel for the Bihar for his invaluable and outstanding The 77th Golden Globe Awards honouring the courts of England contribution towards social welfare, women best films and television of calendar year 2019 and Wales empowerment and introducing new talent in the was held at Beverly Hills, California in the USA 35 Abhay Manohar Chairman of the field of arts and culture. (United States of America). English stand-up Sapre committee on comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, and road safety 14 scientists conferred with Swarna Jayanti musician Ricky Gervais hosted the ceremony 36 Lt General Satinder Vice Chief of fellowships for 2018-2019: for the fifth time. The highlights in brief are as Kumar Saini Army Staff The Union Ministry of Science and Technology, follows: 37 Punit Sood RBS India Head Government of India (GoI), have awarded a) Film with most awards: The film Once (Royal Bank of Swarna Jayanti Fellowships for 2018-19 to 14 Upon a Time in Hollywood won the most Scotland) Scientists under 40 years of age, associated with awards (3) including Best Motion Picture, Musical 38 Challa Sreenivasulu Managing innovative research projects and capable of and Comedy. In television, Succession, Fleabag, Setty Director (MD) of impacting research and development (R&D) work and Chernobyl were the most awarded, with two the State Bank in their respective fields. awards each. of India b) Carol Burnett Award: American comedian, 39 Sanjiv Chadha MD & CEO Bank Cristiano Ronaldo bags best men’s player television host, actress, writer, and producer of Baroda title at 11th Dubai Globe Soccer Awards Ellen Lee DeGeneres won the Carol Burnett 40 Atanu kumar Das MD & CEO Bank 2019 in Dubai: Award for 2019. of India Famous Portuguese professional football player c) Golden Globe Ambassadors: The Golden 41 Lingam Venkat MD & CEO Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded by 11th Dubai Globe Ambassadors for the year 2019 were Prabhakar Canara Bank Globe Soccer Awards 2019 as the best men’s Dylan Brosnan and Paris Brosnan. 42 Challa Sreenivasulu Managing player of the year in the international football d) Best Motion Picture – Drama: 1917 Setty Director of SBI function held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Ronaldo has won the award six times out ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 17 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | JANUARY - 2020| e) Best Actor – Drama: Joaquin Phoenix for been awarded for his contributions in improving concluded. The film also won the Best Director “Joker” the quality of life of people through social service. Award. f) Best Actor – Musical or Comedy: Taron Information Minister of Bangladesh Hasan Egerton for “Rocketman” British Indian yoga boy Ishwar Sharma wins Mahmud gave away the award carrying prize g) Best Actress – Musical or Comedy: 'Global Child Prodigy Award': money of Tk 1 lakh, a citation and crest in the Awkwafina for “The Farewell” A 10-year-old British Indian yoga boy Ishwar closing ceremony held in Dhaka. h) Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt for “Once Sharma wins Global Child Prodigy Award. He was In the Asian Competition segment, Sri Lankan Upon a Time in Hollywood” chosen from the UK for the awards which honour director Prasanna Vithanage’s film ‘Children of i) Best Supporting Actress: Laura Dern for child prodigies from across 45 countries and the Sun’ won Special Jury Award. “Marriage Story” 30 different categories such as palaeontology, In Bangladesh Panorama Section, ‘No Dorai’ j) Best Director: Sam Mendes for “1917” biking, choreography, fitness and martial arts etc. directed by Taneem Rahman Angshu bagged the k) Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino for Ishwar Sharma also has the skill to chant up to Best Film Award. “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” 50 shlokas from the Vedas and 'Bhagavad Gita' Indian film ‘Finally Love’ directed by Anjan Dutt l) Best Original Score: Hildur Guðnadóttir for and practices yoga. Sharma, originally from bagged Best Audience Award in Cinema of the “Joker” Mysore, has participated in over 100 yoga events World Category. m) Best Original Song: “(I’m Gonna) Love Me across the UK and worldwide. Again” (by Elton John, Bernie Taupin) in Government awards over Rs 2000 crore for “Rocketman” Puri, Odisha recieves Swachhata Darpan completing Z Morh tunnel: n) Best Animated Feature Film: Missing Link Awards 2019: A Concession Agreement for completing the 6.5- o) Best Foreign Language Film: Parasite Puri, Odisha has been awarded for its initiatives kilometre long Z-Morh tunnel in Jammu and (South Korea). for plastic waste management with Kashmir was signed in New Delhi. the Swachhata Darpan Awards 2019. The award Under the agreement, the two-lane bi-directional Jasprit Bumrah receives Polly Umrigar and ceremony was held during the Open Defecation tunnel with parallel escape tunnel will be Dilip Sardesai award: Free Sustainability Workshop held in New completed in 3.5 years at a cost of 2379 Crore India pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah will receive Delhi. rupees. the prestigious Polly Umrigar and Dilip Sardesai The Swachhata Darpan Award 2019 was The pact between NHIDCL and APCO Amarnathji Award for the best international cricketer (2018- presented by Indian Bollywood actor Aamir Tunnelway was signed in the presence of Road 19) at the BCCI Annual Awards to be held in Khan to Puri Municipality Additional Executive Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Mumbai on Sunday. Officer Saroj Kumar Swain. MoS Road Transport and Highways Gen (Retd) V K Singh and Secretary Road Transport and The full list of the winners at the BCCI ICC Awards 2019 - Complete List of All Highways Sanjiv Ranjan. Annual Awards is as follows: Winners i) COL. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award: The International Cricket Council came up with a Sindhi writer Vasdev Mohi to be conferred Kris Srikanth list of ICC awards on 15 January. ICC also with 29th Saraswati Samman: ii) BCCI Lifetime Achievement Award in women's released the Test XI and ODI Team of the year. Eminent Sindhi writer Vasdev Mohi will be category Anjum Chopra Indian captain Virat Kohli leads both the teams of conferred with 29th Saraswati Samman. He has iii) BCCI Special Award: Dilip Joshi the year. been selected for this prestigious literary award iv) POLLY Polly Umrigar Award for Best for his short stories collection- Chequebook. This International Cricketer in men's category: Jasprit Here are all the ICC Awards of 2019: short story collection talks about the agonies and Bumrah i) The Indian opener Rohit Sharma who had a sufferings of marginalized sections of the society. v) Best International Cricketer in women's stellar year in 2019 was awarded the ODI player Saraswati Samman carries a cash award of 15 category: Poonam Yadav of the year by the ICC. lakh rupees, a citation and a plaque. Mr Mohi has vi) Best International debut - in men's category: ii) Pat Cummins who was the leading wicket- authored 25 books of poetry, stories and Mayank Agarwal getter with 59 wickets in 23 innings gets the Test translations. He has also received Sahitya vii) Best International - in men's category: Shafali player of the year. Akademi Award. Verma iii) Marnus Labuschagne who top-scored in the viii) Dilip Sardesai Award - Highest Run Getter in Test fold in 2019 receives the Emerging player Singer Suman & music director Kuldeep Test Cricket (Male) : Cheteshwar Pujara of the year award. Singh to get MP’s Lata Mangeshkar Award ix) Dilip Sardesai Award - Highest Wicket taker in iv) Virat Kohli was awarded the Spirit of the for 2017 & 2018: Test Cricket (Male) : Jasprit Bumrah game award as he had stopped the crowd from Indian singer Suman Kalyanpur was chosen for x) Highest Run Getter in women's category: booing Steven Smith in the league match of the the 2017 National Lata Mangeshkar Award of the Smriti Mandhana ICC World Cup 2019. state govt. of Madhya Pradesh (MP) while Indian xi) Highest Wicket taker ODIs in women's v) Umpire of the year: Richard Illingworth Music composer Kuldeep Singh has been chosen category: Jhulan Goswami (England) for the same Mangeshkar award for the year xii) Best umpire in domestic cricket: Virendra vi) T20I Performance of the Year: Deepak 2018. Sharma Chahar's 6/7 against Bangladesh. Chahar also They have been chosen for this award for their xiii) Best performance in domestic tournaments: scalped a hat-trick in the same match. contribution in the field of music and will be Vidarbha Cricket Association vii) Associate Cricketer of the Year: Kyle awarded in February 2020 at an event in Indore, xiv) Lala Amarnath Award for Best all-rounder in Coetzer (Scotland) Madhya Pradesh. Ranji Trophy: Shivam Dube. ICC ODI XI of 2019: Rohit Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Virat Kohli (c), Joe Root, Jos Buttler, Sanjiv Chadha appointed managing director M.S.Swaminathan honoured with Ross Taylor, Ben Stokes, Mustafizur Rahman, and chief executive of Bank of Baroda: 'Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Rashid Khan, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet Award': ICC Test XI of 2019: Mayank Agarwal, Tom (ACC) appointed Sanjiv Chadha as the Famous Agricultural Scientist Dr M S Latham, Marnus Labuschagne, Virat Kohli (c), managing director and chief executive of Bank of Swaminathan was honoured as the first Steven Smith, Ben Stokes, BJ Watling, Pat Baroda, Lingam Venkat Prabhakar as MD & CEO recipients 'Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu National Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Neil Wagner, Nathan of Canara Bank and Atanu Kumar Das as MD & Award for Excellence' for his distinguished Lyon. CEO of Bank of India. contribution to the field of agriculture. The Award instituted by the Muppavarapu Foundation was Iranian Film ‘Castle of Dreams’ gets Best Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw fourth Indian to announced recently during its 10th-anniversary Film Award at Dhaka International Film receive highest Australian civilian honour: celebrations in Hyderabad. This award carries Festival: Australia has conferred its highest civilian a cash prize of Rs. 5 lakhs and a citation. The Iranian film ‘Castle of Dreams’ directed by honour, the Order of Australia honour, on Biocon Along with Dr Swaminathan, Dr Gutta Reza Mirakarimi won the Best Film Award in Asian founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw for her Muniratnam also was chosen for 'Muppavarapu Competition section of the 18th Dhaka contribution towards advancing the country's National Award for Social Service''. Gutta has International Film Festival (DIFF) which relationship with India.

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She contributes immensely to promoting women Election Commission of India (ECI) award in New Delhi. The book states that the politics of in STEM through the joint research programmes for The Hindu Tamil appeasement, casteism, and dynasty, the three developed between Biocon and Deakin University, Election Commission of India(ECI) awarded curses of Indian Politics, were removed by the PM Australia, as part of her deep and long-standing National Media Award for print to “The Hindu Modi after 2014 commitment to gender equality. Tamil” as part of the poll panel’s national awards for voter awareness and education campaign in Malayali novelist A Sethumadhavan’s first Global Child Prodigy Awards 2020: 2019 on the occasion of the 10th National Voters English novel, 'The Cuckoo's Nest' Dubai-based Indian girl Sucheta Satish, has Day held at New Delhi. published: won in 'Global Child Prodigy Awards 2020', in Navy's Commodore Jyotin Raina awarded Malayali novelist A Sethumadhavan authored singing category. She is known to be able to sing Nao Sena Medal ‘The Cuckoo’s Nest’, his first novel in English in 120 languages. Global Child Prodigy Award is a Commodore Jyotin Raina of the Indian Navy has and was published by Niyogi Books. In this book, platform to celebrate children's talent and power been awarded the Nao Sena Medal (gallantry) for the author attempts to fight against the division in different categories. 10 year old Ishwar ensuring that the Western Fleet was ready to in society through the character of the eternal Sharma from UK has also been honoured with meet operational tasks within a very rapid time optimist, Madam Agatha, a former nun and also Global Child Prodigy Award 2020, for his frame post the Pulwama attack in February last other Indian girl-child raised in an orthodox achievements in spiritual discipline yoga. Sharma year, the Navy. community. The story progresses to show how is originally from Mysore has participated in over Greta Thunberg nominated for Nobel Peace these 'birds' take flight and become self-reliant. 100 yoga events worldwide. Prize He bagged many awards including the Vayalar The 17-year-old Swede was mentioned as a award, Odakkuzhal award, and Kerala Sahitya Priya Prakash wins Cisco Youth Leadership possible Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2019, when Akademi award. Award 2019: the honour ultimately went to Ethiopian Prime Priya Prakash, the founder and CEO of India Minister Abiy Ahmed for his efforts to resolve a Ashwani Kumar’s latest book, Human based HealthSetGo, has won the Global Citizen long-running conflict with neighbouring Eritrea. Dignity – A purpose in perpetuity, launched Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award for 2019 Dr. Partap chauhan honoured with Ayurveda by Manmohan Singh: for her school health programme that aims at ratan award 2020 in Brussels, Belgium Former Union Minister of Law and Justice, providing 360 degree healthcare support to Dr Partap Chauhan conferred with prestigious Ashwani Kumar authored the book children. The prestigious award honours an Ayurveda award, the pioneer of Ayurvedic title “Human Dignity – A purpose in individual aged 18 - 30 who is bringing about a Telemedicine, has Conferred with Prestigious perpetuity”, which was released by Former positive change in the world by solving some of Ayurveda Ratan Award 2020 in Brussels, Belgium Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a book its biggest global challenges. during Ayurveda Day Celebratio at the European launch event at the India International Centre in Parliament. New Delhi. The book was published by US (United Muhammad Anas wins GV Raja award: States) based publisher LexisNexis. Kerala Sports Minister EP Jayarajan Nambiar BOOKS AND AUTHOR ‘Relentless’ Autobiography by Former announced the sports award instituted by Kerala Indian embassy in Nepal celebrates Vishwa finance minister Yashwant Sinha released State Sports Council. Indian Sprinter Hindi Diwas; launches Nepali translation of by Pranab Mukherjee Mohammad Anas won GV Raja(Lt.Col. P. R. Swami Vivekananda's 'Karma Yoga': Former president of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee Godavarma Raja) award (Male) for athletics. In order to mark the event of Vishwa Hindi released the autobiography of former Finance GV Raja award is awarded yearly for excellence in Diwas on January 10, 2020, the Indian Embassy Minister Shri Yashwant Sinha titled “Relentless” Sports. Anas has won silver for India in the 400- in Kathmandu, Nepal has launched 4 books at the India International Centre in New Delhi. meter race at Jakarta Asian games. including Nepali translation of Swami Vivekananda's 'Karma Yoga' (Publisher -Advaita SPORTS Graphic designer Sneha pamneja wins Ashrama).The other 3 books launched by Indian Kento Momoto from Japan won Malaysia Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize 2020 for embassay include:  Nepali translated book Masters 2020: ‘Tiffin’ at 13th Jaipur Literature Festival: consisting of 5 popular stories penned by Indian Japanese badminton player Kento Momota Sneha Pamneja, a wellknown Graphic designer writer Premchand  Hindi translations of (world number 1 ranked) won the Malaysia based in New Delhi, was awarded Oxford 'Ashwathama' penned by Nepalese poet Madhav Masters 2020 title. He has defeated Viktor Bookstore Book Cover Prize 2020, a 1st of its Prasad Ghimire (Publisher- Royal Nepal Academy) Axelsen from Denmark by 24-22, 21-11. Kento kind award for brilliance in book design, at Jaipur  ‘Utkrishta Kahaniyan’, a book published by Momota won a record 11 titles in 2019. BookMark of ongoing 13th edition of the Zee Unicorn Books comprising 25 new age Nepali Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in Jaipur, stories written by young Nepali story writers. ICC U-19 World Cup Cricket begins in South Rajasthan. Africa: She was honoured for designing the cover of the Union External Affairs Minister recently The ICC Under-19 World Cup Cricket 2020 book ‘Tiffin: Authentic launched a book titled ‘PAX SINICA: begins in South Africa. India is the defending Recipes Celebrating India’s Regional Implications for the Indian Dawn’: champions in U19 World Cup 2018. Total 16 Cuisine’. Union External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam teams are participating in the tournament, split Jaishankar launched a book on China, titled into four groups of four. Journalist & Hindu group chairman N Ram ‘PAX SINICA:Implications for the Indian honoured with Kerala’s national media Dawn’ authored by Samir Saran and Akhil Deo Sania Mirza wins WTA doubles title in award: and published by Rupa Publications India. PAX Hobart: Popular journalist and Chairman of the Hindu SINICA presents a comprehensive view of how Sania Mirza (India) and Nadiia Kichenok Group of Publications Shri N Ram was honoured President Xi Jinping’s, China will implicate the (Ukraine) have won the women’s doubles title by Kerala Media Academy’s National media world order in the 21st century. of the WTA International trophy at Hobart, award as part of its 40th anniversary of Australia. They beat Shuai Peng and Shuai formation. He was awarded for his outstanding New India: Selected Writings 2014-19 of Zhang from China 6-4,6-4. contribution to journalism. The award carried a Arun Jaitely, Foreword by PM Modi to be cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, a citation and a memento. released in Feb: India women’s hockey player Sunita Lakra Award presentation: The award will be presented Juggernaut Books publishing house New Delhi, announces her retirement due to knee injury by the chief minister of Kerala Shri Pinarayi India has announced a new book of compilation breakdown: Vijayan by the end of March 2020. of selected writings by former finance minister Indian women’s hockey team defender Sunita Arun Jaitley, namely “New India:Selected Lakra from Odisha aged 28, who was part of the TNAU Vice-Chancellor gets Harit Ratna Writings 2014- 19” which offers readers with 2018 Asian Games silver-winning side, Award: the late’s politicians sharp insight on topics announced her international retirement, N Kumar, Vice-Chancellor of Tamil Nadu including GST (Goods and Services citing a knee injury. However, she will continue to Agricultural University, has been conferred ‘Harit Tax),demonetisation and Kashmir represent domestic hockey and NALCO (National Ratna Award 2019’ by the All India Agricultural Union Home Minister Amit Shah released the Aluminium Company Limited), Odisha. Students Association for dissemination of Rs 30 book ‘Karmayoddha Granth’ on the life of Crore entrepreneurship project in agri-business. Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an event

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For the first time Lawn bowls & Cycling to be Madhya Pradesh (MP) from 7th December 2019 Tennis legend Novak Djokovic defeats Nadal included in 3rd Khelo India Games 2020 to – 4th January 2020. to make Serbia winner of 1st ATP Cup 2020 be held in Guwahati, Assam: held in Sydney, Australia: Chief Executive Officer of “Khelo India Games” Bhubaneswar to host 1st edition of Khelo Serbian professional tennis player, Novak has announced the inclusion of “Lawn bowls” India University Games 2020: Djokovic has defeated Rafael Nadal of Spain to and “Cycling” in the 3rd edition of Khelo India Bhubaneswar, Odisha has been selected to host make Serbia the champion of 1st edition of ATP Games. These two games will be included in the the 1st edition of the 2020 Khelo India (Association of Tennis Professionals) Cup i.e. ATP event for the first time. University Games (KIUG) which will be held Cup 2020 held at Ken Rosewall Arena in Sydney, from February 22nd to March 1, 2020, at Australia. Indian chess grandmaster Koneru humpy Bhubaneswar’s KIIT University. finishes 12th in FIDE World Blitz Mascots: the mascots unveiled at the launch India finished 2019 as number one shooting competition 2019 held in Moscow, Russia: event were named as mascots ‘Jay and Bijay‘. nation in world: ISSF: Humpy Koneru, an Indian chess grandmaster In 2019 according to International Shooting Sport from Andhra Pradesh, has settled 12th overall World Cup winner De Rossi of Italy retired Federation (ISSF), India is the top Shooting in the 2-day FIDE World Blitz competition from football: Nation in the World with 21 gold, 6 silver, and 2019 held at at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Former Roma & Italian professional footballer and 3 bronze. India secured first position in all the Russia. She ended the tournament with 10.5 the 2006 FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Rifle-pistol World Cups and Finals in the year. points out of 17 games. Football Association) world cup winner Daniele Kateryna Lagno (13 points) of Russia and De Rossi has announced his retirement from 16th edition of ICC awards 2019 announced Magnus Carlsen of Norway (16.5 points) the game after retiring from Argentina’s Boca ; Rohit sharma named ODI cricket of the retained their titles in the Women’s and Men’s Juniors Football club. year: Blitz Championships respectively. Indian opener Rohit Gurunath Sharma became Vinesh Phogat shines with gold medal at the ODI (One Day International) Cricketer of the Year MS Dhoni named captain of ESPNCricinfo’s Rome Ranking Series: for the first time. At the same time, Virat Kohli ODI and T20 teams of past decade; Virat as Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat defeated bagged Spirit of Cricket award. captain of their test team: Ecuador’s Luisa Elizabeth Melendres in the 53 kg England’s World Cup winning all-rounder Ben Virat Kohli was named the leader in Tests. On category to win the gold medal at the 2020 Stokes won the prestigious Sir Garfield Sobers the other hand, Former skipper Mithali Raj and season of the Rome Ranking Series held in trophy for the Cricketer of the Year, While fast bowler Jhulan Goswami were named in the Rome. Anshu Malik has won the silver medal Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins became the same women’s team picked for both the in the 57kg category of the competition after best Test cricketer of the year, taking 59 ODIs and T20s. Australia’s inspirational losing the match to Odunayo Adekuoroye of wickets in 2019. cricketer, Meg Lanning was named the captain Nigeria. of the side. Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez to retire after Ratchanok Intanon bags Indonesia Masters Twenty20 (T-20) World Cup: India’s Manav Thakkar, jumped 9 spots to title 2020: Pakistan’s All-rounder cricket player No.1 in U-21 table tennis category: Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand defeated Mohammad Hafeez, announced that he will be Manav Thakar, an Indian table tennis player Carolina Marin of Spain to win the Indonesia retiring from international cricket after the from Uttar Pradesh jumped nine places and Badminton Masters 2020 women’s singles title upcoming T-20 World Cup to be held in become the world’s No.1 player U-21 (Under- held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Australia in October 2020. 21) Men’s single category rankings released by the IITF (International Table Tennis Federation). India’s Magesh Chandran wins 95th Jacqueline Williams of Jamaica becomes the Hastings International Chess title in 1st woman third Umpire in men’s T20I: India’s all-rounder cricketer Irfan Pathan Hastings, England: Jacqueline Williams of Jamaica becomes the announces retirement: India’s grandmaster (GM) Magesh Chandran first woman third umpire in men’s international For 35 years old, all rounder cricketer from Panchanathan from Madurai, Tamil Nadu wins cricket match. The 43-year-old Jamaican woman Vadodara, Gujarat, Irfan Pathan (nicknamed the title in the 95th edition of the prestigious oversaw all 3 matches of the Twenty20 Guddu) has announced his retirement from all Hastings International Chess Congress at International (T20I) series in Grenada, West forms of cricket. Hastings in England. Indies between West Indies and Ireland.

Indian Sports Ministry gave ‘in principle’ NADA bans Weightlifter Sarbjeet Kaur for Ladakh wins 7th National Ice Hockey approval to hold shooting and archery in four years: Championship women trophy: 2022 CWG: Indian weightlifter Sarbjeet Kaur from Punjab In the final match, Ladakh scoring 2 goals The Sports Ministry has given ‘in principle’ has been banned for four years from the sport by against Delhi and won the tournament. The approval to hold the Commonwealth Games the National Anti Doping Agency (NADA) for tournament was organised by the Ice Hockey shooting and archery events in India. These involvement in doping violations. Sarbjeet won Association of India (IHAI) in association with the events will be held under the aegis of the the 71kg event at the 34th Women Senior Ladakh winter sports club. President of Ice Commonwealth Games (CWG) Friendship National Weightlifting Championship 2019 held in Hockey Association of India: K. L. Kumar. Program in March 2022. Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh India beat Pakistan to lift Diplomat Cup Indian batsman Rohit Sharma lays Kohli continues at No.1; Rahane, Pujara Cricket Championship: foundation of International cricket stadium slips: ICC Men’s test rankings 2020: The team of the Indian Consulate has won the in Hyderabad, Telangana: As per the ICC (International Cricket Council) Diplomat Cup Cricket Championship of 2020 India’s cricket batsman, Rohit Gurunath Men’s test ranking 2020 Indian cricket team held in Sharjah. The team of the Indian Sharma has laid the foundation of the Cricket captain Virat Kohli has retained his top position Consulate defeated the Pakistan Consulate to win Stadium and Training Center at ‘Heartfulness with 928 points in the list of batsmen. the trophy. Institute’s headquarters in Hyderabad, Telangana. The cricket stadium has been named Fouaad Mirza became 1st Indian equestrian India’s Federation Cup games moved from as “Rohit Sharma Cricket stadium” by to qualify for Tokyo Olympics in over 2 virus-hit China to Kazakhstan spiritual guru Kamlesh Patel. decades: Double Asian Games medallist equestrian (horse Indian Federation Cup team today heaved a sigh Overview of 63rd National Shooting riding), Fouaad Mirza became the 1st Indian of relief after the International Tennis Federation championship competitions 2019 held in rider to compete at the 2020 Summer (ITF) shifted the Federation Cup matches from Bhopal, MP: Olympics in Tokyo, Japan after 2 decades. the Coronavirus-hit China to Kazakhstan. The 63rd National Shooting Championship Concerned for its players' health due to a medical Competitions (NSCC) 2019 in Small Bore Rifle & emergency in China, the All India Tennis Pistol events (including Para events) was held at Association (AITA) had written to the ITF, Shooting Academy Shooting Ranges, Bhopal, requesting the world governing body to consider

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Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU), which is responsible Odisha. for investigating match fixing in tennis, Joao Padma Bhushan artist Akbar Padamsee Olavo Soares de Souza (31), a former Brazilian NBA mastermind David Joel Stern of New passes away at 91: professional tennis player has been banned for York, US dead at 77: The celebrated painter and artist Akbar life due to match fixing and corruption. It also David Joel Stern born in New York, United Padamsee, 91 years old, died at the Isha Yoga fined Souza with $200,000. States (US), the former commissioner of the Ashram near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Art Icon NBA (National Basketball Association), passed Padamsee was born on 12 April 1928 in Mumbai, World Archery lifts suspension on India away due to brain haemorrhage at the age of 77 Maharashtra. The World Archery has lifted the suspension in New York. on India and hence allowed the Indian Archers to Former MP of India’s 1st Lok Sabha, represent India in the upcoming International Former Karnataka Governor and Padma Bahadur Singh passed away at 94 in Bihar: tournaments. The world body has advised the Vibhushan awardee T N Chaturvedi passes Former Member of Parliament (MP) of the Archery Association of India to comply with the away at 90: country’s 1st Lok Sabha – constituted in 1952 and rules set up by the World Archery constitution to Former Karnataka Governor Triloki Nath last maharaja of erstwhile Dumraon Raj ensure the good governance in the sport. Chaturvedi passed away in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. (zamindari estate) Kamal Bahadur Singh passed Shooting: Kiran Ankush Jadhav wins 10m air He was 90. He served as the Governor of away at the age of 94 in Buxar district of Bihar rifle T1 trial Karnataka from 2002-2007. due to old age ailments. In Shooting, Kiran Ankush Jadhav of the Indian Navy won the men's 10 metres air rifle T1 trial Former Western Army Commander Lt Gen Tamra Patra awardee Centenarian Freedom even as Maharashtra's Rudrankksh Balasaheb PN Hoon passes away at 90: fighter Bhim Chandra Jana dies at 107: Patil clinched both the junior and youth trials in Former Western Army Commander Lieutenant Centenarian Freedom fighter Bhim Chandra Thiruvananthapuram. Rudrankksh came in General Prem Nath Hoon, 90 years old, passed Jana, who spied on British police, has died of old- second in the men's final. away in Chandigarh. He was born at Abbottabad age related ailments in West Bengal’s Howrah R. Praggnanandhaa beats former world in Pakistan and commissioned into the army in District at the age of 107. champion Veselin Topalov 1947. He is one of the most senior military Indian Grand Master R. Praggnanandhaa pulled veterans in the country. Former Tamil Nadu Assembly speaker, P.H. off a huge upset, beating former world champion Pandian passes away at the age of 74: Veselin Topalov in the sixth round of the 18th Veteran Odissi Danseuse Padma Shri Minati Paul Hector (PH) Pandian, an Indian politician Gibraltar Chess Festival to record his fifth Mishra passes away at 91: of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam straight win. Veteran Odissi Danseuse (ballet dancer) Padma (AIADMK) party & former Speaker of Tamil Nadu India's Esow Alben bags gold in men's Keirin Shri Minati Mishra passed away in Zurich, (TN) Assembly passed away at a private hospital individual event of Six Day Berlin Switzerland after suffering from age-related in Chennai, Tamil Nadu after prolonged illness. Tournament issues. She was born in 1929 in Cuttack, Odisha India's Esow Alben has bagged a gold in the men's and known for expertise in the Indian Classical NCP leader Devi Prasad Tripathi passed Keirin individual event of the Six Day Berlin dance form of Odissi. away at 67: Tournament. The 18-year-old finished on top of General Secretary of the Nationalist Congress the podium, earning 20 classification points. Sangeet-Natak Akademi awardee Dhadi folk Party (NCP) and former Member of Parliament Mizoram defeats Sikkim in North East Dr T singer Idu Sharif passed away at 80: (MP) Devi Prasad Tripathi passed away after Ao Trophy Dhadi folk singer Idu Sharif 80 years old died at battling with cancer in New Delhi. He was the Two times champion Mizoram defeated Sikkim by Manji Majra,Chandigarh as he was suffering from former MP of Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra. a solitary goal to emerge as the champion of the paralysis. Idu Sharif was born in the village Lalodi Northeast Dr. T Ao Football Trophy 2020 at of Nabha in Patiala, Punjab. Former Indian cricketer Man Mohan Sood Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima. passed away at 80: Neeraj Chopra qualifies for Tokyo Olympics Odisha’s Gajapati dynasty head former MP Former test Cricketer and National selector Man 2020 Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo passes away Mohan Sood, 80 years old, passed away in New Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has qualified for at 76: Delhi. Sood played 1 Test and 39 first-class the Tokyo Olympics. He threw the spear to 87.86 Odisha’s Gajapati dynasty head and the former matches with 1 century. metres at the Athletics Central North East MP Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo passed meeting in South Africa.Rohit Yadav threw away due to prolonged illness in Bhubaneswar, Sangeet Natak Akademi awardee & Odia 77.61m to finish second. Odisha. Hindustani vocalist Sunanda Patnaik passed New Zealand spinner Todd Astle announces away at 85: first-class retirement Veteran screenwriter Henry Zuckerman Indian Classical Singer Sunanda Patnaik, 85 Todd Duncan Astle, 33 years old from New passes away at 89: years old passed away in Kolkata, West Bengal Zealand, Wellington, leg-spinner had announced Oscar nominated screenwriter Henry due to age-related complications. She was his retirement from first-class cricket to focus on Zuckerman passed away at Cedars-Sinai Health famously known as ‘Guruma’ in the classical the limited-over cricket (one day cricket). Astle Center in Los Angeles, United States (US) due to music circle. scored more than 4000 runs in his 119 first-class heart attack. Born is New York, US, he was known matches. as Buck Hendry. Former Haryana Congress Chief Shamsher India to host Barca Academy Cup – Asia Singh Surjewala passes away at 87: Pacific 2020 in Gurgaon, Haryana Former Vellore Lok Sabha MP R.P. The former Haryana Congress Chief Shamsher For the 2nd time, India to host Barca Academy Ulaganambi passed away at 82: Singh Surjewala passed away after in All India Cup – Asia Pacific 2020, hosted by Barca Former Vellore, Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) hospital, Academy, scheduled to be held in Gurgaon, MP(Member of Parliament) R.P.Ulaganambi, 82 New Delhi after suffering from a brief illness. He Haryana from January 30 -February 2, 2020. years old, passed away due to age-related illness. was 87 and hailed from Haryana. He was elected from Vellore for the DMK (Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam) party and served as an MP Former India all-rounder cricketer Bapu in the 5th Lok Sabha from 1971-76. Nadkarni passed away at 86: Former Indian all-rounder cricketer Rameshchandra Gangaram Bapu Nadkarni, 86 years old, a left-handed batsman and slow-left

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Sunita Senior Journalist and former Bharatiya Janata Chidananda Murthy,88 years old, passed away on Chandra was an Arjuna awardee. Party (BJP) Member of Parliament (MP) Ashwini Bengaluru,Karnataka due to age-related illness. Netherland’s football player Robbie Kumar Chopra passed away at a private hospital He was popularly known as “ChiMu”. Rensenbrink passes away at 72 in Gurgaon after battling with terminal cancer. Pieter Robert Rensenbrink, a dutch football player Veteran broadcaster, academic-poet Obaid passed away at the age of 72 in Brussels, WWE legend Rocky Johnson, father of Siddiqui passes away at 63: Belgium, as he was suffering from muscular Dwayne Johnson, passes away at 75: Veteran Broadcaster, poet and academician atrophy for a number of years. He was born on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) legend Obaid Siddiqui, 63 years old, passed away in 3rd July 1947 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Rocky Johnson, passed away at 75 in Lutz, Ghaziabad hospital, Uttar Pradesh (UP) due to Padma Shri awardee and Indian Social Florida, United States. He was the father of health related problems. Siddiqui also worked Worker Tushar Kanjilal passed away at 85 Hollywood actor and retired wrestler Dwayne with NDTV (New Delhi Television) and also known Tushar Kanjilal Dies at 85On January 29,2020 Johnson. as an Urdu poet. Famous social worker, environmentalist, educationist & writer Tushar Kanjilal, 85 years China’s 1st and oldest female tractor driver Canadian rock group drummer Neil Peart old, passed away in Kolkata, West Bengal. Liang jun dies at 90: passed away at 67 years: Former Kerala Minister M. Kamalam passed Liang Jun, a woman who became China’s 1st Canadian drummer and lyricist of rock band away at 93. female tractor driver, and eventually, a Rush, Neil Ellwood Peart passed away at the age Kerala Minister M. KamalamOn January 30,2020 national icon, has passed away after a brief of 67 due to brain cancer (glioblastoma) in Former Kerala Minister & Senior Congress leader illness. California, United States(US). He hailed from M.kamalam passed away at the age of 93 in Hamilton, Canada. kozhikode, Kerala. Noted chess administrator Ummer Koya of Kerala dies at 69: Acclaimed Sindhi writer Vasdev Mohi will be IMPORTANT DAYS P.T. Ummer Koya, the former vice-president of honoured with 29th Saraswati Samman. DATE DAY THEME world chess governing body FIDE (International Acclaimed Sindhi poet and writer Vasdev Mohi Year International Designated by Chess Federation) from 1996 to 2006, has passed has been selected for the prestigious Saraswati 2020 Year of the Nurse World Health away at his residence at Panniyankara in Samman. He has been selected for his short and Midwife Organisation Kozhikode, Kerala after a protracted illness. stories collection: Chequebook, published in (WHO) 2012. He has also received the Sahitya Akademi Year Year of Mobility Observed by 8 times National Award Winner Manmohan Award. 2020 Central Mohapatra passed away at 69: Industrial Manmohan Mohapatra, Odisha’s legendary Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna among 9 Security Force filmmaker and director, passed away at the killed in helicopter crash in California (CISF) age of 69 in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. Mohapatra is Kobe Bryant, 41-year-old National Basketball January Global Family One Day of considered as the ‘Father of New Wave Odia Association (NBA) legend and his 13-year-old 01 Day Peace Cinema’ and consecutively won eight national daughter, Gianna died yesterday in a helicopter January Guru Gobind awards for ‘Best Feature Odia film’. crash in the city of Calabasas, California. 02 Singh Jayanti Robbie Rensenbrink, who almost won 1978 January World Braille Day - Britain’s conservative thinker and World Cup, dies at 72 04 Philosopher Roger Vernon Scruton passes Robbie Rensenbrink, who famously came within a January 16th NRI Day - away at 75: goalpost's width of winning the 1978 football 09 (Pravasi Philosopher and Britain’s most prominent World Cup for the Netherlands, has died at the Bharatiya Divas) conservative thinker Roger Vernon Scruton age of 72, former teammate Jan Mulder told the January World Hindi Day - passed away after battling with cancer. Belga news agency.. 10 Eminent artist and sculptor Sher Singh January National Youth Channelizing Natyasurya Awardee dramatist Ratna Ojha Kukkal dies at 86 12 Day Youth Power passed away at 88 in Assam: Sher Singh Kukkal, an eminent artist & sculptor, for Nation Renowned Assamese dramatist, writer and has passed away in New Delhi after a brief Building social activist Ratna Ojha passed away in illness.He was 86. Kukkal, a former art teacher at th Guwahati, Assam. He was 88. He took part in an Sainik School Satara in Maharashtra, has received January 4 Armed Forces - ongoing protest against the Citizenship several awards. 14 Veteran’s Day nd (Amendment) Act, 2019. 'Andaz Apna Apna' producer Vinay Sinha January 72 Army Day - passes away 15 Noted Kerala Cartoonist Thomas Antony Filmmaker Vinay Sinha, best known for producing January National - passes away at 62: cult comedy "Andaz Apna Apna", has died at 19 Immunization Kerala Cartoonist and Secretary of Kerala the age of 74. Sinha was also the man behind Day / Polio Cartoon Academy Thomas Antony passed away at popular Hindi films such as "Ameer Aadmi Gharib Ravivar Kottackal town in Malappuram district, Kerala Aadmi", "Naseeb" and "Chor Police". He was also January 15th Raising day - after suffering from heart attack. vice president of IMPPA (Indian Motion Picture 19 of the National Producers' Association). Disaster Portuguese motorcycle rider Paulo JDS leader and former Karnataka Minister Response Force Goncalves passes away at 40: Kodman Amarnath Shetty passes away at 80 (NDRF) Portuguese motorcycle rider Paulo Goncalves Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS) leader and former January Netaji Subhas - passed away after a crash in the seventh stage of Minister of Karnataka Kodman Amarnath Shetty 23 Chandra Bose the 42th edition of Dakar Rally 2020 which was passed away in Mangaluru, Karnataka. He was Jayanti held for the first time in Saudi Arabia. 80. January National Girl Empowering Assamese linguist Golok Chandra Goswami 24 Child Day Girls for a Omani leader Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said passed away at 96 Brighter passes away at 79: Eminent linguist Golok Chandra Goswami passed Tomorrow Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said, the Omani away at the age of 96, in Guwahati, Assam due January National Voters Electoral leader who was ruling the country from 1970 has to old age ailments. 25 Day Literacy for

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Stronger Q.11) Birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh is Q.26) which country deploys its 1st Avangard Democracy being celebrated on? Hypersonic missile system? January National Tourism - a) Jan 1 b) Jan 2 a) China b) Japan 25 Day c) Jan 3 d) Jan 4 c) India d) Russia January International - e) Jan 5 e) Germany 26 Custom Day Q.12) who address Krishi Karman Awards for Q.27) Pragati maidan metro is located in? January International 75 years after good agriculture production? a) Mumbai b) Kolkata 27 Holocaust Auschwitz - a) Ramnath kovind b) Ramvilas Paswan c) New Delhi d) Chennai Remembrance Holocaust c) Narendra Modi d) Venkaiah Naidu e) Bangalore Day / Education and e) Rajnath Singh Q.28) who is RBI governor? International Day Remembrance Q.13) which of the following day celebrated on a) K P Kanungo b) Viral Acharya of for Global January 2? c) Adharsh kumar Commemoration Justice a) National Science Fiction day d) Shakthikantha Das e) None of the above January Birth Anniversary - b) Environmental day c) Global Family day Q.29) Where is the Headquaters of ISRO? 28 of Lala Lajpat Rai d) Farmers day e) National Youth day a) Odisha b) Bangalore January Martyrs Day / - Q.14) which metro station renamed as Supreme c) Hyderabad d) Mumbai 30 Shaheed Diwas Court metro station? e) Kolkata January World Leprosy “Leprosy isn't a) Pramod b) Pallava Q.30) who is the Governor of Andhra Pradesh? 30 Eradication Day what you think” c) Parivaran d) Pragathi a) Jagdish mukhi e) Punith b) Biswabhusan Harichandan Q.15) Government has slashed import duty on c) Tamilisai Soundarajan CURRENT AFFAIRS refined palmolein from 50 per cent to what per d) Acharya Devrat Q.1) who has unveiled infrastructure projects cent? e) Banwarilal Purohit worth 102 lakh crore rupees for five year? a) 40 percent b) 55 percent Q.31) who inaugurates new campus of National a) Narendra Modi c) 45 percent d) 35 percent Fire Service College (NFSC) ? b) Nirmala Sitharaman c) Venkaiah Naidu e) 60 percent a) Rajnath Singh b) Ramnath Kovind d) Rajnath Singh e) Kiren rijiju Q.16) ISRO to set up its second launch port in c) Amit Shah d) Narendra Modi Q.2) 27th National children’s science congress which district of Tamilnadu? e) Dharmendra Pradhan 2019 held for the 1st time in? a) Thiruvanamalai b) Tiruchy Q.32) PM Modi disburses how much rupees to six a) Kerala b) Bangalore c) Thiruthani d) Thoothukudi crore farmers as third instalment of PM-KISAN c) Hyderabad d) Lucknow e) Thanjavur scheme? e) Mangalore Q.17) Which state Government plans to delivery a) 13000 b) 12000 Q.3) who will be honoured with Lokmanya Tilak sand at door steps? c) 20000 d) 22000 journalism award? a) Andhra Pradesh b) Telangana e) 15000 a) Sanjay Arora b) Sanjay Dute c) Madhya pradesh d) Maharastra Q.33) who inaugurate 28th New Delhi World Book c) Sanjay Gupta d) Sanjay Singh e) Karnataka Fair? e) Sanjay Gaurav Q.18) who launches MANI mobile app for visually a) Ramesh Pokhriyal b) Rajnath singh Q.4) who Released 2nd SDG India Index 2019 in challenged to identify denomination of currency c) Aravind Kejriwal d) Biswabhusan Patel New Delhi? notes? e) Anil Baijal a) NITI AYOG a) NCLT b) NPCI Q.34) who integrated the new helpline number b) NCLT c) RBI d) SEBI 139? c) NGT e) BSE a) Women and child development d) Ministry of Commerce Q.19) which IIT develop materials to produce b) Indian Forest Guard e) IRDAI energy from water on a small scale? c) Indian Railways Q.5) who has approved the extension in the a) IIT Guwahati b) IIT Kanpur d) Indian Police deputation tenure of Special Protection Group c) IIT Kharagpur d) IIT Hyderabad e) Rajasthan Government (SPG) director? e) IIT Madras Q.35) which ministry signs Contracts for 7 Blocks a) Aravind kumar b) Ashwini Lohani Q.20) Nuclear Installations exchanged between Awarded under Open Acreage Licensing c) Arun Kumar Sinha India and which country? Programme? d) Ashok kumar Geholt e) Anand shanker a) Russia b) China a) Ministry of Railways Q.6) Government of India signed MoU with c) Pakistan d) Bangladesh b) Ministry of Commerce organisation under DAY-NULM scheme? e) Nepal c) Ministry of Finance a) Amazon b) Flipkart Q.21) who was picked as captain of ESPN d) Ministry of Civil Aviation c) Wipro d) Infosys Cricinfo's mens ODI and Twenty20 teams of the e) Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas e) IBM decade? Q.36) who appointed as new chancellor of Q.7) Recently Vikho-o Yhoshü passed away. He is a) Steve Smith b) MS Dhoni Queen's University Belfast in Ireland? belongs to? c) Virat Kholi d) Kane Williamson a) Donald Trumiph b) Hillary Clinton a) Lok Shaba Speaker e) Kieron Pollard c) Indra Nooyi d) Angela Markel b) Governor Q.22) who sets new Guinness World Records for e) None of the Above c) Freedom Fighter most side lunges? Q.37) who launches ‘Visit Nepal Year 2020’ d) Legislative Assembly Speaker a) Samrath b) Sai Deepak campaign to promote tourism? e) Writer c) Naren Gupta d) Sangeetha Sen a) Bidya Devi Bhandari b) K P Sharma oli Q.8) The International Cricket Council plans to e) Rajput Singh c) Prahlad Singh Patel d) Narendra Modi scrap five-day Tests from? Q.23) who launched to enhance security & ease e) Aranvind Bhandari a) 2021 b) 2022 of doing at airports? Q.38) which Pacific Island nation Palau bans ‘reef- c) 2023 d) 2024 a) CACS and e-BCAS b) BARC toxic’ sunscreen? e) 2025 c) NACL d) NABARD a) Samao b) Coco Island Q.9) Peter Siddle has announced his retirement e) NCLT c) Funafuti d) Palau from international cricket. He belongs to which Q.24) which bank implement OTP-based ATM e) Palikir country? cash withdrawals? Q.39) Ritualistic festival Lai Haraoba begins in? a) England b) South Africa a) Bank of Baroda b) PNB a) Tripura b) Nagaland c) West Indians d) Australia c) Canara d) SBI c) Meghalaya d) Assam e) Srilanka e) UCO e) Mizoram Q.10) who has retired from service Director- Q.25) Crude palm oil (CPO) from 40 per cent to? Q.40) Dr. Ambedkar’s memorial to be build in? General of All India Radio? a) 35.5 percent b) 37.5 percent a) New Delhi b) Mumbai a) F Sheheryar b) Rajaram c) 38.5 percent d) 36.5 percent c) Nagpur d) Kolkata c) Raghubar Das d) Sanjay Gupta e) 39.5 percent e) Indore e) None of the Above

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Q.41) which Govt launches ‘Cyber Safe Women’ b) Indian Railway Protection Force Service b) Ministry of Consumer Affairs initiative? c) Indian Protection Force c) Ministry of External Affairs a) Kerala b) Meghalaya d) Protection Force Service d) Ministry of Railways c) Maharashtra d) Assam e) Indian Railways e) Ministry of Coal and Mines e) Tamilnadu Q.57) KVIC opened first silk processing plant to Q.72) Which year designated as “Year of Nurse Q.42) Andhra Pradesh to host 14th Global boost production of signature Patola Saree in? and Midwife”? healthcare summit in? a) Gujarat b) Madhya Pradesh a) 2021 b) 2022 a) 2019 b) 2020 c) Maharashtra d) Utter Pradesh c) 2019 d) 2020 c) 2021 d) 2022 e) Rajasthan e) 2025 e) 2023 Q.58) Which Government appoints two Disha Q.73) India gives $75 million LoC to which Q.43) Umesh Sinha gets 1year extension of? Special Officers? country for solar parks? a) Chief Election Commissioner a) Arunachal Pradesh b) West Bengal a) Cuba b) Russia b) Chief Justice c) Andhra Pradesh d) Telangana c) Gambia d) France c) IRDAI e) Nagaland e) Ireland d) RBI deputy governor Q.59) who launches ‘Meri Dilli, Mera Sujhav’ Q.74) Women Science Congress begins in which e) Deputy Election Commissioner Campaign? city? Q.44) D P Tripathi passes away. He Belongs to? a) Sanjay Gupta b) Menaka Gandhi a) New Delhi b) Bangalore a) Sports b) Politics c) Nirmala Sitharaman d) Smriti Irani c) Kolkata d) Hyderabad c) Writer d) Freedom Fighter e) Vijay Rupani e) Pune e) Actor Q.60) who joins hands with JM Financial for co- Q.75) ‘Cyber Safe Women’ initiative launched by Q.45) Youth Olympic Games gold medallist lending to home buyers? which Government? Jeremy Lalrinnunga? a) ICICI b) Bank of Baroda a) Delhi b) Haryana a) Shooting b) Javelin Throw c) Axis Bank d) Mobikwik c) Maharashtra d) UP c) Wrestling d) Weightlifting e) Muthoot Finance e) Assam e) Boxing Q.61) General Qassim Soleimani has been killed Q.76) Which city Police begins 3rd edition of Q.46) 5th IHAI National Ice Hockey in a U.S. drone. He Belongs to which country? ‘Sukanya’ project? Championship-2020 begins in? a) USA b) Russia a) New Delhi b) Bangalore a) Leh b) Ladakh c) Iran d) Iraq c) Kolkata d) Hyderabad c) Jammu Kashmir d) Himachal Pradesh e) Israel e) Pune e) Meghalaya Q.62) Natyasurya Awardee dramatist Ratna Ojha Q.77) Who appointed as first chief of NMC2? Q.47) Malavath Poorna scaled Antarctica’s passed away. He belongs to the state of? a) Suresh Mattur highest peak Mt. Vinson Massif. She Belongs to a) Haryana b) Tripura b) Rakesh Kumar Vats which state? c) Karnataka d) Assam c) Abhinav Kumar a) Andhra Pradesh b) Telangana e) Tamilnadu d) Suresh Chandra Sharma c) Rajasthan d) Madhya Pradesh Q.63) Who becomes world no.1 in latest e) None of these e) Gujarat International Table Tennis Federation rankings? Q.78) T N Chaturvedi passes away. He is Q.48) National Fire Service College (NFSC) new a) Manav Thakkar b) Manu Bakker associated with which field? campus to be inaugurate in? c) G Sathiyan d) Harmeet Desai a) Singer b) Writer a) Mumbai b) Kolkata e) Soumyajit Ghosh c) Political Leader d) Actor c) Nagpur d) Chennai Q.64) Name the Wrestler who received Rajeev e) Journalist e) Delhi Gandhi Khel Ratna award? Q.79) Irfan Pathan announced retirement. He is Q.49) who is the Human Resources Development a) Shakshi Malik b) Bajrang Punia associated with which field? Minister? c) Poonam Yadav d) Niteen Kirrtane a) Football b) Cricket a) Dharmendra Pradhan e) Sonia Lather c) Javelin Throw d) Hockey b) Ramesh Pokhriyal c) Kiren Rijiju Q.65) Who bags best men’s player title at Dubai e) Shooting d) Prahalad Singh e) Ashok Geholet Globe Soccer Awards? Q.80) Who wins gold at 63rd National Shooting Q.50) Queen's University Belfast in? a) Lucy Bronze b) Lional Messi C’ship? a) Netherland b) England c) Cristiano Ronaldo d) Neymar a) Ravi Kumar b) Abinav Bindra c) Bangladesh d) Germany e) Wayne Rooney c) Manu baker e) Ireland Q.66) which are the two new games to be d) Sourabh Chaudhary e) None of These Q.51) World Braille Day being celebrated on? included in 3rd Khelo India Games 2020? Q.81) Who has been received CK Nayudu Lifetime a) January 1 b) January 2 a) 3X3 Basketball and Rugby Achievement Award? c) January 3 d) January 4 b) Baseball and Soft Ball a) K. Srikkanth & Anjum Chopra e) January 5 c) Lawn bowls and Cycling b) Anjum Chopra & Murali Vijay Q.52) Who unveils world’s 2nd tallest statue of d) Baseball and Lawn bowls c) Ravi Shastri & Smitri Mandana Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel? e) Cycling and Softball d) Srikkanth & Hampreet Kaur a) Narendra Modi b) Venkaiah Naidu Q.67) who is the chairman of KVIC? e) None of these c) Smriti Irani d) Acharya Devvrat a) V. K. Saxena b) Sanjay Swamy Q.82) Who gets extension as BSF IG? e) Vijay Rupani c) Mahesh kumar d) Ranjith kumar a) Suresh Mattur Q.53) Narendra Modi pays tributes to Savitribai e) None of the Above b) Rakesh Kumar Vats Phule on her birth anniversary on? Q.68) who is the Union Minister of State for Home c) Abhinav Kumar a) January 1 b) January 2 Affairs? d) Suresh Chandra Sharma c) January 3 d) January 4 a) Amit shah b) Rajnath Singh e) None of these e) January 5 c) R k Singh d) Nityanand Rai Q.83) What is the Currency of Cuba? Q.54) Shri Nityanand Rai inaugurates 4th All India e) Kiren Rijiju a) Euro b) Peso Police Judo Cluster Championship 2019 in? Q.69) Kevadiya in Narmada district Located in? c) Dollar d) Krone a) New Delhi b) Mumbai a) Maharastra b) Utter Pradesh e) Dinar c) Kolkata d) Pune c) Karnataka d) New Delhi Q.84) Who is the present Chief Minister of e) lucknow e) Gujarat Maharashtra? Q.55) UPSRTC launched which APP for helpline Q.70) 3rd edition of Khelo India youth games to a) Devendra Fadnavis b) Biren Singh service for women? be held in? c) Hemant Soren a) Kamini b) Raghini a) Guwahati b) Lucknow d) Uddhav Thackeray e) None of these c) Damini d) Nagini c) Pune d) Kolkata Q.85) Amit Shah is in which Constituency? e) Mahila e) Jaipur a) Nagpur, Maharashtra Q.56) The Indian Railways has renamed its Q.71) Which ministry sets up new emerging and b) Dharwad, Karnataka security force Railway Protection Force as? strategic technologies (NEST) ? c) Gandhinagar, Gujarat a) Railway Force a) Ministry of Commerce d) Lucknow, UP

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Organization? which city? a) Maharashtra b) Assam a) Soumya Swaminathan b) Takehiko Nakao a) Mumbai b) Delhi c) UP d) West Bengal c) Margaret Chan d) Tedros Adhanom c) Pune d) Hyderabad e) Andra Pradesh e) Tom Frieden e) Lucknow Q.118) P N Hoon passes away. He was associated Q.88) Which year observed as Year of Mobility by Q.103) 63rd National Shooting championship with which field? CISF? competitions 2019 held in which state? a) Actor b) Journalist a) 2019 b) 2022 a) MP b) UP c) Lieutenant General d) Writer c) 2025 d) 2030 c) Maharashtra d) Assam e) Political Leader e) 2020 e) Goa Q.119) Tilkowski of Germany passed away. He Q.89) Which word has been voted word of the Q.104) CWG 2022 held in which place? was associated with which field? decade by US language experts? a) France b) Russia a) Sports Person b) Actor a) The b) They c) Ireland d) UK c) Writer d) Song Composer c) But d) Their e) India e) Journalist e) Them Q.105) Headquarters of IRDAI? Q.120) Akbar Padamsee passes away. He was Q.90) Which state became 1st state to shortlist a) Mumbai b) Delhi associated with which field? migrants for citizenship? c) Pune d) Hyderabad a) Sports Person b) Actor a) MP b) Gujarat e) Lucknow c) Writer d) Artist c) Goa d) UP Q.106) Who is the Governor of Mizoram? e) Journalist e) Assam a) Shreedharan Pillai b) Acharya dev virat Q.121) Who was appointed as Advisor to J&K LG? Q.91) Which railway station is fifth in the country c) Satya dev Narayanan d) Baby Rani Mouriya a) Rajiv Kumar b) Rajiv Gauba and first in North India to inaugurate Navigation e) Sathasivam c) Rajiv Rai d) Vinoth Rai facilities for visually impaired? Q.107) Rajnath Singh inaugurates 3-day National e) Rakesh Kumar a) Chandigarh b) Surat Traders Convention in which place? Q.122) Which city to host 1st edition of Khelo c) Jodhpur d) Jaipur a) Delhi b) Mumbai India University Games? e) None of these c) Pune d) Kolkata a) Guwahati b) Pune Q.92) Zo Kutpui Festival organised in which e) None of these c) Bhubaneshwar d) Panaji state? Q.108) Who lays foundation stone of Delhi Cycle e) Lucknow a) Meghalaya b) Manipur Walk? Q.123) Who becomes 7th cricketer to hit six 6s in c) Assam d) Mizoram a) Rajnath Singh b) Amit Shah an over? e) Goa c) Nirmala Sitharaman d) Piyush Goyal a) Cane Williamson b) Stevie Smith Q.93) Global Drosophila Conference held at? e) Narendra Modi c) David Warner d) Leo Carter a) Mumbai b) Delhi Q.109) President Kovind lays foundation stone to e) Markel c) Pune d) Hyderabad Lakshadweep's first Super Specialty Hospital in Q.124) Who won 95th Hastings International e) Lucknow which place? Chess title? Q.94) Which bank signed MoU with TN’s WEWA to a) Kalpeni b) Bangaram Atoll a) Magesh Kumar b) Mahesh jain provide credit for business establishments? c) Kadmat d) Kavaratti c) Magesh Chandran d) Magesh Varma a) HDFC Bank b) Indian Bank e) None of these e) Magesh Sharma c) SBI d) BOB Q.110) First-ever Antar-rashtriya Yoga Diwas Q.125 Who won 5th IHAI National Ice Hockey e) ICICI Media awards presented to how many media Championship 2020? Q.95) CSC inks pact with which payment bank for houses for promoting Yoga? a) Leh-Ladakh b) Manipur sale of FASTags? a) 25 b) 32 c) Delhi d) Assam a) Airtel payment Bank b) Adithya Birla c) 20 d) 36 e) Meghalaya c) Paytm payment Bank e) 30 Q.126) What is the currency of UAE? d) Fino Payment Bank e) None of these Q.111) 12th naval exercise ‘Naseem-Al-Bahr’ a) Euro b) Dirham Q.96) RevFin and which other tie-up to offer life between India and which country held in Goa? c) Peso d) Dinar cover? a) Russia b) Israel e) Pound a) PNB Met Life b) HDFC Life c) Oman d) Nepal Q.127) Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) is c) ICICI e) China celebrated on ______. d) HDFC Housing Finance e) None of these Q.112) Union Minister of Commerce and a) January 5 b) January 7 Q.97) IRDAI: Health insurance cover in the name Industries inaugurates NSE Knowledge Hub in c) January 8 d) January 9 ‘Arogya Sanjeevani’ mandatory for insurance which place? e) January 6 companies. The minimum and Maximum limit is? a) Delhi b) Mumbai Q.128) The 4th edition of 'Buxa Bird Festival' has a) 1-2 laks b) 2-5 laks c) Pune d) Kolkata begun in ______. c) 1-3 laks d) 1-5 laks e) None of these a) West Bengal b) Madhya Pradesh e) 2-3 laks Q.113) India's GDP growth rate for 2019-20 c) Odisha d) Nagaland Q.98) AI powered National Stock Exchange estimated at how much percentage, says NSO? e) Uttarkhand Knowledge Hub inaugurated in which city? a) 5.1% b) 5.5% Q.129) Next Census India will begin in ______. a) Mumbai b) Delhi c) 5.2% d) 5.0% a) 2020 b) 2021 c) Pune d) Hyderabad e) 5.3% c) 2022 d) 2023 e) Lucknow Q.114) Navigation facilities for visually impaired e) 2024 Q.99) Who won Global Child Prodigy Award 2020? inaugurated at which railway station? Q.130) The 5th edition of the Asia Pacific a) Sucheta Satish b) Aayushi Dholakia a) Surat b) Jaipur Drosophila Research Conference (APDRC5) held c) Sudha Satish d) Sujithra Satish c) Chandigarh d) Jodhpur in ______. e) None of these e) Varanasi a) Maharashtra b) Bhopal Q.100) Who become Miss Teen International Q.115) Which Cabinet approves issuance of 5- c) Delhi d) Pune 2019? Year multi-entry tourist visa? e) Lucknow a) Sucheta Satish b) Aayushi Dholakia a) UAE b) Abu Dhabi Q.131) “Advantage Maharashtra expo 2020” was c) Sudha Satish d) Sujithra Satish c) Iran d) Saudi Arabia held at which of the following cities? e) None of these e) North Korea a) Aurangabad b) Mumbai c) Pune d) Nasik

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Q.149) The Board of YES Bank approves d) Video based Customer Identification a) China b) Pakistan Rs.______crore funding. Process c) US d) Afghanistan a) 50000 b) 40000 e) Interview based Customer Identification e) Syria c) 10000 d) 5000 Process Q.137) Which are the two Indian based banks e) 2000 Q.162) Dakar Rally was held at ______. have closed their operations in Sri Lanka? Q.150) US State department put sanctions on a) Singapore b) Italy a) SBI and ICICI b) HDFC and Axis ______Iranian exports. c) Saudi Arabia d) Mexico c) SBI and HDFC d) ICICI and Axis a) Oil & Gas b) Coal e) Austria e) HDFC and ICICI c) Metal d) Nuclear Fuel Q.163) Thomas Antony belongs to which of the Q.138) National Statistical Office (NSO) projects e) Glass following professions? India’s GDP growth rate for 2019-20 at ______. Q.151) Where does Bishwa Ijtema takes place? a) Cartoonist b) Actor a) 5.0% b) 5.6% a) Aurangabad b) Mumbai c) Singer d) Badminton c) 6.1% d) 4.9% c) Islamabad d) Dhaka e) Cyclist e) 5.4% e) Haj Q.164) Who won WTA singles title at the Q.139) Which bank projects India’s economy to Q.152) World Hindi day is celebrated on_____. Shenzhen Open? reach $7 trillion by 2030? a) January 13 b) January 17 a) Belinda Bencic b) Ashleigh Barty a) World Bank b) RBI c) January 20 d) January 21 c) Simona Halep c) Standard Charted e) January 10 d) Ekaterina Alexandrova d) Asian Development Bank Q.153) Sultan Qaboos is from which of the e) Naomi Osaka e) Deutsche Bank following country? Q.165) Which team win the first ATP Cup in Q.140) Which bank has announced ‘residential a) Oman b) Saudi Arabia Sydney? builder finance with buyer guarantee’ (RBBG) c) Kuwait d) Abudabi a) Serbia b) Spain scheme which was implemented by RBI? e) Baharin c) Switzerland d) Germany a) ICICI b) SBI Q.154) Infrastructure Development Finance e) China c) BOB d) SIB Corporation approves 17 projects worth over Rs Q.167) Who won BCCI Lifetime Achievement e) HDFC 110 crore in ______. Award in women's category? Q.141) Judges Archana Rao and Deepa Ambedkar a) Jammu and Kashmir b) Tamil nadu a) Smriti Mandhana b) Deepti Sharma have been appointed as judges to criminal and c) Kerala d) Uttarpradesh c) Mithali Raj d) Anjum Chopra civil courts of which of the following cities? e) Assam e) Harmanpreet Kaur a) New York b) Sydney Q.155) Which of the following releases state Q.168) Who won Best International debut award c) Washington DC d) Birmingham energy efficiency index 2019? - in men's category? e) London a) CAG a) Rishab Pant b) Shivam Dube Q.142) Who is appointed as the new chairman of b) Ministry of Statistics and Programme c) Shreyas Iyer d) Mayank Agarwal Apparel Export Promotion Council of India (AEPC) Implementation e) Navdeep Saini ? c) RBI Q.169) Haitham bin Tariq Al Said sworn in as a) A Sakthivel b) Dharman d) Union Government which country’s Ruler? c) Krishnaswamy Vijayragavan e) IMF a) Iraq b) Iran d) Gopal Krishnan Q.156) DPIIT expand? c) Saudi Arabia d) Oman e) Parthasarathy Mukherji a) Department for Promotion of Industry and e) Qatar Q.143) Jasbinder Bilan has been conferred the Information Trade Q.170) Who is the Present Prime Minister of UK’s famous Costa Children’s Award 2019 for b) Department for Promotion of Informal and Malta? which of her novel? Internal Trade a) Joseph Muscat a) Dark Fear c) Department for Promotion of Income and b) Askar Uzakbaiuly Mamin b) Testament Internal Trade c) Chris Fearne c) Asha and the Spirit Bird d) Department for Promotion of Industry d) Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev d) Girl, Women and Power and Internal Trade e) Robert Abela e) The Sorrow Beyond Trees e) Department for Promotion of Incubation and Q.171) Recently Tsai Ing-wen was elected as Industry Trade which country’s president?

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Q.172) Flipkart co-founder and former CEO commissioned at _____. a) Lucknow b) Ahmedabad Sachin Bansal has reportedly acquired DHFL a) Kolkata b) Vishakhapatnam c) Bengaluru d) Chennai General Insurance from Wadhawan Group Capital c) Kochi d) Bhavnagar e) New Delhi (WGC) for how much capital? e) Goa Q.199) The 5th edition of the prestigious Raisina a) Rs 200 crore b) Rs 100 crore Q.186) Kolkata Port Trust was renamed after Dialogue kicked-off in which city? c) Rs 300 crore d) Rs 500 crore ______. a) Lucknow b) New Delhi e) Rs 250 crore a) Atal Bihari Vajpayee c) Bengaluru d) Chennai Q.173) Who led SEBI’s panel recommendations to b) Baba Guru Nanak Dev e) Ahmedabad split CMD and chairman's posts in listed c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Q.200) 6th meeting of the Island Development companies? d) Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Agency (IDA) was chaired by the Union Home a) Ratan Tata b) Sachin Bansal e) Arun Jaitley Minister Amit Shah in which city? c) Rajiv Gauba d) Abraham Koshy Q.187) National Youth Day was celebrated on a) Lucknow b) Mumbai e) Uday Kotak ______. c) New Delhi d) Chennai Q.174) What is the theme of 18th edition of a) January 11 b) January 12 e) Ahmedabad Dhaka International Film Festival? c) January 15 d) January 16 Q.201) The fifth edition of Science Film Festival of a) Better Film, Better Audience and Better e) January 13 India, SCI-FFI 2020, was kick-started in which Society Q.188) Polly Umrigar award was awarded to state/UT? b) Gandhi: The Writer’s Writer ______. a) New Delhi b) Karnataka c) Environment and Climate Change a) Virat Kohli b) Ajinkya Rahane c) Kerala d) Goa d) Best Film, Better Audience and Best Society c) Jasprit Bumrah d) Kris Srikant e) Tamil Nadu e) Think Today, Act Tomorrow e) Dilip Joshi Q.202) Robert Abela elected new PM of which Q.175) Which country to hold world's second Q.189) Dilip Sardesai Award for Highest Run country? largest Muslim congregation 'Bishwa Ijtema' in Getter in Test Cricket (Male) was awarded to a) Austria b) Australia January 2020? ______. c) Argentina d) Belgium a) Pakistan b) Afghanistan a) Ajinkya Rahane b) Virat Kohli e) Malta c) Bangladesh d) Saudi Arabia c) Rohit Sharma Q.203) Who is the new Director General of the e) UAE d) Cheteshwar Pujara e) Mayank Agarwal CRPF? Q.176) World Future Energy Summit (WFES) is Q.190) Dilip Sardesai Award for Highest Wicket a) Anand Prakash Maheshwari held at ______. taker in Test Cricket (Male) was awarded to b) SS Deswal c) Surjeet Singh a) Abu Dhabi b) Dubai ______. d) Anup Kumar Singh e) Ajit Doval c) Riyadh d) Muscat a) Mohit Sharma b) Mohammed Shami Q.204) Which scientist has been elected as a e) Male c) Jasprit Bumrah bureau member of the International Union of Pure Q.177) Nitin Gadkari inaugurated 31st Road d) Bhuvaneshwar Kumar and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) for the period Safety Campaign at ______. e) Ravinchandran Ashwin 2020-23? a) Mumbai b) Pune Q.191) Who was awarded C.K. Nayudu Lifetime a) MS Swaminathan c) Nagpur d) Sonepat Achievement Award? b) Bipul Behari Saha e) Delhi a) Krishnamari Srikant b) Kapil Dev c) K Sivan Q.178) The 23rd National Youth Festival (NYF) c) Anil Kumble d) Rahul Dravid d) Mayilsami Annadurai 2020 was held at ______. e) Sachin Tendulkar e) Abhishek Kumar Sharma a) Varanasi b) Gurugram Q.192) Tennis player Ekaterina Alexandrova Q.205) Who was recently appointed as 4th Deputy c) Amethi d) Lucknow belongs to which country? Governor of RBI? e) Gandhinagar a) Spain b) Russia a) Shakti Kanta Das b) Viral Acharya Q.179) What is the theme of the 23rd National c) Germany d) Serbia c) Michael Patra d) Raghu Ram Rajan Youth Festival 2020? e) Kazakhstan e) Subramanya Swamy a) MISSION YOUTH Q.193) Statue of Unity which finds place in '8 Q.206) Indian Armed Forces Veterans Day was b) FIT YOUTH FIT INDIA Wonders of SCO' is in which state? celebrated in which date? c) HEALTHY YOUTH a) Gujarat b) Madhya Pradesh a) January 11 b) January 12 d) LIVE YOUNG c) Uttar Pradesh d) West Bengal c) January 13 d) January 14 e) FIT INDIA e) Bihar e) January 15 Q.180) The 5th edition of The Pulses Conclave will Q.194) Who will inaugurate classical Telugu Q.207 Indian Army Day is celebrated on which be held at? centre in Andhra's Nellore? day? a) Lonavala, Maharashtra a) Narendra Modi b) Venkaiah Naidu a) January 11 b) January 12 b) Panaji, Goa c) Ramnath Govind d) Amit Shah c) January 13 d) January 14 c) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh e) Nitin Gadkari e) January 15 d) Mumbai, Maharashtra Q.195) Who will be the first woman parade Q.208) Which organisation celebrated its 145th e) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh adjutant for the Republic Day parade? Foundation Day on 15 January 2020? Q.181) Who launched Yashaswini Scheme for a) Punita Arora a) IMD b) ICG Women entrepreneurship in Goa? b) Padmavathy Bandopadhyay c) ITBF d) BSF a) Rajnath Singh b) Amit Shah c) Tania Shergill e) ICAR c) Nirmala Sitharaman d) Narendra Modi d) Mitali Madhumita Q.209) Which organisation extends deadline to e) Smriti Irani e) Priya Jhingan Apr 2022 to split CMD post? Q.182) Dharmendra Pradhan launched mission Q.196) The famous Parshuram Kund Mela began a) RBI b) SEBI PURVODAYA at _____? in which state? c) NABARD d) ECGG a) Kolkata b) Kochi a) Andhra Pradesh b) Bihar e) NHB c) Delhi d) Mumbai c) Uttar Pradesh Q.210) Which E-commerce giant will invest USD e) Jaipur d) Arunachal Pradesh e) Assam one billion in India over the next five years? Q.183) Project 'Netrang' was launched in which Q.197) Union Culture and Tourism a) Microsoft b) Facebook state? Minister Prahlad Singh Patel launched an c) Amazon d) Flipkart a) Punjab b) New Delhi exhibition titled “Indian Heritage in Digital Space” e) Google c) Rajasthan d) Gujarat in which city? Q.211) “The Global Risks Report 2020” has been e) Uttar Pradesh a) Mumbai b) Ahmedabad released by which organisation? Q.184) First Cyber Crime Prevention Unit of India c) Bengaluru d) Chennai a) IFC b) World Bank "AASHVAST" was launched by ______. e) New Delhi c) IMF d) WEF a) Rajnath Singh b) Amit Shah e) ADB

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Q.212) Who received 'Muppavarapu Venkaiah Q.226) Recently Union minister launches APNA c) GSAT-30 Naidu National Award for Excellence'? UREA – SonaUgle” brand of HURL. Full form of d) GSAT-34 a) Gutta Muniratnam b) K Sivan HURL? e) GSAT-37 c) Mayilsamy Annadurai d) Raghu Ram Rajan a) Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Limited Q.237) Who appointed Queen's Counsel for courts e) M S Swaminathan b) Hindustan Uniliver and Research Limited of England & Wales? Q.213) Who received 'Muppavarapu Venkaiah c) Hindustan Union and Rasayan Limited a) Harish Selladurai Naidu National Award for Social Service''? d) Hindustan Urvarak and Research Limited b) Harsha Kumar a) Gutta Muniratnam b) K Sivan e) None of the Above c) Hari Mohan c) Mayilsamy Annadurai d) Raghu Ram Rajan Q.227) What is the Main theme of the 7th d) Harish Salve e) M S Swaminathan Conference of CPA India Region? e) Hari Chandran Q.214) Who won Global Child Prodigy Award? a) Role and Responsibility Q.238) Alok Kansal takes over as General a) Adithya K b) Ishwar Sharma b) Role and regional connectivity Manager of which Railways? c) Greta Thunberg d) Mohammed Dalilah c) Responsible of work a) Eastern Railways e) Yousef Malala d) Role of Legislators b) Northern Railways Q.215) Which city has been awarded for its e) Role of sustainable development c) Southern Railways initiatives for plastic waste management with Q.228) Mega campaign on fuel conservation d) North East Railways the Swachhata Darpan Awards 2019? 'Saksham' inaugurated in? e) Western Railways a) Jamshedpur b) Indore a) Mumbai Q.239) Who takes over as the new DG of CRPF c) Puri d) Kamakodi b) Hyderabad a) Anand Prakash Maheshwari e) Hyderabad c) Kolkata b) Anand kumar Q.216) Who leads both the ICC Test XI and ODI d) Pune c) Alok kansal Team of the year? e) New Delhi d) Harish Salve a) Pollard b) Kane Williamson Q.229) Vice President addresses gathering at Dr e) Anurag Thakur c) Aaron Finch d) Virat Kohli B R Ambedkar Auditorium at? Q.240) Which state signed a memorandum of e) Joe Root a) New Delhi understanding (MoU) with International Union for Q.217) Who was awarded the ODI player of the b) Port Blair Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) ? year 2019 by the ICC? c) Mumbai a) Gujarat a) Virat Kohli b) Steve Smith d) Lucknow b) Andhra Pradesh c) David Warner d) Babar Azam e) Gandhinagar c) Telangana e) Rohit Sharma Q.230) State of Art Tejas express train between d) Maharastra Q.218) Who was awarded the Test player of the Mumbai and which of the following stations? e) Arunachal Pradesh year 2019 by the ICC? a) Port Blair Q.241) 3rd edition of North Zone Conference’ of a) Pat Cummins b) Cheteshwar Pujara b) Lucknow Media Units of I&B Ministry held in? c) Virat Kohli d) Mayank Agarwal c) Hyderabad a) Jammu e) Steve Smith d) Ahmadabad b) Leh Q.219) Who was awarded the Spirit of the game e) Leh c) Ladakh award by ICC? Q.231) Who releases the report of Economies face d) Himachal Pradesh a) Steve Smith b) Virat Kohli huge risks from biodiversity loss and climate e) Manipur c) David Warner d) Babar Azam change? Q.242) Who inaugurates ELECRAMA 2020, a e) Rohit Sharma a) WHO flagship showcases of electrical industry? Q.220) Which badminton player won the Malaysia b) UNICEF a) Piyush Goal Masters title? c) UNDP b) Dharmendra Pradhan a) Chen Long b) Viktor Axelsen d) UNESCO c) Prakash Javadekar c) Kento Momota d) Shi Yuqi e) WEF d) Rajnath Singh e) Srikant Kidambi Q.232) Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk recently e) S Jaishankar Q.221) Recently Manmohan Mahapatra who resigns. He is the PM of which country? Q.243) ELECRAMA 2020, a flagship showcases of recently passed away, Belongs to which field? a) Ukraine electrical industry held in? a) Writer b) Politician b) Uruguay a) Guwahati c) Athlete d) Film Maker c) Ghana b) Greater Noida e) Educationist d) Algeria c) Shimla Q.222) Who received T20I Performance of the e) Iran d) Lucknow Year from ICC? Q.233) Hong Kong Chief Executive says 'one e) Indore a) Glenn Maxwell b) Aaron Finch country, two systems' can continue beyond which Q.244) Kiren Rijiju and Pramod Sawant flag off c) Rashid Khan d) Navdeep Saini year? ‘Fit India Cyclothon’ in? e) Deepakh Chahar a) 2041 a) Dispur Q.223) Om Birla inaugurates 7th Conference of b) 2047 b) Imphal CPA India Region in? c) 2057 c) Itanagar a) New Delhi d) 2043 d) Panaji b) Lucknow e) 2033 e) New Delhi c) Mumbai Q.234) Sri Lankan President decides estate Q.245) Which film gets Best Film Award at Dhaka d) Chennai workers’ daily wage to be? International Film Festival? e) Kolkata a) 900 a) Castle of Dreams Q.224) Rajnath Singh dedicates which type of b) 1000 b) Game of Thrones guns to nation? c) 1200 c) The Witcher a) K9 Vajra-T d) 1500 d) Lost City b) K8 Vajra-T e) 2000 e) The Sword c) K7 Vartha-T Q.235) Who predicts Sri Lanka’s economic growth Q.246) Which Indian film bagged Best Audience d) K2 Virat-T at 3.3 percentage for 2020? Award in Cinema of the World Category? e) K7 Varaha-T a) UNDP a) Love with Life Q.225) Who launches APNA UREA – SonaUgle” b) World Bank b) Asuran brand of HURL? c) ADB c) Andhadum a) Venkaiah Naidu d) WEF d) Finally Love b) Ramnath Kovind e) FCI e) Raaz c) Sadananda Gowda Q.236) India successfully launches high power Q.247) 6.5-kilometre long Z-Morh tunnel got d) Narendra Modi communication satellite? 2000 crore award price. It is located in? e) Amit Shah a) GSAT-31 a) Himachal Pradesh b) GSAT-33 b) Ladakh

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He belongs to which Raman Mobility Report 2020? language? e) Sadagopan Ramesh a) USA b) Singapore a) Sanskrit Q.261) Who was chosen for the 2017 National c) China d) Denmark b) Marathi Lata Mangeshkar Award? e) Netherland c) Odia a) Uttam Singh b) Usha Khann Q.276) What is the theme of 50th World Economic d) Kannada c) Vijay Patil d) Kuldeep Singh Forum? e) Sindhi e) Suman Kalyanpur a) Creating a shared future in a fractured world Q.249) Sania Mirza (India) and Nadiia Kichenok Q.262) Who was chosen for Mangeshkar award b) Partnering for security and prosperity (Ukraine) have won the women’s doubles title of for the year 2018? c) Leadership in fragile times the WTA International trophy. Event held in? a) Usha Khann b) Vijay Patil d) New global context a) Sydney, Australia c) Uttam Singh d) Kuldeep Singh e) Stakeholders for a Cohesive and b) Hobart, Australia e) Suman Kalyanpur Sustainable World c) Melborne, Australia Q.263) Who is appointed as the new Vice Chief of Q.277) Who is the Indian representative in 50th d) California, USA Army Staff? World Economic Forum? e) Ottawa, Canada a) Manoj Mukund Naravane a) Nirmala Sitharaman b) Piyush Goyal Q.250) Bapu Nadkarni passed away. He belongs b) Satinder Kumar Saini c) Dharmendra Pradhan d) Narendra Modi to which Sports? c) Ravendra Pal Singh e) Prakash Javadekar a) Foot ball d) Anil Chauhan Q.278) “cVIGIL” app was developed by b) Cricket e) Ranbir Singh ______. c) Basketball Q.264) Who was elected as President of Archery a) CBI b) CRPF d) Tennis Association of India? c) Indian Army e) Table Tennis a) Muskan Kirar b) Sunil Sharma d) Election Commission of India Q.251) ICC U-19 World Cup Cricket begins in? c) Virendra Sachdeva d) Deepika Kumari e) The Bureau of Police Research and a) Australia e) Arjun Munda Development b) India Q.265) The first ever Food Processing Summit Q.279) ‘Voter Helpline App’ has won the e- c) South Africa held at _____. Governance award in Award of Excellence 2019 d) England a) Ladakh which was held at ______. e) Qatar b) Jammu and Kashmir c) Shimla a) Delhi b) Mumbai Q.252) Who is the Chairman of NSE? d) Dehradun e) Hyderabad c) Bhubanesward) Bengaluru a) Girish Chandra Chaturvedi Q.266) Excellence in Blockchain Technology e) Guwahati b) Ashok Gehlot centre has been inaugurated at ______. Q.280) Who laid foundation stone of c) Ram Mohan a) Mysuru b) Hyderabad Lakshadweep’s 1st super specialty hospital at d) Soma Roy c) Delhi d) Bengaluru Kavaratti? e) Shakthi kumar e) Lucknow a) Venkaiah Naidu b) Ram Nath Kovind Q.253) Who is the 1st woman third umpire in Q.267) SQAY competition kicks off at ______. c) Narendra Modi d) Smriti Irani men’s international T20 cricket? a) Chandigarh b) Raipur e) Harsh Vardhan a) G S Lakshmi c) Assam d) Bihar Q.281) 7th Economic Census process is being b) Jacqueline Williams c) Claire Polosak e) Bhopal carried out by which ministry? d) Kim Cotton e) Lauren Agenbag Q.268) 1st edition of Krishi Manthan begins at a) Ministry of Statistics and Programme Q.254) Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium is ______. Implementation located at _____? a) Allahabad b) Ahmedabad b) Ministry of Finance a) Dhaka, Bangladesh c) Gandhinagar d) Kolkata c) Ministry of Corporate Affairs b) Sharjah, UAE e) Secunderabad d) Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances c) Islamabad, Pakistan Q.269) 12th National Tribal Youth Exchange e) None of the above d) Dharmashala, Himachal Pradesh Programme was held at _____. Q.282) What is the theme of 2nd edition of NIC e) Kolkata, West Bengal a) Puducherry b) Tamil Nadu Tech Conclave-2020? Q.255) Who is the fastest Indian spinner to claim c) Jharkhand d) Uttar Pradesh a) Technologies for Next-Gen Governance 100 wickets in ODI? e) Gujarat b) Technology for future Governance a) Yuzvendra Singh Chahal Q.270) 9th International Children's Film Festival c) Tomorrow depends on Good Governance b) Kuldeep Yadav c) Ravindra Jadeja begins in ______. d) e-Governance d) Washington Sundar e) None of these a) Kochi b) Bengaluru e) Good Governance for all Q.256) Derrara Hurisa has broken the event c) Kolkata d) Mumbai Q.283) Who Presents 14th Ramnath Goenka record in the 7th edition of the Mumbai marathon. e) Delhi Excellence in Journalism Awards? She belongs to which country? Q.271) Who has launched blockchain technology a) Narendra Modi a) Kenya b) Jamaica based “Vajra Platform”? b) Venkaiah Naidu c) Eritrea d) Japan a) SBI b) BOB c) Ramnath Kovind e) Ethiopia c) HDFC d) RBI d) Jitendra Singh Q.257) Ravi Kumar Dahiya belongs to which e) NPCI e) Kirren Rijiju sports? Q.272) 3rd edition of the Climate Innovations Q.284) Recently which organisation celebrated a) Badminton b) Power Lifting Exchange was held at _____. 15th Raising Day? c) Weight Lifting d) Wrestling a) Abu Dhabi b) Dubai a) CISF e) Boxing c) Qatar d) Riyadh b) NDRF Q.258) Who lifted the Indonesia Badminton e) Muscat c) NSDL Masters 2020 women's singles title? Q.273) What is the theme of10th edition of World d) CSPF a) Carolina Marin b) Tai Tzu-ying Future Energy Summit? e) NSG c) Ratchanok Intanon d) Nozomi Okuhara a) Future depends on AI Q.285) Statehood day celebrated on January 21st e) Akane Yamaguchi b) Rethinking Global Consumption, by? Q.259) Who consolidated top batting position in Production, and Investment a) Tripura ODI rankings? c) Yesterday, Today, tomorrow b) Nagaland a) Rohit Sharma b) Virat Kohli d) Think about Future c) Manipur c) Steven Smith d) Kane Williamson e) Future: Climate change and action d) A and B e) Aaron Finch Q.274) What is the position of India in Global e) All of The Above Social Mobility Report 2020?

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Q.286) Atal Innovation Mission & which Q.297) Name the World’s shortest man Passed c) 76th organisation hosts 3day Youth Co: Lab National away recently? d) 44th Innovation Challenge? a) Khagendra Thapa Magar e) 73rd a) UNDP b) Kalinga shervar Q.308) Who released the 1st edition of Global b) UNESCO c) Sudharsan Magar Social Mobility Report 2020 titled? c) WEF d) Thappan Roy a) World Economic Forum. d) ADB e) Tai zeng b) World Bank e) UNWTO Q.298) India successfully test-fired K-4 Ballistic c) IMF Q.287) IMF lowers India's 2019 growth forecast Missile from? d) WHO from 6.1% to? a) Odisha e) UNDP a) 5.5% b) Andhra Pradesh Q.309) Which city has emerged as world's most b) 4.9% c) Kerala dynamic city? c) 6% d) Tamilnadu a) Bangalore d) 4.8% e) Madhya Pradesh b) Chennai e) 4.3% Q.299) Zomato acquires which food delivery c) Hyderabad Q.288) 14th Ramnath Goenka Excellence in business for Rs 2,485 crore? d) Mumbai Journalism Awards held in? a) Swiggy e) New Delhi a) Mumbai b) Jusfood Q.310) Which IIT develops AI-powered tech for b) Kolkata c) Uber Eats reading legal cases? c) New Delhi d) Food India a) IIT Guwahati d) Guwahati e) Fast Food b) IIT Kharagpur e) Lucknow Q.300) Harbhajan and who included in c) IIT Madras Q.289) Who releases Global investment Trend government panel on sports? d) IIT Hyderabad report? a) Srikanth e) IIT Trichy a) WEF b) Kapil dev Q.311) Who appointed as a managing director of b) UNCTAD c) Anjum Chopra SBI? c) UNWTO d) Ravi Shastri a) Challa Sreenivasulu Setty d) UNESCO e) Irfan Pathan b) Srinivasan Reddy e) IMF Q.301) what is the loan amount disbursed till Jan c) Rajnish Kumar Q.290) India to set up Maritime Research 13 under MSMEs scheme? d) Sanjiv Chadha Coordination Centre in? a) 75000 crore e) Sanjay Batra a) Mauritius b) 70000 crore Q.312) Google partners with whom to offer G b) Maldives c) 65000 crore Suite to small, medium businesses? c) Nepal d) 55000 crore a) Microsoft d) Bangladesh e) 86000 crore b) Wipro e) Srilanka Q.302) Who chaired 32nd interaction through c) Airtel Q.291) Chapchar kut festival to be celebrated in? PRAGATI platform? d) Adithya Birla a) Mizoram a) Ramnath Kovind e) Reliance b) Nagaland b) Venkaiah Naidu Q.313) Name the Titular Queen of Bhopal recently c) Tripura c) Narendra Modi passed away? d) Manipur d) Amit Shah a) Sajitha Begam e) Assam e) Rajnath Singh b) Saleha Sultan Q.292) Which state has been ranked the best for Q.303) India opens its first Mahatma Gandhi c) Sameera Shetty parameters on efficiency targets? convention centre in? d) Ramlila Begam a) Mumbai a) Niger e) Helan Mariam b) Kolkata b) Nigeria Q.314) Divyansh Singh Pawar, Apurvi Chandela c) Gujarat c) Namibia Clinch Gold in which Sports? d) New Delhi d) Mauritius a) Swimming e) Rajasthan e) Maldives b) Wrestling Q.293) Who appointed as the vice chairman of Q.304) Govt decriminalise Income Tax Act & the c) Shooting Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) ? Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Which of the d) Weightlifting a) Nripendra Misra following is Prevention of Money Laundering Act? e) Archery b) Surya Prakash a) Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2007 Q.315) Who won 5th gold in swimming in the c) Soma Roy Burma b) Prevention of Money Laundering Act Khelo India youth games? d) Hari Prasad 2002 a) Shivangi Sarma e) None of the Above c) Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2005 b) Deepak Kumari Q.294) Sanjiv Chadha appointed managing d) Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2001 c) Anjum Moudgil director and chief executive of Which bank? e) Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2008 d) Seema Punima a) Indian Bank Q.305) Who Signs MoU for offshore Data with e) Saranya sharma b) Bank Of Baroda Geological Survey of India? Q.316) 3rd Khelo India youth games held in? c) Union Bank of India a) Indian Army a) Pune d) UCO Bank b) Indian Air Force b) New Delhi e) Allahabad Bank c) Indian Navy c) Guwahati Q.295) Name the Indian to receive highest d) Indian Coast Guards d) Lucknow Australian civilian honour? e) NSF e) Mumbai a) Kiran Advani Q.306) Which ministry participates in the Round- Q.317) Who won the Diplomat Cup Cricket b) Prithiv Shaw table of UNAIDS? Championship of 2020 held in Sharjah? c) Alexis Bern a) Minister of State for Health a) Pakistan d) Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw b) Minister of State for Science and Technology b) Australia e) Mahammad Shaw c) Minister of State for Road and Transport c) West Indies Q.296) Sunanda Patnaik Passes Away. She d) Minister of State for Shipping (I/C) and d) India belongs to? Chemical & Fertilizers e) England a) Sports e) None of the Above Q.318) Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt and Paralympian b) Politics Q.307) What is India rank in Global Social Mobility Deepa Malik inducted in AlCS. Full form of AICS? c) Singer Index 2020? a) All India Council of Sports d) Actor a) 86th b) All India Cricket of Sports e) Dramatist b) 59th c) All India Centre for Sports

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Q.332) UN lowers India's growth forecast for FY20 c) Karnataka d) Tamil Nadu a) Tennis to _____ e) Kerala b) Table Tennis a) 4.9% b) 5.6% Q.347) 'Women with Wheels' Cab Service c) Badminton c) 5.7% d) 5.4% Operated by Women for Women Begins at which d) Chess e) 5.9% city’s airport? e) Cricket Q.333) IMF lowers India growth estimate to_____ a) Hyderabad b) New Delhi Q.320) Diplomat Cup Cricket Championship 2020 for 2019 c) Bengaluru d) Kochi held at ______. a) 4.8% b) 4.6% e) Mumbai a) India c) 4.7% d) 4.4% Q.348) Which country to be focal theme of 44th b) Sri Lanka e) 5.9% Kolkata book fair? c) Australia Q.334) Who won the Cisco Youth Leadership a) Bangladesh b) US d) Bangladesh Award 2019? c) Russia d) South Korea e) Sharjah a) Geetha Prakash b) Gita Gopinath e) Nepal Q.321) who will host 10th Annual Meeting of c) Priya Varrier d) Greta Thunberg Q.349) India falls to which position in EIU's Forum of Election Management Bodies of South e) Priya Prakash Democracy Index? Asia? Q.335) Which field does Man Mohan Sood belong a) 71 b) 61 a) Election Commission of India to? c) 41 d) 51 b) Federal Election Commission, USA a) Actor b) Cricketer e) 31 c) The Commission on Elections, Philippines c) Anchor d) Politics Q.350) Which country topped in EIU's Democracy d) Elections Department Singapore e) Scientist Index? e) Election Commission of Sri Lanka Q.336) Which Bank recently rolled out cardless a) Iceland b) Sweden Q.322) which country is going to train Indian cash withdrawal facility at ATMs? c) Finland d) Ireland flight surgeons for ISRO’s Gaganyaan mission? a) Axis Bank b) ICICI Bank e) Norway a) Russia b) China c) HDFC Bank d) YES Bank Q.351) Which country surpassed the US for c) USA d) France e) RBL Bank becoming the second-largest smartphone market e) England Q.337) Where is Aurobindo Ashram School globally? Q.323) Which world body ordered Myanmar to building constructed with India's assistance a) India b) China take steps to prevent Rohingya Genocide? located? c) Russia d) North Korea a) International Criminal court of Justice a) Bangladesh b) Sri Lanka e) Canada b) International Civil court of Justice c) Nepal d) Maldives Q.352) Which of the following country is the c) International Court of Justice e) Myanmar largest smartphone market globally? d) UN General Assembly Q.338) What is the other name for Corona virus? a) India b) China e) US Justice Department a) Peaking virus b) Beijing Virus c) Russia d) North Korea Q.324) In which city Mumbai malls, shops, c) Canton Virus d) Wuhan Virus e) Canada eateries can stay open 24X7 from January 27? e) Hong kong flu Q.353) National Voter’s Day is celebrated on a) Banalore b) Chennai Q.339) Which sports organization lifted the which day? c) Panaji d) Cochin suspension on India enabling Indian archers to a) January 23 b) January 25 e) Mumbai represent country? c) January 26 d) January 27 Q.325) Where is India’s first e-waste clinic a) International Hockey Federation e) January 24 located? b) FIFA Q.354) What is the theme for 2020 National a) Banalore b) Chennai c) World Rugby Federation voter’s day? c) Bhopal d) Cochin d) World Archery a) No Voter to be left behind e) Mumbai e) World Athletics b) Inclusive and qualitative participation Q.326) Which is the first state to implement Q.340) Where did Strandja Memorial Tournament c) Proud to be a voter - Ready to vote agricultural land leasing policy? took place? d) Electoral Literacy for Stronger Democracy a) Tamil nadu b) Gujarat a) New York, USA b) London, England e) Empowering young and future events c) Maharashtra d) Uttarakhand c) Stockholm, Sweden d) Lyon, France Q.355) On Which day National Girl Child Day is e) Uttar Pradesh e) Sofia, Bulgaria celebrated? Q.327) According to a Greenpeace India report, Q.341) Tribal Affairs Ministry proposed 6th a) January 23 b) January 25 Which is the most polluted city in India? Schedule Area status to which UT/State? c) January 26 d) January 27 a) Dhanbad b) Jharia a) Ladakh b) J&K e) January 24 c) Dowki d) Lunglei c) Mizoram d) Assam Q.356) International Day of Education is e) Firozabad e) Meghalaya celebrated globally on which day? Q.328) Who is the Managing Director of the State Q.342) What is the name of the Lady robot a) January 24 b) January 25 Bank of India developed by ISRO for unmanned mission? c) January 26 d) January 27 a) T Manoharan b) Sanjiv Chadha a) Agnimmitra b) Vyommitra e) January 23 c) Challa Sreenivasulu Setty c) Bhoomimitra d) Sophia Q.357) What is the theme for 2020 International d) Lingam Venkat Prabhakar e) Nao Day of Education? e) Atanu Kumar Das Q.343) India opens its first Mahatma Gandhi a) Learning for peace Q.329) Who is the Managing Director (MD) and convention centre in which country? b) Learning for people, planet, prosperity Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bank of India? a) Mongolia b) Mali and peace a) T Manoharan b) Sanjiv Chadha c) Niger d) Somalia c) Learning for people c) Challa Sreenivasulu Setty e) US d) Learning for planet d) Lingam Venkat Prabhakar Q.344) India signed agreement with which e) Learning for prosperity e) Atanu Kumar Das country to upgrade Ashuganj-Akhaura road into Q.358) Which of the following is the first Telecom Q.330) Who is the Managing Director (MD) and 4-lane highway? to Launch UPI Payments Feature? Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bank of Baroda? a) Pakistan b) Afghanistan a) Aircel b) Airtel a) T Manoharan b) Sanjiv Chadha c) Nepal d) Bangladesh c) Reliance JIO d) Vodafone c) Challa Sreenivasulu Setty e) Myanmar e) Idea d) Lingam Venkat Prabhakar Q.345) Katerina Sakellaropoulou became first Q.359) Which state crowned champion Khelo e) Atanu Kumar Das woman president of which country? India Youth Games? Q.331) Who is the Managing Director (MD) and a) Poland b) Spain a) Karnataka b) Uttar Pradesh Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Canara Bank? c) Finland d) Netherland c) Madhya Pradesh d) Maharashtra a) T Mannoharan b) Sanjiv Chadha e) Greece e) Tamil Nadu

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Q.360) Nomura Expects India's Fiscal Deficit for d) $487-million a) 25% FY20 Likely to Slip to which percentage? e) $550-million b) 30% a) 5.9 % b) 5.8 % Q.371) Whom among the following is the culture c) 45% c) 5.5 % d) 5.6 % partner of Tamil Nadu for the 'Ek Bharat, Shrestha d) 35% e) 5.7 % Bharat' scheme? e) 50% Q.361) 2-day ‘Innovation Festival’ begins at a) Ladakh Q.381) which union joins hands with Airtel Science Centre in? b) Chandigarh payments bank & Airtel Africa for money transfer a) New Delhi c) New Delhi service? b) Itanagar d) Puducherry a) Northern Union c) Mumbai e) Lakshadweep b) Eastern Union d) Lucknow c) Western Union e) Ladakh Q.372) What is the theme for the Bharat Parv d) Sothern Union Q.362) National Integration Camp highlighting 2020, the programme to celebrate the spirit of e) None of the Above 'Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat' scheme begins in? India? Q.382) Who wins Oxford Bookstore Book Cover a) Chennai a) Social Interdependence Prize 2020 for ‘Tiffin’ at 13th Jaipur Literature b) Trichy b) Family Authority and Harmony Festival? c) Madurai c) Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat & a) Sneha Pamneja d) Salem Celebrating 150 Years of Mahatma Gandhi b) Venkat Padmaja e) Thanjavur d) Indian Society and Ways of Living c) Sonal Ved Q.363) ____ Republic Day celebrated on 26 e) Village Structure and Unity d) Namita Gokhale January 2020? Q.373) Shillong celebrated the first-ever carnival e) Shobhaa De a) 69th of peace & harmony as part of the weeklong Q.383) Who honoured with Kerala’s national b) 70th Meghalaya Day Celebrations. Who is the media award? c) 71st Meghalaya Chief Minister? a) Vijayan d) 72nd a) Conrad K Sangma b) N Ram e) 73rd b) Prem Singh Tamang c) Manashi Q.364) Ganga Yatra under Namami Gange c) Neiphiu Rio d) Selvi mission to begin from Bijnor, Ballia in? d) Sarbananda Sonowal e) None of the above a) Maharashtra e) Zoramthanga Q.384) Kobe Bryant recently died. He belongs to? b) Tamilnadu Q.374) In which Indian city, the world’s largest a) Politics c) Gujarat meditation centre and the global headquarters of b) Actor d) Uttar Pradesh the Heartfulness Institute will be inaugurated on c) Writer e) Bengalore January 28? d) Sportsman Q.365) The International Customs Day celebrated a) Lucknow e) Pilot on? b) Mumbai Q.385) Robbie Rensenbrink died. He is a? a) January 25 c) Hyderabad a) Basket Ball b) January 26 d) Ranchi b) Cricket c) January 27 e) Imphal c) Volley Ball d) January 28 Q.375) What is the theme of the 13th edition of d) Swimming e) January 30 the International Children’s Film Festival of e) Football Q.366) International Day of Commemoration Bangladesh? Q.386) TNAU Vice-Chancellor gets Harit Ratna celebrated on January 26. What is the theme? a) Arts for social change Award. Name the vice chancellor? a) 75 years after Auschwitz - Holocaust b) Climate Change and Environment a) Bala Chandran Education and Remembrance for Global c) Film Festival for World Unity and World Peace b) Sarath Justice. d) Under the World c) N Kumar b) Customs fostering Sustainability for People, e) Violence Against Children d) Rajiv Kumar Prosperity and the Planet. Q.376) India & which organization signed $210 e) Ram Kumar c) Environmental Prosperity and the Planet. million loan pact for Maharashtra’s Agri & Rural Q.387) India’s Federation Cup games moved from d) 70 years after Auschwitz - Holocaust Transformation Project? virus-hit China to? Education and Remembrance for Global Justice. a) ADB a) Kazakhstan e) None of the Above b) World Bank b) Japan Q.367) First-ever carnival of peace and harmony c) AIIB c) Tajikistan held in? d) NDB d) Afghanistan a) Lucknow e) IFC e) England b) Jaipur Q.377) International Summit on Women in STEM Q.388) Joao Souza banned for life due to match- c) Shimla held in? fixing. He belongs to which country? d) Shillong a) New Delhi a) Russia e) Dehradun b) Mumbai b) Germany Q.368) 26 new Indian words in Oxford dictionary. c) Kolkata c) France which of the following words are not included? d) Chennai d) Brazil a) Aunties e) Jaipur e) Spain b) Uncles Q.378) what is the theme of International Summit Q.389) Recently World Archery lifts suspension c) Tube lights on Women in STEM? on which country? d) A & B a) Women and child Strength a) China e) None of The Above b) Visualizing the Future: New Skylines b) India Q.369) Who Ranked World’s Second Largest Arms c) Violence Against Children c) Russia Producer Trailing Behind US? d) Visualizing new skylines d) Japan a) China e) None of the Above e) England b) Russia Q.379) Ganga-Volga Dialogue held with which Q.390) 13th edition of International Children’s c) Japan country to enhance Connectivity? Film Festival held in? d) Indian a) China a) Nepal e) Germany b) Japan b) India Q.370) Gas-rich Qatar signed how much million c) Russia c) Bhutan deal to build its first solar energy plant? d) Germany d) Bangladesh a) $270-million e) France e) Myanmar b) $470-million Q.380) RBI Raise Short-term investment limit has c) $190-million now increased from 20% to?

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Q.391) Which state launched 'Shiv Bhojan' Q.405) Saurav Ghosal finished runners-up at the a) March 2020 b) June 2021 scheme aimed at providing meal to the poor for Pittsburgh Open. He belongs to which Sports? c) July 2020 d) March 2023 10 Rs, on the 71st Republic Day? a) Cricket b) Football e) July 2022 a) Maharashtra b) Rajasthan c) Tennis d) Badminton Q.419) Oxford University Press named ______as c) Andhra Pradesh d) Madhya Pradesh e) Squash Hindi word of 2019? e) Tamilnadu Q.406) Who beats former world champion Veselin a) Aadhaar b) Climate Q.392) Former RBI and SEBI Executive Director Topalov? c) Nari Shakthi d) Samvidhaan Ramesh Joshi has been appointed as the Non- a) Magnes Carlesen b) GM Wang Hao e) Mitra Executive Chairman of which of the following c) Carolin Martin Q.420) Who appointed as a new Prime Minister of company? d) R. Praggnanandhaa e) None of the Above Qatar? a) Rolta India Ltd Q.407) Who got appointed as Chief Executive of a) Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani b) Vakrangee Limited Indian Banks’ Association? b) Mohammadu Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al c) Persistent Systems a) Mallikarjun b) Sunil Mehta Thani d) Sasken Communication Technologies c) Rajinish Kumar d) VG Kannan c) Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz Al e) KPIT Technologies e) Kamal Nath Thani Q.393) Lala Lajpat Rai Birth Anniversary to be Q.408) 62nd Annual Grammy Awards to take d) Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa bin Abdelaziz Al celebrated on? place in? Thani a) January 27th b) January 28th a) Los Angeles b) California e) None of the Above c) January 29th d) January 30th c) New York d) London Q.421) Esow Alben is related with which among e) January 31st e) Brigham the following sports events? Q.394) Amit Shah chairs 22nd meeting of Central Q.409) Who inaugurated 18.5 kilometre-long a) Ice skating b) Cycling Zonal Council in? stretch of Nagpur Metro Aqua line? c) Swimming d) Badminton a) Himachal Pradesh b) Jharkhand a) Devendra Fednavis b) Ramnath Kovind e) Squash c) Chhattisgarh d) Maharashtra c) Venkaiah Naidu Q.422) Which union Minister launched the Bhuvan e) Gujarat d) Uddhav Thackeray e) Prakash Javadekar Panchayat V3 web Portal that will enhance Q.395) National Kazoo Day celebrated on? Q.410) Data Privacy Day to be observed on? network application of gram panchayats? a) January 28th b) January 29th a) January 27th b) January 28th a) Santosh Kumar Gangwar c) January 21st d) January 23rd c) January 29th d) January 30th b) Raj Kumar Singh c) Jitendra Singh e) January 25th e) January 31st d) Shripad Yesso Naik Q.396) Vinay Sinha, who passed away at the age Q.411) Which state Government has launched a e) Mansukh L. Mandaviya of 74 was a well-known? virtual police station where people can lodge Q.423) Royal Australian Navy Ship HMAS a) Politics b) Film Industry complaints from their respective districts Toowoomba visited ______to strengthen the c) Sports d) Cartoonist regarding theft of their vehicles without visiting relations between Indian and Australian navies. e) Artist Police Station? a) Chennai b) Bhubaneswar Q.397) Country's first Super Fab Lab, that will a) Maharashtra b) Odisha c) Mangalore d) Kochi give a major push to the hardware industry in the c) Telangana d) Karnataka e) Mumbai country & the only such facility outside U.S, was e) Gujarat Q.424) UK launches 4-mn pound Innovation launched in the Indian state of? Q.412) Which Indian city is planning to Challenge Fund in India which mainly focus on a) Tamilnadu b) Karnataka operationalize its first underwater Metro project Artificial Intelligence in Karnataka and future c) Kerala d) Andhra Pradesh in March 2022? mobility in? e) Telangana a) Kolkata b) Mumbai a) Jammu and Kashmir b) Ladakh Q.398) Which state government signs MoU for c) Chennai d) Lucknow c) Meghalaya d) Maharashtra efficient e-procurement on Government e) Jaipur e) Telangana eMarketplace? Q.413) Which state has been emerged as the Q.425) Who has been appointed as the India's a) Uttar Pradesh b) Uttarkhand champion of the Northeast Dr. T Ao Football Ambassador to US? c) Madhya Pradesh d) Meghalaya Trophy 2020? a) Pavan Kapoor e) Mizoram a) Madhya Pradesh b) Meghalaya b) Taranjit Singh Sandhu Q.399) Arunachal Pradesh which app bags e- c) Tripura d) Mizoram c) Navdeep Singh Suri Governance ‘Jury Award’? e) Manipur d) Ruchi Ghanashyam a) Fire Alert b) Forest Fire Q.414) Who bags silver medal in men's Keirin e) M.J.Akbar c) Fire Alarming d) eForest Fire app individual event of Six Day Berlin Tournament? Q.426) What is inscribed in the newly launched e) Fast Fire a) Esow Alben b) Maximilian Lev 50 pence Britain coin, minted to mark the Q.400) Which country Prime Minister Marjan c) Tomas Babek d) Kelvin Robert country’s departure from the European Union? Sarec resigns? e) Tarun Gobi a) Peace, love & Happiness a) Serbia b) Slovenia Q.415) Pranab Mukherjee released a book titled b) Living together in peace c) Kazakhstan d) Algeria ‘Relentless’ Autobiography of Former finance c) Peace and freedom to all e) Russia minister? d) Peace and Harmony Q.401) Which Coast Guard Ship reaches base a) Arun Jaitley b) Rajnath Singh e) Peace, prosperity & friendship with all harbour at Chennai? c) Nirmala Sitharaman d) Yashwant Sinha nations a) INS Vikrant b) INS Vikram e) Viral Acharya Q.427) Which Defence Launches 'Operation c) Annie Besant d) INS Vajra Q.416) Railways minister Piyush Goyal Vanilla' to Provide Humanitarian Assistance and e) Khanderi announced that the Railways is expected to Disaster Relief at Madagascar Q.402) 3rd Global Potato Conclave 2020 held in? switch completely to electricity by ______as a) Indian Army b) Indian Cost Guard a) Gujarat b) Madhya Pradesh diesel locomotives are steadily being shunted out c) Indian Air Force d) Indian Navy c) Manipur d) Himachal Pradesh of service? e) NSG e) Tripura a) 2020 b) 2023 Q.428) The Reserve Bank of India has Q.403) Who inaugurates 3rd Global Potato c) 2026 d) 2025 appointed______principal advisor to the Conclave? e) 2024 monetary policy department? a) Rajnath Singh b) Ramnath Kovind Q.417) What is the estimated Wheat production a) Janak Raj b) Michael Patra c) Narendra Modi d) Amit Shah during Rabi 2019-20 period, as per the National c) Harsha Kumar Shringla d) Viral Acharya e) Jitendra Singh Collateral Management Services Limited’s data? e) N S Vishvanathan Q.404) Kodman Amarnath Shetty passes away. a) 1090 lakh tonnes b) 1156 lakh tonnes Q.429) Which Bank sells shares worth Rs 5.7 He Blongs to? c) 1200 lakh tonnes d) 1315 lakh tonnes crore in Reliance Power? a) Politics b) Drama Artists e) 1190 lakh tonnes a) Canara Bank b) Axis Bank c) Sports d) Singer Q.418) China announced its plan to launch first c) ICICI Bank d) Yes Bank e) Athlete Mars mission probe in ______with the help of e) Kotak Mahindra Bank Long March-5 Y4 carrier rocket.

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Q.430) Sunita Chandra passed away. She belongs a) South Africa b) West Indians 6) Purge to which Sports? c) New Zealand d) Australia Meaning: an abrupt or violent removal of a group a) Basketball b) Cricket e) England of people. c) Hockey d) Tennis Q.444) Which country host Barca Academy Cup Synonyms: expulsion, extermination e) Badminton Asia Pacific 2020? Antonyms: keeping, holding Q.431) World Leprosy Day and Martyrs Day is a) India b) China Example: “Manoj was feeling shy of telling her celebrated on? c) Qatar d) Serbia about her purge from the contest” a) January 30 b) January 31 e) Australia 7) Precinct c) January 28 d) January 27 Q.445) What is the theme of World Leprosy Day? Meaning: the area within the walls or perceived e) January 29 a) Prevention against Leprosy boundaries of a particular building or Q.432) Which minister laid the foundation stone b) Leprosy isn't what you think place,department; of the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Centre? c) Family and Children Synonyms: area, ward a) S Jaishankar b) Ramnath Kovind d) Prevention for All Antonyms: whole, full c) Narendra Modi d) Vijay Rupani e) None of the Above Example : “I am working in this precinct” e) Rajnath Singh Q.446) External minister lays foundation stone of 8) Quietude Q.433) Bengaluru is the 'Most Traffic Congested Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Centre in? Meaning: a state of stillness, calmness, and city' in the world. The Report was released by? a) Madhya Pradesh b) Rajasthan quiet in a person or place. a) Traffic congest Index c) Nagaland d) Gujarat Synonyms: doldrums, hush b) TomTom Traffic Index e) Telangana Antonyms: disturbance, agitation c) UNDP Q.447) Cabinet approves upper limit for abortion Example: “Be quietude don’t escape your lips” d) World Trade Organisation at 24 weeks From? 9) Radicalization e) City Traffic Index a) 21 weeks b) 22 weeks Meaning: process of making someone more Q.434) Assam Rifles builds war memorial in? c) 20 weeks d) 19 weeks extreme in religious belief a) Gujarat b) Assam e) 23 weeks Synonyms: fanaticism, infatuation c) Nagaland d) Tripura Q.448) Which Private limited signs MoU with Antonyms: secondary, unimportant e) Mizoram Gujarat State Handloom and Handicrafts Example: “This was the period of growing Q.435) Which Ministry releases Bureau of Police Development Corporation Ltd to promote artisans radicalization of the working class” Research and Development publication “Data on and craftsmen? 10) Hackles Police Organizations”. a) Amazon b) Apple Meaning: erectile hairs which rise when angry or a) Defence Ministry c) Myntra d) Wipro alarmed. b) Commerce Ministry e) Flipkart Synonyms: chop, clip c) Rural and Development Ministry Q.449) Passport Seva Kendras has started Antonyms: raise, assist d) Home Ministry passport renewal reminder service. What is the Example :”The dog continued to growl, its hackles e) Food Processing Ministry validity of an ordinary Indian passport for adults? raised” Q.436) Which is the first smart city in India to a) 15 Years b) 12 Years 11) Abrogation sign an MoU with the Indian Green Building c) 16 Years d) 10 Years Meaning: repeal or abolition of a law or Council for accelerating the sustainable e) 20 Years agreement. developments in the city? Q.450) RBI fines HDFC Bank ____ crore for non- Synonyms: annulment, ending a) Bengaluru b) Mumbai compliance of KYC norms? Antonyms: introduction, commencement c) Pune d) Lucknow a) 2 Crore b) 1 Crore Example : “Article 371 was abrogated in 2019” e) Mangalore c) 5 Crore d) 7 Crore 12) Spurt Q.437) The studies on the microorganism archaea e) 10 Crore Meaning: gush out in a sudden forceful stream, from the Sambhar lake in ______helped spray, fountain. scientists at the National Centre for Cell Science, Synonyms: outburst, eruption Pune, to discover a novel archael species called ENGLISH VOCABULARY Antonyms: peace, continuity ‘Natrialba swarupiae’ Meaning: originating or occurring naturally in a Example: “He cut his finger and blood spurted a) Rajasthan b) Haryana particular place; native. over the sliced potatoes” c) Nagaland d) Punjab Synonyms: domestic, homegrown 13) Revulsion e) Assam Antonyms: alien, foreign Meaning: a sense of disgust, loathing Q.438) Who has been appointed as Foreign Example : “ISRO successfully test-fired an Synonyms: dislike, distaste Secretary? indigenous missile” Antonyms: like, love a) Harsh Kumar Banwala b) Aravind Kumar 2) Inkling Example: “He expressed his revulsion against c) Vijay Gokhale d) Harsh Vardhan Meaning: a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint. whale hunting” Shringla Synonyms: clue, hunch 14) Truce e) Bimal Jalan Antonyms: knowledge, information Meaning: agreement between enemies to stop Q.439) Who state wins first prize at 71st Republic Example : “The records give us an inkling of how fighting for sometime. Day parade? people saw the world” Synonyms: amnesty, detente a) Odisha b) Uttar Pradesh 3) Espionage Antonyms: persistence, war, disagreement c) Assam d) Maharashtra Meaning: typically by governments to obtain Example :”After years of rivalry the two countries e) Gujarat political and military information. have agreed a truce” Q.440) Ind-Ra expects states fiscal deficit to Synonyms: reconnaissance, intelligence 15) Touted touch____ of GDP in FY21? Antonyms: candid, frank Meaning: persuade people to buy goods or a) 5.6% b) 6% Example: “He will be punished severely if he is services, to talk about c) 3% d) 2.9% found guilty of espionage” Synonyms: praise, proclaim e) 3.3% 4) Contemporaneous Antonyms: blame, condemn, conceal Q.441) Which Bank Launches ‘iBox’, A Self- Meaning: existing at or occurring in the same Example :”There were hundreds of taxis at the Service Delivery Facility For Customers? period of time. airport all touting for business” a) Axis Bank b) Yes Bank Synonyms: simultaneous, contemporary 16) Punitive c) Kotak Mahindra Bank d) ICICI Bank Antonyms: different, separate Meaning: intended as punishment, penal, e) HDFC Bank Example: “The contemporaneous ringing of the disciplinary Q.442) Neeraj Chopra qualifies for Tokyo multiple phone lines kept the new receptionist Synonyms: missing, deprived of Olympics 2020. He belongs to? very busy” Antonyms: abundant, enough a) Shotput b) Archery 5) Caulk Example: “The UN has imposed punitive sanctions c) Long Jump d) Swimming Meaning: Secure on the invading country” e) Javelin Throw Synonyms: block, barricade 17) Overwhelming Q.443) Todd Astle announces first-class Antonyms: free, loosen Meaning: very large in amount, profuse retirement. He belongs to which country? Example: “Adeel caulked me from a broken reed” Synonyms: overpowering, amazing

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Antonyms: ordinary, unamazing Meaning: one of the principles on which a belief Example :”He emanated a powerful brooding air” Example: “She felt an overwhelming desire to or theory is based. 41) Dissenting giggle” Synonyms: belief, principle Meaning: strong difference in opinion. 18) Consensus Antonyms: doubt, skepticism Synonyms: disagree, decline Meaning: a general agreement, harmony Example :”A major tenet of the women’s Antonyms: accept, approve Synonyms: concord, accord movement is that society needs their talents” Example :”There were a couple of dissenting Antonyms: disagreement, dissent 30) Tantamount voices” Example :”There is a growing consensus that the Meaning: equivalent in seriousness to, as good 42) Sagging current regime has failed” as Meaning: become weaker 19) Defied Synonyms: arise, exude Synonyms: slump, bulge Meaning: openly deny, refuse to obey. Antonyms: conceal, hold, keep Antonyms: ascend, rise Synonyms: confront, resist Example: “His refusal to answer was tantamount Antonyms: flatter, regard to the admission of guilt” Example :”A comprehensive overhaul meant to Example :“It is rare to see to see children openly 31) Verbose revive sagging sales” defying their teachers” Meaning: expressed in more words than needed, 43) Queer 20) Unprecedented garrulous. Meaning: spoil or ruin the situation. Meaning: never done or known before Synonyms: bombastic, diffuse Synonyms: blight, bruise Synonyms: exceptional, bizarre, miraculous Antonyms: concise, succinct Antonyms: create, beautify Antonyms: ordinary, regular Example : “Shashi Tharoor’s writings are often Example :”Reg didn't want someone meddling Example: ”The government took the difficult and verbose” and queering the deal at the last minute” unprecedented step of releasing confidential 32) Ebb 44) Deliberations correspondence” Meaning: movement of tide out of sea, going Meaning: long and careful consideration or 21) Dribs out, flowing back discussion. Meaning: in small scattered or sporadic Synonyms: abatement, drop Synonyms: conference, consideration amounts. Antonyms: advance, development Antonyms: ignorance, inattention Synonyms: gradually, progressively Example :”My enthusiasm was ebbing away after Example :”After much deliberation we arrived at Antonyms: fastly, suddenly constant failures” a compromise” Example : ”The guest began arriving in dribs and 33) Resuscitate 45) Decrepit drabs” Meaning: bring back to life. Meaning: worn out or ruined because of age or 22) Culminated Synonyms: energize, resurrect neglect. Meaning: reach a climax or point of highest Antonyms: destroy, bore Synonyms: battered, ramshackle development. Example :”Various measures are being taken to Antonyms: firm, good, healthy Synonyms: climax, conclude resuscitate our ailing economy” Example: ”But now the world is decrepit, and all Antonyms: advance, development commence, 34) Straddles good things are gone” begin Meaning: sit or stand with one leg on either side. 46) Abdicate Example :”The star culminates at midnight on Synonyms: mount, ride Meaning: fail to fulfill or undertake (a about the 30th April.” Antonyms: drop, lower responsibility or duty). 23) Incursion Example :”Our farm straddles the railway line” Synonyms: disown, spurn, renounce Meaning: an invasion or attack, especially a 35) Interplay Antonyms: keep, assume, hold sudden or brief one. Meaning: The way in which two or more things Example :”She abdicated all responsibility for the Synonyms: aggression, intrusion have an effect on each other. project” Antonyms: retreat, retirement Synonyms: mesh, exchange 47) Veered Example : “The bandits made brief incursions on Antonyms: stag, torpidity Meaning: suddenly change an opinion, subject, the village” Example :”This interplay is especially the case type of behaviour, etc. 24) Coveted between touch and sight” Synonyms: bend, shift Meaning: greatly desired, envied. 36) Palpable Antonyms: stay, straighten Synonyms: envy, crave, begrudge Meaning: so obvious that it can be easily seen or Example: “If we do not veer we will be upon the Antonyms: dislike, abjure known. rocks within the hour” Example: I gave up a coveted job, that of editor- Synonyms: apparent, credible 48) Stampede in-chief. Antonyms: ambiguous, obscure Meaning: sudden panicked rush of a number of 25) Heft Example :The tension in the room was palpable horses, cattle, or other animals. Meaning: lift or carry something heavy during the exam. Synonyms: charge, panic Synonyms: boost, soar 37) Thicket Antonyms: retreat, standing Antonyms: decrease, fall Meaning: a dense group of bushes or tree. Example :”Among the strikers there was a break Example : “I watched him heft the heavy sack Synonyms: grove, tangle that swiftly spread and became a stampede” onto his shoulders” Antonyms: open place, prairie 49) Cognizable 26) Sans Example :A thicket is often dominated by a few Meaning: perceptible; clearly identifiable. Meaning: lacking, without species. Synonyms: visible, palpable Synonyms: missing, deprived of 38) Mutilation Antonyms: hidden, vague Antonyms: abundant, enough Meaning: dismembering, damage Example :”His was a cognizable offence” Example :”It is great to have a grownup meal in Synonyms: amputate, distort 50) Conversely a restaurant, sans kids” Antonyms: beautify, decorate Meaning: in an opposite way. 27) Spanned Example :”Her body had been mutilated beyond Synonyms: reversed, contrary Meaning: extend from side to side recognization” Antonyms: similar, alike, same Synonyms: connect, extend 39) Prudent Example :”Conversely youth is depicted as a time Antonyms: unlink, condense Meaning: acting with or showing care and of vitality and good health” Example :”The stream was spanned by a narrow thought for the future. 51) Ominous bridge” Synonyms: careful, cautious Meaning: impression that something bad is 28) Encapsulated Antonyms: hasty, fool, imprudent going to happen. Meaning: express essential features of Example: ”No prudent money manager would Synonyms: menacing, apocalyptic something, summarize authorize a loan without first knowing its Antonyms: bright, happy, lucky Synonyms: box, cover purpose” Example :”It seemed an extraordinary thing, an Antonyms: free, let go 40) Emanate ominous object, a sign” Example :”It is difficult to encapsulate the story Meaning: to express in a way that you look and 52) Writ of the revolution in a single hour” behave Meaning: a form of written command in the 29) Tenet Synonyms: arise, exude name of a court or other legal authority to act. Antonyms: conceal, hold, keep Synonyms: summons, warrant, indictment

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Antonyms: exoneration, praise Meaning: violent and extreme order Example :A coast path along the top of rugged Example: “The two reinstated officers issued a Synonyms: chaos, disorder, havoc cliffs. writ for libel against the applicants” Antonyms: calm, peace, harmony 77) Lease 53) Cynical Example : With 20 kids around, and only me to Meaning: grant (property) on lease; let. Meaning: believing that people are motivated supervise, it was a complete mayhem. Synonyms: hire, sublet purely by self-interest; 65) Eloquently Antonyms: sell, vend Synonyms: derisive, mocking Meaning: in a fluent and persuasive manner Example :She leased the site to a local company. Antonyms: believing, hopeful Synonyms: affecting, ardent 78) Acquisition Example: “He was brutally cynical and hardened Antonyms: apathetic, dull, calm Meaning: an asset or object bought or obtained, to every sob story under the sun” Example:She argued her point eloquently and typically by a library or museum. 54) Scourge persuasively. Synonyms: purchase, addition, Meaning: person or thing that causes great 66) Reticent Antonyms: loss, failure, dearth trouble or suffering. Meaning: not revealing one’s thought. Example :The legacy will be used for new Synonyms: afflict, plague Synonyms: bashful, restrained acquisitions. Antonyms: reward, advantage, delight Antonyms: confident, extroverted 79) Parochialism Example: “Political methods used to scourge and Example :Most of the students were reticent Meaning: a limited or narrow outlook, especially oppress workers” about answering questions. focused on a local area; narrow-mindedness. 55) Hobnob 67) Enunciate Synonyms: localism, insularity Meaning: mix socially, especially with those of Meaning: speak clearly Antonyms: standard, silence perceived higher social status. Synonyms: affirm, utter Example :We have been guilty of parochialism, of Synonyms: socialize, associate with Antonyms: conceal, repress resistance to change Antonyms: live alone, disassociate Example: Her speech is not clear, she does’nt 80) Armor Example: ”Now a days he is hobnobbing with enunciate very clearly. Meaning: provide (someone) with emotional, avant-garde musicians” 68) Exigency social, or other defences. 56) Stash Meaning: in urgent need or demand Synonyms: defense, mail Meaning: store (something) safely in a hidden or Synonyms: contingency, dilemma Antonyms: destruction, harm secret place. Antonyms: advantage, boon Example :The knowledge armored him against Synonyms: cache, inventory Example:Economic exigency obliged the her Antonyms: debt, lack government to act. 81) Languish Example :”He got down to brass tacks in keeping 69) Intrusive Meaning: deteriorate the stash fulfilled” Meaning: annoy someone Synonyms: dwindle, faint 57) Entwine Synonyms: invasive, nosy Antonyms: develop, grow Meaning: wind or twist together; interweave. Antonyms: ignore, neglect Example :If I don’t bother him, my cat will Synonyms: coil, entangle Example :The media asked a lot of intrusive languish on the windowsill all day long. Antonyms: unwind, untwist questions to the film star. 82) Plagiarism Example :”The twins lay entwined in each other's 70) Undergirds Meaning: the practice of taking someone else's arms” Meaning: to support something by forming a work 58) Revelry strong base for it. Synonyms: falsification, appropriation Meaning: merrymaking, lively and noisy Synonyms: bolster, reinforce Antonyms: return, originality festivities, Antonyms: undermine weaken Example :There were accusations of plagiarism. Synonyms: festivity, celebration Example : The knowledge armored him against 83) Extradite Antonyms: mourning, sadness her. Meaning: abandon Example: I called the police when my neighbours 71) Eradicate Synonyms: apprehend, arrest refused to settle down and end their revelry. Meaning: destroy completely; Antonyms: hold, keep 59) Clannish Synonyms: abolish, annihilate Example :Until the country receives proof of Meaning: (of a group or their activities) tending Antonyms: create, build Mark’s guilt, they refuse to extradite him to local to exclude others outside the group. Example :The disease that once claimed millions authorities. Synonyms: selected, reserved of lives have now been eradicated. 84) Foment Antonyms: welcoming, open 72) Prevalent Meaning: instigate Example Sentence: Meaning: widespread in a particular area. Synonyms: abet, arouse Celebrities believe in wearing clannish dresses. Synonyms: common, everyday Antonyms: finish, tranquilize 60). Rhetoric Antonyms: abnormal, different Example :He fomented the innocent people. Meaning: an art of effective speech Example :The social ills prevalent in society 85) Tilt Synonyms: hyperbole, oratory today. Meaning: move or cause to move into a sloping Antonyms: quiet, conciseness 73) Ambit position. Example :Our Principal is rhetoric, and of late he Meaning: the scope, extent Synonyms: angle, slant, leaning has toned it down. Synonyms: boundary, extension Antonyms: ascent, increase 61). Disconcertingly Antonyms: centre, inside Example :Yet he can tilt or play his part at hand- Meaning: shake up, confuse Example :A full discussion of this complex issue strokes as merrily as ever. Synonyms: agitate, embarrass was beyond the ambit of one book. 86) Nuances Antonyms: assist, soothe, encourage 74) Unanimous Meaning: a subtle difference in or shade of Example :He had a disconcerting habit of offering Meaning: in agreement, uncontested meaning, expression, or sound. jobs to people he met at dinner parties. Synonyms: consistent, solid Synonyms: distinction, nicety, hint 62) Belie Antonyms: divided, split Antonyms: brightness, information Meaning: fails to give a true impression of Example :The doctors were unanimous in their Example :He was a stickler for the nuances of something, contradict diagnoses. behaviour, especially in women. Synonyms: contradict, negate 75) Bewildered 87) Truncate Antonyms: approve, endorse Meaning: perplexed and confused; very puzzled. Meaning: shorten (something) by cutting off the Example :The quality of the music seems to belie Synonyms: baffled, confused top or the end. the criticism. Antonyms: clear, aware, oriented Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge 63) Ordained Example : He saw the bewildered look on my face. Antonyms: enlarge, expand Meaning: make someone a priest or minister 76) Cliff Example :Truncate command is used in Synonyms: appointed, determined, ordered Meaning: a steep rock face, especially at the Database. Antonyms: elected, edge of the sea. 88) Explosion Example: Equal punishment was ordained for the Synonyms: precipice, crag Meaning: a violent shattering or blowing apart of two crimes. Antonyms: bottom, nadir something 64) Mayhem Synonyms: detonation, eruption, bang

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Antonyms: outburst, flare up Antonyms: sameness, similarity Example :"Three explosions damaged buildings at Example : The nature of the universe is proved the barracks." too subtle for this dichotomy. 89) Idolatry Meaning: the worship of idols. Synonyms: fetishism, idolizing Antonyms: vilification, criticism Example :We must not allow our idolatry of art to obscure issues of political significance. 90) Brink Meaning: the extreme edge of land before a steep slope or a body or water. Synonyms: fringe, verge Antonyms: center, middle Example :The country was on the brink of a constitutional crisis. 91) Contour Meaning: an outline representing or bounding the shape or form of something. Synonyms: outline, shape Antonyms: dullness, crookedness Example :She traced the contours of his face with her finger. 92) Triumvirate Synonyms: threesome, triplets Antonyms: single, lonelyness Example :Rome the triumvirate decided to defend the republic to the last. 93). TROOP Meaning: (of a group of people) come or go together or in large numbers. Synonyms: crew, gang Antonyms: individual, one Example :The girls trooped in for dinner. 94) Tangible Meaning: perceptible by touch. Synonyms: palpable, tactile, real Antonyms: conceptual, unreal Example: The atmosphere of neglect and abandonment was almost tangible. 95) Upsurge Meaning: an upward surge in the strength or quantity of something; an increase. Synonyms: boom, upturn, improvement Antonyms: downturn, decline Example :This is an upsurge in vandalism and violent crime. 96) Retrieve Meaning: get or bring (something) back from somewhere. Synonyms: recover, salvage Antonyms: break, endanger, destroy Example :I was sent to retrieve the balls from his garden. 97) Shrift Meaning: confession, especially to a priest. Synonyms: absolution, remorse Antonyms: happiness, joy Example :He lost his place, his money, and at last came to beg for shrift and punishment. 98) Claptrap Meaning: absurd or nonsensical talk or ideas. Synonyms: bombast, bunk Antonyms: sense, feel Example :Such sentiments are just pious claptrap. 99) Petition Meaning: a formal written request, Synonyms: application, prayer Antonyms: answer, demand Example: She was asked to sign a petition against plans to build on the local playing fields. 100) Dichotomy Meaning: a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed Synonyms: disunion, difference

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