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Legend Magazine June – 2020 aa RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs Courses Offered: BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC | KPSC | www.raceinstitute.in | www.bankersdaily.in LEGEND MAGAZINE JUNE – 2020 (CURRENT AFFAIRS AND QUIZ, ENGLISH VOCABULARY) Exclusively prepared for RACE students Chennai: #1, South Usman Road, T Nagar. | Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | Chandigarh| Bangalore |Erode |Namakkal |Puducherry |Thanjavur| Trivandrum| Ernakulam| Tirunelveli | Vellore | Tirunelveli | Tiruvanamalai | Coachin | Tuticorin | Rajapalayam | Kozhikode | Nagercoil | H.O: 7601808080 / 9043303030 | www.raceinstitute.in Chennai RACE Coaching Institute Pvt Ltd Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | NATIONAL NEWS: State Health Register will be robust and standardized health repository of all citizens. Power Finance Corporation signs MoU Tamil Nadu signs MoUs worth over Rs with NBPCL to fund hydro-electric 15,000 crore to generate 47,000 jobs Tamil Nadu signed 17 memorandums of projects in Madhya Pradesh: understanding (MoUs) worth Rs 15,128 Power Finance Corporation, under Ministry crore to generate 47,150 jobs in the state. of Power entered into an agreement with Daimler India, Salcomp and other Narmada Basin Projects Company Ltd., a companies would invest over Rs 15000 company of Govt. of Madhya Pradesh, to fund projects worth Rs.22,000 crore for 225 MW crore. The Government also signed MoUs for hydro-electric projects & multipurpose renewable energy projects. projects. Nirmala Sitharaman launches free Uttarakhand’s Char Dham Project to get instant PAN card facility through Aadhaar: a boost with 450 m tunnel built beneath Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Chamba Town: formally launched the facility for instant The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) has allotment of PAN card using Aadhaar- completed construction of a 440 m long based e-KYC. The facility is now available for tunnel below the busy Chamba town on the all those Permanent Account Number Rishikesh-Dharasu road Highway (NH 94) . Indian Union Minister of Road Transport and (PAN) applicants who possess a valid Highways Nitin Gadkari lauded and Aadhaar number and have a mobile number congratulated the team for achieving this registered in the UIDAI database. feat. Andhra Pradesh government launches web portal for educational institutes to Karnataka governmentt to launch a upload details: project to maintain health database of all Andhra Pradesh has launched a web portal citizens: on schools and colleges will have to upload Karnataka governmentt to soon launch details regarding their infrastructure and project to maintain the health database of all its citizens undertaking a survey of all 6.5 other facilities. Student’s parents may visit Crore people. A first of its kind initiative the institutes and complain if the facilities RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | 2 Official Website: www.raceinstitute.in| Official Blog: www.bankersdaily.in Chennai RACE Coaching Institute Pvt Ltd Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | provided do not match the information It is a platform for artisans and craftsmen provided. from various parts of the country to showcase Decided during the ‘Our Governance, Your their art and craft and provides employment Suggestion’ session. and employment opportunities to more than Himachal to launch portal for five lakh Indian artisans, craftsmen, registration of returnees who lost jobs: culinary experts and other people The cabinet headed by Chief Minister Jai Ram associated with them in the last five years. Thakur launched of a portal for registration CIPET renamed as Central Institute of of people who returned to the state due to Petrochemicals Engineering job-loss and are either in need of employment &Technology: or upgrade of skills and decided to formulate Central Institute of Plastics Engineering a scheme for working capital requirements. & Technology (CIPET) was renamed as Uttar Pradesh government to develop Central Institute of Petrochemicals 800 km roads as Herbal roads: Engineering and Technology. CIPET is a Uttar Pradesh government will develop 800 premier national institution under the Ministry km roads as Herbal roads in the state. These of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of herbal roads will have medicinal and herbal India (GOI) . trees on both sides. ADB and India sign $177 million loan to Deputy Chief Minister and state PWD minister upgrade roads in Maharashtra: of state Keshav Prasad Maurya stated that Asian Development Bank and the Government these herbal roads will have trees like like of India signed a $177 million loan to Peepal, Neem, Sehjan along with other herb upgrade 450 kilometres of state highways varieties like brahmi, ashvagandha and and major district roads in the state of jatrofa. Maharashtra. This could improve the ‘Hunar Haat’ to restart from Sept 2020 connectivity between rural areas and urban with theme “Local to Global”: centres. Flagship programme of Ministry of Minority Archaeological Survey of India discovers Affairs ‘Hunar Haat’ will restart with the 9th century sandstone Shiva linga in theme of “Local to Global” from September Vietnam: 2020. RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | 3 Official Website: www.raceinstitute.in| Official Blog: www.bankersdaily.in Chennai RACE Coaching Institute Pvt Ltd Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | Archaeological Survey of India recently Plant of Kargil with five KW Solar Plant and discovered a monolithic sandstone Shiva linga three HP Submersible Pump (Kargil from 9th century CE, during an ongoing Renewable Energy Agency-KREDA ) at conservation project at My Son, a cluster of Yak Breeding Farm, Bodh Kharboo keeping in abandoned & partially ruined Hindu temples view the protocols of social distancing and in Quang Nam province in central Vietnam. Standard Operating Prcedures. Army Commanders’ Conference Uttarakhand launches Mukhyamantri commences in New Delhi: Swarozgar Yojana for returnee migrants: The Army Commanders’ Conference has Uttarakhand chief minister Trivendra commenced in New Delhi. It is an apex level Singh Rawat inaugurated the Mukhyamantri biannual event that was earlier scheduled to Swarozgar Yojana. be held in April 2020, but was postponed due The scheme will offer credit facility through to COVID-19 pandemic. nationalised banks, scheduled In the first phase of Army Commanders’ commercial banks and cooperative Conference, the apex level leadership of banks. Indian Army will deliberate on various Madhya Pradesh Government creates aspects pertaining to operational and ‘Rojgar Setu Yojana’ to employ migrant administrative issues including studies workers: pertaining to logistics and human resources. State Government has created ‘Rojgar Setu State Health Register to be launched by Yojana’ to employ migrant workers, who Karnataka Government: have come back to the State from other states Karnataka State Government announced amid coronavirus-induced lockdown, stated that it will launch a “State Health Register” Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh to collect data of all its citizens. The register Chouhan. is first of its kind in the country. Madhya Pradesh Government is Kargil’s first Solar Lift Irrigation Plant preparing database under ‘Swamitva’ inaugurated in Ladakh: scheme: In Ladakh, Director of Animal, Sheep Madhya Pradesh Government is preparing a Husbandry and Fisheries Dr Mohammad database under the “Swamitva scheme” Raza inaugurated the first Solar Lift Irrigation launched on a pilot basis by Prime Minister RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | 4 Official Website: www.raceinstitute.in| Official Blog: www.bankersdaily.in Chennai RACE Coaching Institute Pvt Ltd Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC | Narendra Modi on 24th April. The scheme NASSCOM is targeting for $500 billion aims to provide land ownership rights to export in next five years. people in rural areas. Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad On the basis of the database prepared under launches National AI Portal of India: this scheme, land rights records and Minister for Electronics & IT, Law & Justice & property registers of rural settlements will Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad also be prepared at the panchayat level. launched India’s national Artificial Intelligence Nirmala Sitharaman chairs 22nd Meeting Portal called www.ai.gov.in. It was jointly of the Financial Stability and developed by MeiTY & IT Industry and he also Development Council (FSDC) : launched ‘Responsible AI for Youth’. The meeting also reviewed the current global Government approves Rs 445 cr for and domestic macro-economic situation, Chhattisgarh under Jal Jeevan Mission: financial stability and vulnerabilities Union Government has approved Rs 445 issues, issues likely to be faced by banks and crore for the implementation of Jal Jeevan other financial institutions like Mission in Chhattisgarh during 2020-21. Liquidity/Solvency of Non-Banking Chhattisgarh has planned to have 100 per Financial Companies (NBFCs) /housing cent Functional Tap Water Connection finance companies (HFCs) / Micro finance (FHTC) by 2023-24. Out of 45 lakh Institutions (MFIs) and other related households in the state, it has planned to issues. provide tap connections to 20 lakh Piyush Goyal attend Digital Summit on households. Exports organized by CII: Kerala to launch free internet project K- Minister for Commerce
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