• The first Britisher to perform a space walk, who retired from NASA in the second week of August 2013- Colin Michael Foale• Name of the largest blast furnace of India which was operationalised by SAIL on 10 August 2013- Durga• Female tennis player to win The Rogers Cup 2013 and capture her 54th WTA singles title- Serena Williams• Technology used by the researchers to find that autism affected the brains of males and females in a different way- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)• Name the captain of the 18-member hockey squad of India in the...
Friday, 6 September 2013
Deepak Sandhu Became the First Woman Chief Information Commissioner
Posted on 10:37 by Unknown
Deepak Sandhu became the first woman Chief Information Commissioner on 5 September 2013. She was administered the oath of the office by the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. Deepak Sandhu took over the office from Satyananda Mishra. Mishra served the 5 year term in the office.The Central Information Commission (CIC):• The Central Information Commission was established under the Right to Information Act, 2005. • CIC was established under the Government of India for acting on complaints of the peop...
Thursday, 5 September 2013
India to host 33rd Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators
Posted on 09:38 by Unknown
India will be hosting the 33rd Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators (APCCA), 2013 in New Delhi from 22 to 27 September. The conference will be inaugurated by Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. This is a prominent event for the correctional officers to share ideas and learn from others’ experiences and give direction to innovative ideas in correctional administration and welfare. Apart from delegates from 23 member countries, the delegates from States/UTs dealing with correctional administrations will also attend the...
Raghuram Rajan takes over as RBI Governor
Posted on 09:36 by Unknown
Rajan took over the charge as the 23rd Governor of Reserve Bank of India on 4th September as a successor of outgoing Governor of RBI, Dr. Subbarao. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India on 4 August 2013 approved the appointment of Raghuram Rajan (50) as the new Governor of Reserve Bank of India for next three years. Raghuram Govind Rajan was born on 3rd February 1963. He has served as the Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund. He is the second-youngest person to become the Governor of the RBI. He is credited as a person, who...
Setting up of Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF) approved
Posted on 09:35 by Unknown
The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for setting up of the Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF) as an independent charitable society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 to facilitate and upscale civil society action in partnership with Government for transforming livelihoods and lives of rural households, with an emphasis on women, particularly in the Central Indian Tribal Region.It will provide financial grants to Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to meet their human resource and institutional costs for upscaling of proven...
Swarna Jayanti Shahri Rozgar Yojana restructured as the National Urban Livelihoods Mission
Posted on 09:35 by Unknown
With a view to provide gainful employment to the urban unemployed and underemployed through encouraging the setting up of self-employment ventures or provision of wage employment, a new urban poverty alleviation programme, namely, Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) was launched by the Government of India on 01.12.1997.This scheme subsumed the earlier three urban poverty alleviation programmes, namely Urban Basic Services for the Poor (UBSP), Nehru RozgarYojana (NRY) and Prime Minister’s Integrated Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PMIUPEP).The...
Ahimsa Messenger Programme launched
Posted on 09:34 by Unknown
Smt. Sonia Gandhi has launched the 'Ahimsa Messenger' Programme of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.The Ahimsa Messenger is directly related to the safety and empowerment of women. They will spread awareness and knowledge about for their legal rights and their economic and social growth, their safety and dignity in the society. The Ahimsa ‘doots’ (messengers) will be trained to empower them.A unique feature of this programme is that adolescent boys have also been made an integral part of this programme.At the initial phase of the programme...
Global warming spurs spread of crop pests
Posted on 09:33 by Unknown
The study carried out by researchers at the University of Exeter and the University of Oxford, shows a strong relationship between increased global temperatures over the past 50 years and expansion in the range of crop pests. The study revealed that Crop pests are spreading to colder parts of the world as climate change warms the world. It used published observations of the distribution of 612 crop pests collected over the past 50 years.It said that the pests are moving onwards at a rate of nearly 3 km a year. If crop pests continue to march polewards...
Friday, 30 August 2013
List of Recently Appointed Person in 2013
Posted on 06:52 by Unknown
List of Recently Appointed Person in 2013Xi Jinping - President of China Li Keqiang – Prime Minister China Shinzo Abe – prime minister Japan NicosAnastasiades – President CyprusPark Guen_ hye – president South KoreaUhuru Kenyatta – president KenyaJohn Kerry - 68th Secretary of State of the USMohan Pieris - 44th Chief Justice of Sri LankaVedPrakash - UGC chairman Obama - US President (Second Term)Suchitra Ella -...
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