Daily Current Affairs 14 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS DD releases patriotic song ahead of Independence Day Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar released a patriotic song called Watan produced by Doordarshan ahead of the Independence Day celebrations. The song pays a tribute to New India. It highlights several path-breaking initiatives of the…
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Daily Current Affairs 13 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Govt to start special hospitals offering Indian system of medicines in 150 districts Special hospitals offering Indian Systems of Medicines like Siddha and Ayurveda will be started in 150 districts across the country. This was stated by Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shri Sripad Yesso…
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Daily Current Affairs 12 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Jharkhand govt launches direct money transfer scheme for small farmers Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu launched the Jharkhand government’s ‘Mukhya Mantri Krishi Ashirwad Yojana’ under which money will be directly transferred into the bank accounts of farmers in the state. Under the scheme, beneficiaries having farm…
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Daily Current Affairs 11 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’: Inter-state portability across India by June 2020 In a bid to implement ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ across the country by 1 June, 2020, the Centre kick-started inter-state portability of ration card between Telangana-Andhra Pradesh as well as Maharashtra-Gujarat. This means…
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Daily Current Affairs 10 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Every child to get rotavirus vaccine by September: Health Minister Harsh Vardhanf Every child will be administered rotavirus vaccine by the end of the year as Union Health Ministry is set to expand its vaccination programme across the country. Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said the…
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Daily Current Affairs 9 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS India, Bangladesh to set up committee for optimum utilisation of water resources India and Bangladesh have agreed to set up a Joint Technical committee for optimum utilisation of Ganges water as being received by Bangladesh under the Ganga Water Sharing Treaty 1996. The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna mega-basin is…
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Daily Current Affairs 8 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Health ministry sets target to reduce HIV cases by 2020 With an aim to bring down incidence of HIV/AIDS by 20,000 per year for the next two years, the Union Health Ministry is reaching out to targeted areas like prisons and women remand homes as cases…
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Daily Current Affairs 7 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS AP govt all set to launch Navodayam scheme for MSMEs The Andhra Pradesh government will launch a scheme for restructuring of loans of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMEs) under the Dr YSR Navodayam scheme to support the stressed MSME sector. The decision has been…
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Daily Current Affairs 6 August 2019 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Centre has approved the project to link Kosi & Mechi rivers The Centre has approved a Kosi-Mechi river interlinking project in Bihar. Estimated cost of the project is Rs 4,900 crore. The project will provide irrigation for over 2.14 lakh hectares of command areas spread across…
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