Daily Current Affairs 23 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Centre releases Rs 50,850 cr to farmers under PM-KISAN Centre has released 50,850 crore rupees to farmers so far under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme. Under the Scheme, six thousand rupees per year is transferred in installments directly into the bank accounts of…
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Daily Current Affairs 22 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Railway customers can now converse in Hindi through ‘ASKDISHA’ chatbot In order to resolve queries of railway passengers, the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has now powered voice-enabled ‘ASKDISHA’ to converse with customers in Hindi language. The customers can now ask queries to…
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Daily Current Affairs 21 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS NF Railway builds India’s tallest pier bridge in Manipur The Northeast Frontier Railway Construction Organisation has built India’s tallest railway pier bridge — 100 m tall equivalent to a 33-storey building, across river Makru in the Tamenglong district of Manipur. The ₹283.5-crore bridge with a span…
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Daily Current Affairs 20 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy launches Nadu-Nedu scheme Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy launched Nadu Nedu (meaning ‘then and now’ in Telugu) scheme in all government hospitals to help improve the health conditions of the people of the state. Andhra Chief Minister also launched…
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Daily Current Affairs 19 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Finance Commission expert group on agri exports to be headed by Sanjiv Puri The 15th Finance Commission decided to set up an eight-member high level expert group headed by ITC chairman Sanjiv Puri to recommend strategies and measures to increase farm productivity and boost exports. The…
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Daily Current Affairs 18 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Seed sowing festival ‘Lui-Ngai-Ni’ celebrated at Ukhrul, Manipur The Naga tribes of Manipur celebrated it’s seed sowing festival ‘Lui-Ngai-Ni’, under the theme “Oneness through Culture”, with much fanfare at Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL) ground in Ukhrul. Lui-Ngai-Ni is one of the biggest festivals of the Naga…
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Daily Current Affairs 17 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Uddhav Thackeray approves renaming of Latur Medical College after former CM Vilasrao Deshmukh Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has approved the renaming of the Latur Medical College as Vilasrao Deshmukh Institute of Medical Sciences. The late Vilasrao Deshmukh had served as the former CM of Maharashtra.…
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Daily Current Affairs 16 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Indian Railways SCR zone becomes 1st in India to have energy-neutral stations The Indian Railways South Central Railways (SCR) zone has become the first zonal railway in the country to have functional “energy neutral” railway stations on the network. The South Central Railways has converted a…
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Daily Current Affairs 15 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS Nirmala Sitharaman unveils Rs 102 lakh crore of infra projects for next 5 years Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled Rs 102 lakh crore of infrastructure projects that will be implemented in the next five years as part of the government’s spending push in the infrastructure sector.…
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Daily Current Affairs 14 February 2020 for Banking/Insurance/SSC and other related exams. NATIONAL NEWS National Workshop on Disaster Risk Financing, Insurance and Risk Transfer to be held in Mumbai A one-day National Workshop on Disaster Risk Financing, Insurance and Risk Transfer is being held in Mumbai . It was aimed to impart an understanding of disaster risk financing and creation…
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