Category: National Current Affairs

Qutub Minar is illuminated in Poland’s national flag

Qutub Minar
  • To mark the Solidarity movement, Qutub Minar is illuminated in Poland’s national flag colours, white and red by the Embassy of Poland and Polish Institute in Delhi.

First RORO Train flagged off from Bengaluru to Solapur

First RORO Train
  • The first ever Roll-On/Roll-Off (RO-RO) train between Bengaluru (Nelamangala) to Solapur (Maharashtra) flagged off by the Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa. It will cover a distance of 682 km.

Water Projects Sanctioned for Bundelkhand Region

PM Modi
  • To improve the water availability in the drought-prone Bundelkhand region, around 500 projects worth over Rs 10,000 crore have been sanctioned by the government.

Indian Railways develop medical trolley named ‘MEDBOT’

MEDBOT
  • To help deliver food and medicines to COVID-19 patients, Indian Railways has developed a remote-controlled medical trolley named ‘MEDBOT’.

The month of September to observed as ‘Nutrition Month’

Nutrition Month
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that from now on September will be observed as ‘Nutrition Month’ during his monthly ‘Mann in Baat’ radio programme.

Nitin Gadkari inaugurated National highway projects in Maharashtra

nitin gadkari
  • Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone and inaugurated National highway projects worth Rs. 777 Cr.  in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.

Restrictions imposed on International commercial flight operations remain suspended till 30th September

GoAir
  • As per the latest order by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA, the international scheduled commercial flight operations will remain suspended till September 30, 2020.

Indian Railways Set to Meet All its Energy Need of Over 33 Billion Units by 2030

Indian Railways
  • Indian Railways is set to meet its energy consumption which will be over 33 billion units by 2030. Indian Railways has developed a mega plan to install solar power plants of capacity 20 Gigawatt(GW) by utilising vacant lands by 2030.

Start-up contest “CHUNAUTI”

CHUNAUTI
  • Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad recently launched a Startup Challenge Contest “Chunauti” to promote startups indulged in software products. A total budget of Rs 95.03 Crore over a period of three years has been earmarked for this programme.

NDC-TIA launched by NITI Aayog to transport, energy, and climate stakeholders

NITI Aayog
  • NITI Aayog virtually launched the India Component of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)–Transport Initiative for Asia (TIA) to focus on electric mobility, which would require coupling of transport and energy sectors.