Category: National Current Affairs

Insurance on bank deposits increased up to Rs 5 lakh

Budget

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech declared to increase the bank deposit insurance in scheduled commercial banks to Rs 5 lakh per depositor from the present Rs 1 lakh.

Union govt fixes aim of 30 km of highways a day in current fiscal

Highway

Union Government has fixes the aim for construction of highways about 30 kilometers per day in the current fiscal. Earlier it was 25.23 kilometres per day till December in 2019-20.

India bans exports of all sort of personal equipment for protection

mask

India has banned exports of all kinds of personal equipment for protection, including clothing and face masks used to save people from air borne particles.

723 Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras set up till Jan 2020: BJP Govt

Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras

Skill development and entrepreneurship Minister Dr Mahendra Nath Pandey stated that as on January this year, 723 Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Kendras (PMKK) have been set up in the country.

First special security team of India for RBI currency chests in Bihar

Reserve Bank Of India (RBI)

Bihar’s Home Guard wing of armed police force, in association with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), jointly constituted a Special Security Team with 440 specially trained Home Guard soldier in Bihar.

Union Budget presents 16-point action plan to uplift agriculture & farmers’ welfare

Farmer

Union Budget has presented a 16-point action plan to uplift agriculture and farmers welfare and doubling farmers’ income by it also plans to double farmers’ income by 2022. Finance Minister, the budget is aimed at increasing the income of people and enhancing their purchasing power.

President Kovind will start off 34th Surajkund Mela

Surajkund Mela

President Ram Nath Kovind will visit and inaugrate the 34th Surajkund International Crafts Mela at Faridabad, Haryana. This year the partner country will be Uzbekistan and Himachal Pradesh is the theme-state.

Union HRD Minister supervised the Indian National Commission meeting For Cooperation with UNESCO in New Delhi

Indian National Commission meeting

Union Human Resource Development(HRD) Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ supervised the Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) meeting which was held in New Delhi .

First Train with Banana Container sent to JNPT for Exports.

First Train with Banana Container

State Government of Andhra Pradesh has dispatched the first train with high quality bananas from Tadipatri, Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh to Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) in Mumbai for export to international markets.

AIDC will be implemented by Indian Railways.

Automatic Identification and Data Collection

The Railway of India has gone under Radio-frequency identification (RFID) project for Automatic Identification and Data Collection(AIDC) of rolling stock for improving the safety and reliability.