Category: All Current Affairs

PM Modi visits 3 cities to analyze coronavirus vaccine development

November 30, 2020

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has boarded on a three-city visit on 28 November 2020, to personally review the COVID-19 vaccine development and manufacturing process at facilities in these cities.

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: November 29

November 29, 2020

• The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is an UN-organized day held annually on November 29.
• It is commemorated to mark the anniversary of resolution 181, wherein the Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine on November 29, 1947.

Virat Kohli to be the fastest to reach 22,000 international runs

November 29, 2020

• Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli scripted one more record in the game. He broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record and became the quickest batsman to achieve 22,000 runs. He reached the milestone in his 462nd innings.

YES Bank starts ‘SMS Pay’ on POS Terminals

November 29, 2020

• Private lender Yes Bank has started an ‘SMS Pay’ functionality on POS terminals, which would let merchants accept contactless and remote payments from their customers.
• Yes Bank has tied-up with French payment services company Worldline to launch the new facility.

UBS predicts India’s GDP at -10.5% for FY21

November 29, 2020

• The UBS has projected India’s real GDP to decline 10.5% in FY21, in its Global Economics & Markets Outlook 2021-2022 report.
• For the fiscal 2021-22 (FY22) UBS assumes India’s real GDP growth to rebound to +10%  in FY22. UBS also estimates India’s GDP to stabilize at 6.2 percent YoY in FY23.

Narendra Singh Tomar starts Honey FPO Programme in 5 states

November 29, 2020

• The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar virtually initiated Honey Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) Programme in five states, for producing honey.
• These 5 FPOs will be set up by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED). They will be set up at East Champaran (Bihar), Morena (Madhya Pradesh), Bharatpur (Rajasthan), Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) and Sunderbans (West Bengal).

PM Modi leads 33rd PRAGATI Meet

November 29, 2020

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led the 33rd PRAGATI meeting to review multiple projects, grievances and programmes.
• PRAGATI stands for “Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation”.
• These projects were associated to the Ministry of Railways, MORTH, DPIIT and Power Ministry.

Bengaluru’s Bowring Medical College titled after Atal Bihari Vajpayee

November 28, 2020

• The Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College and Research Institute in Bengaluru have been identified after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• The institute was established up in 2018-19 on the campus of Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Shivajinagar in the heart of Bengaluru.

L&T bags Rs 7,000-cr order to construct part of Bullet Train project

November 28, 2020

• Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged an order worth over Rs 7,000 crore to make a part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR), also recognized as the Bullet Train Project.

SpiceJet starts dedicated freighter services to Leh in Ladakh

November 28, 2020

• SpiceJet has started dedicated freighter services connecting Leh with the rest of the country.
• This is the first time a civil airliner has commenced freighter services to Leh.