Category: All Current Affairs

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 .

India, Maldives sign five MoUs for initiating Addu Tourism zone.

Addu Tourism zone

India and Maldives signed five MoUs for initiating the Addu Tourism zone in five islands of Addu atoll at a cost of 2.49 million dollars.

Matthew Satya Babu, Former Indian basketball team captain passes away.

P Matthew Satya Babu

An ace basketball player, Matthew Satya Babu passed away after prolonged illness. He led the country in the 6th Asian Games in Bangkok in 1970.

Flame-Throated Bulbul ‘Rubigula’ is decided as official mascot for Goa 2020 National Games.

Mascot

The official mascot for the Goa 2020 National Games in Panaji, Goa will be Flame-Throated Bulbul ‘Rubigula’. Goa will be hosting the 36th edition of the National Games from 20th October to 4th November 2020.

Bala Devi to become 1st Indian professional woman footballer

Ngangom Bala Devi

Indian women’s football star Ngangom Bala Devi has become the first Indian woman to earn a professional football contract abroad after signing for Scottish giant Rangers FC.

Joint military exercise of India-Bangladesh at Umroi from Feb 3

Indo-Bangladesh

A 14-day Indo-Bangladesh joint military training exercise, Sampriti-IX, will be conducted at Umroi, Ri-Bhoi, Meghalaya from 3rd of February. Command Post Exercise (CPX) and a Field Training Exercise (FTX) will be conducted during joint military exercise.

Telangana outstrips country in sustainable growth goals according to UN Development Programme

Telangana

Telangana has turned up as the best performing state in sustainable economic growth and decent work for all on Sustainable Development Goals India Index 2019, according to United Nations Development Programme.

Bengaluru has topped the list of worst traffic in the world.

Traffic

India has been on the top of TomTom Traffic Index 2019 with 4 cities in top 10 most congested cities globally. The cities of India are Bengaluru(1st), Mumbai(4th), Pune(5th), New Delhi(8th).

Calcutta Nights, a Bengali Novel

Calcutta Nights

Calcutta Nights, a Bengali Novel has been written by Rajat Chaudhuri, an Indian novelist and short story writer which is an English translation of Bengali fiction, ‘Raater Kolkata’ originally written by writer Hemendra Kumar Roy in 1923.