New Delhi Current Affairs

July 18, 2020

A first-of-its-kind footwear training center for the marginalized community was inaugurated here by the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC).
It will provide a comprehensive two-month training program to leather artisans for making high-quality footwear.
The center has been established with the help of the Central Footwear Training Institute (CFTI), Agra, a unit of the MSME ministry.
The training center will also provide logistics support to the artisans in starting their own shoe-making business once their two-month training is completed.
The artisans will also be provided a tool kit worth Rs 5,000 for carrying out their activities in the future.
The Khadi and Village Industries Commission is also setting up a similar footwear training center in Varanasi.

July 8, 2020

The Delhi government will develop a ‘COVID-19 War Room’, which will 24×7 monitor the city’s fight against the novel COVID-19, and recommend measures to effectively deal with the prevailing situation.

July 5, 2020

Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal started the 10,000-bed Sardar Patel COVID care centre, the “largest” of its type in the world, at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas here on 5th July.

July 1, 2020

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was inked on Waste to Energy plant at Okhla, Delhi, between Indian Oil, NTPC Ltd and South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC).
The plant has the potential to process 17500 tons of Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) per annum from municipal solid garbage to generate Syngas which is used to produce electricity.

June 29, 2020

Delhi government on 29th June planned for introducing up of a plasma bank for the treatment of COVID-19 sufferers. Delhi was one of the first states to have provided a go-ahead for plasma therapy in April.

June 19, 2020

France and India on 18th June inked an agreement with Paris committing 200 million euros to aid Delhi’s COVID-19 response.
Through this loan, France will work with India to uplift the state and central governments’ capacities to promote the country’s most vulnerable people in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

June 15, 2020

The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) is a methodology defined by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, to rank Indian institutes of higher education in the nation. The NIRF Pharmacy Colleges Ranking 2020 has been declared by the HRD Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal on June 11, 2020. Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi has topped the list with 80.5 score out of 100.

May 31, 2020

Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan committed to the nation, 56 CNG stations scattered over 11 States and Union Territories. These stations are in Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh.

May 16, 2020

Delhi Police has released an equipment “Thermal Corona Combat Headgear” in collaboration with Indian Robotics Solution (IRS). This equipment has been released to guard the frontline corona warriors from the COVID-19.

April 28, 2020

National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. has launched Hydrogen fuel based cars and buses in Leh and New Delhi that will prove very beneficial in reducing carbon emissions into the environment.
This project got implemented under the Supervision and guidance of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

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