Call Support +91-85588-96644

Exam Categories

International Tests

View More

Defence & Para Military

Assessment-I

View More

Assessment-II

View More

Placement & IT Sector

Assessment-III

View More

Aptitude/GK/Vocational Skill Tests

View More
TCYonline

Login

Sign Up

Please enter a Username or Email ID
Please enter a password
Keep me logged in
Forgot Password?
Please enter your name
Please enter your mobile number
You can't leave Captcha Code empty
By submitting this form, you agree to the Terms & Privacy Policy.
Already Registered? Login Here
OR

Sign Up via Facebook

Sign Up via Google

Sign Up via Twitter

Download Software
Tests given

Download TCY App

App Image
Subscribe to Unlock Test Prep Material close
Choose Exam Category

Unlock All Services and Enjoy The Premium Benefits

1 Month Plan

US$ 10

Subscribe Now

Valid For 1 Month

2 Month Plan

US$ 13

Subscribe Now

Valid For 2 Months

3 Month Plan

US$ 15

Subscribe Now

Valid For 3 Months

4 Month Plan

US$ 17

Subscribe Now

Valid For 4 Months

5 Month Plan

US$ 19

Subscribe Now

Valid For 5 Months

6 Month Plan

US$ 20

Subscribe Now

Valid For 6 Months

7 Month Plan

US$ 21

Subscribe Now

Valid For 7 Months

8 Month Plan

US$ 22

Subscribe Now

Valid For 8 Months

9 Month Plan

US$ 23

Subscribe Now

Valid For 9 Months

10 Month Plan

US$ 24

Subscribe Now

Valid For 10 Months

11 Month Plan

US$ 25

Subscribe Now

Valid For 11 Months

12 Month Plan

US$ 26

Subscribe Now

Valid For 12 Months

  • Payment made in INR entitles you to use Test in INDIA only
  • Each test can be attempted only once
 
loading

General Awareness

googleplus facebook

NATIONAL AFFAIRS - September 2015

Sep 2015

Dec 28, 2019

Cabinet Defers Decision on Capital, Panel to Take a Call

  • The Andhra Pradesh government tread cautiously on the proposed 'three capitals' by resolving in the Cabinet meeting to constitute a high-power committee to examine both the recommendations of a team of experts led by retired IAS officer G.N. Rao and the findings of Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which is expected to submit its report in the first week of January 2020, and pick the best of them. The members of the high-power committee have not been announced yet.
  • The government did not make the much-anticipated declaration of Amaravati, Visakhapatnam and Kurnool as Legislative, Executive and Judicial capital cities.
  • The move was vehemently opposed by farmers who had parted with about 33,000 acres under the pooling scheme, and the Opposition parties, mainly the Telugu Desam Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which insisted that decentralisation of development (not administration) was the need of the hour.

Chandrababu Naidu and TDP Leaders Involved in Insider Trading

  • The Cabinet sub-committee, which probed the alleged irregularities and insider trading in the capital Amaravati, submitted its report to the State government, which will take legal opinion before referring it to the law enforcing agencies.
  • According to the report, persons privy to the likely location of capital allegedly purchased lands in the capital city/capital region area just prior to the formal official declaration.
  • The committee pointed out that irregularities took place with regard to the boundary of the capital area to benefit certain connected people, holding lands on the fringes.

Kerala to Give Nambi Narayanan Rs. 1.3crore

  • The state government of Kerala has in principle decided to give Rs. 1.3 crore as compensation to former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan, who was falsely implicated in the 1994 espionage case. The amount is for settling the case filed by Naryananan against the government in a sub-court, seeking enhanced damages for his illegal arrest.

SC Judge to Head Oversight Panel

  • The government's proposed All India Judicial Services (AIJS), aimed at inducting the best talent from National Law School as judges for the subordinate judiciary, will include an oversight committee, headed by a sitting Supreme Court judge, for the overall supervision of recruitment and posting of selected candidates.
  • The thinking within the ministry is that this should address concerns raised by states and high courts (HC) that have opposed AIJS on the ground that it dilutes their constitutional authority to hire for state judiciary.
  • The law ministry, in June, wrote to all states seeking their view on AIJS, setting the ball rolling for a central exam for the lower judiciary. The government proposes to create the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)-like judicial service and wants to engage the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC) as the agency to conduct the exam.
  • However, the oversight committee, which is likely to also comprise central government representatives, will finalise the syllabus, set the paper and fix the weightage of the test and interview.

Dec 27, 2019

Foundation Laid For Country's First Transit-Oriented Development Project

  • Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 26 laid the foundation stone for the country's first transit-oriented development (TOD) project under which a state-of-the-art infrastructure zone, including the national capital's tallest tower, will be built in east Delhi. The project -- 'East Delhi Hub' at Karkardooma -- spread over 30 hectares, will come up in the next three-and-a-half years.
  • The hub will be developed around the existing two Delhi Metro stations at Karkardooma-- on the Blue and Pink Lines, and will include a massive open landscaped green area, besides a 48-storey signature tower that will come up in the first phase of the project.
  • The vision of development that Modiji has for Delhi is being implemented by the Ministry of Housing an Urban Affairs, and this project will be the country's first TOD project. Delhi will prosper after this.

VP Venkaiah Naidu To Inaugurate Lpg Bottling Plant In Odisha on Dec 27

  • A new LPG bottling plant set up for Rs 103 crore by Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in Odisha's Balangir district will be inaugurated by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on December 27.
  • The plant with a capacity to produce 42 lakh cylinders per year is scheduled to be dedicated to the nation by the vice president at Barkani in Balangir district, Sanjay Sharma, BPCLs State Head, LPG - Odisha and Jharkhand. 
  • BPCL already has an LPG bottling plant at Khurda and the new plant at Balangir will be the second for the company in Odisha.

Nation Pays Homage To Shaheed Udham Singh On His 120th Birth Anniversary

  • Nation pays homage to the great revolutionary, Shaheed Udham Singh on his 120th birth anniversary.
  • He was born on this day in 1899 in Sangrur district of Punjab.
  • Udham Singh was present in the Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar on the fateful Baisakhi Day of 13 April 1919. He avenged the massacre by killing General O'Dwyer in March 1940, and was hanged by the British in London.

Dec 26, 2019

Uddhav Assures Full Loan Waiver

  • Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray assured a complete farm loan waiver in the state.
  • Thackeray's statement came a day after the Shiv Sena- led government formally approved a loan waiver scheme under which short-term crop loan up to Rs. 2 lakh taken by farmers between April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2019, will be written off.
  • Under the scheme, short-term restructured crop loan arrears up to September 30, 2019, will also be waived.
  • They waived loans worth Rs. 2 lakh (per farmer) as immediate relief to cultivators. But they will also make sure that their entire (crop) loan is waived.

No-trust Motion against Srinagar Mayor

  • A group of independent corporators supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) moved a no-confidence motion against Srinagar Municipal Corporation mayor Junaid Azim Mattu.
  • Last week, BJP leaders were weighing options to remove Mattu and his deputy Sheikh Imran. The Congress and the People's Conference, the largest parties in the corporation, had termed the claim "day dreaming". The no-confidence motion against Mattu was moved by independent corporators from Ikrajpora, Ghulam Nabi Bhat, and seconded by three city corporators. The corporators have handed a letter of no-confidence in Mattu to the SMC secretary for initiating the process.

JJP Leader Resigns from Party Post

  • The Jannayak Janta Party, the alliance partner of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Haryana, the party's national vice-president and Narnaund MLA Ram Kumar Gautam announced his resignation from the post, accusing Dushyant Chautala, the Deputy Chief Minister, of holding eleven portfolios by himself and not thinking about the party MLAs.
  • Holding a press meet, Mr. Chautala was holding eleven portfolios and enjoying the "feast" all by himself without thinking about his nine other MLAs. He added that Mr. Chautala was made Deputy Chief Minister because of his MLAs, but now they were left grumbling and running around to get their works done.

Dec 25, 2019

Rohtang Pass Strategic Tunnel Named after Late PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  • On 25th December, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, PM Narendra Modi launched the Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL) and named the Strategic Tunnel under Rohtang Pass after Vajpayee, at an event held in New Delhi.
  • The decision to construct a strategic tunnel below the Rohtang Pass was taken by former PM Vajpayee.
  • Prime Minister Modi said that the Rohtang Tunnel, connecting Manali, Himachal Pradesh with Leh, Ladakh and Jammu Kashmir, will now be known as the Atal Tunnel.

Railway Board Rejig, Services Merger Part of Overhaul Plan

  • The Union Cabinet approved an organisational restructuring of the Indian Railways, unifying eight services into one and making the Railway Board leaner in an attempt to overhaul and rightsize the 150-year-old state transport mammoth that operates 22,000 trains every day.
  • The national transporter was due for rationalisation, with the government setting up several committees to chart a road map.
  • The Cabinet cleared the proposal for a single cadre, named the Indian Railway Management Service, that will replace the current eight Group A services. It will be created in consultation with the Department of Personnel and Training and the Union Public Service Commission to facilitate hiring in the next recruitment year.

Govt. Okays First among Equals in Armed Forces

  • The government cleared the appointment of India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) who will be a four-star officer and head the department of military powers in the defence ministry, Union minister Prakash Javadekar announced at a cabinet briefing. The development, perhaps the most significant reform in top military management in India, comes four months after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in his Independence Day speech the creation of the post for more effective coordination between the three armed forces.
  • The appointment of the CDS — pending for almost two decades after the Kargil Review Committee recommended it — is a major reform in India's higher defence management. The CDS will have the same salary and perquisites as the three service chiefs (who are also four-star officers).
  • The government is yet to announce who will be the country's first CDS, but army chief General Bipin Rawat is widely believed to be the front-runner for the post. His term as army chief ends on December 31 and the government is likely to name the CDS before that.

National Population Register

  • The Union Cabinet approved the updation of the National Population Register (NPR), announcing an expenditure of Rs. 3,941.35 crore for the NPR. The aim of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every resident of India.
  • Union Minister Prakash Javadekar asserted that the NPR will be a self-declaration, and no document or bio-metric will be required for it. The NPR was prepared in 2010 under the provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and Citizenship Rules, 2003, which was subsequently updated in 2015 by seeding it with Aadhaar. The NPR will be updated, except in Assam, along with House listing and Housing Census from April to September 2020.

Panel for 2-tier Slab to Boost GST Revenue

  • A committee of officers set up to suggest ways to boost Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue has proposed a two-slab structure of 10% and 20%, besides a higher rate on luxury and sin goods; imposition of cess on items such as cosmetics, gambling and recreational services; and withdrawal of exemptions on public school education, high-end healthcare facilities and air-conditioned public transport. The changes were suggested in a presentation made to the GST Council last week.
  • The proposed rates of 10% and 20% will subsume the existing three rates of 5%, 12% and 18%. The presentation is silent on the rate at which luxury and sin goods are to be taxed, the people added, indicating that this could be different from the current 28%.

National Population Register

  • The Union Cabinet approved the updation of the National Population Register (NPR), announcing an expenditure of Rs. 3,941.35 crore for the NPR. The aim of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every resident of India.
  • Union Minister Prakash Javadekar asserted that the NPR will be a self-declaration, and no document or bio-metric will be required for it. The NPR was prepared in 2010 under the provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955 and Citizenship Rules, 2003, which was subsequently updated in 2015 by seeding it with Aadhaar. The NPR will be updated, except in Assam, along with House listing and Housing Census from April to September 2020.

Shah Wants Party Offices in All Regularised Areas

  • Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah told party leaders and MPs in Delhi to set up offices in each of the 1,731 unauthorised colonies in the city, as the party steps up efforts to take credit for regularising these residential areas in the run up to assembly elections in Delhi.
  • A BJP leader in the party's Delhi unit said that Shah issued the directions to the Delhi state general secretary Siddharthan, and asked that each of the 1,731 offices start functioning within the next two days.

Dec 24, 2019

Cabinet Likely to Consider Funding Update of NPR

  • The Union Cabinet is likely to consider a proposal to allocate funds for updating the National Population Register (NPR), an exercise which is to commence from April 2020.
  • The proposal is a part of the agenda of the cabinet meeting.
  • The NPR is a list of "usual residents" of the country. A "usual resident" is defined, for the purposes of NPR, as a person who has resided in a local area for the past six months or more or a person who intends to reside in that area for the next six months or more.
  • The data for NPR was collected in 2010 along with the house-listing phase of Census of India 2011.
  • The update of this data was done during 2015 by conducting door-to-door survey. The digitisation of the updated information has been completed. It has been decided to update the NPR along with the house-listing phase of Census 2021 during April to September 2020 in all the states/UTs except Assam, according to the website of the Office of the registrar general, and census commissioner.
  • The objective of the NPR is to create a comprehensive identity database of every usual resident in the country.

Surge in Tribal Support Key to Victory for JMM-led Alliance

  • The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 25 assembly constituencies (ACs) in Jharkhand, 12 less than what it won in the 2014 assembly elections, which it contested in an alliance with the All Jharkhand Students' Union Party (AJSU). The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led alliance, which also includes the Congress and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), won 47 ACs, 22 more than what these parties won in 2014.
  • An analysis by regions shows that the biggest reason for the BJP's political reversal is a surge in support for the JMM alliance in Scheduled Tribe (ST) dominated regions of the state.

Hemant Set for Second Term

  • Hemant Soren, who led the charge from the front in the JMM-Congress-Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) alliance, is set to become the state's Chief Minister for the second time. He addressed 182 rallies, public meetings and road shows in a span of 40 days, adding firepower to the Opposition's campaign in polling spread over five phases and about three weeks.
  • He competed with the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) star campaigners, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The PM campaigned in both the seats Soren contested, Dumka and Barhait; the JMM leader won both.

Urban India Declared ODF, Except Bengal Local Bodies

  • According to the Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, the Swachh Bharat Mission (U) achieved its target of making urban India open defection-free, except 52 urban local bodies of West Bengal.
  • Out of a total of 4,372 cities, 4,320 have declared themselves ODF, of which 4,167 cities have been certified through third party verification.
Share on
Keep Yourself updated on Latest PTE Exam Pattern

Avail Free Topic-wise Tests and various other offers.

Later Allow