General Awareness

NATIONAL AFFAIRS - December 2016

Dec 2016

Oct 21, 2018

Guide on Vaccines and Vaccinar

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has planned on releasing a special guide on vaccines and vaccinations, nationally in November.

Although a guide on vaccinations for doctors is necessary because most doctors only know of vaccines in their field of expertise.

The guide book has been planned to educate our doctors about how vaccines act as prevention and make them aware of varied range of vaccinations for all, right from paediatric to geriatric.

Oct 20, 2018

Maninder Singh Resigns as Additional Solicitor General

Senior advocate Maninder Singh resigned from his post of Additional Solicitor General.

Singh put down his papers hours after senior advocate and Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta was appointed Solicitor General of India.

Besides Singh, two other senior advocates and Additional Solicitor Generals P. S. Narasimha and Sandeep Sethi have resigned from their post in past three months.

Pune's First Cyber Crime Police Station

The city got its first cyber police station, which was inaugurated by police commissioner K. Venkatesham.

The process of launching a cyber police station was underway during the tenure of former police commissioner Rashmi Shukla.

Country's First-ever Park for Dogs

An exclusive and certified 'Dog Park', billed as the country's first and boasting of facilities including a walking track, off leash areas and a clinic was inaugurated at Kondapur.

A veterinarian and a trainer would be deployed at the park and vaccination would be administered to the pets free of cost.

It also has dog training and exercise equipment.

Oct 19, 2018

Railways to Use Robots

For the first time, Indian Railways will manufacture metro rail coaches manufactured by robots at its Rae Bareilly based factory under the Make In India scheme. The coaches will be on par with those being manufactured by Canadian firm Bombardier.

N. D. Tiwari Passes Away

Former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari passed away. He was 93.

He was born on 18th October 1925 and passed away on 18th October 2018.

He is the only politician to have served as chief minister of two states.

Tiwari was Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 1976-77, 1984-85, and then from 1988-89. and later became the chief minister of Uttarakhand when Congress came to power in the hill state carved out of Uttar Pradesh.

Oct 18, 2018

Diverting Money from CAMPA Funds Barred

The Supreme Court has barred State governments from diverting money from their Compensatory Afforestation and Management Planning Authority (CAMPA) funds meant for environmental protection, rehabilitation of displaced persons due to issues like depletion of forest, mining, etc.

The order came after realising that the Punjab government took Rs. 1.11 crore from CAMPA funds and to pay its lawyers and other legal expenses.

Demand to Rename Faizabad

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas (RJN) have demanded that Faizabad district should be merged with Ayodhya town area and renamed as Ayodhya.

Both the organizations said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should announce renaming of Faizabad as Ayodhya on 'Deepotsav' (on the eve of Diwali).

World's Highest Rail Line

The proposed Bilaspur-Manali-Leh rail line at 5,360 meters above the sea level will be the world's highest railway line. The 465-km line, to be built at a cost of Rs. 83,360 crore, will include India's first underground railway station in Keylong. The proposed alignment passes through the Shivaliks, Himalayas and the Zanskar Range and four mountain passess - Rohtang La, Barlacha La, Lachung La and Tangla La.

The project will include 74 tunnels, 124 major bridges and 396 minor bridges, according to the first phase of the survey done for the project.

Cops Decide to Enhance Coordination

Top police brass of eight northern states and some paramilitary forces proposed a slew of measures to enhance coordination among them to tackle crime in the region.

The novel proposals were made and discussed during a brainstorming session of the police brass of Punjab, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi and Chandigarh.

113 Year-old Steam Engine Back on Track

A 113-year-old steam engine is back on after three months on the Shimla-Kalka heritage railway track.

Steam engines are the main attraction for tourists, particularly foreigners in the state.

Oct 17, 2018

Korean War Memorial in Delhi

A Korean War memorial will be built in New Delhi to commemorate India's role in the war which ended in an armistice in 1953.

The proposal was initiated by the Indian Korean War Veterans Association.

There were 21 countries which participated in the Korean War from 1950-53 of which 16 countries had sent combat troops. India sent medical teams and a custodian force to deal with the Prisoners of War (PoW).

206 Blocks Declared Drought-affected

The Bihar government has declared 206 blocks in 23 districts of the state as drought-affected following reports of deficient rainfall and drying of crops.

A decision to this effect was taken after submission of reports by agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery, energy and water resource departments.

IIT Bombay Tops QS Rankings

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has emerged on top in the first-ever standalone prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings for Indian institutions of higher education.

The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) claims first place, earning the highest scores in India for both the academic and employer reputation indicators.

IIT Bombay managed to pip Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, for the top slot.

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