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Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Daily Current Affairs, 20th March 2019
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1) International Day Of Happiness: 20 March
•Since 2013, the United Nations has celebrated the International Day of Happiness as a way to recognize the importance of happiness in the lives of people around the world.
2) Gauri Sawant Becomes India’s 1st Transgender Election Ambassador
•According to the Election Commission, Gauri Sawant’s appointment would help in more people from this category getting registered during the final phase of voters enrollment. It stated that in the next few days, Gauri Sawant would visit every transgender and inspire them about the need for voting.
3) Kazakhstan President Resigns After Nearly 30 Years In Power
•The Chairman of the Kazakh Senate would take over. The announcement came less than a month after the President sacked his government, citing a lack of economic development despite the country’s vast energy resources.
4) GST Council Approves Transition Plan For New GST Rates
•Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey informed that for housing projects launched on or after the first of April 2019, the developers will have to adhere to the new GST rates recommended by the council.
5) Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck becomes 1st Woman To Win Abel Prize
•Modelled after the Nobel Prize, the Abel Prize is presented by the King of Norway and carries a $700,000 cash award. The award was awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.
6) Mobile App ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ Developed By IIPHG
•Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, (IIPHG) in collaboration with National Mental Health Program, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat has developed a mobile application called as ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ for students to reduce the exam pressure. This application creates awareness as well as help students to analyze their weak points and overcome from the exam pressure by providing assistance.
The HINDU Notes – 20th March 2019
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📰 HC stays M.P. govt.’s 27% OBC quota ordinance
Quota cap breached, said petition
•The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Tuesday, in an interim order, stayed the State government’s ordinance increasing reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) category to 27% from the earlier 14%.
•The Congress government in the State had issued an ordinance on March 8 increasing the reservation in the OBC category to 27%.
•A Division Bench of Justices R.S. Jha and Sanjay Dwivedi on Tuesday stayed the State government ordinance which increased the percentage of reservation for OBCs.
•Petitioners Ashita Dubey, Richa Pandey and Suman, all MBBS students who had appeared for NEET 2019 for admissions to postgraduate medical courses, had challenged the State government’s ordinance on grounds that it violated provisions of Article 16(4) of the Constitution, their counsel Aditya Sanghi said.
•The government’s quota move had led to reservation in the State reaching 63%, a breach of the 50% cap on reservation, the counsel said.
‘No quota above 14%’
•It is directed that the respondents shall not provide reservation of more than 14% for the OBC category in admission made to colleges on the strength of the ordinance which is a subject matter of this petition, the court said.
•The court has sought replies within two weeks from the State director for medical education and the principal secretary of the medical education department.
📰 Groups of Ministers on lynchings, harassment on hold
Bihar Samanya Gyan 2019 Book in Hindi Pdf
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बिहार सामान्य ज्ञान 2019 Pdf Book Contents:
- इतिहास के स्त्रोत (Sources of History)
- प्राक- ऐतिहासिक काल एवं प्राचीन काल (Pre-Historical Age and Ancient Period)
- मध्यकाल (Medieval Period)
- आधुिनक काल (Modern Period)
- स्वतंत्रता आंदोलन (Freedom Movement)
- पृथक बिहार आंदोलन (Bihar Separation Movement)
- वास्तु कला एवं चित्रकला (Architecture and Painting)
- लोक संस्कृति (Folk Culture)
- मेले एवं त्यौहार (Fairs and Festivals)
- साहित्य एवं साहित्यकार (Personalities of Bihar)
- शिक्षा, स्वास्थ्य एवं खेल -कूद (Education, Health and Sports)
- स्थिति एवं उचाव्च (Drainage System)
- अपवाह प्रणाली (Soil and Climate)
- वन एवं वन्य जीव-जंतु (Forest and Wild Life)
- कृषि (Agriculture)
- सिंचाई के उद्योग ion)
- खिनज एवं (Minerals and Industry)
- आधारभूत संरचना (Infrastructure)
- जनसँख्या एवं अधिवास (Population and Settlement)
- पर्यटन एवं पर्यटन स्थल (Tourism and Tourist Places)
- आपदा प्रबंधन (Disaster Management)
- राज वयवस्था (Political System)
- प्रशासनिक वयवस्था (Administrative System)
- न्यान्पलिका (Judiciary)
- स्थानीय स्वशासन (Local Government)
- प्रमुख आर्थिक संकेतक (Main Economic Indicators)
- गरीबी (Poverty)
- बेरोजगारी (Unemployment)
- केंद्र एवं राज्य प्रायोजित योजनाएँ (Central and State Sponsered Schemes)
- वृतीय प्रणाली (Financial System)
- नीतियाँ (Policies)
- आर्थिक सर्वेक्षण: 2016- 17 (Economic Survey: 2016-17)
- बजट:- 2017-18 (Budget: 2017-18)
- राज्य विभाजन का प्रभाव (Effect of State Partition)
- विशेष राज्य के दर्जे की मांग एवं विशेष पैकेज, 2015 (Demand of Special Status and Special Package)
- नक्सलवाद (Naxalism)
- बिहार में आर्थिक पिछड़ेपन एवं विकास की संभावनाएँ (Economic Backwardness of Bihar and Possibilities of Development)
- सुशासन एवं सात निश्चय (Good Governance and Seven Nishcaya)
- बिहार दिवस (Bihar Diwas)
- समसामयिकी (Current Affairs)
- संखिकी उप्र्स्थान (Statistical Presentation)
- प्रश्नावली सेट (Questionnaire Set)
- परिशष्ट (Appendix)
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Daily Current Affairs, 19th March 2019
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1) Pramod Sawant Sworn In As Goa Chief Minister
•He was given the oath of office and secrecy at Raj Bhavan by Goa Governor Mridula Sinha. The entire Cabinet of Manohar Parikkar has been retained.
2) Justice P.C. Ghose Named India’s First Lokpal
•His name was finalised and recommended by the Selection Committee comprising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan and eminent jurist Mukul Rohatgi.
3) ‘i-help’ Initiative Launched In Assam
•The ‘i-help’ initiative to promote digital electoral literacy in Assam has been launched in view of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. It is a joint initiative of the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer(CEO) and Common Service Centres (CSC) in Assam. CEO Mukesh Chandra Sahu launched the ‘i-help’ initiative.
4) India & Afghanistan Signed an MOU On Digital Education Initiatives
•The Ministry of Human Resource Development has signed a memorandum of understanding(MoU) with the Afghanistan government to work on digital education initiatives, which include many prominent programs developed by Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The MoU was signed at IIT-Madras. This collaboration hopes to contribute to bilateral relations and beget mutual benefits for the two countries.
5) Africa-India Field Training Exercise AFINDEX-19 Begins
•Contingents of the 17 African Nations came together for the opening ceremony along with a contingent of Maratha Light Infantry representing India. The aim of the exercise is to practice the participating nations in planning and conduct of Humanitarian Mine Assistance and Peace Keeping Operations.
6) Ola Signs MoU With Telangana To Implement Smart Traffic Solutions
•The first pilot project proposed to be implemented under the MoU is the dynamic mapping of riding quality of various major roads in Hyderabad through the network of vehicles operating on the Ola platform.
