Page-20 of Current Affairs - December, 2018
Dam Safety Bill 2018 introduced in Lok Sabha
The Dam Safety Bill, 2018 has been introduced in Lok Sabha in December, 2018. This bill aims to provide for the surveillance, inspection, operation, and maintenance of specified dams across the country. The Bill also provides for the institutional mechanism ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
Partners Forum 2018
Fourth edition of Partners’ Forum will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 12th December in New Delhi. The two day international conference will be hosted by government of India in association with Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and child ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
Indian Navy inducts first Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel
Indian Navy inducted its first Submarine Rescue System with Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel (DSRV) along with associated equipment at western naval dockyard in Mumbai, Maharashtra (west coast of India). It is first of the two non-tethered DSRVs ordered by Indian ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
IIP grows 8.1% in October 2018
According to data released by Central Statistics Office (CSO), factory output measured in terms of Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 8.1% in October 2018 as against 4.5% in September 2018. The growth was aided by favourable base effect and ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
ADB retains India’s growth forecast at 7.3% for FY19
Asian Development Bank (ADB) in its Outlook Supplement has retained India’s growth forecast at 7.3% for current fiscal (2018-19) and 7.6% in following financial year (2019-20). It held that India is maintaining growth momentum on rebounding exports and higher industrial ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
UK Is the Largest Western Foreign Investor in India: Report
The report ‘India’s Sterling Assets: Britain Meets India’ by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has noted that UK is the largest foreign western investor in India. UK investments in India: The total foreign direct investment (FDI) which flowed into India ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft find evidence of water on asteroid Bennu
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has found water locked inside asteroid Bennu. Bennu is too small to have ever hosted liquid water, but this finding does indicate that liquid water was present at some time ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2018
@CyberDost: Home Ministry launches Twitter account to spread awareness about cybercrimes
Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has launched Twitter account @CyberDost to spread awareness about cybercrimes and normal precautions to be taken. It is aimed at enhancing people’s basic knowledge about cybercrimes and precautions to be taken for prevention. @CyberDost ..