Current Affairs - 2019-20

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The Part VI of constitution of India is applicable to all the states of India. Earlier it was not applicable to Jammu & Kashmir. After Jammu & Kashmir converted to Union Territory in 2019, the 6th part extends to all states of India.

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Difference in per cent expensses on printing cost and advertisement charges = (35 – 18)% = 17%
Now, 1% = 3.6%
∴ 17% = 3.6°17=61.2°

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The Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) mission is a collaborative a collaborative endeavour between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation launched the National Water Quality Sub Mission on Arsenic and Fluoride to provide safe drinking water to about 28,000 affected habitations in the country by March 2021. With this, Government will also fulfil its goal to provide tap water on a sustained basis in every household by 2030 as per the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal.

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Till now, only Highways, ports, inland waterways and railways were part of the planned multi-modal logistics hubs in India. But recently Aviation sector has been also included as the part of multi-modal logistics hubs in India. With this step the government will integrate all kinds of logistics hubs. It has been included as a part of India Integrated Transport and Logistic policy. The integrated policy would include construction of 50 Economic Corridors and upgrading key feeder and inter corridor routes to improve overall efficiency of freight movement. It also includes developing 35 multimodal logistics parks to serve as centres for freight aggregation and distribution, multimodal transportation, storage and warehousing and value added services.

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Recently, the Prime Minister’s Office, appointed the former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami as the head of a committee that will select 20 institutes of higher education in India that will be developed into “world-class” institutes. The committee will select 20 Institutions of Eminence from among 104 institutions. These Institutions of Eminence are proposed to have greater autonomy compared to other higher education institutions. Such institutions will have autonomy to decide their fee for domestic and foreign students and have a flexible course duration and structure.

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Bandar Laddu, a sweet dish from Andhra Pradesh, has been recently registered in the Geographical Indication Registry in food category. Gowra Venkateswara Rao of Mallayya Sweets has been credited in earning the GI tag for the “Bandar Laddu”. The origin of the sweet could be traced from the Rajputs of Rajasthan, who had migrated to Machilipatnam from Bundelkhand in Rajasthan after the 1857 Sepoy mutiny.

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First option is the correct answer
Recently, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launched the “Sachet” portal to curb illegal collection of money by companies. This website will enable public to obtain information regarding entities that accept deposits, lodge complaints and also share information regarding illegal acceptance of deposits.

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India’s first and the only Minority Cyber Gram village is Chandauli village in Rajasthan. It was recently praised by the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg during his visit to India. The village has 1300 households with average two persons per family (2600 persons) including non minorities in the village were selected for Digital Literacy. The project has been completed under the digital literacy programme.

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World’s first zero-emission, hydrogen passenger train has been started in Germany. It will start its commercial run December 2017.