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• Aug 20, 2021

•  Increase in Lifestyle Diseases in India: Causes, Prevention, and Solution [ Policies & Governance, Health ]

  Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) & other Institutes conduct studies on lifestyle disease. According to ICMR India State-Level Disease Burden Study report “India: Health of the Nation՚s States” , estimated proportion of all deaths due to Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) h…

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•  Cabinet Approvals with Foreign Countries [ International Relations & Organizations ]

  Union Cabinet approved following MOUs w/diff. countries on 23^rd May, 2018 B/W India & Angola, B/W India & France, India & Morocco, India & Singapore and India & Turkey. Cabinet Apprised of Mou B/W India & Angola for Promoting Bilateral Cooperation in Field of Electronics & Inform…

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•  Japan assures 26% greenhouse gas emissions cut by 2030 [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  Japan has assured to cut 26 percent of the world՚s sixth largest greenhouse gas emissions. For this, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe submitted its target to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) . Japan announced at the Climate Change Conference in…

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•  Pratyush, India’S Fastest Supercomputer Unveiled [ Science & Technology, Computers & ICT ]

  India՚s fastest and first multi-petaflops (PF) supercomputer named Pratyush was unveiled at Pune-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) . The supercomputer has been named as ‘Pratyush’ meaning Sun.

  How will Pratyush he…

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•  NITI Aayog- A Critical Appraisal - General Studies [ Policies & Governance ]

  The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) is a Government of India policy which was established by the Narendra Modi government to replace the Planning Commission with the aim of creating foster involvement and participation in the economic policy-making proces…

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•  Indra Nooyi placed at 2^nd position in 2015 Fortune’s business list [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  About Indira Nooyi: Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi was born on 28^th October 1955 in Madras, Tamil Nadu of India. She is business executive and the current Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo.

  • She joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was known as president and CFO in 20…

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•  🌟 Details of Earlier Finance Commissions- 15^th Finance Commission Approved by Cabinet (Important) [ Economics ]

  Union cabinet approves 15^th Finance Commission to decide the distribution of tax proceeds among the centre, states and local bodies. The Finance Commission is constituted by the President under article 280 of the Constitution, mainly to give its recommendations on distribution of…

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•  Year End Review 2018-19: Ministry of Mines [ Economics, Government Schemes/Projects ]

  Ministry of Mines is responsible for survey and exploration of all minerals, other than natural gases, petroleum and atomic minerals, for mining and metallurgy of non-ferrous metals like aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, gold, nickel, etc. and for administration of the Mines and Min…

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•  Post Bank of India: Financial Facilities Provided by Post-Office [ Economics ]

  Post Office in India is becoming high tech today. Post office is medium of sending letters & People can avail multiple financial services at Post Offices. Govt. has announced that post office will be converted to bank & it will be known as Post Bank of India. This article will go…

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•  Justice Permod Kohli Selected as Chairman of Central Administrative Tribunal [ Government Schemes/Projects ]

  Justice Permod Kohli served as chief Justice of Sikkim High court from 12^th December 2011 to March 2013. Currently, Justice Sunil Kumar Sinha of Chhattisgarh High court is served as Chief Justice of Sikkim High court from 30^th March 2015.

  About appointment as C…

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