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RAJASTHAN More clusters to help promote MSME in Rajasthan The state industries department in Rajasthan is gearing up for more clusters to promote medium, small and micro enterprises (MSME) in the state. The state has not taken due advantage of the central government’s modified industrial infrastructure up-gradation scheme for cluster development. The … Read more 04.09.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Internet shutdowns cost state ₹659 crore in 3 years: Report Seventeen instances of internet shutdowns over 2015, 2016 and 2017, cost Rajasthan ~659.37 crore , shows an April 2018 report by think tank, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Mobile internet shutdowns alone added up to 594 hours in … Read more 02-03.09.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
INTERNATIONAL · NASA set to launch Ice, Cloud Land Elevation satellite to track earth’s melting ice The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (icesat-2)will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60,000 measurements every second. Icesat-2 which is scheduled to … Read more 01.09.18 West Bengal(WBPSC) Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Sushma Swaraj inaugurated ‘Jaipur Foot’ camp in Vietnam capital Hanoi External Affairs Minister Sushma Swarajwho is on a four day two nation tour of South East Asia which includes Vietnam and Cambodia, presented free India-made prosthetic limbs for 500 Vietnamese beneficiaries. Last month, it was announced in Jaipur that about 1,000 differently-abled people in Myanmar and Vietnam would be provided … Read more 01.09.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
INTERNATIONAL · Russia, China set to launch joint military exercises China will join Russia in a giant military exercise, sending a message of deterrence to the U.S. which has designated Beijing and Moscow as “revisionist powers”. The five-day Vostok 2018 exercises, to be held from September 11, will be bigger than … Read more 31.08.18 West Bengal(WBPSC) Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN Education dept announces 3,290 ‘Ujiyari Panchayats’ Education department announced 3,290 panchayats in the state as ‘Ujiyari Panchayats’. Government schools in such panchayats had zero dropout rate of students around 50 lakh students will be enrolled in secondary schools under the enrolment campaign in the state. Directions have been given to officers … Read more 31.08.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
INTERNATIONAL Global Finance names DBS world’s best bank DBS Bank has become the first Singaporean and Asian winner of Global Finance Magazine’s Best Bank in the World Award, unseating last year’s winner ING. This came after DBS was named Asia’s top bank in May, replacing 2017 winner ICBC, in the … Read more 30.08.18 West Bengal(WBPSC) Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN MOU signed, state to get Yamuna water in summer In order to meet future water requirements, Rajasthan, along with five other states, signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the construction of ~4,000 crore Lakhwar multipurpose project in the upper Yamuna basin. The MOU between Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and … Read more 30.08.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
RAJASTHAN World Bank to provide $250 million loan to state for improving power distribution The World Bank will provide a $250 million loan facility to Rajasthan for improving the performance of its electricity distribution sector. The Second Programmatic Electricity Distribution Reform Development Policy Loan for Rajasthan is the second in the series … Read more 29.08.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs
INTERNATIONAL · EU-India joined hands to develop new Influenza vaccine EU – India committed EUR 15 million each to fund for this cause through the “Horizon 2020” Indian government and the European Union (EU)partnered for Rs. 240 crore research programme to develop a Next Generation Influenza Vaccine to protect people throughout the … Read more 29.08.18 West Bengal(WBPSC) Current Affairs