PM at EEF
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his Plenary Session at the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), said India will give a line of credit worth USD 1 billion for the development of the Far East.
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#PM #EEF #NarendraModi #ActEast #FEFU #Gandhi #Russia

IoE status to 5 public institutions
The HRD Ministry on 5 September 2019, awarded Institution of Eminence (IoE) status to five public institutions including Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University, University of Hyderabad, IIT-Madras and IIT-Kharagpur.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21401-ioe-status-to-5-public-institutions
#IoE #IITMadras #budget #Hyderabad #InstitutionsofEminence

Mysterious colourful lights spotted
NASA’s NuSTAR space observatory has captured extremely bright sources of X-ray light that appeared as bright blue and green spots. However, these colourful blobs disappeared days later.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21400-mysterious-colourful-lights-spotted
#Mysterious #NuSTAR #NASA #ULX #LEOStar #brightblue #greenspots

India's Position in gold reserves
India has pipped the Netherlands to move into the list of top ten countries in terms of total gold reserves.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21399-india-s-position-in-gold-reserves
#India #Netherlands #WorldGoldCouncil #IMF #GoldPrices

Peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan
India and Russia supported all efforts for an inclusive peace and reconciliation in war-torn Afghanistan. Addressing a joint press meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “India wants to see a Afghanistan which is safe, stable, peaceful, independent, undivided and democratic.”
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21398-peace-and-reconciliation-in-afghanistan
#Afghanistan #NarendraModi #JCPOA #VladimirPutin #Russia

Global Liveability Ranking 2019
One of Pakistan’s cities — Karachi — has been ranked among one of the least liveable cities on the earth. On the other hand, national capital Delhi does not even feature in the top 100 cities to live in, according to a recent report by the Economist Intelligence Unit titled Global Liveability Ranking 2019.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21397-global-liveability-ranking-2019
#Karachi #GlobalLiveability #Ranking2019 #Pakistan #EIU

Black hole is ‘physically impossible’
Space scientists are analysing the signals provided by Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo interferometer that provide details of a big black hole which is so huge that until now has been thought to be physically impossible.
Read More: http://www.ksgindia.com/index.php/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21396-black-hole-is-physically-impossible
#Blackhole #LIGO #physicallyimpossible #Virgo

Ayodhya verdict
Nine years after the Allahabad High Court ruling, the Supreme Court on 9 November 2019 ruled that the Hindus would get the entire disputed 2.77 acres in Ayodhya. This is the land on which the now demolished Babri Masjid once stood.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21944-ayodhya-verdict.html
#Ayodhyaverdict #CJI #RanjanGogoi #VHP #NirmohiAkhara

Kartarpur corridor inaugurated
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 9 November 2019 inaugurated the Kartarpur corridor, flagging off the first batch of over 500 Indian pilgrims, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21943-kartarpur-corridor-inaugurated.html
#Kartarpur #Khanda #NarendraModi #GurdwaraDarbarSahib

India to host Men's Hockey World Cup
India will host the Men’s Hockey World Cup for the second consecutive time after the country was picked to host the game’s showpiece event in 2023 by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in Lausanne.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21942-india-to-host-men-s-hockey-world-cup.html
#India #MHWC #HockeyWorldCup #FIH #Bhubaneswar

Mauritius elects incumbent PM
Mauritius' ruling Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) has won more than half of parliamentary seats, securing incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth a five-year term, interim election results showed.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21941-mauritius-elects-incumbent-pm.html
#Mauritius #PM #MMM #MSM #OPR #PravindKumarJugnauth

SC opens office of CJI to RTI
The Office of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) is a public authority under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and is liable to provide information sought in public interest, a five-judge Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi declared on 13 November 2019.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21980-sc-opens-office-of-cji-to-rti.html
#SC #CJI #SanjeevKhanna #RanjanGogoi #RTI #DeepakGupta

SC scraps Finance Act rules on tribunals
The Supreme Court on 13 November 2019 struck down provisions of the amended Finance Act 2017, which had changed the structure and powers of various judicial tribunals, such as the National Green Tribunal and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21979-sc-scraps-finance-act-rules-on-tribunals.html
#SC #NGO #SAFE #ITAT #TDSAT #MoneyBill #NGT

Tiger Triumph
The first ever joint exercise involving the Army, Navy and Air Force of both India and the United States and commanded by each other, the tri-services joint exercise between the two countries, announced by US President Donald Trump during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s event in Texas in September, started in Visakhapatnam on 13 November 2019.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21978-tiger-triumph.html
#TigerTriumph #Navy #Army #NarendraModi #HADR #RAMT

11th summit of Brics
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Brazil for the 11th Brics Summit which has the theme 'Economic Growth for an Innovative Future'.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21977-11th-summit-of-brics.html
#Brics #NarendraModi #GDP #VladimirPutin #MEA

Mauritius PM takes oath
Mauritius's incumbent Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth was sworn in for a five-year term on 12 November 2019 after elections in which his coalition consolidated its grip on parliament.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21976-mauritius-pm-takes-oath.html
#Mauritius #PM #PravindJugnauth #Alliance #RenganadenPadayach

Ancient life in Jezero crater
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover will hunt for microscopic fossils, which could provide signs of ancient life on the red planet. The 2020 rover is yet to be named, and is expected to land on the planet by February 18, 2021.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/21975-ancient-life-in-jezero-crater.html
#Ancient #Jezero #NASA #Mars2020 #JPL #microscopic

More flexibility on PM-Aasha plan
The Centre has asked the state governments to decide on the timing to start procurement of rabi-grown pulses and oilseeds under the PM-Aasha scheme after the lockdown
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/23364-more-flexibility-on-pm-aasha-plan.html
#aasha #pm #nafed #fy19

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Today's Headlines - 17 August 2023
'PM-eBus Sewa' approved
GS Paper - 2 (Infrastructure)

The Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister approved the Rs 57,613 crore PM-eBus Sewa initiatives to augment the use of electric buses in 169 cities. The scheme will augment city bus operations, under which priority will be given to cities having no organised bus service.

More about the Initiatives

These include all the capital cities of Union Territories (UTs), north eastern and hill states. The e-buses will be provided under the public-private partnership (PPP) mode for 10 years.
The scheme will cover cities of 3 lakh and above population and priority will be given to cities not having organised bus services.
Ten thousand e-buses will be deployed on public-private partnership (PPP) model in 169 cities.
Infrastructure will be upgraded in 181 cities under the Green Urban Mobility Initiatives.
The Scheme has two segments

Segment A – Augmenting the City bus services (169 cities)

The approved bus scheme will augment city bus operations with 10,000 e-buses on Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
Associated Infrastructure will provide support for Development/ up-gradation of depot infrastructure; and Creation of behind-the-meter power infrastructure (substation, etc.) for e-buses.
Segment B– Green Urban Mobility Initiatives (GUMI): (181 cities)

The scheme envisages green initiatives like bus priority, infrastructure, multimodal interchange facilities, NCMC-based Automated Fare Collection Systems, Charging infrastructure, etc.
Support for Operation: Under the scheme, States/Cities shall be responsible for running the bus services and making payments to the bus operators.
The Central Government will support these bus operations by providing subsidies to the extent specified in the proposed scheme.
Boost to E-Mobility:

The scheme will promote e-mobility and provide full support for behind-the-meter power infrastructure.
Cities will also be supported for development of charging infrastructure under Green Urban Mobility Initiatives.
The support to bus priority infrastructure shall not only accelerate the proliferation of state-of-the-art, energy efficient electric buses but also foster the innovation in the e-mobility sector as well as development of resilient supply chain for electric vehicles.
This scheme shall also bring in economies of scale for procurement of electric buses through aggregation for e-buses.
Adoption to Electric mobility will reduce noise and air pollution and curb carbon emission.
Modal shift due to increased share of bus-based public transportation will lead to GHG reduction.

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