No trace of Chandrayaan-2 Vikram
NASA has found no evidence of Chandrayaan-2's Vikram lander in the latest images captured by its Moon orbiter of the lunar south pole region where India's ambitious mission attempted a historic soft landing.
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#Chandrayaan2 #NASA #Vikram #ISRO #mission

Brahmos test fired successfully
The Indian Air Force has carried out successful firing of BrahMos surface-to-surface missiles from a mobile platform at Trak Island in Andaman Nicobar islands.
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#Brahmos #IndianAirForce #DRDO #ITR #missile #IAF

First national repository of cyber tech
The National Cybersecurity Coordinator’s office in partnership with Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a not-for-profit, industry body on data protection set up by Nasscom, has opened India’s first national cybertech’s repository portal named TechSagar(www.techsagar.in).
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#DSCI #PPmodel #Cybersecurity #India #TechSagar #NCC

Startup India Vision 2024
The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has proposed significant cuts in the compliance time to just one hour per month for start-ups as part of measures to ease regulatory requirements for budding entrepreneurs, an official said.
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#StartupIndiaVision #DPIIT #StartupIndia #IndiaVision

First night trial of Agni II missile
India on 16 November 2019 conducted successfully the first night trial of ‘Agni-II’, its versatile surface-to-surface medium-range nuclear-capable missile from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast.
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#AgniIImissile #Firstnighttrial #ITR #DrAbdulKalam

Environmental DNA (eDNA)
In a first, researchers have shown that environmental DNA (eDNA) can be used to detect the presence of an endangered bird species by collecting and analysing small amounts of water from the pools where they drink -- an advance that may lead to better assessment of animal and bird populations in the wild.
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#EnvironmentalDNA #eDNA #DNA #water #birdpopulations


Exercise Naseem Bahr
India and Oman will conduct the 12th edition of bilateral maritime exercise ‘Naseem Al Bahr’ in the Arabian Sea next month, as both countries are aiming to further increase interoperability between the two navies and enhance maritime security.
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#ExerciseNaseemBahr #ExerciseNaseem #NaseemBahr #GCC

Justice Ranjan Gogoi retires
Justice Ranjan Gogoi on 17 November 2019 retired as the Chief Justice of India after serving for over 13 months in the post. He will be succeeded by Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde.
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#JusticeRanjanGogoi #ChiefJusticeofIndia #SharadArvindBobde

Gotabaya Rajapaksa wins
Sri Lanka’s controversial wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 17 November 2019 won the hotly contested presidential election,
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#GotabayaRajapaksa #SriLanka #UNP #terrorattacks

Code on IR Bill approved
The Centre approved the Code on Industrial Relations (IR) Bill, 2019 — considered to be the most contentious labour law amendments. The central government has withdrawn its proposal to give flexibility to big companies, in terms of manpower, to retrench or lay off workers and shut shop without seeking official consent, a government official said, requesting anonymity.
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#IR #Bill #UttarPradesh #IndustrialRelationsBill #DignityofLabour #amendment

Unified regulator for IFSC
The government will set up a unified regulator for International Financial Services Centres. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Union Cabinet. The International Financial Services Centres Authority Bill, 2019 will be introduced in the Lok Sabha after withdrawal from the Rajya Sabha.
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#Unified #IFSC #CCEA #Irdai #RajyaSabha #IFSCAB

National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa
The Union Cabinet approved setting up of the National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa in Leh as an autonomous organization. Sowa-Rigpa is a traditional Tibetan system of medicine practised in the Himalayan belt of India.
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#NationalInstitute #SowaRigpa #NISR #AYUSH #NarendraModi #UnionCabinet

TOT model for national highways
The government approved amendments proposed to the toll-operate-transfer (TOT) model for national highways. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has given its approval to the amendments proposed in the TOT model by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
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#TOT #CCEA #COD #NHAI #EPC #BOT #NirmalaSitharaman

Singapore to use ITR at Chandipur
The armed forces of Singapore, which already use Indian military facilities for training of their mechanized forces, artillery and F-16 fighter jets, will soon also begin to use the integrated test range (ITR) for firing of missiles at Chandipur in Odisha as well.
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#ITR #Chandipur #RajnathSingh #Singapore #SITMEX

India is seventh-most affected by terror
India is at seventh place in a global think tank’s list of countries most affected by terrorism. The annual report by the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace states that the country most affected by terrorism in 2018 was Afghanistan (7,379 killed), displacing Iraq (1,054 killed) as the deadliest country.
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#India #Iraq #Afghanistan #JeM #GTI #TerrorFactfile

Sri Lanka’s new prime minister
Sri Lanka’s former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa on 21 November 2019 took oath as the new prime minister of the island nation after incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe formally stepped down from his post.
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#SriLanka #MahindaRajapaksa #PGR #LTTE #illegal

International children's peace prize
The Hague: Swedish teen activist Greta Thunberg was awarded an international children's peace prize on 20 November 2019, for her work in the struggle against climate change which has resonated with schoolchildren across the world.
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#Internationalchildren #DivinaMaloum #PeacePrize #DKR

Citizenship Amendment Bill approved
The Union Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4 December 2019 cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, paving the way for its introduction in Parliament during the ongoing Winter session.
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#NarendraModi #CAB #Amendment #OCI #LokSabha #Article14

Data Protection Bill cleared
he long-awaited Data Protection Bill got a nod from the Union Cabinet on 4 December 2019, paving the way for it to be tabled in the Parliament in the ongoing Winter Session.
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#DataProtectionBill #PrakashJavadekar #UnionCabinet #DataProtection

ILP areas exempted from Citizenship Bill
Taking into consideration the concerns of Northeastern states, the inner line permit (ILP) areas of Arunachal, Nagaland and Mizoram and regions under the Sixth Schedule in the North East have been exempted from the Citizenship Amendment Bill, which was cleared by the Union Cabinet on 4 December 2019.
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#ILP #CitizenshipBill #CAB #Mizoram #Amendment

India's first open source geospatial data observatory
India Observatory, country's first socio, economic and ecological open-source integrated Geospatial data platform was launched at Hyderabad in GeoSmart India conference.
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#India #NGOs #FES #GIS #IFMT #MGNREGA #IndiaDataPlatform

Night trial of Prithvi-2 missile
India on 3 December 2019 successfully conducted another night trial of its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-2 missile as part of a user trial for the armed forces from a test range in Odisha coast.
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#Prithvi2 #missile #Odisha #ITR #IGMDP #NAMICA #DRDO

NPR approved
The Union Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has given the go-ahead to clear the budgetary allocation for conducting the decennial Census exercise along with updating the National Population Register (NPR).
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#NPR #PAN #NarendraModi #usualresident #married #NRC

Creation of the post of CDS approved
The Union Cabinet, which met on 24 December 2019, approved the creation of a Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and the charter of duties. The CDS who will be above the three Service Chiefs has been long pending demand as part of higher level military reforms for a single point military advisor to the Government.
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#CDS #CCS #COSC #IAF #PrakashJavadekar #RTIAct

Atal Bhujal Yojana
The Union Cabinet on 24 December 2019 approved the Atal Bhujal Yojana, a ₹6,000 crore scheme for sustainable management of ground water resources, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said.
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#AtalBhujalYojana #ATALJAL #PrakashJavadeka #ABY

India successfully test-fires QRSAM
India on 23 December 2019 successfully test-fired its Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM) system, likely to be inducted into the armed forces by 2021, from a base off Odisha coast.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/22403-india-successfully-test-fires-qrsam-2.html
#QRSAM #India #DRDO #ITR #missile #Odisha

Night trial of nuclear-capable Prithvi-2 missile
India on 16 October 2020 successfully conducted a night trial of the indigenously developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-2 missile as part of a user trial by the Army from a test range in Odisha.
Read More: https://www.ksgindia.com/study-material/news-for-aspirants/26602-night-trial-of-nuclear-capable-prithvi-2-missile.html
#nuclear #Prithvi2missile #ITR #UPSCOnlineClasses #OnlineClassses #IASOnlineclasses