Indian Railways will start a special train, ‘Shri Ramayana Express’.
It will cover important destinations related to the epic in a 16-day journey.
It will be flagged off on November 14 from Delhi.
Train will cover Ayodhya, Hanuman Garhi Ramkot, Nandigram, Sitamarhi, Janakpur, Varanasi, Prayag, Shringverpur, Chitrakoot, Nasik, Hampi and Rameswaram.
Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) unveiled ‘The Eat Right Movement’, built on two broad pillars of ‘Eat Healthy’ & ‘Eat Safe’.
Programme aims to engage & enable citizens to improve their health & well-being by making right food choices.
Actor Rajkummar Rao launches the web portal in Mumbai.
FSSAI CEO: Pawan Agarwal
Headquarters: New Delhi
RS members can speak in any of the 22 scheduled languages from monsoon session.
Secretariat arranging interpretation for 5 more languages: Dogri, Kashmiri, Konkani, Santhali & Sindhi.
Of the 22 scheduled languages, RS has earlier established Interpretation Service for 12 languages.
Chairman of RS: Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu
MP & Leader of House: Arun Jaitely
India and S. Korea signed a joint statement agreeing to discuss an ‘early harvest’ package for the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).
This aimed at identifying key areas for enhanced trade.
They also agreed to try to increase their bilateral trade to $50 billion by 2030.
President S. Korea: Moon Jae-in
Capital: Seoul
Currency: Won
US announced it was starting the process to slap 10% tariffs on another $200 billion in Chinese export goods.
The tariffs escalate the trade war between the world's two largest economies.
This dispute comes alongside the US confrontation with other allies and major trading partners including Canada, Mexico and the EU, for steep tariffs.
Gujarat government has approved Rs 39-crore ‘Seema Darshan’ project for developing more infrastructure facilities at Nadabet in Banaskantha district.
This is to instil patriotism through a unique Gujarat initiative.
The project being developed on Wagah Border pattern, entails an exhibition hall, a parade ground with amphitheatre for 5,000 people.
19 year-old Rangila, the sloth bear, which was smuggled into Nepal in December 2017 for use as a ‘dancing bear’, is being sent back to India.
Indian and Nepalese governments, Nepal’s Jane Goodall Institute, and the Indian non-profit, Wildlife SOS, facilitated the repatriation.
Nepal Capital: Kathmandu
Currency: Nepalese rupee
President: Bidhya Devi Bhandari
RBI has said it will continue with 3-day meeting format of MPC commencing on 30th of this month.
MPC decides on the key interest rate.
The 6 member MPC headed by RBI Governor Urjit Patel was set up in October 2016 with an aim to bring transparency and accountability for making key Monetary Policy decisions.
Pilots and flight attendants will now have to work longer hours after the aviation regulatory body, DGCA amended its rules.
Airlines to extend duty timings of the crew during a medical emergency, a natural calamity, technical malfunction and unfavourable weather conditions.
DGCA Headquarters: New Delhi
Agency executive: B.S. Bhullar (Director general)
UP CM Yogi Adityanath has flagged off awareness rally to mark the World Population Day (11 July) in Lucknow.
World Population Day’s 2018 theme is “Family Planning is a Human Right”.
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1968 International Conference on Human Rights.
Governing Council of the UNDP initiated this due to the population toll in the year 1987.