Ministry of Minority Affairs launched India’s first National Scholarship Portal Mobile App. Portal will ensure a smooth, accessible and hassle-free scholarship system for students belonging to poor and weaker sections.
Minority Affairs Minister is Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
The festival of Nuakhai is being celebrated in Odisha. During this harvest festival of western Odisha, newly produced Nabannis is offered to presiding deities.
The Nuakhai Juhar is a major ritual of the festival, during which greetings are exchanged.
Odia is one of the classical languages of India.
The Tamil Nadu government has banned e-cigarettes in the state. Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems is known as E-Cigarettes. The ban covers distribution, trade, display, marketing, advertisement, use, import and possession of e-cigarettes.
Banwarilal Purohit is the Governor of Tamilnadu.
India has invited Russian companies to explore business opportunities in India. Mr. Prabhu recently concluded his visit to Vladivostok in Russia where he attended the Eastern Economic Forum meeting.
DIPP works under Min. of Commerce
IIP for the month of July 2018 was 6.6 percent higher than compared to the same period last year. As per Use-based classification, the growth rates in July 2018 over July 2017 are 6.9 percent in Primary goods and 8.4 percent in Construction Goods.
IIP calculated Year-On-Year(Y-O-Y) basis
Sardar Singh has announced his retirement from international hockey. he made the decision after a disappointing Asian Games. He received the Arjuna Award in 2012 and Padma Shri in 2015.
Hockey is not a national game of India.
Cisco, a U.S.-based firm that makes networking telecommunications equipment, has signed two agreements with the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) to speed up Digital Acceleration programme.
Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog is Rajiv Kumar.
The Mysuru campus of India's second largest software exporter, Infosys, has been awarded the LEED EBOM (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - Existing Building Operation & Maintenance) Platinum certification by the United States.
Chairman Of Infosys is Nandan Nilekani.
The Supreme Court scrapped its earlier direction to set up local-level committees to look into dowry harassment complaints before arrests are made, saying it cannot fill in legislative gaps. The top court left it to Parliament.
Section 498-A of IPC deals with the Anti-Dowry Act.
Morgan Stanley plans to offer trading in bitcoins. The bank is already technically prepared to offer the Bitcoin swap trading. Bitcoins are digital currency based on encryption techniques.
Bitcoins are not legal tender in India.