India’s 2018 tiger census has entered Guinness Book of World Record for being the largest camera trip wildlife survey, yet. The fourth edition of the tiger census, in 2018-19 was the ‘most comprehensive’ to date, in terms of both resource and data amassed.
India now has an estimated 2967 tigers as per the latest census.
Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that Indian Railways will be the largest Railway in the world to have 100% electrification replacing diesel. He expressed hope that it will be the world's first Green Railways running on 100 per cent clean energy by 2030.
Indian Railways is 4th largest rail network in the world by size
The Atal Innovation Mission of NITI Aayog launched a free online app development course. Named, ‘ATL App Development Module’, the online course aims to make mobile application-developers of school students under Atal Tinkering Lab initiative of AIM.
It has been jointly developed by AIM and Indian start-up Plezmo.
Nadaun police station is ranked the best in Himachal in the annual ranking of police stations for 2019.This ranking gives an insight into the functioning of police & provides valuable inputs to formulation of public policy in the realm of internal security
Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh: Jai Ram Thakur.
The govt of Maharashtra along with the State Bank of India is setting up a stress fund to restart stuck slum rehabilitation projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region & other urban areas of the state. Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) is the nodal agency
Government to infuse Rs 700 crore to Rs 1000 crore for revival.
Under e-Lok Adalat, held in Chhattisgarh, virtual hearings were conducted through video conferencing. In the wake of pandemic, the High Court and Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority decided to organize e-Lok Adalat for resolving the pending cases.
This is the first ‘State-Level’ e-Lok Adalat of India.
An Indian battalion stationed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has won an environment award for a project that aims to decrease waste generation, reuse plastic, build greenhouses and compost pits.
UNIFIL – a UN-NATO peacekeeping mission headquartered in Lebanon
The 352-page book, "His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illustrated Biography", in making for nearly 5 years, has been written by one of Dalai Lama's closest aides & advisor of over 40 years -Tenzin Geyche Tethong. It is to be released in October.
Dalai Lama was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1989.
SEBI revamped its committee that advises the capital markets regulator on matters related to regulation & development of mutual fund industry. The 20-member advisory committee is headed Usha Thorat. Earlier, it was 15-member panel headed by Janaki Ballabh.
Usha Thorat is a former Deputy Governor of RBI.
Hockey India named Gyanendro Ningombam as the officiating president at the Emergent Executive Board meeting after Mushtaque Ahmad resigned. Ahmad had been in his role as president of the national sports body since 2018.He was earlier the secretary-general.
Hockey India headquarters: New Delhi.
The Indian Space Research Organisation is gearing up to lift off Brazil’s Amazonia-1 satellite onboard the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). Amazonia-1 will be the first satellite for Earth Observation that is designed, assembled and tested in Brazil.
It is to help in observing & monitoring deforestation in Amazon.
Ambani with net wealth of $70.1 bn, is now the world’s 7th richest according to Forbes real-time data. He is also the only Asian to feature in the top 10, ranking ahead of Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin and moved past investing legend Warren Buffett.
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon is world’s richest with $189.2 bn.