National Youth Day has been celebrated annually on 12 January since 1985.It marks the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.One of the main objectives of day is to promote rational thinking among the youth, who are the future of the nation.
National Youth Festival is celebrated from 12-16 Jan every year.
National Youth Festival is celebrated every year from 12th to 16th January to commemorate the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.Objective is to bring youth of country together to showcase talents.‘YUVAAH – Utsah Naye Bharat Ka’ is theme of this year.
Organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Called "Khadi Prakritik Paint" is a first-of-its-kind product, with anti-fungal & anti-bacterial properties,free from heavy metals.Based on cow dung as its main ingredient,it is cost-effective,odorless & is certified by Bureau of Indian Standards.
Kumarappa National Handmade Paper Institute,Jaipur developed it.
FY22's value of GDP will only mildly surpass the 2019-20 level. It also sees inflation exceeding the mid-point of MPC's medium target of 4% for third consecutive year. ICRA pegged the GDP fall at 7.8% this financial year.
ICRA:
HQ: Gurugram;
CEO:N.Sivaraman.
2-day biennial pan-India exercise will include Exclusive Economic Zone &involves all 13 coastal States,UTs along with other maritime stakeholders.Organised to check efficacy of measures initiated to plug gaps in coastal security following Mumbai attack.
2-day drill is a build-up towards TROPEX.
The Indian-American novelist,overcame blindness & was widely known as the 20th-century writer most responsible for introducing American readers to India."Daddyji" was first installment in a 12-volume series of autobiographical works, "Continents of Exile."
Mehta's 24 books included volumes of reportage on India
India has a network of 903 Protected Areas in covering about 5% of the total geographic area. In order to assess the efficacy of Protected Areas, evaluation of management effectiveness is required.MEE score of 62.01% which is higher than global mean of 56%
MEE of Indian Zoos framework was also released.
Continuance of bank is prejudicial to the interests of its depositors & it would be unable to pay its present depositors in full. It is now prohibited from conducting business of ‘banking’ as defined in Section 5(b) read with Section 56 of BRA,1949.
Every depositor will get deposits up to Rs.5 lakh from DICGC.
Index consists of 20 stocks & is designed to reflect behaviour & performance of Indian financial market, which includes banks, financial institutions, etc.This is the 1st time that the exchange has made available weekly futures for stock index derivatives.
Currently NSE offers only Nifty 50 & Nifty Bank Index.
He worked with Grand Slam champions like Johan Kriek,Boris Becker, Goran Ivanisevic & Marin Cilic. Brett received the ATP's Tim Gullickson Career Coach award in November 2020. He also coached for national tennis associations in Britain, Japan and Canada.
He adhered to Harry Hopman’s coaching philosophy
Taking another step in boosting regional aerial connectivity in India,Star Air today commenced direct daily flight operations from Kalaburagi, Karnataka to Tirupati,AP under the RCS-UDAN (Regional Connectivity Scheme – Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik) scheme.
305 UDAN routes &53 airports have been operationalized till date
ISRO will facilitate coaching and mentoring of students in advanced 21st century cutting-edge technologies, including those related to space.Atal Innovation Mission and NITI Aayog have established over 7,000 ATLs across the country so far.
ISRO Chairman Dr K. Sivan;
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
Launched in Nov 2017 as part of Manipur Sangai Festival,Cherry Blossom Festival Mao was introduced under theme ‘Celebrating Nature’s Abundance’.Popularly known as Sakura in Japan,the flowers are considered as symbol of peace & prosperity.
The festival is annually celebrated at Mao Gate, a hill station.
The decision has been taken as several people (approximately 100) would be required to stay at the printing press for around a fortnight amid the COVID-19 fear.Budget papers are usually printed at the ministry's in-house printing press in the North Block.
The traditional 'Halwa' ceremony is not likely to take place.
Airtel's solutions for MSMEs include connectivity,landline,mobile,conferencing, cloud,security solutions for businesses,IoT & cloud communication suite to transform customer engagement.Alliance with NSIC would give it a much deeper distribution reach.
NSIC,Mini Ratna PSU:
HQ: Delhi;
CMD:Vijayendra.
A coffee table book filled with over hundreds of photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his "107 overseas and bilateral visits" was released here on the eve of the 16th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD).
The 450-page book has been published by Maneesh Media.
"NIDRA- A webinar on Yoga and Sleep" hosted by Central Council for Research in Yoga & Naturopathy (CCRYN), an Autonomous Body under the Ministry of AYUSH succeeded in focussing attention on a critical, but often neglected factor of health, namely, sleep.
Union AYUSH Minister: Shripad Yesso Naik
A recipient of Padma Bhushan, he retired as a senior professor from TIFR in Mumbai in 2001.His scientific research is focused on solar physics,astrophysics & gravitational lensing.He was a stalwart of Indian astronomy community, particularly solar physics.
He was former president of the Astronomical Society of India.
Chandrikapersad Santokhi, will be the chief guest of India’s Republic Day parade on January 26.Santokhi was sworn-in as the President of Suriname in July, 2020 after his party-Progressive Reform Party won the elections & ended dictatorship of Dési Bouterse
Suriname:
Capital: Paramaribo;
Currency:Surinamese Dollar
Awards are given by Bureau of Energy Efficiency to those organisations that put in special efforts to reduce energy consumption.13 prizes were awarded to multiple zones & workshops of railways. In the ''transport category'',Western Railway got 1st prize.
BEE is an agency of the GoI under Ministry of Power.
It is the memoir of Lt Gen (Dr) Konsam Himalay Singh who has traced his journey from a small village in Manipur to becoming the first person from North East India to hold the rank of a Three Star General of the Indian Army.
It has also highlighted about Manipur, the "Land of Emeralds".
It is for NALCO's 5th Stream Alumina Refinery Expansion Project at Damanjodi, Odisha.With this order, BHEL has maintained its track record of supplying all of NALCO's power plants.
BHEL is largest manufacturer of power generation equipment.
