Category: Current Affairs
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Indian higher education crisis: More Indians go abroad to study, and fewer international students come to India
Even as reports last week suggested that the number of Indian student going to the US had increased by 30 percent, the inflow of foreign students to India has declined sharply, according to government data. According to a report by The Times of India, data from the Union Ministry of Home affairs shows that the…
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Current Affairs Quiz
1. Which of the following recently got the certificate by Limca Book of Records for the “Largest Yoga performance”? (4) (1) ITBP (2) BSF (3) CRPF (4) NCC (5) None of these 2. Which Indian organisation got SKOCH Awards for Smart Governance initiatives, recently? (1) (1) EPFO (2) RBI (3) SEBI (4) SBI (5) None of these…
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Digital Telangana plan is phenomenal, 1000 e-panchayats to be started by Jan 2016
“The ‘Digital Telangana Centres’ or ‘e-Panchayats’ programme of the state government, which offers e-governance facilities to villagers, was launched on October 2 in Nalgonda district and it currently runs at 100 panchayats. We plan to scale it up to 1,100 by January,” Telangana Information Technology (IT) Secretary Jayesh Ranjan told PTI. The uniqueness of these…
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Telangana Govt’s unique health initiative for girl students
Deputy Chief Minister and Education Minister Kadiyam Srihari on Sunday said the government had taken a decision to provide sanitary pads to the girls studying in the State-run institutions. Addressing at the National Women Teachers Convention organised by National Forum of Woman Teachers at Savitribai Phule Nagar,Sundarayya Vignana Kendram, here, Srihari said sanitary pads would…
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Current Affairs Quiz
1. Which is the first Indian state to launch auction of mines? (5) (1) West Bengal (2) Telangana (3) Tamil Nadu (4) Karnataka (5) Gujarat 2. Who is appointed as vice-chairman of the Bank of International settlement (BIS)? (3) (1) Nachiket M. Mor (2) C Rangarajan (3) Raghuram Rajan (4) D Subbaro (5) Sravan Kumar…
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Come see winds of change in India: Modi to ASEAN investors
Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought to hard sell India as an investment destination for ASEAN nations on Saturday, saying his government had launched a second wave of economic reforms that had made the country a “land of immense opportunities”. Addressing the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit hours after his arrival in the Malaysian capital, Modi…