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The 13-year old Indian Grandmaster Dommaraju Gukesh won the 34th Cannes Open 2020 chess tournament held at Cannes, France on 22nd February, 2020. He defeated Harutyun Bargeshyan from France in the final round and secured a total of 7.5 points. Gukesh (Elo rating 2542), who last year became the world’s second youngest Grandmaster ever, beat the Frenchman in 50 […]
The Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) conducted the survey from the database of National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau study (2015-16), ICMR-NIN-Hyderabad. As per the study, the cities of Delhi and Ahmedabad topped the list of seven metro cities in daily average consumption of ‘added fat’ with 44.4 gram per person daily and […]
Clat Possible Organised an All India free Mock Clat on 23rd Feb,2020 for Clat 2020 aspirants. We guide you on how it should be analysed and dealt with. Focus of these videos is to help you understand the CLAT 2020 exam on new pattern better, efficiently manage your time across sections and come up with solutions […]
Rear Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh AVSM, NM took over as the Commandant of the Naval War College, Goa on 18th February, 2020. Prior to this appointment, he was the Flag Officer Commanding, Western Fleet. He was the lead drafter of the Indian Navy’s Maritime Doctrine 2009, Strategic Guidance to Transformation 2015 and the Indian Maritime […]
The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has launched a National Level Awareness Programme (NLAP) 2020 from 17th February to 28th February, 2020 to spread awareness about the schemes and activities undertaken by the Ministry and its attached organisations. The awareness programmes are being organised across the country to disseminate information amongst students of […]
The Appointments Committee of Cabinet on 21st February, 2020 appointed retired IAS officers of 1983-batch Amarjeet Sinha and Bhaskar Khulbe as advisers to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a period of two years, or until further orders. Sinha, from the Bihar cadre, has served as the Rural Development Secretary while Khulbe, from the West Bengal […]
Sanjay Kothari, the Secretary to the President, has been selected as the new Central Vigilance Commissioner by a high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The committee has also chosen former Information and Broadcasting Secretary Bimal Julka as the new Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission. Bimal Julka is currently serving as […]
‘A Future for the World’s Children?’, a report that ranks 180 countries, comparing performance on child flourishing, was released by a Commission of the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet on 19th February, 2020. India ranked 77th on a sustainability index that takes into account per capita carbon emissions and 131st on a […]
Union Cabinet on 19th February, 2020 approved the constitution of the 22nd Law Commission of India, which will give recommendations on different aspects of law, which are entrusted to it. The Commission will function for a period of three years from its date of official constitution. The Law Commission of India is a non-statutory body […]
Government of India on 11th February, 2020 renamed the National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM) in Faridabad as the Arun Jaitley National Institute of Financial Management (AJNIFM) after the former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award, posthumously in 2020 in the field of Public Affairs. NIFM […]
