Current Affairs Capsule
The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) released its annual report “The State of the World’s Children Report”. The report stated that despite the 40% drop in the stunting of children in poor countries between 1990 and 2015, 149 million are still too short for their age. A third of the world’s children under the […]
Vajra Prahar 2019, a joint military training exercise between India and the US, will be held from 13th to 28th October, 2019 at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Seattle, US. It is the tenth edition of the joint training exercise that is conducted alternately in India and the US. The exercise would see a […]
Union Human Resource and Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishak announced that the Ministry has prepared a module to introduce the study of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at school level. For this purpose, the HRD Ministry has joined hands with technology leaders like Intel. Department of Biotechnology under Union Ministry of Science & Technology announced that India […]
President of India Ram Nath Kovind addressed the India-Iceland Business Forum in Reykjavik, Iceland on 11th September, 2019, during his three-day visit to Iceland from 9th to 11th September, 2019. This is a part of the President’s three nation visit to Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia. There is a lot of economic potential and opportunities between […]
Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad announced that the India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has rolled out Aadhaar Enabled Payment System Services (AePS). With this, the IPPB has now become the single largest platform in India for providing interoperable banking services to customers. Founded on 1st September, 2018, IPPB is a […]
Polish author Olga Tokarczuk won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 for her narrative imagination that represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life while the Nobel Prize in Literature 2019 has been awarded to Peter Handke of Austria for his influential work that explores the specificity of human experience. The first Nobel […]
The World Mental Health Day (WHD) is observed every year on 10th October to raise awareness about mental health issues all over the world. The World Federation for Mental Health with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) organizes the day all across the world. The theme for this year is ‘ Suicide Prevention’. […]
The Indian Air Force (IAF) celebrated its 87th anniversary on 8th October at the Air Force Station Hindan near Ghaziabad. On this occasion, Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria, Army Chief Bipin Rawat and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh paid tributes at the National War Memorial in New Delhi. The IAF was […]
The World Space Week is celebrated every year from 4th to 10th October to mark the launch of the first human-made earth satellite “Sputnik-1” on 4th October, 1957. The theme for this year is ‘The Moon: Gateway to the Stars’. The World Space Week Association began to coordinate the World Space Week from 1980. In […]
The Wildlife Week is celebrated across India every year from 2nd October to 8th October to preserve animal life in India. The theme for this year is ‘Life Below Water: For People and Planet’. The event is organized by the National Board of Wildlife, since its establishment in 1972. The World Teachers’ Day is observed […]