Accidents_Roads: The president has given his asset to the Karnataka Good Samaritan and Medical Professional (Protection and Regulation during Emergency Situations) Bill, 2016. The legislation aims to give protection to good samaritans and ensure immediate medical assistance for road accident victims within the ‘golden hour’ and encourage people to offer first aid to victims without […]

Appointments: Ambassador of India to Myanmar, Vikram Misri has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to China, according to the Ministry of External Affairs. Mr Misri, a 1989 batch IFS officer, is expected to take up the assignment shortly. China Capital: Beijing, Currency: Renminbi, President: Xi Jinping. Ravi, the publisher of The Hindu […]

Banking: The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of Rs 5 crore on Karur Vysya Bank for non-compliance of its directives. According to an RBI statement on Friday, the penalty was imposed for non-compliance with its directions on “Income Recognition and Asset Classification (IRAC) norms, reporting of frauds, and on the need for discipline […]

Awards: The Union Minister for Tourism (IC), Shri. K.J. Alphons, presented the National Tourism Awards 2016-17) on the World Tourism Day, in New Delhi. The Minister also launched the ‘Incredible India Mobile App’ and the “Incredible India Tourist Facilitators Certification” programme. The Minister also announced that, India will be the host country for official World […]

Agriculture: NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) has organized “Grameena Habba” at Premachandra Sagar Hall near Ashoka Pillar in Jayanagar. Grameena Habba is an exhibition cum sale of rural artisan products to provide a platform for weavers, rural artisans, and craftsmen, rural entrepreneurs to display and sell their products.About 40 artisans from across […]

Appointments: Eastern Air Command chief Anil Khosla will take over as the new vice chief of the Indian Air Force (IAF) with Air Marshal SB Deo set to retire. According to other approved postings by the Indian Air force, new Deputy Chief of Air Force will be Air Marshal VR Chaudhari, New DG of Air […]

Banking: Dena Bank’s board cleared a proposal suggesting a merger with two other state-run banks, Vijaya Bank and Bank of Baroda. The government had last week suggested a merger of the three banks to create the country’s second largest state-run bank, after SBI. If the merger takes place, the number of government-run banks will be […]

Business: State-run telecom firm BSNL has signed a deal with Japan’s SoftBank and NTT Communications to launch 5G internet service and Internet of Things technology in India, BSNL Chairman Anupam Shrivastava said. “Under the agreement, we will look at solution specially for the smart cities,” he added. He also said that the service may launch […]

Agriculture: The Gujarat government has doubled the monetary assistance to farmers under the state-run Farmers’ Accident Insurance Scheme. If a farmer dies or suffers a permanent disability in an accident, he or his kins would get Rs 2 lakh (Earlier 1 lakh). A farmer will also be entitled to get Rs 1 lakh instead of Rs […]

Due to some unavoidable reasons and of course with luke response, we hereby inform you, that the present feature ‘Current Affairs‘ appearing on this blog daily will be stopped from 1st January, 2019 on wards. We gave our maximum best efforts while posting this feature without hurting any body and covered all the areas of […]