Around INDIA
# Union Government has set up a technical
committee headed by T. C. A. Anant (former Chief Statistician of India) to
bring transparency in the jobs data calculation and presentation
# Union Government has decided to establish
India’s first ever National Police museum in Lutyens’ Delhi; expected to be
inaugurated on Oct 21 (Police Commemoration Day)
TAMIL NADU
# Government
announced the dates of the Public Examinations 2019 for X, XI and XII
# Just. N. Kirubakaran of the Madras High
Court abhorred the practice of glorifying the suicides committed by the
Students due to their inability to clear the NEET and accused the political
parties of doing nothing but shedding tears after such suicides were reported
STATES SCAN
# Assam: Government announced the launch of
an awareness campaign called “Sanskar” against the superstitions
# Haryana: Government increased the upper
age limit to enter into government service from 40 to 42 years
# Odisha: The rebuilt blast furnace – 1
“Parvati” of SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant was dedicated to the nation; Parvati
was the first blast furnace of SAIL that was dedicated to the nation by the
first President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad on Feb 03, 1959
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India to host the first military exercise
of BIMSTEC countries in Pune on Sep 2018
· BIMSTEC:
bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi – Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation
· Countries
in BIMSTEC: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand
# India gave a financial assistance of Rs.
61.93 million to Nepal for the final step of Nepal – Bharati Maitri Irrigation
Project
Nepal – Bharati Maitri Irrigation Project
· Launched
in 2017
· India
would assist Nepal in installing Shallow tube wells for all weather irrigation
for major crops for a total of 8115 hectares of cultivable land
WORLD
# Nepal: Cabinet approved the Chinese
Government’s proposal to repair two “Friendship Bridges” that link Nepal, China
and few others
# Singapore: the summit between US
President and North Korean leader ended with promise with North Korea pledged
to move towards denuclearization
MISC
# India has ranked 177 out of 180 countries in the Environment
Performance Index (EPI) 2018 as per the State of India’s Environment (SoE) 2018
in Figures
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