The Suket Utsav (festival) 2019 was celebrated at Sundernagar, Mandi. The two day cultural festival focused upon promoting local folk and culture and giving young artists a chance to display their talent. The center of attraction was a play “ Nar Singh Veer “ which displayed how the deities control the day to day lives of the local community. It was the fifth edition of the festival. The culture ofRead More
Daily Editorial Vocabulary – Todays’ Words: Extradition Unprecedented Rein in Ransacked Graffiti Daily The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary: Read below the following piece of Editorial from The Hindu Newspaper. The important words are underlined and the meanings of those words in English and Hindi are given below. Practising such editorials will be very useful to increase English Vocabulary and is a must for students preparing for exams like SSC, IBPS, SBI,Read More
The Hon’ble Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court Justice V Ramasurbramanian planeted a sapling of cedar tree and kicked off a plantation drive at 17 Mile Road, Kullu. He was accompanied by Justice Dharam Chand Chaudhary. The campaign was organised by the District Legal Service Authority in association with the Forest department. Similar campaign last year saw over 17 lakhs saplings being planted. Forests in Himachal Pradesh As perRead More
The Himachal Pradesh Minister of Forest, Govind Simgh Thakur, launched the Waste -to – taste cafe scheme in Kullu. The cafe will be managed by Kullu Municipal Corporation and would be open to public. Residents can give glass l, e- waste or plastic to authority at a particular place and get a coupon in return to buy a meal. Residents can have coffee, ice- cream, pizza and burger. The ministerRead More
A faction of the banned insurgent outfit National Front Of Twipra signed an agreement with the government to abjure violence and join the mainstream. The Memorandum Of Settlement mandates NLFT to abide by the Constitution Of India. The Memorandum was signed by Kajal Debbarna and Sudhir Debbarna of NLFT(SD) and MHA Joint Secretary (North East) Satyendra Garg, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Tripura. What is NLFT? It was in 1989 thatRead More
The 66th National Film Awards were announced in New Delhi on August 9, 2019. Rahul Rawail headed the jury panel of National Awards 2019 with A S Kanal and Utpal Bhojpujari being the other members. The announcement of the awards was delayed this time owing to the Lok Sabha polls. List of National Awards 2019 winners: These are the winners among the 419 films that competed for the award thisRead More
The Central Government has launched the inter-state portability of ration cards between Telangana-Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra-Gujarat as a pilot project to implement “One Nation, One Ration Card” across India by June 1, 2020. This means beneficiaries living in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh can buy their quota of ration from the Public Distribution System (PDS), also called ration shops, in either of the states. Similar would be the case in Maharashtra andRead More
The Haryana government is going to start ‘Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna’ from 21st August 2019. Under the ‘Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna’ Rs 6,000 per year will be given to each family in Haryana having an annual income less than Rs 1.80 lakh. About ‘Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna’: Under the Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna, Rs 6,000 per annum will be deposited in the bank accounts of poorRead More
A centre of excellence would be established for dairy farms and training in the state of Himachal Pradesh. The centre will be built at a cost of Rs. 44.12 crore. The Central Government had approved construction of modern dairy farms and training centres at various places in the state. The dairy farms to be built under the centre would have the facility of keeping 400 milch animals along with modern machines.Read More
Shri Ram Nath Kovind, the President of India, presented Bharat Ratna Awards to Sri Pranab Mukherjee, Shri Nanaji Deshmukh (posthumously), and Dr Bhupendra Kumar Hazarika (posthumously). The Awards were given at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 08th August 2019. Some facts about the Bharat Ratna Award: Bharat Ratna is the highest Civilian Award in India The Prime Minister recommends the names for the Bharat Ratna Award to the President ARead More