Assam Current Affairs – September 01 - 07, 2019

Current Affairs Assam – September 1 - 7, 2019

( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the week of September 1 – 7, 2019 )

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September 01, 2019

Final NRC published, 19 lakh excluded

The final National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published on Saturday excluding names of 19,06,657 persons who had applied for inclusion of names in the citizenship document.
Any person not satisfied with the outcome of the verdicts on claims and objections would be able to approach the foreigners tribunals.
The process of NRC update in Assam differs from the rest of the country and is governed by Rule 4A and the corresponding Schedule of the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. These rules have been framed as per the cut-off date of March 24 (midnight), 1971 decided as per the Assam Accord.
A total of 3,30,27,661 members applied through 68,37,660 applications. The particulars submitted by the applicants were taken up for scrutiny to determine.
The NRC update is a mammoth exercise involving around 52,000 State government officials working for a prolonged period. The entire process of NRC update has been meticulously carried out in an objective and transparent manner, the release said, adding, adequate opportunity of being heard has been given to all persons at every stage of the process.

Ministry of Electronics and IT partners with Google to roll out “Build for Digital India”

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) entered into a partnership with Google with the aim of rolling out “Build for Digital India”
A programme that will give engineering students a platform to develop market-ready, technology-based solutions that address key social problems.
The programme will invite ideas from students to focus on areas of healthcare, agriculture, education, smart cities and infrastructure, women safety, smart mobility and transportation, environment, accessibility and disability and digital literacy.
As part of the programme, engineering students across the country will be invited to apply and join in a learning journey that will help them transform their bright ideas into real-world solutions.
Applicants will take part in online and offline learning opportunities on key technologies such as Machine Learning, Cloud and Android.
These will be offered through Google’s Developer Student Club network and other Google Developer networks.
Google will also offer mentorship sessions in product design, strategy and technology to the most promising products and prototypes.

IIT Kharagpur and Amazon Web Services (AWS) join hands to develop AI portal

To promote learning and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop a National Artificial Intelligence Resource Portal (NAIRP) platform.
NAIRP was launched with initial funding from the Ministry of Human Resources Development, as part of the National Digital Library of India (NDLI) platform.
It builds upon and expands NDLI to AI by indexing a wide variety of AI-specific resources such as learning materials, courses, workbooks, datasets, codes, tools and platforms.The upcoming portal will provide search, browse, learning and computation services.
Hands-on AI training will be facilitated to all AI learners, practitioners, and researchers in India through workbooks and the cloud.
The system will start off using AWS Cloud, and will also be connected in the future with the in-house cloud developed at IIT Kharagpur.

FACTFILE – Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and API, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.
These cloud computing web services provide a set of primitive abstract technical infrastructure and distributed computing building blocks and tools.
AWS’s version of virtual computers emulate most of the attributes of a real computer including, hardware central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs) for processing, local/RAM memory, hard-disk/SSD storage; a choice of operating systems; networking; and pre-loaded application software such as web servers, databases, customer relationship management (CRM), etc.
The AWS technology is implemented at server farms throughout the world, and maintained by the Amazon subsidiary.
AWS operates from many global geographical regions including 6 in North America.
AWS comprised various services spanning a wide range including computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools, and tools for the Internet of Things. The most popular include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
As of 2017, AWS owns a dominant 34% of all cloud (IaaS, PaaS) while the next three competitors Microsoft, Google, and IBM have 11%, 8%, 6%.

September 02, 2019

Sivasagar becomes first district in Assam to launch e-office

The Upper Assam Divisional Commissioner Julie Sonowal launched e-office (e-file management system) at the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Sivasagar. With this initiative, Sivasagar has attained the status of being the first district in the State to launch ‘e-office’.
With the office of the Deputy Commissioner trasitioning towards a complete electronic file management system, four more offices of the district, namely, office of the Superintendent of Police, office of the District Transport Officer, Agriculture office and Zila Parishad will also come under the e-office system.
Attending the meeting, the Deputy Commissioner Dr S Lakshmanan elaborated upon the advantages of e-office. With the benefit of having zero maintenance cost, the system will not only provide full confidentiality of the office files, but will also save us from the worries of space management.
The success of the system will depend largely on the quality, dedication and involvement of the manpower working with the system.
The Deputy Commissioner highlighted the importance of e-office and the facilities available in the system for better service delivery to the citizens.
The e-office is a Mission Mode Project developed and designed by National Informatics Centre (NIC) which was first implemented by the Government of Assam at the Assam Secretariat in 2017.
Later, it was extended to the Directorate, Commissionerate, attached offices and districts levels. The Secretariat Administration Department (SAD) is the Nodal Department of the project in Government of Assam.

5 new governors appointed is various states

President of India, Ram Nath Kovind announced new governors for five states in the country.
Kalraj Mishra has been transferred from Himachal Pradesh to Rajasthan, where he replaces Kalyan Singh as the new Governor.
BandaruDattatreya replaces Mishra in Himachal Pradesh.
Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been appointed the new Governor of Maharashtra shunting out Vidyasagar Rao.
In Kerala, Arif Mohammed Khan replaces P. Sathasivam as the new Governor.
DrTamilisaiSoundararajan has been made the new governor of Telangana replacing E.S.L. Narasimhan.

Himachal Pradesh signs pacts to tap 250 MW solar power

Himachal Pradesh signed two pacts for setting up solar power plants with an outlay of Rs 1,000 crore.
One pact for Rs 600 crore was signed with Renew Energy Private Ltd for setting up a 150 MW solar plant, which is proposed to commission by 2021.
While the second was signed with CSE Development (India) Private Ltd for setting up a 100 MW plant.
On behalf of the state government, the pacts were signed here by Principal Secretary PrabodhSaxena where Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur was also present.
The solar plants would be set up in Una and Kangra districts.

Pune-based agritech startup Agrostar is helping boost crop yields for farmers

Nearly 70 per cent of small farmers — those cultivating fewer than three acres — in India often find their crops damaged by unforeseen weather and pests. An even higher number, 74 per cent, lack access to farming-related information.
To bridge this knowledge gap, Pune-based agritech startup AgroStar has a multi-lingual mobile app on Google Cloud Platform that is helping boost crop yields and encourage sustainable practices for small farmers in the country.
Launched as an on-premise, e-commerce platform selling farm tools in 2008, the firm turned to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to expand its offerings.
The firm now uses Cloud-based analytics and is deploying machine learning (ML) models to provide timely advice in five languages — from seed optimization, crop rotation and soil nutrition to pest control and commodity price forecasting to small farmers.

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September 03, 2019

IAF inducted Eight Apache choppers at Pathankot

The Indian Air Force (IAF) inducted eight Apache helicopters at the Pathankot Air Base in Punjab.
The variant of the helicopter, Apache A64E, is the most advanced version and has been designed by the US-based manufacturer Boeing to meet the IAF”s requirements.
Boeing formally handed over the aircraft keys to Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa at the function in Pathankot.
The eight helicopters were brought to India in two separate batches. They were delivered at the Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad over July and August in two equal batches of four choppers each.
India had signed a multi-billion contract with Boeing in September 2015 for purchasing 22 Apache helicopters. The entire fleet is scheduled to be delivered to the IAF by the year 2020.

FACTFILE – Apache helicopter

The Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter is an advanced multi-mission helicopter being operated worldwide by the US, UK, Israel and many numbers of countries. The helicopter has proved itself as an operational success across the world. It is one of the most fierce attack helicopters in the world.
It is a twin-turboshaft attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement and a tandem cockpit for a crew of two. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems.
The U.S. Army is the primary operator of the AH-64. It has also become the primary attack helicopter of multiple nations, including Greece, Japan, Israel, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. It has been built under license in the United Kingdom as the AgustaWestland Apache.

Haryana CM launches UDAN regional connectivity scheme

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar launched the UDAN regional connectivity scheme that will allow tourists to fly from Hisar to Chandigarh for just Rs 1,674 in 45 minutes.
The launch of the flight was part of the Centre”s UDAN, or ”UdeDeshkaHarNagarik” scheme, building efficient regional air connectivity.
The Air Shuttle Services and Flying Training Organisation is also being set up at TheHisar airport by SpiceJet for the training of at least 100 cadet pilots per year initially.
Four meritorious girls with state domicile will get 50 per cent fee concession for the entire training and 10 per cent students with domicile will get 50 per cent waiver on tuition fee.
SpiceJet has also committed to ensuring absorption as well as placement of 70 per cent pilot trainees.

FACTIFLE – UDAN (UdeDeshkaAamNaagrik)

UDAN is a regional airport development and “Regional Connectivity Scheme”(RCS) of Government of India, with the objective of “letting the common citizen of the country fly”, aimed at making air travel affordable and widespread, to boost inclusive national economic development, job growth and air transport infrastructure development of all regions and states of India.
At the beginning of the scheme, out of total 486 airports, 406 were participating unserved airports, 27 were well served airports out of 97 non-RCS airports and 12 were operational airports out of 18 participating underserved regional operational airports with regular fixed-wing scheduled flights.
The scheme has two components. The first component is to develop new airports and enhance the existing regional airports to increase the number of operational airports for scheduled civilian flights from 70 (in May 2016, total 98 operational including army airports) to at least 150 airports (by December 2018) with regular scheduled flights. Initially more than 100 underserved (no more than 7 scheduled flights per week) and unserved regional airports will be developed by December 2018, for which the initial funding of ₹45,000 million(equivalent to ₹47 billion, US$680 million or €610 million in 2018) for the enhancement of 50 regional airports was approved in May 2017.
The second component is to add several hundred financially-viable, capped-airfare, new regional flight routes to connect more than 100 underserved and unserved airports in smaller towns with each other as well as with well served airports in bigger cities by using “Viability Gap Funding” (VGF) where needed.
Union government share of “Viability Gap Funding” is from the cess applied to flights to popular routes to main cities and respective state governments have also offered additional benefits to the flight operators to make UDAN-RCS viable.
UDAN-RCS Round-Iconcluded in April 2017, 5 airlines companies were awarded 128 fixed-wing flight routes to 70 airports (including 36 newly made operational airports, taking the number of total number of operational airports with civilian scheduled flights to 106 and total 131 airports operational with civilian and army operation including dual-use airports), several of which have already become operational by November 2017 and most of remaining routes will become operational by 15 December 2017.
UDAN-RCS Round-IIresults will be awarded in late December 2017, from among the 141 proposals received for 502 new regional routes from 17 airlines and helicopter companies to operate flight services.
Number of aircraft jumped 38% to 548 in December 2017 from 395 in 2014 and 50 aircraft are being added every year. Subsequent phases with inclusion of seaplanes will boost the number of potential landing sites from nearly 500 airports to over five lakh (500,000) waterbodies as well as more locations along India’s 7,000 km coastline.
UDAN-RCS is both enabler and beneficiary of other key Government of India schemes, such as Bharatmala, Sagarmala, Dedicated Freight Corridors, Industrial corridor, BharatNet, Digital India and Make in India, National e-Governance Plan, Startup India and Standup India.

Cabinet clears hike in ethanol prices for 2019-20

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved an increase in prices of ethanol for the upcoming sugar season 2019-20 (October-September).
The CCEA decided to increase prices of ethanol derived from “C heavy” molasses to Rs 43.75 per litre from the 43.36 per litre.
The prices of ethanol derived from “B heavy” molasses would also be increased from Rs 52.43 to Rs 54.27 per litre.
The CCEA also decided that the price of ethanol from the sugarcane juice, sugar and sugar syrup route would be fixed at Rs 59.48 per litre.
The government has been implementing EBP Programme wherein OMCs sell petrol blended with ethanol up to 10 per cent.
This programme has been extended to whole of India except the Union Territories of Andaman Nicobar and Lakshadweep islands with effect from April 1 this year to promote the use of alternative and environment-friendly fuels.
The government intervention also seeks to reduce import dependence for energy requirements and give a boost to the agriculture sector.

September 04, 2019

IIT Guwahati develops AI chatbot to support EEE students

A team of postgraduate students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, along with their faculty members are developing an Artificial Intelligence-enabled chatbot named “ALBELA” to teach and support first year students of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE).
The chatbot would help students find their class schedule, tutorial schedule, and examination queries via a AI-based chat window.
Students at times may hesitate to approach an instructor regarding their queries, but with this chat-based system students can clear their doubts, both technical and non-technical, according to the institution.
The team is developing the analytical problem solving skill. It will be helpful for the students to learn how to solve analytical problems related to the course.

Union Cabinet approved infusion of Rs 9,300 crore in IDBI Bank

The Union Cabinet approved infusion of over Rs 9,000 crore capital in the IDBI Bank to meet the regulatory capital requirements by raising the capital adequacy ratio (CAR).
The government and the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India — will infuse Rs 9,300 crore in the bank. Of this, the government will infuse RS 4,557 crore and the LIC Rs 4,743 crore.
The IDBI Bank”s capital base has got eroded with the CAR at 8.1 per cent. The government and the LIC own 49 per cent and 51 per cent stake in the bank.
The move is aimed at supporting the credit growth and the regulatory compliance by lenders.
IDBI Bank has been a poor performer on many metrics. Its non-performing asset (NPA) is at 29 per cent and has reported loss in the 11 straight quarters.
The bank is under the Reserve Bank of India”s prompt corrective action (PCA) framework.

FACTFILE – Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI Bank Limited)

IDBI Bank was established in 1964 by an Act to provide credit and other financial facilities for the development of the fledgling Indian industry. Initially it operated as a subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India RBI transferred it to GOI . Many institutes of national importance finds their roots in IDBI like Sidbi, Exim bank, NSE and NSDL.
It currently has 3,702 ATMs, 1892 branches, including one overseas branch in Dubai, 58 e-lounges and 1407 centers.
The bank has an aggregate balance sheet size of INR 3.74 trillion as on 31 March 2016.
On June 29, 2018 Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has got a technical go-ahead from Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) to increase stake in IDBI Bank up to 51%. LIC of India completed acquisition of 51% controlling stake in IDBI Bank on January 21, 2019 making it the majority shareholder of the bank. Subsequent to enhancement of equity stake by LIC of India on January 21, 2019, IDBI Bank stands re-categorized as a Private Sector Bank.

BRICS countries are stepping up technology transfer and transformation

BRICS countries are stepping up technology transfer and transformation, said a conference organised by the BRICS Technology Transfer Center in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
Representatives from enterprises, universities and research institutes in 11 countries and regions, including the BRICS members (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) held discussions on seeking closer international technology cooperation.
A display and trading system for international technology transfer was launched on the occasion.
Eighteen per cent of global GDP and 17 per cent of R&D spendings come from BRICS countries, which account for 42 per cent of the world’s population.
The BRICS Technology Transfer Center was set up in Kunming in 2018 to promote industrial transformation of advanced innovations.

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September 05, 2019

Assam Governor launches Poshan Maah

Governor Prof Jagdish Mukhi today launched the ceremonial beginning of Poshan Maah (Poshan Month) at a function held at the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakhshetra.
It may be noted that the entire month of September is being celebrated as RashtriyaPoshanMaah and this year the theme is ‘Complementary feeding’ with the vision to address malnutrition with a targeted approach by 2022.
Governor Mukhi said the PoshanAbhiyaan has been launched to emphasise the need for healthy nutrition and it should be the one-liner objective to generate awareness about this mission to involve more and more people so that no targeted group is left behind.
At the same time, he observed that special emphasis should be given in the tea garden areas to make up for the nutritional deficiency and reduce low birth weight in those areas.
He said that though the programme strives to reduce the level of stunting, under-nutrition, anaemia and low birth weight among babies, without unified efforts it would be very difficult to achieve the target.
He therefore called for inter-departmental convergence for the success of the objective.
The Governor also emphasised the need for coordination, convergence and cordiality among all the stakeholders for making the PoshanMaah a huge success.
As part of the programme a pledge was also administered to make a malnutrition-free India by 2022.

FACTFILE – POSHAN Maah

Month of September 2018 was celebrated as Rashtriya POSHAN Maah. The activities in POSHAN Maahfocussed on Social Behavioural Change and Communication (SBCC).
The broad themes were: antenatal care, optimal breastfeeding (early and exclusive), complementary feeding, anaemia, growth monitoring, girls’ – education, diet, right age of marriage, hygiene and sanitation, eating healthy – food fortification.
More than 12.2 Crore women, 6.2 Crore men and over 13 Crore children (male and female) were reached through the various activities undertaken during POSHAN Maah. It is worth mentioning that 30.6 Crore people were reached in 30 days. POSHAN Maah has given a major impetus to the Abhiyaan.

15 MoUs exchanged during PM Modi’s visit to Russia

A total of 15 Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) or agreements were exchanged during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Vladivostok in Russia.
Joint Statement “Reaching New Heights of Cooperation through Trust and Partnership”.
Joint Strategy for the Enhancement of India-Russia Trade and Investments.
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and Government of the Russian Federation and on the cooperation in the production of spare parts for Russian/Soviet military equipment.
Agreement between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Russian Federation on Cooperation in Audiovisual Co-production.
Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways of the Republic of India and the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation on bilateral cooperation in the road transport and road industry.
Memorandum of Intent between the Ministry of Shipping of the Republic of India and the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation on the Development of Maritime Communications between the Port of Chennai, Republic of India and the Port of Vladivostok, Russian Federation.
Plan for cooperation between the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, Ministry of Finance, Republic of India and the Federal Customs Service (Russian Federation), for combating customs violations in 2019-2022.
Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas of the Republic of India on the use of Natural Gas for Transportation.
Programme between the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas of the Republic of India and the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation on expansion of cooperation in oil and gas sector.
Memorandum of Understanding between Coal India Limited and Far East Investment and Export Agency to cooperate in coking coal mining projects implementation in the Russian Far East.
Cooperation Agreement between Invest India and the Russian Direct Investment Fund for Investment Collaboration.
Cooperation agreement between the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry the Roscongress Foundation.
Memorandum of Understanding between the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Autonomous Non-profit Organization Agency for Strategic Initiatives to promote New Projects.
Memorandum of understanding between the Joint Stock Company NOVATEK and PETRONET LNG Limited on cooperation with respect to the joint development of downstream LNG Business and LNG supplies.
Agreement on Cooperation between Joint-Stock Company Rosgeologia and Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited.

Bihar Govt signs pact with Skymet Weather Services for weather forecasts

Bihar government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Skymet Weather Services, India”s largest private weather monitoring and agri-risk solutions company, to facilitate weather forecast services.
The MoU intends to support the Bihar Water Resource Department in disaster preparedness from the data shared by Skymet Weather on rainfall forecast and inclement weather alerts.
Bihar is one of India”s most flood prone areas.
Skymet will be supporting with information on weather forecast, which will help to incorporate measures to share timely information with the people at large.

September 06, 2019

Bhagat Singh Koshyari takes oath as Maharashtra Governor

Former Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Bhagat Singh Koshyari, sworn-in as the 19th Governor of Maharashtra.
Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog of the Bombay High Court administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new Governor at the sprawling Raj Bhavan facing the Arabian Sea.
After taking oath, Koshyari, who had served as a college teacher in Uttar Pradesh”sEtah, also greeted all teachers on the occasion of Teachers Day.
Koshyari, 77 takes over from C.V. Rao, whose term ended earlier this week.

FACTFILE – The Governors and Lieutenant Governors/Administrators of Indian States/UTs

The Governors and Lieutenant Governors/Administrators of the states and union territories of India have similar powers and functions at the state level as that of the President of India at Union level.
Governors exist in the states while Lieutenant Governors exist in Union Territories and in the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
The governor acts as the nominal head whereas the real power lies with the Chief ministers of the states and his/her councils of ministers.
In India, a lieutenant governor is in charge of a union territory. However, the rank is present only in the union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and Puducherry (the other territories have an administrator appointed).
The governor of Punjab acts as the administrator of Chandigarh.
The governors and lieutenant governors are appointed by the President for a term of five years.

India inks two defence MoUs with South Korea

India and South Korea signed two MoUs pertaining to defence co-operation during Defence Minister RajnathSingh”s visit to the East Asian nation.
The MoUs are aimed at furthering defence educational exchanges and extension of mutual logistical support for the navies of both countries.
Singh met his South Korean counterpart JeongKyeongdoo during his three-day visit to the country.
The two leaders had a comprehensive review of bilateral defence co-operation and noted that defence co-operation lies at the heart of the Special Strategic Partnership between India and South Korea.
India and Korea were also discussed apart from exchange of views on regional and international developments of mutual interest.
Singh paid homage at the National Cemetery of Korea and also visited the War Memorial where he presented a copy of the citation received by the Indian 60th Para Field Hospital for its exceptional contributions during the Korean War.

President Kovind confers awards to 46 teachers on Teachers’ Day

President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the National Awards to 46 teachers at Vigyan Bhawan on the occasion of Teachers” Day.
Teachers from Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Rajasthan and Jharkhand received the prestigious awards for their innovation and making their classes interesting.
For the first time that a teacher from an army school, which is governed by the Defence Ministry, has also been included to the list of the award winners.
The Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry had invited nominations for the prestigious awards between May 6 and June 25, from which the teachers were selected on the basis of a three-tier process.
The teachers were first required to nominate themselves online, following which the district, state and the national level committees selected them.
The nominated teachers gave a presentation before the independent Jury comprising a senior educationist.
The prestigious award carries a silver medal, certificate and Rs 50,000 as award money.

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September 07, 2019

President felicitates 27 women for role in Swachh Mission

President Ram Nath Kovind conferred the Swachh Bharat Awards on 27 women champions from each state for their outstanding contribution to the Swachh Bharat Mission.
These women worked at the grassroots level to provide better sanitation access to their families.
The President said the biggest achievement of the Swachh Bharat Mission was that it had become a campaign of every Indian and was not just a government campaign.
While referring to the UN sustainable development goals to be achieved by 2030, the President said India was set to achieve the cleanliness target in 2019 itself, 11 years ahead of schedule.
The goals for the next phase should be achieved by strengthening the first phase’s success.
The culture of cleanliness should be imbibed and the attention should be paid towards maintenance of facilities set up during the first phase.
The Swachhta Pakhwada Award was given to the Department of Defence. Power Grid Corporation received the award in the category of public sector undertakings. Gujarat and Sikkim were given Open Defecation Free (ODF) and Behaviour Change awards.

CII Telangana to train 5,000 teachers in IT skills

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Telangana, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Telangana Department of School Education to train 5,000 government teachers in basic IT skills.
The project would be implemented in collaboration with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and CII member companies.
About 500 corporate volunteers would be involved in implementing the project, which will be launched in Hyderabad and will later be expanded to Warangal, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and other districts.
Vijay Kumar, Director, Department of Education, and V. Rajanna, past Chairman of CII Telangana and Senior Vice-President & Global Head – Technology Business Unit, Tata Consultancy Services, signed the MoU.

Indo-US joint military exercise begins in Washington

A joint military exercise between India and the US began in Washington as part of the ongoing defence co-operation between the two nations.
It is being conducted at the Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington.
Named YudhAbhyas, the exercise is one of the largest joint-running military training and defence co-operation endeavours between India and the US.
Armies of India and the US will jointly train, plan and execute a series of well-developed operations for neutralization of threats of varied nature during the exercise.
At the end, a joint exercise will be undertaken by both countries in an operational setting under a UN mandate. Experts from both sides will hold academic and military discussions to share each other”s experiences on varied topics for mutual benefit.
The exercise will provide an opportunity to the armed forces of both countries to train in an integrated manner at the Battalion level, with joint planning at Brigade level, whereby multiple scenarios will be rehearsed to understand each other”sorganisation structure.

Arif Mohammed Khan sworn in as Kerala Governor

Arif Mohammed Khan took oath as the new Governor of Kerala. Chief Justice of Kerala High Court Hrishikesh Roy administered the oath of office to Khan in presence of state Chief Minister PinarayiVijayan.
Khan was appointed as the Governor of Kerala on September 1 and he replaces Justice (Retd) PalanisamySathasivam who was appointed as governor of the state in September 2014.
Khan was appointed as the Governor of Kerala on September 1 and he replaces Justice (Retd) PalanisamySathasivam who was appointed as governor of the state in September 2014.

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