NATIONAL NEWS
1.President Ramnath Kovind to inaugurate the Sadbhavna Festival in Mumbai at The Yoga Institute:-
President Ramnath Kovind will launch the Sadbhav Mahotsav in Mumbai today at The Yoga Institute They will attend the Yog Institute’s 100th anniversary celebration.
2.Attempts to set up a new medical college in Karur: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E. Palnisamy:-
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister E. Palnisamy has said that efforts are being made to set up a new medical college in Karur. While addressing the National Conference of Surgeons in Chennai, he said that soon a new dental college will be set up in Virudhunagar. He informed that the Central Government has given new AIIMS approval in Madurai at a cost of about 1500 crores.
3.In 2022 only two countries will be ahead of India, 16 years old, this city’s ‘Lifeline’:-
A few days ago on December 25, the lifeline of the people of the country’s capital Delhi, ie, all of us have been ‘Delhi Metro’ for 16 years. Delhi Metro, which started its first journey from just 8 kilometers on December 25, 2002, will now become the country’s number one metro rail network, the world’s third longest network by 2022. It is currently the world’s fourth longest rail network.
Let us tell that for the first time on December 25, 2002, the Delhi Metro started the Red Line Metro from Shahadara to Thirty Thousand. It was a historical moment, in which thousands of people participated. Then the Delhi Metro was so crazy that people used to travel in Delhi Metro without any reason, because they had to take the journey of their journey. The passage of the metro is still unimaginable. It is also not less feat that in the metro that gives some thousand passengers to their destination 16 years ago, about three million people travel daily.
The Delhi Metro came to the discussion on May 3, 1995 and has been working on it since then. During the two decades ie 23 years, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has established a network of more than 300 km. These routes have facilitated the movement of about 30 lakh people daily. On December 24, 2002, the Delhi Metro filled the 8.4-kilometer long Shahdara-Tahasir Corridor. The first corridor of Phage Forest had only six stations. Then four years later, on November 11, 2006, the commuter train operations started between the last corridor of the first phase (Barakham to Indraprastha). During this period 65.1 kilometer radius was provided to the people through 59 metro stations for world-class movement. Phase II of DMRC started on 3 June 2008, which was completed in 27th August 2011. In this phase, 82 stations were constructed by expanding the metro in 125.07 km. Red, yellow, blue, purple, orange, green, magenta and pink According to MMRC Managing Director Mangu Singh, the experience DMRC has gained from the challenges faced by Phase-1, Phase II and Phase-3 of Delhi Metro will be used to make Phase-4 of Metro. He said that DMRC can start constructing the same with the government’s formalities.
4.Reliance Jio launches cheap smartphones with big screen, Xiaomi to challenge:-
now launch smartphones with a big screen cheaply after feature phones. According to media reports, Jio could launch several Affordable Smartphones in the next few months. JioPhone and JioPhone 2 of Reliance Jio are quite successful. Encouraged by this success, the company can launch such cheap 4G smartphones.
According to a recent news, Jio ‘s head of sales, Sunil Dutt said that the company is earning on a large screen smartphone. Currently 500 million people in the country have about 500 million users who have not shifted into smartphones. These are the customers who can not afford to have smartphones, because of which they prefer to buy this feature phone. The company also believes that if the smartphone becomes available inexpensive, then many feature phone users would like to buy it.
According to media reports, long battery life and 4G connectivity can be given to this large screen of Reliance Jio. Jio could launch smartphones with such long battery in the next few months. According to media reports, Jio is trying to make a deal with the American smartphone maker. After this deal, the company can bring 100 million new Indian devices in the Indian market. Speaking of JioPhone, users are still using apps like Whatsapp, YouTube and Facebook in this feature phone. These features have been added to the JioPhone this year.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
5.Saudi Arabia’s Shah Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud created new Foreign Minister for Ibrahim Al-Asaf:-
Saudi Arabia’s Shah Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud has made a big change in the Cabinet, making Mr. Ibrahim Al-Asaf the new Foreign Minister. External Affairs Minister Adil El Zubair has been given the status of Minister of State for External Affairs. This alteration has been done after international pressure on the killing of journalist Jamal Khashkaji.
Shah Salman has ordered a reshuffle in the Supreme Council, which also monitors security issues. The leadership of this council is in the hands of Shah’s son Yuvraj Mohammed bin Salman but his rights have been retained. There has also been a change in the council related to the economy.
6.Former President Andy Razolina in Madagascar defeated his opponent and former President Marc Ravelomainna in the election:-
Former President Andy Ragolina in Madagascar defeated his rival and former President Mark Ravelomainna in the election. In this election, both parties have accused of rigging. According to the Election Commission’s Chairman, Harry Rakotomannena, Mr. Resola has got 55 points and six six percent votes, while Mr. Rivalomenna received 44 percent three-four percent of the votes.
BUSINESS NEWS
7.During the year 2018-19, the government has completed or launched 307 National Highway schemes in 29 states of the country: Mansukh Mandviya:-
Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Chemicals and Fertilizers Mansukh Mandviya told the House that during the current financial year 2018-19, the government has completed or launched 307 National Highway schemes in 29 states of the country. During the second term of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government (2014- November 2018), national highways were constructed in a total length of 34,290 km, while during the second term of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government this year (2009-14) 24,590 km. At present, the work of 1700 projects of national highways in progress in the country is approximately 55,000 km in progress.
8.Approval of construction of 3,10,597 houses under the Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana (urban) in the 41st meeting of Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee:-
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has approved the construction of 3,10,597 other affordable houses for the betterment of the urban poor under the Pradhanmantri Awas Yojana (Urban). This clearance was given in the 41st meeting of the Central Sanction and Monitoring Committee held on Thursday. The total number of houses sanctioned under the Prime Minister’s housing scheme (urban) has gone up to 68,54,126. In Uttar Pradesh, 1,08,135 houses have been approved while 1,05,502 cheap houses have been sanctioned for Karnataka. There are 57,433 approved houses for Andhra Pradesh, while 21,894 houses for Odisha and 17,633 houses have been sanctioned.A total of Rs 4,658 crore projects have been approved in the meeting chaired by Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Durga Shankar Mishra. The cost of these projects is Rs. 14,662 crore, in which central assistance will be Rs. 4658 crores. 1,91,556 approvals have been made under the Beneficiary Leadership Construction (BLC) Vertical, while 1,18,941 approvals have been made under the Affordable Housing Partnership (AHP) vertical.
9.Local language should also be used in aircrafts announcements from airlines: Civil Aviation Directorate:-
Directorate General of Civil Aviation issued a consultation asking the airlines to consider the use of local language in the announcements made to the aircraft.
In a consultation on Thursday, it was stated that in addition to Hindi and English, announcements should be made in the local language. It has been said that pilots can provide information about important monuments or sites that are flying in the flight to increase awareness of India’s cultural heritage
10.HDFC Group is the largest business group in the country:-
HDFC Group became the largest business group in the country. The total market capitalization (MACP) of the group’s five listed companies has crossed Rs 10.40 lakh crore and it left behind the Tata Group in this case. After the stock exchange was closed on Thursday, the total amcaps of the five companies of HDFC Group were Rs 10,40,689.89 crore on BSE.
At the same time, the total mcp of the listed companies of the group was Rs 10,38,290.08 crores on BSE. On July 10 this year, the total amcaps of the five listed companies of HDFC Group crossed 10 lakh crore rupees. In the HDFC group companies, HDFC Bank is the country’s third largest trading company with market cap of Rs 5,72,754.19 crore. In the first place, TCS (Rs 7,16,499.10 crore) and Reliance Industries Limited (Rs 7,09,918.93 crore) are in second place.
