Jan 2020

Budget Highlights   Expenditure: The government proposes to spend Rs 30,42,230 crore in 2020-21, which is 12.7% higher than the revised estimate of 2019-20.   Receipts: The receipts (other than net borrowings) are expected to increase by 16.3% to Rs 22,45,893 crore, owing to higher estimated revenue from disinvestments.   GDP growth: The government has … Read more

NASA’s Spitzer space telescope The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), was an infrared space telescope launched in 2003 and retired on 30 January 2020. Spitzer carries three instruments on board: Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS)   Arvind Krishna elected IBM CEO … Read more

Indian Navy launches ‘Operation Vanilla’ Indian Navy launches ‘Operation Vanilla’ to help cyclone-hit Madagascar INS Airavat has been deployed for ‘Operation Vanilla’ The ship is carrying five pallets each of victualing, clothing and naval stores along with three pallets of medicines   India successfully test-fires K-4 missile On January 19, 2020, India successfully test-fired 3,500 … Read more

Govt signs accord with NDFB, ABSU to resolve Bodo issue to redraw and rename the Bodoland Territorial Area District (BTAD) in Assam, currently spread over four districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang, Baksa and Udalguri. villages dominated by Bodos that were presently outside the BTAD would be included and those with non-Bodo population would be excluded The … Read more

HARYANA 17 Ambala villages to get potable water   These villagers will soon start getting clean potable water in their homes. An ambitious project costing Rs 42.21 crore has been prepared for the purpose under which every household in the villages falling under the Mullana block will get drinking water through taps.   The project … Read more

HARYANA Karnal Saral Kendra ranked first Under the Right to Service Act, the Saral Kendra of Karnal has achieved 88 per cent success in satisfying citizens. Not only this, a citizen — after the process of appointment – has to just wait less than 10 minutes to get service. With this, Karnal ranked first among … Read more

HARYANA Antyodaya Saral’ project fetches state Gold Award The Haryana Government has received the ‘Gold Award’ from the Government of India for timely implementation of citizen-centric services under the e-governance project of Antyodaya Saral. The government now aims to further re-engineer processes to achieve the aim of cashless, paperless, and faceless service delivery in line … Read more

HARYANA Haryana Agricultural University develops fodder oats variety Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University’s fodder section in the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding has developed a new fodder oats variety HFO 607. It was identified (recognised) at the Varietal Identification Committee meeting at the National Group Meet (Rabi 2019-20) on the All-India Coordinated Research … Read more

HARYANA Haryana gets 3rd prize under plan for mother Haryana has been awarded the third prize by the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development for the successful implementation of Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana. The award was given to state for outstanding work executed under the scheme from September 2017 to December 2019. Under … Read more

HARYANA Haryana: Expect many firsts in budget session The Haryana assembly’s upcoming budget session is likely to be longer than previous ones and could be a witness to many firsts. Now, each MLA can have a maximum of two questions every day. This means, one question in starred and one in unstarred category. In all, 20 starred and … Read more