daily current affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH Horticulture will help economy flourish, says N Chandrababu Naidu   Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu opined that horticulture can help the economy flourish while inaugurating a horticulture show ‘Udyana 2018’ which focused on organic products, and promotion of zero-chemical based natural farming.   This comes as the state government announced plans … Read more 29.08.18 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH P. emerging as electronics hub as major firms step in According to official sources, the government’s objective is to make the State a hub for electronics manufacturing but not limit the scope to mobile phones. It targets to meet the requirement of even the defence establishments.   As part of this expansion binge … Read more 28.08.18 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN   To boost tourism in Rajasthan, government promotes unexplored heritage sites   Rajasthan, which houses centuries old heritage buildings and monuments, has notched up an important place in global tourism. Lakhs of tourists annually visit its known heritage buildings famous for unique sculpture, which is a great source to boost state’s revenue along with … Read more 28.08.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH Nodal panels to examine State GST issues   The Commercial Taxes Department has constituted four nodal committees for Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Guntur and Kurnool to sort out the issues related to the State Goods and Services Tax raised by taxpayers.   The Vijayawada committee has jurisdiction over Kakinada, Vizianagaram and Visakhapatnam divisions. The Visakhapatnam … Read more 26-27.08.18 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN RTU’s A-category list has no government engineering college In a major embarrassment for the state technical education department, none of its 13 government engineering colleges have made it to the Quality Index Value A-Category list of engineering colleges that was released by the Rajasthan Technical University (RTU).   Government engineering colleges failed to score … Read more 26-27.08.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Om Prakash clinches gold in rowing at Asian Games   After Bajrang Lal Takhar, Om Prakash has brought laurels for the country with a gold medal in rowing in the Asian Games in Jakarta.   Om Prakash bagged the gold medal in the quadruple sculls event with teammates Swarn Singh, Dattu Bhokanal and Sukhmeet … Read more 25.08.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH Supreme Court notice to Andhra Pradesh on Polavaram project   The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Andhra Pradesh government from Orissa government seeking stay of all construction activities in the Indira Sagar Polavaram project and for quashing the final approval granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests.   According … Read more 25.08.18 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH Alibaba Cloud offers hitech solutions to A.P.   Alibaba Cloud India (ACI) signed an MoU with the A.P-Economic Development Board (AP-EDB) for leveraging the Chinese company’s ET (Extreme Tech) City Brain solutions in diverse sectors like real-time governance, smart city and integrated traffic management, small and medium enterprises and skill upgrading.   ACI’s … Read more 24.08.18 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Govt nod to Nandi Gaushalas, cost to be borne by agencies initially   The state government has given its approval to the establishment of Nandi Gaushala (shelters for stray bulls, bullocks and male calves) in each district of Rajasthan.   The idea behind the decision is to not just provide home to stray bulls, … Read more 24.08.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

ANDHRA PRADESH NABARD sanctions ₹466 cr. to State   The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) sanctioned nearly ₹466 crore from its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) for the development and widening of 42 rural roads, providing assured drinking water supply to more than 700 tribal habitations and implementing 19 Lift Irrigation (LI) … Read more 23.08.18 Andhra Pradesh (APPSC) Daily Current Affairs