Oct 2018

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan textiles industry goes to downturn   For the last two years there has been no growth in the textile industry, the mainstay of Bhilwara’s economy. The city is home to 850 textile units that create direct employment for 85,000 people and indirect employment for 60,000. Unlike in other industrial towns, here migrants make … Read more

MAHARASHTRA Maharashtra, Gujarat send maximum Indian tourists to Swiss spots   Top officials of the Swiss government’s tourism department hailed the burgeoning number of Indian tourists going to their country and claimed that they had plan to expand the tourism calendar to cope with the increasing number of visitors. Last year, Indian tourists contributed around … Read more

MAHARASHTRA   ·        Maharashtra announced drought in 151 tehsils in 26 districts ð  Maharashtra government has announced severe and medium-scale drought in 151 tehsils in 26 districts. The announcement will hold for the next six months. Out of the 151 tehsils, 39 come under the ‘severe drought’ category while 112 are medium-scale areas. ð  The declaration is based … Read more

RAJASTHAN Statue of Unity waste to carve Gate of Unity   The waste material from the construction of the Statue of Unity in Gujarat, will be used to construct a Gate of Unity in the outskirts of Sikar in Rajasthan.   The gate will be about 46 feet high, on top of which, there will be a six-feet-tall statue of Sardar … Read more

MAHARASHTRA Gandhian Thoughts and Sanitation seminar organized in Wardha, Maharashtra   Gandhian Thoughts and Sanitation”was organized by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Wardha district, Maharashtra. The seminar was focused on the Gandhian ideology on sanitation and its implementation through Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM). INTERNATIONAL   International Animation Day 2018   International Animation … Read more

RAJASTHAN   Rajasthan Heritage :Kalibangan – Indus Valley Civilization   Kalibangan is a town on the banks of the Ghaggar river, Hanumangarh district, Rajasthan, 205 kms. north of Bikaner. The existence of Indus Valley civilization in desert of Thar and the remnants of the pre-Harappan and Harappan settlements that have been unearthed here have played … Read more

MAHARASHTRA   Maharashtra Coast to be Developed as Tourism hotspot: Suresh Prabhu   Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, has written to Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Tourism, K.J. Alphons, and Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, for developing Maharashtra coast as atourist hotspot.   He said that the … Read more

RAJASTHAN Digitalisation of Textbooks in Rajasthan The introduction of ‘energised’ (QR code imposed) Science and Mathematics textbooks for students of Classes IX and X from this academic year (2018-19) will provide additional content for topics in the syllabus which are difficult to comprehend for an average student. QR codes providing contextualised interactive audio-visual content and … Read more

MAHARASHTRA   First Regional Review Meeting for “Sustainable Sanitation” Held In Nagpur   The Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India, in coordination with the Water Supply and Sanitation Department, Government of Maharashtra, organized the first in a series of regional review meetings on Sustainable Sanitation.   The regional review was held in … Read more

RAJASTHAN A fourth of Aravali hills in Rajasthan gone forever   In a starting revelation, Supreme Court appointed central empowered committee(CEC) on Tuesday told the court that 31 out of 128 hills in Aravali region in Rajasthan have vanished in the last 50 years due to massive illegal mining, compelling the court to direct the state to … Read more