WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE
• The Union Human Resource Development (HRD)
Minister Prakash Javadekar has inaugurated the
super computer PARAM ISHAN at IIT Guwahati
campus.
• Indian Railways has launched launched ‘Yatri Mitra
Sewa’ in a move to make rail travel comfortable for
elderly, differently-abled and ailing travellers.
• State owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)
has granted prestigious membership of Asia-Pacific
Aerospace Quality Group (APAQG) under category ‘Full
Member with voting rights’.
• India has been ranked 112th out of 159 countries in
the 2016 World Economic Freedom Index (WEFI).
• India has officially declared itself free from highly
contagious Avian Influenza (H5N1) or bird flu and has
notified the same to the World Organization for Animal
Health (OIE).
• Indian Navy’s indigenously built most Advanced
Guided Missile Stealth Destroyer ‘Mormugao’ was
launched in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
• The Union Water Resources Ministry has signed
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union
Agriculture Ministry for speedy implementation of
Namami Gange programme.
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