Current Affairs 23rd August, 2017

NATIONAL

1. Home Minister Launches Digital Police Portal

Ministry of Home Affairs undertakes steps to integrate the various organs of the Criminal Justice System such as the Police, Courts, Prisons, Prosecution, Forensic Laboratories, Finger Prints and Juvenile Homes with the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) database.

• Launching the Digital Police Portal under the CCTNS project, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said this Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) will be a useful resource for all stakeholders including the policy makers.
• According to Home Ministry, the Digital Police Portal will enable citizens to register FIRs online and the portal will initially offer seven Public Delivery Services in 34 States & UTs, like Person and Address Verification e.g. of employees, tenants, nurses etc, permission for hosting Public Events, Lost & Found Articles and Vehicle theft etc.
• Besides, the portal will enable restricted access to law enforcement agencies on topics such as Antecedent Verification and make assessment of FIRs. 

Current Affairs 22nd August, 2017

INTERNATIONAL

1. Festival of India being Organized in Cote D’ivoire, Liberia and Guinea

A Festival of India is being organized in Cote d’Ivoire and concurrently accredited countries of Liberia and Guinea from 15 August, 2017 – 28 January, 2018.

• The Festival will showcase diverse Indian culture, i.e. classical and folk dances.
• The events will be held in four cities of Cote d’Ivoire, namely, Abidjan, Yamassoukro and Grand Bassam and Daloa and capital cities of Monrovia of Liberia and Conakry of Guinea.

Wordlist- August 25, 2017

Impregnable [ im-PREG-nuh’-buh’ l ]

[ adjective ]

MEANING :

1. unassailable, invincible or unconquerable
2. capable of being impregnated

USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :

The impregnable Daulatabad fort has only been captured by treachery.

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi

Dear Readers,

Lord Ganesha Is Our Teacher And Guider, May He Shower Your Life By Giving New Direction To Ur Life Missions, By Removing All The Hurdles From Your Life..!

Arrangement Puzzel :Quiz

Direction (Ques 1 - 5) - Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

• There are 9 people namely Anamika, Bhim, Carom, Deepika, Elli, Faraha, Gopal, Hemant and Ishita sitting around a circular table out of which some are females and some are males. 
• Some are facing towards the centre and some are facing away from the centre. The following information is known about them. 
• Elli’s neighbours face in same direction as that of Carom’s sister who is sitting to the immediate right of Carom. 
• The female sitting between Bhim and Deepika is not Elli. Elli sits fourth to the right of Faraha.  Faraha’s spouse is Bhim.
• Ishita sits exactly between Gopal and Carom and they face in opposite directions.  Gopal is a male sitting with two females and one of them has husband facing towards the centre who is sitting third to the left of Bhim.

Machine Input Output: Quiz

Direction (1 - 5): Study the given information and answer the following questions.

Input : 40 made butter 23 37 cookies salt extra 52 86 92 fell now 19

1. Step I: butter 19 40 made 23 37 cookies salt extra 52 86 92 fell now
2. Step II: cookies 23 butter 19 40 made 37 salt extra 52 86 92 fell now
3. Step III: extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 40 made salt 52 86 92 fell now
4. Step IV: fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 made salt 52 86 92 now
5. Step V: made 52 fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 salt 86 92 now
6. Step VI: now 86 made 52 fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19 salt 92
7. Step VII: salt 92 now 86 made 52 fell 40 extra 37 cookies 23 butter 19

Current Affairs 21st August, 2017

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Ministry of Defence approves delegation of Powers to Border Roads Organisation (BRO)
On August 20 2017,The Ministry of Defence has decided to delegate administrative and financial powers to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to overcome delays in the construction of strategic roads along the India-China border.
According to the references between the Chief Engineer and HQ DGBR and also between HQ DGBR and the Ministry, the defence ministry has assigned more administrative and financial powers to the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) for increase the speed to complete the projects.
Reason for transformational change :-