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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) clarified that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh continues to have Z plus security cover, after the withdrawal of Special Protection Group (SPG) from his security. Around 35 CRPF commandos will provide round-the-clock security to him under the changed set-up. About: In India, Government of India provides security to some high-risk individuals by the police and local government. Individuals under this security blanket include the President, Vice-President, Prime-Minister, Supreme Court and High Court Judges, Service Chiefs of Indian Armed Forces, Governors of State, Chief Ministers and Cabinet Ministers. Categories of security: Special Protection Group (SPG) category: Strength of security detail is Classified (only provided to the current and former Prime Ministers of India and their immediate family members.) Z+ category: It has a security cover of 55 personnel (Including 10+ NSG Commando) + (Police Personnel) Z category: It ha...

1. Kalyan Singh sworn in as Himachal Pradesh Governor i.  Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh was today sworn in as the Himachal Pradesh Governor  ii.  He was administered oath of office by Himachal Pradesh High Court Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmed Mir  iii.  Singh has been given an additional charge of Himachal Pradesh after Urmila Singh, who completed the full five year term as HP Governor on January 24.   2.  Hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passes away i.  Two-time gold medal winning hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passed away on 28th January 2015 following a prolonged illness ii.  The former India centre-half was part of the gold medal winning teams in 1948 London and 1952 Helsinki Olympics. iii.  With the likes of Leslie Claudius, Keshav Dutt and Meldric Daluz, Jaswant had formed a lethal foursome and was part of a golden era in Bengal hockey with as many as seven players in the Helsinki-bound side.   3....

Awards and Honours Indian American Thomas Won US National Medal of Science Thomas Kailath, a Pune educated Indian-American engineering professor at Stanford University, is one of the recipients of the US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama on 3 October. Nobel Prize Winners 2014 Announced The Nobel Prize winners of 2014 in the different categories were announced in the month of October 2014. Nobel Prizes are announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences every year in the memory of Alfred Nobel.The categories were the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, The Nobel Literature Prize and The Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Prize Winners of 2014 in the different categories were as follows:- *  Physiology (or) Medicine  :-  U.S.-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser, Edvard Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize ...

Tata’s Vistara Airline Started Domestic Flight Operation In India Tata’s Vistara airline started its flight operation in India on 9 January. Vistara flight took off with its first flight from Delhi to Mumbai. Vistara airline is a joint venture of Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines (SIA). Earlier in 2014, Tata Group had to launch a full-service carrier in India with the help of SIA.Vistara will be the third full-service carrier in India, after state-run Air India and private carrier Jet Airways. In December 2014, Vistara announced the launch of its operation from 9 January 2015 with flight from Delhi to Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Legendary Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch Died Andrae Crouch, a legendary gospel performer, songwriter and choir director whose work graced songs by Michael Jackson and Madonna and movies such as The Lion King has died in Los Angeles. He was 72. Born in San Francisco, Crouch wrote his first gospel tune at the age of 14 and in 1960, he formed the group Church of G...

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1. 12 dead in shooting at French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris  i. Twelve people, 10 journalists and two policemen, have been killed, and 10 others wounded in the shooting massacre at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. ii. Hollande confirmed the deaths, and said that at least 40 were “saved.”  iii. The numbers of victims is likely to rise, the French president added. Flags across France have been lowered in mourning for victims of the attack. iv. Charlie Hebdo (Charlie Weekly) is a controversial French satirical newspaper that came under attack over the publication of caricatures of Muslim leaders and the Prophet Mohammed in 2011. v.  The attack in the newspaper offices is the worst militant attack in recent decades in France, which has a five-million-strong Muslim population. 2. PM inaugurates 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Sammelan i. Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally inaugurated the 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas at...

1. World Cup 2015 squad announced: Yuvraj out, Jadeja in i.  The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday released its 15-member squad for the World Cup 2015. ii.  The noticeable exclusion was that of Yuvraj Singh who has been dropped from the squad. iii.  The players are as follows: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli,Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja , Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, Stuart Binny and Umesh Yadav. iv.  India will start it's World Cup campaign against Pakistan on 15th of February. 2. Five-day coal strike begins i.  Trade unions on Tuesday began a five-day coal industry strike, terming it as the biggest industrial action for any sector since 1977. ii.  The unions have gone on strike to protest against ’disinvestment and restructuring of State-run Coal India’ and to press for their other demands including t...

Formulae and Questions of Percentage 1. Concept of percentage or Percentage formula To express x% as a fraction: We have, x% x/100 Thus, 30%=30/100= 3/10 In simple terms we can conclude that percentage symbol "%" means 1/100 In case we are having a fraction and we have to calculate its percentage then we will multiply it by 100. that is, a/b=(a/b)×100)% 2. Increase or decrease in percentage with price (1 ) If the price of a commodity increases by R%, then the reduction in consumption so as not to increase the expenditure will be = [R/ (100+R)×100]% ( 2 ) If the price of a commodity decreases by R%, then the increase in consumption so as not to decrease the expenditure will be = [R/(100−R)×100] 3. Results on population Formula's on result of population are very important when we have to calculate the population n years after or n years before, Let the population of a town be P now and suppose it increases at the rate of R% per annum, then (1 ) Popu...

1. Raghuvar Das to be first non-tribal Chief Minister of Jharkhand. i. Raghuvar Das, national vice-president of the BJP will be the first non-tribal Chief Minister of Jharkhand after he was elected the leader of the BJP Legislature Party. ii. BJP observer J.P. Nadda said after the legislature party meeting that Mr. Das’ name was proposed by Sarayu Roy, another frontrunner for the post and C.P. Singh and supported by all the party MLAs. iii. The BJP-AJSU alliance had won absolute majority in the recent Assembly polls bagging 42 out of the total 81 seats. 2. PM Modi nominates Kapil Sharma, Saurav Ganguly, Kiran Bedi for 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan' i. Prime Minister Narendra Modi nominated nine people including comedian Kapil Sharma, former captain of Indian cricket team Sourav Ganguly, former IPS officer Kiran Be di for taking forward his 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan'. ii. Others nominated were Nagaland Governor Padmanabha Acharya, classical dancer Sonal Mansing...

दुनिया का हर व्यक्ति इंजीनियर, डॉक्टर या प्रोफेसर नहीं बन पाता है. कुछ स्टूडेंट्स ऐसे होते हैं जिनका मन पढ़ाई में नहीं लगता है और वे अपनी पढ़ाई पूरी नहीं कर पाते हैं. अगर आप 12वीं फेल हैं या कॉलेज से ड्रॉप आउट हैं तो निराश न हो आपके लिए भी करियर ऑप्शन मौजूद हैं जिसमें आप अपनी मेहनत से अच्छी सैलरी पा सकते हैं. कॉलेज ड्रॉपआउट और 12वीं फेल के लिए 5 हॉट जॉब्स (1) सेल्स रिप्रेजेंटेटिव: 12वीं फेल सेल्स रिप्रेजेंटेटिव जॉब पाने की कोशिश कर सकते हैं. इसमें आपको अपनी कंपनी का सामान बेचना होता है. रिलायंस, एयरटेल, मैकडोनाल्ड और कई अन्य कंपनियों में 12वीं फेल लोगों को भी सेल्स रिप्रेजेंटेटिव के रूप में नौकरी दी जाती है. (2) डेटा एंट्री ऑपरेटर: कॉलेज से ड्रॉपआउट इस जॉब को पाने की कोशिश कर सकते हैं. 12वीं फेल को भी कई कंपनियां यह जॉब देती हैं. इस जॉब के लिए आपके पास अच्छी टाइपिंग स्पी़ड होनी चाहिए. आप आसानी से डेटा एंट्री ऑपरेटर की नौकरी पा सकते हैं. (3) कॉल सेंटर: कॉल सेंटर की जॉब 12वीं फेल और ड्रॉप आउट दोनों को मिल सकती है. कई राज्यों के लोकल कॉल सेंटर में भी आपको नौकरी मिल...

The President's Office on Wednesday announced the Bharat Ratna award to Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (posthumously) and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The announcement was made on the eve of Mr. Vajpayee's 90th birthday and the 153rd birth anniversary of Pandit Malviya. The BJP has been demanding Bharat Ratna for Mr. Vajpayee for a long time; and BJP patriarch L.K. Advani has been at the forefront of seeking the highest civilian honour for the former Prime Minister. Earlier, Mr. Advani had written a letter to the UPA Government to award the Bharat Ratna to the former Prime Minister. The request was however, overlooked by the UPA government, said sources. In 2013, the award was conferred to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and scientist C.N.R Rao.

1. NASA’s Kepler mission discovers ‘super-Earth’ i. NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft, which is carrying out a new mission has made its first exoplanet discovery — a ‘super-Earth’ located 180 light-years from Earth. ii. This led to the discovery of a planet, HIP 116454b, which is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth and follows a close, nine-day orbit around a star that is smaller and cooler than our Sun, making the planet too hot for life as we know it. iii. The discovery was confirmed with measurements taken by the HARPS-North spectrograph of the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo in the Canary Islands, which captured the wobble of the star caused by the planet’s gravitational tug as it orbits. 2. Lakhvi booked again; to remain in jail i. Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi will remain in jail for at least three more months with Pakistani authorities on Friday slapping stringent provisions under public security against the key accused in the 2008 Mumbai attack, a day after a court gave him b...

1.Central Sydney under Siege i. Terrified hostages cowered inside a cafe in central Sydney Monday with an Islamic flag displayed against a window, sparking a security lockdown in an area home to government and corporate headquarters. ii.  Martin Place was evacuated as scores of armed police surrounded the Lindt chocolate cafe, with TV pictures showing a flag - black with white Arabic writing - held to a window by customers. iii.  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep concerns over the Sydney cafe siege incident. iv.  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he has convened the National Security Committee for emergency briefings after hostages were reportedly taken in a Sydney cafe today. 2. Rahman and Jal for oscars i.  India’s music maestro A.R. Rahman may end up getting his third Oscar nomination in the best original score category after making it to the list of 114 probables. ii.  while Hindi film Jal also features in the lo...