April 24 – National Panchayati Raj Diwas
- National Panchayati Raj Day (National Local Self-Government day) is the national day of India celebrated by Ministry of Panchayati Raj on 24 April annually.
- Then Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first National Panchayati Raj Day in 2010
STATE
MADHYA PRADESH
- The Government of India, the Government of MadhyaPradesh and the World Bank today signed a $210 million loan agreement for the Madhya Pradesh Rural Connectivity Project.
- The Project will cover 10,510 km stretch of rural roads in Madhya Pradesh that fall under the Chief Minister’s Gram Sadak Yojana (CMGSY) program.
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
- India’s first organic kiwi wine goes to the market in bottles sourced from Sichuan.
- The ‘Naara-Aaba’ is from one of the few organic kiwi wineries located outside Switzerland, in Arunachal Pradesh’s Lower Subansiri district.
TELANGANA
- GI tag for Adilabad Dokra an ancient bell metal craft and Warangal Dhurries a popular traditional cotton rug from Telangana.
- One of the newest innovations by the weavers here is an adaptation of tie-dyed ikat techniques and hand-painted or block-printed kalamkari designs for the dhurries to save time and energy.
NATIONAL
India’s Best Panchayat
- Digambarpur gram panchayat in West Bengal is declared as the best panchayat in the country by Central Government.
Framework for National Policy on E-commerce
- First meeting of the think tank on the Framework for National Policy on E-commerce in New Delhi on April 24th, 2018 chaired by Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation.
- Department of Commerce established the think tank on the Framework for National Policy on E-commerce.
Secure India Conclave underway in New Delhi
- The two-day Secure India Conclave got underway in New Delhi on 24.04.2018.
- The conclave is being organised by Global Counter Terrorism council keeping in view, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of New India: Secure India 2018.
Mobile App (m-Awas)
- Hardeep Puri, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs (I/C) launched a Mobile App (m-Awas) for allotment of Government accommodations in General Pool Residential Accommodation (GPRA) in Delhi under the control of the Directorate of Estates, here on April 24.
LPG bottling plant
- The Prime Minister also laid the foundation stone for a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bottling plant at Maneri district in Madhya Pradesh.
Bruhad Sampark Yojana
- Bruhad Sampark Yojana, an initiative by the Ministry of External Affairs to expand the bilateral relations of India with countries across the world.
- Championed by Prime Minister’s vision of making our nation a ‘Vishwaguru’.
Gagan shakthi-2018
- Exercise Gagan Shakti-2018 provided IAF with an excellent opportunity to practice its war time drills and undertake operations in realistic scenario.
WORLD
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation [SCO]
- External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Council of Foreign Ministers in Beijing.
- The SCO, a permanent intergovernmental international organisation created in 2001, comprises eight member states including India, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russian, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
ECONOMY
Bilateral trade
- India’s export to Poland was $2.3 billion & polish export to India stood at $800
- The bilateral trade between India and Poland has crossed $ 3 billion in 2017 and the European country is exploring various sectors to improve the trade balance.
SCIENCE
Zero Shadow Day in Chennai
- A sub-solar point is when the sun is directly overhead at a particular latitude. When the sun is at the zenith (the highest point in the sky) its rays will be hitting a particular point exactly perpendicular to the surface.
- This will make your shadow be exactly under you, making it look like there are no shadows. Take a small jump and you can see your shadow.
- It occurs twice a year.
New Structure in the cell
- A new twisted and knotted structure called i-motif has been for the first time studied inside a living cell.
- Researchers say that it looks like a four-stranded knot of DNA.
World’s smallest land fern discovered in Western Ghats:-
- Indian researchers have discovered the world’s smallest land fern hiding in the Ahwa forests of the Western Ghats in Gujarat’s Dang district.
- The size of the new Malvi’s adder’s-tongue fern Ophioglossum malviae, named after their resemblance to a snake’s tongue.
SPORTS
First medal for the Indian camp in the Shooting World Cup
- Shahzar Rizvi wins air pistol silver in men’s air pistol in the shooting World Cup here on April 24. Changwon (Korea)
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