june 2020

KERALA Kerala: Now, focus on health staff and hospital beds In a major change in quarantine protocol following the spike in Covid-19 cases in the state, the state expert committee on coronavirus has recommended to the state government to reconsider the 14-day quarantine given to health workers, including doctors and nurses, on Covid duty in … Read more 11-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA Online classes: Access in Kerala jumps by 83% in one month The state government has informed the Kerala high court that the number of students requiring facilities to attend online classes has been reduced from 2.61 lakh to 42,412 in a month. As per the report submitted by the state project director on May 10, 2.61 … Read more 10-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA R Sreelekha to become Kerala’s first woman DGP Kerala Police will get its first woman Director General when R.Sreelekha assumes office as the new head of the Kerala Fire and Rescue Services on June 1. Presently an Additional Director General of Police, she currently heads the Jail Department. The Kerala government elevated her as … Read more 09-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA Kerala to launch free internet project K-FON in December   The Kerala government has announced that its ambitious Kerala Fibre Optic Network (K-FON) project, envisaged to provide free internet will be launched in December 2020. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the decision after a meeting with the heads of companies of the consortium executing … Read more 08-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA Kerala to aid digitization of biodiversity registers   Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) is providing technical guidance to National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) for an ambitious project to convert people’s biodiversity registers (PBRs) – drafted by local bodies – into electronic format. The ePBR database would be a dynamic, digital depositary with scope for updating geo-tagged … Read more 06/07-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA Kerala: Higher education takes tech route   Even as the absence of a well laid out protocol for online classes poses series challenges to schools, universities in the state seem to have decided to take the untamed technology bull by the horns and domesticate it themselves. According to sources, APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University … Read more 05-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA Kerala brings Mission Grand Care to spread message of elderly safety   In Kerala, as the COVID-19 preventive measures enter the next stage, a new Mission Grand Care is being launched, spreading the message of elderly safety across the state.   The Kudumbasree Mission, had launched the scheme of Grand Care a massive awareness … Read more 04-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA Vishwas Mehta taken charge as chief secretary of Kerala   The cabinet appointed additional chief secretary Vishwas Mehta as the next chief secretary of the state. He is the state’s 46th chief secretary and will continue to hold the office till February 28, 2021.   Mehta had served in the state in various other capacities, including as additional … Read more 03-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA R Sreelekha to become Kerala’s first woman DGP   Kerala Police will get its first woman Director General when R.Sreelekha assumes office as the new head of the Kerala Fire and Rescue Services on June 1.   Presently an Additional Director General of Police, she currently heads the Jail Department. The Kerala government elevated … Read more 02-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs

KERALA Kerala to launch free internet project K-FON in December   The Kerala government has announced that its ambitious Kerala Fibre Optic Network (K-FON) project, envisaged to provide free internet will be launched in December 2020. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the decision after a meeting with the heads of companies of the consortium executing … Read more 01-06-2020 Daily KPSC Current Affairs- Live Discussion