08.06.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

KERALA Kerala’s MMR drops from 61 to 46   Kerala has yet again proved that it is on the right track when it comes to maternal and reproductive health by achieving the lowest maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in the country from 61 (2011-13) to 46 (2014-16).   The latest Sample Registration System (SRS) special bulletin on … Read more 08.06.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

04-05.02.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

KERALA 50,000 new cancer cases a year   As many as 50,000 new cancer cases are detected in the State every year, as per the registry at the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) here. The number of cancer cases in the State exceeds the national average. The number of deaths from cancer is over 20,000.   … Read more 04-05.02.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

04-05.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan budget to focus on farmers, tribal welfare   Chief minister Vasundhara Raje has hinted at focusing the election year budget on farmers and tribal welfare during a pre-budget meeting.   Following Central government’s budget, Raje asserted that the state budget will also aim to double the farmers’ income by 2022. The Union government in the … Read more 04-05.02.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

02.02.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

KERALA Highway widening will be over by 2020   All efforts are being made to widen the 590-km Kasaragod-Thiruvananthapuram National Highway corridor to four/six lanes by December 2020, official sources said.   Works to widen the Cherthala-Kazhakuttam corridor will begin in June, while the widening process will get under way on the Thalapady-Angamaly stretch in … Read more 02.02.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

27.01.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

KERALA State’s largest govt school turns 100   Government Moyan’s Girls Higher Secondary School, the largest government school in the State in terms of student strength. Set up in 1918, the school is celebrating its centenary by organising a year-long programme.   England-educated Moyan Kunhiraman of Thalassery had contributed to the setting up of the … Read more 27.01.18 Kerala(KeralaPSC) Current Affairs

27.01.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Two from Rajasthan get Padma Shri   Narayan Das Maharajand Maharao Raghuveer Singh from Rajasthan have been awarded Padma Shri on January 26. Maharaj from Jaipur and Singh from Sirohi have been nominated for the award for excellence in social work and history, respectively.   Seventy-five-year old Maharao Raghuveer Singh from Sirohi was awarded Padma Shri for … Read more 27.01.18 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

23.12.17 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs

RAJASTHAN Rajasthan to have ‘temple’ for kids to promote child rights   Kids will soon share the stage with Hindu Gods in a special temple in Rajasthan’s Banswara   The construction of such a temple in tribal-dominated Ghatol block where statues of young achievers from the area would be installed alongside the idols of Laddoo Gopal(Lord Krishna’s baby … Read more 23.12.17 (RPSC) Rajasthan Current Affairs