CURRENT AFFAIRS : PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR GREATER LINKS WITH ASEAN
THE SLOGAN : The government has adopted the motto of “transformation by transportation” to change the face of the northeast.
SLOGAN IN ACTION : The Centre has sanctioned Rs. 47,000 crore for 115 new railway lines and Rs. 90,000 for rural roads and National Highway projects in the region.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : IT’S COMPLICATED, SAY DELHI’S ‘NOTIONALLY UNWANTED GIRLS...

I BIHAR :

• Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar passed total liquor ban and in future to campaign against dowry and child marriage on Gandhi Jayanti.

• Online filling of FIR soon in Bihar – assured by Bihar Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh 

II SECOND WORLD WAR : BOMBERS

• Scientists have located two B-25 bombers, used in the Second World War, that went missing over 70 years ago in the waters off Papua New Guinea.

• W...

I : DRAGON’S BREATH: WORLD’S HOTTEST CHILLI PEPPER

• Grown by :  Welsh farmer Mike Smith.

• Use : The oil from the chilli is so potent that it could act as an alternative anaesthetic for those allergic to conventional drugs.

• Degree of hotness : The peppers measure 2.48 million on the Scoville heat scale.

II: Alakh Ji Maharaj Temple is in Rajasthan- and it is renovated.

III: NSG : NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP

• 48-nation...

News item 1 : Philippines Launches World’s First Public Immunization Program For Dengue

The Philippines on 4 April launched the first public immunization program for dengue fever,seeking to administer to a million school children the world’s first licensed vaccine against a mosquito-borne disease that the World Health Organization estimates infects 390 million people a year globally.

• Mexico was first country in the world to...

News item 1: USS Conestoga Shipwreck Discovered After 95 Years

US Navy tug USS Conestoga was in news as its wreck was discovered near one of the Farallones Islands about 30 miles (50 km) west of San Francisco. It was announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Navy of United States.

News item 2: G7 Hiroshima Declaration Calls For ‘World Without Nuclear Weapons’

The Group of 7 (G-7) countries’ f...