25.11.17 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Karnataka government goes digital with its publicity drive   State government publicity machinery handled by department of information and public relations is on a technologically upward curve. After dabbling with various forms of social media platforms – Twitter and Facebook included to drive home message of various government programmes to the netizens, the department has now switched … Read more

23.11.17 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Unmanned level crossing gates to go ‘smart’ soon   The Innovation Cell of the Mysuru Division of the South Western Railway has embarked upon the ‘Smart LC Gates’ project in which an alarm or buzzer will automatically be triggered at the unmanned LC gates and alert motorists.   The prototype entails adopting long-range … Read more

E-Commerce

IT applications- E-Cards, E-Shopping, E-Commerce E-Cards An electronic card (e-card) is a special occasion, greeting or post card created and customized within a website and sent through the Internet to the recipient. Customizations may include a wide variety of backgrounds and text fonts including some as cursive writing, graphic images, cartoon-style animations (proprietary to Adobe), … Read more

18.10.17 Uttarakhand (UKPCS) Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   36 forest officials to receive training in marine life census and conservation   Doon-based Wildlife Institute of India (WII) which has been mandated for biodiversity conservation and Ganga rejuvenation under the central government’s National Mission For Clean Ganga (NMCG) is going to train a batch of 36 personnel and officials along with front line staff of the … Read more

18.10.17 (KPSC) Karnataka Daily Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Karnataka CM to launch development works worth Rs 252 crore in Bantwal on Oct 22   Chief minister Siddaramaiah will inaugurate/ launch various development works worth Rs 252.50 crore in Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district on October 22.   Siddaramiah will inaugurate projects taken up at a cost of Rs 148.29 crore in Bantwal. The CM will also lay foundation … Read more

15.10.17 (KPSC) Karnataka Daily Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Casteism comes in the way of Matrupoorna scheme   Pregnant women in some villages are refusing to have freshly cooked meals provided to them under the Matrupoorna scheme because it is cooked by women belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.   Matrupoorna was an ambitious project launched recently by the state government … Read more

15.10.17 Uttarakhand (UKPCS) Current Affairs

UTTARAKHAND   Pancheshwar dam displaced to be resettled on irrigation department land   ð Tourism and irrigation minister Satpal Maharaj said that he will soon hold talks with UP chief minister Adityanath Yogito get land in Uttarakhand which is currently under UP government’s control to rehabilitate around 33,000 people who would be displaced due to submergence of their villages … Read more