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2022-08-23 21:29:18 Unified Payments Interface

UPI is ready to foray into the UK market starting with QR code-based transactions.

The NPCI International Payments Ltd has partnered with payments solutions provider, PayXpert to internationalise the acceptance of its payment solutions in the UK.

UAE, Japan, the US, Singapore, Bhutan, Nepal and France are already accepting UPI payment services.

NIPL is the wholly-owned subsidiary of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). ओपन / कमेंट

2022-08-23 21:22:51 Current Affairs - 23 Aug

104th Birth Anniversary Of Anna Mani: Google Doodle Pays Tribute To The Physicist, earned the title of “Weather Woman of India.“

Indian team secured the third rank in the medal tally at the 15th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 

National Action for Mechanism Sanitation Ecosystem (NAMASTE) is a central sector scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment 

Indians Remitted $6 Billion Q1 Of FY23 Under LRS Scheme

External affairs minister S Jaishankar unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi in Paraguay and visited the historic Casa de la Independencia

India's first commercial space situational awareness observatory set up in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand

Indian neurologist, Dr N V Sundara Chary has been elected as a Fellow of American Academy of Neurology

South Korea and the United States have started began their largest joint military drills, ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield’

Maharashtra govt will take a loan of 4,000 Cr rupees from Asian Development Bank for setting up medical colleges in 12 districts of the state

10th National Conference of Women Police has been started in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

World Water Week 2022: 23 August to 1 September, theme: “Seeing the unseen: The value of water”

Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the 23rd meeting of the Central Zonal Council in Bhopal, MP

Yogi Adityanath unveils the statue of Kalyan Singh in Lucknow.

Israeli Scientists have developed the world’s first synthetic embryo without sperm.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reaches Tashkent to attend SCO Defence Ministers’ meeting in Uzbekistan

EAM S Jaishankar inaugurates newly opened Indian Embassy in Asuncion in Paraguay

DRDO & Indian Navy successfully flight-test VL-SRSAM off Odisha coast

ADB and Indian Govt signs 96.3 million dollar loan agreement to provide safe drinking water & improve water supply and sanitation services in HP

US top infectious disease official Dr Anthony Fauci to step down from his post in December

PM congratulates Indian wrestling team on winning 16 medals at U-20 World Championships

Indian men's volleyball team wins bronze medal in 14th Asian U-18 Championship

UK record its biggest fall since 1709; GDP fell by 11.0 per cent in 2020

Internaut Day is being celebrated around the world today to mark the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991 ओपन / कमेंट

2022-08-23 21:16:48 UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List

A total of 14 elements from India are inscribed on UNESCO’S list of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Humanity

Last year, Durga Puja was included in UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list

India has nominated the Indian dance form Garba to be inscribed on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list

UNESCO’S list of Intangible Cultural Heritage was established in 2008

List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in India

• Buddhist Chanting
• Kalbelia
• Chhau Dance
• Koodiyattam
• Kumbh Mela
• Mudiyett
• Nawruz
• Ramlila
• Sankirtana
• Ramman
• Traditional Brass and Copper Craft of Utensil making
• Vedic Chanting
• Yoga
• Durga Puja ओपन / कमेंट

2022-08-23 19:40:28 NITI Aayog

estd 1 January 2015

Vice Chairperson Suman Bery

CEO Parmeswaran Iyer (Book Method in the madness , The Swachh Bharat Revolution)

Emphasis Bottom UP approach
Vision of Minimum Government Maximum Governance
Cooperative Federalism ओपन / कमेंट

2022-08-23 19:19:03 ASEAN - India

Celebrate 30 years ASEAN- India dialogue relation (1992)

ASEAN estd 1967
(Also called Bangkok declaration)

Hq Jakarta , Indonesia

Member countries 10

Brunei, Combodia, Indonesia, Malaysia,Laos , Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand ओपन / कमेंट

2022-08-23 19:12:34 IAS PCS Camp pinned «1st Ramsar site in India Chilka (Odisha) In World Cobourg Peninsula (Australia) In India Largest Ramsar site Sundarban (WB) Smallest Renuka (HP) Maximum sites Tamilnadu (14)>UP(10)>Punjab(6) India signed the Ramsar convention 1982 Total Ramsar site in…» ओपन / कमेंट

2022-08-23 19:08:44 1st Ramsar site in India Chilka (Odisha)

In World Cobourg Peninsula (Australia)

In India
Largest Ramsar site Sundarban (WB)
Smallest Renuka (HP)

Maximum sites
Tamilnadu (14)>UP(10)>Punjab(6)

India signed the Ramsar convention 1982

Total Ramsar site in India 75

Highest number of Ramsar sites in World UK (175)

Ramsar is a city in Iran shared border with Caspian Sea.

Caspian sea border countries Russia, Iran , Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan

Montreux record Keoladeo, Loktak ओपन / कमेंट

2022-08-23 19:02:30 UPPCS 2022 Mains Official Exam Date ओपन / कमेंट

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