Today Current Affairs:5th October 2022 for UPSC IAS exams, State PSC exams, SSC CGL, State SSC, RRB, Railways, Banking Exam & IBPS, etc
Day: October 5, 2022
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin)
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin): According to the government data, 69% houses under PMAY in rural India are owned by women. Over 69% of houses constructed under the Prime Minister’s special housing scheme are either wholly or jointly owned by women in rural areas. As on September 29, 2022, a total of two crore houses […]
Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) Scheme
Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) Scheme: The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) launched the Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) Scheme. Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) is a body under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to fund rural and remote digital connectivity. The Centre in the draft telecom bill, 2022 has said that the USOF, created […]
Sapta Kosi High Dam Project
Sapta Kosi High Dam Project: India and Nepal have agreed to take forward the Sapta Kosi high dam project through further studies. Senior officials of the two sides have met and reviewed the bilateral water-sector cooperation, including the implementation of the Mahakali Treaty. Sapta Kosi High Dam is a multipurpose project proposed to be constructed […]
World Habitat Day 2022
World Habitat Day 2022: The United Nations observes the first Monday of October as World Habitat Day. This year, World Habitat Day will be observed on October 3. Theme: “Mind the Gap. Leave No One and Place Behind”. It seeks to draw attention to the growing inequalities and vulnerabilities in cities and human settlements that […]
Nobel Prize For Physiology
Nobel Prize For Physiology: Swedish scientist Svante Pääbo has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology for the year 2022 “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”. He has spearheaded the development of new techniques that allowed researchers to compare the genome of modern humans and that of other hominins […]
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize For 2022
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize For 2022: The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2022 will be awarded to Yunqing Tang. Yunqing Tang is an Assistant Professor with the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. According to SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Committee Ms. Yunqing’s works display a remarkable combination of sophisticated techniques, in which the arithmetic and geometry of modular curves […]
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana
Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana: The disbursal of small business loans under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY) logged a record 30 per cent growth in the first half of the current fiscal ended September compared to the same period last year. It is a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, launched on […]
