One liner for english

One liner for english

1. On August 23, 2020, Nuakhai Juhar festival was celebrated in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and other neighbouring states. It is celebrated to welcome the new crop of the season. It is also called Nuakhai Parab or Nuakahi Bhetghat.

2. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways and MSMEs Nitin Gadkari is to lay foundation stone of and inaugurate 35 highway projects in Madhya Pradesh on 25th August. These projects will cost around Rs.9,400 crore.

3. On August 25, 2020, the State Minister of Assam, Siddhartha Bhattacharya is to inaugurate India’s longest ropeway across river Brahmaputra. The ropeway is to cut short the travel time by almost an hour. It is 2 km long and the distance is covered in 7 minutes. One-way ride is to cost Rs 60.

4. The Indian Railways have generated more than 6,40,000-man days under Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyan in six states. They are Jharkhand, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh.

5. The National Statistical Office is to release its data for this quarter on August 31, 2020. According to the NSO officials, in spite of agricultural production going up in the country, the GDP is contracting. This is the first time India is witnessing fall in GDP in spite of agricultural production going up.

6. On August 23, 2020, the Central Government wrote to the State governments and the Union Territories that all the disabled persons should be included under National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013.

7. The Prime Minister Modi in his Independence Day address mentioned the mega plan of “One Sun One World One Grid” project. It is a trans-national electricity grid supplying solar power project. The idea of the project was first introduced by PM Modi in 2018 during the International Solar Alliance.

8. The Government of India has proposed stricter norms to ensure greater safety on highways. It includes features such as machine mounted audible travel alarms, requirements for operator station, non-metallic fuel tank, operator visibility for construction equipment machinery.

9. International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition observed on August 23.

10. Govt frames norms for enforcement of ‘rules of origin’ for imports under free trade agreements (FTAs) to check dumping of goods by a third country routed through an FTA partner country.