Interesting facts about PM Narendra Modi

• The Calendar of PM Modi’s last 18 months is here. PM Modi has not taken a single day’s leave. Considering that he has made 18 foreign & 10 domestic trips and stayed away from the country for 89 days, and overall 100 days away from the office.
• It is said that Doordarshan helps Modi in translating and sending tweets/posts in foreign languages. Doordarshan has several language translators, and they can easily help out our PM.
• A surprising fact is that PM has not received any official gadget from the PMO. He uses his own personal mobile, which has been found to be iPhone on several occasions.
• Mr. Narendra Modi loves writing poem. He writes in Gujarati language and also has published some books written by him. He also love photography and had held an exhibition showing his collections of photographs clicked by him.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a patriot since childhood. During 1965 Indo-Pak war, he volunteered to serve the soldiers going in the war at the railway stations. He also served the flood affected people of Gujarat in 1967.
• The Internet speed accessed by PM and PMO is 34 Mbps which isn’t an ordinary person gets to experience.
• Narendra Modi is a teetotaller. He doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke. He is a complete vegetarian.
•  We all are aware of Narendra Modi’s love for Technology. Every morning he log in to his system and read everything written about him or anything that matters to him. This way he could know for what he is being criticized or praised.
• The kitchen expenses of PM are maintained personally by himself and no government money is incurred in that.
• Narendra Modi is married. His parents arranged his marriage when he was a child, at 13 he was engaged and by 18 he got married. They spent very little time together and were soon estranged because Modi decided to pursue an itinerant life.
• The Internet bill for PMO is a part of telephone bill at his office, and no separate record is maintained for that.

Special Status of Some Indian States

• Assam - 1969
• Nagaland-1969
• Jammu & kashmir-1969
• Himachal pradesh-1971
• Manipur-1972
• Meghalaya-1972
• Tripura-1972
• Sikkim-1975-76
• Mizoram--1986-87
• Arunachal Pradesh-1986-87
• Uttarakhand-2001-02

IMPORTANT CUPS AND TROPHIES

INTERNATIONAL

• American Cup :Yacht Racing
• Ashes: cricket
• Benson and Hedges:cricket
• Canada Cup:golf
• Colombo cup: Foot ball
• Corbitton Cup:Table tennis(Women)
• Davis Cup:lawn Tennis
• Derby:Horse Race
• Grand National :Streple Chase Race
• Jules Rimet Trophy:World Soccer cup
• King"s Cup:Air Races
• Merdeka Cup:football
• Ryder Cup:Golf
• Swaythling cup-Table tennis(Men)
• Thomas cup:Badminton
• U.Thant Cup:tennis
• Uber Cup:Badminton(Women)
• Walker Cup:Golf
• Winghtman Cup:Lawn Tennis
• World cup:Hockey
• Reliance Cup:cricket
• Rothman's Trophy:Cricket
• William's Cup:Basketball
• European Champions Cup:Football
• Eisenhower Cup:Golf
• Essande Champions Cup:Hockey
• Rene Frank Trophy:Hockey
• Grand Prix:Table Tennis
• Edgbaston Cup:Lawn Tennis
• World Cup;Weightlifting

Election In Canada

In a recent election held in October 2015 the Liberal party,led by Justin Trudeau,gained a clear majority in the 338-member House.The party has won 185 seats, the Conservative,the outgoing ruling party, 100 and the NDP , which is the main opposition party in the incumbent Government, is placed third with 42 sets. 19 Canadians of Indian origin are elected to the Canadian parliament. this is the highest ever presence of MPs with Indian roots in the House of commons in Canada.As many as 17 are of Punjabi origin. In 2011,only eight Indian-origin MPs were elected to the house of Commons,all of who were Punjabis. The role of Punjabis is important as it helped the Liberals go past the 170 mark needed for a simple majority. Among the prominent Punjabi winners are Navdeep Bains,Harjit Sajjan,Deepak Obnrai and Sukh Dhaliwal. Navdeep Bains and Sukh Dhaliwal  had the elections last time but won this time. Four Punjabi women-Sonia Sidhu,Kamal Khera,Anju Dhillon and Ruby Sahota have also been elected

The Uninon Council Of Ministers List

CABINET MINISTERS :-

1. Narendra Modi :Prime minister,personal,public grievances and pensions ;; Department of Atomic Energy ;; Department of Space and all other Ministries/Departments that are allocated to other ministers
2. Rajnath Singh :- Home affairs
3. Sushma Swaraj :-External affairs and Overseas Indian affairs
4. Arun Jaitley :- Finance,corporate affairs,information and broadcasting
5. M.Venkaiah Naidu:-Urban development,Housing and Urban poverty alleviation and Parliamentary affairs
6. Nitin Gadkari :- Road Transport and Highways Shipping\
7. Manohar Parrikar:-Defence
8. Suresh Prabhu:-Railways
9. D.V.Sadananda Gowda:-law and jaustice
10. Uma Bharti:- Water Resources,River development and Ganga Rejuvenation
11. Najma Heptullah:- Minority affairs
12. Ram Vilas Paswan :consumer affairs,food and public distribution
13. Kalraj Mishra:-Micro,small and medium enterprises
14. Maneka Gandhi:-Women and child Development
15. Ananth Kumar:-Chemicals and Fertilizers
16. Ravi Shankar Prasad:-Communications and Information technology
17. Jagat prakash Nadda :-Health and Family welfare
18. Ashok Gajapati Raju Pusapati:- civil and aviation
19. Anant Geete:-Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises
20. Chaudhary Birender Singh :-Rural Development,panchayati raj,Drinking water and sanitation
21. Harsimrat Kaur:- Food processing Industries
22. Narendra Singh Tomar:- Mines,Steel
23. Jual Oram:-Tribal affairs
24. Radha Mohan Singh:- Agriculture
25. Thawar Chand Gehlot:-Social justice and empowerment
26. Smriti Irani :-Human Resource Development
27. Harsh Vardhan:- Science and Technology,Earth Sciences

Challenges with Agricultural Marketing and APMC Act of 2003

Agricultural Marketing:-

India produces huge amount of food grains and other crops every year. But, the revenue generated through agricultural sector is far less than the production. The reason for this condition is that all the agricultural produce is not properly marketed. The farmers are not able to sell their produce directly in the market, but have to give them to the Middlemen at very low prices.

These middlemen stock them in the cold storages and warehouses and sell them in the black market at very high prices. Sometimes, by stocking the material for long periods they create demand in the market and the government itself is forced to raise the prices. Indian economy is very badly affected by this kind of illegal practices and mainly, the farmers do not get money even to cover their expenses and are even committing suicides.

APMC ACT of 2003, for development of agriculture in India:

The main features of this ACT are as follows:

1. Giving credit facilities to the farmers so that they can handle their own produce.
2. Apart from regulatory markets, other markets by private traders are also permitted.
3. Farmers are permitted to sell their produce directly to the consumers.
4. Public and private partnership should be encouraged in the marketing system.
5. Setting up of sufficient cold storage and warehouse facilities and making them accessible to the farmers.
6. Special markets should be set up for perishable items like fruits and vegetables.
7. Separate committees to decide the rates of commercial crops and non-commercial crops.
8. Imposing severe punishments for illegal practising and black marketing.

Internet Of Everything

Meaning 

• Internet of everything is a broad term that refers to devices and consumer products are connected to the Internet with digital futures . IoT ias an environment in which objects,animals or people are provided with unique identifiers and ability to transfer data without the help of both human and computer interaction

Importance

• The main thing in IoF is a person with a heart monitor implant,a farm animal with a biochip transponder,an automobile that has built-in sensors to alert driver when tire pressure is low were all the objects are assigned an IP address and provided ability to transfer data between each other
• Even new tools are emerging in IoT to efficiently manage water.Using this resources officials,citizens and business accurately predict everything from crop yields to rainwater runoff in order to increase efficiency and reduce pollution throughout the water system