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Updated Jul 15, 2022

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Top Current Affairs Of The Day: 15 July 2022
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Dr. S Jaishankar Launched 'Connecting Through Culture' At Sushma Swaraj Bhawan

S. Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister, launched "Connecting through Culture," an anthology of essays on different aspects of India's soft power strengths

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Highlights:

  • S. Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister, launched "Connecting through Culture," an anthology of essays on different aspects of India's soft power strengths, at Sushma Swaraj Bhavan in New Delhi, India. 

  • The Minister explained the book as a good cop in diplomacy and also said that it could be used to motivate others to work with India because it creates comfort about India.

  • It takes various aspects of India, and to some degree, it also brings out the familiarity with different facets of India. 

  • The anthology is a significant contribution to understanding India, appreciating and valuing India in many ways.

Nasscom Joins Google For Digivaani Call Center

Google and Nasscom Foundation has announced setting up a call center in collaboration with a not-for-profit body Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals.

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Highlights:

  • Google and Nasscom Foundation has announced setting up a call center in collaboration with a not-for-profit body Indian Society of Agribusiness Professionals (ISAP), helping women farmers scale up their business. 

  • The "DigiVaani Call Center" project is run on a pilot basis. Initially, around 20,000 rural women entrepreneurs will be covered across 6 states, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar, and Rajasthan.

  • DigiVaani will be a place where rural women entrepreneurs can call and get information about different schemes available for them, which could help them scale up their business, be it government schemes or any other details that can help them.

National Rail And Transportation Institute Is Upgraded As Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya

National Rail and Transportation Institute is upgraded as Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya. The deemed to be a university will be upgraded to a central university. The university is renamed Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya

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Highlights:

  • National Rail and Transportation Institute is upgraded as Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya. The deemed to be a university will be upgraded to a central university. The university is renamed Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya. 

  • The Union Cabinet has approved the introduction of a Bill in Parliament, called the Central Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2022, to amend the Central Universities Act, 2009 for setting up Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV).

  • The amendment would help convert a Deemed-to-be University, National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI), into Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, a Central University. 

  • The NRTI offers BBA in transportation management courses, BSc in transportation technology, and MSc in railway system engineering and integration.

About Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya:

  • The Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya is expected to be a key enabler for developing the transportation sector, which is strategically critical for the economic growth and development of India. 

  • The sector needs a steady supply of highly trained personnel and state-of-the-art technology. 

  • The university's scope will expand beyond the Railways to cover the whole transport sector to support its growth and modernization.


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