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64th NATIONAL FILM AWARDS: Akshay Kumar accepts award for Rustom, Sonam for Neerja..

3-MAY-2017

Akshay Kumar was felicitated with the Best Actor award while Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja got the Best Hindi. Film award by President Pranab Mukherjee.

 http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/live-64th-national-awards-pranab-mukherjee-felicitates-the-akshay-kumar-neerja/story-Ni0GSIGNmWzir8BQ9BR1OP.html

UDAN SCHEME: Govt set to announce regional aviation routes, airlines..

12 APRIL 2017

  Aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju. The first phase of the Udan scheme for regional aviation will include 45 airports and about 70-odd routes.

http://www.livemint.com/Companies/E47rZX6yNfdvUxiQIpeLYJ/Udan-scheme-Govt-set-to-announce-regional-aviation-routes.html

Rs 1000 and 500 notes become history in Modi’s war on black money..

9 NOVEMBER 2016..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the abolition of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 currency notes on Tuesday, in a dramatic late evening move aimed at stamping out corruption and illicit funds from the economy. There will be no restrictions on online banking or transactions using debit and credit cards or other instruments such as cheques and demand drafts. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue a new Rs 2000 and Rs 500 notes later.

 http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rs-1000-and-500-notes-become-history-in-pm-modi-s-war-on-black-money/story-fIWdjMm3yVMrbN04rI8jPO.html

 

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. It was first identified in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a village near the Ebola River, from which it takes its name. It is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. Fruit bats are natural host of this virus. It spreads through contact with body fluids of inflected persons such as blood, urine and saliva. Symptoms faced by people who have contracted the Ebola virus include high fever, bleeding and central nervous system damage. In 2014, Ebola virus had erupted periodically mainly across west and east Africa mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It was the deadly outbreak of the virus in the history that had killed 11,000 people.

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The Union Civil Aviation Ministry has announced regional aviation routes and airlines after the first round of bidding under UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) Scheme. In the first round, as many as 128 routes connecting 70 big and small airports across the country were selected and all flights will become active within 4-6 months. Key facts The airlines selected under this round are SpiceJet, Air India subsidiary Alliance Air and regional airlines Turbo Megha Airways, Air Deccan and Air Odisha Aviation Some of the inactive airports selected are Shimla, Bikaner, Agra, Gwalior, Rourkela, Kadapa, Jharsuguda, Vidyanagar, Burnpur, Kullu, Diu, Mysore, Shillong, Jagdalpur, Salem, Utkela, and Hosur. The regional airlines will connect these destinations with their nearest bigger airports such as Delhi, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Jaipur, among others. UDAN Map About UDAN Scheme UDAN is an innovative scheme to develop the regional aviation market. It is a market-based mechanism in which airlines bid for seat subsidies. Under this scheme, half of the seats on the plane will be capped at Rs. 2,500 per hour’s flight. Government will subsidise the losses incurred by airlines flying to dormant airports by charging Rs. 2,500 per hour’s flight. 80% of the subsidy will be collected by charging a levy of up to Rs. 8,500 on each departing flight of domestic airlines and the rest 20% will come from the respective State governments. Government will provide subsidy to airlines for first three years of operations when they will have exclusive flying rights on the selected routes. Once the market in these routes gets jump started, it will operate on a commercial basis as per market forces of supply and demand.

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Government announces regional aviation routes and airlines under UDAN scheme March 31, 20171 Comment The Union Civil Aviation Ministry has announced regional aviation routes and airlines after the first round of bidding under UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik) Scheme. In the first round, as many as 128 routes connecting 70 big and small airports across the country were selected and all flights will become active within 4-6 months. Key facts The airlines selected under this round are SpiceJet, Air India subsidiary Alliance Air and regional airlines Turbo Megha Airways, Air Deccan and Air Odisha Aviation Some of the inactive airports selected are Shimla, Bikaner, Agra, Gwalior, Rourkela, Kadapa, Jharsuguda, Vidyanagar, Burnpur, Kullu, Diu, Mysore, Shillong, Jagdalpur, Salem, Utkela, and Hosur. The regional airlines will connect these destinations with their nearest bigger airports such as Delhi, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Jaipur, among others. UDAN Map About UDAN Scheme UDAN is an innovative scheme to develop the regional aviation market. It is a market-based mechanism in which airlines bid for seat subsidies. Under this scheme, half of the seats on the plane will be capped at Rs. 2,500 per hour’s flight. Government will subsidise the losses incurred by airlines flying to dormant airports by charging Rs. 2,500 per hour’s flight. 80% of the subsidy will be collected by charging a levy of up to Rs. 8,500 on each departing flight of domestic airlines and the rest 20% will come from the respective State governments. Government will provide subsidy to airlines for first three years of operations when they will have exclusive flying rights on the selected routes. Once the market in these routes gets jump started, it will operate on a commercial basis as per market forces of supply and demand

Read more at: http://currentaffairs.gktoday.in/government-announces-regional-aviation-routes-airlines-udan-scheme-03201743121.html