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Nepal to get internet connection from china ending India's monopoly. Nepal was fully dependent on Indian telecom companies like Tata communications and Bharati Airtel for internet services using fibre connections. Now Nepal has joined hands with china to offer internet services to its citizens, ending India's decade long monopoly of Nepal's cyber connectivity network. It is expected that initial speed of the internet by Chinese fibre link will be 1.5 Gigabit per second , less than that of 34 GBPS by India however it will have a huge impact on India. Recent tie ups include allowing to use Beijing's port by Nepal to do trade goods with third countries. Nepal also joined "Belt and Road initiative" which is China's endeavour to develop modern silk road. #IndiaNepalChina #OIAtitbit #officersIASacademy #NepalChina

One rupee note is printed by Ministry of Finance and signed by Finance Secretary. However it circulates notes and Coins through RBI only. Biggest question that comes to mind of people is that after all, Why the Finance Ministry is reducing the size of the coins year by year and why the metal used in coins is also changing. When the Indian government did not have much machinery to mint more coins, then India’s coins were extracted in many foreign mints and imported to India (1997-2002). By this time, the coins were made of “Cupro Nickel”. But after 2002, when prices of copper nickel increased, the cost of making coins also increased, due to which the govt. started using “Ferritic Stainless Steel” since people started melting the copper coins and started gaining profit.This Stainless steel contains 17% Chromium and 83% Iron. Actually any coin has 2 values : One is Face value – “ Amount written on the coin” , the other is metallic value – “value of metal used in the formation of coin”.This is the reason that govt. tries that the metallic value of any coin should remain less than its face value so that people do not encourage to melt the coin to bear the loss. #OIAtitbit #officersIASacademy #coinsofindia

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon has become the richest man in the history with a net worth of USD 105.1 billion., overtaking the wealth Bill Gates ever had to his name.Bill Gates had been the richest man ever, with a fortune that topped $100 billion in 1999. Now, Index showed that Bezos' Most of Bezos' wealth comes from his 78.9 million shares of Amazon stock. Now the top 3 richest people in the world are Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Jeff Bezos - Founder and CEO of Amazon Bill gates - Co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation Warren Buffet -Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway #OIAtitbit #officersIASacademy #JeffBezos #amazon

"There are two powers in the world, one is sword and the other is pen. There is a great competition rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women" - Muhammad Ali Jinnah Mumbai - Matunga on Central Railway (CR) is the first all-women station in India.Manned by a staff of 41 women, the station in Mumbai has entered the Limca Book of Records. Seventeen ladies have been posted for operations and commercial, six Railway Protection Force, eight for ticket checking, two announcers and two conservancy staffers, and five point persons, totalling 41, under the charge of Station Manager Mamta Kulkarni. Incidentally, Kulkarni holds the distinction of becoming the first woman assistant station manager to be recruited on the CR's Mumbai Division in 1992. Note : Earlier, the Indian Railways' Mumbai region set new records in women's empowerment with Surekha Bhosale-Yadav becoming the first woman train driver on CR in 1988, later the world's first 'Ladies Special' suburban train introduced on Western Railway in 1992. #OIAtitbit #officersIASacademy #matungarailwaystation #limcabookofrecords

SpaceX lofted the super-secret Zuma spacecraft for the U.S. government , successfully executing a mission that also featured yet another landing by the first stage of the company's Falcon 9 rocket.The main goal of this flight was getting Zuma aloft, so the spacecraft can start going about its business. Just what that business may be is unclear; little has been revealed about the payload. If Zuma is a national-security mission, it wouldn't be the first one that SpaceX has launched. Falcon 9s also launched a satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office in May 2017 and the Air Force's robotic space plane. #science #technology #zuma #SpaceX #OIAtitbit #officersIAacademy

Union Minister of Earth Sciences Dr Harsh Vardhan dedicated India’s fastest and first multi-petaflops supercomputer named ‘Pratyush’ to the nation in Pune. It is established at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune. India’s supercomputing process moved up several notches, after it unveiled Pratyush, an array of computers that can deliver a peak power of 6.8 petaflops. Pratyush is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world followed by machines in Japan, USA and United Kingdom.It will be a national facility for improving weather and climate forecasts and services under the umbrella of the Ministry of Earth Sciences. Note : One Petaflop is a million billion floating point operations per second and is a reflection of the computing capacity of a system. #OIAtitbit #officersIASacademy #pratyush #supercomputer

In India, majority of the people have accepted Hindi as a national language and many people speak Hindi and write in Devanagari script but there is nothing on record to suggest that any provision has been made or order issued declaring Hindi as a national language of the country. This has been upheld by Gujarat High court in 2010. In the Indian Constitution, Hindi was declared as an official language and not a national language. Part XVII of the Indian Constitution deals with Official Language. Under Article 343, official language of the Union has been prescribed, which includes Hindi in Devanagari script and English. #OIAtitbit #officersIASacademy #nationallanguageofindia

India's only floating post office in Dal Lake, Srinagar was inaugurated in 2011. Dal Lake is known for its natural beauty, its location between mountains, and its lovely weather and ambiance. Floating post office is another jewel to its crown .This Post Office has been attracting tourists from all across the country. It also includes a philately museum and a shop that sells postage stamps. A special feature is that letters posted from this floating post office carry a special design with pictures of scintillating landscapes of the Dal Lake and other Srinagar attractions. #officersIASacademy #floatingpostoffice #indiapost #dallake #OIAtitbit