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For intra-State movement, the e-way bill will be rolled out in a phased manner beginning April

15 and will cover all the States by June 1. Businesses will continue to file summary sales return

GSTR-3B until June as the GST (Goods and Services Tax) Council has extended the present

system of return-filing by three months. Electronic way or e-way bill for movement of goods

between States would be implemented from April 1.

India TV chairman and editor-in- chief Rajat Sharma will be the new president of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA) for 2017-18.

The Reserve Bank of India has appointed Smt. Malvika Sinha as Executive Director (ED).

As Executive Director Smt. Sinha will look after Foreign Exchange Department, Department of Government and Bank Accounts and Internal Debt Management Department.

Smt. Malvika Sinha holds a Masters Degree from University of Bombay and has done her Masters in Public Administration. She is also a Certificated Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers.

Smt. Sinha joined Reserve Bank in 1982 and as a career central banker served in the areas of regulation and supervision, foreign exchange and Government and Bank Accounts in the Bank. Prior to being promoted as ED, Smt. Sinha was Principal Chief General Manager, Department of Co-operative Banking Supervision in the Reserve Bank.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere and where most clouds are. That means all weather is in the troposphere. Almost all weather occurs in the Troposphere, basically, the lowest layer that goes up to about 10 - 15 kms.

Uttar Pradesh is the most polluted state in India, with 15 of its cities among 30 cities with highest levels of toxic air in the country. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi turned out to be the worst polluted city of UP. Countrywide, it came sixth.

Other towns and cities in UP on the list are Hapur, Bareilly, Firozabad, Kanpur, Agra, NOIDA, Allahabad, and Mathura where PM10 levels were way above permissible limits.

Kerala is the least polluted state in the country, India. In all the 14 districts of the state, NAAQ(National Ambient Air Quality Standards) standards are complied with and had lower concentrations of PM10. However, all the cities surpassed the PM10 standards prescribed by WHO.

The report - Airpocalypse II - is based on air pollution related data collected from Central and State Pollution Control Boards and Committees.

The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) announced the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY) Antyodaya Diwas, on 25th September 2014. DDU-GKY is a part of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), tasked with the dual objectives of adding diversity to the incomes of rural poor families and cater to the career aspirations of rural youth.

DDU-GKY is uniquely focused on rural youth between the ages of 15 and 35 years from poor families. Over 180 million or 69% of the country’s youth population between the ages of 18 and 34 years, live in its rural areas. Of these, the bottom of the pyramid youth from poor families with no or marginal employment number about 55 million.

According to Guiness World Records, the world's oldest living man Masazo Nonaka has turned 113 years on 25 July of 2018 in Japan's Hokkaido.

Francisco Nunez Olivera was the former oldest person who died on 29th of January 2018 at the age of 112 years.

Les Colley (1898 - 1998, Australia), is the oldest ever man to father a child. He had his ninth child a son named Oswald to his third wife at the age of 92 years 10 months.