Narendra Modi lays foundation of Sant Ravidas temple in Madhya Pradesh.

  • PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for a temple-cum-memorial for Sant Ravidas and along with that also inaugurated developmental works which are worth Rs 4,000 crore in Madhya Pradesh in Aug 2023.
  • The memorial is steeped in the spirit of Samrasta as the soil of more than 20,000 villages and 300 rivers have been used in it.
  • Sant Ravidas was an Indian mystic poet-saint of the bhakti movement and founder of the Ravidassia religion during the 15th to 16th century CE.


MakeMyTrip and ministry of tourism jointly launched Traveller's Map.

  • Online travel company MakeMyTrip(MMT) has joined hands with the Ministry of Tourism to launch a microsite, 'Traveller’s Map of India in Aug 2023.
  • Aim: To showcases 600 plus destinations beyond the popular travel spots in the country.
  • Objective: To discover lesser-known tourism gems that lie within the country's borders based on their preferences.
  • According to MMT "This microsite has been designed in line with the Government of India’s visionary DekhoApnaDesh program".


Kupwara bagged "Best Performer District Award" under PMAY-G Convergence.

  • District Kupwara has been conferred with the award for the Best Performer District 2023 in UT of J&K under PMAY-G by Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor J&K UT, held at Srinagar.
  • Kupwara has received the award in recognition of the construction of 4723 PMAY houses out of a target of 4902 houses for FY 2022-23.
  • PMAY-Gis successfully fulfilled the dream of several poor and vulnerable families having their own Pucca house in frontier Kupwara district.


NAFIS gets Gold Award for fool-proof fingerprint identification system.

  • National Automated Fingerprint Identification System (NAFIS) Team won Gold Award under Excellence in Government Process Reengineering for Digital Transformation Category-1 by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Complaints in Aug 2023.
  • ABOUT NAFIS
    • NAFIS helps in the quick and easy disposal of cases with the help of a centralized fingerprint database.
    • It assigns a unique 10-digit National Fingerprint Number (NFN) to each person arrested for a crime.


First space-based Indian observatory Aditya-L1, is ready for launch.

  • The first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun - Aditya-L1, is getting ready for its launch in September 2023.
  • The spacecraft is expected to be placed in a halo orbit around the Lagrange point - L1 of the Sun-Earth system, which is about 1.5 million Km from the Earth and has advantage of continuously viewing the Sun without any eclipses.
  • This will provide a greater advantage of observing the solar activities and its effect on space weather in real-time.

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