National News Affairs
- India’s first full-length feature film ‘Raja Harishchandra‘ was released 104 years ago on this day (3rd May) in the year 1913.
- This film was produced and directed by Dadasaheb Phalke.
- The Madhya Pradesh Cabinet today decided to grant the status of “living human entity” to Narmada river.
- The proposal to grant the status to Narmada river came after the Uttarakhand High Court accorded the status to Ganga and Yamuna rivers.
- Sualgiri and Swalgiri communities of Odisha have been notified as Scheduled Castes after President Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order (Amendment) Act, 2017.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated the Patanjali Research Institute at Patanjali Yogpeeth in Haridwar.
- This institute will be the first organisation in India to conduct clinical trials as per international standards in the field of Ayurveda.
- The Karnataka government passed an order putting a cap of ₹200, exclusive of taxes, on the price of movie tickets at cinema halls, including multiplexes, across the state.
- World’s highest railway bridge which will be 35 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower is to come up over the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir at a cost of around Rs. 1,100 crore in around two years from now.
- This bridge will connect Bakkal (Katra) and Kauri (Srinagar).
