CA-1st February 2018

1. According to a report by New World Wealth, has been ranked sixth in the list of wealthiest countries with a total wealth of $8,230 billion. The United States has topped this list.

2. The Indian Navy has launched the third Scorpene class submarine 'Karanj'. This submarine has been constructed by shipbuilder Mazagon Dock Limited (MDL).

3. Dr. Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated the High-Performance Computer (HPC) System named ‘Mihir’ (meaning ‘Sun’) at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF) at Noida.

4. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India signed a $250 million loan to finance the construction of 6,254 kilometers all-weather rural roads in Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal under the Prime Minister's Rural Roads Programme (PMGSY).

5. The Government of India and World Bank signed a USD 100 million (about Rs 6,400 crore) loan agreement to promote rural economy in selected blocks of .

6. Former governor of Chhattisgarh and Tripura, Dinesh Nandan Sahay died.

7. Lt. Gen Anil Chauhan took charge as the new Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) of the Indian Army.

8. Sharath Kamal has won the National Men's Singles Title for the Eighth Time at the 11Even Sports Senior Nationals in Ranchi.

9. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the first Khelo India School Games at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in .

10. Malayalam actor Mohanlal and athlete P. T. Usha were awarded with the honorary Doctorate of Literature (D.Litt) by Kerala Governor and Calicut University Chancellor P. Sathasivam.

11. Indian-American Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen has been elected as the Vice Chairman of the US-India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF).

12. Centre sanctions Rs 1,500 cr for organic farming in Uttarakhand for three years

13. Indian Railways set to get 1st high-speed electric locomotive in March (12,000 horsepower electric locomotive — being produced in collaboration with Alstom of France and which can run at speeds of up to 120 kmph — would be rolled out in March when French President Emmanuel Macron visits India)

14. 7th India Energy Congress held in New Delhi (minister R K Singh inaugurated this)

15. India joins Ashgabat agreement  on the establishment of an International Transport and Transit Corridor between the Iran, Oman, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan 16. Rwanda becomes first poor country to provide eye care for all  The government has partnered with the organisation Vision for a Nation (VFAN) to train more than 3,000 eye care nurses based in 502 local health centres, prescribing glasses and referring those with serious eye problems to national clinics.

17. Vidarbha claims U-19 Cooch Behar Trophy

 After winning their maiden Ranji Trophy earlier this season vidhrbha won U-19 also.

18. wins gold at India Open boxing in India Open Boxing Tournament, in New Delhi.  but the Indian men’s juggernaut was denied a complete sweep by traditional powerhouses Cuba and Uzbekistan

19. Shabnam Asthana has been awarded the ‘Times Power Women of the Year 2017’- Pune for Global PR. 20. Acclaimed Ottanthulal artist Kalamandalam Geethanandan passed away while performing at Avittathur Mahavishnu Temple in Kerala.

CA- 2nd February, 2018

1. World Wetlands Day: 2 February  Theme -“Wetlands for a Sustainable Urban Future  World Wetlands Day occurs annually on February 2nd, marking the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands on February 2, 1971.

2. India has slipped 10 places to reach the 42nd place on the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) annual Global Democracy Index 2017. The index ranks 165 independent states and two territories on the basis of five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation and political culture. Norway has topped this list.

3. Anu Kumar has won the first gold medal of the Khelo India School Games in 1500 metres.

4. Magahi writer Shesh Anand Madhukar has been honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Bhasha Samman Award 2018.

5. Senior bureaucrat Neelam Kapoor has been appointed as the Director General (DG) of the Sports Authority of India (SAI).

6. The Government of India has constituted a high-level committee to look into procedures for sharing of infrastructure for utilities like water pipes and telecom cables.

7. World’s oldest man Francisco Nunez Olivera passes away.

8. Govt makes PAN mandatory for transactions over ₹2.5 lakh

9. Home Ministry allots ₹370 crore to strengthen border infrastructure to the BSF and the ITBP (the Indo-Pak and Sino-India borders)

10. .Railways Minister Piyush Goyal announced that the Railways will set up a coach factory in Maharashtra’s Latur district.

11. Maharashtra govt approves new wildlife sanctuary at Ghodazari in Chandrapur district

12. UAE launches world’s longest zip line, measuring 2.83 kms in length. Guinness World Records officials certified the zip line in Ras al-Khaimah.

13. Canada’s Upper House of Parliament has passed a bill to modify the country’s national anthem in a bid to make it gender-neutral.  The words “thy sons command” in the second line of the anthem will be replaced with “all of us command”. The bill requires royal assent by Governor General Julie Payette to become law.

14. India unveils ‘world’s largest healthcare programme’  Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said India’s most vulnerable families would be able to access up to Rs 500,000 a year for hospital cover through the initiative.  The government currently provides 30,000 rupees towards healthcare for poor families, but that sum is insufficient to cover most medical procedures.

15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launchhed Khelo India Games  A revamped version of the original National School Games, Khelo India is an U-17 event which will feature only 16 disciplines which have been identified as most likely to win medals at the Olympic Games.  The best 1,000 athletes at the Khelo India Games will get scholarship of Rs 5 lakh every year for a period of eight years.

16. Senior-most Indian Information Service (IIS) officer Neelam Kapur was appointed Director- General of Sports Authority of India (SAI).  She is at present the Principal Director General of the Directorate of Field Publicity (DFP

17. Odisha bags ‘Geospatial World Excellence Award-2018’ for successful IT application for tracking of mineral production, dispatch and value accrued on real-time basis through its i3MS web-based software.

18. NITI Aayog’s Member Vinod Paul becomes the first Indian to receive WHO’s prestigious IhsanDogramaci Family Health Foundation Prize for his services in the field of family health. 19. PM Modi Pens Book ‘Exam Warriors’ to Help Students Reduce Stress

CA- 3rd February, 2018

1. Distinguished scientist Dinesh Srivastava took over as the Chief Executive Officer of Nuclear Fuel Complex (NFC). 2. Bharati Defence and Infrastructure Ltd (BDIL) has launched an interceptor vessel ‘V- 410’ for Indian Coast Guard. 3. Sheena Nellckal Varkey won a silver medal in women's triple jump on the opening day of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. 4. .India's leading squash player, Saurav Ghosal jumped five places to No 14 to become the highest ranked Indian in the latest Professional Squash Association (PSA) rankings.

5. 32nd Surajkund International Crafts Mela has been started in Faridabad.  Uttar Pradesh, which is the theme state  Kyrgyzstan is the Partner Nation for 32nd Surajkund International Crafts Mela 2018.

6. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Pfizer will set up a centre in New Delhi, to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

7. IMT Ghaziabad has been selected as champions of the United Nations’ initiative on Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME).

8. Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia released the book "Your Search for Happiness Ends Here," written by Anubha Gupta.

9. PM Modi inaugurates Global Investors’ Summit ‘Advantage Assam’ in Guwahati, Assam, a first of its kind initiative in the northeast in Guwahati

10. Environment Ministry(Dr Harsh Vardhan) launches ‘Green Good Deeds’ campaign  The campaign launched by the ministry aims to sensitise the people and students, in particular, about climate change and global warming. 11. India has contributed an additional $1 million to the India-UN Development Partnership Fund earmarked for South-South cooperation.

12. The 2nd edition of ‘Nobel Prize Series India 2018 with a theme Science Impact Lives’ and the ‘Nobel Science Exhibition and the India Science Exhibition: Ideas Changes the world’ was inaugurated by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in Goa.

13. International Conference on ‘DemetriosGalanos and His Legacy’begins in New Delhi at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA)  Many senior scholars and young researchers from Greece as well as from India are attending the conference 14. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the world’s smallest rocket with the ability to put a micro-satellite into orbit.  The rocket, an improved version of JAXA’s SS-520, was carrying a micro-satellite weighing three kilograms and was developed by the University of Tokyo to capture images of the Earth’s surface. 15. Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) signed a project agreement with the World Bank, even as the latter entered into a US $ 375 million loan agreement with the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance for Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP).

16. CRISIL, SIDBI Launch India’s First MSE Sentiment Index Arun Jaitley launched CriSidEx,  CriSidEx is a composite index based on a diffusion index of 8 parameters and measures MSE business sentiment on a scale of 0 (extremely negative ) to 200 ( extremely positive) .  17. India-US trade estimated to touch $140 billion in 2017  USD 118 billion in 2016.

18. India lifts U-19 World Cup trophy for record 4th time; thrashes Australia by 8 wkts at bay oval at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand.  India achieved the target of 217 runs, with 67 balls to spare.  Batsman Manjot Kalra was adjudged Man of the Match and Shubman Gill Man of the Series. 19. Filmmaker Shyam Benegal gets V Shantaram lifetime achievement award at 15th Mumbai International Film Festival(MIFF)  The award carries a trophy, a citation and cash prize of Rs 10 lakh.  Austrian filmmaker Stefan Bohun’s documentary “Brother Jakob, Are You Sleeping?” won the prestigious Golden Conch award for the best documentary in the International Competition. The Golden Conch award carries a cash prize of Rs 10 lakh.

CA- 4th February, 2018

World Cancer Day: 4 February  For 2016 to 2018, the theme for observing World Cancer Day is ‘We Can. I can.’  The primary goal of the day is to reduce the illness and related deaths by 2020.

1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day Global Investors' Summit 'Advantage Assam' in Guwahati.

2. Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) and Joint Stock Company United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), Russia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and engage in Design, Development and Execution of contemporary, State- of-Art vessels for Inland and Coastal Waterways.

3. Alibaba's affiliate Ant Small and Micro Financial Services Group (Ant) has invested about USD 200 million in online food ordering app Zomato.

4. Shabnam Asthana was awarded the 'Times Power Women of the Year 2017'- Pune for Global PR. She was awarded by the Minister of State for Social Justice and Special Assistance in the Government of Maharashtra, Dilip Kamble.

5. Hennessy has been appointed as the Chairman of Alphabet’s Board.

6. Thanglura Darlong has been appointed as Indian Ambassador to Romania.

7. Assam & National Building Construction Corporation has signed a MoU to set up a Twin Tower Trade Centre in Guwahati.

8. The Ministry of Defence (Department of Defence Production) has constituted a 17 member task force headed by Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran to study the use and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in military.

9. Country’s first def industrial corridor to link with Bengaluru  According to Union Budget 2018-19, the government will develop two defence industrial production corridors. Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the first corridor will link Chennai and Bengaluru and will pass through Coimbatore and several other industrial clusters.

10. Maharashtra becomes first state to set up welfare board for transgenders  This will make Maharashtra the first Indian state to have such a board. An amount of ₹5 crore has also been set aside to provide education, housing, and employment for the transgender community.

11. India’s biggest floating island released in Neknampur lake, hydrabad telangana.  The floating treatment wetland (FTW), a joint effort of Dhruvansh, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority and the Ranga Reddy district administration, supported by other organisations, was inaugurated in Hyderabad, Telangana. The India Book of Records recognised it as the largest FTW in the country.

12. Sri Lanka celebrated its 70th Independence Day today (4 February 2018). It was on this day in 1948 that Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, gained independence from 133 years of British colonial rule.

13. According to the Economic Survey 2017-18, Maharashtra’s has come out to be one of the largest states in terms of its economic size and prosperity gives it the largest share in India’s exports and the goods and service tax (GST) base.  The survey found Maharashtra had the largest share of the tax base at 16 per cent.

14. Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) to be renamed Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) by April In budget speech for 2018-19, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said with the roll out of GST the name of CBEC would be changed to CBIC.

15. Shuttler Sindhu loses India Open BWF World Tour Super 500 to Beiwen Zhang held in New Delhi.

16. Golfer Shubhankar Sharma wins Maybank Championship  Earlier he had won the European Tour’s Joburg Open in the second week of December 2017.

17. Lai Jia Yi from Malaysia won 4th edition of International Young Chef Olympiad (YCO) concluded in New Delhi and Indian student chef Surya Sekhar Roy Choudhury claiming the second position.

18. Actress Anjana Sukhani, has penned a book titled ‘Hisaab Kitaab’. The book is a how-to book on household budgeting.

CA- 5th February, 2018

1. Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated Numaligarh Refinery Limited's Diesel Hydro Treater Plant (DHTP) at the Petroleum and Natural Gas exhibition Pavilion of Global Investors Meet 'Advantage Assam'.

2. The Indian Railways has signed an agreement with the Department of Posts to set up Passenger Reservation System (PRS) counters at post offices across the country. 3. Hukum Singh, BJP parliamentarian from Uttar Pradesh's Kairana, passed away. 4. Denmark's Mathias Christiansen and Christinna Pedersen defeated Indonesian pair of Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva to win the India Open BWF Super 500 badminton mixed doubles title. 5. China's Shi Yuqi defeated Chinese Taipei's Chou Tien-Chen to win the India Open BWF Super 500 badminton men's singles badminton title.

6. J&K Social Welfare minister Sajad Gani lone inaugurated a women helpline service WHS (181).

7. Centre clears Rs 62cr (61.7 cr) for cleaning Sal river at Navelim in Goa at an estimated cost of Rs 61.7 crore.

8. . UP government in association with UNICEF launches DASTAK campaign  to eradicate deadly Acute Encephalitis Syndrome and Japanise Encephalitis disease in the state.  The war cry of DASTAK is Darwaja khatkhatao, AES aur JE ko bhagao. 9. The first ever International Kala Mela inaugurated by the Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu in New Delhi organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi in partnership with IGNCA of the Ministry of Culture 10. Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (KGAF 2018) began in Mumbai, Maharashtra with the theme “Hara Ghoda”.

11. After 154 years, Nepali tea receives international trademark

12. Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were crowned as champions of the 8th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship 2018 (B Division) after they defeated Kerala Hockey

13. Golfer Shubhankar Sharma was elevated from 193 to 72, a gain of 121 spots, in the world rankings making him the highest-ranked Indian in the world.

14. Nicos Anastasiades has been elected as the President of Cyprus.

16. Veteran Telugu actor Lakshmi Devi Kanakala passes away