Current Affairs (Feb 19 – Mar 18) For SBI PO Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue : 31 | Page : 24 | Topic : Current Affairs | Price : Not for Sale Current Affairs: Work for the next generation of year MCLR stands unchanged at 8.25 Sumitra Mahajan inaugurates South twin reservoirs for the city’s drinking India's vaccine regulatory body NRAI percent". Asian Speakers Summit in Madhya water requirements might commence this gets highest WHO ratings: Pradesh: year, more than a century after the WHO completed the assessment of Sprint and T-Mobile Merger Back on The two-day South Asian Speakers Osmansagar and Himayatsagar lakes the status of the Indian vaccine the Table as SoftBank Agrees to Cede Summit was inaugurated by Lok Sabha were conceptualised by the legendary regulatory system against WHO NRA Control of Sprint: Speaker Sumitra Mahajan at Indore in engineer Mokshagundam Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) and Sprint parent company SoftBank Madhya Pradesh. Visvesvaraya. The existing twin measured the maturity of the system in is prepared to sell Sprint to T-Mobile The summit is being organised reservoirs together can hold 6 tmc of India. parent company Deutsche Telekom, jointly by the Indian Parliament and water, the future twins are being planned The National Regulatory reviving a potential merger between the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a for holding a whopping 20 tmc of water Authority of India (NRAI) has been two companies. SoftBank is reportedly global organisation for multilateral political each. given the maximum ratings by global frustrated with Sprint's growth in the and legislative discussions. This will health body World Health Organisation United States and is ready to surrender conclude with the adoption of an ‘Indore Swachh Bharat Mission: Tamil Nadu's for vaccine regulations. control of the company and take a minority Declaration’ at a closing ceremony. Perambalur district builds 4666 toilets stake in T-Mobile. in 48 hours: Gambia's new president set for Aadhaar a must for scholarships: Each unit costed Rs 12,000 and inauguration: Lata Mangeshkar gets Legendary The Human Resource was constructed with full government Gambia's new president Adama Award: Development (HRD) Ministry has made subsidy. In a mission to provide all rural Barrow is set to be inaugurated this tiny Melody Queen Lata Mangeshkar Aadhaar mandatory for providing households with individual toilets in West African nation celebrates wider has been honoured with the ‘Legendary scholarships to meritorious school Perambalur district, the District Rural freedoms after a tense political standoff Award’ by Brand Laureate. The Brand students from economically weaker Development Agency (DRDA) built with its former leader. Laureate Awards recognise worldclass sections. Students who want to avail 4,666 toilets in 121 villages in 48 achievement in branding amongst scholarship benefits under ‘National hours under the Swachh Bharat BCCI General Manager RP Shah individuals and companies. Means-cumMerit Scholarship Scheme’ Mission. The total cost of the work was Rs resigns: need to get enrolled under Aadhaar by 7.20 crore. RP Shah, one of the three Nagpur IIT Madras’ first step to June 30. This will not be applicable in the General Managers of BCCI, resigned cheaper cancer diagnostic alternative: states of J&K, Assam and Meghalaya. GST Council clears law to compensate from his post citing his age as a “reason”. A team of researchers from the states for revenue loss: Shah was the General Manager Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kashmir to observe 2017 as the ‘Year The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley- (Commercial) and was considered to be Madras has developed a cheaper yet of Apple’: led GST Council finalised the Draft one of the big decision makers in board’s reliable alternative for diagnosing Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti Compensation Bill, in a bid to speed up the commercial interests. leukaemia and colorectal cancer. Like 2017 as ‘Year of Apple’ in a major bid to rollout of Goods and Services Tax by SBI associate SBT to raise up to 600 monoclonal antibodies which are currently promote the famed Kashmiri apples in July 1, 2017. The 10th meeting of the crore: used for cancer diagnostics, the fusion domestic and foreign markets. The Chief GST Council also cleared the final Ahead of its proposed merger with protein developed by the researchers has Minister launched the High Density Apple drafting of the anti-profiteering clause SBI, State Bank of Travancore (SBT) high specificity and sensitivity. The results Plantation Scheme in Srinagar. to ensure benefit of lower taxes gets will raise up to 600 crore to shore up were recently published in the journal These high-density plants will be shared with consumers. Crucial draft laws additional tier-I capital by issuing Basel Molecular Diagnosis & Therapy. routed through J&K Bank along with the pertaining largely to Central GST (CGST), compliant bonds through private subsidy. “Fifty per cent subsidy would Integrated GST (IGST) and State GST placement. The bank got approval of its Inexpensive mass production of smart be provided by the government to the (SGST) are yet to be finalised. The GST Executive Committee to raise the money. and stretchable fabric at almost any farmers under the scheme. Council will now meet next on March 4 “The executive committee of the size: and 5 to give final touches to the CGST, board of directors of the bank at its Michigan State University Aero India- 2017 concludes at IGST and SGST laws. meeting has approved the raising of up to researchers have developed the first Yelahanka in Bengaluru: 600 crore by way of issue of Basel III stretchable integrated circuit made th 11 biennial edition of the China to build reactors in South China compliant additional tier-I bonds by private entirely using an inkjet printer. The International Aerospace and Defence Sea: placement,” SBT said in a regulatory filing. researchers successfully created the elastic exhibition- Aero India concluded at the To power its offshore oil and gas material, the circuit and the organic light- Air Force Station, Yelahanka in exploration work, China is stepping up Axis Bank keeps MCLRs unchanged; 1- emitting diode, or OLED. The next step is Bengaluru. AIR correspondent reports construction of floating nuclear reactors yr tenor loan at 8.25%: combining the circuit and OLED into a that Asia’s biennial premier air show Aero in the South China Sea, which is claimed Private sector Axis Bank has single pixel. India 2017, has received overwhelming by multiple countries. China is seeking help decided to keep the marginal cost of response from business delegates and from Russia to speed up the project. At fund based lending rates (MCLRs) Scientists from Disney Research have general public. present, diesel generators are the main unchanged for the next monthly cycle. found a way to charge electrical Hyderabad to get new set of twin power source for China’s offshore "Axis Bank reviews and retains the MCLRs devices without using wires: reservoirs: operations. at the same levels across tenors. The one 7601808080 / 9043303030 |IS NOW IN CHENNAI | MADURAI | TRICHY | SALEM | COIMBATORE| CHANDIGARH| BANGALORE| www.RACEInstitute.in |CURRENT AFFAIRS | Feb 19 – Mar 18| 2 The method involves inducing his political career with the Forward Bloc toilet. Maulana Mahmood A Madani, Utilization of Biological Engineering in electric currents in the metallised walls and later moved to the Congress in the late secretary general of Jamiat Ulama-i- Space (CUBES) and Institute for Ultra- which in turn generate uniform magnetic 70s before joining the Shiv Sena. Hind, said having a toilet has been made a Strong Composites by Computational fields that penetrate the interior of a Senior journalist Yudhisthir Joshi mandatory condition for Muslim marriage Design (US-COMP) with expected room. This technology could make passes away: in the three States and will be soon be outcome within 5 years. electricity as accessible as wifi. Senior Marathi journalist applied in all other States in the country. India get silver at Asian Women's Yudhisthir Joshi passed away after a Scientists Discovers Lost Continent Rugby Sevens Trophy: brief illness. He was 81. Joshi passed away 300 delegates to participate in Digital Zealandia Hidden Submerged in Pacific The Indian Women's team settled at his residence in Mira Road near here, India conference: Ocean: for silver at the Asian Rugby Sevens family sources said. He was editor with Computer Society of India, Vizag A Lost Continent that sunk about Trophy held at Vientiane, Laos. The leading Marathi publications such as Chapter, chairman and RINL director DN 100 million years ago has been team participated under the aegis of the Lokmat. Rao said that elaborate arrangements discovered underneath New Zealand by Indian Rugby Football Union (IRFU), were being made for the two-day the scientists. Zealandia, a lost continent the governing body for the sport of Rugby Maharashtra Approves Rs. 250 crore international conference DIGITS-2017 submerged in the southwest Pacific in India and supported by Society Cloud Seeding Programme: (Digital India in Global IT Spectrum) to Ocean, is large enough to be recognized General, the financial partner of Rugby The state government of be held from February 24 in the city. The as a separate continent. India. Maharashtra has approved a Rs. 250 CSI in association with Visakahpatnam Journal of the Geological Society of crore Cloud Seeding Programme to Steel Plant is organising the event with the America. Zealandia covers nearly 5 Sandeep wins in record time: experiment whether cloud seeding theme of Innovate, Integrate and million sq. km (1.9 million sq miles) out Sandeep Kumar clocked a produces sufficient rain. Seeding is a Transform. of which 94 percent is under water and National Record 3 hours 55 minutes technique which involves spraying surrounds New Zealand, New Caledonia, 59.05 seconds in winning the 50 chemicals into clouds.