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Jan 2018 to June 2018) (For Sbi Po Main & Sbi Clerk Main Exams) CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE (JAN 2018 TO JUNE 2018) (FOR SBI PO MAIN & SBI CLERK MAIN EXAMS) NATIONAL • NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has selected 3,000 additional schools for the India has pledged USD 5 million in assistance to the establishment of Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs). UN agency working for the welfare of Palestinian Atal Tinkering Labs are dedicated works spaces refugees. where students (Class 6th to Class 12th) learn • The Union Ministry of Human Resource innovation skills and develop ideas that will go on Development (HRD) proposed a draft bill to repeal to transform India. the University Grants Commission (UGC) and set up • The government has launched 5,000 Wi-Fi the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI). Choupals in villages and delivery of rail tickets • Union Health Minister JP Nadda launched the through Common Service Centres (CSCs). National Health Resource Repository (NHRR) -- The move is aimed at transforming rural Internet the country's first-ever national healthcare connectivity through Bharat Net. registry of authentic, standardised and updated • India Meteorological Department (IMD) will use flash geo-spatial data of all public and private flood guidance system for the first time in the healthcare establishments. country to forecast floods. Currently, the Central • Minister for Water Resources Nitin Gadkari released Water Commission issues flood warnings. Niti Aayog’s composite water management index • Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports report in New Delhi. Gujarat topped the list while Rajyavardhan Rathore has approved the upward Jharkhand was adjudged as the worst performer. revision of pension to meritorious sportspersons. Gujarat is followed by Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Under the revision, the rate of pension has been Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra. doubled of the existing rate of pension on winning • According to a Save the Children’s "End of medals in international sports events. Childhood Index 2018”, India ranks 113 among • The Election Commission has launched it's online 175 countries with regards to where childhood is RTI Portal. The portal- rti.eci.nic.in will facilitate threatened as a result of poor health, applicants seeking information under the Right to malnutrition, exclusion from education, child Information Act. labour, and child marriage. • The Union government has announced a package Singapore and Slovenia are placed at the top of more than Rs 8,000 crore aimed to provide relief sharing the first place in the index and Niger to sugarcane farmers and to clear their dues. figures at the end of the list at 175. • India received the first-ever cargo of Liquefied • Human Resources Development Minister Natural Gas (LNG) from Russia at Petronet LNG Prakash Javadekar launched the National Digital Ltd’s import terminal in Dahej, Gujarat. Library of India (NDLI). The library will become a • Union Minister for Women and Child Development single window platform for all educational needs. Maneka Gandhi laid the foundation stone of India's • The Union Minister for Railways, Coal, Finance & first advanced DNA forensic laboratory in Company Affairs, Mr Piyush Goyal inaugurated Chandigarh as part efforts to reduce the backlog of Neyveli Lignite Corporation India Limited cases needing advanced forensic analysis. (NLCIL)’s three 100 MW Solar Power Projects for • President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent commercial operations. to an ordinance to set up the country’s first • President Ram Nath Kovind launched Solar national sports university in Manipur. Charkha Mission which will entail a subsidy of 550 • The Government notified the Electoral Bond crore rupees in the initial two years for 50 clusters. Scheme 2018 via Gazette Notification. As per The scheme is aimed at linking five crore women provisions of the Scheme, Electoral Bonds may and self-help groups to the initiative. be purchased by a person, who is a citizen of • India extended a financial aid of Rs 99 million to India or incorporated or established in India. Nepal for the construction of 2,700 shallow tube • The government has set up a committee under well irrigation systems in 12 districts of the former Delhi Metro chief E Sreedharan to lay country's southern Terai region to boost down standardisation norms for components with agricultural productivity. an aim to cut costs in the construction and • The Union Government has announced to operation of metro rail systems in the country and establish India’s first national police museum in bring them under the Make in India umbrella. Lutyens' Delhi. • The First biannual Indian Air Force Commanders’ • The government has approved a 33% increase in Conference was inaugurated by Defence Minister carpet area of houses eligible for interest subsidy Nirmala Sitharaman at Air Headquarters in New under its affordable housing scheme Pradhan Delhi. Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) to attract • NITI Aayog’s Women Entrepreneurs Platform has more beneficiaries. signed five Statements of Intent (SoIs) with The carpet area of a house has been enhanced financial institutions and social organisations to to 160 sq. m from 120 sq. m for Middle Income provide assistance to women entrepreneurs and Group-I (MIG-I), while it has been increased to address the finance-related challenges faced by 200 sq. m from 150 sq. m in case of MIG-II. them. Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd. (T.I.M.E.) HO: 95B, 2nd Floor, Siddamsetty Complex, Secunderabad – 500 003. Tel : 040–27898195 Fax : 040–27847334 email : [email protected] website : www.time4education.com 1 • Saudi Aramco and Abu Dhabi National Oil • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Company (ADNOC) have signed a Memorandum India’s first smart and green highway, the of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and Eastern Peripheral Expressway at Baghpat in build an integrated refinery and petrochemicals Uttar Pradesh. complex at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. • Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh • The Central Water Commission (CWC), India’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurate apex technical organisation in the field of Water Bangladesh Bhawan at Shanti Niketan in West Resources has signed a Collaboration Bengal. Agreement with Google for flood forecasting. • India's Multi Commodity Exchange had launched • Muthoot Fincorp Limited announced its the country's first copper options contracts. partnership with National Skill Development • Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Suresh Corporation to train over 10,000 youth over the Prabhu has launched the Intellectual Property next three years and make them job ready. (IP) mascot ‘IP Nani’. • Facebook partnered with the National • Guwahati railway station has become India's first Commission for Women (NCW) to launch a railway station run by solar power. Digital Literacy Programme (DLP). • The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri • Tata Motors (India's largest automobile company Narendra Modi has given the following set of by revenues) signed a MoU with the State approvals: Government of Maharashtra for deployment of 1. MoU between India and France on Technical 1000 Electric Vehicles (EV) Cooperation in the field of railways. • Indian Customs and Department of India Posts 2. Setting up of a Central University in Andhra held a first-ever Joint Conference in Vigyan Pradesh. Bhavan in New Delhi to deliberate on 3. Establishment of National Institute of Mental streamlining of imports and exports by post. Health Rehabilitation at Bhopal. • In collaboration with the U.S.-India Aviation 4. Corpus for Micro Irrigation Fund with Cooperation Program and the Government of NABARD under Pradhan Mantri Krishi India, US Trade and Development Agency Sinchayee Yojana. (USTDA) hosted the 6th U.S.-India Aviation 5. Strengthening the mechanism for resolution Summit in Mumbai, India. of commercial disputes of Central Public- • The Cell for IPR Promotion and Management Sector Enterprises. (CIPAM), a professional body under the aegis of • In effort to boost clean energy generation, the the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, had unveiled a National Wind-solar Hybrid Policy organized a conference on successful completion which seeks to promote new projects as well as of two years of the National Intellectual Property hybridisation of the existing ones. Rights (IPR) Policy adopted by the Government • India has released grant of Nepalese Rupees of India (NRs) 18.07 crore for river training and • The third edition of the United Nations construction of embankments along Lalbakeya, Peacekeeping Course for African Partners Bagmati and Kamla rivers in Nepal. (UNPCAP) was inaugurated in New Delhi. • IIM-Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation, Incubation • The 'First Apex Conference for the CEOs of Smart and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) has launched a Bharat Cities’ was held in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Inclusion Initiative to build knowledge and foster • The 4th Regional Conference on ‘Futuristic, innovation and entrepreneurial activity across areas Resilient and Digital Infrastructure’ organized by such as financial inclusion, livelihood, education the Ministry of Finance in collaboration with the and health. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and • Union Minister of Electronics and Information Research and Information System for Developing Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad launched the Countries (RIS) concluded in Bengaluru. website of Digital India Internship Scheme in New • The ‘Vibrant North
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