Current Affairs Monthly Capsule and Quiz May 2018
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brief and impressive handing over of troops ceremony.
Lt Col Irwan Ibrahim, Commanding officer World Immunization Week: 24 April- 30 April of the 1st Royal Ranger Regiment of 2018 Malaysian Army welcomed the Indian World Immunization contingent and wished the Indian and Week 2018 is celebrated Malaysian troops for a successful and from April 24 to April 30. mutually beneficial joint exercise. Immunization is First phase of the two week long joint considered to be military exercise begin with the formal one of the most cost-effective and successful handing over of the Regimental Flag to the plans in the health industry. Malaysian Army signifying merging of the World Immunization Week aims at two contingents under one Commander. highlighting the collective effort which is needed to ensure that every person gets protection from diseases which can be World Asthma Day 2018: 1 May World Asthma Day is an annual event organized by prevented from vaccines. the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) to Theme for the year 2018 is “Protected improve asthma awareness and care around the Together, Vaccines Work”. world.
World Asthma Day takes place on the first International Buddhist Conference concluded in Tuesday of May. First World Asthma Day Lumbini was held in 1998. International Buddhist Conference concluded in The theme for the year 2018 is “Never too Lumbini, Nepal, which is the birth place of Gautama early, never too late. It’s always the right Buddha. time to address airways disease”. It was organised as part of 2562nd Buddha Jayanti celebrations. International Labour Day: May 1 The basic objective of the conference was to The International Labour Day, also known as disseminate teachings of Gautam Buddha International Worker’s Day or May Day is observed and spread the messages of nonviolence, every year on May 1. brotherhood, co-existence, love and peace to The day aims to promote and encourage the the international community. international labour associations, marks the
victory of workers’ movement for eight First Ever Joint Army exercise on Malaysian Soil hours of work and pay tribute to workers Commences sacrifices in achieving economic and social Exercise Harimau Shakti 2018, between the Indian rights all over the world. Army and the Malaysian Army commenced on 30 April at Wardieburn Camp, Kuala Lumpur with a
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The theme of International Labour Day 2018 According to the arms watchdog, the five top is “Uniting Workers for Social and military spenders in 2017 were the US, Economic Advancement”. China, Saudi Arabia, Russia and India.
India- South Africa Business Summit Concludes World Press Freedom Day: 3 May in Johannesburg World Press Freedom Minister of Commerce and Industry and Civil Day was proclaimed by Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, attended India- South the UN General Africa business summit from April 29-30,2018 in Assembly in December Johannesburg, South Africa. 1993, following the The visit began with a series of bilateral recommendation of meetings: he met Dr. Rob Davies, Minister UNESCO’s General Conference. of Trade and Industry of South Africa and Since then, 3 May, the anniversary of ministers from Swaziland, Botswana and the Declaration of Windhoek, is celebrated Lesotho. worldwide as World Press Freedom Day. The Minister highlighted the historical Theme for the year 2018 is ‘Keeping Power relations between India and these countries in Check: Media, Justice and The Rule of and pledged to take the economic partnership Law’. forward. The Minister also met members of India- Cartoonists’ day: 5 May South Africa CEOs forum who expressed World Cartoonists’ day is celebrated every year on confidence in the Government of India’s 5th May. efforts to strengthen India-Africa relations Cartoonists’ day is best celebrated by and pledged their support in furthering these picking up a comic you used to know and relations. love, and walking down memory lane on the part it played in you growing up. India into world's top five defence spenders India has joined the U.S. and China as one of the Nobel prize in literature 2018 cancelled after world’s five biggest military spenders, reflecting sexual assault scandal geopolitical tensions as well as the country’s The Swedish Academy has said no Nobel prize for reliance on imported weapons and sprawling literature will be awarded this year. personnel costs. For the first time since 1949, the secretive India’s defense spending rose by 5.5 percent jury that hands out the world’s most to $63.9 billion in 2017 and has now passed prestigious literary prize will not unveil a France, the Stockholm International Peace winner this autumn, instead revealing two Research Institute said in a report laureates in 2019. At the root of the institution’s unprecedented crisis are a raft of wide-ranging allegations
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against Jean-Claude Arnault, a photographer President's first overseas visit after assuming and leading cultural figure in Sweden, who office last year. is married to Katarina Frostenson, an A range of bilateral issues including the academy member and author. strengthening of institutional mechanisms for political interactions, multilateral 12th informal meeting of SAARC Finance matters, trade and commerce, investments, Ministers held in Manila information technology, capacity building, The twelfth informal meeting of SAARC Finance traditional medicines, space, defence, and Ministers was held in Manila, the capital of culture are expected to be discussed during Philippines on the sidelines of the 51st Annual his visit. Meeting of Asian Development Bank (ADB). The meeting was attended by the Finance NASA launches its latest mission to Mars Ministers/Heads of Delegations from the NASA has blasted off its SAARC member states. latest Mars lander, Finance Minister of Nepal Yuba Raj InSight, designed to Khatiwada chaired the meeting. perch on the surface and Khatiwada underscored the need of listen for “Marsquakes” concerted efforts to attain the objective of ahead of eventual human South Asian Economic Union as desired by missions to explore the Red Planet. the leaders of SAARC. The project aims to expand human knowledge of interior conditions on Mars, India ranks 11th in AT Kearney FDI Confidence inform efforts to send human explorers there, Index and reveal how rocky planets like the Earth India has slipped by three notches to 11th position in formed billions of years ago. the FDI Confidence Index 2018 of global If all goes as planned, the lander should settle consultancy firm A T Kearney. on the Red Planet on November 26. It said that India fell out of the top 10 for the Its name, InSight, is short for Interior first time since 2015. Exploration using Seismic Investigations, India was ranked 8th in 2017, while it was at Geodesy and Heat Transport. NASA chief 9th rank in 2016. scientist Jim Green said experts already know that Mars has quakes, avalanches and Vice President reaches Guatemala meteor strikes. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday reached Guatemala as part of his three-nation visit to Putin sworn in for another six years in office Latin America. Russia Naidu is on a five-day visit to Latin Vladimir Putin was sworn in for another six years as America’s Guatemala, Peru and Panama Russian president. Putin swore to serve the Russian commencing from May 6. This is the Vice
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people, safeguard their rights and freedoms, and the business optimism index for the first quarter of defend Russian sovereignty. this year. Putin was inaugurated for his fourth term as Business optimism is however at an "all-time president high" globally with the index at net 61 per cent, as per Grant Thornton's quarterly India ranks 4th in Asia-Pacific on power index global business survey. India has ranked fourth out of 25 nations in the Asia- With a score of 89, India is at the sixth place Pacific region on an index that measures their in the index. overall power. The Lowy Institute Asia Power Index The top five nations are Austria, Finland, measures power across 25 countries and territories Indonesia, the Netherlands and the US. in the Asia-Pacific region. Narendra Modi ranked 9th among 75 most Beijing to hold World Robot Conference powerful globally in Forbes list The 2018 World Robot Conference will be held in Prime Minister Beijing from August 15 to 19. Narendra Modi figures The event will see over 12,000 competing among the 10 most teams and 50,000 participants from more powerful people in the than 10 countries and regions. world in US magazine A robot competition will be held during the Forbes' 2018 list that is conference where participants will compete topped by Chinese President Xi Jinping, while in five categories. Reliance Industries (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the only Indian businessman to feature in World Red Cross Day: 8 May the list of 75. World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is an annual Modi, who is ranked 9th and Ambani at 32, celebration of the principles of the International Red are the only two Indians on the Forbes Cross and Red Crescent Movement. World's Most Powerful People list. World Red Cross Red Crescent Day is Xi tops the list for the first time, replacing celebrated on 8 May each year. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who drops This date is the anniversary of the birth of to second place after being named the most Henry Dunant, who was born 8 May 1828. powerful person in the world for four years He is the founder of International Committee in succession. of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize. VP Shri Venkaiah Naidu visits World Heritage city of Old Guatemala India slips to 6th spot in biz optimism index The Vice President of India, Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu With business sentiment at the "weakest" in four visited the historic Antigua (old) Guatemala city on years, India slipped to the 6th position globally in May 8, 2018 for understanding how it’s rich heritage
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is being maintained since it was declared as a World India Pavilion Inaugurated at Cannes Film Heritage City by the UNESCO in 1979. Festival 2018 Antigua Guatemala was the third capital The inaugural session of the Indian Pavilion at the built by the Spanish rulers since their Cannes Film Festival 2018 was held at Cannes, invasion of Guatemala in 1524. France. The first two capitals had to be abondoned Hosted by noted actor Shri Sharad Kelkar, by 1541 on account of resistance from the the Indian delegation present consisted of local warriors and natural calamities H.E. Vinay Mohan Kwatra, Ambassador of respectively. India to France. Old Guatemala witnessed series of The agenda of the delegation from India this earthquakes since 1565 and was destroyed year is to showcase diversity in films of our by earthquake Santa Marta in 1773 forcing country while furthering collaborations with the shifting of capital to the present various other countries. Guatamela City. Those who stayed back and others who International Nurses Day: 12 May returned started reconstruction of Old International Nurses Day (IND) is an international Guatemala, restoring most of its mounments. day celebrated around the world on 12 May (the UNESCO declared it as a World Heritage anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth) of each City in 1979. year, to mark the contributions nurses make to society. Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tourism The International Council of Nurses (ICN) Ministers’ conference in China has celebrated this day since 1965. The Minister of State The theme for the year 2018 is Nurses A (Independent Charge) Voice to Lead – Health is a Human right. for Tourism and Minister of State for World Migratory Bird Day: 12 May Electronics and The World Migratory Bird Day was celebrated Information throughout the world on 12th May 2018. Technology, Shri K. J. Alphons attended the The World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated Tourism Ministers’ conference by Shanghai from now on twice a year, on the Second Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Wuhan, China Saturday in May and in October. It will also held on 9th May 2018. be observed on 13th October 2018. At the inaugural session, the Minister said The theme for World Migratory Bird Day that India’s Tourism sector is fast growing 2018 is: “Unifying our Voices for Bird and has got an emerging market for Conservation”. Also 2018 is the “Year of the outbound travel and a tremendous potential Bird”. for tourism co-operation with the SCO region. Nepal to hold BIMSTEC 2018
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Nepal's Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli announced cooperation with other countries including to host the 2018 Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi- SCO countries. Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation It will also help to promote cultural relations (BIMSTEC) summit. and people to people contacts with the During his meeting with Prime Minister individual members of this organization Narendra Modi, Nepali Prime Minister said through cultural exchange programmes. Nepal will hold the BIMSTEC summit, India became full member of the Shanghai while expressing commitment towards Cooperation Organization (SCO) on 9th building the Bangladesh-Bhutan-India- June, 2017 during the SCO Heads of State Nepal initiative. Summit in Astana, Kazakhstan.
WHO launches 'REPLACE' to eliminate trans India 3rd largest solar market in world: Mercom fat in foods by 2023 India emerged as the third largest solar market in the The World Health Organization (WHO) has world in 2017 behind China and the US, Mercom launched ‘REPLACE’, a comprehensive plan to Communications India said in a report. eliminate industrially-produced artificial trans fats As per the report, India set a new record with from the global food supply by 2023. 9.6 GW of solar installations in 2017, which The global health body estimates that every was more than double the 4.3 GW installed year, trans fat intake leads to over 5,00,000 in 2016. deaths worldwide from cardiovascular The robust growth boosted the country's total diseases. solar installed capacity to 19.6 GW as of December 2017, it added. India to attend the SCO Culture Ministers’ meet for the first time 4th BRICS Ministerial Meeting held in Durban The Minister of State for The BRICS environment ministers have formed a Culture (I/c) and Minister forum to focus on key strategic global issues such as of state for Environment, the global economy, trade, peace and security and Forests and Climate reform of multilateral institutions. Change, Dr. Mahesh In a joint statement issued after 4th BRICS Sharma will be attending Ministerial Meeting in Durban, BRICS Shanghai Cooperation environment ministers urged developed Organization (SCO) Cultural Ministers Meeting at countries to continue taking the lead and Sanya in China on 17th of May, 2018. support developing countries, including the It is the first time that India would be transfer of needed technology, in combating attending the SCO Culture Ministers’ climate change. Meeting. The meeting was a part of preparations for The meeting will showcase India’s the forthcoming BRICS Summit scheduled initiatives to actively pursue cultural for July 25-27 in Johannesburg, themed:
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"Strengthening cooperation amongst BRICS on May 18 ever since it was first celebrated on May on a circular economy in the context of the 18, 1998. sustainable consumption and production”. The day is marked to increase the awareness of a continued need for a vaccine to fight International Museum Day: 18 May against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. International Museum Day (IMD) is an international day a celebration that held every year on or around Russia unveils world's first floating nuclear 18 May, coordinated by the International Council of power station Museums (ICOM). Russia has unveiled The event highlights a specific theme that the world's first changes every year and that is at the heart of floating nuclear the international museum community’s power station in the preoccupations. port of the city of The theme for the year 2018 Murmansk, where it ‘Hyperconnected museum: New approaches, will be loaded with nuclear fuel before heading to new publics’ eastern Siberia. Constructed by the state nuclear power firm Guatemala opens embassy in Jerusalem after US Rosatom, the 144 by 30 metre holds two Guatemala officially moved its embassy from Tel reactors with two 35 megawatt nuclear Aviv to Jerusale, becoming the second country to do reactors that are similar to those used to so after the U.S. inaugurated its embassy in power icebreaker ships. Jerusalem. It will be primarily used to power oil rigs as At the inaguration, which was attended by Russia pus hes further north into the Arctic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to drill for oil and gas and needs electricity Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales said in far-flung locations. his country is bringing a message of "love, peace and fraternity" to Israel. Venezuela's Maduro wins re-election Guatemala was one of seven countries to Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro was vote with the Trump administration and reelected for a second six-year term in presidential Israel on the Jerusalem embassy issue at the elections, according to the National Electoral United Nations. Council (CNE). The others were Honduras, the Marshall Some 14,638 voting centers have been set up Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo. nationwide for Venezuela's more than 20.5 million eligible voters. World AIDS Vaccination Day: 18 May World AIDS Vaccine Day, also known as HIV India sixth wealthiest country with total wealth Vaccine Awareness Day, is observed annually of $8,230 billion
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India is the sixth wealthiest country in the world the achievement of its objectives at the with a total wealth of $8,230 billion, while the U.S. national and global levels. is the richest nation globally, says a report. According to the AfrAsia Bank Global India to attend SCO meet in Pakistan Wealth Migration Review, the US is the An Indian delegation wealthiest country in the world with a total will be among those wealth of $62,584 billion, followed by China attending an anti- ($24,803 billion) in the second place and terrorism conference Japan ($19,522 billion) in third. being held here under Total wealth refers to the private wealth held the banner of the by all the individuals living in each country. Shanghai Cooperation It includes all their assets (property, cash, Organisation (SCO), Pakistan’s Foreign Office said equities, business interests) minus any on Tuesday. liabilities. Pakistan will be hosting its first SCO Government funds are excluded from these meeting, since the country along with India figures. Larger countries have an advantage became a member of the organisation in June due to higher populations. 2017. Experts from the eight SCO member states - 26th BASIC Ministerial meeting of Environment China, Kazakhstan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Ministers in Durban Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan The 26th BASIC Ministerial Meeting of - as well as representatives of the SCO- Environment Ministers was held in Durban, South Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (SCO- Africa for co-operation to protect the climate for RATS) will participate in the three-day present and future generations. meeting. The BASIC grouping is a bloc of four countries – Brazil, South Africa, India and India 145th among 195 countries in healthcare China – formed by an agreement on access, quality: Lancet November 28, 2009. India ranks 145th among 195 countries in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare in 2016, International Bio-diversity Day: 22 May behind its neighbours like China, Bangladesh, Sri The International Bio-diversity Day is observed on Lanka and Bhutan, according to a Lancet study. 22nd May every year to increase understanding and In 2016, India’s healthcare access and awareness of biodiversity issues. quality scored at 41.2 (up from 24.7 in 1990). The theme for this year is, ‘Celebrating 25 It said that Goa and Kerala had the highest Years of Action for Biodiversity’. scores in 2016, each exceeding 60 points, 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the entry whereas Assam and Uttar Pradesh had the into force of the Convention on Biological lowest, each below 40. Diversity and to highlight progress made in
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The five countries with the highest levels of The US became the most competitive healthcare access and quality in 2016 were economy globally driven by its strength in Iceland (97.1 points), Norway (96.6), the economic performance and infrastructure, Netherlands (96.1), Luxembourg (96.0), and followed by Hong Kong and Singapore in Finland and Australia (each with 95.9). the second and third place, respectively. India is ranked the 12th most competitive Dr. Harsh Vardhan leads Indian delegation in economy out of the 14 Asian countries on the Mission Innovation (MI) Ministerial list. 30 months ago on November 30th, 2015, leader of 20 This year 63 countries are ranked with countries came together to launch Mission Cyprus and Saudi Arabia making their first Innovation (MI), a landmark 5 year commitment to appearance. accelerate the pace of innovation and make clean energy widely affordable and accessible worldwide. 5th India CLMV Business Conclave held at India is the founding member of this forum Phnom Penh, Cambodia and is a partner in the Steering Committee. The Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government MI now comprises 23 economies and the of India along with Ministry of Commerce of European Commission, representing the Cambodia organized the 5th India-CLMV Business European Union, and collectively accounts Conclave in Phnom Penh on 21-22 May 2018. for more than 80 percent of the world’s total After four rounds of the Business Conclave public financing of clean energy R&D. in India, this initiative was brought by This week Ministers and high level delegates Department of Commerce of Government of from these countries converged at Malmo, India to Cambodia,for greater participation Sweden for the 3rd Mission Innovation from the region. Ministerial from 22-23 May, 2018. The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Indian delegation was lead by Dr. Harsh is the institutional partner of the event. Vardhan, Union Minister for Science, CLMV is a group of Cambodia, Myanmar, Technology and Earth Sciences. Vietnam and Lao PDR. India announced its plan for hosting MI clean energy materials Workshop in Nepal first country in south-east Asia to eliminate October-November, 2018 at New Delhi. trachoma Nepal has become India moves one notch up to 44th rank in IMD's the first country in competitiveness rankings south-east Asia to India has moved one notch higher, to the 44th place eliminate trachoma, in terms of competitiveness, in the annual rankings world's leading compiled by International Institute for Management cause of preventable Development (IMD) which placed the US in the top blindness of infectious origin, the World Health slot. Organisation (WHO) said.
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Trachoma was the second leading cause of Hamburg to host 2018 Global Wind Summit preventable blindness in the Himalayan The first edition of the Global Wind Summit will nation in the 1980s. be held in Hamburg from September 25-28, 2018. In 2002, the Government of Nepal had The organisers of the four-day event are stepped up the efforts to eliminate trachoma expecting speakers from about 100 with the establishment of a national countries, including India, China, the US, trachoma programme. Spain and Denmark. The conference on wind is the largest and Columbia formally joins NATO most important meeting of the wind One year after reaching partnership deal through a industry worldwide. peace agreement with South America, Columbia has has formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty 108th session of UNWTO Executive council in Organization. San Sebastian The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an The Minister of intergovernmental military alliance between State 29 North American and European countries (Independent based on the North Atlantic Treaty that was Charge) for signed on 4 April 1949. Tourism, Shri K. J. Alphons along with a delegation of senior officials attended the 108th Netherlands joins Solar Alliance session of UNWTO Executive Council from 23rd to The Netherlands has become the 64th signatory 25th May 2018 held in San Sebastian, Spain. member of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The Executive council decided that in order The joint statement issued hailed the to address new challenge and trends, the Netherlands as India’s “Gateway to Europe”. organization will pay special attention to India also welcomed the Netherlands as the scaling up innovation and digitization in the Partner Country for the TechSummit in sector. 2019. During the three day Executive Council meeting, Sh. K. J. Alphons chaired the India launches 2nd IT corridor in China ‘Programme and Budget Committee’ India has launched its second IT corridor in China to meeting of UNWTO. cash in on the burgeoning Chinese software market. Points to Remember The National Association of Software and The World Tourism Organization Services Companies (NASSCOM) has (UNWTO) is the United Nations agency established one more Digital Collaborative responsible for the promotion of Opportunities Plaza (SIDCOP) platform in responsible, sustainable and universally China in an effort to provide market access accessible tourism. to Indian IT firms in the huge Chinese The UNWTO Executive Council represents market. the Organization’s governing body whose
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task is to take all necessary measures in Swachh Bharat Summer Internship – a novel and consultation with the Secretary-General, for first of it’s kind initiative. implementation of its own decisions and The internship period commences from May recommendations of the Assembly and 1, 2018 and ends on July 31, 2018. report thereupon to the Assembly. The programme aims to engage millions of The Council meets at least twice a year, the youngsters across the country, to encourage next to be held in Bahrain. them to contribute to the Swachh Bharat The council consists of 30 Full Members. Mission in the spirit of a true janandolan. Mr. Zurab Pololikashvili is the Secretary- Under the internship, all interns who General of UNWTO. complete at least 100 hours of sanitation related work in villages would be given a International Conference on the TRIPS CBD Swachh Bharat certificate. Linkage 7-8 June 2018 in Geneva Those who complete the internship with India has taken the lead in seeking to revive WTO additional, specified outputs would also gain discussions on issues related to preventing theft of 2 curriculum credits specially allowed by traditional knowledge. UGC. Government of India, along with the Centre Additionally, top performers would receive for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign awards at the College and University / Trade and the South Centre (an inter- District (NYKS), State and National Level. governmental organisation based in Geneva), are organising an International Pilot scheme Procurement of Aggregate Power of Conference on TRIPS- CBD Linkage in 2500 MW for three years Geneva on 7-8 June 2018. The Government kicks off a Pilot Scheme for Brazil and South Africa are some of the other Procurement of Aggregate Power of 2500 MW on countries that have joined hands with India competitive basis for 3 (three) years under medium on this crucial initiative. term i.e. from generators with commissioned projects but without Power Purchase Agreement. The Ministry of Power had recently issued the model bid documents, model PAPP and PPSA on 6th April, 2018. The Guidelines for Swachh Bharat Summer Internship the said scheme were issued on 10th April, Following the Prime Minister’s clarion call on 2nd 2018. October 2014 for each individual to devote at least PFC Consulting Limited (A wholly owned 100 hours to Swachhata through the year, Ministry subsidiary of PFC Ltd) has been appointed of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS) in as Nodal Agency and PTC India Limited as association with Ministry of Human Resource the Aggregator. Development (MHRD) and Ministry of Youth PTC India would sign three-year (mid-term) Affairs and Sports (MYAS) has launched the Agreement for Procurement of Power with
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successful bidders and Power Supply It would be held in Varanasi from January 21 Agreement with the Discoms. to 23. Under the scheme a single entity can be allotted maximum capacity of 600 MW. The South Western Command’s Exercise Vijay Scheme assures a minimum off-take of 55 Prahar per cent of contracted capacity. South Western Command is carrying out Exercise The Tariff will be fixed for three years VIJAY PRAHAR employing more than 20000 without any escalation. troops in the Mahajan Field Firing Ranges close to Suratgarh in Rajasthan. Swachh Bharat Mission launches GOBAR- The exercise is aimed to orchestrate wide DHAN spectrum of threats which are planned to be Union Minister for tackled through high tempo joint air and land Drinking Water and operation. Sanitation, Sushri Uma The month-long exercise is essentially to Bharti launched the practice the troops in penetrative GOBAR (Galvanizing manoeuvres across the obstacle ridden Organic Bio-Agro Resources - DHAN scheme at the terrain under a nuclear umbrella. National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) Auditorium, Karnal. 9th India-Japan Energy Dialogue held in New The scheme aims to positively impact village Delhi cleanliness and generate wealth and energy The 9th India Japan from cattle and organic waste. Energy Dialogue The scheme also aims at creating new rural was held in New livelihood opportunities and enhancing Delhi. Minister of income for farmers and other rural people. State(IC) for Power The Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) and New comprises two main components for creating &Renewable Energy, Shri R.K Singh, and Minister clean villages – creating open defecation free of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Mr. (ODF) villages and managing solid and Hiroshige Sekosigned a Joint Statement at the liquid waste in villages. conclusion of the meeting. Both Japan and India, as the third and the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2019 to be held in seventh largest economies respectively, Varanasi recognized that having access to reliable, The 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas will be held in the clean and economical energy is critical for holy city of Varanasi in January 2019. their economic growth and in achieving this, The event would be inaugurated by Prime both Ministers agreed on further Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritian strengthening of bilateral energy cooperation counterpart Pravind Jugnauth. for energy development of both countries,
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while also contributing to worldwide energy It will enable upto Rs.10000 Pension per security, energy access and climate change month for Senior Citizens. issues. The PMVVY is being implemented through Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to 14 of world's 15 most polluted cities in India provide social security during old age and The WHO global air pollution database reveals that protect elderly persons aged 60 years and India has 14 out of the 15 most polluted cities in the above against a future fall in their interest world in terms of PM 2.5 concentrations, with the income due to uncertain market conditions. worst being Kanpur. The scheme provides an assured pension Kanpur topped the 2016 list with a PM 2.5 based on a guaranteed rate of return of 8% concentration of 173 micrograms per cubic per annum for ten years, with an option to opt metre, followed by Faridabad, Varanasi and for pension on a monthly / quarterly / half Gaya. yearly and annual basis. 14 out of top 15 cities are Indian. Ali Subah The differential return, i.e. the difference Al Salem (Kuwait) ranked 15th. between the return generated by LIC and the assured return of 8% per annum would be Cabinet approves Doubling of Investment Limit borne by Government of India as subsidy on for Senior Citizens PMVVY an annual basis. The Union Cabinet chaired by chaired Biggest Airport, after Mumbai, to be developed by Prime Minister in Mopa, Goa Shri Narendra A joint team of the Airports Authority of India Modi has given its (AAI) and Commerce Logistics Department will approval for visit Goa on 7th-8thMay 2018 to facilitate the extending the investment limit from Rs 7.5 lakhs to development of cargo hubs at the new airport to be Rs 15 lakhs as well as extension of time limits for constructed at Mopa in Goa. subscription from 4thMay 2018 to 31stMarch, 2020 The four coastal states in the western part of under the Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandan Yojana the country, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala (PMVVY) as part of Government's commitment for and Goa, will benefit greatly from the financial inclusion and social security. biggest airport, after Mumbai,to be Further, as a boost to the Social Security constructed in Mopa. initiatives for senior citizens, the investment limit of Rs 7.5 lakh per family in the existing PMSSY approved beyond 12th Five Year Plan scheme is enhanced to Rs 15 lakh per senior The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister citizen in the modified PMVVY, thereby Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for providing a larger social security cover to the continuation of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Senior citizens. Yojana (PMSSY) beyond 12th Five Year Plan for a
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period 2017-18 to 2019-20 with a financial outlay of drinking water and sanitation sectors will Rs. 14,832 crores. participate in the three-day event. Expressing gratitude to the Prime Minister Organised by Delhi-based NGO, Centre for for his constant support, Shri J P Nadda, Agriculture and Rural Development Union Minister of Health and Family (CARD), the ‘Vibrant North East 2018′ is Welfare said that the Government is supported by the North Eastern Council, consciously working towards improving Department of Science and Technology, health infrastructure as well as health Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of manpower in the country. Commerce and Industry and All India Farmers Alliance. Cabinet approves continuation of Umbrella Scheme ‘Green Revolution Maharashtra first to issue land document online The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, Maharashtra has become chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi the first state to issue a has given its approval for the Umbrella Scheme, crucial land ownership "Green Revolution – Krishonnati Yojana" in document online and agriculture sector beyond 12th Five Year Plan for the accept a digital signature period from 2017-18 to 2019-20 with the Central on it as valid. Share of Rs. 33,269.976 crore. The state government's plan of digitizing the The Umbrella scheme comprises of 11 7/12 extract is thus complete. Schemes/Missions. It went a step ahead and generated eight lakh These schemes look to develop the documents with space for digital signatures. agriculture and allied sector in a holistic and The facility was inaugurated by the chief scientific manner to increase the income of minister. farmers by enhancing production, productivity andbetter returns on produce. EPFO Introduces ‘View Pension Passbook’ The Schemes will be continued with an Service through Umang App expenditure of Rs.33,269.976 crore for three Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), financial years, i.e., 2017-18, 2018-19 and which is providing a host of e-services for its 2019-20. stakeholders, has now introduced a new service through ‘UMANG app’. Vibrant Northeast in Guwahati from May 3 On clicking ‘View Passbook’ option, it The ‘Vibrant North East 2018′, an event in which requires PPO Number and Date of Birth people would be made aware of central information to be entered by the pensioner. government’s schemes and programmes, will be After successful validation of the held in Guwahati from 3-5 May. information fed, an OTP will be sent to the Players from the agriculture, food registered mobile number of the pensioner. processing, consumer affairs, civil supply,
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On entering OTP, ‘Pensioner Passbook’ will The Exhibition, marks an unprecedented display the details of the pensioner like collaboration with the British Museum, Name, DOB along with last pension credited London; National Museum, New Delhi; and information. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu The facility to download the financial year Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai and is wise complete pass book details is also actively supported by the Culture Ministry. available. Delhi to host six-day Festival of Bharat HRD Ministry notifies 75 National Resource National capital Delhi will host a six-day-long Centres Festival of Bharat between May 9 and May 14 as a The Ministry of Human Resource Development has 21st century tribute to the majesty and depth of launched a major and unique initiative of online India's civilization. professional development of 1.5 million higher The event will be held at the Scheduled education faculty using the MOOCs platform between 9th May and 14th May at the Indira SWAYAM. Gandhi National Centre for the Arts In the first phase, 75 discipline-specific (IGNCA). National Resource Centres have been Scholars, Grammy award winning artistes, identified which are tasked to prepare online rising new stars and prominent public figures training material with focus on latest will also be in attendance. developments in the discipline, new & emerging trends, pedagogical improvements National Conference of 244 selected Districts and methodologies for transacting revised under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao curriculum. The Ministry of Women and Child Development Under this initiative, all in-service teachers, organized National Conference with the Nodal irrespective of their subject and seniority will Officers of 244 Districts, State Nodal Officers and have an enabling opportunity to keep abreast Senior Officers. of the latest developments in their disciplines Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, the Union through the technology based online Minister for Women and Child Development refresher course. inaugurated the event and interacted with 244 new districts with low Child Sex Exhibition -‘India and the world: a history in Ratio(CSR), from 25 States/ UTs. nine stories’ Addressing the Conference, the WCD First of its kind, mammoth exhibition on Indian Minister highlighted the need to involve Civilisation, was inaugurated by, the President, various stakeholders and join hands for Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, achieving the goals of BBBP. (IGNCA), Shri. Raam Bahadur Rai, at National The Minister highlighted need for training of Museum, New Delhi. women sarpanches in every district for achieving goals of BBBP.
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Border Roads Organisation to celebrate Raising GIS technology to strengthen Namami Gange Day Programme Border Roads Organisation (BRO), is celebrating its National Mission for Clean Ganga has brought on Raising Day on 07 May 2018. board Survey of India, the oldest scientific BRO, a leader in the arena of infrastructural department in the country set up in 1767, to facilitate development in the border areas of the the Ganga rejuvenation task by using Geographic country is celebrating its 58 years of glorious Information System (GIS) technology. service to the nation. Through the project which has been Since its inception in 1960, so far the approved in the EC meeting at an estimated Organisation has grown from 02 to 19 cost of Rs. 86.84 crore, NMCG aims to projects. Its focus shall remain enhanced strengthen planning and implementation at productivity and quality construction. national/state/local levels. The project includes use of Digital Elevation First organised census for Indus dolphins to be Model (DEM) technology which ensures carried out in India accurate data collection, an important aspect for river basin management planning. DEM technology enables identification of entire topography of an area making it easy for policy makers to analyse the available data thereby supporting the decision-making process.
The Government of India signed a loan deal
For the conservation of Indus dolphins - one of the worth $ 200 million with the World Bank world’s rarest mammals - the Punjab government The Government of India signed a loan deal worth $ along with WWF-India are conducting the first 200 million with the World Bank for the National organised census on their population. Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyaan). The loan would help the Government of India in achieving its Found only in India and Pakistan, the Indus dolphins are confined to only a 185 km goal of reducing stunting in children 0-6 years of age stretch between Talwara and Harike Barrage from 38.4% to 25% by the year 2022. in India’s Beas river in Punjab. The POSHAN (PM’s Overarching Scheme for Holistic Nourishment) Abhiyaan was Officials from the Department of Forests and Wildlife Preservation, Punjab and WWF- launched by the Prime Minister on 8th India are currently working in two teams and March 2018 at Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. will come to an estimate regarding the A large component of POSHAN Abhiyaan dolphin population over the five-day involves gradual scaling-up of the exercise. interventions supported by the ongoing World Bank assisted Integrated Child
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Development Services (ICDS) Systems The Naval War College is a premier training Strengthening and Nutrition Improvement institution of the Indian Navy and one of the Project (ISSNIP) to all districts in the three War College of the Indian Armed country over a 3-year period. The loan Forces. approved today will support the first phase scale up to 315 districts across all states and China to organise film festival in Kolkata in July union territories (UTs). China will organise a film festival at Kolkata's Nandan in July this year. "A week-long film festival NITI Aayog and Google sign SoI to help grow AI will be organised at Nandan, the film and cultural ecosystem in India centre in Kolkata, in which seven Chinese films will Aiming to foster growth for India’s nascent artificial be screened". intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) ecosystem, NITI Aayog and Google have come Hyderabad Metro introduces exclusive coach for together to work on a range of initiatives to help women build the AI ecosystem across the country. The Hyderabad Metro Rail Limited (HMRL) has A Statement of Intent (SoI) was signed to introduced a special Coach exclusively for women this effect by Ms. Anna Roy, Advisor, NITI in Metro train. Aayog and Shri Rajan Anandan, Vice The special coach was inaugurated by President, India and South East Asia, Google HMRL Managing Director N V S Reddy and in the presence of the Shri Amitabh Kant, L&T Metro Rail (Hyderabad) Limited MD CEO, NITI Aayog. and CEO K V B Reddy. The NITI Aayog has been entrusted to setup 18. 3rd Edition of UNPCAP Inaugurated in New a national programme to conduct research Delhi and development in frontier technologies The third edition of the United Nations such as AI. In furtherance of this mandate, Peacekeeping Course for African Partners NITI Aayog has been developing India’s (UNPCAP) was inaugurated in New Delhi to build national strategy on AI along with the and enhance the capacity of the African Troop National Data and Analytics Portal to enable Contributing Countries to the UN. the wide deployment and use of AI. The UNPCAP sessions will be held from May 7-25. Valedictory function of 30th NHCC held Panaji The course is conducted by the Centre for Valedictory function United Nations Peacekeeping in India of the 30th Naval (CUNPK) in partnership with the US. Higher Command The first and second editions of the course Course (NHCC) was were held in New Delhi in 2016 and 2017, held at the Naval War respectively. College, INS Mandovi, Verem.
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CEOs of Smart Cities conference inaugurated in The Summit, with the theme `Telling Our Bhopal Stories – Asia and More’, would be Shri Hardeep Puri, Minister of State (I/C) for organized in two parts Pre-summit workshop Housing & Urban Affairs has inaugurated the ‘First (8th-9th) and Summit (10th-12th). Apex Conference for the CEOs of Smart Cities ‘in Bhopal. Army's 'Vijay Prahar' exercise in Rajasthan Since its launch on 25 June 2015, the Smart culminates Cities Mission (SCM), has been one of the The Indian Army's 'Vijay Prahar' exercise in which most transformational urban missions. over 25,000 troops of the Jaipur based South The two-day conference is being organised Western command participated culminated in for providing a platform for cross learning Rajasthan's Suratgarh. and knowledge sharing among the Smart South Western Army Commander Lt Gen City CEOs on 8-9 May 2018. Cherish Mathson witnessed the final The conference will enable the CEOs to offensive of the forces achieving a decisive learn from the experiences of all city leaders victory. to understand in greater details both Fighting equipments including tanks, attack successes and failures. helicopters, drones and fighter aircraft were used in the month-long exercise. 15th Asia Media Summit to be hosted by India The 15th Asia Media Summit (AMS) 2018 is being Signing of MoU between Artificial Limbs hosted by the Ministry of Information and Manufacturing Corporation of India APCPL Broadcasting, Government of India, jointly with the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), India(ALIMCO), under Ministry of Social Justice & New Delhi and Broadcast Engineering Consultants Empowerment and Aravali Power Company Pvt Ltd India Limited (BECIL), from 10th -12th May, 2018 (APCPL),Jhajjar signed a Memorandum of in New Delhi. Understanding (MoU) at Jhajjar, Haryana. Union Minister for Information & Rs. 2 Crores for Distribution of Aids and Broadcasting and Textiles, Smt. Smriti Assistive Devices to Persons with Zubin Irani would be presiding as the Chief Disabilities at Charkhi Dadri District of Guest over the Inaugural ceremony of the Haryana under the CSR initiative of APCPL Summit on 10th May. in the presence of Shri D.R. Sarin, CMD, The AMS 2018, an annual summit of the ALIMCO and ShriN.N.Mishra, CEO, Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting APCPL. Development (AIBD) Kuala Lumpur, is a As per the MoU signed between ALIMCO prestigious summit in the Asia Pacific and APCPL, Distribution camps will be Region and India is hosting the event for the organized at Charkhi Dadri District for an first time. estimated cost of Rs 2 Crores.
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In the Distribution Camps artificial limbs, Observatory Group and Chairman of Oxus aids & appliances such as Motorized Research and Investments Tricycles Tricycle, Wheel Chairs, BTE Sanjeev Gupta, Ex-Deputy Director (Fiscal Hearing Aids, Crutch Axilla Adjustable, Affairs Department), IMF Braille Cane, MSIED Kit, Braille Kit, Smart Pinaki Chakraborty, Professor (NIPFP) Cane, Smart Phones etc. to Persons with Shri Sajjid Chinoy, Chief India Economist, Disabilities will be distributed. JP Morgan ALIMCO is a “Not For Profit” Central Shri Neelkanth Mishra, Managing Director Public Sector Undertaking working under and the Credit Suisse India Economist and the administrative control of Ministry of Strategist Social Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. Kovind becomes first President to visit Siachen in 14 years Fifteenth Finance Commission constitutes an The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Advisory Council visited Siachen Base Camp on May 10, 2018 and The Fifteenth Finance Commission has constituted addressed the soldiers posted there. an Advisory Council to advise and assist the He also visited the Kumar Post. President Commission. The role and functions of the Advisory Kovind is the second President of India to Council will be: visit Siachen. To advise the Commission on any issue or The previous visit was undertaken by subject related to the Terms of Reference President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam in April 2004. (ToR) of the Commission, which may be of This makes President Kovind the first relevance; President to travel to Siachen in 14 years. To assist in the preparation of any paper or research study which would enhance the Madhya Pradesh Gets India's First Smart Cities Commission's understanding on the issues Control Centre containing in its ToR; and In a major step towards realising the centre's smart To help in broadening the Commission's city mission (SCM), the Madhya Pradesh ambit and understanding to seek best government has launched the country's first national and international practices on Integrated Control and Command Centre (ICCC) for matters pertaining to fiscal devolution and all seven smart cities of the state in Bhopal. improving the quality and reach and The ICCCwould enable the authorities to enforcement of its recommendations. monitor the status of various smart civic Advisory Council will have following members: amenities in real-time through the sensors Arvind Virmani, President, Forum for connected to it. Strategic Initiatives Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Surjit S. Bhalla, Part-time Member of Satna, and Sagar are the seven smart cities PMEAC and Sr. Indian Analyst for the under SCM in Madhya Pradesh.
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Union Minister for Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu from May 15 in Mumbai for promoting export of inaugurates 6th US-India Aviation Summit mangoes and other tropical fruits and products. The 6th US-India Aviation Summit was formally The Meet is being organized by the APEDA inaugurated by Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Suresh Prabhu in Mumbai. Government of India, in association with the The biennial Summit is jointly organised by PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Ministry of Civil Aviation and US Trade and Its objective is to promote and give a fillip to Development Agency (USTDA). exports of Indian mangos and other tropical The summit is a technical, policy and fruits like pomegranate, pinesapple, banana commercial forum by the Indian Ministry of and jackfruits from the country and to Civil Aviation and the US Trade and develop new markets for promotion of these Development Agency. fruits and processed products.
Joint Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) National Technology Day: 11 May Surveillance of Maldives National Technology Indian Naval (IN) ship Sumedha, a Naval Offshore Day is observed every Patrol Vessel (NOPV), has been deployed to year on 11th of May in undertake joint EEZ surveillance of Maldives from India, acting as a 09 to 17 May 18, as part of Indian Navy’s ‘Mission reminder of the Based Deployments’. anniversary of Shakti. The ship would undertake an Operational Shakti is the Pokhran nuclear test which was Turnaround (OTR) at Male from 11 to 12 held on 11th of May, 1998. May 2018, during which the ship would The day highlights the important role of interact and impart training to Maldives’ Science in our daily lives and encourages National Defence Forces (MNDF) students to embrace Science as a career personnel. option. Sumedha would also embark MNDF personnel onboard and undertake joint EEZ Modi, Oli jointly inaugurate Janakpur-Ayodhya surveillance of Maldives from 12 to 15 May direct bus service 2018. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Nepalese The MNDF personnel would be counterpart K P Sharma Oli jointly inaugurated a disembarked at Male, on completion of the direct bus service between Janakpur and Ayodhya - EEZ surveillance. the two sacred cities for Hindus. Modi flagged off the bus after visiting the RBSM-India 2018 to commence on May 15 famed 20th century Janaki temple, dedicated Commerce Secretary of the Government of India, to the Hindu goddess Sita, where he offered Rita A Teaotia, will inaugurate the two-day second special prayers. Reverse Buyers Sellers Meet (RBSM) commencing
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Janakpur is known as the birth place of Sita, Punjab Infrastructure Development Board the wife of Lord Rama. Janaki temple was (PIDB) will facilitate regulatory clearances built in memory of Sita in 1910. and incentives by the state government.
Frozen Semen Station being set up in Chhattisgarh CM to launch Vikas Yatra Maranga,Purnea Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has Laying the foundation stone of the frozen semen launched Vikas Yatra from Dantewada. station in Maranga, Purnea Union Minister of Addressing the media, the Chief Minister Agriculture & Farmers’ Welfare Shri Radha Mohan said, "This yatra is to tell people about the Singh said that the frozen semen station is being set development the state has witnessed. We up at a cost of Rs 64 crore under the Rashtriya Gokul will also work to further increase the growth Mission with 100% contribution from the Central of the state in coming days. Government. The chief minister, during his Vikas Yatra, Out of this, Rs 20 crore has already been will distribute free pesticides to 5.5 lakh released. labourers. Currently, the artificial insemination is being Also, 50 lakh families will be given done by CMOFED (Sudha) in Bihar. For smartphones as part of the Chief Minister's artificial insemination, semen from high dream project Sanchar Kranti Yojna. genetic merit bulls is needed. Shri Singh elaborated that the frozen semen President launches several schemes in Rajasthan station in Purnea will be the first state-of-the- The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, art semen production center of the country. addressed a civic reception hosted for him in Jaipur, The Minister said the RashtriyaGokul Rajasthan, by the state government on May 13, Mission was initiated in December 2014 2018. with an aim to conserve and develop The President appreciated the Government indigenous breeds. of Rajasthan for launching the ‘Bhairon Singh Shekhawat Antyodaya Employment Punjab signs MoU with UK for setting up bio- Scheme’ and the ‘Sunder Singh Bhandari gas, bio CNG plants EBC Self-Employment Scheme’, named The Punjab government has signed a pact with the after two illustrious public figures from UK for setting up of bio-gas and bio-CNG plants in Rajasthan. the state. He stated that the loan waiver for SCs, STs A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and other deprived communities – a third was signed in the presence of Punjab Finance scheme launched today – too is a tribute to Minister Manpreet Singh Badal and Andrew the principles and ideals of these Ayre, deputy high commissioner, British personalities. High Commission. The President was happy to note that four cities of Rajasthan - Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota
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and Ajmer – are part of the Smart Cities Indian Army Women Officers’ Mountaineering initiative of the Government of India. Expedition to Mt. Bhagirathi-II (6512 metres) consisting of nine women officers, was flagged off Madhya Pradesh to be declared ODF by October by Director General of Military Training on 14 May this year 2018. The Chief Minister of The expedition will be conducted from 14 Madhya Pradesh, Shri May to 11 Jun 18. Shivraj Singh Chouhan The team also plans to set a new world has announced that the record of practicing Yoga at 21000 ft on the State will be declared as occasion of Yoga Day 2018. open defecation free The expedition aims at encouraging women (ODF) by Gandhi in the field of adventure where dauntless Jayanti this year. courage, will-power and determination is put This will mean that the State will become to test. ODF one year before the national timeline of October 2nd, 2019, the 150th birth Regional Conference on “Physical and Social anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Infrastructure for Regional Development” The Governor of Assam, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi Customs and Postal Department hold First ever inaugurated the two day Seminar being organized by Joint Conference the Ministry of Finance on the theme of “Physical Indian Customs and Department of India Posts held and Social Infrastructure for Regional a First ever Joint Conference at Vigyan Bhavan in Development” in Guwahati, Assam. New Delhi to deliberate on streamlining of imports The Seminar is organized by the Ministry of and exports by post. Finance, Government of India in Commissioners of Customs from all the collaboration with the Asian Infrastructure States having Foreign Post Offices (FPOs) Investment Bank (AIIB), Research and were present along with their counterpart Information System for Developing Post Master Generals. Countries (RIS) and the Federation of Indian Imports and exports by post are the Chamber of Commerce and Industries 6th highest cited citizen grievances under (FICCI). CPGRAMs. Customs and Directorate General of Foreign Central assistance to Assam, HP, Sikkim and Raj Trade (DGFT) have worked together since a and UT of Lakshadweep year to liberalise, reform and align laws The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh relating to imports by Post. chaired a meeting of the High Level Committee (HLC) for Central Assistance to the States/ UT of Indian Army Women Officers’ Mountaineering Assam (affected by floods during 2017-18), Expedition to Mt. Bhagirathi-II Himachal Pradesh (affected by floods/ landslides
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during 2017-18), Sikkim (affected by floods/ delegates who are participating in this Global landslides during 2017-18), Lakshadweep (affected Exhibition from about 100 countries. by cyclone Ockhi during 2017) and Rajasthan He commended the Ministry of Commerce (affected by kharif drought during 2017). and Industry of the Government of India, as The HLC approved assistance of Rs 480.87 well as the Government of Maharashtra, the crore in respect of state of Assam. Confederation of Indian Industry and the The HLC also approved assistance from Services Export Promotion Council, for this NDRF amounting to Rs 84.60 crore for the initiative. state of Himachal Pradesh, Rs 67.40 crore for the state of Sikkim, Rs 2.16 crore for the J.P. Nadda inaugurates two-day risk UT of Lakshadweep and Rs 526.14 crore for communication workshop the state of Rajasthan. Shri J P Nadda, Union The total assistance approved was Rs Minister of Health and 1,161.17 crores. Family Welfare inaugurated a two-day UNDP to set up skill development centre in workshop on ‘Risk Hyderabad Communication during United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Public Health will soon set up a skill development centre at Emergencies’ at Shimla. 'Bharosa,' an integrated support centre for distressed During his inaugural address, Shri Nadda women and children in Hyderabad. urged the public health functionaries for Last year, the Hyderabad Police had signed keeping their communication simple and an agreement with UNDP under the 'Disha' effective during the delivery of healthcare project to build capacities and skills of services. women affected by violence to help make them economically self-sufficient. Cabinet approves setting up of a Central 'Bharosa,' an initiative of Hyderabad City University in Andhra Pradesh Police, is a state-of-the-art centre to support The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri women and children who are victims of Narendra Modi has given its in-principle approval violence. for establishing a Central University by the name of 14. President of India Inaugurates 4th Global “Central University of Andhra Pradesh” in Exhibition on Services in Maharashtra Janthaluru Village of Ananthapur District, Andhra The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, Pradesh. inaugurated the 4th Global Exhibition on Services A provision of funds worth Rs. 450 crore has and launched a portal on 12 Champion Sectors in been approved for meeting the first phase Services in Mumbai on May 15, 2018. expenditure towards establishment of the Speaking on the occasion, the President said University. welcomed around 500 international
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The approval would increase access and agencies in combating IP crimes with the quality of higher education and help in help of her grandson “Chhotu” aka Aditya. minimizing the regional imbalances in The IP mascot will spread awareness about education facilities, and give effect to the the importance of Intellectual Property Andhra Pradesh Reorganization Act, 2014. Rights (IPRs) among people, especially children, in an interesting manner. Establishment of National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation at Bhopal International Rail Coach Expo to be hosted by The Union Cabinet Chaired by Prime Minister Shri Integral Coach Factory Chennai Narendra Modi has approved the establishment of For the first time an National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation International Rail (NIMHR) at Bhopal as a Society under the Societies Coach Expo (IRCE) Registration Act, 1860 under the aegis of the to focus on Rail Department of Empowerment of Persons with Coaches and train Disabilities. sets, is being held in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, from 17th The estimated cumulative cost of the project to 19th May, 2018, in the ICF RPF Parade Grounds, is Rs. 179.54 crore in first three years. This Chennai. includes non-recurring expenditure of Rs. Many reputed rail car and equipment 128.54 crore and recurring expenditure of builders will be showcasing their technology Rs. 51 crore. and products. It will be a unique platform to The main objectives of the NIMHR are to bring different suppliers under one roof and provide rehabilitation services to the persons create synergy for “Make in India”. with mental illness, capacity development in The expo is being hosted by Integral Coach the area of mental health rehabilitation, Factory, popularly known as ICF, under the policy framing and advanced research in Ministry of Railways, in coordination with mental health rehabilitation. CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) and RITES Ltd. a PSU under Ministry of Suresh Prabhu launches Intellectual Property Railways. mascot – IP Nani The Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Suresh Delhi projected to become world's most populous Prabhu launched the Intellectual Property (IP) city around 2028: UN report mascot – IP Nani – at the conference on National Delhi is projected to become the most populous city Intellectual Property Rights Policy in New Delhi. in the world around 2028, according to new United An anti-piracy video featuring Mr. Amitabh Nations estimates, which said India is expected to Bachchan was also launched by the Minister add the largest number of urban dwellers by 2050. at the event. The 2018 Revision of World Urbanisation Mascot IP Nani is a tech-savvy grandmother Prospects produced by the Population who helps the government and enforcement Division of the UN Department of Economic
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and Social Affairs (UN DESA) said that 68 An amount of Rs. 10 lakh has been per cent of the world population is projected earmarked for each stretch of beach, river to live in urban areas by 2050. front and lake. Currently, 55 per cent of the world's population lives in urban areas. Creation of Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) in Department of Commerce Guwahati now has India's first solar powered Department of Commerce formally issued railway station notification for creation of Directorate General of Guwahati now has India's first railway station run by Trade Remedies (DGTR) in the Ministry of solar power. The project of installing solar panels Commerce and Industry. was commissioned last year in April 2017. Hon’ble Commerce and Industry Minister Around 2352 solar modules with a capacity Sh. Suresh Prabhu has given his approval for of generating 700 kwp has been set up over creation of DGTR in Department of the roof of the Guwahati railway station. Commerce, consequent upon amendment Solar panels have been installed at the roof- carried out by Government of India to the top solar power plant. Government of India (Allocation of The solar-powered station is aimed at Business) Rules, 1961 on May 7, 2018 in this reducing carbon-footprint as well as cut regard. down power costs drastically. DGTR will be the apex National Authority for administering all trade remedial Environment Ministry Forms 19 Teams for measures including anti-dumping, Cleaning of Beaches, River Fronts and Lakes countervailing duties and safeguard In the build-up to the World Environment Day 2018, measures. the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate The DGTR will bring Directorate General of Change, has formed 19 teams to take up cleaning of Anti-dumping and Allied duties (DGAD), beaches, river fronts and lakes in the country. Directorate General of Safeguards (DGS) Cleaning up of around 24 beaches in nine (9) and Safeguards (QR) functions of DGFT coastal states (list attached) and cleaning of into its fold by merging them into one single river fronts in 24 identified polluted stretches national entity. in 19 states (list attached) will be It will also provide trade defence support to undertaken. our domestic industry and exporters in Besides the listed rivers, a special cleanliness dealing with increasing instances of trade drives will be carried out at Yamuna remedy investigations instituted against riverfront in Delhi. Certain lakes and water them by other countries. bodies have also been identified for cleaning. Radha Mohan Singh addresses National Conference of Fisheries Ministers of Coastal states
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During the last decade, India has attained first Cabinet approves MoU between India and position with around 14% average annual growth in Suriname in the field of electoral management the export of fish & fishery products. Fish The Union Cabinet production in India has also grown by 27% in 2014- chaired by Prime Minister 18 as compared to 2010-14. Shri Narendra Modi has This was stated by the Union Minister of approved the Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shri Memorandum of Radha Mohan Singh while addressing the Understanding (MoU) between India and Suriname Fisheries Ministers of Coastal states and on cooperation in the field of electoral management Union Territories. and administration Shri Singh further added that owing to low It includes exchange of knowledge and prospects of fisheries production along the experience in the field of organizational and coast, the government has decided to technical development of electoral process; promote deep sea fishing and has introduced support in exchanging information, a sub-component 'Assistance for Deep Sea institutional strengthening and capacity Fishing' under the Blue Revolution. building, training of personnel, holding Advanced and modern deep sea fishing regular consultations etc. vessels will be built in the country by The MoU will promote bilateral cooperation, indigenous technology. aimed at building technical assistance / He informed that in the first year, central capacity support for Suriname envisaging funds amounting to more than Rs 312 crore cooperation in the field of electoral have been released for the implementation of management and administration. this scheme benefitting fishermen from states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Shivangi Pathak becomes youngest Indian Gujarat. woman to scale Mount Everest India's Shivangi Pathak has become youngest Cabinet approves setting up of a new AIIMS in women of the country to scale Mt Everest from Deoghar, Jharkhand Nepal side. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Born in Hisar of Haryana Shivangi climbed Narendra Modi has approved setting up of a new All Mt Everest to spread the message that India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in women could overcome any obstacle to Deoghar, Jharkhand. achieve their goals. A provision of funds worth Rs. 1103 crore In 2014, 13 year old Malavath Poorna from has been approved for the project and the India had climbed Mt Everest from Tibet said AIIMS will be set up under the Pradhan side and became youngest girl in the world MantriSwasthya Suraksha Yojana to summit at Everest. (PMSSY). “AYUSH” finds a place in English Language
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The Commission for Scientific and Technical Kashmir, amid protests from neighbour Pakistan Terminology has decided to adopt the word which says the project on a river flowing into ‘AYUSH’ in Hindi and English languages for Pakistan will disrupt water supplies. scientific and technical purposes. The 330 megawatt Kishanganga hydropower The “AYUSH” became popular as the station, work on which started in 2009, is one acronym for five traditional and of the projects that India has fast-tracked in complementary systems of medicine, the volatile state amid frosty ties between the namely Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, nuclear-armed countries. Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy and Modi, who is on a day-long visit to the state, successfully adopted and used in all also flagged off the construction of the 14 km Government communications. (9 mile)-long Zojila tunnel to provide all- The decision follows a proposal from the weather connectivity between the cities of Ministry of AYUSH in this regards. Srinagar, Kargil and Leh. The government said it would be the longest NITI Aayog’s three day Venture Capital road tunnel in India and Asia's longest two- Symposium 2018 begins way tunnel, to be constructed at a cost of $1 NITI Aayog, in association with Vision India billion. Foundation, is organising the Venture Capital Symposium 2018 to deepen the economic ‘Green Good Deeds’ Movement Launched by Dr relationships between France and India. Following Harsh Vardhan Gets Global Recognition the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron, 20 Green Good Deeds, the societal movement launched of the biggest French venture capital and private by the Union Minister for Environment, Forest & equity funds are coming to India to explore Climate Change, Dr Harsh Vardhan, to protect investment opportunities. environment and promote good living in the country, The Venture Capital Symposium 2018 is a has found acceptance by the global community. three day event where the French investors The ongoing BRICS Ministerial on will be interacting with 100 early to mid- Environment at Durban, South Africa, has stage Indian start-ups. agreed to include “Green Good Deeds” in its Four investor groups - Eren Group, official agenda in the next Ministerial in Claranova, Olymp Capital and TNP - made Brazil and another meeting in Russia”. announcements of setting up offices in India and commitments to invest in various sectors NABARD sanctions Solar street lighting system such as energy, aerospace, blockchain and in Arunachal Internet of Things. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned LED Modi inaugurates hydro project in Kashmir Solar Street Lighting system for Arunachal Pradesh Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a under its Rural Infrastructure Development Fund hydroelectric power plant in the state of Jammu and with a total grant of Rs 87.83 lakh.
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The project would be implemented in the As the death toll in the virus-induced fever in north four districts of the state Tirap, Longding, Kerala rises to nine, the National Virology Institute Namsai and Tawang. in Pune has confirmed that the deceased were Chief Minister Pema Khandu launched the infected with Nipah virus (NiV). scheme in presence of NABARD Chairman This is the first time the virus, which has high Harsh Kumar Bhanwala. fatality rate and spreads mainly through bats, pigs and other animals, has been detected in Railways to use AI to control air circulation in the state. Manipur tunnel Nipah virus (NiV) infection is a newly- For the first time, the railways will use artifical emerging zoonosis (a disease which can be intelligence to control air circulation, signages and transmitted to humans from animals) that even supervision and maintenance work in the 10.28 causes severe disease in both animals and km-long tunnel in Imphal as part of its 110 km humans. The natural host of the virus are railway line from Jiribam to Manipur's capital city. fruit bats of the Pteropodidae Family, While the national transporter is already Pteropus genus. using this technique to detect flaws or NiV was first identified during an outbreak problems in the signalling system, this is the of disease that took place in Kampung first time that such a technology will be used Sungai Nipah, Malaysia in 1998. On this in a tunnel in the country. occasion, pigs were the intermediate hosts. The system will control air circulation in the system, along with other aspects. Regional Conference on “Clean and Renewable It will alert the passenger in case of fire and Energy” held in Bhopal help us in quick evacuation in case of any The Minister of New issue. and Renewable Energy, Govt. of May 21st is observed as Anti Terrorism Day Madhya Pradesh (MP), All over India, May 21st is observed as Anti Shri Narayan Singh Terrorism Day in the memory of former Indian PM Kushwah inaugurated Mr Rajiv Gandhi who passed away on this day. the one day Regional On this day in the year 1991, former India’s Conference on the theme of “New and Renewable PM Rajiv Gandhi was killed brutally by Energy” in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. terrorist attacks. This was sixth such Regional Conference in On this day Anti- terrorism pledge is taken the series in a lead-up to 3rd Annual Meeting in all government offices, PSU and in other of the Board of Governors of Asian public organisations. Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) which is being hosted by the Ministry of Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala Finance, Government of India in collaboration with AIIB, Government of
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Maharashtra, RIS and CII among others in The Film Festival will be non-competitive. Mumbai on 25th and 26th June, 2018. The tagline of the Festival is proposed to be The one day Seminar in Bhopal was also ‘Friendship through Films’. organized by the Ministry of Finance, Jassari Movie Sinjar will be the opening film Government of India in collaboration with for the festival. the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank During the festival, 32 films from 11 (AIIB), Research and Information System countries will be displayed. for Developing Countries (RIS) and the Points to Remember Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Industries (FICCI). (ASEAN) is a regional intergovernmental organization comprising ten Southeast Asian Workshop on “Ganga and its Biodiversity countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Union Minister for Water Resources, River Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam). Gadkari released the report on “Status of ASEAN is an official United Nations Conservation of Select Aquatic Species” in river observer, as well as an active global partner. Ganga in New Delhi. He also inaugurated a day-long workshop Cabinet nod to ordinance to set up country's first organized by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) sports university in Manipur on the theme “Ganga and its Biodiversity: The Union Cabinet approved an ordinance to set up Developing a Road Map for Habitat and the country's first national sports university in Species Conservation”. Manipur. A database of Ganga Praharis’, a self- Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said a bill motivated cadre, being created by Wildlife to set up the university in Imphal (west) is Institute of India (WII) was also launched by already pending in Parliament. the Minister. The proposal to set up the national sports university in Manipur was initially India to host the ASEAN India Film Festival announced by Prime Minister Narendra In association with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Modi, while Rs 100 crore funds for it were the Directorate of Film Festival is organizing the allocated in the 2014-15 budget. ASEAN India Film Festival in Delhi from 25th to 30th May 2018, celebrating completion of 25 years PM Modi to inaugurate Kundli-Ghaziabad- of ASEAN India Relations. Palwal expressway on May 27 Minister of State (I/C) for Information & Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Broadcasting and Sports & Youth Affairs, Kundli-Ghaziabad-Palwal (KGP) Expressway Col Rajyavardhan Rathore will inaugurate (Eastern Peripheral Expressway) project, intended the Film Festival in Siri Fort Auditorium on to relieve Delhi from traffic congestion, on May 27. 25th May 2018.
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The inaugural ceremony of the expressway school education extending support to States from will held at the district sports stadium in pre-school to senior secondary levels for the first Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat. time in New Delhi. Kundli and Palwal are both in Haryana. The Scheme is a paradigm shift in the While Kundli is in Haryana's Sonipat conceptual design of school education by district, bordering Delhi, Palwal is south of treating ‘school’ holistically as a continuum Faridabad district, about 80 km from Delhi. from pre-school, primary, upper primary, secondary and senior secondary levels Rajasthan launches ‘Nidaan’ software for disease He further said every school will get sports monitoring equipment under the SamagraShiksha, at the A new software, ‘Nidaan’, has been launched in cost of Rs. 5000 for Primary, Rs. 10,000 for Rajasthan for presumptive diagnosis and monitoring Upper Primary & up to Rs. 25,000 for SSC of seasonal and non-communicable diseases as well & HSC schools to inculcate & emphasize as the trends of ailments found in specific areas. relevance of sports to realise the dream of It is expected to help in formulation of “Khelega India Khilega India”. specific action plans for control of diseases. Shri Javadekar said Kasturba Gandhi Balika “Nidaan” will facilitate online entries of as Vidyalaya (KGBV) to be expanded from many as 46 diseases and healthcare services Class 6-8 to Class 6-12 with allocation of Rs. available for their treatment in different 4385.60 crores in 2018-19 & Rs. 4553.10 institutions. crores in 2019-20 to fulfil Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s commitment to Beti India-Nepal Joint Battalion Level Exercise Bachao Beti Padhao. SURYA KIRAN-XIII Joint Military Exercise SURYA KIRAN-XIII PM Modi, Sheikh Hasina inaugurate Bangladesh between India and Nepal will be conducted at Bhavan Pithoragarh from 30 May to 12 June 2018. Prime Minister The exercise will comprise of nearly 300 Narendra Modi and soldiers from both Indian and Nepal Army his Bangladeshi who would be sharing their experiences. counterpart Sheikh Exercise SURYA KIRAN is a biannual Hasina arrived at event which is conducted alternatively in Santiniketan to attend the convocation of Visva Nepal and India. Bharati University. Hasina, who is on a two-day visit on the Ministry of HRD launches ‘Samagra Siksha’ invitation of Prime Minister Modi to India, scheme was received by West Bengal Chief Minister The Union Minister for Human Resource Mamata Banerjee. Development,Shri Prakash Javadekar launched the ‘Samagra Shiksha’ - an integrated Scheme for
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The two leaders inaugurated the Bangladesh Prime Minister lays foundation stone for Patratu Bhavan within the campus here, as a symbol Super Thermal Power Project of the cultural ties between the two countries. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the 2400MW first phase of NTPC's Patratu Yogi govt to change name of Allahabad to Prayag Super Thermal Power Project in Jharkhand. Allahabad is set to be rechristened as ‘Prayag’, a The project is a 74: 26 Joint Venture between long pending demand of sadhus and saints of the Government of Jharkhand (GoJ) and Patratu Sangam City. Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. (PVUN), a The new name is likely to be approved by the subsidiary company of NTPC establishing a state cabinet soon, sources in the government total capacity expansion of 4,000MW. said in Lucknow. Envisioning the brighter future for India's During his recent visit to Allahabad to 19th State, NTPC’s PVUNL is set to develop release dates of Shahi Snan (royal bathing), the project in two phases: 2,400 MW Akhil Bharatiya Akhara Parishad has urged (3x800MW) in Phase-I and 1,600 MW Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to rename (2x800 MW) in Phase-II. Allahabad as Prayag before the coming Kumbh Mela in 2019. Ravi Shankar Prasad to inaugurates cloud enabled Data Centre at Bhubaneswar Kalyan, Kurla, and Thane feature in list of National Informatics Centre has set up a new state- dirtiest railway stations in country of-the-art cloud enabled National Data Centre at Three most busy stations Bhubaneswar. of Mumbai’s suburban The data center was inaugurated by Union railways, Kalyan, Minister of Electronics & IT and Law & Kurla, and Thane are Justice, Sh. Ravi Shankar Prasad in among the ten dirtiest Bhubaneswar. stations in the country. It will offer 24*7 operations with secure Kanpur Central station tops this list. hosting for e-Governance applications of the Indian Railways conducted a survey between Government and its departments. May 11 and May 17, assessing railway stations of the country, according to which, Manipur Becomes First State in Northeast to Mumbai is the only city with three stations Have Solar Toilet in the list—Kalyan at 3, Kurla's Lokmanya Manipur has become the first state in the Northeast Tilak Terminus (LTT) at 5 and Thane at 8. and the third state in India to have solar toilets. Passenger feedback is taken via Indian The solar panel, connected to the toilets, Railways' Interactive Voice Response absorb the heat to generate power and are System. also efficient to transform waste material.
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PM inaugurates Eastern Peripheral Expressway to those not covered under the Ujjwala and Phase-I of Delhi-Meerut Expressway Yojana. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation, two newly built expressways in the 9th edition of ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav’ Delhi NCR Region. inaugurated in Tehri , Uttarakhand The first of these is the 14 lane, access Ministry of Culture has organised 3 day long controlled, Phase-I of the Delhi-Meerut diversified cultural festival ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Expressway, stretching from Nizamuddin Mahotsav’ festival which was inaugurated by Chief Bridge to Delhi UP Border. Minister of Uttarakhand, Shri Trivendra Singh The second project to be dedicated to the Rawat Near Tehri Lake, Uttrakhand. nation is the 135 km long Eastern Peripheral The North Zone Cultural Centre (NZCC), Expressway (EPE), stretching from Kundli Patiala has been entrusted with the on NH 1 to Palwal on NH 2. responsibility as the nodal agency to carry The Delhi Meerut Expressway, once forward the execution of the National completed, will significantly reduce travel Cultural Festival under the banner of the times from the National Capital to Meerut, slogan “EK BHARAT SHRESHTHA and to several other parts of Western Uttar BHARAT”. Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), 4th International Yoga Day Celebrations Main will contribute towards the twin objectives Event to be Organized in Dehradun of decongesting and de-polluting the The main event of 4th International Yoga Day national capital by diverting traffic not celebrations (IDY-2018) will be held on 21st June destined for Delhi. 2018 at Dehradun in Uttrakhand. Shri Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Himachal Pradesh launches three welfare Ministry of AYUSH announced that schemes Dehradun (Uttarakhand) has been selected Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur as the venue for Main Event of 4th has launched three welfare schemes to mark International Day of Yoga on 21st June, completion of four years of the Narendra Modi 2018. government at the Centre. These schemes are: Lok Sabha MP Baijayant Panda resigns from "Jan Manch" for redressal of public Biju Janata Dal grievances. Lok Sabha MP from "Mukhya Mantri Swavlamban Yojana" Odisha’s Kendrapara aimed at providing assistance to the constituency, unemployed youth. Baijayant Panda, "Himachal Grihini Suvidha Yojana" for resigned from the offering gas cylinder security and gas stoves Biju Janata Dal.
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Mr. Panda, who is the vice-president of The MoU shall be in force for a period of 2 IMFA, a ferro alloy producer, was years which may be renewed for further suspended from the primary membership of period on satisfactory running of the Home. the BJD for “anti-party” activities on January 24. PRAAPTI App launched by Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Shri R.K. Singh Dr Jitendra Singh announces Rs 28 crore for A Web portal and an 'Brahmaputra Study Centre' at Gauhati App namely PRAAPTI University (Payment Ratification The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of And Analysis in Power the Ministry of Development of North Eastern procurement for bringing Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Transparency in Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Invoicing of generators), Dr Jitendra Singh has said the Government has www.praapti.in, has been officially launched by approved setting up of an exclusive “Brahmaputra Hon’ble Minister of State (I/C) for Power, Shri R.K. Study Centre” at Gauhati University, Guwahati, for Singh. which a fund of about Rs. 28 crore will be provided PRAAPTI App and web portal has been by the Ministry of DoNER. developedto bring transparency in power The Vice-Chancellor of Gauhati University, purchase transactions between Generators Dr Mridul Hazarika, who called on Dr and Discoms. Jitendra Singh, said that the University has The App and Web Portal will capture the decided to provide land within the campus Invoicing and payment datafor various long for a separate block for the Brahmaputra term PPAs from the Generators. Study Centre / Department. This will help the stakeholders in getting month-wise and legacy data on outstanding Ministry of WCD signs an MoU with amounts of Discoms against power Government of Uttar Pradesh purchase. The Ministry of Women and Child and Development, Government of India has signed a Jual Oram launches ‘the Pankha’ (Hand-Fans) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with through TRIFED and TRIBES India Department of Women and Child Development, Union Tribal Affairs Minister, Shri Jual Government of Uttar Pradesh. for management of Oram launched an exhibition cum sale event, ‘the Home of Widows at Sunrakh Bangar, Vrindavan. PANKHA’ (Hand-fans), created by TRIFED through The Ministry of Women and Child its artisans from all over the country at its showroom Development has constructed this shelter Tribes India, 9 Mahadevan Road , New Delhi. home for widows with a capacity of 1000 The Pankhas, a range of exotic hand fans inmates. draws inspiration from the eminent Artist,
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Shri Jatin Das and from his collection of All the members of Railway Board along 10000 handmade Pankhas. with General Managers of Zonal Railways & These are on display at Indira Gandhi Senior Railway officers were present on the Naitonal Auditorium (IGNA), New Delhi occasion. from 26.05.2018 to 24.06.2018. TRIFED and the J.D.Centre for Arts (JDCA) are collaborating to promote the Pankha all
over the country. Maharashtra government signs MoU with TRIFED is showcasing and marketing these British Council through its 97 retail outlets and e-portals. The government of Maharashtra has signed a memorandum of 3rd Meeting of India– U.K. Home Affairs’ understanding (MoU) with the Dialogue British Council to strengthen The Third Home Affairs’ Dialogue between India educational and cultural and U.K. was held in Mumbai on May 30. cooperation between the two The Government of India Delegation was led nations. by Shri Rajiv Gauba, Union Home Secretary Under this new agreement, British Council and the Delegation from Home Office of the would be training 30,000 teachers in the U.K. was led by its Second Permanent English language in the state. Secretary, Ms. Patsy Wilkinson. The training will be funded by Tata Trusts, The Dialogue covered a wide range of issues the Tata group's philanthropic organisation. including cyber security, women safety, organized crime, terror financing etc. and a GAIL signs Rs 2,000-cr loan agreement with SBI need to put in place a mechanism for timely GAIL (India) Limited and State Bank of India have exchange of information and intelligence signed a Rupee Term Loan Agreement of Rs 2,000 inputs on such issues. crores for a door to door tenure of 15 years. A statement from the company said that the Ministry of Railways organizes a one day purpose of the loan is for general capital workshop ‘Mission Raftar’ expenditure of GAIL, mainly in the gas Ministry of Railways conducted a one day workshop pipeline projects, in the forthcoming years. “Mission Raftaar” aimed at raising the average speed of freight trains and coaching trains in New 4th Regional Conference on Futuristic, Resilient Delhi. and Digital Infrastructure of AIIB The workshop was inaugurated by Shri The Ministry of Finance, Government of India in Rajen Gohain, Minister of State for Railways collaboration with the Confederation of Indian & Shri Ashwani Lohani, Chairman,Railway Industry (CII), and Research and Information Board. System for Developing Countries (RIS) organized
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the 4th Regional Conference on Futuristic, Resilient Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide real time and Digital Infrastructure in Bengaluru. advisory to farmers in Aspirational Districts. The 2-day Conference is a lead-up to the 3rd The SoI was signed in the presence of Shri Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog and Shri Investment Bank (AIIB) to be hosted by the Karan Bajwa, MD, IBM India. Government of India on 25th and 26th June The partnership aims to work together 2018 in Mumbai. towards use of technology to provide The Conference saw eminent delegates insights to farmers to improve crop representing partner institutions, academia, productivity, soil yield, control agricultural civil society organizations and experts from inputs with the overarching goal of various fields expressing their views on how improving farmers’ incomes. to bring about institutional approaches for futuristic and digital infrastructure in India. ADB projects India’s growth at 7.3% in 2018 Asian Development Bank (ADB) President 51st Annual Meeting of Asian Development Bank Takehiko Nakao said India’s growth in 2018 would pick up to 7.3%. An Indian delegation headed by Shri Subhash China is expected to grow by 6.6% in 2018, Chandra Garg, Secretary, Department of Economic even as its growth continues to gradually Affairs, Ministry of Finance is currently on a tour to moderate. Manila to attend the 51st Annual Meeting of Asian The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Development Bank. region, with a large population of 650 Shri Garg held bilateral meeting with the million, is continuing to grow at 5.2%. Premier of Niue, Sir Toke Talagi on the sidelines of the 51st Annual Meeting of Patanjali ranked as most trusted FMCG brand Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila. in India The Premier of Niue sought India’s support Patanjali Ayurved Limited has been ranked as for its bid for membership of ADB. India's most trusted Fast Moving Consumer Goods The Indian delegation also held bilateral (FMCG) brand in the TRA's Brand Trust Report meetings with the official delegations of 2018. NORDIC countries, OPEC Fund for The Patanjali Ayurved Limited was International Development (OFID), French, established in 2006 by Ramdev, along with British, US and EIB delegations. Acharya Balkrishna. Patanjali Ayurveda had tied-up with NITI Aayog to Collaborate with IBM to develop Amazon, Flipkart, ShopClues, Precision Agriculture bigbasket_com, 1mgOfficial, Grofers and NITI Aayog and IBM signed a Statement of Intent NetMeds. (SoI) to develop a crop yield prediction model using
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India will be world’s fastest growing economy in The event currently underway in Mumbai. coming decade The SWIFT India and Subcontinents India tops the list of the fastest growing economies Regional Conference 2018 aims to explore in the world for the coming decade and is projected key issues in the nation’s financial market to grow at 7.9 per cent annually, ahead of China and development, with a specific focus on the US, according to a Harvard University report. innovation, digitisation, and minimizing the The Centre for International Development at digital gap Harvard University (CID) said in new growth projections that countries that have NSIC Inks MoU with MSME Ministry for FY diversified their economies into more 2018-19 complex sectors, such as India and Vietnam, The National Small Industries Corporation Limited are those that will grow the fastest in the (NSIC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding coming decade. (MOU) with Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for the year 2018-19. GST Council approves turning GSTN into a The said MoU envisages provision of government entity enhanced services by NSIC under its The GST Council has approved making GST marketing, financial, technology and other Network (GSTN) a government entity by taking support services schemes, for MSMEs in the over stakes held by private entities, Finance Minister country. Arun Jaitley said at the end of the 27th meeting of The corporation projects to increase its total the council. business by 21.30 percent from Rs. 22,258 Jaitley said the GST Network or GSTN crore in the year 2017-18 to Rs. 27,000 crore currently is 24.5 per cent owned by the in the year 2018-19. central government and a similar percentage is held by state governments collectively. Walmart acquires 77% stake in Flipkart The remaining 51 per cent is with five The world’s largest retailer Walmart will acquire a private financial institutions -- HDFC Ltd, 77 percent holding in Flipkart Group for $16 billion, HDFC Bank Ltd, ICICI Bank Ltd, NSE the companies said in a statement. Strategic Investment Co and LIC Housing Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal and other Finance Ltd. shareholders will hold the remainder. The council has agreed to a proposal of Japan's Softbank to exit Flipkart by selling buying out the stake of private entities to entire 20 per cent stake to Walmart. make GSTN a government-owned entity, he Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal to exit said adding the central government will own company by selling his 5.5 pc stake to 50 per cent and the remaining would be Walmart. collectively held by state governments. IMF expects India to grow at 7.4% in FY 2018/19 SWIFT India Regional Conference 2018 –
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The Indian economy is expected to grow at 7.4 per This initiative is aimed at improving cent in the current fiscal and accelerate further to 7.8 farmers’ access to finance, ensuring per cent as it recovers from the impact of effective use of digital banking resources, demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax (GST) and imparting good agricultural practices. rollout, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. Asia continues to be the main engine of the India's growth to accelerate to 7.3% in FY19, world’s economy, accounting for more than says Fitch 60 per cent of global growth as per IMF’s India's economic growth will accelerate to 7.3 per Regional Economic Outlook: Asia and cent in the current fiscal and 7.5 per cent in the next Pacific (REO). fiscal. Fitch said that the money supply has New monetary limits for public sector banks to recovered to its pre-demonetisation level and report frauds to CBI disruptions related to the rollout of GST have The monetary threshold diminished. for public sector banks to The Indian economy continued to bounce report frauds to different back in the final quarter of 2017, growing 7.2 departments of the CBI for per cent. a probe has been revised, according to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). RBI puts Dena Bank under prompt corrective Frauds of minimum Rs 3 crore to Rs 25 action crore, up from Rs 15 crore, have to be Reserve Bank has initiated prompt corrective action reported to either the CBI's Anti-Corruption against public sector lender Dena Bank in view of Branch (in case staff involvement is prima high non-performing loans, restricting the bank from facie evident) or to the Economic Offences giving fresh credit and new hiring. Wing (if employees involvement is prima The public sector lender reported widening facie not evident) respectively. of its net loss to Rs 1,225.42 crore in the Cases of frauds involving more than Rs 25 March quarter on mounting bad loans and crore and up to Rs 50 crore should be given higher provisioning to cover them. to the CBI's Banking Security and Fraud Cell The RBI has initiated similar action against (BSFC). other public sector banks, including IDBI The cases of more than Rs 50 crore should Bank, Indian Overseas Bank and UCO Bank be lodged with the Joint Director (Policy), before this. CBI. India largest remittance-receiving country in the YES Bank to launch water-security programme world YES Bank is all set to roll out a capacity building India was the largest remittance- receiving country project with farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan under in the world, with migrant workers from the country its ‘Livelihood and Water Security’ CSR initiative. sending home USD 69 billion in 2017.
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According to the report, remittances to the average and reduce exposure to un-rated and Asia-Pacific region amounted to USD 256 high-risk advances, the filing said. billion last year. As many as 11 of 21 state-owned banks are The report 'Remit SCOPE - Remittance under the PCA of the Reserve Bank due to markets and opportunities - Asia and the their weak financials. Pacific' said India (USD 69 billion), China (USD 64 billion) and the Philippines (USD NTPC signs MoU with Government of Bihar 33 billion) are the three largest remittance- With an aim to improve receiving countries in the world in 2017. the performance of Power Sector in Bihar, a DoT approves Bharti Airtel and Telenor India Memorandum of merger Understanding (MoU) The telecom department has approved the merger of was signed between the Government of Bihar (GoB) Norwegian telecom major's India arm - Telenor and NTPC Limited at Patna in the presence of the India - with India's leading carrier Bharti Airtel. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for The telecom department has transferred all Power and New & Renewable Energy, Shri R. K. licenses belonging to Telenor India, and its Singh and Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish liabilities to Bharti Airtel as well. The Kumar. Competition Commission of India, The MoU envisages transfer of Barauni Securities & Exchange Board of India, the Thermal Power Station (720 MW) to NTPC. stock exchanges and National Company Law In addition to this, Bihar State Power Tribunal have already approved the Generation Company’s (BSPGCL) equities acquisition. in Kanti Bijlee Utpadan Nigam Limited (KBUN) & Nabinagar Power Generating RBI puts deposit, lending restrictions on Company (Pvt.) Limited (NPGC) will also Allahabad Bank be transferred to NTPC. State-run Allahabad Bank said that the Reserve All the three power generation facilities are Bank has imposed restrictions on its lending to risky envisaged to be transferred to NTPC from assets and raising high-cost deposits in vie w of the effective date to be notified by deteriorating financial health. Government of Bihar through a Statutory The directive has come within days of the Transfer Scheme. RBI imposing similar restrictions on another The transfer of these power stations to NTPC state-run lender Dena Bank, which is under will result in their optimal & efficient the Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) of the utilization, bring the tariff down and benefit central bank. the people of Bihar at large. The central bank asked Allahabad Bank, which is already under the PCA mechanism, NALCO inks MoU with Government of India for to restrict expansion of risk weighted FY 2018-19
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Aluminium major &Navratna CPSE National and guidelines on loans and advances to Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) has signed directors and their relatives. MoU with the Ministry of Mines, Govt. of India, setting highest ever target of Rs 9350 crore revenue Cabinet approves Corpus for Micro Irrigation from operations for FY 2018-19 which is 15% Fund with NABARD higher than last year. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs The MoU has also set a target of 2.1 million chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi tons for production of Alumina with 100% today has approved an initial Corpus of Rs.5,000 capacity utilisation & an optimum crore for setting up of a dedicated “Micro Irrigation Aluminium production target of 4.15 lakh Fund” (MIF) with NABARD under Pradhan tonnes. MantriKrishiSinchayeeYojana (PMKSY). It sets a target of reduction in net carbon The allocation of Rs. 2,000 crore and Rs. consumption as part of improvement in 3,000 crore will be utilised during 2018-19 production efficiency, apart from giving and 2019-20 respectively. thrust to commercialisation of new R&D NABARD will extend the loan to State products. Governments during this period. B orrowings from NABARD shall be paid PNB posts biggest ever quarterly loss of 13,417 cr back in 7 years including the grace period of in Q4 two years. Scam-hit Punjab National Bank (PNB) has posted The lending rate under MIF has been largest ever quarterly loss of Rs 13,416.91 crore for proposed at 3% lower than the cost of raising January-March period, mainly on account of high the fund by NABARD. provisioning for bad loans. The bank had reported a staggering Reserve Bank of India slaps Rs 5 cr. fine on South standalone profit of Rs 261.90 crore in the Indian Bank fourth quarter of 2016-17. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has slapped a The total income for the fourth quarter also penalty of Rs 50 million on South Indian Bank declined to Rs 12,945.68 crore from ₹ Limited for non-compliance with the directions 14,989.33 crore in the year-ago period. issued by it. The non-compliance pertains to Income RBI imposes penalty on Cooperative bank Recognition and Asset Classification The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a penalty of (IRAC) norms, Know Your Customer ₹50,000 on Universal Co-operative Urban Bank (KYC) norms and treasury function. Ltd, Mancherial, Telangana with respect to Further, the bank is also pulled up for violations on loans and advances. deficiencies in its compliance function and The apex bank in a release said the compliance culture. Cooperative Bank had violated its directive
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Indian economy projected to grow 7.6% in 2018- and provisional annual estimates for the year 19: UN 2017-18 on May 31. India's economy is projected to grow 7.6 per cent in As per Icra, the growth of the Indian gross fiscal year 2018-19, remaining the fastest growing value added (GVA) at basic prices in year- economy in the world, according to a UN report. on-year (YoY) terms is likely to record a The UN World Economic Situation and considerable recovery to 7.3 per cent in Q4 Prospects (WESP) as of mid-2018, said GDP FY2018. growth in India is expected to climb to 7.5 and 7.6 per cent in fiscal years 2017-18 and Moody’s downgrades PNB’s deposit ratings 2018-19 respectively. Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the This is a substantial recovery from the 6.7 local and foreign currency deposit ratings of fraud- per cent growth India registered in fiscal year hit Punjab National Bank to Ba1/NP from Baa3/P-3. 2017. The global credit rating agency has also downgraded the bank’s baseline credit India drags US to WTO over steel, aluminium assessment (BCA) and Adjusted BCA to B1 duties from Ba3. India has dragged the US to the World SBI net loss widens to Rs 7,718 cr in Q4 Trade Organisation's State Bank of India's net loss widened to Rs 7,718 dispute settlement crore in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2018 mechanism over the against Rs 3,442 crore in the year-ago quarter. imposition of import duties on steel and aluminium, Total provisions, including towards loan an official said. loss, rose to Rs 23,601 crore from Rs 20,751 India has stated that the decision will impact crore in the year-ago quarter. exports of these products to the US and it is Gross non-performing assets rose to Rs not in compliance with global trade norms. 2,23,427 crore as at March-end 2018 against The country has sought consultations with Rs 1,77,866 crore as at March end 2017. the US under the WTO's dispute settlement mechanism. Indo-Dutch Startup Initiative: #StartUpLink to be Launched GDP growth in Q4 of FY18 seen at 7.4%: Icra With the upcoming visit of the Netherlands’ Prime Rating agency Icra expects GDP growth in January- Minister Mark Rutte to India, Indo-Dutch ties across March 2017-18 at 7.4 per cent on account of good sectors are all set to get a major boost. rabi crop harvest and improved corporate earnings, The Dutch Prime Minister will be up from 7.2 per cent in the third quarter. accompanied by the Dutch Ministers for The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is Foreign Trade & Development Cooperation, scheduled to come out with GDP estimate Healthcare, Infrastructure & Water, and for the fourth quarter (Q4) of fiscal 2017-18 Agriculture & Food and a trade delegation
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comprising 220 participants, making this the Dr. Randeep Guleria, Director, AIIMS, New biggest trade mission to India ever. Delhi will be its Convenor. In an endeavour to further the spirit of It will evaluate the existing regulatory innovation and entrepreneurship, Invest framework in the Health sector and examine India (host to the Govt. of India’s initiative, its strength and weaknesses for enabling a ‘Startup India’ under the Ministry of balanced yet faster expansion of the health Commerce and Industry) and the Dutch sector keeping in view India’s demographic Government are jointly launching the Indo- profile; Dutch #StartUpLink initiative. The official launch will take place on 25th TCS becomes first company to achieve Rs 7 lakh May, 2018 at Taj West End Hotel, crore m-cap milestone Bengaluru. IT bellwether Tata Consultancy Services' market The initiative will fulfill the twin objective valuation briefly crossed the Rs 7-lakh crore mark, of facilitating market expansion for startups making it the first company to achieve this in the two countries alongside fostering a milestone. joint sense of innovation and The market valuation of TCS jumped to Rs entrepreneurship. 7,03,309 crore during the intra-day session on the BSE. NITI Aayog and ABB India Sign Statement of The Mumbai-headquartered TCS had last Intent month become the first Indian company to NITI Aayog and ABB India signed a Statement of close the trading session with over USD 100 Intent (SoI) to support the Indian government realize billion market valuation. its ambitious vision of ‘Make in India’ through advanced manufacturing technologies that HDFC Bank launches digital loans against incorporate the latest developments in robotics and mutual funds artificial intelligence. In a first in India, HDFC NITI Aayog will work with ABB across Bank has launched its various sectors of the economy, such as the Digital Loan against power and water utilities, industries like food Mutual Funds (LAMF). as well as the heavy industries and the Customers can transport (rail and metro) and infrastructure. now pledge mutual fund assets online and get overdraft limit set in their account in Fifteenth Finance Commission constitutes a High under 3 minutes. Level Group Customers can now avail of this product The Fifteenth Finance Commission has constituted through the HDFC Bank website in 3 easy a high level group consisting of eminent experts steps. from across the country in Health Sector.
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The bank has collaborated with CAMS, a Ramdev's Patanjali ties up with BSNL transfer agent for mutual funds to create a After becoming seamless customer experience. India's most trusted Fast Moving Yes Bank empaneled as ‘Settlement Bank’ by Consumer Goods National Stock Exchange brand, Ramdev's Yes Bank, India’s fourth largest private sector bank, Patanjali entered the has received approval from National Stock telecom sector. Exchange (NSE), India’s largest stock exchange to Ramdev launched Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM be empaneled as ‘Settlement Bank’ for National cards, in alliance with Bharat Sanchar Securities Clearing Corporation Limited (NSCCL), Nigam Limited (BSNL). a wholly owned subsidiary of NSE. Initially, only the employees and office Yes Bank will provide comprehensive bearers of Patanjali will be able to avail the settlement and clearing services suitable to benefits of the SIM card. the members by leveraging its technology After its full-fledged launch, people will get platform. discount of 10 per cent on Patanjali The services will include electronic funds products with this card. transfer facilities and 'anywhere' banking. Yes Bank is already an empaneled ‘Clearing India signs Loan Agreement with the World Bank’ for the BSE, NCDEX and MCX. Bank for USD 21.7 Million for Rajasthan
Prime Minister of Netherlands Inaugurates Indo- Dutch Ganga Forum Prime Minister of Netherlands Mr. Mark Rutte inaugurated the Indo-Dutch Ganga Forum to take forward the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Government of India and the Ministry of An Agreement for IBRD Credit of USD 21.7 Infrastructure & Environment of the Netherlands in Million from World Bank for the Strengthening of June last year. Public Financial Management in Rajasthan Project The inauguration of the Indo-Dutch Ganga was signed in New Delhi by Shri Sameer Kumar Forum was followed by a technical session Khare, Joint Secretary (FB and ADB), Department on “Innovative Financing Models for Indo- of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance on behalf Dutch PPP Projects” during which a detailed of the Government of India and Mr. Hisham Abdo, discussion on Hybrid Annuity based PPP Acting Country Director, World Bank (India) on mode took place. behalf of the World Bank. The Implementing Entity Agreement was signed by the Secretary, Finance (Budget) on
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behalf of the Government of Rajasthan, and the Acting Country Director (India) on behalf of the World Bank. The Project size is approximately USD 31 Uday Kotak redesignated as MD & CEO of million, of which USD 21.7 million will be Kotak Mahindra Bank financed by the World Bank, and the The board of directors of Kotak Mahindra Bank has remaining amount will be funded-out of the redesignated Uday Kotak as Managing Director and State Budget. The Project duration is 5 years. Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 May, The Project objective is to contribute to 2018. improved Budget execution, enhanced Mr. Kotak was earlier executive Vice accountability and greater efficiency in Chairman and Managing Director. Revenue Administration in Rajasthan. Mr. Kotak was the only official among private banks to have a Vice Chairman Microsoft Is Now Third Most Valuable Firm designation. Globally All others have MD & CEO designation. Microsoft has surpassed Alphabet, the parent Kotak Mahindra Bank also said Shankar company of Google, in the market capitalisation for Acharya, part-time Chairman, will retire on the first time in three years, becoming the third most 19th July 2018 and he is not seeking valuable firm after Apple and Amazon globally. reappointment as he has completed 70-years- Microsoft had a market cap of $753 billion of-age. at the close of trading, almost $14 billion He has been director of the Bank since May ahead of Alphabet. 2003 and part-time Chairman since July 2006. Aditya Puri in Barron’s list of top 30 CEOs The bank's board had appointed Prakash HDFC Bank MD Aditya Apte, 63 , as part-time Chairman of the Puri has been named in Bank. Barron’s list of top 30 Global CEOs, for the Shri Sitanshu Kar takes over as DG, PIB fourth consecutive year. Mr Sitanshu Ranjan Kar, a 1983 batch officer of Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Warren Buffett of Indian Information Service, took over as the 27th Berkshire Hathaway, Jamie Dimon of JP Principal Spokesperson of the Government of India Morgan Chase, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Director General of Press Information Bureau and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook figure in in New Delhi. the list. He succeeds Mr Frank Noronha, who Mr. Puri was featured as a ‘Growth Leader’. superannuated yesterday. The other categories are ‘Visionary In a career spanning nearly 35 years, Mr Kar Founders’ and ‘Turnaround Experts’. has worked in key positions in various Media Units of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
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Radhakrishnan Nair appointed ICICI Bank Justin Langer Appointed Australia's Head independent director Coach In All Formats Former IRDAI member Radhakrishnan Nair has Cricket Australia has appointed former Test opener been appointed to ICICI Bank’s board as an Justin Langer as the new coach of the national Additional (Independent) Director. cricket team. His appointment will be for a period of five He replaced Darren Lehmann who resigned years and is subject to shareholders’ in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal approval. that rocked Australian cricket team in Nair has around 40 years of experience in the March. banking industry and in the field of securities The 47-year-old Langer, who is currently in- and insurance regulation. charge of Western Australia and Perth Scorchers, has signed a four-year deal with Subhash Chandra Khuntia is new IRDAI Australian Board. chairman Former IAS officer Subhash Chandra Khuntia is the Two Group of Ministers Constituted new chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Subsequent to the Development Authority of India (IRDAI). decisions taken in the The Appointments Committee of Cabinet 27th GST Council (ACC) approved the appointment of meeting held on Mr.Khuntia to the post of chairperson of the 04.05.2018), two Group of insurance regulator. Ministers (GoMs) have been constituted. His appointment will be for a period of three The first GoM shall consider the issues years or till the age of 65 years, whichever is relating to “Incentivizing digital payments in the earliest. the GST regime”. Shri Sushil Kumar Modi, He will replace TS Vijayan. Deputy Chief Minister, Bihar is convenor of this GoM. Ashok Lahiri appointed full-time member of The Second GoM shall consider issues 15th Finance Commission relating to “Imposition of Cess on Sugar Former chief economic adviser Ashok Lahiri has under GST”. Shri Himanta Biswa Sarma, been appointed as full-time member of the 15th Finance Minister of Assam is convenor of Finance Commission, according to an order issued this GoM. by the Personnel Ministry. Both the GoMs shall submit their reports The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet within a period of 15 days. has approved Lahiri's appointment as the full-time member, the order said. Govt. Appoints Justice AK Mittal As Acting He will be accorded the status of the Minister Chief Justice Of Punjab & Haryana HC of State, it said. The Centre appointed Justice A.K. Mittal as Acting Chief Justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court,
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The post is vacant due to Justice S.J. His protest movement began with a non- Vazifdar’s retirement. violent march on March 31, demanding that The Collegium had, on 19 April, Sargsyan step down. recommended appointment of Justice Krishna Murari as the Chief Justice of the Carlos Alvarado sworn in as Costa Rican High Court. president The Centre has, however, not acted on this Journalist Carlos Alvarado was sworn in as Costa recommendation yet. Rica's president through 2022, promising a "plural" and inclusive government. Jagdish Mukhi sworn-in as acting Manipur During an inauguration ceremony at Governor Democracy Square in the capital, San Jose, Jagdish Mukhi has sworn in as the acting governor Alvarado accepted the sash of office from his of Manipur by the Acting Chief Justice of Manipur predecessor and ally, Luis Guillermo Solis. High Court, Justice N Kotiswar Singh. In his first speech as president, Alvarado said Mukhi, who is the governor of Assam and he intends to improve employment, Meghalaya, will hold office in the absence of education and health and fight poverty as the Governor Najma Heptullah. Central American nation nears the 200th anniversary of its independence in 2021. Putin appoints Medvedev as Russian prime minister Pawan Kumar Agarwal gets extension as CEO Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to FSSAI appoint Dmitry Medvedev as head of the Pawan Kumar Agarwal government following a parliamentary approval. was has given three Earlier in the day, out of 430 deputies present months extension as at the State Duma, Russia's lower house of Chief Executive the parliament, 374 voted for Medvedev's Officer (CEO) of the post as prime minister and 56 voted against Food Safety and it. Standards Authority of India (FSSAI). Medvedev, 52, who is also the chairman of The tenure of Agarwal, a 1985-batch IAS the United Russia party, took office in 2012. officer of West Bengal cadre, has been given three-month extension beyond May 15, Nikol Pashinyan elected as new prime minister of 2018. Armenia He was appointed as the CEO of the FSSAI Armenia's parliament has elected opposition in December 2015. leader Nikol Pashinyan as the new prime minister. The move comes two weeks after Serzh Mahathir Mohamad becomes Prime Minister of Sargsyan resigned following widespread Malaysia anti-government demonstrations.
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Mahathir Mohamad has been sworn in as prime Smriti Irani removed from I&B ministry minister of Malaysia again after a shock election Prime Minister victory, 15 years after he stood down. Narendra Modi has The former strongman who governed for temporarily assigned more than two decades has become, at 92, charge of the ministries the world's oldest elected leader. of finance and He came out of retirement and defected to corporate affairs to the opposition to take on and beat former railway minister Piyush protege Najib Razak. Goyal till Arun Jaitley recovers from a kidney transplant, while removing the controversy-scarred Mohit Chauhan nominated as Green Smriti Irani from the high-profile I&B ministry. Ambassador of Sikkim The Olympic medalist sports minister The Sikkim government has nominated Bollywood Rajyavardhan Rathore will now hold full singer Mohit Chauhan as the Green Ambassador of scale charge of I&B ministry. the state, an official notification said. SS Ahluwalia would be the junior minister The state government had earlier this year for electronics and information technology roped in AR Rahman as its ambassador to instead of KJ Alphons, the MoS promote tourism in Sikkim. (independent charge) for tourism. Sikkim is known for its rich biodiversity and abundant natural resources due to Mukul Rohatgi appointed eminent jurist in environment-friendly policies being Lokpal panel followed by the state government for more Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi has been appointed than two decades. as an eminent jurist in the selection committee for appointment of anti-graft ombudsman Lokpal, the Nirmal Singh elected JK Assembly speaker Centre told the Supreme Court. BJP legislator and former deputy chief minister Selection committee is chaired by the Prime Nirmal Singh was elected as the speaker of the Minister. Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly. Rohatgi was appointed the Attorney General Singh, who is an MLA from Billawar of India after the Narendra Modi government constituency in Jammu region, was elected assumed power in May 2014. He resigned as the speaker by a voice vote in a one day from the post in June 2017. special session of the Assembly. The post of eminent jurist in the Lokpal The motion to elect Singh was moved by selection panel was lying vacant since the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs death of senior advocate P P Rao on Minister Basharat Bukhari and seconded by September 11, 2017. Deputy Chief Minister Kavinder Gupta. Singh defeated Congress MLA from Shashank Manohar elected unopposed to serve Bandipora, Usman Majeed. 2nd term as ICC chairman
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Former BCCI president Shashank Manohar will Ministry of Culture was appointed Protem serve a second term as the independent chairman of Chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi , the International Cricket Council after he was pending appointment of a regular Chairman. elected unopposed by the governing body's Board. Manohar, who became the first independent Yudhvir Singh Malik given additional charge as ICC Chairman in 2016, will continue for a NHAI chairman second two-year term following his Deepak Kumar, the chairman of National Highway unopposed election. Authority of India (NHAI), was sent back to his cadre state Bihar before completion of his tenure. Uttam Pacharne appointed regular Chairman of Yudhvir Singh Malik, the Secretary of Lalit Kala Akademi Ministry of Road, Transport and Highways, The President of has been given additional charge of the post India has appointed of NHAI chairman. Shri Uttam Kumar, a 1984 IAS officer of Bihar cadre, Pacharne, as regular had taken over as the NHAI chief on June 28 Chairman of Lalit last year. Kala Akademi. Shri Pacharne is an Ambika Sharma to head USIBC India office eminent artist and sculptor. The U.S India Business Council named Ambika He is a widely respected person in the field Sharma as its head for India. of art and has held various important Ms. Sharma was Director General for positions. International at the Federation of Indian Currently, he is Member of Advisory Chambers of Commerce and Industry Committee, Kala Academy, Goa and (FICCI). Member of Advisory Committee, P.L. As Director General of FICCI, Sharma is the Deshpande State Lalit Kala Academy and highest ranked female executive of an Indian Director, Janseva Sahakari Bank Borivali. industry body, the USIBC said in a He is the recipient of National Lalit Kala statement. Award 1985, Maharashtra Gaurav Puraska 1985 from Government of Maharashtra, Kumaraswamy to take oath as Karnataka CM Junior National Award 1986 and Jeevan Just two days after taking oath as the Chief Minister, Gaurav Puraskar 2017 from Prafulla Karnataka BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa resigned Dahanukar Foundation. ahead of the crucial vote of confidence on the floor Shri Pacharne will hold office for a term of of the house. three years from the date on which he With Yeddyurappa's departure, all eyes are assumes the charge of his office. on HD Kumaraswamy, the CM choice for Previously in March 2018, Shri M.L. the Congress-JD(S) combine. Srivastava, Joint Secretary (Akademies),
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Gujarat Governor to hold additional charge of Congress' G Parameshwara took oath as MP Deputy Chief Minister. Gujarat Governor Om Prakash Kohli was given the The oath ceremony was administered by additional charge of Madhya Pradesh as the Governor Vajubhai Bala. incumbent Governor, Anandiben Patel is on leave. This was informed by the Rashtrapati Airtel Payments Bank appoints Anubrata Biswas Bhavan through a communique. as MD, CEO Anandiben, became the Governor of Airtel Payments Bank said that it has appointed Madhya Pradesh in January 2018, replacing former ICICI Bank senior executive Anubrata Kohli, who even at that time held the same Biswas as its Managing Director and CEO. position. In his new role, Biswas will be responsible for driving Airtel Payments Bank's mission Rajinder Singh named Hockey India president of taking convenient and innovative digital Rajinder Singh was named president of Hockey banking services to the doorstep of every India (HI), following Mariamma Koshy's Indian. resignation from the post. Prior to joining Airtel Payments Bank, Singh, who is the Senior Vice President of Biswas was the joint general manager and Hockey India, has take charge as President. retail business head - South India, for ICICI He was earlier the Treasurer of HI and Bank. currently serves as the Treasurer of Hockey Jammu & Kashmir. Dena Bank, Punjab & Sindh Bank, Central Bank of India get new chairpersons Anil Kumar Jha appointed CMD of Coal India The finance ministry has appointed non-executive Anil Kumar Jha has been appointed as the chairman- chairpersons at Punjab and Sindh Bank, Dena Bank cum-managing director (CMD) of Coal India and Central Bank of India, as part of its agenda to Limited. reform public sector banks. Jha, at present the CMD of Mahanadi The government appoints Charan Singh, Coalfields Ltd, has been appointed to the Anjali Bansal, and Tapan Ray as non post till his superannuation i.e. 31 January executive chairperson of Punjab & Sind 2020. Bank, Dena Bank and Central Bank of India, CIL is a state-owned coal mining company respectively. headquartered in Kolkata. Charan Singh has served at IMF as senior economist and at Reserve Bank of India as Kumaraswamy sworn-in as 24th CM of director. Karnataka Anjali Bansal is founder of Spencer Stuart's Janata Dal (Secular)'s H D Kumaraswamy took oath India and had worked with McKinsey and in Bengaluru's Vidhan Soudha as the 24th Chief Company. Minister of Karnataka.
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Tapan Ray has served as Secretary in the The agreement was signed in the presence of Ministry of Corporate Affairs. Shri Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog by Ms Anna Roy, Adviser (Industry), NITI New governors appointed for Odisha, Mizoram Aayog and Shri Sushant Singh Rajput. Ganeshi Lal and Kummanam Rajasekharan have He would also be supporting NITI Aayog in been appointed as Governors of Odisha and promoting the Women Transforming India Mizoram respectively. Awards 2018, the theme for which is Prof. Ganeshi Lal will take over from veteran ‘Women and Entrepreneurship’ and whose Naga leader S C Jamir, who has completed nominations are currently ongoing. his tenure. Kummanam Rajasekharan will replace Lt. TRIFED elects new Board of Directors General (Retd.) Nirbhay Sharma. The General Body meeting of Tribal Cooperative Justice C K Prasad appointed PCI chief for Marketing Development second term Federation of India Ltd. Former Supreme Court judge C K Prasad has been (TRIFED) was held on 25th appointed the chairman of the Press Council of India May 2018 in which the 11th (PCI) for a second term. Board of Directors was Prasad headed the media watchdog for three reconstituted and the Office years from November 2014. He had Bearers were elected succeeded Justice Markanday Katju. unanimously. Shri Ramesh Chand Meena was elected as CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra gets one-year the Chairperson and Smt. Pratibha Brahma extension was elected as the Vice Chairperson of Sushil Chandra will continue to be Chairman of the TRIFED. Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) for one more year as he gets one-year extension. Barbados elects Mia Mottley as first woman PM CBDT is the top policy-making body for The Caribbean island of Barbados has elected its personal income tax and corporate tax and is first woman prime minister since gaining part of the Finance Ministry. independence from Britain in 1966. Mia Mottley led her Barbados Labour Party NITI Aayog signs on Sushant Singh Rajput to (BLP) to a crushing victory over the promote the WEP Democratic Labour Party (DLP). NITI Aayog announced the signing of a Statement The BLP won all 30 seats up for grabs in the of Intent (SoI) with noted media personality and House of Assembly. entrepreneur Shri Sushant Singh Rajput, to collaborate and support NITI’s flagship initiative, Saad Hariri appointed as Lebanon's prime the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP). minister for third time
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Lebanese MPs elected Saad Hariri as prime NSDL executive Sudha Balakrishnan has been minister for a third time, with the Future Movement appointed the first ever chief financial officer leader vowing to keep his country out of regional (CFO) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) effective conflicts. May 15. Hariri will assume the premiership after Balakrishnan, a chartered accountant, was winning the backing of 111 out of 128 MPs till recently vice president with the National in official consultations. Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), India’s The post of prime minister is reserved for a first and largest depository. Sunni Muslim in Lebanon's sectarian She will be the 12th executive director of power-sharing system. the RBI, and will have a three year term. Another Hezbollah ally, Elie Ferzli, was elected as his deputy. Former chief justice Nasirul Mulk named Pakistan's caretaker PM Former IMF official Carlo Cottarelli nominated Pakistan's former as Italian Prime Minister chief justice The Italian President nominated Carlo Cottarelli, a Nasirul Mulk was former official at the International Monetary Fund, named as the to form an interim government. country's President Sergio Mattarella called Cottarelli caretaker prime minister for a two-month period, to the Quirinale, the Italian presidential ending the political wrangling between ruling palace, after previous attempts by Italy's PML-N and the Opposition ahead of the general populist parties to form a government elections on July 25. failed. The present government will complete the tenure on May 31 and the caretaker Defence Secretary gets additional charge as government will remain in office until a DRDO chief new government is set up through elections. The government has asked Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra to hold additional charge of the Indian ambassador to Russia, Pankaj Saran Defence Research and Development Organisation appointed deputy NSA (DRDO) after its head S. Christopher's tenure The current ambassador to Russia Pankaj Saran was ended on 28 May. appointed deputy National Security Advisor by the Christopher was given one year's extension Appointment Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) for a beyond the prescribed age last year. period of two years. Christopher took over as the head of DRDO Saran, 1982 IFS, was appointed Indian in May 2015. ambassador to Russia in January last year. Prior to his deputation in Moscow, he was Sudha Balakrishnan appointed first CFO of the Indian High Commissioner to Reserve Bank of India
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Bangladesh from March 2012 to December Best Actress in a leading role: Sonam 2015. Kapoor, for Padman Lifetime Achievement Award: Rakesh Justice R K Agrawal to be next NCDRC Roshan President Most Versatile Actress: Manisha Koirala Former Supreme Court judge Justice R K Agrawal Saraswatibai Dadasaheb Phalke Best Actress has been appointed the President of the National (Lifetime) award: Farida Jalal Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Best Debut Director award : Konkona (NCDRC). Sensharma The NCDRC, which deals with consumer Best Playback Singer Male: Armaan Malik rights and addresses their disputes and The Best Playback Singer Female: Neeti grievances, is a quasi-judicial commission Mohan set up in 1988 under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986. Asha Bhosle Honored with PC Chandra Justice Agrawal, who hails from Uttar Puraskaar Pradesh, was sworn in as a judge of the top Legendary singer Asha court on February 17, 2014. Bhosle was honoured with 26th PC Chandra Alicia Pucheta to be the first woman president of Puraskaar for her Paraguay contribution in the field of Paraguay will have a woman president for the first Indian music. time in its history, at least temporarily, after Sharmila Tagore was the Chief Guest at the outgoing leader Horacio Cartes stepped down ahead event who also presented the prestigious of schedule. award to Asha Bhosle. Vice President Alicia Pucheta, 68, will Asha Bhosle made her singing debut in 1943 complete Cartes's mandate after he resigned and she has sung in a great variety of musical to become a senator. genres.
Ministry of Railways announces Awards for beautification of Station premises
In order to promote cleanliness with creativity, the Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awards Ministry of Railways had invited nominations 2018 across all Zonal Railways for stations where Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awards 2018 beautification has been done with participation of were held on April 29 in Mumbai. local artists. Best Actor: Akshay Kumar, for Padman Balharshah and Chandrapur stations (Jury) and for Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Nagpur Division) of Central Railway have Best Actress: Bhumi Pednekar, for Toilet: been awarded first prize for depicting the Ek Prem Katha
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best art & refurbishing itself as the most South Western Railway bags Safety Shield beautiful station across Indian Railways. pertaining to Train Operations Madhubani Railway station under During the year 2017-18, South Western Railway Samastipur Division of East Central Railway (SWR) has registered best figures & tremendous in Bihar has been declared the second best improvements in key areas of Safety pertaining to along with Madurai Railway Station train operations among all Zonal Railways. (Southern Railway). Recognizing the efforts of SWR undertaken for Kota Station (West Central Railway), improving Safety, Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of Gandhidham Station (Western Railway) & Railways & Coal awarded the Railway Minister’s Secunderabad Station (South Central Safety Shield for 2017-18 to South Western Railway Railway) were adjudged as the Third Prize in an annual award event. winning Stations. The number of accidents has come down in SWR from 11 in 2014-15 to 8 in 2015-16, 3 M.T Vasudevan Nair Wins ONV Literary Prize in 2016-17 to 01 in 2017-18. Jnanpith laureate M T Vasudevan Nair has won this year's annual ONV Literary Prize, instituted in Bharat Biotech receives National Technology memory of iconic poet late O N V Kurup, for his Award for Rotavac overall contributions to Malayalam literature. Leading vaccine maker Bharat Biotech has received The award, comprising a cash prize of Rs the National Technology Award for 2018 from the three lakh, citation and a plaque, was Central government's Technology Development instituted by the ONV Cultural Academy. Board for its Rotavac vaccine. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan would This prestigious award for innovative present the award to Nair, popularly known technologies, successfully developed and as M T among his admirers. commercialized from India, was presented by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Nisha Bhalla conferred with 'WEF 2018' award Technology Day ceremony held at Vigyan in Nisha Bhalla, a 46-year-old holistic coach and New Delhi. consultant from Mumbai was felicitated at the Launched in 2015 Rotavac was introduced recently concluded Annual Women Economic into the Universal Immunization Programme Forum 2018 Awards, (UIP) in India during 2016, with initial The event was held at Vivanta by Taj, implementation in 9 states. Dwarka in Delhi from April 26 to May 1. Nisha was presented the 'Excellent Woman Prof Muhammad Yunus conferred KISS of Excellence' award for her spiritual service Humanitarian Award 2018 at the event. Nobel laureate and noted economist Muhammad Women Economic Forum is the largest Yunus has been honoured with the 11th Kalinga global gathering of women entrepreneurs Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Humanitarian and leaders worldwide. Award 2018 at a function held in Bhubaneswar.
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Yunus, who is the founder of Grameen Bank The Swachh Survekshan 2018 assessed 4203 Urban and known as the Father of Microfinance, Local Bodies and was organized by the Ministry of said that 99 per cent of world's population Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), under the owns only one per cent of the wealth. aegis of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban). Points to Remember The exercise undertaken between 4th January Prof Yunus is the second Nobel laureate to 2018 to 10th March, 2018 enhanced be conferred the award. Last year it was the scope to cover a record number of presented to the 14th Dalai Lama. Urban Local Bodies impacting around 40 Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2006 crore urban citizens across length and for his Microfinance model. breadth of the country by 2700 assessors. As compared to 2017 where Swachh Lata Mangeshkar conferred 'Swara Mauli' Survekshan was conducted in 434 cities, this award year the scope was enhanced manifold. Legendary At the national level, the Top 3 cleanest cities are: singer Lata Indore Mangeshkar was Bhopal honoured with Chandigarh "Swara Mauli" Jharkhand is the best performing State. title by spiritual guru Vidya Narsimha Bharati The awardees under various categories Swami. (Population above 10 lakh) are: Her sister singer Asha Bhosle, Usha India's Cleanest City - Indore (Madhya Mangeshkar and brother Hridaynath Pradesh) Mangeshkar were present at the occasion. India's 'Cleanest Big City': Vijaywada (Andhra Pradesh) Sulabh International founder awarded Nikkei India's 'Fastest Mover' big city: Ghaziabad Asia Prize (Uttar Pradesh) The founder of Sulabh International, Dr Bindeshwar India's Best City in 'Citizens Feedback': Kota Pathak, has been honoured with the Nikkei Asia (Rajasthan) Prize in Japan for his contribution to Asia's India's Best City in 'Innovation & Best development. Practices': Nagpur (Maharashtra) Pathak is among the three who have been India's Best City in 'Solid Waste conferred with the award. Management: Navi Mumbai (Maharashtra) He has been described as "an Indian social The awardees under various categories reformer tackling two of his country's (Population of 3-10 lakh) are: biggest challenges — poor hygiene and India's Cleanest Medium City: Mysuru discrimination". (Karnataka) India's 'Fastest Mover' Medium City: Indore is the cleanest city: cleanliness survey Bhivandi (Maharashtra)
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India's Best City in 'Citizens Feedback': 'Raaya' has already bagged the 'Special Parbhani (Maharashtra) Festival Mention Award' at Dada Saheb India's Best City in 'Innovation & Best Phalke Film Festival 2018. Also, it has been Practices': Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh) shortlisted for other International film India's Best City in 'Solid Waste festivals in Los Angeles and Romania. Management: Mangalore (Karnataka) The film is produced by Rakesh Gupta and India's Cleanest Small City: Delhi Municipal written by hypnotherapist Richa Agarwal. Council The awardees under various categories Sridevi honoured at the Cannes Film Festival (Population of 1-3 lakh) are: Veteran Bollywood actor India's 'Fastest Mover' Small City: Bhusawal Sridevi was honoured with (Maharashtra) the TITAN Reginald F India's Best City in 'Citizens Feedback': Lewis Film Icon Award at Giridih (Jharkhand) the ongoing Cannes Film India's Best City in 'Innovation & Best Festival. Practices': Ambikapur (Jharkhand) The award traditionally celebrates women of India's Best City in 'Solid Waste the film industry all over the world and also Management: Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) salute the multi-cultural impact on the world Cleanest State Capital / UT Capital Cities / of cinema. Uts: Greater Mumbai (Maharashtra) Veteran filmmaker Subhash Ghai and Fastest Mover State Capital / UT: Jaipur producer Namrata Goyal received the award (Rajasthan) on behalf of Sridevi's family. Best State Capital / UT in Citizens Feedback: Ranchi (Jharkhand) India’s Jagriti Yatra wins charity award in UK Best State Capital / UT in 'Innovation & Best An Indian charity that organises 15-day train Practices: Panaji (Goa) journeys around India to understand and build the Best State Capital / UT in 'Solid Waste India of smaller towns and villages through Management' : Greater Hyderabad enterprise has won an award in London. (Telangana) Jagriti Yatra was among a series of worldwide charities and individuals 'Raaya' becomes India's official entry for Cannes recognised for their impact within their A short film, 'Raaya', about an autistic girl has been communities at the Asian Voice Charity chosen as India's official entry into the Cannes Film Awards, powered by due diligence platform Festival 2018. Charity Clarity. The film is scheduled to exhibit at the 71st Jagriti Yatra organises 15-day train journeys, Cannes Festival on May 18, second to last covering 800 km for 400 young change- day of the festival. makers across India every year.
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West Bengal Government to honour Asha Bhosle TNTA president M.A. Alagappan gave away Veteran singer Asha Bhosle will be honoured by the the prizes. West Bengal government on May 21. Asha Bhosle has been a part of the Hindi film Poland's Olga Tokarczuk Is This Year's Man industry for over six decades and has sung Booker International Prize Winner numerous songs. Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk won the prestigious Asha thanked West Bengal Government for Man Booker International Prize for fiction for her bestowing their highest civilian award on novel Flights. her. Flights beat five other finalists, including Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi’s horror story NMDC bags S&P Platts Global Metals Award in Frankenstein in Baghdad and South Korean CSR category author Han Kang’s meditative novel The Iron ore mining White Book. major NMDC Ltd The prize is a counterpart to the Man Booker has bagged the S&P Prize for English-language novels and is Global Platts Global open to books in any language that have been Metals Award 2018 translated into English. in the corporate The 50,000-pound ($67,000) award is split social responsibility category. evenly between the writer and her translator, At an event held at London Grosvenor Jennifer Croft. Square Marriott Hotel in the UK, N. Baijendra Kumar, Chairman-cum-Managing BRICS forum presents award to late actress Director, and Sandeep Tula, Director Sridevi (Personnel), NMDC Ltd, received the Late veteran actress Sridevi was posthumously coveted award. conferred with the BRICS Business Forum The 12 shortlisted nominations were of Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement in renowned companies from across the world. Indian Cinema. This is the first time since inception of the Reena Marwah, sister of actor-producer awards that an Indian company has bagged Boney Kapoor, received the award and an award in this category. memento. The veteran actress was earlier T.K. Ramanathan award for Prajnesh posthumously honoured with the 'Best Prajnesh Gunneswaran won the prestigious T.K. Actress' award for her performance in her Ramanathan award for the year 2017-18 at the Tamil last movie 'Mom', at 65th National Film Nadu Tennis Association (TNTA) annual day Awards held in New Delhi. function. He received a cash prize of Rs. 30,000. 'Shoplifters' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes
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A tumultuous Cannes Film Festival concluded with The Six-member all-women team the Palme d’Or awarded to Japanese director comprising of Lt Commander Vartika Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Shoplifters. Joshi,Lt Commander Pratibha Jamwal, Lt Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” the highest Commander Swathi Patarpalli ,Lt Aishwarya profile American film in competition at Bodapatti, Lt SH Vijaya Devi and Lt Payal Cannes, was awarded the grand prize. Gupta have received the Puraskar from the Minister. CSIR bags the Clarivate Analytics India Innovation Award 2018 Julia Louis-Dreyfus to Be Awarded Mark Twain Council of Scientific Prize for Humor & Industrial Julia Louis-Dreyfus is this year’s recipient of the Research has been annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from awarded the the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Clarivate Analytics Ms. Louis-Dreyfus will receive the award on India Innovation Award 2018 in the Government Oct. 21 in a ceremony in Washington. Research Organizations Category. This award yet Past winners of the award include Richard again recognizes CSIR as the top innovator. Pryor, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, Lily Tomlin The Council of Scientific & Industrial and Eddie Murphy. Research (CSIR), a contemporary R&D organization, is known for its cutting edge CEAT Awards: Virat Kohli Named R&D knowledge base in diverse science & International Cricketer of the Year technology areas. India skipper Virat Kohli won the International Cricketer of the Year Award at the CEAT Cricket Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 presented to the INSV Ratings awards. Tarini Team Here is the list of the award winners: CEAT International Cricketer of the Year: Virat Kohli CEAT International Batsman of the Year: Shikhar Dhawan CEAT International Bowler of the Year: Trent Boult CEAT T20 Bowler of the Year: Rashid Hon’ble Minister for Women and Child Khan Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi CEAT T20 Batsman of the Year: Colin presented the prestigious Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 Munro to the members of the INSV Tarini team in New CEAT Outstanding Innings of the Year: Delhi. Harmanpreet Kaur
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CEAT Domestic Player of The Year: Mayank Agarwal CEAT U 19 Player of The Year: Shubhman Gill India's Neeraj Goyat is WBC Asia Boxer of the CEAT Popular Choice Award: Chris Gayle Year CEAT Lifetime Achievement Award: Indian pugilist Neeraj Farokh Engineer Goyat has been
conferred with the Kamaljit Bawa first Indian to receive Linnean WBC Asia Boxer of Medal the Year Award. Indian botanist Kamaljit S. Bawa, president of Neeraj is the current Bengaluru-based non-profit Ashoka Trust for WBC Asia champion Research in Ecology and the Environment in welter weight category. (ATREE), received the prestigious Linnean Medal Since turning pro in 2011, Neeraj has won in Botany from the Linnean Society of London on nine fights including two knockouts. May 24. Neerav Tomar was bestowed with WBC Dr. Bawa is the first Indian to win the award Asia honorary Promoter of the year 2017 ever since it was first constituted in 1888. Award. The scientist is being recognised for his
pioneering research on the evolution of Marshal Arjan Singh Memorial All India Hockey tropical plants, tropical deforestation, non- Tournament timber forest products. Late Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh
DFC was the first and the only ‘Five Star’ rank Yuvraj Singh Awarded 'Most Inspiring Icon Of officer of the IAF and was a keen lover of the game The Year For Social Welfare' of Hockey. Indian star cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been awarded To propel the awareness of Hockey and also the 'most inspiring icon of the year for Social to reinstate its prominence, a national level Welfare" award by the Dadasaheb Phalke tournament uniting 16 teams is being held at International Film Festival (DPIFF) for his Chandigarh from 07 to 12 May 18. exemplary contribution in the field of social welfare. The matches will be conducted at 3 Base Yuvraj, who was a member of India's 2011 Repair Depot (Air Force) and Sector 42 World Cup winning squad, was diagnosed Astro Turf Hockey Grounds at Chandigarh. with cancer (mediastinal seminoma) shortly
after the World Cup. Neeraj Chopra shatters own record, finishes 4th Yuvraj opened his foundation 'YouWe Can' at IAAF Diamond League in Doha that focuses on creating cancer awareness Indian javelin thrower and the Commonwealth and helping educate the cancer survivors games gold medalist Neeraj Chopra has shattered his kids.
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own national record at the IAAF Diamond League, Czech 10th seed Petra Kvitova won the Madrid being held in Doha. Open title for the third time with a marathon 7-6 He cleared a distance of 87.43m to finish (8/6), 4-6, 6-3 victory over Kiki Bertens of the fourth in the season opening League series. Netherlands. Chopra had recently won the gold medal in Kvitova, who was also the champion in XXI Commonwealth Games at the Gold Madrid in 2011 and 2015, has now claimed Coast with a throw of 86.47m. four titles in 2018 after triumphs in St Petersburg, Doha and Prague. FIFA to hold eClub World Cup in Paris In a big-hitting, roller-coaster of a final, This year’s FIFA eClub World Cup will be held at Kvitova claimed her 24th career title. the AMP Studios in Paris, France from May 19 to 20. FIFA eWorld Cup, virtual football's equivalent S Korea beat India to win Asian Champions of the FIFA World Cup. Trophy South Korea pipped India 1-0 to win the fifth Under-16 Indian football team wins title in Women’s Asian Champions Trophy at the Sunrise Serbia Stadium in Donghae city. Indian colts pumped in as many as three goals in the South Korea, thus, won the title for the third first 10 minutes of the match to outplay Tajikistan 4- time after 2010 and 2011. 2 and emerge champions in the four-nation Under- India finished runners-up for the second time 16 Tournament held in Serbia. after having lost in the final to Japan in 2013. Putting up an impressive show, the Indian drew 0-0 with the hosts, defeated Jordan 2-1 Nadal edges Zverev to win Italian Open before beating Tajikistan in the final. Rafa Nadal come from behind in the deciding set and beat defending champion Alexander Zverev 6-1 Lewis Hamilton wins Spanish Grand Prix 1-6 6-3 in the Italian Open final. Lewis Hamilton won The win gave the Spaniard his 56th title on for the second race in clay and he will reclaim the world number succession by one ranking from Roger Federer. dominating an eventful Spanish Grand Prix. Lionel Messi Wins European Golden Shoe for The Mercedes driver was supreme at the The 5th Time front in a race that featured a heavy first-lap Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has won the crash. European Golden Shoe for a fifth time. Hamilton's win moves him into a 17-point The Argentina international claimed the championship lead. prize after scoring 34 goals in La Liga this season, helping his club to a 25th league Kvitova wins third Madrid Open title triumph.
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Messi also won the award last year, as well Shane Watson century powers Chennai Super as in 2010, 2012 and 2013. Kings to third IPL title Shane Watson put up an exhibition of power-hitting Iraq to host first international football in front of a packed Wankhede crowd as he struck a tournament memorable unbeaten century to power Chennai Iraq is to host a West Asia Football Federation Super Kings to their third Indian Premier League championship in the southern city of Basra in title. November, the first international tournament to be Chasing 179, CSK overhauled the target in staged in the country since the 1990s. 18.3 overs, scoring 181/2, winning by eight World football's governing body FIFA has wickets. lifted a three-decade ban on Iraq hosting This was the 11th season of Indian Premier international football, this March. League. Points to Remember AB de Villiers retires from international cricket Sun risers Hyderabad: Runner Up South Africa batsman Sunil Narine: Most Valuable Player AB de Villiers has Kane Williamson: Orange cap with 735 runs announced his Andrew Tye: Purple cap with 24 Wickets decision to retire from Rishabh Pant: Stylish Player of the Season international cricket Mumbai Indians: IPL Fairplay award with immediate effect. Rishabh Pant: Emerging player of the season De Villiers finishes his career with a staggering 20,014 international runs (8765 in China wins its 10th Thomas Cup title Tests, 9577 in ODIs and 1672 in T20Is) and Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen beat Japanese pair of signs off with a batting average over 50 in Keigo Sonoda and Yuta Watanabe 17-21, 21-19, 22- both Tests (50.66) and ODIs (53.50). 20 to give China its 10th Thomas Cup men's badminton title. Japan end 37-year drought with Uber Cup win Li and Liu fought back from trailing 18-20 Japan's women clinched the Uber Cup, breezing by in the decider to beat the Japanese duo in a surprise finalists Thailand 3-0 in Bangkok to end a 70-minute encounter. 37-year wait to regain the title. China last won the tournament in 2012. It ends an Uber Cup drought for Japan that stretches back to 1981 and is a major CWG gold medallist discus thrower Vikas confidence boost ahead of the Olympics Gowda retires which they will host in two years' time. Top discus thrower Vikas Gowda has retired from The Uber Cup is second in prestige only to the sport after competing at the highest level for the Olympics as a national team event. more than 15 years.
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He became the first and only Indian male to Over the past few years, he had performed at win a Commonwealth Games medal in various national and international stages, discus throw. including universities like Harvard, Yale and Toronto. He is a four-time Olympian, who will turn 35
on July 5. Pak hockey legend Mansoor Ahmed passes away He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2017. Pakistan's World Cup-winning hockey goalkeeper Mansoor Ahmed passed away at a city hospital in Karachi after battling a prolonged heart ailment. The hockey legend, who was known as the 1994 World Cup hero for Pakistan, had been Renowned artist Ravinder Sharma passes away suffering from heart ailment for the past Ravinder Sharma, fondly called Guruji, the founder three years and was under treatment. of Adilabad's Kala Ashram died at his house at the age of 65 years. Former Rajya Sabha MP Balkavi Bairagi Dies Former Rajya Sabha MP and country's famous Guruji was suffering from cancer since the litterateur and poet Balkavi Bairagi passed away. He last three years and died in his sleep. was 87 years old. A trained artist, Guruji had been awarded Bairagi was born on 10 February 1931 in with Kala Ratna by the Andhra Pradesh State Rampur village of Manasa tehsil of government in 2014. Mandsaur district. After bifurcation of the State, the Telangana He was also active in literature and poetry as government awarded him the Ugadi well as in the field of politics. Puraskaram in 2015. He was food minister in the Arjun Singh government in Madhya Pradesh. Former Test cricketer Rajinder Pal passes away Geet, Dard diwani, do took, bhaavi9 Former Delhi cricketer Rajinder Pal, who had Rakshak Desh ke, Come Children, Aao represented the country in one Test match, passed Bacho Gao Bacho are some of his away at his Dehradun residence. compositions. A right-arm medium pacer, Rajinder Pal played his only Test match against England Odia actress Anita Das passes away (then known as MCC) during the 1963-64 Popular Odia film and TV actress Anita Das passed series at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. away at her residence due to a cardiac stroke. She was 62. Renowned storyteller Ankit Chadha passes away Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik expressed Ankit Chadha, a renowned storyteller associated grief over the untimely death of the veteran with the tradition of Dastangoi, died in a tragic actress. accident near Pune. In a career spanning over three decades, Quoting police officials, the reports said that the accident occurred at Uksan Lake near Anita Das won the hearts of many with her Kamshet, 60 kilometers away from Pune. powerful roles in films like Suna Chadhei and Naga Phasa to name a few. Chadha was known for his unique style of storytelling in Urdu. Eminent physicist Sudarshan passes away
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Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly Prior to that, she had served as the chairman known as E.C.G. Sudarshan, who made path- of the National Scheduled Tribes breaking discoveries in the realm of quantum optics Commission (NCTC). died aged 86 in Texas. Professor Sudarshan was a faculty at the University of Texas for the past 40 years. A globally-recognised theoretical physicist, Professor Sudarshan had often pointed out Book Release By Chief of Army Staff that Physics meant everything to him. Gen Bipin Rawat, He was recommended for the Nobel Prize for Chief of Army the Physics nine times, but never awarded. Staff released the book 'Across the Eminent Tamil writer Balakumaran passes away Bench - Insight into Writer Balakumaran, whose works were a link between serious and popular writing in Tamil, died. the Indian Military He was 71. Judicial System' by Lt Gen Gyan Bhushan, former His novel Thaymumanavan was translated Army Commander and Member 'A', Armed Forces into a tele-serial and he directed the film Idhu Tribunal, Lucknow Bench. Namma Aalu, starring Bhagyaraj in the lead The book deals with military judicial system role. vis-a-vis command and management issues
Telugu writer Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani dies within the military establishments besides The famous pulp fiction writer Yaddanapudi the whole gamut of issues relating to Sulochana Rani passed away after suffering massive veterans, their families and dependents. heart stroke in US. She was popular for her romantic novels. She Vice President Releases Book ‘Straight Talk’ was a rage from 60s to 80s. The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has Many Telugu hit films were based on her released the book ‘Straight Talk’ authored by the novels. Member of Rajya Sabha, Shri Abhishek Manu Bollywood actor Geeta Kapoor passes away Singhv. Veteran Bollywood actor Geeta Kapoor, had her last The former Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan breath in an old age home in Mumbai. She was 67. Singh and other dignitaries were present on Geeta acted in around 100 films such as in the occasion. Kamal Amrohi’s "Pakeezah" and "Razia The Vice President said that law makers Sultan". should be elected based on four Cs--
Ex-Himachal Pradesh governor Urmila Singh Capacity, Caliber, Character and Conduct passes away and not on the basis of the other four Cs-- Former Himachal Pradesh governor and Congress Caste, Community, Cash and Criminal leader Urmila Singh died due to prolonged illness at Prowess. a private hospital in Indore. She was 71. Singh was appointed as the governor of Himachal Pradesh in 2010.
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5 Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awards 2018 for Current Affairs Quiz Best Actor has been given to whom?
Salman Khan 1 International Buddhist Conference concluded in which of the following city? Akshay Kumar Kashi Ranveer Kapoor Rajgir Shahrukh Khan Lumbini Rajkumar Rao 6 What is the theme of World Immunization Week Patna 2018? Paris Vaccine for each 2 Exercise Harimau Shakti 2018, between the Indian Army and the Malaysian Army is being held in which of Protected Together, Vaccines Work the following place? Vaccines to protect life Kualalumpur Save life with Vaccine Assam None of these Jodhpur 7 Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Awards 2018 for Best Actress has been given to whom? Ipoh Priyanka Chopra Kangar 3 The government of Maharashtra has signed a Deepika Padukone memorandum of understanding (MoU) with which Konkona Sensharma country to strengthen educational and cultural cooperation between the two nations? Bhumi Pednekar USA Manisha Koirala 8 Dadasaheb Phalke Film Foundation Lifetime Germany Achievement Award 2018 has been given to whom? France Karan Johar Britain Sridevi Japan Rakesh Roshan 4 Who is the MD & CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank? Manish Malhotra Shankar Acharya Shashi Kapoor Prakash Apte 9 Who has been appointed as part-time Chairman of Uday Kotak Kotak Mahindra Bank? Shikha Sharma Shankar Acharya Shyam Srinivasan Prakash Apte Uday Kotak
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Rakesh Sethi Pune Aditya Puri Surat 10 Who is the Union Minister for Drinking Water and Bhopal Sanitation? New Delhi Uma Bharti 15 Who has been appointed as Director General of Narendra Singh Tomar Press Information Bureau of India? Kalraj Mishra Sitanshu Kar Ananth Kumar Frank Noronha Manoj Sinha Neeraj Goyat 11 International Labour Day is observed on which of Raveesh Kumar the following date? Nupur Sharma 10 April 16 Who has been honoured with 26th PC Chandra 30 April Puraskaar for her contribution in the field of Indian music? 1 May Lata Mangeshkar 5 May Asha Bhosle 18 March 12 Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2019 to be held in which of A. R. Rahman the following city? Sonu Nigam Bhopal Arijit Singh Varanasi 17 Who has been conferred with the WBC Asian Boxer of the Year Award? New Delhi Mark Magnifico Pune Daigo Higa Surat 13 South Western Command’s Exercise Vijay Prahar is Iwan Zoda being held at which place? Neeraj Goyat Jaipur Sachin Siwach Pune 18 When World Asthma Day is observed every year? Suratgarh The first Monday of May Ahmedabad The first Tuesday of May Chennai The first Tuesday of April 14 9th India-Japan Energy Dialogue held in which of The last Tuesday of April the following city? The last Monday of June Mumbai
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19 What is the theme of International Labour Day 14 2018? 8 Uniting Workers for Elimination of Poverty 24 What is the new Investment Limit for Senior Uniting Workers for Social and Economic Citizens in Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandan Yojana? Advancement Rs 7.5 lakh Unite to Work for Welfare of Workers Rs 10.5 lakh Uniting Workers for Economic Development Rs 5 lakh None of these 20 Who is the Prime Minister of Mauritius? Rs 12.5 lakh Rs 15 lakh Anerood Jugnauth 25 Who is the Union Minister of Health and Family Navin Ramgoolam Welfare? Ameenah Gurib J P Nadda Roshi Bhadain Dr. Harsh Vardhan Pravind Jugnauth Chaudhary Birender Singh 21 Recently India- South Africa Business Summit has Prakash Javadekar concluded in which city? Dr. Mahesh Sharma New Delhi 26 Who has been appointed as ICICI Bank independent Johannesburg director? Mumbai Kishor Kharat Cape Town Pawan Kumar Bajaj Surat Radhakrishnan Nair 22 Which of the following country is not included in Rajiv Lall world’s five biggest military spenders? Rana Kapoor India 27 Who is the new chairman of Insurance Regulatory China and Development Authority of India? France Subhash Chandra Khuntia Saudi Arabia T S Vijayan Russia Upendra Kamath 23 How many Indian cities are included in world’s 15 Parvez Ahmed most polluted cities? Ramesh Sharma 5 28 Biggest Airport, after Mumbai will be developed in 10 which state? 9 Rajasthan
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33 4th Regional Conference on Futuristic, Resilient Gujarat and Digital Infrastructure of AIIB has been organised in Tamilnadu which city? Kerala Mumbai Goa New Delhi 29 Which country was the top military spender in une 2017? Bangalore USA Ahmedabad China 34 51st Annual Meeting of Asian Development Bank Saudi Arabia held in which city? Russia Manila India Mumbai 30 Where is the headquarters of ICICI Bank? Tokyo New Delhi Beijing Mumbai London Hyderabad 35 Among the following who has been appointed full- time member of 15th Finance Commission? Bangalore Amartya Sen Chennai 31 World Press Freedom Day is observed on which of Ashok Lahiri the following date? Arvind Subramanian 13 May Shankar Acharya 28 March Avinash Dixit 30 April 36 Who has been Appointed Cricket Australia's Head Coach in All Formats? 18 May Tom Moody 3 May 32 Which state has become the first state to issue a Mark Waugh crucial land ownership document online and accept a Justin Langer digital signature on it as valid? Mark Taylor Punjab Tim May Kerala 37 Renowned artist Ravinder Sharma passed away. In Tamilnadu which year he was awarded the Ugadi Puraskaram by Telangana government? Assam 2012 Maharashtra 2015
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2017 New Delhi 2016 Dhaka 2013 Male 38 The ‘Vibrant North East 2018′, an event in which Manila people would be made aware of central government’s schemes and programmes is being held in which city? Mumbai Shillong 43 With which company NITI Aayog has signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to develop a crop yield Gangtok prediction model using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide real time advisory to farmers in Aspirational Guwahati Districts? Agartala Google Dispur IBM 39 Who is the chairman of 15th Finance Commission? HCL N. K. Singh Infosys Dr. Y. V Reddy TCS Dr. Vijay L. Kelkar 44 Who has been appointed as Acting Chief Justice of C. Rangarajan Punjab & Haryana High Court? A. M. Khusro A.K. Mittal 40 Where is the headquarters of Asian Development T. B. Radhakrishnan Bank? Gita Mittal Tokyo Dinesh Maheshwari Geneva Satish K. Agnihotri Manila 45 Who has sworn in as the acting governor of Beijing Manipur? Shanghai N Kotiswar Singh 41 World Cartoonists’ day is celebrated on which date? Satya Pal Malik 12 June Jagdish Mukhi 8 April Farooq Khan 15 March Banwarilal Purohit 5 May 46 Which stations have been awarded first prize for depicting the best art & refurbishing itself as the most 15 May beautiful station across Indian Railways? 42 12th informal meeting of SAARC Finance Ministers held in which of the following city? Balharshah and Chandrapur station Madhubani and Madurai Railway Station
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Kota and Gandhidham Station 8 Secunderabad and Madurai Railway Station 11 Madhubani and Chandrapur station 17 47 Who is the CEO of NITI Aayog? 28 Karan Bajwa 4 Dr. Rajiv Kumar 52 Where is the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts situated? Bibek Debroy Kanpur V.K. Saraswat New Delhi Amitabh Kant 48 Manila is the capital of which country? Jodhpur Norway Shimla Finland Dehradun 53 Which city will host a six-day-long Festival of Philippines Bharat for giving a tribute to the majesty and depth of Denmark India's civilization? Sweden New Delhi 49 Who has been awarded Nobel Prize in literature Bangalore 2017? Hyderabad Bob Dylan Nagpur Kazuo Ishiguro Gurgaon Patrick Modiano 54 Which Ministry is conducting National Conference Alice Munro of 244 selected Districts under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao? V. S. Naipaul 50 Who is the convener of Group of ministers that will Ministry of Human Resource Development consider the issues relating to “Incentivizing digital Ministry of Home Affairs payments in the GST regime"? Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma Ministry of Women and Child Development Sushil Kumar Modi Ministry of Skill Development and Arun Jaitely Entrepreneurship Amitab Kant 55 In which city the National Conference of 244 selected Districts under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is None of these being conducted? 51 What is India’s rank in AT Kearney FDI Confidence Index, 2018? New Delhi Bhopal
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60 Marshal Arjan Singh Memorial All India Hockey Alwar Tournament is being held in which city? Rewari Lucknow Raipur Chandigarh 56 What will be India’s growth rate in 2018 according to ADB projection? Hyderabad 6.9 New Delhi 7.1 Jaipur 61 Border Roads Organisation had been established in 7.5 which of the following year? 7.3 1958 8.2 1960 57 Where is the headquarters of Association of Southeast Asian Nations? 1975 Beijing 1965 Shanghai 1975 62 At which of the following place Vice President has Jakarta reached first overseas visit after assuming office last Manila year? Singapore Guatemala 58 Which of the following has been ranked as most Peru trusted FMCG brand in India according to TRA's Brand Trust Report 2018? Panama Patanjali Ayurved Limited Norway Aashirvaad Germany 63 IAAF Diamond League 2018 has been held in Paytm which of the city? Dabur Moscow Amul Beijing 59 Recently, who has won the ONV Literary Prize for contribution to Malayalam literature? Doha Manoj Kuroor Paris Ranjith Dubai 64 What is the name of NASA's latest Mars lander? U. K. Kumaran InMars M T Vasudevan Nair MarsSighter None of the above InSight
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GeoMars Jafeth Cabrera None of the above Jimmy Morales 65 GST Council approves turning GSTN into a Alfonso Portillo government entity. What will be the share of central government in it? Zury Ríos 100% 70 XXI Commonwealth Games held in which city? 50% Geneva 75% Gold Coast 84% Tokyo 51% Beijing 66 Indus dolphins are found in which of the following New Delhi country except India? 71 Recently Vladimir Putin has sworn in as President Bangladesh of which country? USA France England Russia Pakistan Germany Sri Lanka Britain 67 Who is the Chairman of GST Council? Spain RBI Governor 72 Where is the headquarters of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication Prime Minister (SWIFT)? President Spain Finance Minister Netherland Finance Secretary Belgium 68 Neeraj Chopra is belongs to which of the following Australia sports? Canada Basketball 73 Recently, the Government of India has signed a loan Tennis deal worth $ 200 million with which institute for the National Nutrition Mission (POSHAN Abhiyaan)? Javelin Throw UNICEF Shootings World Bank Weightlifting 69 Who is the President of Guatemala? Asian Development Bank Roxana Baldetti New Development Bank
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None of the above 22 74 With which has NITI Aayog signed a Statement of 09 Intent (SoI) to help grow Artificial Intelligence in India? 19 Facebook 79 FIFA eClub World Cup, 2018 will be held in which Google city? Yahoo London Twitter Paris TCS Geneva 75 Recently Valedictory function of 30th Naval Higher Chicago Command Course (NHCC) was held in which state? Cincinnati Maharashtra 80 In which city SWIFT India Regional Conference Goa 2018 is being conducted? Kerala Mumbai Karnataka Hyderabad Telangana Kolkata 76 In which city of India will China organize a film New Delhi festival in July? Chennai Hyderabad 81 The 2018 World Robot Conference will be held in Kolkata which of the following city? Jaipur Beijing Lucknow Moscow Kota Paris 77 Recently which city’s Metro has introduced Tokyo exclusive coach for women? Seoul Lucknow metro 82 World Red Cross Day is observed on which date? Jaipur metro 18 March Bangalore metro 28 April Hyderabad metro 15 April None of the above 5 May 78 What is the rank of India in Asia-Pacific on Power Index out of 25 countries? 8 May 4 83 What is the rank of India in business optimism index for the first quarter of this year? 11
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5th Abdul Hamid 88 Who has been conferred with Women Economic 8th Forum 2018 Awards? 3rd Nisha Bhalla 6th Priyanka Mittal 15th Abha Dalmia 84 First Apex Conference for the CEOs of Smart Cities has been held in which of the following city? Salma Abdulai New Delhi Ira Singhal 89 Who is the Minister of State (I/C) for Housing & Pune Urban Affairs? Bhopal Harsimrat Kaur Badal Jaipur Hardeep Puri Chennai Giriraj Singh 85 15th Asia Media Summit will be hosted by which of the following country? Vijay Goel Japan Jayant Sinha 90 Who is the recipient of the first Nobel Peace Prize? India William Randal Cremer China Theodore Roosevelt Malaysia Henry Dunant Russia 86 Who has been appointed as prime minister of Fredrik Bajer Russia? Arthur Henderson Vladimir Putin 91 Who is the most powerful person globally according to recent Forbes list, 2018? Benjamin Netanyahu Narendra Modi Dmitry Medvedev Xi Jinping Dmitry Peskov Vladimir Putin Vladislav Surkov 87 Who has been elected as new prime minister of Mukesh Ambani Armenia? Donald Trump Hovik Abrahamyan 92 What is the rank of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Forbes globally powerful person list, 2018? Nikol Pashinyan 9th Serzh Sargsyan 4th Gaston Browne
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1st Retail Company 7th Electronic Commerce Company 32nd Petroleum refining Company 93 Recently Indian Army's 'Vijay Prahar' exercise was Healthcare Company culminated in which state? None of the above Rajasthan 97 Recently Carlos Alvarado sworn in as Costa Rican Gujarat president. Costa Rica is a – Madhya Pradesh African country Maharashtra North American country Goa Asian country 94 Recently the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Central American country Corporation of India(ALIMCO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aravali Power Company European country Pvt Ltd (APCPL) for Distribution of Aids and Assistive 98 Consider the following statement about Food Safety Devices to Persons with Disabilities. The Artificial and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)? Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) 1. It is a constitutional body works under which Ministry? 2. It is a statutory body established under Food Safety Ministry of Human Resource Development and Standards Act, 2006 3. It works under the Ministry of Health & Family Ministry of AYUSH Welfare Which one of the following is\are correct statement? Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Only 1 and 2 Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Only 2 and 3 Ministry of Minority Affairs 95 Recently Fifteenth Finance Commission has Only 1 and 3 constituted an Advisory Council to advise and assist the Only 2 Commission. Which of the following are member of Advisory Council? 1, 2 and 3 1. Sanjeev Gupta 99 Consider the following statement about 2. Sajjid Chinoy International Monetary Fund? 3. Surjit S Bhalla 1. Its headquarters is in Geneva Only 1 and 2 2. It was established in 1948 3. International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization Only 2 and 3 of 189 countries Which of the following statement is\are correct? Only 3 Only 1 and 2 Only 1 and 3 Only 2 and 3 1, 2 and 3 96 Recently Walmart has decided to acquire 77% stake Only 3 in Flipkart. Walmart is a- Only 1 and 3
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None of these Sonu Nigam 100 Who is the chairman of the 15th Finance Asha Bhosle Commission? Priyanka Chopra N K Singh 105 Who has been elected Jammu and Kashmir B N Sharma Assembly speaker? Pawan Kumar Agarwal Kavinder Gupta Subhash Chandra Khuntia Usman Majeed Rajesh Ranjan Mehbooba Mufti 101 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tourism Omar Abdullah Ministers’ conference has been held in which of the following city? Nirmal Singh Astana 106 Which Zonal Railway has been awarded the Railway Minister’s Safety Shield for 2017-18? Moscow Central Railway Wuhan North Central Railway Tashkent South Central Railway Dushanbe 102 India's First Smart Cities Control Centre has been South Western Railway launched in which state? Western Railway Kerala 107 Recently Rajinder Pal passed away. He was belonged to which of the following sports? Madhya Pradesh Basketball Rajasthan Hockey Assam Cricket Maharashtra 103 Who has become the Prime Minister of Malaysia? Badminton Football Mahathir Mohamad 108 6th US-India Aviation Summit has been held in Najib Razak which city? Anwar Ibrahim New Delhi Justin Trudeau Mumbai Hassan Rouhani New York City 104 Who has been nominated as Green Ambassador of Chicago Sikkim? San Francisco A R Rahman 109 Where is the headquarters of South Western Mohit Chauhan Railway?
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Hubli 13 May Mumbai 09 May 114 Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi Bilaspur inaugurated a direct bus service between Janakpur and Secunderabad Ayodhya. Janakpur is a sacred city for Hindus which is located in? Chennai 110 Who is the Union Minister for Civil Aviation? Bhutan Dharmendra Pradhan Nepal Suresh Prabhu Bangladesh Inderjit Singh Rao Myanmar Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Maldives 115 Which Bank is all set to roll out a capacity Ananthkumar building project with farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan 111 The Cannes Film Festival 2018 was held in which under its ‘Livelihood and Water Security’ CSR country? initiative? Spain HDFC Bank France YES Bank Germany SBI Bolivia PNB Finland ICICI 112 The Reverse Buyers Sellers Meet (RBSM) is 116 Which of the following is\are the International going to be held in Mumbai. What is the objective of Rating Agency? this meeting? 1. Fitch 2. Moody's To promote export of electronics items 3. Standard & Poor's To promote export of meets Only 1 To promote export of mangoes and other tropical Only 2 fruits and products Only 1 and 2 To promote export of raw agro material Only 2 and 3 All of the above 113 In India National Technology Day is celebrated on 1, 2 and 3 which date? 117 Which of the following disease is caused by Rotavirus? 10 May Malaria 11 May Dengue 12 May Diarrhoea
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Japanese Encephalitis 3 AIDS 8 118 The vaccine maker company Bharat Biotech 122 Which is the largest remittance-receiving country received the National Technology Award for 2018 from in the world? the Central government's Technology Development Board for its Rotavac vaccine. Where is the China headquarters of this company? India New Delhi Japan Hyderabad Philippines Chennai England Bhopal 123 Who has been honoured with the 11th Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Humanitarian Award Kanpur 2018? 119 Which of the following Naval Offshore Patrol Vessel (NOPV), has been deployed to undertake joint Muhammad Yunus EEZ surveillance of Maldives as part of Indian Navy’s Usha Mangeshkar ‘Mission Based Deployments’? Dalai Lama INS Saryu Amartya Sen INS Sumitra Raj Chetty INS Sumedha 124 Who was honoured with "Swara Mauli" title by INS Sunayna spiritual guru Vidya Narsimha Bharati Swami? None of the above Asha Bhosle 120 Which of the following is\are correctly matched? A. R. Rahman 1. Pokhran- I ------smiling Krishna 2. Pokhran- II------operation Shakti Hariprasad Chaurasia 3. Pokhran- I ------smiling Buddha Lata Mangeshkar Only 1 and 2 Amjad Ali Khan Only 2 and 3 125 Who won the Spanish Grand Prix 2018? Only 2 Lewis Hamilton Only 1 and 3 Valtteri Bottas 1, 2 and 3 Sebastian Vettel 121 How many cities of Rajasthan are part of the Daniel Ricciardo Smart Cities initiative of the Government of India? Max Verstappen 6 126 Who won Madrid Open title 2018? 5 Kiki Bertens 4
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Maria Sharapova 2001 131 International Nurses Day is celebrated on which Angelique Kerber date? Simona Halep 06 May Petra Kvitova 08 May 127 Former Rajya Sabha MP and country's famous litterateur and poet Balkavi Bairagi passed away.Which 10 May of the following one is not his composition? 12 May Dard diwani 14 May Do took 132 What is the theme for International Nurses Day, 2018? Bhaavi Rakshak Desh ke Nurses A Voice to Lead – Health is a Human right Aao Bacho Gao Bacho Nurses: A Force for Change The Guide 128 Tennis Player Petra Kvitova is belong to which of Better Health through Nursing Research the following country? Mental Health – Nurses in Action Spain None of the above Russia 133 What is the theme for World Migratory Bird Day 2018? Czech Republic Unifying our Voices for Bird Conservation USA Their Future is our Future - A healthy planet for Switzerland migratory birds and people 129 Lewis Hamilton is belong to which of the following team? Sustainable Development for Wildlife and People Ferrari Stop the Illegal Killing of Migratory Birds Red Bull Energy – make it bird-friendly 134 Recently Union Minister Radha Mohan Singh has Mercedes laid the foundation stone of the frozen semen station in Force India which state? Renault Rajasthan 130 Muhammad Yunus was awarded the Nobel Prize Bihar in which year for his Microfinance model? Goa 2004 Kerala 2000 Uttar Pradesh 2006 135 Recently which state government has signed 2002 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with United Kingdom UK for setting up bio-gas, bio CNG plants?
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Rajasthan Myanmar Punjab Sri Lanka 140 Rashtriya Gokul Mission is an initiative of which Telangana ministry? Kerala Ministry of Finance Assam Ministry of Human Resource Development 136 Raman Singh is the chief minister of which state? Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Chhattisgarh Change Jharkhand Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Odisha Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Tripura 141 Which of the following country will host Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Nagaland Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit 2018? 137 Recently Reserve Bank has initiated prompt corrective action against which Bank in view of high India non-performing loans, restricting the bank from giving Nepal fresh credit and new hiring? Sri Lanka SBI Thailand PNB Myanmar Dena Bank 142 The telecom department has approved the merger HDFC of Norwegian telecom major's India arm - Telenor India - with which of the following company? ICICI 138 Recently Renowned storyteller Ankit Chadha Vodafone passed away. Chadha was known for his unique style of Reliance Jio storytelling in which language? Aircel Hindi BSNL English Bharti Airtel Urdu 143 Recently RBI has put deposit, lending restrictions Gujarati on which of the following bank? Konkani Andhra Bank 139 Recently a hockey legend Mansoor Ahmed passed Allahabad Bank away. Which country does he belong to? Bank of Baroda Afghanistan Punjab National Bank Pakistan Vijaya Bank Bangladesh
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144 Who is the Information and Broadcasting Om Prakash Kohli Minister? Jagdish Mukhi Smriti Irani Acharya Dev Vrat Piyush Goyal Najma Heptulla Rajyavardhan Rathore 149 How much Central assistance has been approved S S Ahluwalia for Rajasthan affected by kharif drought during 2017? K J Alphons Rs 1986.14 crore 145 Recently Anita Das passed away. She was Rs 526.14 crore belonged to which of the following field? Rs 3252.14 crore Literature Rs 1852.14 crore Science Rs 2526.14 crore Acting 150 'Bharosa' is an initiative of which city Police to Music support women and children who are victims of violence? Spors 146 How many countries are there in BIMSTEC Pune Group? Mumbai 6 Hyderabad 8 Jaipur 5 Surat 7 151 ‘REPLACE’ a comprehensive plan to eliminate industrially-produced artificial Trans fats from the 10 global food supply by 2023 has been launched by which India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, of the following organization? and Thailand 147 How many officers are there in Indian Army UNESCO Women Officers’ Mountaineering Expedition to Mt. WHO Bhagirathi-II (6512 metres) flagged off by Director General of Military Training? WTO 5 World Bank 12 UNICEF 9 152 Recently who has been appointed as an eminent jurist in the selection committee for appointment of anti- 6 graft ombudsman Lokpal? 10 Ashok Desai 148 Who is the Governor of Assam? Ram Jethmalani Satya Pal Malik Soli Sorabjee
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Mukul Rohatgi Gujarat Fali Sam Nariman Rajasthan 153 Who has been elected as the independent chairman Maharashtra of the International Cricket Council? Kerala Anurag Thakur 158 Recently a two-day workshop on ‘Risk Shashank Manohar Communication during Public Health Emergencies’ has been held in which of the following city? C K Khanna Kanpur Amitabh Chaudhary Pune N. Srinivasan Surat 154 Who is the founder of Sulabh International? Jaipur Bill Gates Shimla Kailash Satyarthi 159 Scam-hit Punjab National Bank has posted largest ever quarterly loss of how much amount for January- Dr Bindeshwar Pathak March 2018 period? Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Rs 17,445.91 crore Gopal Venu Rs 13,416.91 crore 155 Recently E.C.G. Sudarshan has passed away. Who was he? Rs 10,526.91 crore Rs 8,556.91 crore Actor Rs 15,696.91 crore Cricketer 160 Barauni Thermal Power Station is located in which Physicist of the following state? Politician Assam Economist Bihar 156 Who among the following has been awarded the Uttar Pradesh 23rd Nikkei Asia Prize 2018? Gujarat Dr Bindeshwar Pathak Maharashtra Nandan Nilekani 161 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Cultural Ministers Meeting is being held in which of the Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty following city? Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Sanya Gopal Venu Shanghai 157 In which of the following state the President of Astana India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, has inaugurated the 4th Global Exhibition on Services? Moscow Goa New Delhi
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162 According to Mercom Communications India, Shanghai Which country has emerged as the third largest solar market in the world in 2017? Paris 167 Which is the cleanest city according to the Swachh China Survekshan 2018? USA Mumbai Russia Indore India Bhopal Canada Chandigarh 163 Central University of Andhra Pradesh will be set up in which of the following District? Vijaywada 168 Which is the best performing State according to Ananthapur the Swachh Survekshan 2018? Guntur Madhya Pradesh Kurnool Andhra Pradesh Visakhapatnam Maharashtra Kadapa Jharkhand 164 National Institute of Mental Health Rehabilitation will be established in which of the following districtof Goa Madhya Pradesh? 169 What is the name of Intellectual Property (IP) mascot launched by the Minister of Commerce and Indore Industry Suresh Prabhu? Bhopal IP Chhotu Gwalior IP Dadi Jabalpur IP Nani Ujjain IP Brain 165 International Rail Coach Expo 2018 is being hosted by which of the following city? IP Gyan 170 According to Mercom Communications India, Mumbai Which country has emerged as the largest solar market Pune in the world in 2017? Ajmer China New Delhi USA Chennai Russia 166 According to UN report which city is projected to India become world's most populous city around 2028? Canada Tokyo 171 Which of the following has become India's first Dubai solar powered railway station? Delhi Jodhpur
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Bikaner H. D. Deve Gowda 176 Who has been appointed Chairman of Lalit Kala Pune Akademi? Mumbai Jatin Das Guwahati Satish Gujral 172 Which of the following ministry has formed 19 teams to take up cleaning of beaches, river fronts and Uttam Pacharne lakes in the country? Sudarshan Sahoo Ministry of Water Resources, River Development Mallikarjuna Reddy and Ganga Rejuvenation 177 Which of the following film has been chosen as Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation India's official entry into the Cannes Film Festival 2018? Ministry of Science and Technology Raaya Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Pari Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Nirdosh 173 Cabinet has approved setting up of a new All India The Window Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in which district of Jharkhand? Newton Bokaro 178 Where is the headquarters of NABARD? Deoghar New Delhi Hazaribagh Mumbai Gumla Chennai Ranchi Bangalore 174 Recently the Union Cabinet has approved the Jaipur Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India 179 Who is the Union Minister of Agriculture and and which of the following country on cooperation in Farmers’ Welfare? the field of electoral management and administration? Ramvilas Paswan Suriname Narendra Singh Tomar Bhutan Thaawar Chand Gehlot Sri Lanka Radha Mohan Singh Iran Ravi Shankar Prasad Iraq 180 Where is the capital of suriname? 175 Who sworn in as chief minister of Karnataka? Lima B. S. Yeddyurappa Salvador H. D. Kumaraswamy Paramaribo Siddaramaiah Cuenca Mallikarjun Kharge
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Rosario Umang 181 NITI Aayog, in association with which is Ayush organising the Venture Capital Symposium 2018 to deepen the economic relationships between France and Bhim India? Setu Global India Foundation 186 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has slapped a penalty of how much amount on South Indian Bank India International Foundation Limited for non-compliance with the directions issued Vision India Foundation by it? Disha Foundationss Rs 10 million None of these Rs 60 million 182 4th BRICS Ministerial Meeting held in which of Rs 70 million the following city? Rs 20 million Moscow Rs 50 million Shanghai 187 Whom has been given additional charge of the New Delhi post of NHAI chairman? Mumbai Prasanth Nair Durban Yudhvir Singh Malik 183 International Museum Day is celebrated on which Surendra Kumar Solanki of the following date? aurabh Kumar 28 March Ronald Rose 18 May 188 Who has been named head of the U.S India 13 April Business Council for India? 20 June Ambika Sharma 10 February Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 184 Who has become youngest women of the country Rajiv Lall to scale Mt Everest from Nepal side? Karan Bajwa Malavath Poorna Pallavi Goel Shivangi Pathak 189 Who has been honoured with the TITAN Reginald Krushnaa Patil F Lewis Film Icon Award at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival? udipta Sengupta Priyanka Chopra Santosh Yadav 185 The Commission for Scientific and Technical Hema Malini Terminology has decided to adopt which word in Hindi Juhi Chawla and English languages for scientific and technical purposes? Deepika Padukone Aadhar Sridevi
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190 Who is the President of France? 7.6 Edouard Philippe 195 HD Kumaraswamy to take oath as Karnataka Chief Minister. He is a member of which political party? Emmanuel Macron Congress Charles Michel Bharatiya Janata Party David Johnston Janata Dal (Secular) George Konrote 191 Which country has moved its embassy from Tel Independent Aviv to Jerusalem, becoming the second country to do None of the above so after the U.S. inaugurated its embassy in Jerusalem? 196 Recently an eminent personality, Balakumaran Honduras passed away. He was – Micronesia A Hindi writer Togo A Urdu writer Nauru A Tamil writer Guatemala A English writer 192 World AIDS Vaccination Day is observed on A Gujrati writer which of the following date? 197 Recently which Indian programme has got Global 1 December Recognition to protect environment and promote good living in the country? 18 March National River Conservation Programme 1 May Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana 12 April National Action Plan on Climate Change 18 May 193 Kishanganga hydropower station is located in Namami Gange Project which of the following state? ‘Green Good Deeds’ Maharashtra 198 Kishanganga hydro project is located on river Kishanganga. Kishanganga river is a tributary of which Gujarat of the following? Rajasthan Satluj Jammu-Kashmir Jhelum Kerala Chenab 194 What is the projection of Indian Economy growth rate in fiscal year 2018-19 according to the UN World Beas Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) report? Godavari 9.2 199 World AIDS Vaccine Day was firstly celebrated in which year? 8.6 1978 8.0 1986 7.2
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1990 Anil Kumar Jha 1998 Subhash Chandra Khuntia 2001 Balram Bhargava World Economic Outlook report is released by--- 200 Rajesh Ranjan OECD 205 Recently which state government has decide to honour Veteran singer Asha Bhosle? ADB Maharashtra IMF West Bengal IBRD Uttar Pradesh WTO 201 Recently which country has unveiled world's first Karnataka floating nuclear power station? Punjab China 206 Recently NMDC Ltd has bagged the S&P Global Platts Global Metals Award 2018 in the corporate social Russia responsibility category. NMDC Ltd is a— France Iron Ore Company USA Coal Mining Company Britain Electric power Distribution Company 202 Recently NABARD has sanctioned Solar street lighting system in which state under its Rural Natural Gas Transmission Company Infrastructure Development Fund? Hydroelectric Power Generation Company Arunachal Pradesh 207 Recently which country has won the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy, Hockey 2018? Andhra Pradesh Japan Kerala Brazil Goa South Korea Karnataka 203 Recently Gujarat Governor Om Prakash Kohli has Pakistan given the additional charge of which state? Malaysia Madhya Pradesh 208 Recently who has won the Italian Open Final tournament? Punjab Rafael Nadal Karnataka Alexander Zverev Odisha Roger Federer Kerala 204 Recently who has been appointed as president of Novak Djokovic Hockey India? None of the above Rajinder Singh
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In which state’s tunnel the railways will use 209 Andhra Pradesh artifical intelligence first time to control air circulation, 214 Who has been appointed as the chairman-cum- signages and even supervision and maintenance work? managing director (CMD) of Coal India Limited? Mizoram Ashwani Lohani Manipur Rajiv Gauba Meghalaya Anil Kumar Jha Assam Pramod Kumar Misra Sikkim Ranjit Kumar 210 Pema Khandu is the chief minister of which state? 215 Who won the prestigious T.K. Ramanathan award Odisha for the year 2017-18 at the Tamil Nadu Tennis Association annual day function? Nagaland Prajnesh Gunneswaran Mizoram Yuki Bhambri Manipur Somdev Devvarman Arunachal Pradesh Sumit Nagal 211 Who has been elected as Venezuela's President? Prakash Amritraj Leopoldo Lopez 216 Who Won the European Golden Shoe award for 2017-2018? Michel Temer Edinson Cavani Nicolas Maduro Cristiano Ronaldo Mamnoon Hussain Luis Suarez Abdulla Yameen 212 Anti-Terrorism Day is observed on which of the Neymar following date? Lionel Messi 21 May 217 Recently Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani passed away. She was belonged to which of the following 28 March field? 1 June Sports 12 April Science 18 May Journalism 213 Recently In which of the following Indian state Nipah virus has outbroken? Writing Tamilnadu Direction 218 Lionel Messi is belongs to which of the following Kerala country? Assam Spain Maharashtra Argentina
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Brazil Moscow Germany Durban USA Beijing Recently USA has imposed import duty on which 219 Paris of the following items' import from India? 224 In which country an anti-terrorism conference will Spices and tea be held under the banner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation? Basmati Rice China Steel and aluminum India Orthopedic Devices Pakistan Handicrafts 220 According to the AfrAsia Bank Global Wealth Russia Migration Review, Which is the wealthiest country in Uzbekistan the world? 225 Regional Conference on “Clean and Renewable China Energy” held in which of the following city? England Bhopal India Mumbai USA Pune Germany Chennai The International Bio-diversity Day is observed on 221 Jaipur which of the following date? 226 Who is the Union Minister for Water Resources, 18 May River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation? 15 June Uma Bharati 8 June Dr. Harsh Vardhan 18 March Ananthkumar 22 May Nitin Jairam Gadkari Which of the following country is not a member of 222 Radha Mohan Singh the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation? 227 Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the Kazakhstan local and foreign currency deposit ratings of which of the following bank to Ba1/NP from Baa3/P-3? Iraq SBI Kyrgyzstan PNB Tajikistan HDFC Bank China 223 26th BASIC Ministerial meeting of Environment ICICI Bank Ministers held in which of the following city? Axis Bank New Delhi
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State Bank of India's net loss widened to how much 228 Sweden amount in the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2018? 233 Joint Military Exercise SURYA KIRAN-XIII Rs 13,718 crore between India and Nepal will be conducted at which of the following place? Rs 4,728 crore Suratgarh Rs 7,718 crore Pithoragarh Rs 3,248 crore Punglwa Rs 5,456 crore 229 Which of the following country will host its’ first Sambalpur international football tournament since 1990? Pokhran Iraq 234 The Fifteenth Finance Commission has constituted a high level group to evaluate the existing regulatory Iran framework in the Health sector and examine its strength Israel and weaknesses for enabling a balanced yet faster expansion of the health sector keeping in view India’s Poland demographic profile. Who is the convenor of this Russia group? 230 Who is the chairman of SBI? Dr. Randeep Guleria Usha Ananthasubramanian Amitabh Kant Rajnish Kumar Dr A. G. K. Gokhale Rajeev Rishi Ajmal Ameer Ashwani Kumar Prof. Anoop Singh Pawan Kumar Bajaj 235 Who has been appointed as MD, CEO of Airtel 231 What is the rank of India in terms of Payments Bank? competitiveness in the annual rankings compiled by Rajiv Lall International Institute for Management Development? Anubrata Biswas 8th Sanjay Agarwal 34th Rajeev Rishi 44th Ravi Krishan Takkar 28th 236 Who has won the prestigious Man Booker 7th International Prize 2018 for fiction? 232 5th India CLMV Business Conclave held in which Olga Tokarczuk of the following country? David Grossman Myanmar Han Kang Vietnam Lydia Davis India Philip Roth Cambodia
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Who has been conferred with the BRICS Business 237 Nepal Forum Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement in Indian Cinema? Bhutan 242 Which of the following railway station is the Shahrukh Khan dirtiest railway station in country? Priyanka Chopra Kalyan Ranbir Kapoor Kurla Anil Kapoor Thane Sridevi Patna 238 Which film has won Palme d'Or prize at Cannes film festival 2018? Kanpur Central 243 Which of the following company has become the Shoplifters first company to achieve Rs 7 lakh crore m-cap The House That Jack Built milestone? Burning TCS Cold War Infosys Girls of the Sun Indian Oil Corporation Which institution has been awarded the Clarivate 239 SAIL Analytics India Innovation Award 2018 in the Government Research Organizations Category? Coal India Limited 244 Who has been appointed the chairman of the Press C-DAC Council of India? NABARD H L Dattu CSIR C K Prasad ISRO Amitava Roy AIIMS Rajesh Agrawal 240 Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 has been given to which of the following? K M Joseph 245 Who has been appointed as Governor of Odisha? INSV Tarini Team Kummanam Rajasekharan Chhanv Foundation Jagdish Mukhi Sadhana Mahila Sangha Ganga Prasad Jagori Ganeshi Lal None of these 241 Which of the following country has become the Tathagata Roy first country in south-east Asia to eliminate trachoma? 246 Who is the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes? India P.K. Mishra Sri Lanka Pradeep Kumar Sinha Pakistan
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Sushil Chandra Germany Bhaskar Khulbe Netherlands Anita Karwal Thailand 247 Who will be Awarded with Mark Twain Prize for India Humor 2018? 252 In Which country has India recently launched David Letterman its second IT corridor to cash in on the burgeoning Jay Leno software market? Neil Simon Japan Julia Louis-Dreyfus China Gary Oldman Singapore 248 Who has been appointed as Governor of Dubai Mizoram? Bangladesh Kummanam Rajasekharan 253 Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh ‘Jai Ram Jagdish Mukhi Thakur’ has launched which scheme for offering gas cylinder security and gas stoves to those not Ganga Prasad covered under the Ujjwala Yojana ? Ganeshi Lal Himachal Grihini Suvidha Yojana Tathagata Roy Himachal indhan Suvidha Yojana 249 Which of the following city will be renamed as Prayag? Himachal Ujjwala Suvidha Yojana Kanpur Himachal Gharelu Suvidha Yojana Banaras None of the above 254 In which state of India ‘Ministry of Culture’ Mathura has organised 3 day’s long diversified cultural Allahabad festival ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav’ festival? Ujjain Jharkhand 250 Recently Bangladesh Bhavan has been inaugurated in which of the following university's campus? Chhattisgarh University of Calcutta Uttarakhand Vidyasagar University Bihar Visva Bharati University Tripura 255 Who has become the first woman prime Rabindra Bharati University minister of ‘The Caribbean island of Barbados’ Amity University since gaining independence from Britain in 1966? 251 Which country has become the 64th signatory Mia Mottley member of the International Solar Alliance (ISA)? Lesia caprine New Zealand Marissa kim
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Raeni motley Arun Jaitley Mia nikoli Narendra Modi 256 Which country has won ‘Uber cup 2018’ after Sushma Swraj 37 years? 261 Which of the following country has recently joined Japan North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? China Columbia India Canada Maldives Spain Britain India 257 Which Team has won the ‘IPL 2018’? Bhutan Sun risers Hyderabad 262 Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the 2400MW first phase of Rajasthan Royals NTPC's Patratu Super Thermal Power Project in Chennai Super kings which of the following state? Kings Eleven Punjab Bihar Mumbai Indians Madhya Pradesh 258 Which country has recently won its ‘10th Thomas Jharkhand Cup title’ beating Japan? Gujarat Malaysia Kerala Australia 263 Recently National Informatics Centre has set up a Sri Lanka new state-of-the-art cloud enabled National Data Centre in which of the following city? China Pune Zimbabwe 259 Which veteran Bollywood actor has recently Mumbai passed who has worked in films like ‘Pakiza’ and Surat ‘Razia Sultan’? Jaipur Nargis Rabadi Bhubaneswar Sri devi 264 Which of the following state has become the first Geeta Kapoor state in the Northeast in India to have solar toilets? Reema Lagoo Assam Sonika Simone Meghalaya 260 Who inaugurated Eastern Peripheral Expressway Mizoram and Phase-I of Delhi-Meerut Expressway? Manipur Nitin gadkari Arunachal Pradesh Rajnath singh
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In a first in India, Which of the following bank has 265 R K Singh launched its Digital Loan against Mutual Funds? A K Khanna HDFC Bank Hasmukh Adhia ICICI Bank 270 Who is the Union Minister of Electronics & IT and SBI Law & Justice? Axis Bank Dr. Harsh Vardhan Bank of Baroda Dr. Mahesh Sharma Which of the following bank has recently received 266 Radhakrishnan P approval from National Stock Exchange (NSE) to be empaneled as ‘Settlement Bank’ for National Securities Ravi Shankar Prasad Clearing Corporation Limited (NSCCL), a wholly Vijay Goel owned subsidiary of NSE? 271 The first edition of the Global Wind Summit will HDFC be held in which of the following city? ICICI New York SBI Hamburg PNB Beijing Yes Bank Madrid 267 NITI Aayog announced the signing of a Statement New Delhi of Intent (SoI) with whom to collaborate and support NITI’s flagship initiative, the Women Entrepreneurship 272 108th session of UNWTO Executive council held Platform (WEP)? in which of the following city? Aamir Khan London Deepika Padukone Paris Sushant Singh Rajput Barcelona Farhan Akhtar Tokyo Shah Rukh Khan San Sebastian 268 Who has been elected as the Chairperson of 273 The main event of 4th International Yoga Day TRIFED? celebrations (IDY-2018) will be held on 21st June 2018 in which of the following city? Pratibha Brahma Bhopal Ramesh Chand Meena Dehradun Anil Goswami Chandigarh R. K. Singh Jaipur Sharad Kumar Ahmedabad 269 Who is the CEO of NITI Aayog? 274 Who has been appointed as prime minister of Amitabh Kant Lebanon? Ms Anna Roy Hassan Nasrallah
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Najib Mikati Sergio Mattarella Saad Hariri Silvio Berlusconi Francisco Guterres Paolo Gentiloni Fuad Masum Romano Prodi 275 Who has been appointed as the first chief financial 280 Patanjali has tie up with which of the following officer of the Reserve Bank of India? telecom company? Sudha Balakrishnan Idea Sanjay Mitra BSNL N. S. Vishwanathan Vodafone Nachiket M. Mor Airtel B.P. Kanungo Reliance Jio 276 Who has been named as the Pakistan’s caretaker 281 The Government has approved setting up of an prime minister for a two-month period? exclusive "Brahmaputra Study Centre" at which of the following place? Asif Ali Zardari Guwahati Imran Khan Kanpur Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Lucknow Nasirul Mulk Agra Mamnoon Hussain 277 Who has won the CEAT International Cricketer of Raipur the Year award 2018? 282 Which of the following app has been developed to bring transparency in power purchase transactions Shikhar Dhawan between Generators and Discoms? Trent Boult PRAAPTI App Rashid Khan POWER App Virat Kohli DISCOM App Chris Gayle BIJALI App 278 Who has won the CEAT International Bowler of the Year award 2018? None of these 283 Recently India has signed Loan Agreement with Trent Boult the World Bank for USD 21.7 Million for the Rashid Khan Strengthening of Public Financial Management for which of the following state? Bhuneshwar Kumar Assam Mustafizur Rahman Kerala Mitchell Starc 279 Who is the President of Italy? Madhya Pradesh Carlo Cottarelli Rajasthan
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Gujarat R.K. Singh 284 Who has been appointed as deputy National Dr Jitendra Singh Security Advisor of India? Jual Oram Pankaj Saran Inderjit Singh Rao Nirupama Menon Rao Giriraj Singh Shivshankar Menon 289 Where is the capital of Paraguay? Syed Akbaruddin Minsk Ajit Doval Sofia 285 Who has been appointed the President of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission? Santiago Justice Prafulla Chandra Pant Asunción Justice Amitava Roy Havana Where is the headquarters of World Bank? Justice Vikramajit Sen 290 Jakarta Justice Dalveer Bhandari New York Justice R K Agrawal 286 Who will be the first woman president of Washington D C Paraguay? Paris Blanca Ovelar Bern Alicia Pucheta 291 According to a Lancet study what is the rank of India among 195 countries in terms of quality and Sheila Abed accessibility of healthcare in 2016? Aida Robles 118 Marta Lafuente 145 287 Ministry of Women & Child Development has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with 132 which of the following state for management of Home 110 of Widows at Sunrakh Bangar, Vrindavan? 125 Gujarat 292 Which of the following country will host the Madhya Pradesh ASEAN Film Festival 2018? Uttar Pradesh Philippines Rajasthan Singapore Kerala Cambodia 288 Who is the Union Tribal Affairs Minister?
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India Sri Lanka Laos Ireland 293 The Union Cabinet approved an ordinance to set up 297 Who has sworn-in as 24th CM of Karnataka? the country's first national sports university in which of B. S. Yeddyurappa the following state? H. D. Deve Gowda Kerala H. D. Kumaraswamy Punjab Siddaramaiah Manipur G Parameshwara Maharashtra 298 3rd Mission Innovation Ministerial meeting held in Rajasthan which of the following country? 294 A new software, ‘Nidaan’, has been launched in Vietnam which of the following state for presumptive diagnosis and monitoring of seasonal and non-communicable Malaysia diseases as well as the trends of ailments found in Brunei specific areas? Singapore Rajasthan Sweden Kerala 299 According to a Lancet study which of the following Tamilnadu country has topped among 195 countries in terms of quality and accessibility of healthcare in 2016? Maharashtra Iceland Gujarat 295 Who is the Prime Minister of Netherlands? Norway Charles Michel Netherlands Jacinda Ardern Luxembourg Ewa Kopacz Finland 300 How many member countries are there in the Mark Rutte Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)? Willy Telavi 8 296 AB de Villiers has announced his decision to retire from international cricket. He belongs to which of the 12 following country? 7 England 10 Australia 6 South Africa
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