® PM PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD. CURRENT AFFAIRS MMajorajor EEventsvents ffromrom AAprpriill ttoo JJuneune 2201018 EDUCATIONAL ODYSSEY - V in association with EQI Australia for the year 2018 AGNI V India's first nuclear capable ICBM with a range of over 5000Km National International Awards Sports Science & School Australia Technology Event Visit TOPICS COVERED NATIONAL WB GOVERNMENT BRINGS OUT 'RUPASHREE' nal operational clearance. SCHEME FOR UNMARRIED GIRLS PAWAN CHAMLING OVERTAKES JYOTI BASU 1 APRIL 2018 : Kolkata- What can be called a major TO BECOME INDIA’S LONGEST SERVING CM step towards ensuring a safe future for young women 1 MAY 2018 : Pawan Chamling on in West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee government has Sunday will create history by launched a scheme called 'Rupashree' which provides surpassing the record of former one-time nancial support to the marriages of poor communist ruler of West Bengal, Jyoti girls. Under this scheme an amount of Rs 25,000 will Basu, as the longest serving chief be credited to girl's bank account before her marriage, minister in the country. Chamling, 68, touched Basu’s the ofcial said as reported by PTI. record on Saturday and wrote a long post on his DELHI BECOMES 1ST CITY TO ROLL-OUT EURO Facebook page. VI FUEL PENSION SCHEME PMVVY: INVESTMENT LIMIT 2 APRIL 2018 : With an aim to combat the rising levels DOUBLED, NOW GET RS. 10,000 PER MONTH of air pollution in Delhi-NCR region, petrol pumps in PENSION the capital started supplying ultra-clean Bharat Stage 2 MAY 2018 : The Union Cabinet, in a VI grade fuel (both petrol and diesel). This move meeting chaired by Prime Minister makes New Delhi the rst city in the country to switch Narendra Modi, on Wednesday from BS-IV grade fuels to BS-VI (equivalent to fuel approved the doubling of investment meeting Euro-VI emission norms). limit in Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandan ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT INDIA'S Yojana (PMVVY) to Rs. 15 lakh, from the current level FIRST HIGH-SPEED ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE of Rs. 7.5 lakh. This will help senior citizens earn a 9 APRIL 2018 : Indian Railways is all set to induct the pension of up to Rs. 10,000 per month. The Cabinet country's rst 12,000 horsepower (HP) electric also approved the time period for subscription of this locomotive from the Madhepura loco factory in Bihar scheme to March 31, 2020, from May 4, 2018. on April 10. With the launch, India will join an elite MADHYA PRADESH GETS INDIA'S FIRST list countries, including Russia, China, Germany and SMART CITIES CONTROL CENTRE Sweden, that have 12,000 HP and above capacity 9 MAY 2018 : BHOPAL: In a major electric locomotives. Till now, the most powerful step towards realising the centre's electric engine in Indian Railways was of 6,000 HP. Smart City Mission (SCM), the INDIAN MOSQUITOES SUSCEPTIBLE TO ZIKA Madhya Pradesh government on VIRUS, FINDS NEW NIV STUDY Tuesday launched the country's rst Integrated Control and Command Centre (ICCC) for all seven smart cities of the state in Bhopal. Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Satna, and Sagar are the seven smart cities under SCM in Madhya Pradesh. PM INAUGURATES WORK FOR ASIA'S LONGEST ZOJILA TUNNEL 16 APRIL 2018 : Zika virus is an emerging threat 19 MAY 2018 : Prime Minister started unless contained especially in areas where the vector his day-long visit to Jammu & Aedes aegypti mosquito is in large numbers, Kashmir by inaugurating Asia's including India. At Pune's National Institute of longest Zojila Tunnel, part of Rs 25,000 Virology, scientists have demonstrated in their study crore projects to be unveiled or how Indian mosquitoes, when infected with African dedicated to the nation on Saturday, saying it showed strain of the zika virus (ZIKV), can easily transmit the the Government’s commitment to all-round infection to suckling mice. development of the state. TEJAS CARRIES OUT SUCCESSFUL TEST FIRING NIPAH VIRUS OUTBREAK IN KERALA: ALL YOU OF BVR MISSILE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE INFECTION 28 APRIL 2018 : In a major milestone, indigenously 22 MAY 2018 : As the death toll in the developed Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas has virus-induced fever in north Kerala successfully red an air-to-air Beyond Visual Range rises to nine, the National Virology (BVR) missile, demonstrating its overall capability as Institute in Pune has conrmed that an effective combat jet, and inched closer to receive the deceased were infected with Nipah NATIONAL virus (NiV). This is the rst time the virus, which has of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Dr Abdul Kalam high fatality rate and spreads mainly through bats, Island in the Bay of Bengal at 9:48 am, defence sources pigs and other animals, has been detected in the state. said. “The ight performance of the missile was This is big! BrahMos successfully tested for service tracked and monitored by radars, tracking life extension; becomes rst such Indian missile instruments and observation stations all through the mission,” the sources said. BATTLE READY: DHANUSH ARTILLERY GUN CLEARS FINAL TRIALS 22 MAY 2018 : The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with an extended life was for the rst time successfully test red today from the Integrated Test Range at 1040 hours in Balasore in Odisha. The test was conducted as a part of life extension programme from 10 years to 15 years. The test ring of BrahMos supersonic cruise 19 JUNE 2018 : The indigenously upgraded artillery missile was conducted from a static inclined launcher. gun Dhanush has successfully completed nal user BrahMos has become the rst Indian missile whose life trials and is ready for induction into the Army. has been extended from 10 to 15 years. Dhanush is an upgraded version of the Swedish Bofors gun procured by India in the mid-1980s. A total ASEAN lm fest from May 25 in New Delhi of 301 rounds were red from the six guns, including 24 MAY 2018 : Around 32 lms from 11 countries are to burst re. be screened for six days during the ASEAN India Film GOVT. BANS IMPORTS OF HORMONE Festival, which will be inaugurated in Siri Fort OXYTOCIN Auditorium by the minister of Information and broadcasting, Rajyavardhan Rathore on May 25. As a vehicle of Cultural Exchange, the Directorate of Film Festival aims to provide access to new trends in lmmaking by providing the platform for an exchange of ideas, culture and experiences in the eld of cinema. Nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-5 successfully test-red from Odisha 28 JUNE 2018 : The Union government on Friday banned imports of the hormone oxytocin to stop its misuse in the livestock industry, where activists say it causes hormonal imbalances and shortens the lives of milch animals. NOBEL LAUREATE SATYARTHI LAUNCHES APP NAMED REUNITE TO TRACK MISSING KIDS 30 JUNE 2018 : Nobel Peace Prize recipient Kailash Satyarthi, along with union minister Suresh Prabhu, launched a mobile application called 'ReUnite' that 10 JUNE 2018 : India on Sunday successfully test-red tracks missing or abandoned kids. The app will be its indigenously developed nuclear capable Long linked with the Delhi Police's database of missing Range Ballistic Missile Agni-5 with a strike range of children. The app will use Amazon Web Services 5,000 km from Dr Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha based on face recognition technology to match the coast. The surface-to-surface missile was launched photographs of missing children with a database to with the help of a mobile launcher from launch pad-4 give result after face matching. INTERNATIONAL have also decided to construct a new electried rail line, with India’s nancial support. The rail line will connect the border city of Raxaul in India to Kathmandu in Nepal. INDIA AND UK SIGN 10 AGREEMENTS IN SEVERAL SECTORS US DIPLOMAT DICARLO BECOMES 1ST FEMALE UN POLITICAL CHIEF 3 APRIL 2018 : Long-serving American diplomat Rosemary DiCarlo, appointed to become the rst 19 APRIL 2018 : India and the UK have signed 10 woman to head UN political affairs, one of the most agreements in several sectors including cyber- high-prole positions at the world body. DiCarlo will relationship, rejuvenation of Ganga and skill replace Jeffrey Feltman, another American who held development. The Important agreements signed the post of under-secretary-general for political affairs between the two countries are as follows: Overarching since 2012. cyber-relationship framework that among others RUSSIA STARTED BUILDING TURKEY'S FIRST enables the development of a common and shared NUCLEAR POWER PLANT understanding of the international cyber activity, an MoU on the rejuvenation of River Ganga, National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and the UK-based Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), another MoU on Skill Development, Vocational education and Training and seek to promote greater collaboration in domains such as strengthening skill delivery in high demand sectors where the UK has 6 APRIL 2018 : The Turkish Atomic Energy Authority technical and skilling expertise, a Statement of Intent (TAEK) was awarded a construction license for between NITI Aayog and UK’s Department of Akkuyu NPP, Turkey's rst nuclear power plant, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has which is being built in Mersin province, in southern also been signed, inked the deal on cooperation in the Turkey. JSC Akkuyu Nuclear is the Russian-owned eld of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries company which is responsible for the project. The Sectors seeking to strengthen collaboration in USD20 billion project to build the four-unit, 4800 livestock health and husbandry, breeding, dairying, MWe plant is part of Erdogan's '2023 Vision' marking and sheries. Another MoU on Exchange of 100 years since the founding of modern Turkey and is Information for the Purposes of Combating intended to reduce the country's dependence on International Criminality and Tackling Serious energy imports.