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Preface Dear readers, we have started edristi English edition as well since August, 2015. We are hopeful that it will help us to connect to the broader audience and amplify our personal bonding with each other. While presenting Day-to-day current affairs, we are very cautious on choosing the right topics to make sure only those get the place which are useful for competitive exams perspective, not to increase unnecessary burden on the readers by putting useless materials. Secondly, we have also provided the reference links to ensure its credibility which is our foremost priority. You can always refer the links to validate its authenticity. We will try to present the current affairs topics as quickly as possible but its authenticity is given higher priority over its turnaround time. Therefore it could happen that we publish the incident one or two days later in the website. Our plan will be to publish our monthly PDF on very first day of every month with making appropriate modifications of day-to-day events. In general, the events happened till 28th day will be given place in the PDFs. The necessity of this is to ensure the contents factual authenticity. Reader’s satisfaction is our utmost priority so requesting you to provide your valuable feedback to us. We will warmly welcome your appreciation/criticism given to us. It will surely show us the right direction to improve the content quality. Hopefully the current affairs PDF (from 1st March to 31st March) will benefit our beloved readers. Current affairs data will be useless if it couldn’t originate any competitive exam questions. E-Dristi has been very successful in that direction. Almost all the questions from UPPCS and other examinations have been asked from our materials. You can verify that by matching the question papers and e-Dristi contents from yourselves. 1 http://www.edristi.in/ Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................................. 1 NATIONAL .......................................................................................................................................................... 11 National Conference on Down Syndrome ................................................................................................... 11 Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya assembly elections results .................................................................. 11 Cambridge Analytica: Facebook User Data Leak Scandal ........................................................................... 12 Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2018 ............................................................................................. 14 SATH-Education Roadmaps 2018-2020 ....................................................................................................... 15 International Yoga Fest ................................................................................................................................. 16 Krishi Unnati Mela-2018 ............................................................................................................................... 17 Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2018 ....................................................................................................... 17 105th Indian Science Congress ..................................................................................................................... 19 17th Annual Conference of International Competition Network 2018 (ICN2018) ................................... 19 National Financial Reporting Authority ....................................................................................................... 20 Mary Kom Regional Boxing Foundation ...................................................................................................... 21 International Police Conference on Cybercrime & Terrorism .................................................................... 21 Daman and Diu Municipalities (Amendment) Regulation, 2018; Dadra and Nagar Haveli Municipal Council (Amendment) Regulation, 2018; and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Municipal) Amendment Regulation 2018............................................................................................................................................. 22 National Legislators Conference-2018 ......................................................................................................... 23 Cabinet approval to the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2018 ....................................... 23 Approval of the proposal for the constitution of Mahanadi Water Dispute Tribunal ............................. 25 INTERNATIONAL ................................................................................................................................................ 26 International Day of Forests ......................................................................................................................... 26 World Happiness Report-2018 ..................................................................................................................... 26 Global Digital Health Partnership Summit ................................................................................................... 27 ECONOMICS ....................................................................................................................................................... 28 Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) .................................................................................. 28 Home Delivery of Diesel by IOC.................................................................................................................... 29 ‘InstaOD’ ........................................................................................................................................................ 29 Increase in Government guarantee for procurements of pulses and oilseeds by NAFED ....................... 30 Cabinet approval to continuation of ongoing urea subsidy scheme ......................................................... 31 US declares import duty on Steel and Aluminum ....................................................................................... 31 Approval of Airtel-Telenor Merger .............................................................................................................. 32 Cabinet approval for the recommendations of Inter-Ministerial group on the Stressed assets............. 32 2 http://www.edristi.in/ Forbes list of billionaires, 2018 .................................................................................................................... 33 Second Advance Estimates of National Income, 2017-18 .......................................................................... 34 2nd Advance Estimates of production of major crops for 2017-18 .......................................................... 36 Estimate of Fitch in relation Fiscal Deficit ................................................................................................... 37 Appointment of Lokpal for Non-Banking Financial Companies ................................................................. 38 SCIENTIFIC .......................................................................................................................................................... 39 DEFENSE/SCIENCE SHORT NOTES .................................................................................................................... 39 Supply of 2nd AOPV to Sri Lankan Navy ...................................................................................................... 39 Interceptor Boat C-437 ................................................................................................................................. 39 Successful test of BrahMos ........................................................................................................................... 40 Successful testing of the Rustom-2 drone ................................................................................................... 40 Massive Asteroid ........................................................................................................................................... 41 World’s smallest satellite-carrying rocket ................................................................................................... 41 Successful test of anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) ‘Nag’ .......................................................................... 42 Launching of Viral Load test for People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) ...................................................... 42 SPORTS ............................................................................................................................................................... 43 TENNIS ................................................................................................................................................................ 43 BNP Paribas Open 2018 ................................................................................................................................ 43 New York Open-2018 .................................................................................................................................... 43 Qatar Total open-2018 .................................................................................................................................