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Legend Magazine (April - 2018) Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue : 11 | Page : 56 | Topic : Legend of April | Price : Not for Sale CURRENT AFFAIRS CONTENT APRIL : The Indian Space Research (PMUY) scheme in Delhi and distributed new Organisation has lost contact with the GSAT-6A LPG connections and cylinders to beneficiaries. NATIONAL in less than 48 hours after it has been launched. The target of Ujjwala connections has been Foundation stone laid for SJVNL hydro GSAT-6A, is a high power communication increased from the existing target of 5 crore to 8 project: satellite which aimed to have a mission life of crore by 2020. Union Power Minister R.K. Singh and about 10 years. The PMUY was launched at Yamuna Sports Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivender Singh Rawat It aimed to provide mobile Complex in New Delhi. laid the foundation stone of public sector communication for India with multi-band This Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana has company SJVNL's Naitwar Mori Hydro Electric coverage facility. transformed the lives of more than 3.5 crore Project. ISRO chairman: Sivan women. The 60 MW project is located on the river Headquarters: Bengaluru Tamil Nadu Government Launches Tons – a tributary of the Yamuna, in Uttarkashi India Rankings 2018 for Higher Educational 'Uzhavan' Mobile App district of Uttarakhand. Institutions: The estimated project cost as at October Human Resources Minister Prakash Patna Tops In 4G Connectivity Among 20 2016 is Rs. 648.33 crore. Javadekar has released India Rankings 2018 for Largest Cities Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd's (SJVNL) Higher Educational Institutions under the Patna tops in 4G connectivity among 20 of Chairman and Managing Director: Nand Lal National Institutional Ranking Framework, India’s largest cities. It has emerged ahead of the Sharma NIRF. likes of Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi. The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Four cities from India’s central and eastern E-way bill for inter-state movement of goods Bengaluru was adjudged the overall best regions—Patna, Kanpur, Allahabad, Kolkata, rolled out: institution in the country. Bhopal and Lucknow—made it to the top 10. The Nationwide electronic or e-way bill AIIMS New Delhi, PGIMER Chandigarh The report was given by OpenSignal and it system for inter-state movement of goods has and CMC Vellore were ranked as the top three was measured in terms of 4G availability metric been started. medical colleges. which indicates where users can access LTE Karnataka is the only State which has Indian Institute of Technology, Madras network more of the time. implemented the e-way bill system for moving - The best engineering college goods within the State. The State has been using Indian Institute of Management, India to host the IEF-16 the e-way bill platform since September last year Ahmedabad- The best management institution The 16th International Energy Forum for intra-state movement of goods. Delhi University’s Miranda House- The Ministerial meeting will be hosted by The transporters have to produce a e-way best college in the country Government of India in New Delhi and co- bill for moving goods worth over Rs 50,000 from National Law School of India University hosted by the Government of China and South one State to another. Bengaluru- The best law school in the country. Korea. The system has been designed and India is the world’s third-largest energy developed by National Informatics Centre Government launches digital platforms for consumer after the US and China. (NIC). ease of farm export: Global energy organisations, including the In line with the Digital India Initiative, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting NHAI Awarded Projects Worth Rs 1.22 lakh the government has developed three online Countries, International Energy Agency, will crore in FY18 portals to make it easier to export farm products also be represented at the meet. The National Highways Authority of from India and reduce transaction costs. IEF 16 aims to focus on how global shifts, India (NHAI) said it has awarded projects worth The digital platforms, developed by the transition policies and new technologies influence Rs 1,22,000 crore for constructing about 7,400 Export Inspection Council, have integrated the market stability and future investment in the km of highways in the fiscal 2017-18. entire export food chain by linking primary energy sector. India had last hosted the IEF In Financial Year 2017-18, NHAI has production, chain catch, aquaculture pond, dairy ministerial conference in 1996. awarded 150 road projects of 7,400-kilometre farms and apiaries. worth Rs 1,22,000 crore. It aims for credible inspection and VP Venkaiah Naidu to inaugurate scientific In last 5 years, the average length of road certification and to strengthen the confidence on convention on World Homoeopathy Day projects awarded by NHAI was 2,860 Km with Indian produce. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu 4,335 Km awarded in the last financial year. inaugurates a scientific convention on the World NHAI Dharmendra Pradhan launches PMUY Homoeopathy Day in New Delhi. Headquarters: New Delhi scheme in Delhi The day, April 10 is observed to Chairman: Deepak Kumar Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan commemorate the birth anniversary of launched Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Homoeopathy founder Dr Christian Friedrich ISRO loses contact with GSAT-6A Chennai | Puducherry | Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Erode | Namakkal | Tanjore| Tirunelveli | Trivandrum | Ernakulam| Bengaluru | Chandigarh |Legend Magazine | April - 2018| 2 Samuel Hahnemann. This year is his 263rd prestigious World Expo 2020 held once in 5 The memorial has been built at a cost of Rs birth anniversary. years. 100 crores and is spread over nearly 2 acres. The theme of the two-day convention is The contract was signed by Manoj K. Musical fountains, a replica of the Ashoka Innovate: Evolve, Progress: Exploring Dwivedi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, pillar at Sarnath and a 12 foot high bronze statue Science since 40 years. GOI and Najeeb Mohammed Al Ali, Executive are some of the highlights of this complex. Director, Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau. Dr BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary is Army inks pact for procurement of 1.86 lakh India has already designated Binoy Kumar, celebrated on April 14 as Ambedkar Jayanti. bulletproof jackets Special Secretary in the Department of A major contract for the procurement of Commerce, as Director General of World Expo Government sets up committee to review 1.86 lakh bulletproof jackets has been signed 2020 Dubai. the enforcement of CSR provisions: after the successful conduct of field evaluation The contract provides for the setting up of The government has set up a 12-member trials. India’s pavilion at Expo 2020 on an extra-large panel to review the enforcement of CSR The bulletproof jackets have contemporary plot of about one acre in the ‘Opportunity’ provisions under the companies law, 2013. and state-of-the-art specifications with added segment. The 12-member panel is headed by Regional protection level and coverage area. Director (Western Region) Manmohan Juneja. The new BPJs will provide 360-degree Cabinet approves agreement between India Four years after, the Corporate Social protection to the soldier in combat, & ISA: Responsibility (CSR) norms came into force on including from latest hard steel core bullets. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister April 1, 2014. Defence Ministry Narendra Modi gave its ex-post facto approval for The panel would revisit the guidelines for Cabinet Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman entering into Headquarters (Host country) enforcement of CSR provisions and basis, Constituency: Rajya Sabha, Karnataka Agreement between India and the including structure of Centralised Scrutiny and International Solar Alliance (ISA) and Prosecution Mechanism (CSPM). NITI Forum for North East holds first authorising the Ministry of External Affairs for meeting: signing the Headquarters Agreement. DefExpo 2018: Boeing signs deal with HAL The first meeting of newly constituted NITI The Headquarters Agreement will Boeing India has signed an agreement Forum for North East was held in Agartala. institutionalise the functional arrangements with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), and It is to discuss ways to boost development between India and ISA. It will help in smooth Mahindra Defence Systems (MDS) at the projects in the states. transition of ISA as international inter- Defence Expo 2018 to manufacture Super Hornet The meeting was chaired by Rajeev governmental organisation. fighter aircraft in India. Kumar, the Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog and the The creation of ISA will lead to accelerated The companies will manufacture F/A-18 co-Minister of State (Independent Charge), solar technology development and deployment in Super Hornet for India’s armed forces. Minister of State for Development of North ISA member countries including India. The Super Hornet Make-in-India proposal is Eastern Region (DoNER), Jitendra Singh. to build an entirely new and state-of-the-art As a part of it, Pakyong Airport has been ISRO successfully launches IRNSS-1I production facility that can be utilised for other opened in Sikkim and it is planning to start navigation satellite: programmes like India’s Advance Medium Rajdhani Express trains to New Delhi. The Indian Space Research Organisation Combat Aircraft (AMCA) programme. (Isro) has successfully launched the IRNSS-1I The memorandum was signed by Boeing navigation satellite aboard the PSLV-C41. India president Pratyush Kumar, HAL Chairman Eighth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and Pacific The rocket was launched from First Launch and MD T. Suvarna Raju, and MDS chairman S.P. was held in Indore: Pad (FLP) of SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota. Shukla. The Eighth Regional 3R Forum in Asia The navigation satellite IRNSS-1I is part of and the Pacific was held in Indore, Madhya Indian satellite navigation system ‘Navigation FSSAI Launches Initiative 'Project Dhoop' Pradesh.