Around INDIA
# ISRO will launch GSAT-11 in April / May 2018
- GSAT-11 will be heaviest satellite of India (5.7 tonnes)
# Government will fast-track the revived light transport plane
SARAS towards production and begin the feasibility study for a 70-seater
regional transport aircraft RTA-70
# Centre opposed a PIL petition in the Supreme Court or an
investigation into the alleged Rs.11,500 crore Punjab National Bank(PNB)
banking fraud, saying cases had already been registered and the probe has begun
# Avani Chaturvedi becomes the first Indian woman to fly a
fighter jet
TAMIL NADU
# All Party meet convened under the head of Chief Minister, Mr.
Edappadi K. Palaniswamy to discuss about the Cauvery River Water dispute
judgment
# Actor Kamal Haasan launched his political party "Makkal
Needhi Maiam (People's Justice Centre)" in Madurai
STATES SCAN
# Karnataka: Chief Minister, Mr. Siddaramaiah said that the
government will file a review petition in the Supreme Court about the Cauvery
River Water dispute judgment
# Karnataka: Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi flagged off the
Palace Queen Humsafar Express train at the Mysuru Railway Station; the train
will run from Mysuru to Udaipur (Rajasthan); Karnataka - Maharashtra - Gujarat
- Madhya Pradesh - Rajasthan
# Kerala: Government has made vaccination cards mandatory for
children to obtain first standard admission in schools as per its new health
policy
# Maharashtra: Railway Ministry and Maharashtra Government
signed a MoU to set up a rail coach factory at Latur, Maharashtra
# Telangana: a regional conference of Southern States on Water
Resources was held in Hyderabad
# Uttarakhand: Ministry of Water launched the Gangotri Swachh
Iconic Place project and Swajal, a community owned drinking water programme in
Uttarkashi Dt
# Uttar Pradesh: Uttar Pradesh Investors' Summit 2018 held in
Lucknow
WORLD
# Canada: Court has upheld the right of Quebec's National
Assembly to prohibit the people from entering the building with a kirpan, an
article of faith for the Sikhs
# Germany: mobile banks rolled into German villages as high -
street banks are increasingly being forced to shutter branches, as more and
more customers go online, rural populations shrink and low interest rates eat
into profits
# Syria: at least 310 people have dies and 1400 wounded in the
rebel-held Eastern Ghouta; UN calls for a 30-day ceasefire; Russia denied any
blame fo civilian deaths
# UK: one of Britain's leading centres for research and training
in plant and microbial science has launched a new scholarship for post-graduate
students from developing countries in honour of Janaki Ammal, a botanist who
was among the first women from India to obtain a doctorate in botany; The John
Innes Centre in Norfolk chose to honout Dr. Janaki Ammal for her work at the
institution in 1930s and 1940-1945 and her research towards the Chromosome
Atlas of Cultivated Plants
# USA: NASA scientists are developing a new spacesuit that
includes a waste-disposal system which will allow astronauts to remain in their
spacesuits for up to six days in case of emergencies; The new suits, called the
OCSSS (Orion Crew Survival Systems Suits), will be worn by astronauts on NASA's
Orion spacecraft, which will carry humans beyond low Earth orbit
ECONOMICS
# NITI Aayog is working on a new list of sick and loss making
Public Sector Units (PSUs) that could be privatised
SPORTS
# Virat Kohli becomes the first Indian to cross 900 point (909)
in the ICC ODI player rankings; Virat Kohli is the second batsman after South
Africa's AB de Villiers to cross the 900 point mark in both Tests and ODIs
MISC
# Ankur Mehta, a fourth year undergraduate student in IIT -
Kharagpur was awarded the Best (Oral) Presentation Certificate at the
International Conference on Clean and Green Energy (ICCGE-2018) in Paris
# Bill Graham, the influential Southern preacher who became a
spiritual adviser to several US Presidents passed away
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