[CA] Daily News [Feb 28, 2018]

Around INDIA

# Ministry of External Affairs to set up "India Corners" at educational institutions abroad, which will provide authentic reference material for students who wish to know more about India

# ISRO has started work on building igloos (referred to as lunar habitats) on the Moon

# CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography (Goa) has announced the discovery of methane gas flares and active cold seeps from the seabed in the Krishna Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal

# Ministry of Railways to install sanitary napkins dispensers at about 200 major railway stations across the country by International Women’s Day (March 08)

TAMIL NADU

# Union Defence Ministry started on the work of "Tamil Nadu Defence Quad"; In the Union Budget 2018-19,it was announced that two Defence Production Corridors will be set up, in that one will be in Tamil Nadu; The corridor, which is organized as a quadrilateral will extend from Chennai, Hosur, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruchirappalli. It is therefore rightly called the Tamil Nadu Defence Quad

STATES SCAN

# Meghalaya: 67% of votes polled (in 2008 elections it was 88.99%)

# Nagaland: 75% of votes polled (in 2008 elections it was 86.91%)

# Odisha: Chilka Lake in the State has become the single largest habitat of Irrawaddy dolphins in the world

# Rajasthan: Union Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ms. Uma Bharati launched the Swajal pilot project at Bhikampura village in Rajasthan

# Telangana: Chief Minister, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao announced Rs. 5 lakh health-cum-life insurance scheme for farmers in the State

BILATERAL ISSUES

# 2nd India - Korea Business Summit was held in New Delhi with the theme "India - Korea: Scaling up the Special Strategic relationship through Trade and Investments"

WORLD

# Maldives: has declined an invitation to join the MILAN series of multilateral exercises to be hosted by the Indian Navy

SPORTS

# New Delhi Marathon title 2018: Gopi Thonakal and Monika Athare retained their New Delhi marathon titles

# Karnataka defeated Sauashtra to win the 2018 Vijay Hazare trophy

# 66th National Volleyball Championship 2018: Men’s and women’s final b/w Kerala and Railways

MISC

# Feb 28: National Science Day; theme: "Science and Technology for Sustainable Future"

- National Science Day is celebrated on Feb 28 to commemorate discovery of the "Raman Effect", which led to Sir. C. V. Raman winning the Nobel Prize

# Mountaineer Samina Baig was appointed as the National Goodwill Ambassador for Pakistan by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)

- Samina Baig is the first Pakistani woman who had climbed Mt. Everest

# Facebook has removed the page of Myanmarese monk Wirathu for his incendiary posts about Muslims

- Monk Wirathu, a prominent face of Myanmar’s Buddhist ultra-nationalist movement