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# The Dravidian language family, consisting of 80 varieties
spoken by nearly 220 million people across southern and central India,
originates about 4500 years ago: Research team; This estimate is based on new linguistic analysis by an
international ream, including researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the
Science of Human History in Germany and the Wildlife Institute of India in
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# The government has assured the Supreme Court that Aadhaar is
not a “fly-by-night effort to score some brownie points” and personal data
collected from millions of people is safe from breach in storage facilities
barricaded behind five-feet thick walls
# Public servants and Private employees must be protected from
arbitrary arrests under the SC / ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act: Supreme
Court; BJP and Congress spat on court order
# Continuous protests from AIADMK (on forming Cauvery Management
Board), TDP and YSRCP (on Special Category Status for Andhra and No –
Confidence motion against the Government) stalled the Parliament for 13th day
# Government has opposed a plea to ban the registration of a
political party with the Election Commission if an office – bearer of the party
is a convicted person, barred from contesting elections
# Union Cabinet approved the inclusion of the communities,
namely, 'Parivara and Talawara' as synonym of "Nayaka' at SI. No. 38 in
the list of STs of Karnataka.
# Union Cabinet has approved the opening of 18 new Indian
Missions in Africa over a four year period from 2018-2021.
# Union Cabinet has approved the North East Industrial
Development Scheme (NEIDS), 2017 with financial outlay of Rs.3000 crores upto
March, 2020. Government will provide necessary allocations for remaining period
of scheme after assessment before March 2020. NEIDS is a combination of the
incentives covered under the earlier two schemes with a much larger outlay.
# Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the National
Health Mission – with effect from April 01, 2017 – March 31, 2020 with a
budgetary support of Rs. 85,217 crore as Central Share over this period.
# Union Cabinet has approved the launch of a new Centrally
Sponsored Ayushman Bharat -National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM) having
central sector component under Ayushman Bharat Mission anchored in the MoHFW.
The scheme has the benefit cover of Rs. 5 lakh per family per year. The target
beneficiaries of the proposed scheme will be more than 10 crore families
belonging to poor and vulnerable population based on SECC database. AB-NHPM
will subsume the on-going centrally sponsored schemes –Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
(RSBY) and the Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme (SCHIS)
# Union Cabinet has given its approval for revision of the
Agreement between India and Qatar for the avoidance of double taxation and for
the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
# Union Cabinet has given its approval for closure of India
Development Foundation of Overseas Indians (IDF-OI)to enhance synergies in
channelizing Diaspora's contributions to Government of India's flagship
programmes such as National Mission for clean Ganga and Swachh Bharat Mission.
# Union Cabinet has given its approval for moving official
amendments in the "Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016".
# Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval
for continuation of Centrally Sponsored Scheme of Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan
(RUSA) from 1.04.2017 to 31.03.2020.
# Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval
for Central Sector Scheme "Integrated Scheme for Development of Silk
Industry" for the next three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20.
TAMIL
NADU
# 2 police constables from then Dt doused themselves in kerosene
and attempted suicide; they claimed the harassment by superiors
# The Madras High Court decided to begin hearing from April 05
the arguments on the maintainability of a case filed by the State government to
restrain Japanese automaker Nissan Motor from proceeding with international
arbitration initiated by it against the Republic of India; the dispute was with
respect to alleged non – payment of tax incentives worth more than $770 million
for having established a vehicle manufacturing unit at Oragadam near Chennai
STATES
SCAN
# Jammu & Kashmir: State Cabinet gave its in – principle
approval for adopting the Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme
(RWBCIS) for horticulture crops such as apple and saffron in the State
# Telangana: Chief Minister, Mr. K. Chandrasekhar Rao mandated
teaching Telugu as a compulsory subject in all the public and private schools
of the State from the academic year 2018 – 19
# West Bengal: Government will not allow participants to carry
arms in the Ram navami rallies; following armed rallies during and after Ram
Navami in 2017, violence was reported in parts of the State
BILATERAL
ISSUES
# India handed over the 18th diesel – electric locomotive to
Myanmar and thereby completed the first project under the current Indian Line
of credit (LoC) to Myanmar; these locomotives have been built by Diesel
Locomotive Works, Varanasi
WORLD
# China: has announced that, it is constructing the world’s
fastest hypersonic wind tunnel; the 265 meter – long tunnel would be used to
test hypersonic aircraft that can travel up to a speed of 30, 625 kmph which is
25 times the speed of sound
# Germany: to celebrate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx, (May
05, 2018), traffic lights showing an animated figure of the German communist
philosopher were installed in his hometown Trier.
# Greece: First Space agency of the country called as Hellenic
space Agency was launched
# Israel: admitted for the first time that it was responsible
for a top secret 2007 air raid against a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor
# Myanmar: President Mr. Htin Kyaw resigned due to ill health;
Vice – President to act as interim President till the new President is elected
# Sri Lanka: Opposition parties submitted no – confidence motion
against the Prime Minister, Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe
# UK: Cambridge Analytica (CA), a subsidiary of British firm
SCL, is accused of illegally obtaining Facebook data to target poll campaigns;
FBI summoned Facebook for this allegations; USA and UK government said it is
clearly an alleged misuse of data
- In India the ruling BJP and the opposition party Congress
trade charges over use of data analytics firm; Congress accused the BJP and its
ally JD(U) engaged the services of the firm Ovleno Business Intelligence (an
Indian affiliate of SCL) for several state elections and the 2014 general
elections
ECONOMICS
# ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry research and Education),
Dehradun and TIFAC (Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment
Council), New Delhi signed an MoU for providing livelihood opportunities and
augment income of the forest based communities
# NITI Aayog and Piramal Foundation have signed a Statement of
Intent (SoI) to work closely with the District Collectors and Key Government
officials of “Aspirational Districts” (115 backward districts in the country) to
support their transformation in terms of education, healthcare and nutrition
# Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) started doorstep delivery of
diesel on a pilot basis in Pune and has thus became first company in India to
provide such service after receiving clearance from the Petroleum and
Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO)
SPORTS
# Miami Masters Tennis: India’s Yukhi Bambri entered the main
draw round
# West Indies selected for 2019 ICC World Cup
MISC
# March 22: World Water Day; theme: “Nature for Water”
# Canadian mathematician Robert Langlands has won the Abel Prize
2018 (also called as Nobel Prize for Mathematics) for developing a programme
connecting representation theory to number theory; prize amount: $776, 000
# As per the 20th annual Quality of Living Survey by Mercer,
Vienna (Austria) has been named as the world’s best city to live in for the
ninth consecutive year
- Vienna is followed by Zurich (Switzerland), Auckland (New
Zealand), Munich (Germany) and Vancouver (Canada)
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