Around INDIA
# Founding Conference of International
Solar Alliance (ISA) was held in New Delhi
- The conference was co-hosted by President
of India, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind and the visiting French President, Mr. Emmanuel
Macron
- India committed $1.4 billion for solar
energy worldwide (27 projects in 15 countries)
- India presented a 10-point action plan
aimed at making solar power more affordable
- The conference was attended by 23 Heads
of State, 10 Ministerial representatives of different countries, head of UN
agencies, Presidents of multilateral development banks, etc
- India’s target is to produce 100 GW of
solar energy by 2022 [India to produce 175 GW of electricity from renewable
sources by 2022, of which 100 GW are from solar]
{What is International Solar Alliance?}
{What is International Solar Alliance?}
# National Legislators Conference 2018 was
held in New Delhi with the theme "We
For Development"; Vice Presdient, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu asked both the Union
and State Governments to increase the number of sittings of Parliament and
State Assembly
# Commerce Minister, Mr. Suresh Prabhu gets
additional portfolio of Civil Aviation Minister too
# 1700 MLAs and MPs has 3045 criminal
cases: Centre in Supreme Court; Uttar Pradesh leads with 248 followed by Tamil
Nadu, Bihar and West Bengal
# West Bengal has become the best
performing state both in terms of allotting jobs and utilizing funds under
MGNREGA (2017-18); bottom three states are Goa, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (All
the three are ruled by BJP governments)
Top 3 states in MGNREGA
Performance (2017-18)
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State
|
Work Days (Cr.)
|
Fund Spent
(Cr.)
|
West Bengal
|
28.21
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7, 335.31
|
Tamil Nadu
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22.17
|
5, 981.75
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Andhra Pradesh
|
18.16
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5, 054.17
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TAMIL NADU
# Major forest fire in Kolukkumalai (கொழுக்குமலை) area
close in Kurangini (குரங்கணி) in Theni District; 9 treckers found dead
# Low pressure area that lay over the
equatorial Indian Ocean and adjoining South West Bay of Bengal likely to bring
rain in South Tamil Nadu; if it developed as cyclone, the name of the cyclone
will be “Sagar”
STATES SCAN
# Gujarat: India’s first national coastal
police academy to come up in Devbhumi Dwarka Dt of Gujarat by April 2018; Officially called as NACP (National Academy
of Coastal Policing)
# Karnataka: Banaswadi railway station in
the State became the first all-woman railway station in South Western Railway
Zone and the fifth station in India to attain the all-woman crew
# Karnataka: 14th Annual National
conference on electoral and political reforms was held at IIM – Bangalore
# Madhya Pradesh: Government announced the
"Mukhyamantri Mahila Kosh" scheme that will offer pension to
unmarried women above 50 years of age
# Maharashtra: India's biggest media and
entertainment services market - enTTEch 2018 was inaugurated in Mumbai
# Maharashtra: farmers march from Nashik to
Mumbai in demanding the complete farm loan waiver
# Sikkim: gets the air connectivity
(passenger) for the first time; a SpiceJet airline from Kolkatta landed at the
Pakyong airport (32 kms from Gangtok) in Sikkim
# Telangana: Government launched Women
Entrepreneurship Hub (WE-Hub) in Hyderabad; WE-Hub is India's first state-led
incubator exclusively for women entrepreneurs
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India's BSF (Borer Security Force) and
BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) declared an 8.3 km stretch of the Indo-Bangladesh
border as a "crime-free zone"
# President Mr. Ram Nath Kovind to visit
Mauritius and Madagascar.
# The first ever Indo-French Knowledge
Summit ended successfully with a
landmark agreement on mutual recognition of educational qualifications between
the two countries and a record 15 other MoUs between universities and research
institutions on joint initiatives and partnerships. The two-day summit was held
in New Delhi and coincided with the state visit of French PresidentMr. Emmanuel
Macron to India.
WORLD
# 11 Pacific Rim countries signed the
Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP)
in Chile
- The 11 countries are: Australia, Brunei,
Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and
Vietnam
- The agreement is broadly aimed at
lowering both non - tariff and tariff barriers to trade among signatory
countries
# Bangladesh: to observe a one-minute “blackout”
on March 25 5to mark “Genocide Day” in memory of the 3 million people killed by
Pakistani forces during the Country’s liberation war in 1971
# China: NPC (national People's of
Congress) of China cleared an amendment to its Constitution that will strike
out a clause restricting the term of President to two five-year terms
# Iran and Serbia resumed direct flights
after a gap of 27 years
# Poland: Shopping is banned on the first
and last Sunday of the month
ECONOMICS
# Indian Renewable Energy Development
Agency (IREDA) and European Investment Bank (EIB) inked a 150 million Euros
loan agreement for a second Line of Credit (LoC)
# ELECRAMA-2018, the Indian Electrical and
Electronics Manufacturing Association’s flagship event showcasing the
electricity industry’s ecosystem was held in Noida, Uttar Pradesh
SPORTS
# Australia won the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
2018 title by defeating England in the finals; Argentina - 3rd; Malaysia - 4th;
India - 5th
# India’s Akhil Sheoran won Gold in Men’s
50m air rifle 3 position in World Cup shooting; this is India’s 4th Gold in the
tournament
# Matt Wallace became the first Englishmen
to win India Open (Golf)
# Hyderabad’s Anindith Reddy was crowned “motorsport
person of the year 2017”
MISC
# India won the "Best Exhibitor
Award" at 2018 ITB - Berlin (Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin)
- ITB-Berlin is the world's largest tourism
trade fair which takes place annually in March at Berlin, Germany
# Renowned actor Amol Palekar was honoured
with the "Godavari Gaurav" award
# A new species of Himalayan moth named
"Eucyclodes gavissima" has been discovered in Papikonda National
Park, Andhra Pradesh
# 3 Indians posted to three mission in US
(*Washington, Chicago and New York) to promote “Indian culture” as part of
diplomacy; they are designated as “Yoga and Indian Culture Acharya”
- They are experts in Sanskrit, Yoga and Hindu
scriptures
- Selected by ICCR
- Have diplomatic passports and offices in Indian
missions
- They are:
(1) Dayashanakr Vidyalankar – New York
(2) Prerna Arya – Chicago
(3) Mokshraj – Washington D.C.
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