# President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, will
inaugurate a Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FINE) and present
Gandhian Young Technological Innovation awards instituted by Society for
Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI]
at Rashtrapati Bhavan
# Vice President, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu
inaugurated D.K. Pattammal’s Centenary Celebrations in Chennai
# Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi,
visited the Krishi Unnati Mela 2018 held in New Delhi
- Prime Minister also laid the Foundation
Stone for 25 Krishi Vigyan Kendras.
- He also launched an e-marketing portal
for organic products.
- He gave away the Krishi Karman Awards and
the Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Krishi Protsahan Puraskar.
# NITI Aayog released comprehensive
roadmaps and detailed timelines for "Sustainable Action for Transforming
Human Capital in Education (SATH-E)" project
- Forward looking blueprints were released
by CEO of NITI Aayog (Amitabh Kant) and the Chief Secretaries of the three
participating States (Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Odisha)
- The roadmaps contained information about
detailed interventions which will be made in the three states between 2018 to
2020 with an aim to become ‘Role Model States’ in school education.
- The interventions in the form of
action-oriented programmes will be carried out at the individual, district and
State level.
- These roadmaps have been jointly prepared
by NITI Aayog, the three States and the knowledge partners of the SATH
Initiatives, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Piramal Foundation For Education
Leadership (PFEL).
# Union Minister for Water Resources, River
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Mr. Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the 5th ‘Nadi
Mahotsava’ at Bandrabhan in Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh
- ‘Nadi Mahotsava’ was started by late
Union Minister Anil Madhav Dave. He urged people to cooperate in preserving of
water
# With an objective to secure a better
future for the Kashmiri youth, Indian Army under the aegis of China Corps has
signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Limited (HPCL) and National Integrity and Educational Development Organisation
(NIEDO)
# Draft policy of National Forest Policy
2018 was released
# Death toll in Then Dt forest fire
increased to 17
STATES SCAN
# Arunachal Pradesh: becomes fourth state
in India to pass a bill on giving death penalty for raping minor girls (First was Madhya Pradesh, followed by
Rajasthan and Haryana)
# Bihar: Deputy Chief Minister Mr. Sushil
Kumar Modi inaugurated the first ‘Startup hub’ of Bihar in Patna
# Kerala: renowned Malayalam writer, M.
Sukumaran passed away
# Kerala: to declare Jackfruit as “State
Fruit”
# Meghalaya: Governor Mr. Ganga Prasad addressed
the Governor Address in Hindi created controversy in the State
BILATERAL ISSUES
# Russia continues to be the largest arms supplier
to India as per report produced by Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute (SIPRI)
- Russia remains India’s biggest arms
seller so far. But its share of total imports has decreased.
- Second biggest supplier is United States
followed by Israel and France
- India is the world’s biggest importer of
major arms amounting to 12 per cent of the total global imports in the last
five years
WORLD
# Qatar has announced a $50 million donation
to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
# Russia: Presidential Election 2018 today
# Russia: expelled 23 UK diplomats
# Sierra Leone: becomes first country to
run a blockchain-powered election
- Sierra Leone, a West African country has
become the first country in the world to deploy blockchain technology in
election process.
- The blockchain based solution used in
Sierra Leone’s election was developed by a Switzerland based voting technology
company, Agora
# United Nations Committee for Development
Policy (CDP) has announced that Bhutan along with Kiribati, Sao Tome and
Principe and Solomon Islands will be recommended for graduation from the least
developed country (LDC) category
ECONOMICS
# India could end up with huge mass
unemployment if it does not grow its manufacturing sector: Paul Krugman (2008
Economics Noble Prize winner)
# ISL 2017-18 final: Chennaiyin FC won the
title by defeating Bengaluru FC in the finals held in Bengaluru; it is the second title for Chennayin FC team
# FIFA lifted its three-decade ban on Iraq
hosting international football matches, allowing Arbil, Basra and Karbala
cities to host official matches.
# KL Rahul has been named the ‘Cricketer of
the Year’ in the 6th edition of Wisden India Almanack that has been released
recently
MISC
# CISF (Central Industrial Security Force)
has introduced ‘Lost and Found’, a mobile app using which travelers can lodge
complaints to recover items they lost or forgot at airports.
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