# Finance Ministers of Southern States to
meet on April 10 to discuss possible adverse implications of the terms of
reference governing the 15th Finance Commission; Tamil Nadu is yet to decide on
participating the meeting
# Karnataka State Assembly Elections to be
held on May 12, 2018 and the results to be declared on May 15, 2018
- 100% VVPATs will be used along with EVMs
in all the polling stations
- Total Seats: 224 (For SCs – 36; For STs –
15)
# President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind, presented
Gallantry Awards and Distinguished Service Decorations at the Defence
Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan
# Supreme Court upheld the choice of
consenting adults to love and marry as a part of their fundamental rights; the
court said that honour killing guillotines individual liberty, freedom of
choice and one’s own perception of choice
# The Supreme Court appointed Justice Jawad
Rahim, judicial member of the NGT as its acting chairperson
# Opposition parties planning to bring
impeachment procedure against CJI Dipak Misra; to move an impeachment motion in
the Rajya sabha, the petition has to be signed by 50 MPs
# Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched “E –
Tribes India” in New Delhi
# Ministry of Human resources Development
has approved “Study in India” programme to attract foreign students to study in
India
# Ministry of External Affairs launched an
initiative called “Videsh Aaya Pradesh ke Dwaar” in Hyderabad with an aim to
bring the domain of foreign policy closer to the people
# The National Annual Rural Sanitation
Survey (NARSS) 2017-18, conducted by an Independent Verification Agency (IVA)
under the World Bank support project to the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin
(SBM-G), has found that 93.4% of the households in rural India who have access
to a toilet use it.
TAMIL NADU
#
Government has conveyed to the Centre that it would not agree to any mechanism
other than the Cauvery Management Board and the Cauvery Water Regulatory
Committee, as defined in the tribunal final order
BILATERAL ISSUES
# Ministry of Communications has introduced
the Cool EMS service between India and Japan which will allow Indian customers
to import Japanese food items for personal use
- Initially, Cool EMS Service will be
available in Delhi only. Food items will be carried by Japan Post in special
cool boxes containing refrigerant to preserve the quality of the food items and
addressee will collect them from Foreign Post office, Kotla Road, New Delhi
in-person or through a messenger in the prescribed time frame. All other features
like track and trace, etc of Express Mail Service (EMS) will be available for
Cool EMS service as well.
WORLD
# Finland: school deployed robot (named as
Elias) as teachers
# North Korea: Some media said that, Leader
Mr. Kim Jong-un travelled by train to China and met Chinese President, Mr. Xi
Jinping
# Sri Lanka: Navy sunk a ship used by the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the western Seas; the LTTE vessel,
A522 named “We Ling”
# UAE: with the help of Korea Electric
Power Corp (South Korea), has finished construction of its first commercial
nuclear reactor; Unit 1 of the Barakah complex will start loading fuel in May
2018
ECONOMICS
# Complete roadmap on 5G technologies will
be ready by June 2018: Ministry of Telecommunications
SPORTS
#
India’s Manu Bhaker and Anmol bagged the mixed air pistol Gold medal in the
junior world cup shooting held in Sydney ; India now stands first in medals
table with 21 medals (9 Gold + 4 Silver + 8 Bronze)
MISC
# NASA and SpaceX have tied up to search
for exoplanets using NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)
# According to internet speed testing
analysis firm Ookla, India ranked 67th position in fixed broadband and 109th
position for mobile internet speeds in Feb 2018; Singapore, Iceland and Hong Kong
tops in fixed broadband speed while in mobile internet speed, Norway, Iceland
and Netherlands tops the list [Click for more Details]
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