Around INDIA
# Re – test of CBSE to be held on April 25
# Kerala and Mizoram top the list of States
with 100% of households which do not practice open defecation, while Uttar
Pradesh and Bihar ate at the bottom of the rankings with less than 44% of such
households: The Hindu’s analysis of
the raw data generated by a government-commissioned survey
# Home Ministry has asked State Governments
to capture the biographic and biometric particulars of illegal immigrants and
restrict them to specified locations
TAMIL NADU
#
Ruling AIADMK to stage fast across State on April 03 as Centre not constituted
the Cauvery management board; Opposition Party DMK to hold black flag protest
against Prime Minister’s visit to the State
STATES SCAN
# Assam: Government launched “181-Sakhi”, a
toll – free helpline for women
# Assam: One-horned rhinoceros population
in the Kaziranga National park increased to 2413 (in 2015 it was 2401)
# Madhya Pradesh: Got GI (Geographical
Indication) tag for Kadaknath, a chicken
breed whose black meat is in demand in certain regions of the State; Chhattisgarh
too sought GI tag for the same chicken breed
# Madhya Pradesh: Government increased the
retirement age of government employees from 60 to 62 years
# Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister, Mr. Yogi
Adityanath inaugurated Hindon Elevated Road – India’s longest elevated road in
Ghaziabad; it is a six-lane road of 10.3 km long
# West Bengal: Government has announced a
monthly pension of Rs. 2, 500 for journalists who are past 60 years of age and
have worked in any media organization for a period of more than 10 years in
case of accredited journalists, and 15 years for non – accredited journalists
BILATERAL ISSUES
# US State (New Jersey) Assembly declared
April as “Sikh Awareness and Appreciation Month”
# India received its first shipment of LNG
(Liquefied Natural Gas) from US under a 20-year deal; The ship M.V. Meridian
Spirit carrying LNG from Louisiana to Dabhol terminal (Maharashtra); GAIL has
contracted 3.5 million tonnes per annum of LNG from US
# Prime Minister, M. Narendra Modi
addressed the Silver Jubilee Celebrations of the Shree Kutchi Leva Patel Samaj
in Nairobi, Kenya via video conferencing
WORLD
# China: Successfully launched a Long March
3B rocket carrying two Beidou – 3 MEO satellites
# Egypt: Mr. Abdel Fattah al – Sisi got
re-elected as President for second term
# Myanmar: New President, Mr. Win Myint
promised to amend the Country’s army – written Constitution
# USA: President Mr. Donald Trump insisted
that U. S. forces would pull out of Syria “very soon”
SPORTS
#
Santosh trophy 2018 finals between Kerala and West Bengal
MISC
# “Indian Express 100
2018”: the newspaper listed the list of most powerful Indians; Prime Minister,
Mr. Narendra Modi topped the list [Click for More Details]
# NASA to send ‘InSight”, the first – ever
mission dedicated to exploring the deep interior of Mars; InSight: Interior
Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport
# Google Doodle celebrated 153rd birth
anniversary of Anandi Gopal Joshi (Born a Yamuna in Mahrashtra), India’s first
female doctor; in the doodle, she is seen holding a degree and wearing a
stethoscope around her neck
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