[CA] Daily News [May 06, 2018]

 Around INDIA

# Dakota DC-3 VP 905 aircraft joined the Indian Air Force again, in an induction ceremony at Hindan air force station, Uttar Pradesh, over four decades after the aircraft fleet was phased out; the restored Dakota has been renamed as “Parashuram”

# Ministry of Railways has announced Awards for beautification of Station premises across the country

Prize	Railway Station	Railway Zone	Prize
I	Balharshah	Central	Rs. 10 lakh
	Chandrapur
II	Madhubhani	East Central	Rs. 5 lakh
	Madurai	Southern
III	Kota	West Central	Rs. 3 lakh
	Gandhidham	Western
	Secunderabad	South Central

# An exhibition called “India and the World: A History in Nine Stories” was inaugurated at the National Museum Auditorium, New Delhi

TAMIL NADU

 # President, Mr. Ram Nath Kovind graced and addressed the 160th convocation of the University of Madras

- Tamil Nadu has a proud culture of research and innovation – whether in the pure sciences ot in medicine – and of engineering and manufacturing; Tamil Nadu has a well-regarded IT sector and a growing digital economy; these are complemented by excellence in the humanities; it is no surprise that the Tamil languages is aomnr the most ancient in the world. Centuries before many others, it was exploring the literature and philosophy of learning

# A total of 1, 56, 170 government school students at 474 centres across the Thiruvanamalai District simultaneously read Tamil magazines and created a new world record; the aim was to encourage students to read Tamil magazines and help them identify each words and their correct pronunciation

ECONOMICS

# Government’s policy think-tank NITI Aayog and a world’s leading information technology company IBM has signed a SoI (Statement of Intent) to introduced technology to provide perspective to farmers to improve the productivity of crops, soil yields, improving the farmers incomes

# As per Harvard University, India tops the list of fastest growing economies for coming decade

Fastest growing economies for coming decade: Harvard University
Top fastest growing	Fast growth prospects	Low growth prospects
1) India 2) Uganda 3) Tanzania	1) The Philippines 2) Vietnam 3) Indonesia	1) Bangladesh 2) Venezuela 3) Angola

 # At the 51st annual meeting held in Manila, ADB (Asian Development Bank) projected India’s growth at 7.3% in 2018 and 7.6% in 2019 (in 2017 ADB’s prediction for India was 6.6%)

SPORTS

 # India’s Neeraj Chopra finished fourth in the IAAF Diamond League at the Qatar Sport Club in Doha

MISC

# First organized census of Indus Dolphins held in Punjab

- Indus Dolphin is one of the world’s rarest mammals found only in India and Pakistan

The first organized census on Indus dolphins are conducted by the Punjab Government along with WWF - India

# Kerala’s M. T. Vasudevan Nair has bagged this year’s annual ONV Literary Prize for his contributions to Malayalam literature

- Anuja Akathoot’s poetry collection “Amma Urangunnilla” has been selected for the young writer award

# NASA launched InSIGHT spacecraft aboard on Atlas V rocket to study “Marsquakes” from Vandenberg Air base, in California, USA

- It is expected to settle on Mars on Nov 26, 2018

- InSIGHT: Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigation, Geodesy and Heat Transport

# Scientists said that Tapanuli Orangutan (in Indonesia) the rarest ape species on Earth is on the verge of extinction

# Book “A century is Not enough” by Sourav Ganguly and Gautam Bhattacharya