Around INDIA
# Chandra Bhushan Kumar was appointed as
Deputy Election Commissioner
# ISRO lost communication with the newly
launched satellite GSAT – 6A
# 12 militants killed in multiple
operations in South Kashmir
# CBSE question paper leak: 3 arrested in
Delhi
# The price of petrol rose to a four – year
high of Rs. 73.73 a litre and that of diesel hit the highest ever at Rs. 64.58
TAMIL NADU
#
Tamil Nadu filed a contempt petition against Centre as it not formed the
Cauvery Management Board; meanwhile Centre asked the Supreme Court three months
time for forming the Management Board
# Opposition leaders led by Mr. M. K.
Stalin decided to organize a dawn-to-dusk bandh on April 05 condemning the
central and State Governments for failing to get the Cauvery Management Board
(CMB) constituted as per the Supreme Court order
- Meanwhile, Tamizhaga Vazvurimai Katchi
workers vandalized the toll plaza near Ulunderpet for not constituting the CMB;
this incident got good response from youths in Facebook and WhatsApp
# Veteran film Director, C. V. Rajendran
passed away
# Tamil Nadu has scored well in terms of
attracting Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) investments during the
first quarter of 2018; the value of investment has increased by 39%
STATES SCAN
# Andhra Pradesh: Chief Minister, Mr. N.
Chandrabbau Naidu inaugurated the International Yatching Festival in
Visakhapatnam
# Delhi: Started supplying Ultra – clean
Euro – VI or Bharat State (BS) – VI grade petrol and diesel without any
additional cost in order to curb air pollution; becomes the first city in India
to switch from Euro – IV grade petrol and diesel to Euro – VI grade petrol and
diesel
# Kerala: Asia’s largest startup ecosystem
congregation (“Huddle Kerala”) will be held at Kovalam on April 06-07, 2018
# Odisha: Odisha Formation day or Utkal Dibasa
or Utkal Divas was celebrated on April 01
- Utkal Divas is celebrated on April 01
every year to mark the formation of Odisha as a separate province on April 01,
1936. Odisha separated from the combined Bengal – Bihar – Orissa province on
that day
# Tripura: Government has decided to set up
a well –equipped crime wing under the state police to prevent unlawful
activities such as drug and narcotics peddling
BILATERAL ISSUES
# India and Pakistan have agreed to resolve
all issues regarding treatment of their diplomats placed in the other country
through talks
# The coast guard of India and South Korea
to hold joint exercise (SAHYOG – HYEOBYEOG 2018) in Chennai
# Indian troops deployed along the disputed
Sino – India border in the Himalayan range of the Arunachal Pradesh sector have increased their patrolling at a tri –
junction of India, China and Myanmar (Walong) to prevent a repeat of a Doklam –
like standoff
WORLD
# China: Space mission (Tiangong-1; in
English called as “Heavenly Space”) to strike the Earth
# Israel: rejected the call for inquiry
into Gaza violence where 15 Palestinians have been killed by Israel soldiers
# Nepal: For the first time, Nepal Rastra
Bank (Nepal’s Central Bank) has permitted domestic commercial banks to borrow
funds from foreign banks and financial institutions
# Pakistan: Successfully test fired
indigenously developed submarine launch cruise missile BABUR
# Russia: Successfully testes its latest
ICBM (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile) named “Sarmat”; it will replace the
Soviet-era Voyevoda, which is known as “Satan”
# USA: SpaceX has confirmed successful
deployment of all 10 communications satellites to low – Earth orbit after their
launch aboard a Falcon 9 rocket
# USA: US and South Korea kicked off the
annual military exercise named “FOAL EAGLE DRILL”
ECONOMICS
# Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched voicebot
“Keya”, the first artificial intelligence – powered voicebot in Indian Banking
Sector
# E- way bill for inter – state movement of
goods has been implemented from April 01, 2018
# CVC has urged the Prime Minister’s Office
to bring private sector banks under its watch, citing the fact that they have
been involved in many recent instances of malfeasance
# India has become the second largest
mobile phone producer in the world after China: India Cellular Association
# Biggest recipient of loans to small and
micro enterprises under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY)
(1) Tamil Nadu
(2) Karnataka
(3) Maharashtra
(4) Uttar Pradesh
(5) West Bengal
SPORTS
#
Santosh Trophy 2018 (Football): Kerala won the title by defeating West Bengal
in the finals held in Kolkata; it is Kerala’s 6th Santosh Trophy title
# Sloane Stephens won the Miami Open 2018
title by defeating Jelena Ostapenko in the finals
MISC
# Scientists have identified a new organ in
human beings which has been dubbed as “interstitium”
