National News
1. Important Cabinet Approvals- 04th April 2018
Important Cabinet Approvals- 05th April 018
i. The Union Cabinet chaired by
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given the following set of
approvals. The important Cabinet Approvals are given as follows-
ii. The
Cabinet has approved-
1. Cooperation Arrangement between India and
Afghanistan for cooperation in the field of food safety and
related areas,
2. MoU between India and
Iran on the establishment of an expert group on trade
remedy measures
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2. Cabinet
Approves Protection of Human Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018
i. The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the
Protection of Human Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018 for better protection and promotion of human rights in the country.
ii. Salient
Features of the Bill are as follows:
It proposes to include “National
Commission for Protection of Child Rights” as deemed Member
of the Commission;
It proposes to add a woman Member in the composition
of the Commission;
It proposes to enlarge the scope of eligibility and
scope of selection of Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission as well as
the State Human Rights Commission; and
It proposes to incorporate a mechanism to look after
the cases of human rights violation in the Union Territories.
International News
3. EAM
Sushma Swaraj on 3-Day Visit to Azerbaijan
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i. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has begun her three-day
visit to Azerbaijan to participate in the Mid-Term Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement
(NAM) in Baku.
ii. Ms Swaraj held bilateral consultations with the Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov.
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President of
Azerbaijan- Ilham Aliyev, Capital- Baku, Currency- Azerbaijani manat.
4. Russia
Starts Building Turkey's 1st Nuclear Power Plant
i. The
Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK) was awarded a construction
licence for Akkuyu NPP,
Turkey's first nuclear power plant, which is being built in
Mersin province, in southern Turkey. JSC Akkuyu
Nuklear is the Russian-owned company which is responsible
for the project.
ii. The USD20 billion project to build the four-unit, 4800 MWe plant is part
of Erdogan's '2023
Vision' marking 100 years since the founding of modern
Turkey and is intended to reduce the country's dependence on energy imports.
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Turkey
Capital- Ankara, Currency- Turkish lira, President- Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Economy/Business News
5. 1st
Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement Released by RBI
i. The Monetary
Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment
facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.0%.
ii. Consequently, the Reverse Repo
Rate (RRR) under the LAF remains at 5.75%, and the Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate
at 6.25%. India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth
marginally upward to 6.6% from 6.5% in the first advance estimates.
iii. Retail inflation, measured by the year-on-year change in the CPI, fell
from a high of 5.1% in January to 4.4% in February due to a decline in
inflation in food and fuel. CPI inflation excluding food and fuel remained
unchanged at 5.2%.
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Dr Urjit Patel is the 24th Governor of RBI.
RBI Headquarters in Mumbai.
6. Flipkart
Partners With MakeMyTrip to Offer Travel Services
i. Homegrown
e-commerce giant Flipkart has forged a strategic
partnership with online travel company MakeMyTrip to offer travel services on its
platform.
ii. Additionally, the services of MakeMyTrip's other brands, Goibibo and
redBus, will be available to Flipkart consumers as part of the deal.
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Flipkart
CEO- Kalyan Krishnamurthy, Headquarters- Bengaluru.
Appointments
7. Subrata
Bhattacharjee Appointed as Next Ambassador of India to Serbia
i. Subrata
Bhattacharjee has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Serbia.
ii. He is an IFS poffice of 1989 batch. He is currently Joint Secretary in
Ministry of External Affairs
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Serbia
Capital- Belgrade, Currency- Serbian dinar.
8. SBI Life
Appoints Sanjeev Nautiyal As New MD & CEO
i. SBI Life
Insurance has appointed Sanjeev Nautiyal as its new Managing Director and CEO. He replaces Arijit Basu, who takes over a key role in the State Bank of
India Group.
ii. Nautiyal started his career with State Bank of India in 1985 as a
probationary officer in the bank’s Lucknow Circle.
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SBI Life Insurance is a joint venture life insurance
company between State Bank of India and and BNP Paribas Cardif.
It headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
9. Himanta
Biswa Sarma Elected BAI President
i. Assam
Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was unanimously elected the Badminton
Association of India (BAI) President during its annual general body
meeting in Goa.
ii. Ajay Kumar Singhania was elected the Secretary General of BAI. Mr Sarma
had taken over as the interim BAI President in 2017 after the demise of Akhilesh Das Gupta. He will serve for
four years.
Sports News
10. CWG
2018: Mirabai Chanu Wins India’s First Gold Medal
i.
Weightlifter and current world champion Mirabai Chanu has clinched India’s
first gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth
Games. Mirabai Chanu becomes the first Indian to win a gold medal at the
Commonwealth Games 2018.
ii. After finishing with the best lift of 86 kg in
the snatch round, the 23-year-old finished with a total score of 196 points.
She competed in the 48 kg category.
11. CWG
2018: Weight Lifter P. Gururaja Wins Silver
i. On the first day of competitions at the Gold Coast
Commonwealth Games 2018, in Australia, India began their campaign
with a Silver Medal in Weightlifting. In the 56 kilogram
category, P Gururaja lifted a total weight of 249 kg to finish second in the event.
ii. The 25-year old Gururaja equalled his personal best. Malaysia took the Gold, while Sri Lanka settled for the
Bronze.
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Australia Capital- Canberra, Currency- Australian Dollar, Prime Minister- Malcolm Turnbull.
