Daily Current Affairs for 18th May 2017( English)
1. Bilateral exercise SIMBEX-17 between Indian and Republic of Singapore
Navy commences from 18th May to 24th May
2017 in South China sea.
2. Indian Scientist Shrinivas Kulkarni wins David Prize 2017. He
will share the award with Andrej Udalski of the University of Warsaw and Neil
Gehrels of NASA for their discoveries on domain astrophysics.
3. The Union Cabinet has approved the amendment of public
premises act 1971 in order to reduce the waiting period of the new
incumbents by speeding up the eviction of unauthorized occupants from
government residences.
4. The annual conference of the Departments
of disaster management of States and Union Territories was held to
review the preparedness of the states and UT’s for dealing with any
natural disaster in New Delhi on 17th May
2017.
5. Along with Dr. Purnima Barman,
Another Indian activist Sanjay Gubbi also won the Green
Oscar ( Whitley award) for their works in the field of animal
and bird conservation in India. Other winners of this award are Indira Lacerna
( Wildman from Philippines )Ian Little (from South Africa), Alexander Blanco(
from Venezuela) and Ximena – Velez-Liendo from Bolivia.
6. Brand Finance Report of 2017 has listed Tata Group as the most
valuable brand in India followed by Airtel(2nd)., LIC India
( 3rd), Infosys (4th) and SBI (5th )
position respectively.
7. The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the signing of
an agreement between India and Australia on Co-operation
in Combating International Terrorism.
8. May 18- International Museum Day with the theme 2017 “ Museums and
contested Histories: Saying the unspeakable in museums.”
9. First Bhairon Singh Shekawat Life time
Achievement Honour in Public service
is given to Sikkim CM Pavan Kumar Chamling by President of
India Shri Pranab Mukhurjee.
10. Tamil Nadu Human Development Report 2017 was released and top 3 districts are Kanyakumari,
Virudhunagar, Tuticorin and bottom 3 districts are Ariyalur ,
Perambalur, Theni. In addition to this Villupuram and Perambalur didn’t show
any progress for many years.
11. Indian Institute of Liver and digestive Sciences was inaugurated by our President Shri
Pranab Mukhurjee at Sonapur, West Bengal.
12. UITP Summit 2017 commenced at Montreal, Canada. UITP –
International Association of Public Transport.
13. The first Tamil Film going to host at Cannes Film
Festival is “ Sangamithra” directed by Sundar.C and
Jeyam Ravi and Arya in its lead role.
14. May 18- World AIDS Vaccine Day
15. The Union Govt has given its approval for establishing Indian
Agricultural Research Institute ( IARI) in Assam
16. Rail Swacch Report 2017 was released by the Union Railway Ministry
and The survey was carried out by the Quality Council of India. The
Visakhapatnam railway station is the cleanest, followed by
Secunderabad, among the 75 busiest stations in the country, the Jammu railway
station occupied the third spot, while the New Delhi station was ranked at 39
among the busiest stations.The Darbhanga railway station in Bihar was
the dirtiest among the busiest stations.The Anand Vihar railway
station was ranked at the 5th position, while Nizamuddin and Old Delhi stations
were placed at 23th and 24th position. The railway station in Varanasi, the Lok
Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was ranked at 14th
position. The survey was carried out for total 407 stations, out of which 75
are in the A-1 category or busiest stations and 332 are in the A category.The
Beas railway station was the cleanest, followed by Khammam, in the A category.
Ahmedanagar station was ranked at 3rd position. While the Darbhanga railway
station was at the 75th position in the A-1 category, Jogbani was the dirtiest
in the A category.
17. Union Cabinet has approved Construction of 10 units of India’s
indigenous Pressurized Heavy water Reactors under “ Make in
India “ project.
18. The Union Cabinet has given ex- post facto
approval to Pan-India implementation of Maternity Benefit Program .
The Pregnant and lactating mother will be given Rs. 5000 in three installments
(100, 2000,3000) for the birth of the first live child.
19. Union Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dhave (60) passed away due to
illness at AIIMS Hospital , Delhi.
20. Social Justice Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot inaugurated
the 15th National meet of state commissioners for
Persons with disabilities to discuss implementation of the persons
with disabilities act 1995.
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