Daily Current Affairs for 1st April 2018 ( English)
Important Days:
1. April 1- Utkal Divas or Urtkal Dibasa also known as Odisha
Formation Day ( as a separate province from 1st April 1936) . Odisha separated from the combined Bengal- Bihar-Orissa
province on that day.
National:
1.
Delhi became the first
city in India to supply ultra-clean Bharat Stage (BS) VI grade fuel (both
petrol and diesel) with an aim to combat the rising levels of air pollution in
Delhi –NCR region. Other cities in NCR like
Noida, Gurugram, Ghaziabad and Faridabad as well as other 13 major cities,
including Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune will roll-out
cleaner BS-VI grade fuel from January 1 2019. State-owned oil firms have
started supplying the BS-VI fuel (equivalent to fuel meeting Euro-VI emission
norm) at all their 391 petrol pumps in NCT.
2.
The 114th meeting of the
Permanent Indus Commission (PIC) between India and Pakistan was held in New
Delhi. India’s Indus water commissioner PK
Saxena and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) officials were part of Indian delegation
for annual meeting. Pakistan’s six-member delegation will be led by Syed
Muhammad Mehar Ali Shah. The Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) was signed in
1960. It covers the water distribution and sharing rights of six rivers
of Indus river system viz, Beas, Ravi, Sutlej, Indus, Chenab and Jhelum. The
treaty specifies that waters from three western rivers viz. Indus, Jhelum and
Chenab are reserved for Pakistan, while waters from eastern rivers viz. Ravi,
Sutlej and Beas are for reserved for India.
3.
“Rupashree”- a scheme to
provide one-time financial support for marriage of poor girls has launched by
the West Bengal government to ensure safe future for young women,This scheme was earlier announced by Amit Mitra, the Finance
Minister of West Bengal, at the time of budget. Before marriage an amount of Rs
25,000 will be credited to girl’s bank account. A woman is required to fill the
application form before her marriage and submit it to the office of Block
Development Officer or Municipality Office to avail benefits under Rupashree. No
minimum educational qualifications are required to apply for the scheme. Women
should be more than 18 years of age at the time of their marriage. Annual
income of a family should be less than 1.5 lakh. Beneficiary must be the permanent
resident of the West Bengal.
International:
1.
“Accessible Tourism” -
Nepal has launched its first accessible trekking trail for differently abled
and elders in Pokhara city ,as a part of three-day
international conference. Accessible tourism or inclusive tourism refers to an
emerging concept referring to travel that is accessible to all people, with
disabilities or not, including those with mobility, hearing, sight, cognitive,
or intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, older persons and those with
temporary disabilities.
Science & Technology/
Defence:
1.
ISRO has lost contact with
India’s most powerful communication GSAT-6A satellite in less than 48 hours
after it was launched. This is caused by power
system failure or short circuit on the satellite. The GSAT-6A satellite was to
be placed in orbit in three phases after its successful textbook launch on
March 29, 2018 onboard of GSLV-F08.
2.
Tiangong-1- China’s
out-of-control space lab has re-entered Earth’s atmosphere, landing in middle
of the South Pacific Ocean near world’s ‘spacecraft cemetery or graveyard’. Most of its parts were burned up during gravity-propelled
re-entry process. Tiangong-1 (Heavenly Palace or Celestial Palace-1) was
China’s first prototype space station or space laboratory. It was placed in
orbit in September 2011 as part of China’s efforts towards building its own
space station independent and unconnected to any other international
space-active countries. It was first operational component of Tiangong program,
which aims to place a larger, modular station into orbit by 2023, the time when
US-led International Space Station is expected to go out of service. Tiangong-1
was originally planned to be decommissioned in 2013 but its mission was
repeatedly extended. It reportedly stopped functioning in 2016. China has
launched a second lab, Tiangong-2 in 2017 which continues to be operational. The
spacecraft cemetery also known as Point Nemo — considered the most remote place
on Earth (at about 2400 km from any spot of land). It often used to crash-land
defunct satellites. Between 1971 and mid-2016, space agencies all over the
world have dumped between 260 and 300 spacecraft into the region.
Economy:
1. India became the second largest mobile phone producer I the
world after China as per the claim made
by ICA ( Indian Cellular Association) . with 11
million units produced in the year 2017, India replaced Vietnam which is in the
second position. Fast Track Task Force ( FTTF) , a body under MeitY has set a
target to achieve around 500 million mobile phone production in India by 2019.
2.
The e-way Bill System for
Inter-State movement of goods across the country is being introduced from April
1, 2018 as per previous decision of GST council,The e-way bill will apply to inter-state transportation of
goods worth over Rs. 50,000 through road, railways, airways and
vessels. From this date, the businesses and transporters moving goods worth
over Rs. 50,000 from one state to another will have to carry an electronic or
e-way.bill. E-way bill is an electric document generated on the GST Portal,
which is a common and shared information technology (IT) infrastructure between
the Centre and States; and acts as evidence for movement of goods.
Appointments/ Resignations:
1. BCCI has appointed former DGP of Rajasthan, Ajith Singh as head
of its anti-corruption Unit. He will
replace Neeraj Kumar ( Delhi Commissioner of Police)
Sports:
1. Mithali Raj , Captain of Indian Women’s Cricket Team was
honoured with the “ Sportsperson of the year” award at the Telangana Sports
Journalists Association annual awards for 2017 in Hyderabad, Telangana.” The best coach of the year
award was bagged by Pullela Gopi Chand for the second consecutive time. “ The
best male athlete award goes to Kidambi Srikanth and the best female athlete
award was bagged by PV SIndhu.
Deaths:
1. Film Director , C. V. Rajendran
( 81) from Tamil Nadu died after
a long term illness.
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