Daily Current affairs for July 16,2018 ( English)
National:
1. The Bansagar canal project (171
km long) has inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh. Bansagar
Dam project is a joint venture (JV) between Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and
Bihar Governments. It is multipurpose river valley
project built on Son River situated in Ganges Basin in Madhya Pradesh. The
canal network will bring waters from Shahdol district in Madhya Pradesh for
Adwa Barrage, Meza Dam and Jirgo reservoir. PM also laid foundation stone of
Mirzapur Medical College. He also inaugurated
100 Pradhan Mantri Jan Aushadhi Kendras and bridge over Ganga River at
Balughat, Chunar, which will facilitate connectivity between Mirzapur and
Varanasi.
2. Former MP Ram Shakal, RSS
ideologue Rakesh Sinha, classical dancer Sonal Mansingh and stone artist
Raghunath Mohapatra has nominated as members of Rajya Sabha by President Ram
Nath Kovind as per Article 80(1)(a) of the Constitution.
Prior to these four nominations, there were eight nominated members in Rajya
Sabha.
3. India became Vice-Chair or
regional head of Asia Pacific Region of the World Customs Organisation (WCO)
for two years from July 2018 to June 2020. By becoming
Vice Chair, India will be able to take up leadership role at the WCO.
4. The Goa IT Policy 2018 was unveiled
at the Inox complex in Panaji on July 15, 2018, on the final day of Goa IT Day
celebrations by the Union minister for electronics, IT and law & justice
Ravi Shankar Prasad. The Goa IT Policy focuses on
infrastructure development, fiscal incentives, governance and human resource
development. The policy offers special incentives for solar power-based
units, internet subsidy and assistance for campus recruitment. Besides,
there is a special provision for capital investment subsidy for the people of
Goa.
5. A 10 Member Committee to review the penal provisions in the
Companies Act, 2013 has constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA).
The Commerce Ministry seeks to
review offences under the Companies Act, 2013, as some of the offences may be
required to be decriminalised and handled in an in-house mechanism, where a
penalty could be levied in instances of default. The decision will allow the
trial courts to pay more attention on offences of serious nature.
International:
1. US President Donald Trump and
his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to hold their first summit at Helsinki,
Finland on July 15, 2018. Trump arrived in
Finland on July 15 with his wife, First Lady Melania Trump and a host of other
dignitaries for the Helsinki summit. The host and President of
Finland, Sauli Niinisto is scheduled to meet Trump before Trump and Putin sit
down to a bilateral meeting first without aides and then with their teams of
support staff. Trump's meeting with Putin comes days after a federal
grand jury indicted 12 Russian intelligence officials on charges of hacking the
servers of the Democratic National Committee and that of its 2016 presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton.
2. India on July 15, 2018 signed a
revised travel agreement with Bangladesh to ease visa restrictions for citizens
from the neighbouring country in Dhaka in the presence of visiting Home
Minister Rajnath Singh and his counterpart Asaduzzaman Khan. Under
the Revised Travel Arrangement (RTA)-2018, freedom fighters and elderly
Bangladeshi nationals will get five-year multiple visa from India. Besides
this, both the leaders also held the 6th Home Minister Level Talks between
India and Bangladesh.
3. The United States has rejected
requests from the European Union to grant exemptions to European companies from
its sanctions against Iran. The letter further
read that the US is not in a position to make exceptions to this policy except
in very specific circumstances. It also said that Washington will seek to
provide unprecedented financial pressure on the Iranian regime.
Science & Technology:
1. An e-commerce platform IFFCO
iMandi (an mobile application and web portal) has launched by Fertiliser major IFFCO to address all needs of
the farming community associated with it. The
e-commerce platform is one stop shop for agri inputs and produce, FMCG, electronics,
loans, insurance etc. It has features like buy-sell, communication (chat and
calling), entertainment and information/advisory content to keep farmers
engaged. Through this e-commerce platform, IFFCO is targeting to reach GMV
(gross merchandise value) of $5 billion in the next two years by catering needs
of 5.5 crore farmers already associated with it.
2. ISRO has successfully conducted
ground test of its high thrust version of Vikas Engine at ISRO Propulsion
Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri, Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu for duration
of 195 seconds. Vikas belongs to family of liquid
fuelled rocket engines conceptualized and designed by ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion
Systems Centre in the 1970s.
3. India's indigenously developed
surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile- BrahMos was successfully
test-fired from the Chandipur Test Range, off the coast of Odisha on July 16,
2018. The previous test firing of the
missile was conducted on May 21, when it was launched from a mobile launcher
under life extension program. BrahMos is the first Indian missile whose
life has been extended from 10 to 15 years.
4. China has announced that it
plans to launch 300 low-orbit satellites Known as the Hongyan
constellation to provide worldwide communication services, with the
first in the series to be launched later this year.
The constellation will be built in three stages. China’s Aerospace
Science and Technology Corporation said, once completed, the satellite
communication network will take the place of the ground-based network and allow
a mobile phone to be connected everywhere on the planet, even in a remote desert
or at sea.
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Economy:
1.
The Life Insurance Corporation of
India's (LIC's) board has approved acquiring up to 51 per cent stake in
state-run IDBI Bank. Since Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) has already given its approval to LIC for the stake purchase, the
corporation will now approach the regulator for the securities market India,
Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI).Till end of June 2018, LIC owned
about 8 per cent of IDBI Bank, while the federal government owned 86 per cent.
Awards:
1.
2018
Sangita Kalanidhi award of Music Academy has been awarded to renowned Carnatic
vocalist Aruna Sairam for her contribution to Carnatic music.
Under this recognition, she will preside over 92nd annual conference to be held
between December 15, 2018 and January 1, 2019. The award will be conferred to
her on January 1, 2019 the day of Sadas of the conference. Mridhangist
Thanjavur R. Ramadoss and vocalist K. Oman Kutty will be awarded Sangita Kala
Acharya award. Veena player Kalyani Ganesan and nagaswaram player S.R.G.
Rajanna will be awarded T.K. Awards. Dr. Premeela Gurumurthy, the Vice Chancellor,
Tamil Nadu University will be awarded Musicologist award. veteran danseuse
Shanta Dhananjayan will be awarded Nritiya Kalanidhi award.
Sports:
1. The 2018 Wimbledon Championships
was a tennis tournament held from2 July to 15 July 2018 at the All England Lawn
Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Serbia’s Novak
Djokovic (World Number 21) won the 2018 Wimbledon title
in men’s singles category by
defeating Kevin Anderson (South Africa). It was his fourth Wimbledon title
(earlier won in 2011, 2014 and 2015). Overall, it was his 13th career Grand
Slam crown.: It was by Mike Bryan and
Jack Sock pair from United States won Men’s
Doubles by defeating Raven Klaasen
(South Africa) and Michael Venus (New Zealand)pair. Angelique Kerber (Germany) won the 2018 Wimbledon title in women’s singles category by defeating
Serena Williams (United States).Barbora
Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková pair from Czech Republic won Women’s Doubles
by defeating Kveta Peschke (Czech
Republic) and Nicole Melichar (United States). Mixed Doubles was won by Alexander Peya (Austria) and Nicole Melichar
(United States) pair had defeated
Jamie Murray (United Kingdom) and Victoria Azarenka (Belarus).
2.
2018
FIFA World Cup Football has won by France by defeating Croatia by 4-2
goals in the final match held at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia.
It was France’s second World Cup crown after it had own it in 1998 (by defeating
Brazil) on home soil. It was Croatia’s first World Cup final appearance and
smallest country ever to reach final in the modern era. With this, victory
France joins Uruguay and Argentina in winning World Cup for a second time. Qatar
will be hosting next FIFA World Cup in 2022. It will be the first Arab country
to host World Cup and it will also for first time it will be held in Middle
East region. 2018 FIFA World Cup Awards:
Top 4 team rankings: France (1st, Winner), Croatia (2nd, Croatia), Belgium
(3rd) and England (4th). Golden Ball
award: Luka Modric (Croatia). Golden
Boot award: Harry Kane (England captain) for scoring six goals across six
games. Golden Glove award: Thibaut
Courtois (Belgium). FIFA Young Player award:
19-year-old Kylian Mbappe (France). FIFA
Fair Play Award: Spain for superb disciplinary record.
3.
Former
Indian off-spinner Ramesh Powar has been named as the interim coach of the
Indian women's cricket team. Powar has been asked
to coach the team by BCCI until they find a replacement for Tushar Arothe, who
resigned as the coach of the women's team five months after being appointed.
The BCCI has invited applications for the post of the coach of the women's
cricket team, with the last date to submit an application being July 30,2018.
4.
Indian boxers ruled the ring at the Golden Glove of
Vojvodinayouth tournament at Subotica in Serbia, finishing at the top with
seven gold medals. Overall, the Indian medal
tally included 17 medals, which comprised 7 Gold, 6Silver and 4 Bronze. Kazakhstan
came second with a gold medal count of 5 in their overall haul of 7 medals,
while Russia with 11 medals including 3 gold, 2 silver and 6 bronze finished
third.
5. The Central Government will
soon launch an ambitious scheme to test sports ability of two to three crore
children across the country. This
announcement was made by the Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and
Sports Rajyavardhan Rathore while
addressing a function at Ahmedabad in Gujarat on July 15, 2018. The
Minister said that around one thousand children will be selected every year
under the physical capability mapping programme. Each of the
selected children will be provided with a scholarship of five lakh rupees per
annum for eight years to help groom their sports talent.
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