Daily Current Affairs of 18 January 2018
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Here is the Current Affairs of 18th January 2018. Current Affairs is the very important section to score high in the mains exams of the various government exams like BANK, SSC, INSURANCE, RAILWAY, UPSC, GPSC and many more. So read daily current affairs and score high in the examination and increase your chance to be selected.
Here is the Current Affairs of 18th January 2018. Current Affairs is the very important section to score high in the mains exams of the various government exams like BANK, SSC, INSURANCE, RAILWAY, UPSC, GPSC and many more. So read daily current affairs and score high in the examination and increase your chance to be selected.
1.)
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and PM Benjamin Netanyahu inaugurated the 'iCreate Centre' at Deo
Dholera in Ahmedabad. iCreate
paves way for the two nations to jointly script new stories of success
through innovation.
2.)
India test-fired its nuclear-capable
Agni-V
inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM), which has a strike range of over 5,000km.
3.)
Virat Kohli has been named as International Cricket Council Cricketer of
the Year 2017.
4.)
Odisha
CM Naveen Patnaik has launched the ‘Mukhyamantri
Kalakar Sahayata Jojana’ (MMKSJ)
– an assistance scheme for Artists in the state. Around 50,000 artists will be
benefited from this. The government has decided to give Rs 1,200 per month as artist
assistance.
5.)
The
government has made it mandatory to have Global Positioning
System (GPS) devices in passenger transport vehicles from April 1. All taxis, buses and public transport vehicles,
except three-wheelers and e-rickshaws, will have to install GPS and an alert
button.
6.)
Digital invoice discounting marketplace - Invoicemart has tied up with state-run
lender Bank of Baroda to discount
invoices for MSMEs. Buyers and sellers registered in the marketplace will now
be able to access funding from Bank of Baroda.
7.)
India’s
most-valued lender HDFC Bank Ltd
crossed Rs5 trillion market capitalisation for the first time, making
it only the third Indian company to achieve this milestone.
8.)
President
Ram Nath Kovind presented the Sangeet Natak Akademi’s Fellowships
(Akademi Ratna) and Sangeet Natak Akademi
Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the year 2016 at a function held in New
Delhi.
9.)
Defence
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
undertook a sortie in IAF s frontline combat jet Sukhoi-30 MKI in the
western sector of Rajasthan. She is
the first woman defence minister of
India to fly a sortie in an IAF Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter aircraft. Sukhoi-30 MKI is a nuclear-capable
aircraft which can penetrate deep into enemy territory and is the most
potent component of our nation’s air power.
10.)
Grab,
Uber’s biggest competitor in Southeast
Asian markets has acquired Bengaluru-based software start-up iKaaz. iKaaz’ technology spans
across areas like NFC, QR-code, audio-based payments as well as bill payments,
online payments & peer-to-peer.
11.)
YES Bank will mobilise
$1 billion till 2023 & $5 billion till 2030 towards financing solar
energy projects in India. The announcement was made at International Solar
Alliance conference organised at World Future Energy Summit 2018 in Abu Dhabi.
12.)
Trump Administration has slapped
anti-dumping
duties on stainless steel
flangs & finer denier
polyester staple fiber from China & India.
13.)
Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully launched a new Earth observation satellite, equipped with X-band radar. ASNARO-2, developed by Japanese tech
firm NEC, will perform Earth-observation tasks for five years from its orbit at
an altitude of about 500 km.
14.)
Australia captain Steve Smith has been crowned the International Cricket Council's Test Player of the Year for a
second time, while Indian captain Virat
Kohli has been honoured twice in the
ICC's annual awards.
15.)
North and South Korea have agreed
to march together under a single unified Korea flag at Winter Olympics
in the South.
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