Daily Current Affairs of 24 January 2018
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Here is the Current Affairs of 24th January 2018.
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1.)
16th
International Energy Forum (IEF)
Ministerial meeting will be held in New
Delhi in April 2018.
2.)
7th
Asia Steel International Conference
will be held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
in February 2018.
3.)
World Economic Forum Summit was held at Davos, Switzerland.
Bern is the capital and Swiss Franc is the Currency of
Switzerland.
4.)
“Sachin:
A Billion Dreams”, a biopic on cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar has won two awards at the recently
concluded 11th Tehran International FICTS Festival 2018.
5.)
The
Andhra Pradesh Government and the Canton of Zurich signed a
letter of intent, to promote
mutual prosperity and development. The agreement was signed in the presence
of Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N Chandrababu Naidu.
6.)
The
Government
of India, the Government of Uttarakhand and the World
Bank Board signed a $120 million
Loan Agreement which will help increase access to improved water supply
services in peri-urban areas in the State of Uttarakhand.
7.)
India will host the International Dam Safety
Conference – 2018 at Thiruvananthapuram on January
23-24, which will be inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan.
8.)
Indian Overseas Bank has signed an MoU with National Housing
Bank for the Rural Housing
Interest Subsidy Scheme (RHISS) of the Ministry of Rural Development. The aim of the RHISS is to provide subsidy for housing loans
taken by those living in rural areas for construction and modifications of
their dwelling units.
9.)
The
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation launched ‘Ganga Gram’ – a
project for sanitation based integrated development of all 4470 villages
along the River Ganga.
10.)
Shri Srikumar Menon, presently Ambassador of India to South
Sudan has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India
to the Republic of Angola.
11.)
The
National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) has made its
First investment. NIIF has partnered
with DP World to create an investment platform for ports, terminals,
transportation and logistics businesses in India.
12.)
Himachal Pradesh
launched nutrition scheme for children affected by HIV under which
they would be provided nutritional supplement. The initiative would go a long
way providing nutritional supplement & it would boost immunity of around
400 youth up to 18 years of age, who had been tested positive for HIV.
13.)
S Somanath
has taken charge as the new director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
(VSSC).
14.)
Lifter
Rakhi
Halder created a new national record in clean and jerk to a gold
medal in the 63kg women’s
category in the 33rd Women Senior
National Weightlifting Championships, in Mangaluru, Karnataka.
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