Daily Current Affairs of 18 and 19 March 2018

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Here is the Current Affairs of 18th and 19th March 2018. Current Affairs is the very important in General Awareness Section to score high in the mains exams of the various government exams like BANK, SSC, INSURANCE, RAILWAY, 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 laid the foundation stone of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. 
2.) Flying Officer Bhawana Kanth became the 2nd woman pilot of IAF to fly solo in a fighter aircraft. 
3.) World Trade Organisation Ministerial Meeting was held in New Delhi. 
4.) President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurates a Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship and present Gandhian Young Technological Innovation awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi. 
5.) President Ram Nath Kovind released coins in denominations of Rs 10 and Rs 1,000 commemorating Lord Jagannath's Nabakalebara festival observed in July 2015. 
6.) The Indian Navy and the French Navy have conducted bilateral maritime exercises since May 1993. Since 2001, the exercises have been named VARUNA and there have been fifteen editions of the same till date. 
7.) The Indian government is in process of formulating 'Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthan Mahabhiyan (KUSUM) scheme' to harness solar power for rural India. The scheme will allow to setup grid-connected solar plants in rural areas. 
8.) Dr Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog, inaugurated the First India-Japan Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction in New Delhi. 
9.) Maharashtra tops the list of biomedical waste generated in the country daily, according to a document submitted by the ministry of health and family welfare. 
10.) According to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Worldwide Cost of Living report 2018, Singapore remains the most expensive city in the world. 
11.) The United Nations has issued an appeal for 951 million Dollars to meet the needs of nearly 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. 
12.) Book, titled ‘A Tribute to Jagu’, book on former BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya released by Sri Lanka. 
13.) Kevin Pietersen, 37 years old, has officially announced his retirement from the International cricket. 
14.) Indian para-athlete Deepa Malik has won the gold in the F53/54 Javelin event at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Dubai. 
15.) FIFA has lifted its three-decade ban on Iraq hosting international football with the cities of Arbil, Basra and Karbala given the go-ahead to stage matches.

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