Daily Current Affairs of 5 April 2018

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Here is the Current Affairs of 5 April 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.) National Maritime Day in India is observed on April 5 every year.
2.) Weightlifter and current world champion Mirabai Chanu has clinched India’s first gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Mirabai Chanu becomes the first Indian to win a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games 2018.
3.) Weight Lifter P. Gururaja wins Silver medal at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games 2018, in Australia. Canberra is the capital, Australian Dollar is the currency and Malcolm Turnbull is the prime minister of Australia.
4.) The Election Commission (EC) will set up Sakhi/Pink polling booths for the first time in the Karnataka assembly elections.
5.) E-commerce giant Flipkart has forged a strategic partnership with online travel company MakeMyTrip to offer travel services on its platform.


6.) The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.0%. Consequently, the Reverse Repo Rate (RRR) under the LAF remains at 5.75%, and the Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate at 6.25%.
7.) ICICI Bank launched a service which enables Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to send money to a beneficiary in India using social media platforms like WhatsApp and e-mail.
8.) Sanjeev Nautiyal appointed as new Managing Director and CEO of SBI Life Insurance.
9.) Subrata Bhattacharjee has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Serbia. Belgrade is the capital and Serbian dinar and currency of Serbia.
10.) India and Azerbaijan have inked two documents for the visa waiver for diplomatic, official and service passports holders and cooperation between diplomatic training institutes.
11.) Cabinet approved the agreement between Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock (MAIL), Afghanistan for cooperation in the field of food safety.
12.) To relax algorithm trading norms at commodity derivatives exchanges, SEBI raised the limit to process up to 100 orders per second by a user for such trade from the existing limit of 20 orders per second.

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