Current affairs notes on 11/07/2018

1.The World Population Day (WPD) is observed every year on July 11 .The 2018 theme is “Family planning is a human right”.

2.The Maharashtra government will launch a new scheme allocating 'one transformer per farmer'. Two lakh farmers will be given electricity connection for high voltage distribution line which will ensure uninterrupted power supply.

3.The Indian naval ship INS Sumitra became the first-ever warship to enter port of Sabang in Indonesia. it was decided that New Delhi will develop the strategically important Indonesian port Sabang in the Indian Ocean, close to the Andamans.

4.The Rajya Sabha has, for the first time in 76 years since it came into being, entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a foreign counterpart for promoting inter-parliamentary dialogue. M. Venkaiah Naidu became the first Chairman of the Rajya Sabha to sign such an agreement.

5.BSNL has become the India’s first Mobile operator to launch Internet Telephony Services. The facility will allow users to dial any telephone number in India through its mobile app.

6.India has been ranked 57th most innovative nation among 130 countries in the 11th edition of Global Innovation Index (GII-2018). Other countries that fell in the top 10 list were Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, the US, Finland, Denmark, and Germany.

7.The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched ‘The Eat Right Movement’ to empower the citizens by improving their health and well-being.

8.The Union HRD Minister Shri Upendra Kushwaha is on an Official Visit to the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI). It is a country in the central Pacific Ocean. The Marshalls are composed of more than 1,200 islands and islets in two parallel chains of coral atolls.

9.The Western Ghats (India) bagged the 4th best tourist spot in Lonely Planet’s top five “2018 Best in Asia” list, a collection of 10 of the best destinations to visit in the continent for the year. Western Ghats is one of the Hottest Biodiversity Hotspots and UNESCO World Heritage site.Lonely Planet is considered a Bible by travellers worldwide.




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  1. rjluttz13 July 2018 at 09:56

    Sir Shri Upendra Kushwala is not Union HRD minister but minister of state for HRD

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  2. Current affairs Daily13 July 2018 at 22:58

    Yes... Shri Upendra Kushwala is minister of state for HRD, Present union Human Resource Development minister is Prakash Javadekar . it was a typing mistake..Thanks for your efforts..

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