Current affairs notes on 13/09/2018-14/09/2018

1.Delhi government has rolled out its ambitious project to deliver public services at the doorstep of residents. It's first of kind service in the country for doorstep delivery of essential government services.

2.India and Afghanistan agreed to enhance cooperation under the 'New Development Partnership'. India had announced taking up 116 "high impact community developmental projects" in Afghanistan.

3.The Ministry of External Affairs signed an agreement with the Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) for the implementation of e-Network Project between India and Africa. The two projects namely e-VidyaBharati and e-AarogyaBharati (e-VBAB) will work in the field of tele-education and tele-medicine. The projects will be completely funded by the Government of India.

4.India, Iran and Afghanistan held their first tripartite meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan during which implementation of the Chabahar port project and a host of other issues including ways to deepen counter-terror cooperation were discussed. The Indian delegation was led by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale.

5. India and Brunei has approved an MoU on Cooperation in the operation of Telemetry Tracking and Telecommand station for satellite and launch vehicles, and for cooperation in the field of Space Research, Science and Applications.

6.The Union Cabinet approved new Umbrella Scheme 'Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Sanrakshan Abhiyan, PM-AASHA. The Scheme is aimed at ensuring remunerative prices to the farmers for their produce as announced in the Union Budget for 2018 the announcement was made by the Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh in New Delhi.

7.The second edition of the 10-day Nepal-China joint military exercise “Sagarmatha Friendship-2018” will be held at Chengdu, the capital of China’s southwestern Sichuan Province, from September 17.

8.Asian Development Bank released its 2018 Flagship Statistical Report for Asia and the Pacific. This report provides the latest available economic, financial, social, SDG indicators and environmental statistics for the 48 regional members of ADB. This year's report is focusing on: Technological Innovation for Agricultural Statistics.

9.Hindustan Shipyard Limited announced that India's first ocean surveillance and missile tracking ship VC 11184, will undertake its first sea trial in the first week of October 2018.

10.K.J Alphons, the Minister of State for Tourism (IC), Government of India inaugurated the  first tribal circuit tourism project in Chhattisgarh. Swadesh Darshan scheme is one of the flagship schemes of the Ministry of tourism, for development of thematic circuits in the country in a planned and prioritised manner.

11.The agricultural festival of Nuakhai has started in Odisha on 13th September 2018.The Nuakhai Juhar is a major ritual of the festival.

12.Under article 124 of the constitution, President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed Justice Ranjan Gogoi as the 46th Chief Justice of India (CJI). He will assume office after the current CJI Dipak Misra retires on October 2. 

13.The 2018 G-20 trade and investment ministerial meeting was held at Mar del Plata in Argentina on September 12-13. From India, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu participated in the meeting.

14.Cabinet approves continuation of Capacity Development Scheme for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20.The scheme is to augment infrastructural, technical as well as manpower resources for making available credible and timely Official Statistics for policy makers and public at large.

15.Ministry of Culture has discovered a hoard of 254 Copper Coins in the premises of Khirki Mosque Delhi during the course of conservation of the monument.It was built by Khan-i-Jahan Junan Shah, the Prime Minister of Firoz Shah Tughluq.


16.NASA has successfully completed the final test to qualify Orion’s space capsule’s parachute system for flights with astronauts.NASA’s Orion spacecraft will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry the crew to space, provide emergency abort capability, sustain the crew during the space travel, and provide safe re-entry from deep space return velocities.

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