Current affairs notes on 01/10/2018-03/10/2018

1.India is to gift three MiG-21 fighter jets to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin is to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi be in New Delhi on October 4 and 5 for the annual summit.About MiG-21: Design Group: Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau in the 1950s Type: Fighter and interceptor aircraft National Origin: Soviet Union MiG-21 is a product of the Soviet Union It made first flight in 1956 and entered service in 1959. 

2.The Nobel Medicine or Physiology Prize has been awarded to James P Allison and Tasaku Honjo "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation".The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

3.Minister of Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal has launched the first of its kind "Rail Heritage Digitisation Project" of Indian Railways in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.It is considered to be the largest cultural heritage digitization project in the Asia Pacific Region. 

4.The sixth edition of IBSAMAR, a joint Multi-National Maritime Exercise between the Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies, is being held at Simons Town, South Africa. 

5.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to Award the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to Arthur Ashkin, Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics".

6.The Vice President of India M. Venkiah Naidu gave "Vayoshreshtha Samman-2018" to senior citizens on October 1, 2018. Vayoshreshtha Samman is a Scheme of National Awards instituted by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.

7.Odisha government launched the State's own food security scheme to cover the poor people.  As per the provisions of the scheme, 25 lakh poor people left out from the benefits of the National Food Security Act, will get rice of 5 kg per month for one rupee.

8.Justice Ranjan Gogoi has sworn-in as new Chief Justice of India.Justice Gogoi is the 46th Chief Justice of India.

9.The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently launched a new alcohol control initiative 'SAFER' to prevent and reduce alcohol-related death and disability.The WHO-led initiative and action package aim to support global target of reducing harmful use of alcohol by 10% by 2025.

10.As per the report "Trade and Development" of UNCTAD it is expected that India's economy to grow 7.0% in calendar year 2018 compared with 6.2% in 2017. High CAD, Demonitisation has impacted a lot.

11.Kolkata city has recently launched India’s first Flood Forecasting and Early Warning System (FFEWS).

12.Indian shooter Manu Bhaker has been named as the flag-bearer of the Indian contingent for the 3rd Youth Olympic Games to be held at Buenos Aires in Argentina from Oct 6-18.

13.The nationwide Action Research Project of Gram Panchayat development scheme has been inaugurated by the Minister of Rural Development Narendra Singh Tomar at at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.The main purpose of this project is to ensure the overall development by capacity building, administrative reform and public participation.

14.Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan has recently launched an innovative initiative called SATAT (Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation) in New Delhi on 1st October 2018 to promote Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) as an alternative fuel.

15.The Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention is being organised by the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation to mark the beginning of the 150th birth anniversary celebrations of Mahatma Gandhi, also coinciding with the fourth anniversary of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission.

16.The United Nations designated the first Monday of October of every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of our towns and cities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter. 2018 theme: Municipal Solid Waste Management. 

17.The second edition of Exercise Aviaindra, a Biennial Air Force level exercise between Indian and the Russian Federation, was held recently in Russia.

18. Geological Survey of India has chosen heritage locations in Maharashtra and Karnataka such as Lonar Lake in Maharashtra and St. Mary’s Island and Malpe beach in coastal Karnataka are the GSI’s candidates for UNESCO Global Geopark Network status.

19.The Bombay Stock Exchange became the first stock exchange in the country to launch commodity derivatives contract in gold and silver.A derivative is a contract between two parties which derives its value/price from an underlying asset. 

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