Current Affairs Notes Daily

1. The 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention is being organized by Ministry of External Affairs in association with the State Government of Uttar Pradesh in January 2019 (Jan. 21 - 23, 2019). Theme of 2019 event is "Role of Indian Diaspora in building a New India". Pravasi Bhartiya Divas is annually celebrated on January 9 to mark the contribution of Overseas Indian community towards their homeland. 2.Tripura government to appoint  Dipa Karmakar Indian G ymnast,  gold medal winner in the prestigious FIG World Challenge Cup in Mersin in Turkey as brand ambassador of the state. 3. HDFC securities announced launch of Mutual Funds transactional capabilities on Facebook Messenger through their virtual assistant, Arya. 4.Google has announced 'Launchpad Accelerator India' , a mentorship program that would aim to support Indian start-ups that deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning to build solutions for local needs.  5. For the first time,...

1. The World Population Day (WPD) is observed every year on July 11 .The 2018 theme is “Family planning is a human right”. 2.T he 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.T he 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 Tele...

1. IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IISc Bangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, BITS Pillani and Jio Institute have been granted 'Institution of eminence' tag by Human Resource Development Ministry.The aim of the "Institutions of Eminence" scheme is to bring selected higher educational institutions in top 500 of world ranking in the next 10 years and in top 100 eventually overtime. 2. India and South Korea have signed five MoUs in the field of Science and Technology in New Delhi. Establishment of Future Strategy Group and Cooperation in Bio-technology and Bio-economy. The India-Korea Technology Exchange Centre also opened in New delhi. 3.Indian goalkeeper PR Sreejesh will lead the 18-member Indian men's hockey squad at 18th Asian Games 2018 which will begin in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia in August 2018. 4. Samsung has set up the world’s largest mobile phone factory in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The facility was inaugurated jointly by Prime Minister...

1. Michael Ondaatje's best selling novel 'The English Patient' has been crowned as the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize at the Southbank Centre in London.  2. NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be launched in August 2018.Parker Solar Probe will travel to the Sun's corona, a region of the solar atmosphere. The spacecraft's orbit will carry it to within 4 million miles of the Sun's surface with the help of its heat shield. There the spacecraft will collect data about the inner workings of the corona. 3.India's first biofortified sorghum (jowar) that containing higher iron and zinc than regular sorghum named as   'Parbhani Shakti'  .It has been introduced as a sustainable solution to rectify micronutrient deficiency. 4.Integral Coach Factory (ICF) of Chennai announced the launch of indigenously manufactured semi high-speed train, the train is named as 'Train 18' .Train 18 doesn't require an engine to run as it will be ...

1. HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar will inaugurate the 17th World Sanskrit Conference to be held at Vancouver, Canada from 9th to 13th July, 2018. 2. World Zoonosis Day is observed on 6th July every year. It commemorates 6th July 1885, the day on which Louis Pasteur successfully administered the first vaccine against, a zoonotic disease, to Joseph Meister after he was attacked by a rabid dog. Zoonoses are viral diseases like rabies and influenza. 3.The International Round Table Conference on "Data for New India" has organised by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MoSPI) in New Delhi during 9-10th July, 2018.  The purpose of the Round Table Conference is to identify innovative ideas for improving the statistical system in India. 4.India's latest frontline warship INS Trikand has reached Sri Lanka,INS Trikand is a state-of-the-art warship of the Indian Navy equipped with a versatile range of weapons and sensors capable of addressing t...

1. SBI Card, the country's second largest credit card issuer, announced the launch of ELA' (Electronic Live Assistant) , a virtual assistant for customer support and services. Customers can communicate with ELA in conversational language.  2. Airports Authority of India (AAI) will set up a state-of-the-art Civil Aviation Research Organization (CARO) at Hyderabad's Begumpet Airport to find indigenous solutions to meet the challenges posed by the growing air traffic and for enhancing safety, capacity and efficiency of aircraft operations in the country. 3.The International Day of Cooperatives is observed across the world on July 7 with an aim to promote the co-operative model. The 2018 theme of the Day is the 'Sustainable societies through cooperation'. 4.Reliance Industries becomes India's largest tax payer in private sector. 5. The International Round Table Conference on “Data for New India’’ has organised by the Ministry of Statistics & ...

1.  The Uttarakhand High Court accorded the status of 'legal person or entity' to the animals in the state. The HC stated that "they have a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person". 2.YES Bank announced has received final regulatory approval from the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to start mutual fund business. This approval is subsequent to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) approval.  3.UNESCO has come into an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh government to set up a 'Design University for Gaming' in Visakhapatnam.  4.Indian wrestler  Bajrang Punia from India has clinched gold in the 65kg category at the 2018 Tbilisi Grand Prix tournament by defeating Iranian wrestler Mehran Nasiri. Punia is the 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medallist. 5.The National Security Guard (NSG) will be the first central paramilitary force to opt for e-ticketing instead of the railway warrant under a...