Important Current Affairs 11th April 2018

Important Current Affairs 11th April 2018

Current Affairs 11th April 2018: NATIONAL  NEWS

Cabinet approves the amendment of wages and allowances of the Deputy governors of the Union Territories

●        Union Cabinet has approved the amendment in the wages and allowances of the Union Territories of the Deputy Governors.
●        This will equal the salary and allowances of the deputy governors of the Government of India.
 
 Cabinet clears MoU between India and UK and Northern Ireland on the return of illegal migrants

●        The Union Cabinet has approved the MoU between India and UK and Northern Ireland on the return of illegal migrants.
●        With the visa-free agreement for diplomatic passport holders after the Memorandum, the UK visa system will be generous for those who are legally traveling to the UK.
 
 Cabinet approves HQ agreement between India and International Solar Coalition

●        The Union Cabinet has given approval to authorize the Ministry of External Affairs to prioritize the agreement signed between India and the International Solar Coalition (ISA) to enter the headquarters (host country) and the signing of the headquarter agreement.
●        This Agreement was signed on March 26, 2018.
●        The headquarter agreement will get institutionalized form of working arrangements between India and ISA.
 
Dr. Jitendra Singh launches online dashboard to ensure monitoring of public grievances at real time

●        Central Nuclear Regional Development Minister (Independent Charge), PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Minister of State for Atmospheric Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh, today inaugurated an online dashboard developed by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). Done
●        This dashboard will monitor public or public grievances in real time and will periodically review the progress of systemic improvements.
●        The systematic improvements and their monitoring of those scales are shown on the dashboard, which are related to issues of public grievances.
 

Cabinet approves CIL and its subsidiaries for exploration and exploitation of coal bed methane
 
●        In the chairmanship of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today issued notification notifying the section 3 (xiii) of the notification issued on 03.11.2015 under Article 12 of the Oil Sector Act, 1948, by Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. Has approved.
 
Under Rural Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- one crore rural households will be constructed by December 2018

●        The Hon'ble Prime Minister launched the Prime Minister House Plan-Rural in Agra on November 20, 2016.
●        PMAY-G has been prepared by restructuring Indira Awas Yojana (IAY).
●        In order to achieve the 'Housing for the Most Housing' target by 2022, under the PMAY-G, a target has been set to create one crore and up to 2.95 crore Pucca houses till 2022-2012.
 
MSDE has constituted Appellate Committee for testing complaints regarding the cancellation of recognition / accreditation of ITI

●        As per the guidelines of the Hon'ble Delhi High Court, MSDE has constituted an Appellate Committee for testing complaints regarding the cancellation of recognition / accreditation of ITIs.
●        The NCVT sub-committee has uploaded an aggregate list of 310 ITI institutions on the NCVT portal, in which 'Not recommended' has been written.
●        All these IIT institutions and other affected IIT institutions can file an appeal before April 16, 2018.

India signed contract with World Expo 2020 Dubai

●        India and Dubai World Expo 2020 signed a contract in the context of the Pavilion of India on April 10, 2018.
●        World Expo 2020 will be held in Dubai
●        This contract was made between Manoj's Dwivedi (joint secretary of the Commerce Ministry) and Najib Muhammad Al Ali (Executive Director, Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau).
 
 Prime Minister Modi called "Satyagraha Swachhagraha" in Motihari

●        Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the National Convention of Swachhagraha in Motihari, Bihar on April 10, 2018.
●        The meeting was organized as part of the centenary celebrations of the Champaran Satyagraha.
●        He addressed four lakhs of cleanliness workers in the country.
●        Nearly 20,000 clean-up attendants from different states of the country were present in the program.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches the country's most powerful electric locomotive engine

●        Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the country's most powerful electric locomotive engine (12,000 HP) built in Rail Engine Factory of Madhepura in Bihar on April 10, 2018.
●        Along with this, India now joins Russia, China, France, Germany with the list of countries with this capacity rail engine.
●        A total of 1300 crore rupees have been spent in the preparation of this project.
●        So far, India had 6,000 HP engines.
 
Oregon's Governor signed the Net Nutility Bill in the US
 
●        US state-based Oregon State Governor Kate Brown signed the Net Nutrition Bills on April 09, 2018.
●        Increasing your internet speed by paying more money in it is illegal.
●        The new law makes it illegal for state public agencies to work with internet service providers (ISPs) who participate in discriminatory activities such as payment priority and blocking online legal content, or "fast lane" for companies. Make.

Project sunlight

●        Indian Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) has appointed NCERT, NDMC, Northern MCD and Quality Ltd. Together with schools, 'Project Sunshine' has been started.
●        Under this, 'project sunshine' has been started by requesting the morning assembly from 11:00 to 1:00 in schools.
●        Studies conducted by FSSAI have shown that 90 percent of India's children are lacking vitamin D and their bones are weaker than normal.

Current Affairs 11th April 2018: DEFENSE

Prime Minister will inaugurate the Defense Expo 2018 in Chennai on April 12

●        Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will visit Tamil Nadu on April 12
●        Prime Minister inaugurates the 10th edition Defense Expo-2018 of Defense Expo in Thiruvidanthai, Kanchipuram district.
●        The theme of the Defense Expo this year is 'India-emerging defense manufacturing hub'.
●        During this, India's ability to export defense systems and their components will be shown.
 

Current Affairs 11th April 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

Indian Consortium and Saudi Aramco signed MoU for Ratnagiri Mega Refinery in Maharashtra

●        An Indian Consortium with IOCL, BPCL and HPCL and Saudi Aramco signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) here today.
●        This MoU has been signed in the State of Maharashtra for the purpose of jointly developing and manufacturing an Integrated Refinery and Petrochemical Complex Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (RRPCL).

Ban Ki-moon elected as president of Boao Forum
●        Former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was elected president of Boao Forum for Asia on 09 April 2018.
●        Ban Ki-moon will replace Japan's Yasuo Fukuda.
●        Former Governor of People's Bank of China, Zhou Sichuan has been appointed Vice President.
●        Both appointments have taken place during the second session of the conference organized by the Bao Forum.
●        This forum is currently underway in Hainan province of China.

Current Affairs 11th April 2018: OBITUARIES 

Nobel laureate German physicist Peter Grunberg died

●        Nobel laureate German physicist Peter Grunberg died in April 2018
●        He was 78 years old.
●        Peter Grünberg worked to bring revolutionary changes in the field of digital data storage.
●        Peter Grünberg was born on May 18, 1939.