Important Current Affairs 17th February 2018

Current Affairs 17th February 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

National Banana Fair, 2018  
●        Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shri Radha Mohan Singh addressed the National Kala Mela, organized in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala today, 2018.
●       Banana and Plants In tropical developed countries, there is a rich fiber-rich food crop for millions of people, which is being cultivated from about 4000 years old ie 2020 BC.
●        The original production base of banana is India and it is cultivated in a broad scale in India's tropical subtropical and coastal areas.
 
 
Narendra Modi to inaugurate fourth container terminal of JNPT tomorrow in Mumbai
 
●        Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Fourth Container Terminal (FCT) of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Mumbai tomorrow.
●        Along with that, JNPT will double its container operating capacity.
●        The new FCT will add the capacity of 24 lakh containers per year during the first phase and after the completion of the second phase in 2022, the JNPT capacity will be 100 lakh containers per year.
 
Yogi Sarkar presented the annual budget of Uttar Pradesh
 
●        The Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath Government presented the state budget on February 16, 2018.
●        Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Rajesh Agrawal presented the second budget of the Yogi Sarkar.
●        Agarwal presented a budget of 4 lakh 28 thousand 384 million rupees.


Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Delhi on a 7-day tour
 
●        Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached the Indira Gandhi International Airport on a seven-day tour on Saturday evening.
●        They will go to Agra, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Mumbai and Amritsar.
●        There can be negotiations on increasing the trade between uranium, Khalistan and the two countries.
●        Apart from this, he also wants to follow the Indo-China Voters in Canada.
 

Special train-coach for the wedding party or tour will be online booking
 
●        Now any passenger can book Special Train, Coach, Salon with full tariff rate (FTR) through single window booking system of RCRCTC.
●        On this kind of online booking, 5 percent of the total rent will be charged.
●        At the same time, passenger will also have to pay 30% service charge.
●        To book special train of 18 coaches, 50 thousand rupees will also be deposited as security.


Firing at Florida School: 17 Deaths
 
●        In a high school in South Florida, a student fired on Wednesday in which 17 people died.
●        These include many students.
●        14 people have been injured.
●        Nicholas Cruz, the accused is 19 years old.
●        She is an alumnus of this school.


Industrialist Vikram Kothari absconding
 
●        The company that is making Rotomac Pen is accused of fleeing with a loan of more than Rs 500 crore from different government banks.
●        Owner of this company in Kanpur, Vikram Kothari took more than 500 crores loan from 5 government banks.
●        Allahabad Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Indian Overseas Bank and Union Bank of India kept the rule-law on fire and gave such a big loan to Vikram Kothari.

Current Affairs 17th February 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

International Sustainable Development Conference 2018 Done in Delhi
 
●        Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the World Sustainable Development Conference on February 16, 2018 in Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi.
●        WSDS is the main platform of the Energy and Resource Institute, which strives to bring global leaders and thinkers together with sustainable development, energy and the environment.
●        The topic of this year's summit was 'Partnership for a Regulant Planet'.

9 deals including security and energy between India and Iran
 
●        Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was on a three-day tour.
●        Delegation level talks between Rohini and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday .
●        After this meeting, there was agreement on 9 agreements, including security, trade and energy, between the two countries.
 

The Chinese company has given a bonus of Rs 163 crore


●        Here Fangda Special Steel Technology has given the employees 163 crores bonuses.
●        This amount was given in cash.
●        Employees took away the money in big bags.
●        There are about 5,000 employees in the company's steel unit.
●        Annual income from Fangda sales is Rs. 82,000 crores.
●        In the last 7 years, the company has Rs 1,630 crore The bonus is given.
 

Vijay Mallya to repay 578 million in London court
 
●        Vijay Mallya's day is not getting better. In another case, they have to eat a mole in the court.
●        The London court has ordered that Mallya pay 90 million rupees (approximately 578 million rupees) to Singapore's aviation company.
●        This case was linked to Kingfisher Airlines contract of aircraft lease in 2014.
●        Judge in the Business and Property Court in the High Court of London said that the defendant has no argument or evidence to defend against the claim.
 

send money via WhatsApp
 
●        Now it would be possible to send money through the Whatsapp in India.
●        The company is bringing the UPI based payment feature in India.
●        This feature is currently in testing mode.
●        After some time this feature will be available to everyone.
●        There are 20 million Whatsapp users in India.
 
Hackers stole Rs 38 cr from Russia's central bank
 
●        By attacking Russia's Central Bank Swift, the hackers blew 339.5 million rubles (more than $ 6 million or more than 38 million rupees) from Russia's Central Bank last year.
●        On Friday, Russia's central bank informed about this.
●        This has been revealed in a report focused on the theft of Russian banks on digital theft.
●        The central bank has said that information of a successful attack was sent to the workplace of the SWIFT System Operator.
 

Pakistan can deploy troops in Saudi Arabia


●        Making major changes in its policy, Pakistan has decided to deploy soldiers in Saudi Arabia under bilateral security cooperation.
●        After the meeting between army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf Saeed al-Maliki, at the Army headquarters located in Rawalpindi, the army of Pakistan announced this.
●        The army said, "Continuing the Pakistan-Saudi bilateral security cooperation, a group of Pakistani troops are being sent to Saudi Arabia on training and consultation missions. These soldiers and the soldiers already present there will not be deployed outside Saudi Arabia.
 

Current Affairs 17th February 2018: SCIENCE 

5 IITs join hands for 5G Technologies in India
 
●        More than 200 researchers, students and teachers of the 5 Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ) have joined hands for a 300-million project to develop 5G technology in India .
●        This project of the Department of Telecommunications is being said to be the largest project in collaboration with these institutions.
●        In this project, 5G will be tested in technology companies, telecom operators, optic and start-up so that it can be researched and developed.

Current Affairs 17th February 2018: SPORTS


Roger Federer becomes world's number one tennis player


●        Switzerland's world-renowned tennis player Roger Federer won the Rotterdam Open title on 16 February 2018.
●        With this win, he has become the oldest player to reach number one in the world rankings.
●        Recently, Federer won his 20th Grand Slam.
●        Roger Federer won the 20th Grand Slam, now he has become the oldest player to reach the top in the world rankings.

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