Important Current Affairs 21st May 2018

Important Current Affairs 21st May 2018

Current Affairs 21st May 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

I.G.N.C.A. Organizing the seventh series of "Sanjari: one India-great India"

●    The Indira Gandhi National Center for the Art of Culture is organizing a successful "Sanjari: One India-great India Bharat" series starting from its 30th Foundation Day every month.

●    The Center has endeavored to provide the folk music of different parts of the country every month in its original form for the general audience in Delhi so that these folk music can maintain its existence and reach its original form till the new generation.

Vice President will lay the foundation stone of NIDM's Southern Campus building in Kondapavuluru village of Andhra Pradesh

●   Vice-President Shri Venkaiah Naidu will lay the foundation stone of Southern Campus Building of National Disaster Management Institute (NIDM) in Kondapavuluru village of Gannavaram Mandal in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday (May 22, 2018).

●   Minister of State for Home, Mr. Kiren Rijiju and other officials of the Central and State Government will be present in the function.

India Receives First Cargo of Adnoc Crude Oil for its Mangalore Strategic Petroleum Reserve

●    India received the first cargo of UAE's crude oil to fill one of the two safari cavities from the two strategic petroleum reserves (SPR) Kandra (Cavern) built in Mangalore by Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserve Limited (ISPRL).

●   Earlier on May 12, Hon'ble Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Petroleum and Natural Gas and Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan and the Minister of State (United States) of UAE and Abu Jaber, Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, Adnoc Group's Chief Engineer, M. Inspiration 'To 2 million barrels of crude oil, which was from Dubai's Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc).

Indian Railway's grand station, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj 130 years of terminus building

●   Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (formerly Victoria Terminus) has completed 130 years of its construction on May 20, 2018.

●    The headquarters building of the Central Railway, whose folk name is Victoria Terminus (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus), is an excellent example of architectural art.

●    Initially, there was a plan to establish GIP (Great Indian Peniculular) Railway Office in this grand house.

Railway Ministry and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited signed MOU for the financial year 2018-19

●   Railway Ministry and Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) signed the annual consent letter (MoU).

●    It has been done about the financial and non-financial goals of the MOU company.

●   Shri Rajnish Sahai, Secretary, Railway Board and Mr. S.C., Chairman and Managing Director, RVNL. Agnihotri today signed MoU at Rail Bhawan.

Notified general guidelines on quality assurance for official data

●    Keeping in view the need to ensure the high quality of the official data being created at all levels of the government, to maintain the faith of the general public in official or government data, the Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation has given the Government of India the Gazette of 6th April, 2018 Notified in 'General Guidelines on Quality Assurance for Official Statistics' in Number 124 Are.

Current Affairs 21st May 2018: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Gurusoch Kaur becomes the first turban female Sikh officer of New York Police

●   Gurusoch Kaur has been included as the first turbaned woman Sikh Assistant Police Officer in the US Department of the New York Police Department.

●    She is the first Indian woman to be appointed to this position.

●    The goal of recruiting them is to inspire others to include in the police and to develop a better understanding of Sikhism.

●    He graduated from New York City Police Academy this year.

Nicolas Maduro won the Venezuelan presidential election

●    Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has won the presidential election again on May 21, 2018.

●   His opponents have rejected this election and demanded that elections be held again later this year.

●   National Election Council chief T. Lucena said 46.1 percent of the vote was cast in Venezuela's presidential election, which was much less than 80 percent of the last presidential election in 2013.

India is the sixth richest country in the world: report

●   India is the sixth richest country in the world according to a report released by the African Wealth Migration Review.

●    According to the report, India has got this position due to assets of US $ 8,230 billion.

●   According to the Asia Bank Global Wealth Migration Review, the US is at number one with assets of US $ 62,584 billion.

Current Affairs 21st May 2018: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Successful test of BrahMos missile for validity of service life extension

●   Today, at 10:40 a.m. successfully tested the BrahMos cruise missile from Integrated Testing Center (ATR) at Chandipur, Odisha.

●    This test was done to increase the service period of the BrahMos Cruise missile.

●  The tests of the missile were seen by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Brahmos scientists.

Dr. Harshavardhan will lead the Indian delegation at the mission-level Innovation Ministerial meeting.

●    Dr. Harshvardhan, Union Science and Technology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Forest and Climate Change, will lead the Indian delegation in the Ministry of Innovation Ministerial Meeting that will be held in Malmo on 22-23 May, 2018.

●    Mission Innovation is a global platform for 23 countries and the European Union, which is designed to accelerate clean energy innovation through more government assistance, large public-private partnership and more global cooperation.

Russia launches nuclear power plant floating on water

●   Russia launches the world's first floating nuclear power plant on May 19, 2018

●   So far no country had such a technique.

●   Russia introduced it to sea in a port of Murmansk city. Its name is 'Academic Lomonosov'.

China launches satellite to study the second part of the moon

●    China recently launched a satellite for the purpose of establishing contacts between the Earth and the Chinese lunar exploration mission.

●    The purpose of this mission is to get as much information about the second part of the Moon.

●    The launch of this satellite was done with the help of the Long March-4C Rocket from the Shichang launch center present in the southwest area of the country.

Current Affairs 21st May 2018: DEFENSE

Home Minister attended the passing out parade of CRPF's 241 Bastariya battalion in Chhattisgarh

●   The Union Home Minister, Shri Rajnath Singh today joined the passing out parade of CRPF's 241 Bastariya battalion in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh.

●    Addressing the gathering on this occasion, the Home Minister appreciated the efforts of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and the State Police to counter the Left extremism.

Bastaria Battalion built from local tribals included in CRPF

●    Awaited Bstria battalion of recruits Maoist-affected districts of chhattisgarh that went into service of the Central Reserve Police Force May 21 2018.

●    Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh joined the passing out parade in Ambikapur district.

●    The specialty of the Bastaria battalion is that it includes the local tribals of this area.

Current Affairs 21st May 2018: SCHEME

Haryana Chief Minister announced the launch of Student Transportation Scheme

●   Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced that in order to bring and bring more than five girl students from educational institutions in the state, a student transport security scheme will be started.

●     A nodal officer related to transportation in each school and college will be appointed.