Important Current Affairs 27th May 2018

Important Current Affairs 27th May 2018

Current Affairs 27th May 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

Prime Minister Launches Phase I of Eastern Peripheral Expressway and Delhi-Meerut Expressway
●        Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday dedicated two new Expressway country names to Delhi National Capital Region.
●        First of these, the first phase of the 14-lane access controlled Delhi-Meerut Expressway, from Nizamuddin Setu to Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border.
●        The second project dedicated to the nation's name is the 135-km long Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), from NH-Kundali to National Highway No. 2 at Palwal on National Highway No. 1.
 
 
Famous actor Akshay Kumar launches ad campaign for 'Swachh Bharat'
●        Renowned film actor Shri Akshay Kumar today launched an advertisement campaign for Clean India Mission (Rural) in the capital.
●        This campaign was started in the 'Collector's Convention for Toilet Technology' organized in the capital.
●        This campaign focuses on promoting double-decked toilet technology in rural India and this advertisement includes Mr Kumar along with actress Ms. Land Pednekar.

Gobind Singh Dev becomes the first Sikh to join the Malaysian Cabinet
●        Indian-origin politician Gobind Singh Dev has been made Cabinet Minister in Malaysia.
●        He is the first person in the minority community to be appointed as minister in the history of the country.
●        45-year-old Gobind Singh Dev has been appointed Minister of Communication and Multimedia.

21 government banks into 25,775 crores banking fraud in the financial year 2017-18
●        Due to large scale fraud in the banking sector of the country, the financial year 2017-18 has been extremely difficult on 21 banks in the public sector.
●        In the past financial year, due to different cases of banking fraud, the banks had to suffer a loss of about Rs 25,775 crore.
 
Indigo and Air India among the world's 5 most affordable airlines
●        IndiGo and Air India Express , which offer cheap air services at affordable rates, are among the five cheapest airlines in the world to provide international connectivity .
●        According to the Global Flight Pricing Report, the government company is second in the Air India Express list and Air India Express is ranked 5th in the Air India Express list.
 
Reliance Communications to start Bankruptcy Proceeding
●        The Insolvency Tribunal has ordered ordering bankership pricing against Reliance Communications (RCom).
●        From this, the deal to sell Anil Ambani's ownership rights to the telecom company's own wireless assets, Big Brother Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Infocomm for Rs 18,000 crore could be a shock.

Asif Ali Zardari will contest the elections after 24 years
 
●        Asif Ali Zardari , the former president and co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party , has said that he will fight for his National Assembly from Nawabshah for the National Assembly seat.
●        He is returning to electoral and parliamentary politics after 24 years.
●        He was elected to the National Assembly seat in 1990 from Karachi's preparatory sector and from Nawabshah in 1993.

Current Affairs 27th May 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

New data protection laws in Europe apply to GDPR
●        The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come into effect from May 25, 2018.
●        Under this, the customer or the user will be the owner of their online data.
●        This law will affect not only 28 EU member states but also affect the companies worldwide which process the users and users of European countries by collecting data.

11 people killed in Mekunu storm in Oman
 
●        11 people, including three Indians, died in the Mekunu hurricane that occurred on the Yemeni island of southern Oman and Socotra.
●        On Friday in the Khofar and Oman regions of Oman, the Hurricane Mekunu knocked on.
●        This storm changed from one class to the other as the storm of class two reached here.
 
Growing heat in Norway, 14 degrees Celsius breaks 71 years record
 
●        The rising heat in Norway has broken records of past 71 years.
●        At that time mercury is only 14.4 degree Celsius, but it is much more there accordingly.
 

China gives relief to Pakistan in $ 500 million loan case
 
●        China has agreed to grant a rebate of five million dollar loan terms to Pakistan.
●        It has happened at a time when Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves are in a trance despite borrowing $ 44 billion in the last 5 years.
 
 
India launches second IT corridor for market expansion in China, 
●        India started the second information technology corridor on Sunday to take advantage of China's software market.
●        The organization of IT companies, NASSCOM, informed about this.
●        He has set up another Digital Collaborative Facility Plaza in China.
●        This has been done in an effort to ensure the reach of domestic IT companies in China's huge market.

Announcement of general election in Pakistan on 25th July
●        The date of the general election has been announced in Pakistan.
●        President Mamun Hussain on Saturday put his stamp on the Election Commission's proposal.
●        The President has approved the EC's recommendation to hold general elections on July 25.
●        According to Radio Pakistan, elections will be organized simultaneously for the National and Provincial Assembly.

Current Affairs 27th May 2018: DEFENSE

Fourth ship of Landing Craft Utility Mk-IV was included in Naval Fleet
 
●        AVSM, VSM, Chief of Material Vice Admiral G.S. Pubby added the IN LCU L-54 ship to Indian Navy fleet in Port Blair on May 25, 2018.
●        IN LCU L 54 Fourth Landing Craft Utility (LCU) incorporated in the Indian Navy is the ship of the MK-IV category.

Current Affairs 27th May 2018: ECONOMY

Arcelormittal repaid 7,500 million rupees in Essar Steel case
 
●        Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal of Arcelormittal has donated Rs 7,000 crore dues of its associate companies.
●        With this step, he will get the legal entitlement to bid for the bankruptcy company Essar Steel .

5,500 bunkers and 200 community hall will be built on LoC
 
●        Officials of Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir have started work on preparing more than 5,500 bunkers and 200 community hall to help the people who have faced Pakistani firing .
●        In this district adjacent to the LoC, Pakistan's ceasefire violations often cause people to flee and many times people have died due to the bullet injuries.