Important Current Affairs 31st March 2018

Important Current Affairs 31st March 2018

Current Affairs 31st March 2018: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Japanese scientists discovered 15 planets, three 'super Earth'
 
●        Japan scientists have discovered 15 new planets, three of them have called ' Super Earth '.
●        There is also the possibility of having water on one of these three planets .
●        Research done by scientists of the Tokyo Institute of Technology based in Japan has received information about these planets.
 
Three times more water than  saturn found on a new planet
 
●        Astronomers have discovered about a planet of the size Saturn planet, about 700 light years away outside the solar system, which has indicated signs of water.
●        American Space Research Institute, NASA said on Thursday that this planet has been named WASP-39B.
●        It has three times more water than Saturn.
 
100 new planets found out of the Solar System
 
●        Scientists have discovered 100 new planets out of our solar system .
●        These are the planets that revolve around other stars outside our solar system.
●        Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of these planets by studying data collected by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope 2.

Scientists find anti-cancer proteins
 
●        In preventing the spread of uncontrolled cancer cells in the liver, scientists have discovered a particular type of protein.
●        Anti-cancer proteins have been named LHPP.
●        The research, published in the journal Nature, said that LHPP can be a sign of biomarker or biological condition in the diagnosis and diagnosis of liver cancer.

Current Affairs 31st March 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

Airtel gets permission for Aadhar verification with conditions
 
●        The Indian Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) has restored the right to make Bharti Airtel through its Verification Base base.
●        This approval is given to the company with certain conditions.
●        UIDAI has not restored the facility of use of E-KYC basis for Airtel Payment Bank.

Pilot of hijacked plane in 1971 M K Kachuru passes away 
 
●        Indian Airlines pilot Capt M K Kachuru passed away on Saturday (March 31).
●        Kachuru was the pilot of the aircraft, which was hijacked in January 1971.
●        The plane which was hijacked had 26 passengers and four crew members.
●        The flight was to Srinagar from Srinagar, which had taken two Kashmiri terrorists (Hashim and Ashraf Qureshi) to Lahore.

Current Affairs 31st March 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

Indian American attorney is the New Jersey Bar Association
 
●        Indian-American attorney, Prithvi Patel , has been inducted into the New Jersey Bar Association.
●        Patel came to the United States as an undocumented refugee.
●        Patel is the first beneficiary under the Deafard Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which has been included in the New Jersey Bar Association.

Point Nemo is called the Graveyard of Spacecraft on Earth
 
●        There is such a place on earth called Point Nemo .
●        This place is the most distant from any other place on the globe, and it is not easy to reach there.
●        This place in the South Pacific Ocean is 2,688 km north of Pitcairn Island.
●        On the globe it is south from Dot Maher Island (Antarctica).
 
Area of Sahara desert increased by 10 percent so far since 1920
 
●        The climate change in the area of the world's largest desert resort located in the continent of Africa is changing due to climate change.
●        Since the 1920s, its area has increased by 10 percent.
●        A group of researchers, including a scientist of Indian origin, claimed this.
●        The report of this study, published in a climate-based journal, states that it may have increased in other deserts in the same way.
 
Donald Trump Announces 'Second Chance Month' in April
 
●        US President Donald Trump has declared 'Month for giving second chance' in April 2018.
●        Trump has taken this step to include people with criminal records as members who contribute to the society.
●        The President urged the federal, state and local government to implement 'evidence-based programs' in the jail system, which would focus on the job training, consultation and issue of drugs and mental health.
 
Stephen Hawking will be burried in Cambridge University 
 
●        The great physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking will be cremated at a church near the Cambridge University College.
●        This college has been an academic home for more than 50 years of Hawking, so this place has been selected.
●        One of the well-known scientists and writers of the world, Hawking took a last breath in his Cambridge home on March 14 at the age of 76.

GAIL India imported LNG for the first time from the US
 
●        After imports of LPG from the United States, India has made a new history by importing LNG.
●        On Friday, the first cargo filled with supercooled natural gas from the US reached Dabhol in Maharashtra.
●        After 25 days journey from Louisiana, a charter ship MV Meridian Spirit reached Dabhol.
●        This will greatly reduce the cost of LNG for India.

Current Affairs 31st March 2018: ECONOMY

Sale of Euro-6 grade petrol-diesel will start in Delhi from April 1
 
●        From April 1, Delhi and NCR people will use clean petrol and diesel.
●        There is no additional charge for this.
●        Government oil companies will supply euro-6 grade diesel and petrol in Delhi from Sunday.
●        Delhi will be the first state in the country where it will get clean fuel. Euro-6 grade fuel will be supplied across the country from April 1, 2020.
 

3 lakh crore investment in mutual fund
 
●        During the financial year 2017-18, between April and February 2018, investment of Rs 2.94 lakh crore has come in mutual funds.
●        This is the highest investment in any year.
●        As far as the return is concerned, only the fund of the pharma sector has given a negative return, apart from this, all sector funds have given a good return.
●        At the end of February, the mutual fund has got total asset under management above Rs 22 lakh crore.

Current Affairs 31st March 2018: APPOINTMENT

Indian-origin officer appointed Scotland Yard's new anti-terrorism chief
 
●        In Scotland, Indian-origin officer of Scotland Yard Neil Basu was appointed the country's anti-terrorism chief on Monday.
●        In Britain, this responsibility is considered by many to be the hardest in the British police.
●        49-year-old Basu is currently the deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.

Current Affairs 31st March 2018: SPORTS

The Himachal government will give Rs 30 lakhs to the gold medal winner in the Commonwealth Games along with Government job
 
●        In the Himachal Commonwealth Games, Gold Medal winners will get a government job of 30 lakh rupees, silver jeweler 20 and bronze winner with a sum of 10 lakh rupees .
●        Sports Minister Govind Thakur announced this during the budget session.
●        He said that the state government will also change the rules of the sports welfare council fund with the game policy created in 2002.