Important Current Affairs 3rd August 2018

Important Current Affairs 3rd August 2018

Current Affairs 3rd August 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

'Tourism Festival' will be organized all over the country from 16 September to 27th September.
 
●        The Tourism Ministry of the Government of India is organizing 'Tourism Festival' throughout the country from September 16 to 27, 2018, in collaboration with other Central Ministries, State Governments and all stakeholders.
●        The festival is being organized to focus on the benefits of tourism, to showcase the cultural diversity of the country and to strengthen the principle of "Tourism for Everyone".
 
45 new hostels sanctioned under working women hostel scheme
●        Dr. Virendra Kumar, Minister of State for Women and Child Development, told in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today that under the working women hostel scheme, 65 new proposals have been received during the last three years and during the current financial year and 45 new hostels sanctioned. has gone.
●        He said that the Women and Child Development Ministry is implementing the hostel scheme for working women from the year 1972-73.

 
Indian citizen won 19 crore in the lottery
 
●        V.V. Simon of Kerala has won around 19 crores in the big ticket lottery draw on Abu Dhabi International Airport on Friday.
●        Indians are dominating the Big Ticket draw.
●        One Syrian citizen and 10 others in the list of 10 winners

NBCC will complete Amrapali Group projects
 
●        Government company NBCC has told the Supreme Court that it is ready to take the projects of Amrapali Group entangled in the legal battle.
●        Amrapali Group has not been able to capture 42,000 home buyers flat.
●        Following this, the Bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Justice UU Lalit directed NBCC to submit a proposal to complete the project within 30 days.
●        The Bench told NBCC that the money that the Amrapali Group has taken from home buyers will be delayed for completing the projects.
 
 

Policy to help the footwear industry
 
●        Government is considering to create an incentive policy for one of the most important sectors of the footwear industry in terms of participation of labor and small industries.
●        Under this, work on measures to enhance skill and employment in the sector has started, as well as increasing footwear manufacturing and export.
●        There is a work of constructing nearly half a dozen footwear clusters across the country.
 
 

Railways earned 13.94 billion rupees from canceled tickets
●        In the financial year 2017-2018, the money collected from the passengers instead of the ticket was canceled, the treasury of the railway stood at around 13.94 billion rupees.
●        Even after the charts were created during the last financial year, the Railways earned Rs 88.55 crore from the fee charged on the passenger ticket stays in the waiting list.

Bill passed to give constitutional status to OBC Commission in Lok Sabha
 
●        In the Lok Sabha, on August 02, 2018, the Bill to grant constitutional status to the Other Backward Classes Commission was passed unanimously.
●        Unanimous approval was granted in the Lok Sabha with a majority of more than two-thirds majority.

Supreme Court issues guidelines for improving judicial structure
 
●        The Supreme Court issued new guidelines on August 02, 2018 for effective administration of judicial functions and improving the infrastructure of the courts across the country.
●        These include appointment of management professionals as court masters.
●        The Supreme Court has directed that a commercially qualified court manager will be appointed to assist in court administration in judicial districts provided they have an MBA degree.

Current Affairs 3rd August 2018: AWARDS

More than 10,000 nominations were received for Padma Award-2019
●        The last date for online nomination for the Padma awards on Republic Day, 2019 is September 15, 2018.
●        After the nomination on May 1, 2018, there have been 11,475 registration on the website, in which 10,453 nominations have been completed.

Current Affairs 3rd August 2018: SCHEMES

Prime Minister Ujjwala plan touched 5 crores figure
●        Smt. Sumitra Mahajan, Lok Sabha Speaker, gave away five millionth LPG connections to Mrs. Takdiran of Delhi under the Prime Minister Ujjwala Scheme in Parliament House here today.
●        Speaker Sumitra Mahajan appreciated the collective efforts made by the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the leadership of Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to achieve the target of 5 crore for the senior officials and oil marketing companies of the Ministry.

Current Affairs 3rd August 2018: SPORTS

Steeplechase runner Naveen Dagar found positive in Dope Test
 
●        The Indian athletics team preparing for the forthcoming Asian Games today suffered a major setback when the steeplechase runner Naveen Dagar was found positive in the banned substance meldonium during the inter-state athletics competition in Guwahati .
●        Dagar 2014 is the bronze medalist of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games and he got a qualifying mark of 8:41 sec during the Guwahati competition.
 

NCL will help to conserve young athletes
 
●        Northern Coalfields Limited has decided to help the young athletes in the country.
●        Based on the competition, the first session of the residential academy started with the admission of 18 talented young athletes elected from all over the country.
●        NCL has taken the initiative of caring for the talent of these young athletes in the age group of 12 to 14 years.

Current Affairs 3rd August 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

12 year old Divyang wrote the book
 
●        In Britain, a 12-year-old child wrote a book.
●        Jonathan Brian can not speak and neither can he be physically able to write.
●        With the help of e-train frame, Jonathan has written a book named " I Can write".

Emmerson Mnangagwa won Zimbabwe's presidential election
 
●        Emmerson Mnangagwa has won in Zimbabwe's presidential elections.
●        They will once again become President of Zimbabwe
●        Zimbabwe's Election Commission Chief Justice Priscilla Chigumba announced their victory.
●        After the resignation of 94-year-old President Robert Mugabe in November 2017, elections were held for the first time in Zimbabwe.

Current Affairs 3rd August 2018: ECONOMY

540.43 crores profit of SAIL
 
●        Steel Authority of India Limited has made a profit of Rs 540.43 crore in the first quarter (April-June) of FY 2018-19 by removing the liability of tax.
●        In the first quarter of the financial year 2018-19, SAIL has made a turnover of Rs 15,743.21 crore, which is 22.42% more than the corresponding period of the previous financial year.

Current Affairs 3rd August 2018: DEFENSE

Tejas fighter plane successfully completed 'deck landing' test
 
●        Naval prototype of the indigenously built fighter plane Tejas received a major feat by contacting the deck during the 'deck landing' test on aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya on 02 August 2018.
●        Along with this, India has joined a range of select countries such as America, Europe, Russia and China, which decks landing fighter aircraft.