Important Current Affairs 3rd March 2018

Important Current Affairs 3rd March 2018

Current Affairs 3rd March 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

The country's first honey enrichment museum will open in Kutch of Gujarat
 
●        If farmers and craftsmen of Kutch get proper guidance and training, then honey can be an important factor in environmental protection along with economic benefits.
●        For the promotion of honey, the country's first museum will be constructed in the next few years in Kutch. The only Research Center is working in Pune.
●        Now a similar kind of research center is being organized in Kutch.
 
 
BJP's strong base in North-Eastern states
 
●        Election results in the three North-Eastern states have made the Bharatiya Janata Party even more stable on the political platform.
●        While the party won an unprecedented victory in Tripura, the performance of BJP in Meghalaya and Nagaland was encouraging.
●        Use of these results will be done by BJP in the next two months to prepare the ground for itself in Karnataka's important election season.

Increased Private Investment, Returns Trust in India Inc

●        During the third quarter of the current fiscal year investment activity indicates revival.
●        During this period, more than 10% growth in the capital formation was recorded and commercial vehicles sales were strong.
●        With the increase in the construction sector and the increase in cement production, the growth of capital goods has accelerated.
 

FSSAI Draft Rules for Restaurants
 
●        The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India has prepared regulations for restaurants and food serving outlets.
●        Under these, it is mandatory to appoint food safety officers to get the license of restaurants.
●        Apart from this, e-commerce companies who sell food products also need to get licenses under a separate category.

Monorail will run in April in Mumbai
 
●        Monorail services will be available for service to Mumbai from April.
●        The Commissioner of Railway Safety will review the project before March 15.
●        After two to four days of this formalization, the date of operation of the project will also be decided.
●        Monorail first phase from Chembur to Wadala began in 2014.
 

A smart gadget ready for TB testing
 
●        Researchers at IIT Delhi, Jamia Hamdard University and Indian Council for Medical Research have teamed up with a smart gadget to check TB .
●        This gadget is named 'iMC2 TB Test'.
●        With this help, TB can be detected in just one hour, i.e., as in the case of TB no longer will be taken four days.
●        This Smart Gadget will save time as well as economical.

Current Affairs 3rd March 2018: DEFENSE

Navy's 6 women officers reached Cape Town on the Sagar Parikrama
 
●        The Indian Navy's sailboat INSV Tarin reached the Cape Town on Friday.
●        Tarini Sagar is the world's first such sailboat, which has all the 6 crew members.
●        Tarini had left from Panaji on September 10, 2017.
●        It reached Cape Town while being Port Stanley of Littleston and Falklands, New Zealand's Fremantle, New Zealand.
●        Sailboats will return to India this month from Cape Town.

Successful test of anti-tank NAG missile

●        Successful testing of Nag missile was conducted by the Indian Defense and Research Organization (DRDO) in Rajasthan on February 28, 2018.
●        Nag is an anti-tank guided missile of the third generation.
●        Nag missile test has been done with the aim of giving more force to Indian forces.
●        Officers of Army and DRDO were present during this trial.

Current Affairs 3rd March 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

Life Time of the World's Fastest Electronics Detected
 
●        Achievement of the first time in the world of 'Bright Electrons', the achievement of 10 Indian researchers has been achieved.
●        This research was going on in the Lab of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Colaba, for the last two years, which was successful.
●        Team Leader Professor G. Ravindra Kumar said, 'Electrons move ahead in a solid thing like glass, faster than light.
●        This was detected in 1930, but no one succeeded in searching about the life of the 'fastest electrons'.
 
7041 people created world record

●        On Saturdays, 7041 people have decided to write a book titled 'Gandhi Vichar Ayaa' and 'Non-Violence' at the Guinness Book of World Records together.
●        Although the official announcement for the name of the Guinness Book has not yet been made.
●        This achievement of Gadchiroli will be recorded in Guinness Book of World Records 20 days later.
●        On May 18, 2017, Turkey also created such a world record. In which 5,754 were involved.

 
Many economies may suffer due to loss in steel and aluminum in the US: IMF
 
●        The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the decision to impose heavy duty on steel and aluminum imports of President Donald Trump could harm the US and its business partners.
●        IMF has urged all countries to remove issues of disagreements in a constructive manner.
●        Trump had said on Thursday that it would impose 25 percent on steel and 10 percent import duty on aluminum to protect the interest of the American industry.

Current Affairs 3rd March 2018: AWARDS

GLOMO Awards to Reliance Jio

●        Reliance Jio got the prestigious Global Mobile Awards of 2018.
●        It was announced at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona.
●        In this happiness, Jio announced to give free 10 GB of data to its customers.

Current Affairs 3rd March 2018: ECONOMY

The world's 500 richest people lost 8345 billion rupees  this week 
 
●        The world's 500 richest people lost about $ 83.45 trillion ($ 128 billion) this week.
●        This amount is equal to total market capitalization of NetFlix or McDonald Corp.
●        Berkshire Hathaway chairman, Warren Buffett, became the world's biggest hauler in the world market.
●        From Monday, Warren Buffett's property has lost about 243 billion rupees ($ 3.74 billion).
●        Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was at second place in the property givers who had a shock of about $ 241 billion ($ 3.71 billion) during last Friday to Friday.

Current Affairs 3rd March 2018: SPORTS

Shahzar Rizvi won gold
 
●        India's Shahzar Rizvi made it memorable by winning the gold medal in the World Cup held in Guadalajara, Mexico.
●        Shahzar targeted the gold medal on Saturday night in the 10 meter air pistol.
●        Rizvi also made a new world record of shooting as well as winning gold in this 10 meter shootout competition.

 
Navjot Kaur won gold medal at Asian Wrestling Championship
 
●        Indian women wrestler Navjot Kaur won gold medal in the Asian Wrestling Championship on 02 March 2018.
●        Navjot won this medal by defeating Mia Emai of Japan in the 65 kg category by defeating 9-1.
●        The final of the Asian Wrestling Championship was played between Navojot and Miya in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
●        Navjot Kaur defeated Mongol wrestler Sevamed Nakhbir 2-1 in the semi-finals of the Asian Wrestling Championship.

Current Affairs 3rd March 2018: SCMEMES

RBI launches Ombudsman scheme for NBFCs

●        Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has introduced the Lokpal Scheme for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) on February 23, 2018.
●        This arrangement will facilitate the speedy and duty free redressal of complaints related to the reduction of services in NBFCs.
●        The offices of NBFC Ombudsman will work in the metros of Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai.