Important Current Affairs 4th March 2018

Important Current Affairs 4th March 2018

Current Affairs 4th March 2018: NATIONAL  NEWS

Prime Minister addressed youth conference in Tumkuru, Karnataka through video conferencing

●        Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed a youth conference in Tukkuru, Karnataka today through a Vision-Theme Video Conference for New India: Youth Power.
●        The Youth Conference in Tumkuru is being organized on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee celebrations of Ramkrishna Vivekananda Ashram at Tumkuru to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda's address in Chicago along with the 150th anniversary of Sister Nivedita.
 
 
DEFXPO 2018 Exhibition
●        The DFXPO 2018 exhibition will show India's defense manufacturing capabilities for the first time in front of the world.
●        It is reflected in the tagline of the exhibition which is 'India: an emerging defense manufacturing hub'.
●        The DEFXPO 2018 exhibition will be branding as one of the defense exporters nation of all the three armies of the Army, Navy and Air Force of several Defense Systems and Components.

Telangana government will give Rs 2 crore reward for Gymnast Aruna Reddy

●        Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao announced a reward of Rs 2 crore for Aruna Reddy, who won bronze medal in the Gymnastics World Cup .
●        Rao honored Aruna in the program organized in Pragati Bhavan, Hyderabad on Sunday.
●        On February 24, Aruna B. of Hyderabad Reddy made history by becoming the first Indian gymnast to win an individual medal in the Gymnastics World Cup.
●        She named Bronze Medal in women's Vault competition.
 
Railway will construct 10 thousand kilometer high-speed train corridor in 10 lakh crore

●        Indian Railways will soon announce plans to build a high-speed train corridor to connect all the major cities of the country.
●        It is estimated to cost Rs 10 lakh crore on its construction.
●        This corridor, built on the lines of the Government's Bharatmala Highways Development Program, will be about 10,000 kilometers long.
 
 
BJP to form two government legislators in Meghalaya
 
●        Even after winning 21 seats in Meghalaya, Congress was away from power and BJP is going to join the government with only two MLAs.
●        The non-Congress front has submitted a claim to form the government in front of Governor Ganga Prasad.
●        The letter of support of 34 MLAs with BJP (2), NPP (19), UDP (6), HSPDP (2), PDF (4) and 1 independents has been given to the Governor.

Railway will make 'service captain' to overcome problems of passenger in trains

●        During the journey to the train, the Railway Service Captain (Supervisor) is planning to deploy the passenger's basic problems.
●        In December last year, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal had sought suggestions in the meeting from the head of all the zones.
●        On this, the committee has said that different types of uniforms should be given to the service captain so that the passenger can easily recognize them.
●        At the same time, they will be deployed as pilot projects in the first 10 trains by providing tool kit and better training.

90th Oscars Festival

●        The 90th Academy (Oscar) Awards Festival is going on in Hollywood.
●        Sam Rockwell won the Best Supporting Actor (Male) award.
●        This is Sam's first Oscar award.
●        At the same time, Allison Jenny received the Best Supporting Actor (Female) Award.
●        Victoria and Abdul, who played the role of India's actor Ali Fazal and British star Judi Dench, did not receive an Oscar.

More than 800 loan defaulters details will be given to CBI

●        The way the government came in speed after the issue of PNB fraud of Rs 2 thousand crore.
●        Looking at him, CBI can screw up more than 800 defaulters.
●        These are the default which is more than Rs. 50 crores.
●        In this case, the bank can hand over the list of these defaulters to the CBI this month.

Current Affairs 4th March 2018: GLOBAL  NEWS

President hosted the President of Vietnam

●        President Shri Ram Nath Kovind hosted His Excellency Trang Dai Kuang, President of Vietnam today (March 3, 2018) at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
●        Welcoming the President of Vietnam in India, the President thanked Vietnam for playing the role of a coordinator country in ensuring concrete results in the ASEAN India Memorial Summit held in New Delhi in January 2018.
●        The President said that between 2000 and 2000, there has been a longstanding civilizational relationship between India and Vietnam.
●        Buddhism, Hindu Champa civilization and our shared philosophy have strengthened our equal relationships.
 

Social Media launch of 'Hello Salome', a magazine on Indo-Israeli relations

●        Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Donor (Done), here yesterday, a letter devoted to Indo-Israeli relations, 'Hello Salome' Participated in the social media launch.
●        The festival of Holi and the Purim festival of the Jews was celebrated on the same day.
●        Editor of this magazine is former Member of Parliament Mr. Tarun Vijay.
●        On this occasion, Israeli Ambassador to India Mr. Daniel Carmon and other dignitaries were also present.

China warns US against trade war

●        China on Sunday warned US President Donald Trump, that if Washington begins the trade war, then he will have to bear the consequences.
●        "China does not want a trade war with the United States , but China will not be silent on the steps to harm its interests and take necessary action ," said Jeng Ysui, spokesperson of the National People's Congress in China, at a press conference .
 
 
Hindu woman Krishna Kumari became Senator in Pakistan

●        Krishna Kumari , a resident of Thar of Muslim-majority Pakistan 's Sindh province, became the first Hindu-Dalit woman to be elected as a colonel senator.
●        39 year old Kolhi was elected from the Pakistan People's Party led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.
●        Krishna has defeated a maulana associated with the Taliban in the elections.
 
 80% of bank accounts and 60% mobile connected to Aadhar

●        The last date for linking bank accounts and mobile connections from the base is March 31.
●        So about a month ago, about 80% of the country's bank accounts have been linked to the base.
●        According to an officer of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), about 60% of mobile connections have also been added to the base.
 

 US defense is nothing in front of Russia: Putin

●        Valadimir Putin has claimed that Russia has created a missile, beyond which no missile technology can survive in the world.
●        In his last speech on Thursday, just before the election, Putin said that this new weapon can reach any corner of the world and NATO's strength ahead of it is nothing.
●        Putin claimed that the nuclear capable missile could not prevent the shield of America and Europe in Asia.
●        Apart from this, Putin demonstrated another missile.
●        They claimed that nuclear missiles can also be made from this submarine-launched missile.

Current Affairs 4th March 2018: ECONOMY

4,472 crore investment to Flipkart from parent company

●        Flipkart, one of the country's top e-commerce companies, got an investment of Rs 4,472 crore from its parent company in Singapore in February.
●        This investment has been done in the wholesale unit of Flipkart.
●        Flipkart is strengthening its financial position to counter America's Amazon and Alibaba of China.
 
Institutional Investors invested $ 3.4 billion in Indian Warehousing Market

●        With the introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the status of the logistics sector as the infrastructure sector, the interest of institutional investors has increased manifold in the Indian Warehousing market.
●        For a long time in the Indian Warehousing segment, which has been unincorporated, Global and Domestic Institutional Investors have invested more than $ 3.4 billion in the last four years, which is about 26% of total private equity investment in real estate during this period.
●        These figures have come from a study report from Knight Frank India.