Current Affairs
Daily Updates: 13th March 2018
1. India’s first
Coastal Policing Academy in Gujarat:
- India’s first of its kind
National Academy of Coastal Policing (NACP) will be functional from April
2018.
- The Academy will train police
forces in maritime laws, navigation, weapons handling and survival skills
for effectively safeguarding country’s shoreline.
2. 1st Indo-French
Knowledge Summit in New Delhi:
- The first edition of the
Indo-French Knowledge Summit for university, scientific and technology
cooperation was recently held in New Delhi.
- The two days summit
was organized by the French Embassy in India to
providecommon platform for increasing student mobility, enlarging
R&D collaboration and link campuses to companies by focusing on
employability.
3. Floating Lab set up
to monitor Loktak Lake:
- The Institute of Bioresearches
and Sustainable Laboratory (IBSD), Imphal has set up a floating laboratory
on Loktak lake for monitoring its water quality and find out the measures
for improving it.
4. India wins Best
Exhibitor Award at ITB-Berlin:
- India has won the Best Exhibitor
Award at ITB-Berlin on the last day.
- ITB-Berlin World Tourist Meet
was started at Berlin, Germany from 7th March to 10thMarch
2018.
5. Modi, Macron
jointly inaugurates Solar Power Plant In UP:
- Prime
Minister NarendraModi and French President Emmanuel Macron
jointly inaugurated 101 megawatt solar power plant in Mirzapur
district of Uttar Pradesh.
- The largest solar project in the
country has been set up by French company ENGIE.
6. Multilateral Air
Force exercise “Samvedna” starts:
- Multilateral Air Force exercise
“Samvedna” will be held from March 12 to 17, 2018.
- Air Forces of Bangladesh, Sri
Lanka, UAE and Myanmar will participate in the exercise.
7. Russia successfully
launches Kinzhal missile:
- Russia successfully launched
high precision aeroballisticKinzhal hypersonic missile from MiG-31
supersonic interceptor jet.
- The word Kinzhal means
double-edged Russian dagger.
- It can strike without entering
enemy’s air defence zone.
8. India B wins
Deodhar Trophy 2018:
- India B team has won the 45th edition
of Deodhar Trophy 2018 by defeating Karnataka in the final match by 6
wickets.
- Deodhar Trophy is named after
Prof. DB Deodhar, known as the Grand Old Man of the Indian Cricket.
9. John Sulston passes
away:
- Genome pioneer Sir John Sulston
has passed away at the age of 75.
- He got Nobel Prize in 2002 for
doing innovations in cancer research.
