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- "The Swachhata-MoHUA is the official app of Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs(MoHUA), GOI. The app enables a citizen to post a civic-related issue (eg; a garbage dump) which is then forwarded to the city corporation concerned and thereafter assigned to the sanitary inspector of the particular ward"
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- India and Pakistan extended agreement of Thar Link Express, second solitary rail service between both countries for three more years till 2021
- Indian Navy launched Scorpene submarine INS Karanj at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL), Mumbai, Maharashtra. It the third Scorpene class submarine built by MDL under ambitious Project 75 of the Indian Navy
- These are diesel-electric attack submarines equipped with anti-ship missile. The first four submarines will be conventional, while last two will be equipped with the Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system, which will enable them to stay underwater for longer duration.
- INS Kalvari was commissioned in December 2017 and second, INS Khanderi is undergoing sea trials.
- The Ministry of Commerce & Industry has launched third version of the Government e-Marketplace (GeM 3.0).
- GeM is an Online Market platform to facilitate procurement of goods and services by various Ministries and agencies of the Government. It has powerful search engine and price comparison using third party sites – multisource and real time.
- The Himachali archaeologist and folklorist is O.C. Handa
- SWIFT : the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
- Reuters reported that hackers stole 339.5 million roubles (about $6 million) from a Russian bank last year in an attack using SWIFT
- FATF (Financial Action Task Force)
- Ministry of Earth Science (MoES) has inaugurated high performance computer system (HPC) or supercomputer Mihir (meaning sun) 6.8 Peta Flops (PF) .at National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF), Noida.
- above improved India rank to 4th position after Japan, UK and US interms of dedicated HPC resources for weather/climate forecasts.
- The Union Government has inked $250 Million Loan Agreement with Asian Development Bank (ADB) to Improve Rural Connectivity in 5 States viz. Assam, hhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and West Bengal under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
- Note: PMGSY was launched in year 2000
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- NITI Aayog member Dr Vinod Paul became first Indian to be awarded prestigious IhsanDoğramacı Family Health Foundation Prize by World Health Organisation.This award will given to him at World Health Assembly to be held in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2018.
- Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee (83) was awarded France’s highest civilian award, Legion d’Honneur. He was presented the medal by French Ambassador Alexandre Ziegler at a function in Kolkata, West Bengal. He got this award to promoting Indian cinema in France.
- India hold 3rd Position: World Steel Association (WSA), India has overtaken US to become the world’s third largest steel producer in 2017. India’s crude steel production is 101.4 million tonnes in last year its 95.5 MT
- India's first News Paper: journalists and social activists celebrated 238th anniversary of India’s first newspaper the Hicky’s Bengal Gazette. 29, January is also celebrated Hicky’s Day to pay tributes to the fighter-journalist James Augustus Hicky who is considered as founder of journalism in India.
- Himachal Pradesh Government has launched Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) project to promote organic farming. It was launched by Chief Minister, Jai Ram Thakur. The project aims to increase agriculture produce and the income of farmers by the year 2022
- It requires almost no monetary investment and envisages use of ‘Jeevamrutha’ and ‘Beejamrutha’. The main aim of ZBNF is eliminate use of chemical pesticides and uses biological pesticides and promote of good agronomic practices. Farmers use earthworms, cow dung, urine, plants, human excreta and such biological fertilizers for crop protection.
Budget 2018:
- Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley tabled the Economic Survey 2017-18 in Parliament during 2018 budget session. The survey was authored by chief economic adviser in the ×nance ministry Arvind Subramanian.
- The survey projects economy to grow in the range of 7% to 7.50% in the next ×scal year 2018-19 in the post-demonetisation year. Suvey 2017-18 was in pink colour to highlight gender issues. Key Highlights of Survey Growth Forecast: The real GDP growth projections for 2017-18 is expected to be around 6.75%, which is further expected to reach to 7-7.5% in 2018-19 driven by major reforms initiated by the government.
- There was reversal of declining trend of GDP growth in second quarter of 2017-18. The growth during this period was led by industry sector. Agriculture, industry and services sectors are expected to grow at the rate of 2.1%, 4.4%, and 8.3% respectively in 2017-18
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- The India-Vietnam Bilateral Army Exercise (VINBAX-2018) was conducted at Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh(first time these two countries do this )
- About ASEAN: It consists of 10-member countries- Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. It was established on August 8, 1967 through ASEAN declaration (also known as Bangkok Declaration). Its secretariat is located in Jakartaa, Indonesia.
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