CURRENT AFFAIRS - 2018
JUNE - 12
INDIA
‘Rail Madad’ and ‘Menu on Rails’ App
v Piyush Goyal, the Union Minister of Railways
& Coal, has launched two new mobile apps – ‘Rail Madad’ and ‘Menu on Rails’
– to ease the travelling experience of the commuters.
v The
Rail Madad app is aimed at
expediting & streamlining passenger grievance redressal while the ‘Menu
on Rails’ app will allow
passengers to check the list of meals and beverages served on all type of
trains and their prices.
‘Sanskar’
v The Assam government will soon launch an
awareness programme — ‘Sanskar’– in all development blocks and panchayats.
v The move is taken in the wake of incidents
triggered by superstition and ignorance including the lynching of two young
artistes in Karbi Anglong district of the state.
‘#YogaFor9to5’
v The Ministry of Women and Child Development
(WCD) has launched ‘#YogaFor9to5’, a contest focused on generating awareness
regarding benefits of Yoga at Workplace for Women.
APPOINTMENTS
v Union government has constituted a technical
committee under the chairmanship of former chief statistician TCA Anant to
bring in more transparency in jobs data calculation and presentation.
CONFERENCES
“Malabar
2018”
v The 22nd edition of the trilateral naval
exercise “Malabar 2018” has started between India, Japan and United States from
June 6-15.
v The exercise will feature both ashore and
at-sea training off the coast of Guam in the Philippine Sea.
The First
military exercise of the BIMSTEC
v India will host the first military exercise of
the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic
Cooperation) group focusing on counter-terrorism in Pune on September 2018.
India-US colloquium on
Earth Observations and Sciences for Society and Economy
v Inaugurated at the CSIR-National Institute of
Oceanography (CSIR-NIO), Dona Paula, Goa
IMPORTANT
DAYS
June 12 - The World Day against Child Labour
v The 2018 theme ‘Generation Safe & Healthy’
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