MAY
12 & 13 - CURRENT AFFAIRS
INDIA
v According to the report ‘RemitSCOPE – Remittance markets and
opportunities – Asia and the Pacific’, India has become the largest
remittance-receiving country in the world in 2017, with migrant workers from
the country sending home 69 billion US dollars.
v Scientists have discovered the world’s second oldest grain of
magnetic zircon from the Singhbhum rock at the Champua in Kendujhar district of
Odisha.
India and Peru signed agreement
v India and Peru signed an agreement on cooperation in the field
of Renewable Energy at Lima on May 11, 2018.
v The pact was signed in the presence of Vice President M Venkaiah
Naidu and the Prime Minister Cesar Villanueva Arevalo.
CONFERENCES
v The first-ever joint conference of Indian Customs and Department
of India Posts at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi to deliberate on streamlining of
imports and exports by post.
AWARDS
KISS Humanitarian Award 2018
v Prof. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel laureate and noted economist,
has been conferred with the 11th KISS Humanitarian Award 2018 for his
unwavering commitment to eradicate global poverty and foster economic and
social development.
IMPORTANT DAYS
May 12-The International Nurses Day
BOOKS & AUTHORS
Book :‘Across the Bench –
Insight into the Indian Military Judicial System’ Author :Lt Gen Gyan Bhushan,
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