Thursday, 5 July 2018

CURRENT AFFAIRS ENGLISH - JULY 04,2018


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 JULY – 04


INDIA

‘Happiness Curriculum’
v Arvind Kejriwal launched
v For students of nursery to Class 8 in government schools
State-of-the-art e-waste recycling unit
v India’s first-ever state-of-the-art e-waste recycling unit will come up in Bengaluru
v It produces an estimated one lakh tonne of electronic waste a year.
‘Sambal’
The Madhya Pradesh government has launched an outstanding power bill waiver scheme and subsidised power scheme ‘Sambal’ for labourers and poor families.
APPOINTMENTS

v Major General Jose Eladio Alcain has been appointed new Head of Mission and Chief Military Observer for UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)

vP.K. Shrivastava has taken over charge as the new Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB)
The Sunil Mehta committee
v Formed with a view to tackle Non-Performing Assets and creating credit capacity submitted its report with recommendations to Union Finance Minister Piyush Goyal
CONFERENCES

“Behdienkhlam 2018”
v The famous cultural festival “Behdienkhlam 2018” was celebrated in Meghalaya
IUFoST World Food Science and Technology Congress 2018
India will host the 19th edition of IUFoST World Food Science and Technology Congress 2018 in Navi
The IUFoST stands for ‘International Union of Food Science and Technology’. The focal theme is ’25 Billion Meals a Day by 2025 with Healthy, Nutritious, Safe and Diverse Foods’.
Monsoon session of the state Legislature
Nagpur, is set to host the Monsoon session of the state Legislature today after a gap of 47 years.

SPORTS

v Major General Vikram Dogra has become the first serving Indian Army officer and the only general across the world to have successfully completed a gruelling ‘Ironman’ competition held in, Austria


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