IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF
OCTOBER 8th, 2018
IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF OCTOBER 8th,
2018
1.
The Indian Navy today began the third
edition of JIMEX, a 9-day bilateral maritime exercise with Japan,
after a gap of five years.
a. Aim of
JIMEX : Improving understanding and imbibing the best
practices of each other.
b. The exercise,
being held in Visakhapatnam, shows an "upswing" in defence relations
between the two nations.
2.
US President Donald Trump and North
Korean leader Kim Jong-un are going to meet for
a second summit between the two countries soon.
a. The
announcement came after US State Secretary Mike Pompeo and Kim Jong-un met in
Pyongyang today.
b. Note : Trump met
Kim in Singapore in June for the first-ever summit between the two countries.
3.
Indian Air Force celebrates its 86th anniversary today.
a. The force was
formed on 8th October 1932 with a strength of six RAF-trained
officers and 19 air soldiers.
b. Important
Details about Indian Air Force
i) Founded
on : 8th October 1932
ii) Motto : Touch the
Sky with Glory (नभः स्पृशं दीप्तम्)
iii) Headquarters : New Delhi
iv) Chief of Air
Staff : Birender Singh Dhanoa
v) Vice Chief of
Air Staff : Anil Khosla
vi) Indian
Airforce is the World's 4th largest Airforce.
vii) The Indian
Air Force has involved in the following:
(1)
World War II
(2)
Sino-Indian War
(3)
Operation Cactus
(4)
Operation Vijay
(5)
Kargil War
(6)
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
(7)
Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
(8)
Congo Crisis
(9)
Operation Poomalai
4.
To provide financial assistance to the children of construction
workers for their technical education in the state, the Odisha Government
has launched a new scheme titled ‘Nirman Kusuma’ programme'.
a. The scheme
was launched by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneshwar
today.
5.
The Union Government has decided to cover damages to
crops in wild animal attacks under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima
Yojna in select districts on an experimental basis.
a. In this
regard, Government has amended provisions of crop insurance scheme in
consultation with various stakeholders after review of its working for the last
two years.
b. CEO of
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) : Ashish Kumar Bhutani
6.
Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has sanctioned 5
new battalions of anti-riot and crowd control Rapid Action Force
(RAF).
a. These new
battalions will be stationed at :
i.
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)
ii.
Hajipur (Bihar)
iii.
Jaipur (Rajasthan)
iv.
Mangalore (Karnataka)
v.
Nuh (Haryana)
b. With these,
the total number of RAF battalions in the country has gone up to 15.
c. Note : Varanasi
will be fourth base of RAF in Uttar Pradesh- the three others being in Meerut,
Allahabad and Aligarh.
7.
After foraying into India with its first store in Hyderabad,
Swedish furniture giant IKEA is going to open its second
store in Mumbai later this year.
a. Note : IKEA will
invest nearly ₹3,000 crore in the next
three years to open three warehouses in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Delhi.
8.
The government is probing the Competition Act
2002 to check if the big discounts offered by online retailers
like Amazon, Flipkart promote competition.
a. In this
regard, the government has appointed 10-member panel.
b. Head of this
Panel : Injeti Srinivas (corporate affairs secretary)
9.
Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
(MoEFCC) has reconstituted Supreme Court-empowered Environment Pollution
(Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA).
a. This comes
after tenure of the last EPCA expired on October 3, 2018.
b. Chairman of
reconstituted EPCA : Bhure Lal (Former IAS officer)
10.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and
the UN Environment has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for coherent
implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development.
a. The MoU aims
to cover all major interest common areas of both CII and UN Environment.
b. It also aims
to provide framework of cooperation and facilitate cooperation in areas
including environment, renewable energy, climate change, resource conservation
and management, energy efficiency, water sanitation, smart cities and urban
infrastructure.
11.
American economists William D Nordhaus and Paul
M Romer were awarded the 50th Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
in Memory of Alfred Nobel (also known as Nobel Prize in Economics)
for the year 2018.
a. While William
was recognised for his work on climate economics, Romer was awarded for his
work on endogenous growth theory. They will share a $1-million cash prize.
12. The Employees’
State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has won the ‘ISSA Good
Practice Award’ for Administrative Solution for Coverage Extension at
the “Regional Social Security Forum for Asia and the Pacific” held at Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.
13.
India, who had won the Under-19 World Cup in February this year,
defeated Sri Lanka to win the Under-19 Asia Cup for a
record-extending sixth time.
a. This is the
fourth time that India defeated Sri Lanka in the final to win the
tournament.
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