IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF FEBRUARY 11th, 2018
IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS OF FEBRUARY 11th, 2018
1.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation for Abu Dhabi's first Hindu
temple via
video conferencing.
2.
Britain’s Prince Charles has launched a new
10-million-dollarDevelopment Impact Bond (DIB) to help improve education
for over 200,000 children in India.
a. DIB is the latest
fundraising initiative by British Asian Trust (BAT) set up by royal 10 years
ago to fight poverty in South Asia.
b. Note : It is the largest bond
of its type in South Asia.
3.
The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development is going to
establish National
Women Entrepreneurship Council (NWEC).
a. NWEC will promote
entrepreneurship as it would be the umbrella organization for socio-economic
gender parity, financial inclusion and economic empowerment of women in India.
4.
The Union Ministry of Power has launched a Web based monitoring
System and Fly Ash mobile application titled ASH TRACK.
a. It was launched by Minister
of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy R.K Singh in New Delhi.
b. ASH TRACK Mobile App will
manage 200 million tonnes of fly ash by tracking coal based power plants
situated within 100 km and 300 km from given location and availability of fly ash,
along with prospective users within same radius.
5.
The Madhya
Pradesh government
today launched a mobile application titled 'Pollution Metre' to
spread awareness against pollution in the western part of the state.
6.
With a total wealth of $950 billion, India's financial capital Mumbai has been ranked as the12th
richest city globally by South
Africa-based market research group New World Wealth.
a. Mumbai also featured
among the top 10 cities in terms of billionaire population with 28
billionaires.
b. The list was topped by New York with $3 trillion wealth.
7.
The Indian Navy has unveiled the Integrated Automatic
Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) at INS Garuda, naval air
station located in Kochi, Kerala.
a. IAAMS is ambitious
project of Indian Navy to modernise Meteorological infrastructure of 9 Naval
Air Stations (NAS).
b. It is expected to bring
accuracy in weather monitoring mechanism in the Indian Navy.
8.
Pakistan’s well known human right activist and senior lawyer Asma Jahangir (66) passwed away in
Lahore today.
a. She co-founded the Human
Rights Commission of Pakistan in 1987 and became its Secretary General until
1993 when she was elevated as commission’s chairperson.
b. She also became president
of Supreme Court Bar Association.
c. She was also co-chair of
South Asians for Human Rights.
9.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh released a book titled "Mere
Sapno Ka Bharat'' in Parliament premises
New Delhi.
a. This book is about the
best interviews of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
b. This book has been been
compiled by Tarun
Vijay,
former BJP MP and Editor of Panchjanya, an RSS published journal.
10. Abhilasha Kumari was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court.
a. With this, she became first women and third
full-time Chief Justice of Manipur High Court.
11. Two Indian institutes
featured in top 50 Asian institutes in TIMES Higher Education
(THE) World University Rankings for educational
institutes in Asia.
a. They are :
o Indian Institute of
Science (29th)
o Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay (44)
o This list was topped by National University of
Singapore.
12. Indian princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep
Singh was
honoured by the Royal
Mail of the UK,
which marked the centenary of the suffragette movement with eight special
stamps.
a. Suffragettes were members of women's
organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries which advocated the
extension of the 'franchise' or the right to vote in public elections, to
women.
13. 17-year-old snowboarder Redmond Gerard won the 1st gold medal
for the United States at this year's Winter Olympics, with his victory in the
snowboarding slopestyle competition.
14. Pune-based swimmer Rohan More (32) became the youngest in the world and first Asian to complete the Ocean
Seven Challenge, which involves crossing seven of the world's toughest ocean
channels covering a distance of around 200 km.
