One Liner GK Current Affairs: 27th March 2018
One Liner GK Current Affairs: 27th March 2018 has all the Latest Headlines as those of the Current Affairs Updates and rest of the news as per the recent updated news. All the important news have been mentioned in single sentences. All the Static and GK kind of questions have been mentioned at the end of the article keeping in mind the pattern of SSC and Bank exams. These are very important for the upcoming examinations of IBPS, SSC CHSL, SSC CGL and Railway exams.
CURRENT AFFAIRS BITES
Important Days- World Theatre Day was initiated in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI). It is celebrated annually on the 27th March by ITI Centres and the international theatre community
- Surat has become the first district in the country to have 100 percent solar powered Primary Health Centers (PHC).
- K Vijay Raghavan, one of the most distinguished biologists of the country, was appointed Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
- According to a report, India, the largest consumer of mobile data in the world, ranks 109th when it comes to mobile Internet download speeds
- According to a report by India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), India’s electricity production grew 34% over seven years to 2017, and the country now produces more energy than Japan and Russia, which had 27% and 8.77% more electricity generation capacity installed, respectively, than India seven years ago.
- India has overtaken Germany to become the fourth largest automobile market in the world, latest global data show.
National Affairs
- SWIFT introduces universal real-time payment tracking
- The Ministry of Finance has approved a proposal to provide government guarantee of 5,000 crore in the current financial year for Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) bonds to be subscribed by Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).
- The beginning of the tourism season in the Kashmir Valley was marked with the opening of Asia's largest Tulip garden here on the banks of the iconic Dal lake.
- World’s oldest city Varanasi to go ‘wireless’
- Jet Airways announced its plans to expand its presence in the North East and make Guwahati its regional gateway to/ from the region.
- The U.S. government's development finance institution, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), on Monday, committed a USD 12.5 million (Rs. 80 crore) loan to a project that will expand access to affordable clean drinking water to millions of low and middle-income people in India.
- Indian Navy’s Talwar class frigate INS Tarkash carried out a “greeting and training” exercise with the U.S. Navy’s Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (TRCSG) which was until now involved in operations against the Islamic State in the Arabian Gulf.
- The Supreme Court (SC) proposed a roll out of Bharat Stage-VI (BS-VI) fuel across 13 metros by April 1, 2019.
- The Launch of e-Tribes, TRIFED’s websites includes www.tribesindia.com, www.trifed.in and Retail Inventory Software and M-commerce app.
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for Central Sector Scheme "Integrated Scheme for Development of Silk Industry" for the next three years from 2017-18 to 2019-20.
- Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in partnership with CII is conducting “3R (Reduce, Reuse & Recycle) Awards and Exhibition” with an objective to reward large, medium, small industry, Start-ups who are involved in the areas of 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), waste management and recovery, resource conservation and Resource Efficiency.
- The Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin), Assam launched a massive campaign titled ‘Mission Sambhav’, in which one lakh toilets will be simultaneously constructed across the state in a bid to make Assam open defecation free by the year-end.
- The Airport Authority of India (AAI) signed an MoU with Assam government under its Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) initiative for sustainable development of human settlements at villages in Kamrup district
- The International Solar Alliance (ISA) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), signed the Host Country Agreement.
- Equitas Small Finance Bank has launched a new ‘Yellow Army Savings Account’ to increase its customer base through its association with the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), a franchise of the Indian Premium League (IPL).
- A’ National Conference on Down Syndrome’ was organised by the National Trust under Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
- Bollywood actor Anushka Sharma and shuttler PV Sindhu has been featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2018 list, which includes innovators and disruptors who are reshaping their industries and changing Asia for the better.
- South Asian Cinema Foundation (SACF), a city-based organisation has received the Frederick Pincott Award for 2017 from the Indian High Commissioner, Y K Sinha for promoting Hindi cinema in Britain for the last 18 years.
STATIC GK NOTE DOWN POINTS
- ITI: International Theatre Institute
- ITI Headquarters: Paris, France
- IBEF: India Brand Equity Foundation
- IBEF Headquarter: New Delhi
- Germany Capital: Berlin
- Russia's Prime minister: Dmitry Medvedev Trending
- Russia's Capital: Moscow
- Russia's Currency: Russian ruble
- Russia's President: Vladimir Putin
- SWIFT: The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
- SWIFT Headquarters: La Hulpe, Belgium
- SWIFT CEO: Gottfried Leibbrandt
- LIC Headquarters: Mumbai
- Jet Airways CEO: Vinay Dubey
- OPIC: Overseas Private Investment Corporation
- OPIC CEO: Ray Washburne
- OPIC Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States
- U.S. Capital: Washington, D.C.
- U.S. President: Donald Trump
- AAI: Airport Authority of India
- AAI Headquarters: New Delhi
- International Solar Alliance Headquarters: Gurugram
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