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Yak 22Nd February 2018 Events - Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs

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Dear Great Ambitionists, hither are today's (22nd  Feb 2018) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 22nd Feb 2018

International Current Affairs
  • India has been ranked 81st in the Global corruption perception index for 2017, released yesteryear Transparency International.
    • Last year, Bharat was inwards the 79th place.
    • New Zealand and Denmark were placed the highest inwards the list. 
    • Syria, South Sudan and Somalia were ranked lowest.
  • Japan has donated over 10,000 ballot boxes worth $7.5 1 one one thousand thousand (over ₹48 crore) for Cambodia's 2018 full general elections.
National Current Affairs
  • Actor Kamal Haasan launched his political political party 'Makkal Needhi Maiam' as well as hoisted a flag carrying the party's symbol inwards Tamil Nadu's Madurai. 
    • The flag of Makkal Needhi Maiam Party depicts 6 hands belongings onto each other alongside a six-pointed star inwards the middle. 
  • The Jharkhand government has banned the Popular Front of India, claiming its members were "internally influenced yesteryear the ISIS". 
People inwards News
  • Indian Air Force officeholder Avani Chaturvedi has choke the country's first adult woman to wing a fighter jet solo, every bit she operated Russian-made MiG-21 aircraft inwards her showtime preparation sortie today.
Science & Technology
  • Microsoft is going to add together support for electronic mail addresses inwards 15 Indian languages across its apps as well as services.
    • It would let users to ship or have emails inwards local linguistic communication electronic mail addresses for Outlook accounts on personal computers. 
    • The xv Indian languages supported for electronic mail address include Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, as well as Urdu.
  • India successfully conducted the first nighttime case of indigenously developed nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Prithvi-II.
Awards & Honors
  • The Grace Bay beach in the Turks as well as Caicos Islands has topped the 2018 Travellers' Choice Beach Awards by TripAdvisor. 
    • The Baia produce Sancho beach in Brazil as well as Varadero Beach in Republic of Cuba convey been placed bit as well as tertiary respectively. 
    • Note : The Agonda Beach in Goa was placed 18th on the listing as well as was the exclusively Indian beach inwards the hold out yesteryear 25.
MOUs & Agreements
  • India and Canada have signed a bilateral understanding to back upwards entrepreneurs as well as startups from both the countries. 
    • Under this agreement, the governments of both the countries convey partnered alongside startup accelerator Zone Startups India, which volition position xl startups that volition have support. The programme volition particularly focus on women entrepreneurs.
Recent Committees inwards News
  • The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has constituted an practiced commission to await into the entire gamut of issues relating to classification of bad loans, effectiveness of audits as well as rising incidents of frauds. 
    • Head of this Committee : Y H Malegam (Former fellow member of Central Board of Directors of RBI).
  • Government  has constituted an Empowered Expert Committee (EEC) to choose xx Institutions of Eminence from amidst 104 institutions (public or private) that convey applied for the status.
    • Head of this Committee : N Gopalaswami (Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)) 
Banking, Business & Economic Affairs
  • The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) today lowered the involvement charge per unit of measurement to 8.55% for the financial twelvemonth 2017-18, compared to 8.65% for 2016-17. 
    • This is the bit conduct twelvemonth that the provident fund body, which manages a corpus of over ₹11 lakh crore, has reduced the involvement rate. 
  • India's largest lender State Bank of Bharat (SBI) today cautioned its cardholders of potential legal, financial as well as other risks associated alongside Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies.
    • However, the banking enterprise did non ban the role of its cards for such investments. 
    • Important Note : Citibank Bharat had already banned the role of its credit as well as debit cards towards buy or trading of cryptocurrencies.
  • Goa CM Manohar Parrikar today presented the Rs 17,123-crore budget for 2018-19, an increase of 6.84 per cent over the ongoing fiscal, alongside a stress on teaching as well as project creation. 
  • The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has announced that KYC (Know Your Customer) verification of payments banking enterprise customers done yesteryear telecom companies is non permissible.
    • It has instructed payments banks to consummate the KYC procedure independently through tertiary parties. 
    • This comes after Airtel was penalised yesteryear UIDAI for allegedly opening payments banking enterprise accounts without 'informed consent' of the users.
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