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Yak 28Th February 2018 Events - Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs

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Dear Great Ambitionists, hither are today's (28th Feb 2018) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 28th Feb 2018

International Current Affairs
  • Today (Last Day of February) is Rare Disease Day.
    • This hateful solar daytime aims to enhance awareness nigh relatively unknown diseases as well as their impact. 
    • Started equally a European event, over fourscore countries across the footing convey joined the campaign. 
    • Note : According to the World Health Organisation, a illness industrial plant life inwards less than 6.5-10 people per 10,000 people is defined equally rare.
    • Theme of Rare Disease Day 2018 : research
  • Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani today offered to recognise Taliban as a legitimate political grouping inwards society to goal the over 16-year-long war. "
    • He likewise proposed a ceasefire as well as the release of Taliban-linked prisoners along alongside fresh elections as well as a constitutional review.
  • Belgium's upper-case alphabetic lineament Brussels is going to render free world carry on days of excessive air pollution under novel emergency rules. 
    • Speed limits of cars would move reduced past times a tertiary as well as forest fires volition move banned unless they are the solely source of heating for households.
  • The 2 hateful solar daytime International conference on Sustainable Biofuels was held inwards New Delhi. 
    • This conference was jointly beingness organized past times Department of Biotechnology as well as Biofuture platform.
    • Aim of this Conference : To render mutual platform to Government policy makers, industry, investors as well as question community to telephone substitution experiences as well as challenges related to evolution as well as scaling of advance biofuels. 
  • The seventh Meeting of Eminent Persons Group (EPG) on Nepal-India relations was late held at Kathmandu.
    • Various bilateral issues including 1950 Peace as well as Friendship treaty, trade, environment, edge as well as hydropower were discussed during the two-day meeting.
    • Next coming together of the grouping volition move held inwards New Delhi.
    • About EPG : 
      • Eminent Persons Group (EPG) is a articulation machinery consisting experts as well as intellectuals from Republic of Republic of India as well as Nepal.
      • It was gear upwards inwards Feb 2016 to render suggestions for updating all existing bilateral treaties as well as agreements betwixt both the countries.
National Current Affairs
  • Today (28th Feb 2018)  is National Science Day.
    • On this day, the acre pays tributes to the legacy of the neat scientist, Dr C V Raman, who brought Nobel Prize inwards Science to Asia as well as Republic of Republic of India for the commencement fourth dimension for his ground-breaking achievement of the Raman effect.
    • Professor Raman disclosed this regain to the footing on 28th of February, 1928 as well as he was awarded the Nobel Prize inwards 1930.
    • In 1986, The National Council for Science as well as Technology Communication (NCSTC) had urged the Indian authorities to declare Feb 28 equally National Science Day.
    • Theme of National Science Day 2018 : "Science as well as Technology for a sustainable future."
  • Former Finance Minister P Chidambaram's boy Karti Chidambaram was arrested at Chennai Airport past times the CBI today for non cooperating inwards the investigation of the INX Media coin laundering case. 
    • Karti is beingness probed for allegedly receiving a committee inwards a authorities clearance for INX Media's unusual investment during his father's tenure equally the Finance Minister.
  • The 21st National Conference on e-Governance was held inwards Hyderabad (Telangana). 
    • Theme of the Conference : ‘Technology for accelerating Development’.
  • The Union Ministry of Health as well as Family Welfare launched ‘Viral Load testing’ for all People Living alongside HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). 
    • The viral charge exam measures amount of HIV inwards blood number of copies of HIV RNA inwards millilitre of blood.
Science & Technology
  • As business office of a commencement privately-funded mission, the Moon is going to teach its 1st 4G mobile network side past times side yr to allow lunar exploration vehicles to current high-definition information dorsum to a base of operations station. 
    • Vodafone Germany, Nokia, as well as carmaker Audi jointly announced that they were working inwards collaboration alongside Berlin-based infinite exploration scientists. The projection is a to the Moon.
  • In society to render access to information on commonly-searched symptoms, Google has rolled out a novel characteristic called 'Symptom Search' inwards India. 
    • If a user searches for symptoms similar 'cough as well as pain', the Search app volition demo a listing of related conditions.
MOUs & Agreements
  • The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has entered into MoU alongside Indian Ocean Rim Association’s (IORA’s) Regional Centre for Science as well as Technology Transfer (RCSTT) for designating Central Institute of Medicinal as well as Aromatic Plants, Lucknow (CSIR-CIMAP) equally Coordinating Centre on Medicinal Plants.
Deaths
  • The Shankaracharya of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Swamigal (82), passed away today. 
    • He had succeeded Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswathi Swamigal inwards 1994 equally the 69th pontiff of the Peetham.
New Appointments
  • Archaeologist as well as historian Arvind P. Jamkhedkar has been appointed equally the side past times side Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR).
    • He is going to supervene upon the introduce Chairman K. Sudershan Rao.
Banking, Business & Economic Affairs
  • The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) has raised exposure bound nether Exchange Traded Currency Derivatives (ETCD) trading for residents as well as Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) to $100 million across all currency pairs involving Indian rupee. 
    • This conclusion aims to assistance entities engaged inwards forex transactions to hold their currency risks inwards amend manner. 
    • Note : Earlier, the bound was of $15 1000000 for the U.S. of A. Dollar-Rupee as well as $5 1000000 for other currency pairs of Indian rupee alongside Japanese Yen, Euro as well as British Pound.
  • Flipkart's payments platform PhonePe has signed a partnership alongside Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) to deploy its late launched Point of Sale (POS) devices at IOCL retail outlets.
  • E-commerce major Amazon Republic of Republic of India today launched its ad-free music streaming service, Amazon Prime Music, for the Prime members, at no extra-cost.
    • The service offers unlimited offline downloads as well as includes a broad arrive at of songs across international as well as Indian music labels inwards over 10 languages.
  • Telecom operator Aircel today announced it has filed for bankruptcy as the companionship has been facing "troubled times" inwards "highly financially stressed" industry.
Sports Current Affairs
  • 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer and 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams won the Laureus Sportsman as well as Sportswoman of the Year awards respectively.
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