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International Current Affairs

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to see Russia on 21st May 2018.
• During this visit, he volition handgrip an informal summit alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• In the summit, the 2 leaders volition substitution their views on international matters.
• Guatemala today opened its diplomatic mission inwards Jerusalem.
  
• With this, the reason became the second nation afterward the US to opened upwardly its diplomatic mission inwards the Israeli city. 
• The Minister of State for External Affairs General VK Singh today became the 1st  Indian government minister to see North Korea inwards 2 decades. 
• During this visit, Singh volition handgrip talks alongside his North Korean counterparts.
• The ministerial see had been planned inwards alignment alongside improving relations betwixt Democratic People's South Korea as well as the US.
• The Scottish Parliament today  voted 93 to xxx against the UK's European Union Withdrawal Bill. 
• The 2 countries cause got been at odds over the legislation that deals alongside the transfer of ability afterward the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. 
• Scotland before dropped its opposition to the nib as well as accepted the power-sharing proposals past times the UK.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a comprehensive invention titled 'REPLACE' to eliminate industrially-produced artificial trans fats from the global nutrient furnish past times 2023.
• Elimination of trans fats is key to protecting the health as well as saving lives, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. 
• The global health trunk estimates that every year, trans fatty intake leads to over 5,00,000 deaths worldwide from cardiovascular diseases.

National Current Affairs

• President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the 4th edition of Global Exhibition on services inwards Mumbai. 
• He has also released the logo for Services as well as launched the portal. 
• 25 Indian states as well as roughly 100 countries are expected to participate inwards Global Exhibition on Services, this year, alongside 625 exhibitors as well as 500 overseas delegates.  
• Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala has allowed the BJP to evidence bulk as well as shape the regime afterward it emerged equally the unmarried largest political party inwards the state.
• Currently, the BJP has won 95 seats as well as secured a Pb inwards ix constituencies. 
• Meanwhile, the JD(S)-Congress alliance has won a full of 110 seats as well as is leading inwards v constituencies.
• To strengthen the safety of women passengers , the North Eastern Railway (NER) has decided to innovate Panic Buttons inwards develop coaches. 
• The buttons volition endure placed at convenient spots for slow access.
• The NER is also planning to deploy women police clit personnel inwards suburban trains during nighttime hours likewise recruitment of women inwards the Railway Protection Force.
• The Uttar Pradesh regime has started distributing 'shagun' to all newlyweds equally role of an endeavor to promote household unit of measurement planning. 
• The gift includes a wedlock registration form, condoms, contraceptive pills, bindis as well as a domicile pregnancy testing kit.  
• The regime today clarified that Aadhaar has non been made mandatory for getting pension for regime employees. 
• The regime said that Aadhaar is an additional facility to enable the utilization of applied scientific discipline for submission of life certificate without visiting banks.
• Note :  There are well-nigh 48.41 lakh key regime employees as well as 61.17 lakh pensioners.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

• India emerged equally the 3rd largest solar marketplace inwards the world inwards 2017 behind China and the US.
• As of 2017-end, large-scale projection evolution accounted for 92 pct of the all-time cumulative solar installations inwards Republic of Republic of India alongside 19.6 GW, as well as 2017 lone made upwardly xc pct of such installations alongside 8.6 GW.
• With 680 billionaires, the United States has to a greater extent than billionaires than China, Germany and India combined, according to a study past times Wealth-X. 
• While PRC has 338 billionaires, Deutschland as well as Republic of Republic of India cause got 152 as well as 104 billionaires respectively. 
• The footing billionaire population reached a tape high of 2,754 final yr spell their combined wealth surged to tape $9.2 trillion, the study added.
• Two independent directors of IDBI Bank cause got resigned afterward CBI named them inwards an FIR inwards connector alongside a ₹600-crore loan granted to erstwhile Aircel promoter C Sivasankaran's companies. 
• Ninad Karpe as well as S Ravi will pace downward from the board alongside final result from May eleven as well as May 12 respectively. 
• Note : The CBI had named xv IDBI Bank officials inwards the FIR
• India has released grant of Neplaese Rupees (NRs) 18.07 crore for river preparation as well as structure of embankments along Lalbakeya, Bagmati and Kamla rivers inwards Nepal. 
• Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri handed over a fit of grant to doc Sanjay Sharma, Secretary Ministry of Energy, Irrigation & Water Resources, Nepal inwards Kathmandu on 15th May.

MOUs & Agreements

• The states of Himachal Pradesh, Jammu as well as Kashmir, Haryana and Uttarakhand agreed to implement the ambitious National Health Protection mission, which aims to provide an annual coverage of Rs v lakh per family.
• The iv states as well as the Union Territory of Chandigarh inked MoUs alongside the Union Health Ministry for the implementation of Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Swasthya Suraksha Mission.
• The centrally-sponsored scheme, which volition provide a coverage of Rs v lakh per household unit of measurement annually as well as make goodness to a greater extent than than 10 crore families belonging to the pathetic as well as vulnerable sections of the society, is probable to endure launched inwards August.

Deaths

• Eminent Physicist EC George Sudarshan (86) passed away.
• He served equally Honorary Advisory Council Member of Houston Sri Meenakshi Temple.

New Appointments

• Gujarat Governor Om Prakash Kohli was given the additional accuse of Madhya Pradesh spell the state's Governor Anandiben Patel is on leave. 
• Online classifieds platform Quikr has appointed its 1st Chief Financial Officer Rahul Tewari since its inception inwards 2008. 
• Previously, Tewari worked equally an Executive Vice President at ICICI Securities as well as other investment banking firms including Bank of America as well as Deutsche Bank.  
• Former BCCI President Shashank Manohar has been re-elected equally the independent Chairman of International Cricket Council afterward he was the sole nominee topographic point frontwards past times the ICC Board.
• Note : Manohar had larn the kickoff independent ICC Chairman inwards 2016.  
• Vodafone Group today  announced that CEO Vittorio Colao volition pace downward inwards Oct afterward working at the fellowship for a decade. 
• The telecom firm's electrical flow CFO Nick Read volition supervene upon Colao equally the novel CEO.  

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