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Yak 18Th October 2017 Of Import Daily Electrical Flow Affairs

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Dear Great Ambitionists, hither are today's (18th Oct 2017) Important Current Affairs updates. Happy Reading :)

Daily Current Affairs of 18th Oct 2017

International Current Affairs
  • The United States launched its first air strike against ISIS inward Yemen. 
    • The strike targeted 2 camps inward the Yakla and al-Abl in southern al-Bayda province that were used to educate militants to deport terror attacks using machine guns too grenade launchers. 
    • This strike was carried out inward cooperation amongst the Yemeni government.
MOUs & Agreements
  • India and Japan signed Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP), aimed towards expanding bilateral cooperation betwixt both countries inward the plain of science development.
    • Under the provisions of MoC, Indian technical interns volition hold upward sent to Nippon for on-the-job grooming for a menstruum of 3 to 5 years, who tin forcefulness out too hence furnish to Republic of Republic of India equally assets for the Skill Republic of Republic of India initiative.
National Current Affairs 
  • In an examine to cease Gender bias inward women against women, the Ministry of Women too Child Development is task an online sweat #IamThatWoman.
    • This sweat was launched past times WCD Minister Meneka Gandhi.
    • Through the campaign, the Ministry seeks to highlight the diverse aspects of women standing 'by' too 'for' women. 
    • Twitter too Facebook users cause got been encouraged to tag too part stories of women helping women amongst a photograph too postal service online amongst the hashtag #IamThatWoman.
  • Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has begun her two-day see to India's alone Tri-service home ascendancy inward Andaman too Nicobar Islands, wherein she'll celebrate Diwali amongst troops too interact amongst their families.
    • Sitharaman volition too review the command's operational preparedness too related issues too reportedly see its operational surface area equally good equally Car Nicobar Air Force Station.
  • According to a UN Fund for Population Activities' report, unopen to 27% children inward Republic of Republic of India are married before the historic menstruum of xviii years as compared to the global average of 28%. 
    • The study too states India's maternal mortality charge per unit of measurement (MMR), that is mothers dying per 1,00,000 alive births, is 174 against the world's average of 216.
  • The Kerala government's Public Relations Department has banned operate of the words 'Dalit' too 'Harijan' inward authorities publications, official communications of the government, too publicity materials, recommending the operate of the words SC too ST instead. 
    • The move, recommended past times the solid reason SC/ST Commission, was aimed at ending social discrimination at diverse levels inward society.
Awards & Honors
  • American writer George Saunders has won the £50,000 Man Booker prize for his novel 'Lincoln inward the Bardo'. 
    • The majority is based on a existent effect inward 1862 wherein too hence President Abraham Lincoln visited a cemetery where his boy was buried. 
  • The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has been ranked India's best academy for engineering scientific discipline too engineering in the 2018 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. 
    • While IISc has been ranked 89 globally, IIT Mumbai falls inward the 126-150 category followed past times IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur too IIT Kharagpur inward the 201-250 category. 
    • The listing has been topped past times Stanford University.
Banking, Business & Economic Affairs
  • India today imposed an anti-dumping duty on the import of some flat steel products from China and the European Union to curb the influx of cheaper imports too aid local producers. 
    • The duty volition hold upward valid for 5 years. Republic of Republic of India had before imposed an additional 18.95% import revenue enhancement on for certain stainless steel products from China.
  • JK Rowling (author of the Harry Potter series), has been named Europe's highest paid celebrity of 2017 by Forbes. 
    • Almost one-half of Rowling's $95 ane G m lucre during a 12-month menstruum came from her co-writing 'Harry Potter too the Cursed Child'. 
    • The minute seat on the listing was taken past times footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, who earned $93 million.
  • The Multi-Commodity Exchange of Republic of Republic of India Ltd (MCX) today launched India’s outset commodity options inward Gold, giving stakeholders a novel laid of fiscal instruments to hedge their cost risks.
    • Launched past times : Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
Sports Current Affairs
  • The life ban imposed on Indian fast bowler S Sreesanth past times the BCCI volition continue, the Kerala High Court has ruled today. 
    • This comes after the BCCI appealed against the August verdict of the same court, which had ordered lifting the ban on the 34-year-old. 
    • Sreesanth was banned for his alleged interest inward the IPL spot-fixing scam inward 2013.
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