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On December 6, 2017,
International Solar
Alliance Framework
Agreement came into
force.
• How much amount of line of credit will be give
by India to 15 countries for 27 solar project?
a)$ 1.4 billion
b) $ 2.3 billion
c) $3.5 billion
d) $3.2billion
Indo-French Knowledge Summit
 India’s first coastal policing academy

Nearly a decade after threats

to coastal security was
magnified during the 26/11
terror attacks, the country's
first national academy to
train police forces in
effectively safeguarding the
Indian shoreline will start
functioning from the next
month along the Gujarat
seafront.
 Samvedna 2018
• The first Humanitarian
Assistance and Disaster Relief
(HADR) exercise of the Indian
Air Force in association with
South Asian Region nations.
• The multilateral exercise
named 'Samvedna' is the first
composite HADR exercise in
the South Asian Region and
would involve representatives
from air forces of Sri Lanka,
Bangladesh, Nepal and the
UAE
 Medal for Excellence in Police
Investigation
• The government approved
proposal to institute an
award for officers of the
state police and central
investigative agencies,
who carry out best
investigation of crime,
with an aim to promote
high professional
standards
KALAMSAT (old)
National Large Solar
Telescope
 NISAR
• ISRO and NASA are jointly
working on the NASA-ISRO
Synthetic Aperture Radar
(NISAR) mission to co-
develop and launch a dual
frequency synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) satellite by 2021.
• The satellite will be the
world’s most expensive
earth-imaging satellite till
date, costing around $1.5
billion. It aims to study
global environmental change
and natural disasters.
 GSAT-6A
•ISRO said that the GSAT-
6A was similar to the
GSAT-6 put into orbit in
2015.
•The GSLV is a three
stage/engine rocket. The
core of first stage is fired
with solid fuel while the
four strap-on motors by
liquid fuel. The second
stage is the liquid fuel-
propelled and the third is
the cryogenic engine.
Important Discoveries Of Stephen
Hawking:
• Theory Of Singularities (1970)
• Laws Of Black Hole Mechanics
(1971-74)
• Cosmic Inflation Theory (1982)
• Model On The Wave Function Of
The Universe(1983)
Books authored by him
• A Brief History of Time
• The Universe in a Nutshell
• The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of
• His latest book release in 2013 was a
memoir titled 'My Brief History'.
 105th Indian Science Congress
• The focal theme of 5-
day ISC is “Reaching
the Unreached
Through Science &
Technology”.
• ISCA was started in
the year 1914 at its
headquarters in
Kolkata.
 Kochon Prize
• for TB research
• ICMR
 World Hindi Secretariat
• President Ram Nath Kovind
inaugurated World Hindi
Secretariat building in Port
Louis, Mauritius.
• The Secretariat is fully financed
by Government of India and
provided grant of Rs. 33 crore.
Prime Modi laid the foundation
stone of this Secretariat in
2015.
• Official Languages of UNO????
World Happiness Index 2018
 World Consumer Rights Day
• March 15.
• Theme “Making Digital
Marketplaces Fairer”
• National Consumer
Rights Day???
• 24th dec.
 Urban Governance
• Janaagraha Centre for
Citizenship and
Democracy (Janaagraha)
released the 5th edition
of its Annual Survey of
India’s City-Systems
(ASICS) report.
• The report assessed the
quality of governance in
23 major cities of India
across 20 states based on
89 questions.
Reducing MMR and IMR
NAIPUNYA RATHAM
 Festival of Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
• Ram Nath Kovind,
inaugurated the Festival of
Innovation and
Entrepreneurship (FINE) and
presented the Gandhian
Young Technological
Innovation Awards
• Festival is being organised by
the President's Secretariat in
association with Department
of Science and Technology
(DST) and National Innovation
Foundation (NIF).
 Earth Hour 2018

It was started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia, in 2007.

“Give Up to Give Back”

 Democracy Index
• India has moved down from
32nd place last year to 42 place
this year’s EIU Democracy Index.
• Top 10 countries in 2017 GDI:
Norway, Iceland, Sweden, New
Zealand, Denmark, Ireland,
Canada, Australia, Finland and
Switzerland.
• India’s neighbors Pakistan
(110th), Bangladesh (92nd),
Nepal (94th) and Bhutan (99th).
Those named as ‘authoritarian
regimes’ include China (139th).
SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
 Insight mission
• NASA will send first-ever
mission named as InSight
(Interior Exploration using
Seismic Investigations.
• InSight will be stationary
lander that will be
launched in May 2018. It
will be first NASA mission
since the Apollo moon
landings to place
seismometer.
 Philippines withdraws from
International Criminal Court
• President Rodrigo
Duterte said that the
Philippines was
withdrawing from the
treaty that established
the International
Criminal Court.
World Sparrow Day
Jigyasa
 Operation Cactus
• The 1988 Maldives coup
d'état was the attempt by a
group of Maldivians led by
Abdullah Luthufi and assisted
by armed mercenaries of
a Tamil secessionist
organisation from Sri Lanka,
the People's Liberation
Organisation of Tamil
Eelam (PLOTE), to overthrow
the government in the island
republic of Maldives.
 Lingayat
• Siddaramaiah led Congress
government in Karnataka has
declared the Lingayats to be
a religious minority.
Hinduism being an
amorphous religion has seen
branches of sub-traditions
and oppositional traditions
since time immemorial. The
Lingayats too emerged as a
reactionary force against
Hinduism in the twelfth
century.
 EWDS
• India’s first automatic Early
Warning Dissemination
System (EWDS) will be
commissioned by March 2018
in Odisha.
• The project aims to establish
fool-proof communication
system to address existing
gaps in disseminating disaster
warning up to community
level.
 Swachh Bharat Sanitation Park
• The Ministry of Drinking
Water and Sanitation has
developed a Sanitation
Park in collaboration with
the Environmental
Sanitation Institute and
Tata Trusts.
 Trump”s New appointee
POST OLD NEW

NATIONAL SECURITY H.R MCMASTER JOHN BOLTON

ADVISOR

SECRETARY OF STATE HOPE HICKS Mike Pompeo

Chief economic advisor Gary cohn Larry kudlow

CIA director Mike pompeo Gina Haspel

• Which has been rated as the best among
airports handling more than 40 million
passengers per annum in airports council
international (ACI) survey?
A) IGIA
B) chhatrapati Shivaji international Airport
C) Rajiv gandhi International Airport
D) Netaji Subhash chandra Bose International
Airport
• For the second year in a row, Hyderabad’s
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has
bagged the World No.1 slot in the 5-15 million
passengers per annum category in ACI-ASQ
Passengers Survey 2017.
• Best airport in customer experience : Mumbai
 National E-Mobility Programme
• Shri R K Singh, Union Minister
of State (IC) Power and New &
Renewable Energy, launched
the National E-Mobility
Programme here, today. The
Programme aims to provide
an impetus to the entire e-
mobility ecosystem including
vehicle manufacturers,
charging infrastructure
companies, fleet operators,
service providers, etc
 Archery Asia cup 2018
• Indian junior archers bagged
three gold and three bronze
medals.
• Promila Daimary bagged gold in
the women's recurve individual
where India also bagged bronze
through Madhu Vedwan.

India had bagged a gold in the

women's compound individual
section - Muskan Kirar
 TPP
• How many countries have joined trans pacific
partnership?
- 11 countries
• India’s tallest flag was recently unfurled in
which district?
a) Belagavi
b) Gulbarga
c) Dharwar
d) Karwar
• Who has become the 1st indian Women to be
awarded the “ academy award for nobel
peace”?

• Dr. Ketzia David Prakasam

 ISSF world cup shooting
• India topped the medals
tally for the very first time
in an International
Shooting Sport Federation
(ISSF) competition, after
finishing the World Cup
Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stage
with four gold, one silver
and four bronze for a
total of nine medals.