Current Affairs 2017

MGNREGA has reached a major milestone by geotagging one crore assets created under it. The geotagged assets have been put in public domain.

The World Bank has approved a loan of $375 million (around Rs 2,421 crore) for capacity augmentation of National Waterway-1 (NW-1) between Haldia in West Bengal and Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on the river Ganga under the Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP).

Ministry of Food and Consumer Affairs has approved the ‘Guidelines on Fair Trade Practices Related to Charging of Service Charge from Consumers by Hotels and Restaurants’.

Which airline became the world’s first airline to adopt new satellite-based airplane tracking system?

दुनिया का सबसे बड़ा रुबिक क्यूब कहाँ पर बनाया गया है?

The high court judges of this state have decided to give up the red beacon lights much before the set deadline

• April 22: Earth Day
• SC sets 25% of husband’s net salary as alimony
• Pakistan Leases Gwadar port to a State-run Chinese firm for 40 years

Pakistan has leased the operations of its strategic Gwadar port to a State-run Chinese firm, the China Overseas Port Holding Company (COPHC) for a period of 40 years.

China has unilaterally announced ‘standardised’ names for six places in Arunachal Pradesh.

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has recently carried out first-of-its-kind State-level mock exercise on forest fire.

Bar Council of India (BCI) has called for a nationwide stir against what they allege as the undemocratic provisions of the Advocates (Amendment) Bill, 2017.

Five prominent Madhesi parties in Nepal have united to form a new united party named the Rastriya Janata Party, which will be the fifth largest party in Nepal’s Parliament.