Current Affairs 2017

भारत का पहला अंडरवाटर टनल कहाँ पर बनाया जा रहा है?

Who was awarded with Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2016?

हाल ही में ‘पालकी फेस्टिवल’ कहाँ पर मनाया जा रहा है?

State that signed MoU with Indian Railways to expand green cover

• Cows to have Aadhaar like ID
• Agriculture Ministry unveils model APMC Act
• Northeast India’s largest IT hub opens in Tripura

Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) has launched an application named Kaapi Soil Health Management and Monitoring (Kshemam) app to provide soil nutrient information and fertiliser recommendation for coffee plantation owners.

Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd (GNFC) has won the prestigious Golden Globe Tigers Award for Excellence and Leadership in CSR for the year 2017 in the category of ‘E-Payment Leadership’.

The international conference on “Dara Shikoh: Reclaiming Spiritual Legacy of India” will be held on April 27 and 28.

In order to give more freedom to farmers to sell their produce, the agriculture ministry has unveiled “The State/UT Agricultural Produce and Livestocks Marketing (promotion and facilitation) Act, 2017” which has defined each state/UT as a single unified market area.

The World Health Organization has announced that it is ready to test the first malaria vaccine in the real world setting in 2018.

The central government has informed the Supreme Court that it intends to provide unique identification number for cows as suggested by an expert committee to track cattle and prevent their trafficking.

Astronaut Peggy Whitson has set a new space record for most days in space by a US astronaut. She has broken the previous record set by Jeff Williams who had spent a total of 534 days in space.