Point-Wise Current-Affairs & GS (Includes Important PIB Updates) 2018 with Maps & Data- IAS, SSC etc

The second phase of odd-even car rationing scheme has been launched by the Delhi Government in order to check pollution in the national capital. The second phase will be start from 15^th April 2016 till 30^th April 2016.

• The scheme aims to restrict vehicular pollution and dropping

The 2016 Chinese Grand Prix has been won by the Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg from Germany which was held at the Shanghai International Circuit. The 2016 season is the third race of the Chinese Grand Prix title race of Formula One in which total 11 teams had participated.

Trouper Sri Lankan left-arm spinner Rangana Herath (38) has declared his retirement from T20 and One Day International Cricket (ODI). But he will carry on playing in Test matches which always have been his personal passion.

First package of loans worth 811 million dollars for four renewable energy projects in Brazil, China, South Africa and India has been approved by the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB). The NDB board of governors has accepted the decision to approve the first loans on the sidelines

The 25^th edition of Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament 2016 has been won by Australia for record ninth time at the finals played at Ipoh, by beating India with 4 - 0 goals. With this India firm at the second position and New Zealand (defending champion) at the third position.

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A major battle exercise ‘Shatrujeet’ is conducted by the Indian Army in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan near to the border with Pakistan. The only aim of the exercise was to assess the ability of the Indian Army and fine tune its active war plan to answer swiftly to any threat to na

Supercomputer Param Kanchenjunga was uncovered at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Sikkim. It is named after Kangchenjunga Mountain (8, 586 m), the third highest mountain in the world which lies partly in Nepal and partly in Sikkim.

• Shrinvas Patil a Sikkim Governor has

The G20 countries together with India have required a crackdown on tax heavens, shell companies and terror financing in the come round the ‘Panama Papers’ scandal. G20 countries has issue a communique after meeting of its Finance Ministers and Governors of Central Banks on the by

In the List embracing technology for growth of the world’s 50 ‘future-ready economies cities’ National Capital of India, Delhi has been ranked 44^th position according to the recently released report ‘Future-Ready Economies Model’ by the Information Technology major Dell.

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The manufacture, distribution, storage and sale of all forms of chewable tobacco have been banned by the Delhi government for one year in the attention of public health, including:

1. Scented
2. Flavored or mixed
3. Gutkha
4. Pan masala
5. Khaini
6. Zarda

• Delhi Department of Food Safety has i

Free internet service through Wi-Fi for 10 railway stations across the country to provide internet to over 1.5 million people has been extended by the search engine giant Google, as part of Google’s tie up with Railtel, the internet provider arm of Indian Railways.

These 10 Rail

New International Boxing Association (AIBA) ambassador for Women’s World Championship is Iconic Indian woman boxer Mary Kom, one of the eight ambassadors for the coming World Championship of AIBA scheduled from May 19 to 27, 2016 in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Susmita Pande is appointed as new chairperson of the National Monument Authority (NMA) by the Union Government. She will replace Himanshu Prabha Ray and shall fill the post which was misleading vacant for five months after demission of Ray from office.

Panagarh Air Force Base of Indian Air Force in West Bengal has renamed as ‘Air Force Station Arjan Singh’ in honour of the Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh by the Union Government on the occasion of 97^th birthday of Arjan Singh.

Satyanand Munjal the co-founder of Hero Cycles group passed away in Ludhiana, Punjab at the age of 99 years. He was widely known as ‘mahatma’ Satyanand Munjal for being enthusiastic to numerous social grounds connected to the Arya Samaj.

The has made compulsory An anti-dumping duty of up to US 149 dollars on imports of N-Butyl Alcohol has been made compulsory by the Union Government from five countries like European Union (EU), Malaysia, Singapore and US.

• Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) has given out

National Agriculture Market portal named “eNAM” has been launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to connect e-mandis in several States. eNAM is an online inter-connectivity of e-mandis, which meant to usher in much required agriculture marketing alterations to enable farmers

Indian-American Ajay Banga CEO of MasterCard has been appointed as a member of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity by US President Barack Obama. Mr. Banga is among 10 members of the Commission including General Keith Alexander former Director of the top US spying b

According to the recent report Migration and Development Brief of World Bank, India continued the world’s largest remittance recipient in 2015. India intricate about 69 billion US dollars in remittances, down from 70 billion in 2014

Key Highlights of Report:

• Other large remitta

’Gram Uday Se Bharat Uday Abhiyan’ (Village Self Governance Campaign) has been launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of 125^th birth anniversary of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar at his birthplace at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh to support Panchayati Raj in villages and guaran

James Taylor the England batsman has announced his retirement from all forms of International cricket at the age of 26 due to ill health. He has been analyzed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) so operation his Heart is needed.

Justice Sushila Karki (63) has been selected for the post of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the country by the Constitutional Council of Nepal. She will become 26^th chief justice of the apex court and the first female in Nepal’s history with this appointment.

A tiny South Pacific island nation in Pacific Ocean Republic of Nauru has joined the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank as the 189^th member of i. e. Bretton-Woods institutions.

• In April 2014 Nauru had applied for membership in the Washington-based IMF and World Ban

India secured 44^th position with total score of 30 between 50 different countries in the 2016 Global Connectivity Index (GCI) report presented by Chinese telecom giant Huawei. The GCI analyzes the full range of measurements for connectivity and provides a detailed map of the glob

The Maharashtra Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Bill, 2016 to end the danger social boycott trained by extra-judicial institutions like caste and community panchayats, has been passed by the Maharashtra legislature has universally

According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) recent report, the global tiger population has increased by 22 per cent after a century of constant decline. Across the globe number of wild tigers has gone up globally by 22 per cent to 3, 890, from the

Haryana Government has decided that Gurgaon will be turn as Gurugram. State government also has renamed Mewat as Nuh. Chief Minister Manohar Lal has approved the proposal to change the names of Gurgaon and Mewat in this regard.

• On the basis of the representations received at sev

JJ Singh a former Indian Army Chief General (retd) was conferred with the prestigious Officer of the Legion of Honour, the highest French civilian distinction for his stellar role in modernizing the Indian Army.

The third edition of Asia Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation has been inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi to save wild tigers. India is host of this edition of conference in which more than 700 tiger experts, scientists, manager

The prestigious Saraswati Samman for the year 2015 will be honored to Dogri Poetess and novelist Padma Sachdev (76) for her autobiography ‘Chitt-Chete’ written in Dogri language and published in 2007.

• Ms. Sachdev