DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 18 FEB 2016
(Daily News India)
1. HOMEO VISION 2016
INAUGURATED AT NAGPUR
i. The Congress Homeo Vision 2016 was
inaugurated by the Minister of State for AYUSH & Health and Family Welfare,
Shri Shripad Yesso Naik in Nagpur.
ii. It is started to discuss the recent
advances in technology, innovative research and quality education in
Homeopathy.
iii. The objective of Ministry of AYUSH
is to develop the four core areas such as research, education, drug development
and health care delivery.
2. SRI SRINIVASAN BECOME THE
1ST INDIAN AMERICAN JUDGE OF US SUPREME COURT
i. Sri Srinivasan is going to become the first Indian-American Judge of the
U S Supreme Court.
ii. He is going to replace Justice
Antonin Scalia after his unexpected death.
3. BHUBANESWAR AMONG THE
CLEANEST CITIES IN COUNTRY AMONG SMART CITY MISSION
i. Thel Bhubaneswar has emerged as the
topped in the list of clean cities under
the Smart City Mission.
ii. The Bhubaneswar Municipal
Corporation has received the Clean City award.
iii. Under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
Bhubaneswar is considered as one of the cleanest among 75 cities in the
country.
4. UNION GOVERNMENT HAS
LAUNCHED NON TAX RECEIPT PORTAL
i. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has launched
Non-Tax Receipt Portal to electronically collect over Rs.2 trillion annually in
non-tax receipts.
ii. It was launched as part of Union
Government’s flagship Digital India campaign.
iii. Presently non-tax revenues are
collected by physical instruments such as bank draft or cheque or cash.
iv. It provides a platform to citizens
to make online payment of non-tax receipts to the Union government.
5. INDIA'S 1ST LIGHTEST GUN
"NIDAR" LAUNCHED
i. India’s first indigenously developed
lightest revolver Nidar weighing merely 250 grams was successfully launched.
ii. The gun is launched to boost the
"Make In India" initiative.
iii. The Nidar is lightest revolver
ever made in India with cheapest price tag of Rs 35,000 only.
6. PNB DECLARED UB HOLDINGS
LIMITED WILFUL DEFAULTER
i. Vijay Mallya company United
Breweries Holdings Ltd has been declared a wilful defaulter by Punjab National
Bank.
ii. Earlier State Bank of India had
declared United Breweries and Mallya as wilful defaulters.
iii. The willful defaulter tag is given
when the person is not paying the loan even after having sufficient source
7. WORLD'S CHEAPEST SMARTPHONE
IS GOING TO BE LAUNCH IN INDIA
i. Noida based company Ringing Bells is going to launch the
world's cheapest 3G smartphone at just Rs 251 in India.
ii. India has become the second largest
market for selling cell phones after china.
iii. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikkar
will launch the smartphone ‘Freedom 251’ on February 17.
