DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 15 MAY 2018
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
- SMRITI IRANI
CHAIRS MEETING OF STAKEHOLDERS ON ‘SAMARTH’- SCHEME IN DELHI
i. A meeting of stakeholders on 'Samarth' – Scheme for Capacity
Building in Textile Sector under the Skill India Mission was held in New Delhi
to familiarize the stakeholders about the scheme and its guidelines.
ii.The meeting was chaired by Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti
Zubin Irani.
iii. The broad objective of the new scheme is to skill the youth
for gainful and sustainable employment in the textile sector covering the
entire value chain of textiles, excluding spinning and weaving.
- INDIA UNVEILS
NATIONAL WIND-SOLAR HYBRID POLICY
i. To boost clean energy generation, the Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy unveiled a National
Wind-solar Hybrid Policy which seeks to promote new projects as well as
hybridisation of the existing ones.
ii. Under the scheme, the government would bid out wind-solar
hybrid projects on tariff-based competitive bidding and these projects can be
set up anywhere across the country depending on feasibility and land
availability with bidders.
- CIPAM-DIPP
ORGANIZES A CONFERENCE ON NATIONAL IPR POLICY
i. The Cell for IPR Promotion and Management , a professional body
under the aegis of the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion ,
organized a conference on successful completion of two years of the National
Intellectual Property Rights Policy
adopted by the Government of India in May 2016 in New Delhi.
ii.The National IPR Policy is a vision document that aims to
create and exploit synergies between all forms of intellectual property ,
concerned statutes and agencies.
- 2-DAY REGIONAL
CONFERENCE ON “PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT” HELD IN GUWAHATI
i. The Governor of Assam, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated the
two-day Seminar being organized by the Ministry of Finance on the theme of
“Physical and Social Infrastructure for Regional Development” in Guwahati,
Assam.
ii. The Seminar is organized in collaboration with the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank , Research and Information System for Developing Countries and the Federation of Indian Chamber of
Commerce and Industries (FICCI).
- 1ST ALL-WOMAN POST OFFICE PASSPORT SEVA KENDRA STARTS OPERATIONS
i. In a first, a Post Office Passport Seva Kendra run by an all-woman team has started
operations in Phagwara, Punjab.
ii.The seva kendra was inaugurated by Union Minister Vijay Sampla
in the local head Post Office.
ii. It was 192nd POPSK in the country, but the first one to be
operated by an all-woman team.
- PM MODI TO VISIT
RUSSIA FOR INFORMAL SUMMIT WITH VLADIMIR PUTIN
i. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Russia on for an
informal Summit with President Vladimir Putin in Sochi city.
ii. This visit will be an important occasion for the two leaders
to exchange views on international matters in a broad and long-term
perspective.
