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Daily Current Affairs 26th April,2018

Today (26th April) is World Intellectual Property Day.Theme of World Intellectual Property Day 2018 – "Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity"   
  • NITI Aayog today launched Atal New India Challenge encouraging innovation in various sectors.

  • The Ministry of Human Resource Development, HRD launched the second edition of the Unnat Bharat Abhiyan under which students from 750 higher educational institutions from across the country will adopt villages 

  • Indo-Malaysian Joint Military Exercise 'Harimau Shakti' held in the dense forests of Sengai Perdik, Hulu Langat, Malaysia.

  • The Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) is tying up with the US and Finland to develop new pollution-forecast system that will help anticipate particulate matter (PM) levels

  • The Minister of Housing & Urban Development Hardeep Singh inaugurated the 48th Foundation Day of Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO).

  •  An MoU on technical knowledge sharing for establishing a nationwide Time Stamping & Time Synchronization network and traceability of Time signal to UTC NPL Time was signed between Council of Scientific and Industrial Research -National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL) and Department of Telecommunications 

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi left on a three-day visit to China. Mr Modi will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during an informal summit in Wuhan city. 

  • Mario Abdo Benitez won the presidential election conducted in Paraguay.


  • According to the 2018 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), India has ranked 138th (falling 2 positions down from 136th in 2017). The list has been topped by Norway.

  • Microsoft India has been declared the most attractive employer brand, followed by e-commerce giant Amazon India. The winners were named by HR service provider Randstad's Employer Brand Research (REBR) 2018.

  • National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) has announced the launch of its "e - Gsec" platform for facilitating the non-competitive bidding in Government of India Dated Securities (G-Sec) and Treasury Bills (T-Bills).



Quote of the Day :


The way get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

                       – Walt Disney






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