7th April 2018 Current Affairs in English, GK News Updates
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1. 7th April: World Health Day
Major Highlights:
- Across the globes, the World Health Day is celebrated on 7th April each year.
- This is the one of the 8 campaigns marked by the World Health Organization.
- The slogan for health awareness is “Health for all” and the theme for this year is universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere.
- The first ever World Health Day was celebrated in 1948.
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2. Maharashtra Govt, Centre, & World Bank sign 420 million dollar project
Major Highlights:
- The help the small and marginal farmers, Centre, Maharastra Government and the World Bank have signed a 420 million dollar project
- The investment of the project will be made for climate resilient practices in agriculture to make sure that farming remains viable for them.
- Initially the signed project will be implemented for Marathwada and Vidarbha region.
3. Shri Piyush Goyal Launches UTTAM APP for Coal Quality Monitoring
Major Highlights:
- Shri Piyush Goyal as the union minister of railways and coal has launched UTTAM App for Coal Quality Monitoring.
- UTTAM stands for ‘Unlocking Transparency by Third Party Assessment of Mined Coal’.
- Through the app it will be easy for all citizens and coal consumers to monitor the process of Third Party Sampling of coal across Coal India Limited subsidiaries.
- The features of the coal are: Sampling Coverage, Subsidiary wise quality parameters, Complaints pertaining to quality of Coal, Imports of coal and its sampled volume.
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4. Common Wealth Games 2018: India rises third in the medal table
Major Highlights:
- On the second day of Common Wealth Games, weightlifter Sathish Sivalingam gives India its third Gold medal in the 77 weight category.
- Other two medal Gururaja Poojary and to Mirabai Chanu.
- On total India has managed to score total 5 medals, 3 Gold and 1 from silver and bronze each. All the medals have been by the country’s weightlifters.
5. 11th edition of IPL Cricket kicks off from today
Major Highlights:
- The 11th edition of Indian Premier League cricket (IPL) will be begin at the end of week in Mumbai.
- The season’s opening clash will be played at the Wankhede Stadium.
- New for this year is the ‘Decision Review System’ has also been introduced in the 2018 edition.
- Also this season for the first time in IPL’s history a five-day transfer window has been allowed from where the unsold players who have been featured in previous games can by picked to boost its reserves.
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