Daily Current Affairs in One Liners : 24 May 2018

Daily Current Affairs in One Liners : 24 May 2018
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- 23rd May is World Turtle Day.

- India's Multi Commodity Exchange had launched the country's first copper options contracts. Three contracts with a lot size of 1 tonne were launched.

- Finance Ministry Ties Up With 40 Companies Under Mudra Scheme

- Minimum Compensation of Rs1 crore To Paramilitary Jawan Who Dies In Action

- ⭐️ Pravin Agrawal Appointed BHEL Director

- Star South African batsman AB de Villiers has announced his decision to retire from international cricket with immediate effect. In his 14-year career, he played 114 Tests, 228 One-Day Internationals (ODI) and 78 T20 Internationals. 

- India ranked 145th among 195 countries in terms of Healthcare access and quality (HAQ) index.

- China's state-run Islamic Association has declared all mosques in the country should raise the national flagto "promote a spirit of patriotism" among Muslims.  

- With a declared income of Rs 82.76 crore, the Samajwadi Party is the richest of the 32 regional parties in India, a report by Association for Democratic Reforms revealed today. 

- ⭐️ Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is going to launch a multi-lingual mobile application titled Model Code of Conduct Violation Reporting App. Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

- ⭐️ For disease monitoring and strengthening tele-medicine services in the government hospitals, the Rajasthan Government has launched new software titled Nidaan. 

- ⭐️ Polish novelist  Olga Tokarczuk has won this year's Man Booker International Prize 2018 for her novel 'Flights'.

- India's largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to list its general insurance business and cards business by 2019-20.

- China today announced that it will slash the import duty on passenger cars to 15% starting July 1 from the current 25% which has been in place for over a decade. Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

- The United States has tightened financial sanctions against Venezuela following President Nicolas Maduro's victory in election

- Elon Musk-led SpaceX launched GRACE-FO satellites, that would track the Earth's water movement and ice melt. 

- Israel today claimed to be the first country to have used the US-made F-35 fighter jets in combat. 

- JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy took oath as Chief minister of Karnataka  on the steps of the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat.Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

- Tata Steel has put in place a new management team at Bhushan Steel after its ₹35,200 crore takeover through India's new insolvency process. 

- Coimbatore racer Bala Prasath has won the Formula Junior Racing Series 2018 Championship in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

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