Today Current Affairs Main Points of 17-Feb-2018




1. Government to set up 562 more Ekalavya schools.


2. National Conference on “Agriculture 2022- Doubling Farmers' Income” held in New Delhi.

3. Sex ratio at birth dips in 17 of 21 large States, Gujarat records 53 points fall.

4. Botanical Survey of India Signs MoU with Natural History Museum, UK.

5. West Bengal Announces Sale of Govt Stock for Rs 2000 Crore to Meet Expenses of Developmental Projects.

6. Assam worst in MMR, spent just 13.58% of NHM fund in 2017-18.

7. LS Speaker Sumitra Mahajan inaugurates CPA Conference in Patna.

8. Tropical Cyclone Gita blasts tiny South Pacific island nation of Tonga. 

9. Security conference begins in Munich.

10. Government allows WhatsApp payments to roll-out to 1 mn beta users.

11. City Union loses $2 million in cyberattack, retrieves half.

12. PNB arm, IFC tie up to raise $800 mn for affordable housing.

13. ONGC pans to introduce Asia’s first large scale CO2 injection technique at Gandhar field.

14. Sachin Tendulkar made T20 Mumbai League's brand ambassador.

15. India's second lunar mission Chandrayan-2 to be launched in April.

16. New type of antibiotic discovered in soil to fight against drug-resistant superbugs.

17. The Kepler Mission Discovers Nearly 100 New Exoplanets.

18. Virat Kohli first batsman ever to score 500 runs in bilateral ODI series.

19. Roger Federer becomes oldest world No 1 in tennis history.




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