Current Affairs 2018

Prime Minister Modi lays foundation stone of new Vanijya Bhawan in New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of Vanijya Bhawan at Delhi's Akbar road. Once ready, the new building will house the Department of Commerce.

India hits back at US, hikes import duty on 29 products

India has increased customs duty on 29 products, including pulses and iron and steel products, imported from the US as a retaliatory action against thetariff hike by Washington

Indian scientists discover ‘sub-Saturn’ or ‘super-neptune’ size planet around Sun-like star

A team of scientists and engineers of Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad have discovered a sub-Saturn or super-neputune size planet around a Sun-like star. The planet discovered by the team led by Prof. Abhijit Chakraborty for PRL will be known as EPIC 211945201b or K2-236b. The mass of the new planet is about 27 Earth mass ; and its size about of six Earth radii.

4th International Yoga Day 21st June 2018: Yoga has become unifying force of the world, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the gathering on 4th International Yoga Day celebrations at the Forest Research Institute in Dehradun on 21st June 2018. Speaking at the event, PM Modi briefed the benefits of yoga and said when forces defeat us and break us, there is division within society and family. The person breaks from within, with loneliness increasing. Yoga does the work of joining these pieces. He added that yoga has become one of the unifying forces of the world.