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20-April-2018 Current Affairs

Briefing for Competitive Quiz 20th April 2018

Briefing for Competitive Quiz 20th April 2018

1. The Telugu language has been made compulsory in all the schools of Telangana. The Telugu language has been compulsory from class 1 to class 10 in all schools.
2. Planning to develop villages of Haryana as 'Horticulture village' has been started. This scheme has been started by 2018 to 2030 for the purpose of triple production of horticultural crops.
3. India's first pest museum has been opened in Tamil Nadu. The museum spread across 6,691 square feet has been divided into 5 separate parts. In this museum, about 20,000 insects of 50 species have been kept.
4. GSAT-6A is a high power S-band communication satellite. This satellite has been installed in the orbit by the satellite launch vehicle by the Indian Rocket Geosynchronous.
5. The South Asian Cinema Foundation has been honoured with the Frederick Pincote Award. The award to the South Asian Cinema Foundation has been given to promote Hindi cinema in the UK. The South Asian Cinema Foundation is located in London.
6. Jockey Cup belongs to football. Recently India defeated Hong Kong by 4-2 to win the Jockey Cup title.
7. The meeting of Economic Group of India and China has been held in New Delhi. In this meeting, measures to boost trade and commerce and deficit trade will be discussed. Joint Economic Group was constituted by Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi in December 1988 during the Beijing tour.
8. The first elections in Poland were held in June 1989. In these elections, the people of Poland voted with a majority in favour of democracy, free-market economy.
9. The nuclear leakage took place on March 28, 1979, in the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, USA. Due to this leakage, 500 employees of the nuclear plant were affected by radiations, soon after, the US administration had announced an emergency. This was considered to be the biggest nuclear accident in US history.
10. The radioactive elements leaked from six underground nuclear waste tanks in the US were on March 28, 2013. These tanks are considered the most polluted atomic sites on Earth.

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