1. In Assam, pension has been started to all senior citizens above 60 years of age. This initiative has been started with the aim of empowering senior citizens.
2. Chandramouli Kumar Prasad has been appointed as the President of the Press Council of India. He has been appointed for this, second time. Chandramouli has also served as a judge of the Supreme Court.
3. "Rimpack" is the world's largest naval exercise. This practice is organized every two years, at intervals. This exercise is organized in the Honolulu area in the Western Pacific Ocean.
4. Najib Razzaq is the former Prime Minister of Malaysia. Recently, he has been called for a second time in a corruption-free agency in a corruption case of 8 thousand crore rupees.
5. India has launched its second IT corridor in China to benefit from the nation’s growing software market. The corridor is expected to provide the much-needed big opening for Indian IT firms to enter the Chinese software market.
6. On 25th May 2018, PM Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the 2400MW first phase of NTPC's Patratu Super Thermal Power Project in Jharkhand. This project offer 85% of the power to jharkhand.
7. On 25th May 2018, Talengana Cheif Minister Sekhra Rao announced a unique life insurance scheme for farmers, in Hyderabad. According to thios scheme, the government will offer life insurance facility of 5 lakh rupees to the nominee, after the death of the insured farmer.
8. The state Health Department has confirmed Nipah virus (NiV) infection for the first time in Kerala with the blood and body fluid samples of two persons who died of viral fever in the past fortnight in Kozhikode district indicating the presence of the zoonotic disease.
9. The University Grants Commission has decided to allow the higher educational institutions and universities to offer graduate, postgraduate and diploma programmes online from the upcoming academic session.
10. Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar launched 'Samagra Shiksha scheme' for school education. Samagra Shiksha is a program that unifies learning from the pre-school to class 12 levels and encapsulates elements of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan and teacher education.
11. Common Service Centre (CSC) SPV and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) signed an MoU for providing financial support to CSCs across the country in the presence of Minister of Electronics & IT and Law & Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad.
12. A new video campaign has been launched targeting football fans on the occasion of the World Cup 2018 to promote healthier and more active lives.
Published On : 26 May 2018