Important Current Affairs February 3, 2018 – One Liner
- Integrated Automatic Aviation Meteorological System (IAAMS) was inaugurated at INS Garuda, a naval air station located in Kochi, Kerala.
- Power and Renewable energy minister, R.K.Singh stated that government will implement a Rs.1,40,000 crore Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthavan Mahaabhiyan (KUSUM) scheme aimed at promoting use of solar energy for pumps and encourage use of barren land for setting up of decentralized solar power plants.
- India’s largest floating treatment wetland launched in Hyderabad’s Neknampur Lake.
- Uttar Pradesh state government inaugurated state’s first ever butterfly park in Kanpur.
- Inland waterways Authority of India (IWAI) signed a project agreement with World Bank for Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) aimed at enhancing avigation on National waterway 1 from Varnasi to Haldia.
- The first defence Industrial corridor will link Chennai and Bangalore and it will pass through Coimbatore and various other industrial regions.
- Malaysia’s Lai Jia Yi won the 4th edition of International young chef Olympiad in Kolkata.
- The department of defence production formed a task force lead by N Chandrasekaran to study the use at Artificial Intelligence (AI) in national security perspective.
- China successfully launched “Zhangheng 1” its first seismo electromagnetic satellite to study seismic precursors.
- India won the U-19 cricket world cup at Bay oval in New Zealand by defeating the Australia in the final.