Important Current Affairs February 5, 2018 – One Liner
- Maharashtra to become first state to have transgender welfare board in a month’s time.
- Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport, Mumbai becomes world’s busiest single runway airport handling 980 arrivals and take offs in 24 hours.
- According to the latest India research report by green energy market tracker Mercom capital India has achieved 20GW (GigaWatt) cumulative solar power capacity.
- Sweden signed a strategic partnership agreement with United Nations world food programme, committing 370 million dollars to World Food Programme (WFD) for the next 4 years.
- Uttar Pradesh in association with UNICEF launched “DASTAK”, a door to door campaign to eradicate deadly Acute Encephalitis (AE) Syndrome and Japanese Encephalitis (JES) from the state.
- For Indian Sports person – Jasprit Bumrah (Cricket) Harman Preet Kaur (Cricket), Savita Punia (Hockey) and Heena Sindhu (Shooting) have featured in this year’s Forbes India 30 under 30 list.
- Cyprus president Nicos Anastasiades won reelection for second five year term.
- India’s P.V.Sindhu lost to America’s Beiwen Zhang in the women’s singles finals of India open super 500 at siri fort complex in Newdelhi.
- Maratha light Infantry Regiment (an Infantry Regiment of the Indian Army) has completed 250 years of its raising.