Important Current Affairs March 5, 2018 – One Liner
- Vietnam president Tran dai Quang’s visit India and Vietnam signed following three MoU (Memoranda of Understanding).
- 29th edition of annual International Yoga Festival (IYF) at Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh.
- India has ranked 4th out of 133 countries on the global fire power list 2017.The list is topped by USA.
- Marshall Islands has announced that it will launch its own Crypto currency and it will be circulated as legal tender along with the US dollar. Marshall Island is the first county to launch own crypto currency as legal tender.
- RBI to conduct additional repo operations to provide liquidity aggregating Rs.1lakh crore into the banking system by the end of March 2018.
- Krishna Kumari Kohli became Pakistan’s first Hindu women to elected to senate.
- 90th Academy Awards (Oscars 2018) à Los Angeles, USA.
Best Picture – The shape of water.
Best Director – Guillermo del Toro (The shape of Water)
Best Actor – Gary old man (Darkest hour)
Best Actress – Frances Mc Dormand (Three Billboards, outside Ebbing Missouri)
Best Animated Film – Coco.
- Viswanathan Anand won the rapid event at the 11th Tal memorial chess in Moscow, Russia.
- Odia actor Sarat Mohanty died recently due to illness.