Current Affairs Assam, North East, India Today- 19 February 2018

19 February 2018

ASSAM – NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

• 8th National Science Film Festival of India (NSFFI) to be held in Gauhati University, Guwahti from 20 to 24 February

• Moblie operator BSNL soon to introduce 4G services in Arunachal Pradesh
• E-library of Tinsukia Bar Association inaugurated.

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INDIA – INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Hyderabad is hosting the World Congress on Information Technology
• PhonePe an online payment service provider has partnered with Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) for deployment of PoS terminals
• Maharashtra  state to have India’s first artificial intelligence centre
• Venezuela and Libya have been suspended from voting in the United Nations (UN) General Assembly recently

• Kerala to introduce the geotag livestock farmer houses in the state.
• The Virgin Group and Maharashtra state government signed an intent agreement to build world’s first hyperloop transportation system between Mumbai and Pune
• Ministry of Home Affairs organized the Youth Exchange Programme- Watan Ko Jano programme
• A total of 92 exoplanets are discovered by the Scientist using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope (K2 mission) mission data