Current Affairs Assam, North East, India Today- 06 February 2018

07 February 2018

ASSAM – NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

• The 2nd edition Brahmaputra Literary Festival to begin from 9 February , at the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra
• Karmashree Hiteswar Saikia College felicitated noted assamese singer Mr. Dipen Baruah for his 50th year of his glorious musical career in the field of Assamese songs and music
• Assam wins the 8th Hockey India Sub Junior Women National Hockey Championship (B Division).

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INDIA – INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Jerome Hayden Powell – new Chairman of the Federal Reserve
• PM Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone of a temple in Abu Dhabi
• Uttar Pradesh govt has launched DASTAK campaign to eradicate deadly Japanise Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome disease. The DASTAK means ‘Darwaja khatkhatao, AES aur JE ko bhagao’.
• The President of India Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated 88th Mahamastakabhisheka Utsav in Karnataka

• London to host the 2018 World Cup Event. 8 countries will participate in the new World Cup viz. Britain, the United States, Poland, China, Germany, France, Jamaica and South Africa.
• Haryana state govt has launched the ‘Gobardhan Yojana’ to provide for the sale of organic manure and cow urine with an aim to benefit farmers.