Current Affairs Assam, North East, India Today- 16 February 2018

16 February 2018

ASSAM – NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

• The Tezpur-Delhi flight service will resume its service from February 18, 2018 after a gap of 15 years. “The first Kolkata-Jabalpur-Delhi passenger flight will take off from Tezpur airport at 1:40 pm on February 18”

• Vinod Kumar Jain- appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of the Tezpur University
• Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development Federation Ltd (TRIFED) under Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs is going to organis ‘Aadi Mahotsav’, a national tribal festival, from 16 to 25 February on the Gandhi Mandir Indoor Stadium Field, Khanapara

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INDIA – INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

• The world’s tallest hotel ‘Gevora’ has opened in Dubai
• Odisha Govt to sponsor Indian hockey team
• Cyril Ramaphosa- sworn-in as new President of South Africa

• N. Tharanathan won the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement 2018 in African Leadership
• Equitas Small Finance Bank  rolls out “selfeSavings” digital savings account recently
• South African Government declared Drought as a “national disaster” recently