Current Affairs Assam, North East, India – 07 March 2018

07 March 2018

ASSAM – NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

• 8th Theatre Olympics, Guwahati to be started from March 11 to 25 at the Srimanta Sankaradeva Kalakshetra 

• Nagaland Governor PB Acharya has invited chief ministerial candidate Neiphiu Rio to form new government in Nagaland 
• ‘Padman’ of Assam Nayan Saikia  opened sanitary pad manufacturing unit and creating silent revolution in Assam to create awareness among the poor rural women of Assam on cleanliness. 

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INDIA – INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Travelling Women is the theme of the 9th edition of Women’s Film Festival 2018
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inaugurated the pan-India expansion of flagship programme “Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao (BBBP)” will be start from JhunJhun of Rajasthan
• India’s first helicopter-taxi service has launched in Bengaluru

• India’s ranks 4th in the world in terms of military power, as per Global Fire Power Index (GFPI-2017)
• Marshall Islands becomes the world’s first country to issue digital legal tender “Sovereign”
• The 29th edition of the International Yoga Festival (IYF-2018) was held in Uttarakhand