Current Affairs Assam, North East, India – 09 March 2018

08 March 2018

ASSAM – NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Prof Samir Kumar Das released the book ‘Mainstreaming the Northeast in India’s Look and Act East Policy’ edited by Prof Atul Sarma and Dr Saswati Choudhury

• Sanjive Roy, an officer of Indian Railway Service of Engineers from the UPSC’s 1981 batch, has joined Northeast Frontier Railway as the new General Manager
• Singer B Bharat has accomplished a milestone by putting tunes to 27 songs in one hour, at a programme held in Guwahati
• Biplab Deb of BJP takes oath as 10th Chief Minister of Tripura

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INDIA – INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Ashok Gajapathi Raju and YS Chowdary, two TDP ministers in the NDA government, submitted their resignations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• Maharashtra government has started Asmita Yojana to provide sanitary napkins at subsidised rates
• India to host the first-ever International Solar Alliance (ISA) summit

• The headquarters of the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) has shifted from Chennai to Ballabhgarh in Faridabad District of Haryana
• Spain  hosted the World ATM Congress.