Current Affairs Assam, North East, India – 12 March 2018

12 March 2018

ASSAM – NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

Assam’s Manashi Sahariah wins The Voice India Kids season 2 trophy 2018. Another kid Shruti Goswami from assam named as the 2^nd runner up and Nilanjana was announced as the first-runner up.
Popularly known as ‘Hargila Lady’ of Assam, Mrs Purnima Devi Barman received the Nari Shakti Puraskar for the year 2017 from Hon’ble President of India Ram Nath Kovind for her mission to conserve the endangered greater adjutant stork (known as hargila in Assamese language)

Government of Manipur to launch an education scheme for children which belong financially weak families
8,000 km long anti-bridal trafficking yatra ‘March Against Bridal Trafficking Yatra’ from Assam to Himachal Pradesh to start from 25 March

INDIA – INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

Bollywood actor Amol Palekar has been honoured with the ‘Godavari Gaurav’ award
India has won the 2018 Best Exhibitor Award (BEA) at ITB – Berlin
Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) jointly declared an 8.3 km stretch along the Indo-Bangladesh border a crime-free zone along the international border between India and Bangladesh

‘Samvedna’ , the first Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise of the Indian Air Force in association with South Asian Region nations has started off the coast of Kerala