Current Affairs Assam, North East, India – 19 April 2018

19 April 2018

ASSAM, NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Rastrakavi Kuvempu Pratisthana, a Karnataka-based literary organisation, to present its prestigious ‘Kuvempu National Award’ to two Assamese writers, Nilamoni Phookan and Homen Borgohain

• Bishnupur has become the second open defecation-free (ODF) district in Manipur after Senapati. 

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INDIA, INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

• Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated Odisha’s second longest bridg( a 2.5-km-long bridge) built over the Ib river in Sambalpur district. 
• The India-Wiesbaden Conference 2018 will be held on New Delhi, India
• Scientists from Britain and United States have discovered “PETase” an enzyme that can digest some commonly polluting plastics.
• Facebook has started rolling out changes to how it handles private data this week to comply with forthcoming EU rules

• Amazon has launched an international shopping feature that will enable customers across the world
• Aditi Rao Hydari won Dada Saheb Phalke excellence award 2018 for the Best Leading Lady (Critics Award) 

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