Current Affairs Assam, North East, India – 30 May 2018

30 May 2018

ASSAM, NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

A mass fasting staged by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) and 28 other local organisation against Governments’ decision of the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016
As per reports of the 3rd edition of The Handbook of Statistics on Indian States published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Assam has the highest outstanding liabilities Sikkim has the lowest among the North Eastern States.

The Assam State Biodiversity Board launched the ‘Assam Biodiversity Portal’ and the logo and website of the ‘Nature Learning Centre (NLC-Assam)’. Forest Minister Parimal Suklabaidya, launched the portal in the presence of staffs of the department.
Gaj Yatra a national campaign aimed to protect elephants was launched in Meghalaya

INDIA, INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

India’s fourth National data centre of National Informatics Centre (NIC) was launched in Bhubaneswar. Other centres are located in Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune
Kamaljit S. Bawabecomes the first Indian to be honoured with the Linnean Medal in Botany

Rajesh Kumar Agrawal- The new Justice, has been appointed as the President of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
Ministry of Women and Child and Development signed an MoU with Uttar Pradesh for management of Home of Widows at Sunrakh Bangar, Vrindavan
Indian cricket skipper Virat Kohli was conferred as the International Cricketer of the Year at the CEAT Cricket Ratings awards
Alicia Pucheta is the 1st Woman Interim Presiden for Paraguay
In the list of most valuable firm globally, Apple tops with a market cap of nearly $924 billion, Amazon stands second, with nearly $783 billion. Microsoft becomes the third most valuable firm globally after Apple and Amazon with market cap of $753 billion

Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been awarded as the ‘most inspiring icon of the year for Social Welfare” recently
SpaceX launched two new Earth science satellites for NASA and five Iridium Next communications satellites into orbit

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