03 October 2018 – Current Affairs For Assam APSC, Railway, Bank and Assam State Govt Exams

03 October 2018

ASSAM, NORTHEAST CURRENT AFFAIRS

On the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi (2^nd October) and in honour of Swahid Kushal Konwar, Assam government launches a new universal pension scheme named Swahid Kushal Konwar Sarbajanin Bridha Pension Achoni for persons of minimum age group of 60.
Assam Khadi and Village Industries Board (AKVIB) Chairman Dr Kamala Kanta Kalita today said that 4 lakh State govt employees to get khadi clothes.
Jackfruit Mission launched in Meghalaya by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma
International Day for Older Persons observed in Manipur on 1^st October
Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal launched a Wage Compensation Scheme for Pregnant Women in Tea Garden areas of Assam. Assam is thefirst Indian state to offer such a Wage Compensation
Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal laid the foundation stone for setting up the tea tourism hub at Tocklai.

INDIA, INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

Minister of Railways and Coal Piyush Goyal has launched the first of its kind “Rail Heritage Digitisation Project” of Indian Railways in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture.
Kolkata gets India’s 1st Comprehensive City-Level Flood Forecasting And Warning System.
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs join hands with Google to launch the Loo Review campaign.
India is to gift three MiG-21 fighter jets to Russia.
James P Allison and Tasaku Honjo has been awarded 2018 Nobel Medicine or Physiology Prize “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”