The President will be on tour of Gujarat and Maharashtra from May 29 to 30

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1.The President will be on tour of Gujarat and Maharashtra from May 29 to 30 :-

President Shri Ramnath Kovind will be on tour of Gujarat and Maharashtra from 29th to 30th May , 2018 .

The President will be the chief guest at the congratulations ceremony of Cadovor Dana family members in Surat on May 29 , 2018. On the same day, he will be attending the annual convocation of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University , Surat, and will be given the ‘ Santokba Humanitarian Award ‘ to Dr Kiran Kumar, a former Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) president and Nobel laureate Mr. Kailash Satyarthi

 

2.Prime Minister of the Netherlands met his Majesty Maxima :-

Image result for pmPrime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today meets the Emperor of the Netherlands Empire, His Majesty.

Queen Maxima is on a trip to India as the special envoy of United Nations Secretary for Inclusive Finance for Development.

Prime Minister Modi and Queen Maxima discussed various steps taken by the Government of India to increase financial inclusion in the last few years such as Janhana Yojna, Pradhan Mantri Jyoti Jyoti Jyoti Jeevan Jyoti Jeevan Jyoti Jeevan Jyoti Yojna Queen Maxima appreciated the progress made through these steps.

 

3.The main event of the Fourth International Yoga Day Festival will be held in Dehradun :-

Image result for Fourth International Yoga Day FestivalThe main event of the Fourth International Yoga Day Festival (IDY-2018) will be held in Dehradun, Uttarakhand on June 21, 2018.

Secretary, AYUSH, Shri Vaidya Rajesh Kottecha announced today that  Dehradun (Uttarakhand) has been selected as the venue of the collective yoga demonstration of the fourth International Yoga Day (main event) on June 21, 2018 .

 

4.NIC launches new data center in Bhubaneswar, within a year will recruit 800 people across the country :-

Bhubaneswar has now become the fourth national data center of National Informatics Center (NIC) after Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune. This cloud-enabled new National Data Center aims to provide its services round the clock with secure hosting for various e-governance applications of the Central and State Governments. This data center is capable of continuing the operation of 35,000 virtual servers smoothly.  

 

5.Donald Trump and Kim Jong, a group of US officials, reached North Korea in connection with the preparation for the proposed summit :-

Image result for TrumpUS President Donald Trump has said that a team of North Korea has reached North Korea to prepare for the proposed meeting with Kim Jong. The State Department said on Monday that the meeting between the United States and North Korea delegation is being held in the non-specialty sector Panamun Jom village where both Korean countries are divided.

 

6.India launches another information technology corridor in China :-

Image result for information technology corridor in ChinaIndia started its second information technology corridor with the aim of taking advantage of the rapidly growing software market in China. The National Association of Software and Services Companies has established another digital platform platform in China. The union said that it is a big market like China’s Indian IT. An attempt is made to reach companies. An associate official told in Beijing that about 60 million US dollars agreements were signed between Indian service providers and Chinese customers.

 

7.CBSE 10th Result 2018: The wait is over, today students will be able to see their results :-

The waiting for 16 million students will end on Tuesday. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will release the Class X examination result at 4 PM, after which the students and parents will be able to see results through the official website of CBSE or through Google. CBSE had made the board mandatory for 10th students after eight years of this year.

Students will be able to check the results of the 10th examination CBSE’s official website cbse.nic.in or cbseresults.nic.in. First of all, click on one of the above websites for the result, where CBSE’s examination results will get a tab. Enter your roll number in After this the entire mark sheet will be visible.

 

8.Dhoni’s team CSK put the maximum number of sixes out of 872 in IPL 2018 :-

Image result for IPLDuring the IPL season 2018, during the entire tournament, 872 sixes have been played. The batsmen of the eight teams playing in the tournament put together so many sixes in this season, but the winners of the most six-team tournament tournament were Chennai Super Kings. For the third time, Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team, who won the title of IPL for the third time, did not have any batsman or bowler to make the highest score in IPL or to pick the highest wicket, but the team left behind the rest of the teams to score sixes. Gave.

 

9.In Competitive Ranking, India at  44th Place, USA at Top Position: Report :-

Image result for USA at Top PositionIndia ranked 44th in the global competitive ranking of 63 countries,  respectively, by IMD World Competitiveness Center . India was ranked 40th in 2013 and has reached 44th place in 2014.

In 2015, India’s rank was 44 and in 2016, it reached 41st position in 41, in 2017 it came to 45, and now it is 44th in 2018. On the contrary, China has achieved 13th rank in 2018 compared to the 18th ranking in 2016.

The top five most competitive economies in the world are –

  1. United States,
  2. Hong Kong,
  3. Singapore,
  4. Netherlands and
  5. Switzerland.

 

10.Healthcare Access, India In Quality 145th And Iceland In Top Position: Lancet Report :-

According to the Lancet Report, India is  ranked 145 in the case of quality health and accessibility in 195 countries  . In 2016, India’s healthcare reach and quality remained at 41.2 (above 24.7 in 1990). India is behind China (48), Sri Lanka (71), Bangladesh (133) and Bhutan (134).

Top 3 countries with the highest level of health care access and quality in 2016 –

  1. Iceland (97.1 points)
  2. Norway (96.6),
  3. Netherlands (96.1),

Countries with lowest scores –

  1. Central African Republic (18.6),
  2. Somalia (19.0),
  3. Guinea-Bissau (23.4),