Saturday, May 26, 2018

26 May 2018================- 25th May is International Missing Children's Day.

- Netherlands Becomes 64th Signatory Member of International Solar Alliance

- Nepal, 1st Country in South-East Asia to Eliminate Trachoma, DGZ: WHO

- ⭐️ Airtel Payments Bank Appoints Anubrata Biswas As MD and CEO

- ⭐️ Tejaswini Strikes Gold at Munich Grand Prix

- Surya Kiran-XIII, the 13th edition of India-Nepal joint military exercise will be held at Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand during 30th May to 12th June 2018.

- UK's Prince William, who is second-in-line to the British throne, will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories in June.

- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina today inaugurated the Bangladesh Bhavan in West Bengal's Santiniketan in the presence of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.

- The Congress-JD(S) alliance today proved its majority with the support of 117 MLAs during the floor test in Karnataka Assembly, making .

- A 2-day offshore security exercise, code named 'Exercise Prasthan', conducted by the Eastern Naval Command in the Offshore Development Area (ODA) off the coast of Mumbai.

- ⭐️ The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) launched Samagra Shiksha scheme to improve quality of school education.

- India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has reported a loss of Rs. 7,718 crore in the January-March quarter, hurt by higher provisions for bad loans. Join Telegram Channel DailyGkZone

- The 5th India-CLMV (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam) Business Conclave was held at Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

- The 15th Finance Commission has constituted High Level Group to explore and give recommendations for a balanced expansion of the health sector.

- One of India's most decorated Generals, Lieutenant General Zorawar Chand Bakshi (97), passed away.

- The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and Common Service Centres (CSC) Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) signed MoU for providing financial support village level entrepreneurs in CSCs.

- Six-time Congress MLA Ramesh Kumar has been unanimously elected as the Speaker of the Karnataka Assembly after the BJP withdrew nomination for its candidate Suresh Kumar.

- ⭐️ Power equipment maker Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has appointed Pravin L Agrawal as the part-time official director on its board.

- Arunachal Pradesh-based NGO Singchung Bugun Community Reserve (SBVCR) won the India Biodiversity Award 2018 in the “Conservation of wildlife species” category.