Current affairs 3rd march

• The Union Home ministry has announced setting up of a terror monitoring

group to ensure synergised and concerted action against terror related
activities in Jammu and Kashmir.
• 'Reiwa'(Rei=beautiful or good or command)(Wa=peace or harmony) will be
the name for the new era when Prince Naruhito succeeds his father Emperor
Akihito, whose abdication on 30th April will end the 31 year 'Heisei' era.
• India and The US has set up the first ever secure communication link
between The Indian Navy and The US central.
• The US approved the sale of 24 Multi role MH-60 Romeo Seahawk
helicopters to India at an estimated cost of 2.4 billion Dollars.
• Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned after weeks of mass
protests.
• 'Kandhamal Haldi', a variety of turmeric indigenous to southern Odishau,
has earned the geographical indication tag from intellectual Property India.
• Starting May 2019, ISRO plans to send up at least Eigth Earth observation
satellites if varied hues and at the rate of almost one a month.
• The supreme court struck down a February 2018 RBI circular giving lender
banks six months to resopve their stressed assets under the Insolvency
Code against private entities who have defaulted in loans worth over
Rs.2000 crore.
• The Indian Army has successfully built the longest suspension bridge 'Matiri
Bridge' over the Indus river in the Leh-Ladakh region.
• South Korea launched the World;s first fully fledged 5G mobile networks.
• 1.2 million people died in India due to Air pollution in 2017 as per a global;
report on air pollution.
• More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger
in 2018 according to a new joint UN and European Union report.
• The Indian Publishing company, Garuda Prakshan Pvt. Ltd. Launched it's
book 'Saffron swords-Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders' written by
Manoshi Sinha Rawal.
• Kotak Mahindra Bank stated that it will charge customers for UPI
transactions starting 1st May.
• India on April 2,2019 signed an agreement with the National Bank for
Agriculture and Rural Development consultancy Service for setting up
TheIndia-Africa Insitute of Agriculture and Rural Development in Malawi, a
land locked country in Southeastern Africa.
• Former PM of Malysia went on trial in April 2019 over a multi billion dollar
financial scandal.
• The 4th meeting of India-Ukraine working group on trade and economic
cooperation held in April 2019 in New Delhi.
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