1.World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on 31 May to raise awareness of the dangers of tobacco and advocate for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.The theme of World No Tobacco Day 2018 is “Tobacco and heart disease”
2.Ministry of Railways conducted a one day workshop “Mission Raftaar” aimed at raising the average speed of freight trains and coaching trains in New Delhi.Issues such as punctuality, rolling stock, removing bottlenecks in terms of traffic, elimination of unmanned level crossings were discussed at the workshop.
3.Kerala cartoonist Thomas Antony has won an international award, in the best caricature category.Antony, currently working as Executive Artist of Malayalam daily ‘Metro Vaartha’, is among the nine winners at the 13th edition of the World Press Cartoon awards.
4.The Centre has approved construction of 1.5 lakh houses for urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban).The approval was given in the 34th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee.Under the PMAY(U), the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry targets construction of 1.2 crore houses for urban poor by 2022.
5.Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the International Rupay Card, Bhim app and UPI enabled remittance App by State Bank of India in Singapore.The RuPay digital payments system was linked up with Singapore’s 33-year-old Network for Electronic Transfers (NETS).Singapore branch of the SBI is the first to launch this new mode of remittance in collaboration with NPCI.
6.Facebook has partnered with National Commission for Women (NCW) to launch a digital literacy programme in collaboration with the Cyber Peace Foundation (CPF).As part of the digital literacy programme pilot, awareness training will be conducted for 60,000 women.The training will be conducted in local languages.
7.Indian Oil Corporation has for the second year in a row beaten ONGC to become India’s most profitable state-owned company.IOC which has for decades been India’s biggest company by turnover posted a record net profit of Rs 21,346 crore in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018.Reliance Industries retained the crown of being India’s most profitable company for the third year in a row.
8.India has signed a USD 500 million loan pact with World Bank to provide additional financing for PMGSY rural road projects.Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana will build 7,000 km of climate resilient roads, out of which 3,500 km will be constructed using green technologies.World Bank has supported PMGSY since its inception in 2004 & so far it has invested over $1.8 billion in loans & credits.
9.Hirakud Dam is built across the Mahanadi River, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Sambalpur in the state of Odisha in India.
10.The Mettur Dam is one of the largest dams in India and the largest in Tamilnadu located across the river Cauvery where it enters the plains.
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