Important Current Affairs May 18, 2018 – One Liner

May 18 Current Affairs

• May 18 – World AIDS Vaccination day
• The 14 km long Zojila tunnel will be India’s longest road tunnel and Asia’s longest bi-directional tunnel.
• Aimovig – new drug for prevention of migraines
• New device to detect and remove arsenic in water – ADO Additives and the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
• Parcel Cargo Express Train – Guwahati in Assam to Kalyan in Maharashtra.
• India’s economic growth is expected to climb to 5% in 2017-18 and 7.6% in 2018-19 United Nations report.
• NITI Aayog, in association with Vision India Foundation, is organising the Venture Capital Symposium 2018 where the French investors will be interacting with 100 early to mid-stage Indian start-ups.
• The Department of Telecommunications has allowed the use of eSIM or ‘Embedded-Subscriber Identity Module’.
• India and Indonesia to promote bilateral cooperation in maritime & infrastructure sector
• Delhi cabinet gives approval for procuring 1000 CNG-run buses under cluster scheme
• 4th BRICS Ministerial meeting in Durban, South Africa
• Delhi will become the world’s largest city in a decade, according to the UN.
• ‘A Treatise on Cleanliness’ & ‘Waste Management, an Introduction’ – Shri Rajat Bhargava.
• S&P PLATTS Global Metals Award – NMDC largest iron ore mining company in India.
• Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar – Chief justice of the high court of Manipur.
• Yudhvir Singh Malik – National Highways Authority of India(NHAI) chairman
• C Raja Mohan – Director of the Institute of South Asian Studies
• Himanta Biswa Sarma – Vice-President of Badminton Asia Confederation
• Gina Haspel – CIA’s first female director