Current Affair - 26/April/2019

Army to induct women as military police –

·       In a historic first, the Army began the process to induct women in the military force, nearly two years after Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat said women will be recruited as Jawans.

·       The Army started the online registration for recruitment in the Corps military and the last date for filing application has been fixed as June 8.

Divya, Manju won bronze medals in AWC –

·       In Wrestling, India’s Divya Kakran and Manju Kumari bagged bronze medals for the country in the women’s competition of the Asian Championships in Xi’an, China.

·       It was double delight for India as Manju also secured a bronze medal earlier in the day by beating Vietnam’s Thi Huong Dao 11-2.

·       Kakran defeated Battsetseg Soronzonbold of Mangolia via fall in the playoffs of the 68-kilogram category.

Uber Asia Pacific head Amit Jain resigned –

·       Amit Jain, Uber’s Asia-Pacific region Head, announced his resignation at the end of May 2019 after four-year services to spend time with his family.

·       Uber’s head of Europe, Middle East Africa, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty will take over the additional charge of APAC.

Textile Ministry –

·       The Union Ministry of Textiles is in Talks with the Japanese Government and some companies in the U.S to support the Indian textile industry with technology for speciality fibre and related product.

·       Two committees have been formed in regard to this: One for speciality fibre and one to see how take the segment forward.

NASA’s InSight detected quake on Mars –

·       NASA’s robotic Mass InSight lander has recorded a likely mars quake first time ever.

·       The US space agency said the faint seismic signal, detected by the landers Seismic instrument, was recorded on April,6 2019.

·       This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from insight the planet, as opposed to being caused by forces above the surface, such as wind.

UN, EU signed joint framework –

·       The UN and the European Union (EU) have signed a joint framework aimed at strengthening partnership in counter-terrorism efforts.

·       The framework was enacted on the occasion of the second EU-UN high-level political dialogue on Counter-Terrorism that was held in New York.

·       The UN-EU initiative will focus on terrorism and violent extremism prevention in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

US envoy launched initiative –

·       US envoy to India Kenneth I Juster launched a new initiative designed to help India’s corporate sector in the fight against tuberculosis (TB).

·       The initiative supports the Indian government’s goal of eliminating TB by 2025, which would be 5 years ahead of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal.

·       It creates a shared platform for corporations committed to ending TB in India.

Advani won Asian Snooker Tour title –

·       India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani defeated Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran 6-4 to claim the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title.

·       Advani, a 21-times world snooker and billiards champion, beat Nezhad 52-40, 66 (58)-0, 1-63(62), 78-4, 35-47, 0-51, 47-35, 38-39, 53(49)-35, 51(50)-20 in the final.

·       Advani had earlier won the second leg of the Tour in China.

Microsoft topped trillion-dollar mark –

·       Microsoft hit the trillion-dollar value mark for the first time, becoming the third technology giant to reach the symbolic milestone.

·       Shares in Microsoft rallied some 5% to US dollars 130.59 in early Wall Street trade after a robust earnings reports a day earlier.

·       That gave Microsoft a market capitalization of just over USD 1 trillion, before dipping back slightly.

Japan created 1^st artificial crater –

·       Japanese scientists succeeded in creating the first ever artificial crater on an asteroid, a step towards shedding lights on how the solar system evolved.

·       The crater from images captured by the probe is located 1,700 meters (5,500 feet) from the asteroid’s surface.

·       NASA’s Deep Impact probe succeeded in creating an artificial crater on a comet in 2005, but only or observation purposes.

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