RRB English Current Affairs 28th August 2018

INDIAN AFFAIRS

1. Committee chaired by Secy, Corporate Affairs on review of penal provisions of Company Act 2013 submitted its  final report to Shri Arun Jaitley
2. Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister launches online portal for Common Carrier Capacity booking on GAIL’s pipelines, a first of its kind in Indian natural gas sector
3. Defence Acquisition Council, DACchaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman approved approximately 46,000 crore rupees for procurement of services.
4. SpiceJetwould fly India’s first biofuel-powered flight from Dehradun to Delhi on its Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft from Dehradun’s Jolly Grant
5. Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) opened its firstregional centre in 

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

6. 8thmeeting of India-Kenya Joint Trade Committee was held in Nairobi, Kenya.
7. G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Meetingwas held at Salta’s Fine Arts Museum, and  Salta Convention Centre in Salta, Argentina.

BANKING & FINANCE

8. Punjab National Bank tops in digital transaction: Department of Financial Services
9. Current account deficit to hit 2.8% of GDP in FY19: SBI report Ecowrap

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

10. Global Financemagazine named DBS Bank as the world’s best bank for digital innovation while still maintaining stable operations for its customers.

APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS

11. Indiabulls Ventures appoints former NPCI MD Abhaya Prasad Hota as Independent Director
12. Goldman Sachs appointed Prachi Mishraas the managing director and chief India economist.
13. Prashant Agrawalwas appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Namibia.
14. Sandeep Kumarwas appointed as the next Ambassador of India to 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

15. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer),an asteroid sampling spacecraft, caught its first image of asteroid Bennu, last week after a 2-year journey.

SPORTS

16. North Koreaannounced that it would be the host for the 2019 Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships
17. Pakistanifast bowler Mohammad Irfan set the world record for the most economical four-over bowling figures in the history of T20 

OBITUARY

18. Neil Simon, Broadway’s master of comedy, dies