Current Affairs 28th April

1. MoU signed between Railways and ISRO
-› The Railways has signed up an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop an application for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System. The MoU has been signed on March 17th, 2016 and came into force now.



2. New naval detachment launched at Lakshadweep Androth Island. 

3. Cabinet nod to solar power plant of 200 MW at Jetsar, Rajasthan

-› The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, gave its approval for utilisation of 400 hectares of un-cultivable farm land at the Central State Farm (CSF), Jetsar in Sri Ganganagar District, Rajasthan for setting up of a solar power plant of capacity exceeding 200 MW.


4. MoU between Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India and the Insurance Authority, UAE

5. Japan unveiled Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympics emblems

6. Panel headed by MP J. C. Divakar suggests fine or jail for celebs in misleading ads

7. Deepika Kumari equals world record in recurve event at Archery World Cup

8. Sudarsan Pattnaik bags gold medal at Sculpture Championship in Moscow

-› Renowned artist Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the gold medal at ninth Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship in Russia.

9. Kerala cartoonist V T Thomas passed away
-› Toms created the legendary cartoon characters Boban and Molly (Bobanum Moliyum). He was born in 1929 in Kuttanad in Alappuzha district and initially served the British Army.

10. ICC suspends the Cricket Association of Nepal

11. DBS Bank launches 'mobile-only bank' in India

-› The Singapore's largest bank, DBS has unveiled the 'mobile only bank’ in India. The ‘digibank’ uses technologies, such as bio metrics and artificial intelligence, to enable paperless, signature less and branch less bank.

12. Experian India has launched the fraud detection mechanism
-› The Global data services company, Experian, headquarter in Dublin, Ireland, has launched its 'Hunter Fraud Score' in India, which is a new scoring mechanism.