Madhya Pradesh located Kuno notified as national park. It is 748 sq km area in legal battle over issue of relocation of Asiatic Lion from Gir to Kuno. After Supreme Court committee it has accorded status of national park will pave way for lion.
Kamal Nath is chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
Atal Ayushman Uttarakhand Yojana' has been launched in the Uttarakhand. Under the scheme, each household in the state will be able to avail medical treatment of up to 5 lakh rupees annually. The scheme will benefit 23 lakh households.
Trivendra Singh is the Chief Minister of Uttarakhand.
Japan is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and resuming commercial whaling in a move expected to spark international criticism. The withdrawal means Japan joins Iceland and Norway defying the IWC's ban on commercial whale hunting.
India is a member of International Whaling Commission.
The GST anti-profiteering authority-NAA has found Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) guilty of not passing on rate cut benefits of 383 crore rupees to consumers. GST rate on a large number of products was cut from 28 to 18%, Still HUL had not reduced prices.
Badri Narain Sharma is chairman of NAA.
Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has inaugurated the Information Fusion Centre (IFC) for the countries of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) for information sharing and capability building. The Center is located at the IMAC in Gurugram.
Sunil Lanba is Indian Navy Chief Admiral.
Aadi Sai Vijaykaran created history by winning the Junior Debate Championship at the World Scholar’s Cup held at Yale University. The theme for the cup was ‘An Entangled World: diplomacy, human relationships, the science of memory, and literature, art'.
First time an individual from India has won the coveted title.
Google honoured the late social worker and reformer Baba Amte on his 104th birth anniversary with a Google Doodle. Baba spent his life serving leprosy patients and working for their rehabilitation. He founded a commune called Anandvan Ashram in Maharashtra
Baba Amte was Templeton Prize winner.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) introducing a new ₹ 20 currency note with additional features. The ₹ 20 notes accounted for 9.8 per cent of the total number of currency notes in circulation at the end of March 2018.
RBI controls monetary policy in India.
Renowned social worker and Padma Shri awardee Sulagitti Narasamma passed away. She is best known for extending free of cost midwife services to women. Considering her work she has conferred with the Padma Shri in 2018.
Narasamma was conferred honorary doctorate by Tumkur University.
Russia has expanded its economic sanctions on Ukraine, adding more than 250 people and businesses to a blacklist. Relations between Moscow and Kiev have deteriorated since a pro-Western government came to power after 2014.
Ukraine’s capital and largest city is Kiev.