Current Affairs 04 January 2018 1. World Cancer Day: 04th February ● World Cancer Day is an international day marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. ● World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration goals written in 2008. ●
For 2016-2018, the theme for observing World Cancer Day is ‘We Can. I can.’
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Under this theme, people are expected to, individually and collectively, understand and work towards lessening the impact and harmful effects of the condition globally.
2. CRISIL, SIDBI Launch India’s First MSE Sentiment Index ● The Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Shri Arun Jaitley launched CriSidEx, India’s first sentiment index for micro and small enterprises ( MSEs) developed jointly by CRISIL & SIDBI. ● CriSidEx is a composite index based on a diffusion index of 8 parameters and measures MSE business sentiment on a scale of 0 (extremely negative ) to 200 ( extremely positive). ●
CriSidEx will have 2 indices, one for the ‘survey quarter’ and another for the ‘next quarter’ once a trend emerges after few rounds of the survey, providing independent time series data.
3. IWAI signed a project agreement with the World Bank for JMVP ● Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) signed a project agreement with the World Bank for JMVP, even as the latter entered into a US $ 375 million loan agreement with the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance for Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP). ● The signing of the Agreement follows the approval of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs,
for the implementation of the US $ 800 million JMVP for capacity augmentation of navigation on National Waterway-1(River Ganga) from Varanasi to Haldia. ●
US $ 380 million is to be sourced through the Government of India counterpart funds from budgetary allocation and proceeds from the bond issue.
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Another US $ 45 million will come from private sector participation under the PPP mode.
4. Arunachal Pradesh nods to much awaited Advertisement Policy 2018 ● Arunachal Pradesh gave a nod to much awaited Arunachal Pradesh Advertisement Policy 2018. State Cabinet headed by Chief Minister Pema Khandu approved Arunachal Pradesh Advertisement Policy 2018 which enable the government to make payment of government advertisement bills to media houses on timely basis. ● With this policy, a centralized funding policy to be in place for enabling the government to make payment of government advertisement bills to media houses on a timely basis.