Daily current affairs 17-3-2018

1.TDP moves no-confidence motion after quitting NDA

• Speaker refuses to take up notices moved by A.P. parties citing lack of order
• Telugu Desam Party (TDP)
• We joined the alliance
• with the expectation that
• our people would get justice.
• We hoped that our State
• would get fair treatment.         

                                                                                                                                   2.Won‟t touch Ram Sethu: govt. to SC„

• Will explore alternative route‟        
• Goverment say cutting the root it raises to socio-economic disadvantage     

                                                                                                                                           3.Hawki saidVedic theory is superior’

• Union Science Minister HarshVardhan said the late cosmologist, Stephen
• Hawking, had said theVedas had a “theory” superior to that of Albert Einstein‟s
• famous equation e=mc2.
• Mr.Vardhan was speaking at the 105th edition ofthe Indian Science Congress, organised at ManipurUniversity .                                                                                                                                      

    4.A weight-loss formula for school bags

• Karnataka asks students for ideas on how to reduce the weight of their school bags.  .                       

5.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday 

• Spread science among children‟ 
•  all of India‟s scientists spend 100 hours with 100
• children every year.
• This would accelerate the spread of science in society, he said
• at the 105th Indian Science Congress. 

                                                                                             

  6.Can‟t compare Sri Lankan refugees and Rohingya‟

• The Centre has told the Supreme Court.                                                                             

   7.Maharasht gets tough on plastics

• Come Gudi Padwa, the Marathi NewYear on March 18,Maharashtra will get tough on plastic ban violators.
• Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam on Fridayannounced a ban on specified plastics in the State.                                                                       

8.German President to visit India next week 

• FrankWalter-Steinmeier.                                         

9.We‟ close to toppling Ranil govt.‟-Mahinda Rajapaksa.     

                                                                                                                     

10.‘Loya case probe will hurt judiciary’

 The Maharashtra government asked the Supreme Court on Friday tobe “very, very careful” in deciding whether to order aninvestigation into the death of Judge B.H. Loya on the basis ofcertain PIL petitions, cautioning that it may even burgeon into athreat against judicial independence itself.
                                                                               

11.11,000 crore of GST refunds sanctioned: Govt.

• The government on Friday sought to debunk reports carrying unverified estimates of pending GST refunds, terming these
figures “highly speculative and mostly inaccurate.”
• So far, the government said, ₹10,000 crore of refunds had been sanctioned by the Central Board of Excise and Customs and the States, although it did not mention the quantum of
the remaining amount.  
                                                                                                            

12.Hyundai to make 1 million cars in India

• Annual production goal may be met after 2020; firm studying prospects of introducing an EV by 2019