1. 106th Indian Science Congress will be held at Lovely Professional University (LPU) in Jalandhar (________________) in January 2019, with theme Future India: Science & Technology. It will be organised by Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA).
2. 11th World Hindi Conference will be held in _________________ in August 2018, with Theme Hindi Vishwa Aur Bharatiya Sanskriti.
3. 44th G7 summit held in Quebec (___________). Its Joint Statement was rejected by USA Prez Donald Trump. Members are Canada, France, Germany, Italy,Japan,United Kingdom,United States AND European Union. Next (45th) G7 Summit will be held in Nouvelle - Aquitaine (France).
4. An anti-doping sports conference named Clean Sport=Fair Outcome? conducted to address the issue of doping, at Oslo (_______________).
5. Department of Economic Affairs (Ministry of Finance) hosted 3rd Annual Meeting of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in _____________ (First in India) -
- Theme for this year's AIIB meet is Mobilising Finance for Infrastructure: Innovation and Collaboration.
- With total project portfolios of US$4.4 Billion, India is largest borrower of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
- Inaugural Asian Infrastructure Forum was also held launched, which will gather infrastructure practitioners in a practical and project-driven discourse, focused on matching innovative finance to criticalinfrastructure needs.
- Exhibition titled India Infrastructure Expo 2018 was also organized on sidelines of 3rd AIIB Meet.
- AIIB -
- AIIB is China led multilateral development bank set up in 2016. It has 83 member nations. India is second largest shareholder in AIIB (7.5 %), after China (26.06). It is headquartered in Beijing (China).
- Jin Liqun (China) is current president of AIIB.
6. __________ Government will host 2018 World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) Conference at Gurugram in October 2018, to provide common unified structure of mandis all across world and take advantages of the improvements in mandis in the world for India’s domestic requirements.
7. Most anticipated Bilateral Meeting for world peace, the USA-North Korea Meet held in _________________.
- USA Prez Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un met in Singapore, after a round of negotiations and months of tensions among both parties.
- North Korea Pledged to give up its nuclear Program and destroy its Nuclear arsenal. It brings respite to whole world as North korea.
- After successful USA-North Korea Peace summit, USA and South Korea suspended 2 exchange program training exercises.
8. Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary meeting held in Jurmala (_________________). With this, _________ became first Baltic state to chair NSG.
