Current Affairs Assam – March 2018
( Covers all important Assam Current Affairs & GK topics for the month of March 2018 )
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March 29
China agrees to share Brahmaputra river data with India.
China on said it has agreed to share the Brahmaputra river water data with India, which it had withheld last year after the Doklam military stand-off. The announcement by the Chinese Foreign Ministry came a day after India and China held talks over the trans-border rivers in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou.
India had complained that it did not receive hydrological data from China. Under an agreement, Beijing is supposed to share the river data with India, but it stopped last year after the two armies had a 73-day face off at Doklam.
Deadline for linking Aadhaar with welfare schemes extended to June 30
The Union government has extended by three months to June 30 the deadline for linking of Aadhaar with welfare schemes. The earlier deadline was March 31, 2018, which meant that from April 1, all those who wanted to get government subsidies had to have the 12-digit identification number or proof of enrolment for Aadhaar.
The extension is done by the government to avoid any inconvenience and to ensure that genuine beneficiary.
March 30
US permits H-1B Visa Holders.
The USA gave employment authorisation papers to spouses of over 71,000 H-1B visa holders, among whom 90% were testified to be Indians, on March 29th, 2018. The process of permitting work permits to the spouses of H-1B visa bearers was started by the earlier United States administration headed by Barack Obama in year 2015.
Key Highlights
- o The dependents of H-1B visa bearers gain entry into the US on H-4 visas. They were not permitted to work in the nation prior to 2015.
- As per to a report by Migration Policy Institute, as of June 2017, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services had approved 71,287 initial work permit documents to the H-4 spouses.
- Among the H-4 spouses, who got the work permit as early of 2017, 94% were females and maximum of them, 9%, were from India, while 4% were from China.
- The Migration Policy Institute gained the information from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services under the Freedom of Information Act, which is equal to RTI, India Act.
- Though the Trump management has delivered the work permits, it has roundabout towards ending the programme this year. The administration is likely to suggest a legislation in this regard by June 2018.
GSAT-6A Communication Satellite launched successfully
India fruitfully released the GSAT-6A communication satellite with its heavy rocket GSLV-F08 vehicle, on March 29th, 2018. Soon after getting apart from GSLV, the 2 solar collections of GSAT-6A were robotically positioned in quick succession and the Master Control Facility at Hassan, Karnataka presumed the regulator of the satellite.
GSAT-6A is a communication satellite constructed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to deliver mobile communication facilities through multi beam coverage. For this purpose, the satellite is loaded with S & C band transponders and has a assignment life of about 10 years.
In the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit, the GSAT-6A is, currently, circling the Earth with a nearest point to Earth of 169.4 kilometres and a farthest point to Earth of 36,692.5 kilometres. Later, the trajectory of GSAT-6A will be elevated from Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit to the final circular Geostationary Orbit by shooting the satellite’s Liquid Apogee Motor in stages. The Satellite will be custom-made into service following the conclusion of orbit raising processes and it will be situated in the selected slot in GSO, after the in-orbit testing of its loads.
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