DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 8 JUNE 2018
(DAILY NEWS INDIA)
SHARED
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1.
BRICS AND IBSA MINISTERIAL MEETINGS IN
SOUTH AFRICA
i.
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attend BRICS meeting of foreign
ministers and
meeting of IBSA (India, Brazil, South
Africa)
ii.
This would commemorate the 125th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s journey
against racial discrimination .
2.
INDIAN SHIPS IN GUAM,USA TO
PARTICIPATE IN EX-MALABAR 2018
i.
Indian Naval Ships Sahyadri, Shakti and Kamortawill take part in
the 22nd edition of ii. Exercise Malabar, off Guam, United States.
ii.
Exercise Malabar was started in 1992 as a bilateral exercise between the US
Navy and the Indian Navy.
iii.
From 2007, Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) also takes part in this
exercise.
3.
RBI AMENDS GOLD MONETISATION SCHEME
i.
The scheme was first launched by the government in 2015 to mobilise the idle
gold of the household or institutions to
the banks as deposits for a fixed period of time .
ii.
The interest rate varied from 2.25% to 2.5%.
iii.
In the latest amendment , RBI allowed the customers to deposit the gold in a
broken time period where the short term period of 1-3 years can be broken to 1
year 3 months , 2 years 3 months 15 days etc.