NEWS 28-02-2018. NEWS FOR 1-MAR (THURSDAY) 1. Indian Navy is going to host 16 countries for multi-national 2018 MILAN exercise at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) islands from March 6 to 13, 2018. The eight-day mega naval exercise will be held under aegis of Andaman and Nicobar Command with theme of ‘Friendship across the Seas’. Maldives has decided to pull out of it. 2. Indian Railways in collaboration with General Electric (GE) has inducted two Digitally Enabled Locomotives based on state of art insulated-gate bipolalar transistor (IGBT) technology. 3. China was elected as vice chair of Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body mandated to combat terror financing and money laundering. In its plenary meeting in Paris, FATF had placed Pakistan under “grey list” subject to direct monitoring and intense scrutiny by International Cooperation Review Group till June 2018 for compliance of Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Finance of Terrorism regulation. 4. King of Jordan Abdullah II is on a 2 day visit to India to hold talks on bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues of mutual interest. 5. India was ranked 47th out of 86 countries in Inclusive Internet Index (III) 2018 report. < < Back