Current Affairs | News Headlines | 5th April 2018

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2.  Pakistanis a threat to Gulf says Dubai's security head
3.  India, Azerbaijan ink two documents for visa waiver for diplomatic, official and service passports holders
4.  56 new airports will be created in the next three years: Suresh Prabhu
5.  Blackbuck poaching case: Salman Khan gets 5-year jail term
6.  Maritime sector in India has potential to power the nation's transformation: PM Modi
7.  PM Modi pays tribute to Babu Jagjivan Ram on birth anniversary
8.  Piyush Goyal denies allegations of financial impropriety levelled against him by Congress
9.  SC asks Centre to file its response to a PIL seeking to restrict a candidate to contest from only one constituency
10.  Union Cabinet approves Protection of Human Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018
11.  Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says terrorism remains a primary international security challenge
12.  Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu clinches India's first gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games
13.  ICC Test Rankings: Virat Kohli retains second spot
14.  Jalandhar district administration open tenders for labour, cartage and transportation of wheat for 79 mandis
15.  Karnataka polls: Election Commission to set up 450 Pink polling booths
16.  Amit Shah criticises BJD govt in Odisha for its failure to provide basic needs to people
17.  KSRTC services to Tamil Nadu to be suspended today
18.  AIR TOP NEWS
19.  Women haven't been given their due in business: President Kovind
20.  Deadlock continues in Parliament
21.  NDA MPs not to take salary and allowances for 23 days of second phase of budget session of Parliament
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23.  IAF Mi-17 V5 Helicopter Crash
24.  Class-X maths re-examination not to be held anywhere in the country including Delhi-NCR and Haryana: CBSE
25.  New Specified Health Warning on Tobacco Products packs
26.  56 new airports will become functional in the next few years, said Suresh Prabhu at Global Logistics Summit
27.  Samta Diwas Observed
28.  President of India addresses 34th Annual session of FICCI Ladies Organisation;
29.  PM extends greetings on National Maritime Day; remembers Babasaheb Ambedkar as an inspiration to focus on Jal Shakti
30.  PM remembers Babu Jagjivan Ram on his birth anniversary.
31.  Cabinet approvesa Cooperation Arrangement between India and Afghanistan for cooperation in the field of food safety and related areas
32.  Cabinet approvesMoU between India and Iran on the  establishment of an expert group on trade remedy measures 
33.  Cabinet approves closure of loss making Burn Standard Company Limited - a Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE)
34.  Cabinet apprised of  MoU between India and Canada to foster  cross-border partnerships focused on research excellence and  industry-academic collaboration
35.  Cabinet apprised of MoU between India and United Arab Emirates on Technical Cooperation in Rail Sector
36.  Cabinet approves revised cost estimates of the scheme of updation of National Register of Citizens, 1951 in Assam
37.  Cabinet approves demerger and transfer of surplus land from TCL to HPIL
38.  Cabinet approves rightsizing the Competition Commission of India
39.  Cabinet approvesMoU between India and Iran on the establishment of an expert group on trade remedy measures 
40.  Cabinet apprised of MoU between India and Canada to foster cross-border partnerships focused on research excellence and industry-academic collaboration
41.  Philippines to temporarily close popular tourist island Boracay
42.  India, Azerbaijan ink two documents for visa waiver for diplomatic, official and service passports holders
43.  Jalandhar district administration open tenders for labour, cartage and transportation of wheat for 79 mandis
44.  Blackbuck poaching case: Salman Khan gets 5-year jail term
45.  Piyush Goyal denies allegations of financial impropriety levelled against him by Congress
46.  Union Cabinet approves Protection of Human Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018
47.  SC asks Centre to file its response to a PIL seeking to restrict a candidate to contest from only one constituency
48.  Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says terrorism remains a primary international security challenge
49.  56 new airports will be created in the next three years: Suresh Prabhu
50.  Data leak: Facebook says 5.62 lakh people potentially affected in India
51.  Stalemate continues in Parliament
52.  Hubble precisely measures distance to ancient star cluster
53.  Record-breaking Mirabai claims India's first gold of 21st CWG
54.  Moderately strong quake off southern Philippines
55.  Salman found guilty in blackbuck poaching case, 5 acquitted
56.  Gururaja clinches silver for India in men's weightlifting 56 kg category
57.  Indian women's hockey team loses 2-3 to Wales in CWG opener
58.  Data on up to 87 million Facebook users shared with UK firm
59.  Sri Lankan PM Ranil Wickremesinghe wins no-confidence motion in Parliament
60.  "President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee releasing the book Life at Rashtrapati Bhavan in presence of Vice President, Shri M. Hamid Ansari and PM Shri  Narendra Modi" 
61.  "Col. Rathore, HMSIB felicitating Sh. Rishi Kapoor at 1st BRICS Film Festival. Gen VK Singh, MoS, MEA also seen " 
62.  Modern Weapons to Tackle Terrorist and Naxalite activities
63.  Safety and Protection to Foreign Women
64.  Modernisation & Upgradation is necessary to keep up with changing times : Puri
65.  नवनिर्मित वैस्टर्न कोर्ट एनेक्सी, नई दिल्ली के लोकार्पण समारोह पर प्रधानमंत्री के सम्भोधन का मूल पाठ
66.  8,625 Startups Recognised as on 30 March, 2018
67.  Cabinet approves the Protection of Human Rights (Amendments) Bill, 2018 
68.  Cabinet nod to Human Rights Amendment Bill
69.  NDA MPs not to take salary for second half of budget session
70.  EAM Sushma Swaraj at NAM meet, Defence Minister in Moscow
71.  Varanasi gets more e-boats for pollution-free boating
72.  Supreme Court dismisses all petitions filed over CBSE paper leak
73.  PM: Govt walking on path shown by Dr Ambedkar
74.  First session of Nepal Parliament prorogued
75.   NASA set to build quiet supersonic planes
76.  5 Maoists gunned down in Jharkhand
77.  Direct tax collections surge 18% to Rs 10.02 lakh cr in FY'18: Jaitley
78.  Sitharaman discusses ways to strengthen defence cooperation with Russian minister
79.  India-Japan-US trilateral talks to be held in New Delhi today
80.  Commonwealth Games 2018: The quadrennial sporting festival begins
81.  CWG 2018: A look at India's top medal contenders