TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - July 4-5, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN

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• A Book for every Hand
• A new scheme launched by the National Book Trust, in which people can donate book to children by paying online to snapdeal.
• Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act 1971.
• It bars abortion of the foetus if it crosses the 20 week period.
• The SC allowed to abort foetus over 20 weeks if a registered medical practitioner certifies that the pregnancy is life threatening to either the mother or the baby.
• Google Electric Map
• It is a prototype of a mobile app developed by Kilaru Nageswara Rao from Telengana.
• This prototype is useful for speedy repair of faults in electric lines.
• QRSAM
• QRSAM - Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile
• It was test fired from Integrated test range in Chandipur near orissa coast.
• NMCE and ICEX Merger
• NMCE - National Multi Commodity Exchange
• Setup in October 2002.
• India's first Demutualised online multi commodity exchange in India
• ICEX - Indian Commodity Exchange
• The board of these to exchanges have planned to merge.
• The Merger of these two will make it the third largest commodity exchange in India.
• Indian PM Visited Isreal
• Indian PM Narendra Modi visite Israel in an official tour.
• Narendra Modi became the first Indian PM to visit Israel.
• Prime Minister of Israel :  Benjamin Netanyahu
• High Level Committee to oversee education reforms and implementation of Quality education practises
• Head: K A Sengottaiyan (Minister of School education and Youth and Sports Welfare).
• TN Curriculam Framework Committee
• M Anandakrishnan was appointed as the head of the TN Curriculam Framework Committee to oversee syllabus revision and implementation for Classes 1 to 12 std.
• Year of Revision of Syllabus
• Academic Year 2018-2019 for Class 1,6,9,11
• Academic Year 2019-2020 for Class 2,7,10,12
• Academic Year 2020-2021 for Class 3,4,5,8
• New CEC
• Achal Kumar Joti to be appointed as the New Chief Election commissioner of India succeeding Nizam jaidi.
• Hwasong 14
• It is the first Intercontinental ballistic missile of North Korea which was claimed to be test fired by N Korea recently.