TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - April 9, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - TNPSCGURU.IN

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• Sangam Radio
• It is India's First Community radio launched in 2008.
• Located at the Machnoor Village in Sangareddy district of Telangana.

• Tu-142M (Nick named Bear)
• It is Indian Navy's long range anti-submarine aircraft which was decommissioned at Vishakapatnam recenlty.
• Andhra pradesh has planned to convert it into a museum. 

• Trincomalee oil tank farm
• This is a world war era oil storage facility located in the Trincomalee port in colombo.
• India and Srilanka has planned to jointly develop this port.

• Feldheim Village
• It is a village located in Berlin of Germany.
• This village has become self sufficient in electricity that too from renewable energy.

• Tribe and their Location
• Onge tribe - Andaman
• Toda tribe - Tamil Nadu.

• N Krishnaswami
• He is a former Inspector General of Police of Tamil nadu who passed away recently.
• He also belongs to the first batch of IPS officers recruited after the Independence.

• Maitree Express II
• Also called as Friendship express II, is a trian service between India and Bangladesh from Khulna to Kolkata.
• It travels 176 km.

• Nomadic Elephant
• It is a joint military exercise between India and Mongolia.
• The 12th edition of this exercise was held at Vairengte in Mizoram.

• World's Largest Artificial sun.
• It was set up at German Aerospace centre.
• Consists of 149 solar powered Xenon Short arc lamps, which can generate a temperature of about 3000 deg C on targets.
• Used to produce Hydrogen fuel.