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Wednesday, February 28

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1National Science Day 2018

National Science Day is celebrated on February 28 to commemorate discovery of the Raman Effect by Sir C.V Raman.
The Theme of National Science Day 2018 is “Science and Technology for a Sustainable Future”.

2.Swajal Yojana

Union Minister Uma Bharati has launched Swajal Yojana project at Bhikampura, Karauli, Rajasthan.
The projects aims to provide clean drinking water to every household round the year.

3.GOBAR-Dhan Yojana.

Union Government has launched Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBAR-DHAN) scheme.
The Scheme aims to make the villages open defecation free and improve the lives of villagers.
Also with this scheme it will manage and convert cattle dung and solid waste in farms to compost, bio gas and CNG.

4.Food parks in TN

Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam said that government will setup 10 mega Food parks across state.
He also said that efforts are on in setting up first food park in Tindivanam with cooperation of Ministry of Food Processing Industries and with NABARD (National Bank For Agriculture & Rural Development).

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - February 27, 2018 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in 2018

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1.Free Viral Load Testing.

Union Health Minister JP Nadda has launched Free viral load testing for all people living in HIV/AIDS (PLHIV).
This test helps to monitor the effectiveness of treatment of patients taking lifelong Antiretroviral Therapy .
It will helps more than 12 lakh people taking treatment for PLHIV in India.

2.National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts(NTCPWC)

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has laid the foundation stone for National Technology Centre for Ports, Waterways and Coasts (NTCPWC) at Indian Institute of Technology Chennai.
NTCPWC is set up under the programme SAGARMALA, which helps to provide engineering and technological inputs and support for Ports, Inland Waterways Authority of India and other institutions.

3.“KUSHI”

Odisha government launches new Scheme “KUSHI” to provide free sanitary pads to 17 lakh Students.

4.Four lakh olive ridley nest at Rushikulya.

The endangered species Olive ridley has nested record of more than four lakh nest in Rushikulya rookery coast in the Ganjam district of Odisha in 2018.

5.China becomes Vice chair of FATF

China has elected as Vice chair of Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
FATF is an inter-governmental body to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
It was established in G-7 summit in 1989, headquartered in Paris, France..
It has 37 member including India, European Union and the Gulf Co-operation Council

6.SRIJAN’

Indian Railways has launched SRIJAN (Station Rejuvenation Initiative through Joint ActioN), an idea competition for 635 Station Development on Indian Railways at MyGov portal.

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1.MILAN 2018.

Andaman & Nicobar to host MILAN 2018 , which is a congregation of littoral Navies conducted biennially by Indian Navies.
This exercise aims to strengthen cooperation among the participating countries.
This year it will held from March 6 to 13 with the Theme “Friendship across the seas”

More About MILAN

2.Rustom 2

Defence Research and Development Organisation successfully flew its medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Rustom 2 its Aeronautical Test Range(ATR) at Chalakere at Chitradurga, Karnataka.

3.SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications)

Reserve Bank of India has asked all banks to link its core banking solution with SWIFT(Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) interbank messaging system by April 30.

About SWIFT.

4.TAPI gas Pipeline

TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India ) gas pipeline’s construction begins in Afghanistan.
TAPI Gas pipeline will help to link India and Pakistan with energy rich Central Asia.
Turkmenistan holds the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserve.
The world's second-biggest gas field Galkynysh will feed the TAPI Gas pipeline.

5.e-Governance Conference

The 21^st National Conference on e-Governance held in Hyderabad, Telangana.
The theme of this year is “Technology for accelerating Development”.

6.Chennai Salem Green Highway

The 8-lane Green express-highway between Chennai to Salem to come up at a cost of Rs 10,000 crore.

7.China's President Xi Jinping

The Communist Party of China has proposed to remove tenure to serve as president and vice president as not more than 2 consecutive terms.
It Makes China’s President Xi Jinping to stay as president beyond his tenure.

Milan 2018.

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Andaman & Nicobar to host Milan 2018 , which is a congregation of littoral Navies conducted biennially by Indian Navies.
This exercise aims to strengthen cooperation among the participating countries.
This year it will held from March 6 to 13 with the Theme “Friendship across the seas”
The theme of this year’s MILAN International Maritime Seminar is ‘In Pursuit of Maritime Good Order - Need for Comprehensive Information Sharing Apparatus”
This year’s Exercise will showcase the rich heritage and pristine natural beauty of the Andaman
& Nicobar Islands to visitors.
Milan Exercise first started in 1995 with four countries navies participated.
Now Milan Exercise has now grown, that not only navies from the Bay of Bengal and South East Asia but the larger Indian Ocean Region (lOR) also participating.

Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)

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Reserve Bank of India has asked all banks to link its core banking solution with SWIFT(Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) interbank messaging system by April 30.

About SWIFT.

SWIFT is a messaging networks that financial institution use to securely transmit information and instructions through an identification codes.
SWIFT Codes mostly used for international wire transfers which consists of 8 to 11 alphanumeric characters.
It is founded in 1973, headquarters in La Hulpe, Belgium.
International Organisation of Standardization which approves the creation of SWIFT Codes.

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1.Drypetes Kalamii

Drypetes Kalamii, a new species found in Buxa tiger Reserve and Jaldapara National Park of West Bengal.
The new species is named after former President Abdul Kalam.

2.TN to setup more solar projects.

According to latest report, Tamil Nadu is to setup more number of Solar Projects with the capacity of 2,000 MW in 2018.
Tamil Nadu has the largest installed solar projects in the country followed by Karnataka and Maharashtra.
But in 2017 Telangana has installed more Solar projects followed by Andhra Pradesh.

3.5G network trial.

Airtel and Huawei successfully conduct India’s first 5G trial at Airtel’s Network Experience Centre in Manesar, Gurugram

4.8^th century linear drawing

8^th Century linear drawing of fish on rock found near palnadu near Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.

5.Rahul Mahajan

Rahul Mahajan has appointed as the head of Rajya Sabha TV

6.Aruna Reddy.

Aruna Reddy become the first Indian gymnast to win medal in world cup.
She won the Bronze medal in Gymnastic World cup held in Melbourne, Australia.
She finished behind Tjasa Kysslef of Slovenia who won Gold and Emily Whitehead of Australia won Silver.

7.Amma 2 wheeler scheme

Prime minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated Amma 2 Wheeler Scheme in Tamil Nadu.
According to the scheme, One Lakh working women per annum will be provided 50 Percent Subsidy for purchase of two wheelers, subsidy not exceeding Rs. 25,000.

for more details

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1.UDAY's TN Performance

Tamil Nadu has ranked lowest in Quarterly performance of State distribution companies till Dec’17 after joining Union Government’s Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY).
Tamil Nadu has ranked 24 in state ranking.

What is UDAY?

Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana is a central Government Scheme to get permanent solution for financial Crisis for Electricity board. It is introduced in November 2015 by Power, Coal & New Renewable Energy.

2.India Sign Loan agreement with ADB.

India has signed $84 M loan agreement with Asian Development Bank for improvement and expansion of water supply in Bhagalpur and Gaya towns in Bihar.

3.Global Corruption Perception Index 2017.

India Ranked 81^st in Global Corruption Perception Index 2017 , while India ranked 79^th in 2016.
New Zealand tops the list , while china ranked in 77^th place and Pakistan in 117.

4.Dhanush missile

India Successfully test fired Nuclear capable surface to surface Ballistic missile Dhanush also known as Agni III from Abdul kalam Island, Odisha.
It has the striking range of 350 KM.

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1.Electoral Bearer Bond Scheme

Union government has notified the Electoral Bearer Bond Scheme 2018.
As per this scheme , the bonds can be purchased by person who is citizen of India or incorporated or established in India.
Electoral Bonds can buy either singly or jointly with any other individual.
State Bank of India is authorised to issue and encash Electoral Bonds in its 4 authorised Branches.
The First issue will start from 1st March 2018.

More about Electoral Bond

2.Super critical carbon di oxide Brayton test loop facility.

Union Minister Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated Super critical Caron di oxide Brayton test loop facility at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
It helps to generate clean energy from future power plants including solar thermal, it reduces the water consumption and with less emissions of Greenhouse gas.
It will be efficient alternative to conventional steam-based power plants.
Currently Thermal Power plants use steam to carry heat and turn a turbine to generate power.
The Supercritical Co2 is denser than steam which helps to generate more power in less .

3.Prithvi – II Missile.

India Successfully tested First Night trial nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missile Prithvi-II from Abdul kalam Island, Odisha
It is surface to surface missile has the capacity to strike 350km

4.Jaipur’s Gandhinagar railway station

Jaipur’s Gandhinagar Railway Station becomes the first non-suburban station to operate fully by women.

5.Cyclone Gita

India offers $1 Million to country Tonga for recovery from Cyclone Gita.
Cyclone Gita originated in South Pacific

6.Cryptocurrency – PETRO.

Venezuela becomes the first country to officially launch its own crypto currency named PETRO.

Electoral Bearer Bond Scheme 2018

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Union government has notified the Electoral Bearer Bond Scheme 2018.
As per this scheme , the bonds can be purchased by person who is citizen of India or incorporated or established in India.
Electoral Bonds can buy either singly or jointly with any other individual.
State Bank of India is authorised to issue and encash Electoral Bonds in its 4 authorised Branches.
The First issue will start from 1st March 2018.

Who can accept the Electoral Bond?

Electoral bonds can be receive only by the political party which is registered under section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (43 of 1951) and which secured not less than 1 % of vote polled in previous election to Lokh Sabha or legislative assembly of state.

How Electoral Bonds work?

If person wants to donate money to any political party, he can buy Electoral bonds from notified bank by making payment .
Then you can gift this bond to political party.
Then Political party will convert this bond back to money.

This helps to curb the black money floating in way of donation to Political Party.

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1.e-NAM platform.

Union Agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh has launched 6 six new features of e-NAM (National Agriculture Market) Platform to make it more users friendly.
The 6 new features include e-NAM mobile app, BHIM Payment Facility, New and improved Website with eLearning Module, MIS Dashboard, Grievance Redressal Management System for Mandi Secretaries and Integration with Farmer Database.
e-NAM implemented with aim to provide competitive and remunerative price to farmers through online competitive bidding process for their produce.
It was implemented by Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers welfare

2.Northeast’s first regional Centre for Agriculture

Ministry for Development of North-East Region said that First Regional Centre of Agriculture in North east State will inaugurate with Israeli collaboration in Mizoram.

3.New list of Sick PSUs

Niti Ayog CEO Amitab Kant said Niti Ayog is preparing another set of sick Public sector units that can be privatised.
He said Niti Ayog is already recommended to disinvestment of 40 PSUs of their 4 list which already sent.

4.Light transport aircraft SARAS

India successfully tested its Indigenously developed Light transport Aircraft SARAS .
It was designed and developed by Council of Scientific & Industrial Research( CSIR)-National Aerospace Laboratories, NAL.

5.Avani Chaturvedi

Avani Chaturvedi became the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo.
she flew a MiG-21 Bison in her first solo flight.

6.International Mother Language Day

International Mother Language Day has been celebrated across the world on February 21.

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1.Tribunal on Mahanadi Water Disputes.

Union cabinet has given its nod for constituting a Tribunal for Mahanadi Water Dispute under Inter-State River Disputes Act(ISRWD), 1956 request from Odisha.
The Tribunal will determines the water sharing between Odisha and Chhattisgarh basis of the overall availability of water in Mahanadi Basin.
As per ISRWD act 1956, the tribunal has to submit its report and decision within 3 years of its commission and can further extended for 2 more year due to unavoidable circumstances.

2.Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel under Char Dham project

Union Cabinet has given its nod for constructing 2-Lane Bi-Directional Silkyara Bend - Barkot Tunnel in Uttarakhand.
It is a part of Central Governments Char Dham Expressway National Highway (Chardham Mahamarg Pariyojana’) launched in December 2016
Char Dham Expressway National Highway aims to connect four holy places in Uttarakhand which includes Kedarnath, Badrinath ,Gangotri and Yamunotri

3.National Urban Housing Fund.

Union Cabinet has given its nod for creating National Urban Housing Fund (NUHF) for Rs.60,000 crores.
It will facilitate raising requisite funds to Government’s housing for all programme, which aims to build 1.2 crore houses in urban by 2022.
This fund will be situated in Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC), under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

4.Agni-II

Indian successfully test fired intermediate range nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni –II from Abdul Kalam Island, Odihsa.
Agni – II is indigenously made and has a strike range of 2000 km.

5.Crèche facility

The Parliament house to set up Creche Facility for Women employees.
Creche facility is a day care centre for Children.
This initiative will push other private establishments, central and state owned organizations to set up a crèche facility.
( crèche is an French word meaning to care of another's offspring in Zoology)

7.Asmita Yojana

Maharashtra Government to launch Asmit Yojana to provide cheap sanitary pads.
Scheme will launch on International Women’s Day on March 8.
The scheme will provide sanitary pads at Rs 5 for girls in Zilla Parishad schools while rural women can avail it at Rs 24 and Rs29

8.India-Morocco Agreement in Railway Sector.

India and Morocco has signed an agreement to develop long-term cooperation and partnership in different areas of railway sector.
In the areas of Training and staff development, Expert missions, exchange of experience and personnel and Mutual technical assistance, including exchanging of experts.

9.R.H Malegan

Reserve of Bank of India to set up committee under R.H Malegan to find Reason and suggest ideas to prevent fraud in Banks.

10.N.Gopalaswami

Former Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami appointed as head to choose 20 Institutions of Eminence.

11.Alignment of Egypt Pyramid.

Recent study said that Ancient Egyptians may have used the Autumn equinox to align the Great Pyramid of Giza almost perfectly along the four cardinal points.
Autumn equinox occur 2 times in year when sun is exactly above the Equator, when the length of day and Night will be equal.
It will occur 22 September in the northern hemisphere and March 20th in the southern hemisphere.

12.K.Balakrishnan

K,Balakrishnan has elected as Tamil Nadu State Communist Party of India (Marxist),Secretary.

13.The Essential Erode Tamilanban’ and ‘Still a Few More Questions’

The English and other languages translated version of The Essential Erode Tamilanban’ and ‘Still a Few More Questions” books of Tamil scholar and poet Erode Tamilanban has been launched

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1.World Environment Day 2018.

India to host 2018’s World Environment day on June 5.
Beat Plastic pollution is the central theme of this year World Environment day celebrated on June 5.

2.The Banks Board Bureau.

The Banks Board Bureau (BBB) term is going to expire on March 31 2018.
Central Gvoernment is yet to communicate the extension of BBB tenure.
BBB was set in April 2016 under programme Indradhanush to reform Public sector banks
It was conceived by PJ Nayak committee.
Former Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) Vinod Rai is current Chairman also he is the first Chairman of Banks Board Bureau.

3.Wi-Fi in Government schools.

Tamil Nadu School education Minister, K. A. Sengottaiyan, informed that there will be free Wi-Fi facility to be setup in 312 Government schools in the districts of Chennai, Kanchipuram, Thiruvalluvar and Coimbatore.
For this Agreement has been signed with private service provider ACT Fibernet .
The facility will help students to access all information related to studies.

4.Kota and Toda language.

Kota and Toda language of Tamil Nadu is in the list of 42 languages heading towards extinction in India.
According the list prepared by UNESCO there are 42 languages in India are in endangered and heading towards extinction.
Andaman Nicobar has highest with 11 languages in endangered list, followed by 7 languages in Manipur , 4 from Himachal Pradesh.
The Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, is working towards protecting and preserving the endangered language in India.

5.World Conference on IT, Hyderabad

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the World Conference on Information Technology through video conference at Hyderabad.

6.BAFTA film awards.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is the big winner at the 71st British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA)2018.

7.Qatar open Tennis Tournament.

Petra Kvitova wins Qatar Open Tennis tournament beating Garbine Muguruza.

8.Christian Coleman

Christian Coleman breaks 60m indoor world record when he clocked 6.34 seconds at the US Indoor Championships in New Mexico.

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1.Watan ko Jano.

Watan ko Jano is an Youth Exchange programme2017-18 to give exposure to the youth and children of Jammu and Kashmir about the cultural and socio-economic development taking place in other parts of India.

2.Tuidimjang Dam,

Myanmar is building a Tuidimjang Dam on the Twigem river, which flows from Manipur to Myanmar.
The Khantung village inhabitants are feared about submergence of village if the dam comes up, and also make them to relocate and rehabilitate.
Khantung village is in Manipur, inhabited by Thadou Tribes.

3.Hyperloop

The Virgin Group signed an agreement to Maharashtra government for linking Pune to Mumbai through Hyperloop transportation.
Hyperloop transportation will reduce Pune to Mumbai travel time by 25 minutes

4.Roger Federer

Roger Federer becomes oldest World number one in Tennis at the age of 36.
He achieved this feat after beating Robin Haase Rotterdam's ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament.
Federer has beaten the record of Andre Agassi at age 33, who becomes world No 1

5.B.Soumya

B.Soumya wins gold in 20km Category 5th National race walking championships.

6.Icon of Chennai award

Icon of Chennai award given to Indian Cricketer R Ashwin in the event held by Rotary Internatioanl.

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1.Sex Ratio at birth Dips.

Sex Ratio at birth dips in 17 big states, as per the ‘Healthy States, Progressive India’ report released by Niti Ayog.
Gujarat tops the list which recorded 53 point dip from 907 female birth to 854 Female.
Gujarat is followed by Haryana 35 points, Rajasthan with 32 points and Punjab registered a rise of 19 points followed by Uttar Pradesh, Bihar.

2.DTAA signed with Iran.

India and Iran has signed an agreement for Avoidance of Double Taxation (DTAA) and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income.

3.Theatre Olympics

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 8th international Theatre Olympics 2018 at Red Fort in New Delhi.
He also releases Festival Logo “Flag of Friendship”.
The Theatre Olympics established in 1993 at Delphi, Greece, it is an international Theatre festival which brings theatre practitioner’s around the world.
It is an initiative of Greek theatre director Theodoros Terzopoulos.

4.Mahamastakabhisheka 2018

Mahamastakabhisheka ceremony at Shravanabelagoal begins in Hassan District ,Karnataka after 12 years.
Mahamastakabhisheka is also known as Mahakumbh of Jain, it held once in 12 years.
Gommateshwara Bahubali statue at Shravanabelagola is one of the important tirthas in Jainism also an important pilgrimage destination.
Chandragupta Mauryua has believed to be died in this place

5.National research Center for Banana.

Indian Council of Agricultural Research has confirmed that it will not merge or downgrade National Research Center for Banana with any institute.
National Research Centre for Banana situated at Podavar in Tiruchi, Tamil Nadu.

6.Canada PM Justin Trudeau .

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reached India for one week tour.

7.Auroville

Auroville to celebrate its golden jubilee on Feb 28’2018.
It was founded by Mirra Alfassa in 1968 at Villupuram district with some part in Puducherry.

8.ICAI new president

ND Gupta elected as New President of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

9.Sandeep kumar

Sandeep Kumar wins 50 km Walk completion at the fifth National race walking championships.

10.Priyanka Patel

Priyanka Patel wins Women’s under -20 10km category at National Race Walking Championship and also shattered the national record in race walking

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1.Cuavery water Dispute.

Supreme court has ordered Karnataka to release 177.25 tmcft of Cauvery water Tamil Nadu.
As per the current order totally Tamil Nadu will get 404.25 tmcft of Cauvery water which is less than 14.75 tmc ft awarded by tribunal.
Karnataka will get 284.75 tmc ft, Kerala to get 30 tmc ft and Puduchery to get 7 tmc ft.

Note:

Article 262 - deals with Adjudication of disputes relating to waters of inter State rivers or river valleys

2.Chandrayaan-2 mission

Indian Space Research Organisation is planning to launch Chandrayaan-2 mission to moon around April 2018.
Chandrayaan 2 will be the challenging mission, as it will carry first time carry an orbiter, a lander and a rover to the moon.

3.Botanical Survey of India agreement with NHM.

Botanical Survey of India (BSI) has signed agreement with Natural History Museum (NHM), UK for cooperation in the field of genetic/taxonomic studies, research and training, conservation in India, including species and habitat conservation assessments and more.

4.World Sustainable Development Summit 2018

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated World Sustainable Development Summit 2018 at VigyanBhawan New Delhi.
The Theme of 2018 summit is “Partnerships for a Resilient Planet”.

5.Malacidins

Scientist from the Rockefeller University have discovered a new class of antibiotics called Malacidins which is capable of killing off several antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

6.Neptune’s Mysterious storm.

NASA’s Hubble space telescope has captured the picture of Neptune’s Mysterious shrinking storm.

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1.Loan Agreement with New Development Bank

India Signs 2^nd Loan Agreement with New Development Bank for $100 Million for Rajasthan Water Sector Restructuring Project for Desert Areas
The Aim of agreement is rehabilitate the 678 km long Indira Gandhi Canal system to prevent seepage, conserve water, and enhance water use efficiency.
New Development Bank is multilateral development bank established by BRICS Nation on July 2014.
New Development bank headquartered in Shanghai, China.
The Current President is K.V Kamath.

2.Paschim Lehar

Tri-service maritime exercise named Paschim Lehar held in western coast, with the aim to build interoperability.
Around 40 ships, submarines, fighter aircrafts of western Naval Command, units of eastern Naval commands, Indian Army, Air Force, Coast guard participated in Paschim Lehar

3.Venezuela and Libya suspended on UN Vote

Venezuela and Libya suspended from voting in UN for not paying its due.
It was the third time in 3 years for getting suspended.

4.Sanjiv Bajaj

Sanjiv Bajaj is named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017.
He will represent India at the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year award (WEOY) in Monte Carlo in June 2018.

5.KP Sharma Oli

KP Sharma Oli sworn in as Nepal’s new Prime Minister.

6.Cyril Ramaphosa

Cyril Ramaphosa Sworn in as South Africa’s new President.

7.SCO Summit 2018

China to Host 2018 Shanghai Cooperation organisation summit at Qingdao in June’2018.

8.Hailemariam Desalegn

Ethiopian Prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned.

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1.Tamil Nadu’s Green Cover.

Tamil Nadu registered meagre 102 sq.km increase in green cover as per latest India State of Forest Report 2017.
Total Green cover is 30,952 sq.km (26,281 sq.km forest cover and 4,671 sq.km Tree cover).
It is 23.80% of Tamil Nadu’s Geographical Area and 3.86 % of Country’s Geographical area.

2.Agricon 2018’ and ‘Agriexpo 2018

President Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the international conference ‘Agricon 2018’ and ‘Agriexpo 2018’ at Chandrashekhar Azad University of Agriculture & Technology (CSAUT), Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

3.Revenue Commission.

Punjab Government has constituted Revenue Commission to bring greater efficiency and accountability in Revenue Department.
It will be headed by (Retd.) Justice SS Saron of Punjab and Haryana High Court.

4.1st radio festival

India’s First Radio Festival to be held in Delhi

5.Jacob Zuma

South African’s President Jacob Zuma Reigned from Presidentship

6.National Women's football championship

Tamil Nadu wins Senior National Women’s Football Championship beating Manipur.

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1.World Government Summit 2018

6^th World Government Summit 2018 held at Dubai.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended World Government Summit 2018.
India’s UMANG gets m-Government Service Award for the Accessible Government Category .
Also India’s AADHAAR is one of the Winner of the Best Government Emerging Technologies Award.

2.The Global Theatre Olympics

The 8^th Global Theatre Olympics to be held in India for first time at Red Ford , New Delhi on 17^th February 2018.
The Theme of the theatre Olympics to be held in India is “Flag of Friendship”.
The Theatre Olympics established in 1993 at Delphi, Greece, it is an international Theatre festival which brings theatre practitioner’s around the world.
It is an initiative of Greek theatre director Theodoros Terzopoulos.

3.NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam

India’s largest electricity producer NTPC ‘s (Natioanl Thermal Power Corporation ) subsidiary NVVN (NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam) won the tender to supply 300 MW power to Bangladesh.

4.Agreement with UAE.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his visit to UAE has signed 2 agreement to boost India’s Energy Sector.
Agreement between Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and the Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd (ISPRL) to filling up one half of a strategic petroleum reserve rock Caverns in Mangalore.
Second agreement is to pick up 10% stake in ADNOC ‘s Lower Zakum Offshore oil field by Indian Oil Majors.

5.India Pharma & India Medical Device 2018

The 3^rd International Exhibition and conference Pharmaceutical & Medical Device sector, India Pharma & India Medical Device 2018 with the theme of ‘Affordable and Quality Healthcare’ to be held from 15- 17 Feb in Bengaluru.

6.Russia’s cargo spacecraft

Russia’s Soyuz rocket has launched cargo Spacecraft to resupply International Space Station.

7.World Radio Day

February 13 is observed as World Radio Day across the world.
The Theme of 2018 World Radio Day is Radio and Sports.

8.Dakota aircraft

Air Chief Dhanoa recived the vintage World War-II DC3 Dakota aircraft from Air Cdre (Retd) Chandrasekhar

India State of Forest Report 2017

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India’ forest cover has been increased by 1% according to the state of forest report 2017.
Mangrove forest increased by 181Sq.Km, Maharashtra has maximum increase by 82 sq.km followed by Andhra Pradesh by 37 sq kms and Gujarat with 33 sq kms.
It is the 15^th biennial forest cover assessment released by Forest Survey of India which is initiated in 1987.

Key Findings:

India is ranked 10^th in world with 24.4% of geographical area under forest and tree cover.
There is an increase of 8, 021 sq km( 6,778 forest cover and 1,243 tree cover )in the total forest and tree cover of the country comparing with 2015.
Forest cover assessment calculate based on having tree canopy density of 10 % and above in an area of 1 hectare.
Top Three states which has maximum increase are Andhra Pradesh by 2141 sq km, followed by Karnataka by 1101 sq km and Kerala by 1043 sq km.
Top 3 states where forest cover decrease are Mizoram by 531 sq km, Nagaland by 450 sq
Km and Arunachal Pradesh by 190 sq km.
Madhya Pradesh has largest forest cover with 77,414 sq.km , Arunachal Pradesh with 6,964 Sq.km , Chhattisgarh with 55547sq.km.
The Main reason for the increase is due to Government’s various conservation and management policies like Green India Mission, National Agro-Forestry policy (NAP), REDD plus policy, Joint Forest Management(JFM), National Afforestation Programme and funds under Compensatory Afforestation to States.
And the reason for the decrease in some states are due toshifting cultivation, other biotic pressures,
rotational felling, diversion of forest lands for developmental activities, submergence of
forest cover, agriculture expansion and natural disasters.
The present assessment is based on data from the indigenous LISS – III sensor, 277 scenes from Resourcesat-2 satellite and 33 scenes from Resourcesat -1 satellite which is procured from National Resource sensing Centre , Hyderabad.
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TNPSC Current Affairs - February 2018 by TNPSC Guru

1.India State of Forest Report 2017

India’ forest cover has been increased by 1% according to the state of forest report 2017.
Andhra Pradesh has maximum increase with 2141 sq.km and MAdhya PRadesh has largest Forest Cover with 77,414 sq km
Mangrove forest increased by 181Sq.Km, Maharashtra has maximum increase by 82 sq.km followed by Andhra Pradesh by 37 sq kms and Gujarat with 33 sq kms.
It is the 15^th biennial forest cover assessment released by Forest Survey of India which is initiated in 1987.

Key Findings:

2.The National Productivity Day Feb 12.

National Productivity day observed on February 12 across country and National Productivity week will be observed till 18^th February.
The theme of National productivity week is Industry 4.0 Leapfrog Opportunity for India.
It will be the 60^th Anniversary of National Productivity council and will be celebrated as Diamond Jubilee year.

3.Duqm Port.

India gets Access to Duqm port of Oman for Military use and logical Support.
This is part of India’s Maritime strategy to counter Chinese influence.

4.Chandrashekhar Kambar

Chandra Shekhar Kambar has been elected as President of Sahitya Akademi..

5.Star 2.0

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami has released portal called STAR 2.0 (Simplified and Transparent Administration of Registration) to ease property registration.

6.TN 2^nd Global Investors Meet

Tamil Nadu Government has announced 2^nd Global Investors meet to be held in January 2018.

First Global Investors meet held in September 2015 in Chennai.

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