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Friday, September 1

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 31, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

1.India’s first jointly built with private Sector Satellite to be launched today.

India’s first Jointly built with private Sector satellite IRNSS-1H set to be launch today. It is a backup satellite IRNSS-1H as replacement of IRNSS-1A, whose 3 atomic clock have failed last year. It was jointly built by ISRO and Bengaluru based aerospace firm ,Alpha Design Technologies

More about IRNSS:

2.Vijay Narayana appointed new Advocate General of Tamil Nadu.

Vijay Naryana has appointed as new Advocate General of Tamil Nadu, he will occupy the space vacated by R Muthukumaraswamy.

3.India and Myanmar to sign MoU for conservation of Earthquake-Damaged pagodas at Bagan.

Union Cabinet has given its nod for signing Memorandum of Understanding for conservation of Earthquake damaged pagodas at Bagan between India and Myanmar. It will help to strengthen India’s ties in culture and religion with Myanmar.

4.India and Canada to jointly issue postage stamps.

Union cabinet announced that India and Canada is agreed to jointly issue the Postage stamps with the Theme “Diwali”.

India’s first jointly built with private Sector Satellite IRNSS-1H to be launch today.

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC guru.

India’s first Jointly built with private Sector satellite IRNSS-1H set to be launch today. It is a backup satellite IRNSS-1H as replacement of IRNSS-1A, whose 3 atomic clock have failed last year. It was jointly built by ISRO and Bengaluru based aerospace firm ,Alpha Design Technologies

About IRNSS:

Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System is a regional navigation satellite system developed by India to provide accurate position information services to users across the country and the region extending upto an area of 1,500km.
Till date ,there are seven satellites launched in IRNSS Series they are, IRNSS-1A, 1B, 1C, ID,1E, 1F and IG.
It is designed to provide 2 types of services standard positioning service and restricted service. Standard positioning service will provide to all users and restricted service is for authorised users.
IRNSS will work similar like GPS(Global Positioning system) of US, Galileo of Europe, Russia’s Glonass, Quasi Zenith Satellite System of Japan and Beidou of China.
Some of the application of IRNSS are Terrestrial, Aerial and marine navigation, disaster management, Vehicle tracking and fleet management, Navigation aid and more

Thursday, August 31

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 30, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

1.Union Home Minister inaugurates YUVA - a skill development programme.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the YUVA –a skill development programme in New Delhi under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana(PMKVY) which is an initiative of Delhi Police.

YUVA aims to connect with Youth by upgrading their skills as per their abilities, which will help them to get employment under PMKVY.

About PMKVY:

2.IAEA opens Uranium bank in Kazakhstan.

International Atomic Energy Agency has opened low Enriched Uranium (LEU) Bank in Okemen, Kazakhstan, to discourage new nations form enriching the nuclear fuel.

The bank can store upto 90 tonnes of the fuel and sell it to member countries when there is shortage.

3.Gobindobhog rice from West Bengal gets geographical indication status.

Gobindobhog rice from Burdwan district of West Bengal, has got the geographical indication (GI) status.

4.1000 years old Jain site in Villupuram declared protected Monument.

1000 years old Jain Rock carvings in Villupuram district of Tamil Nadu has been declared as protected monument by Tamil Nadu State Government. It has image of Bahubali, that proves Jainism thrived in that region.

5.Mariyappan recived arjuna award.

Tamil Nadu’s Para Olympic Gold medallist Thangavelu Mariyappan received Arjuna award from Indian President Ram Nath Koving.

Arjuna awards given to sports person for consistency outstanding performance for four years

Union Home Minister inaugurates YUVA - a skill development programme.

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the YUVA –a skill development programme in New Delhi under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana(PMKVY) which is an initiative of Delhi Police.

YUVA aims to connect with Youth by upgrading their skills as per their abilities, which will help them to get employment under PMKVY.

About PMKVY:

It is a scheme of Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched in July 2016 for skilling more than 1 crore people in 4 years.
The aim of this scheme is to make Youth to take up industry relevant skill training that help them to get better livelihood.
Youth with prior learning experience, also get accessed and certified under Recognition of Prior Learning.
The Fee under this scheme will be paid by Government of India.

Wednesday, August 30

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 29, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

Doklam Standoff ends and its issues.

India announced that both India and China has agreed to pull back its troop from Doklam and also China has halted its construction of road on Doklam which spark the issue between both nation. The move comes ahead of the BRICS summit in China.

Doklam is a narrow plateau locoated at tri-junction between India’s Sikkim, Bhutan and China.

It is a disputed territory which was depicted in Bhutanese Map since 1961 but it also claimed by China as its Territory.

More about Current Issue and India's Intervention

2.India and Germany signed an agreement on technical cooperation under IGEN-GEC.

India and Germany has signed an agreement on technical cooperation under Indo-German Energy Programme-Green Energy Corridors (IGEN-GEC) with the objective to improve the conditions for grid integration of renewable energies.

It was signed by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of Germany.

More about Grid Integration

3.Geological stresses along Indo-Australian tectonic plate boundary.

N. Purnachandra Rao, Director, National Centre for Earth Science Studies said that Geological stress building along Indo-Australian tectonic plate boundary in Indian Ocean. The stress will cause a powerful earthquake and trigger a tsunami across south India.

About Indo-Australia Plate stress.

4.TN State Ground and Surface Water Resources Data Centre, to get Massive tank to collect rainwater

Tamil Nadu State Ground and Surface Water resources data Centre, Taramani (Chennai) to get massive tank with a capacity of 6lakh litre to be constructed to collect rainwater for solution to urban flooding and water shortage.

Doklam Standoff ends and its issues.

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

India announced that both India and China has agreed to pull back its troop from Doklam and also China has halted its construction of road on Doklam which spark the issue between both nation. The move comes ahead of the BRICS summit in China.

Issue

Doklam is a narrow plateau locoated at tri-junction between India’s Sikkim, Bhutan and China.

It is a disputed territory which was depicted in Bhutanese Map since 1961 but it also claimed by China as its Territory.

Current issue is because of China’s plan of constructing road in Doklam Region.

Why India Intervene?

India is not claiming Doklam as its Territory but supporting Bhutan against China’s construction of Road in Doklam region.

Important reason for intervention:

1.If the road constructed in the disputed area, it will make Chinese forces closer to the narrow Siliguri Corridor or Chicken’s Neck of India that connect India’s northeast to the rest of the country. It will become major security concern for India.

2. As per the 1949 treaty, Bhutan agreed to let India guide its foreign and defence affairs and in 2007 with new friendship treaty , that made it mandatory for Bhutan to take India’s guidance on foreign policy and gave broader sovereignty and also no requirement of India’s permission for arms imports.So this Made India automatically intervene the Bhutan ,China’s Border disputes.

India and Germany signed an agreement on technical cooperation under IGEN-GEC.

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

India and Germany has signed an agreement on technical cooperation under Indo-German Energy Programme-Green Energy Corridors (IGEN-GEC) with the objective to improve the conditions for grid integration of renewable energies.

It was signed by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of Germany.

Background:

Power grid corporation of India on July 2012 has submitted a “Transmission plan for envisaged Renewable capacity” to Ministry of New and Renewable Energy which paved the way for India to convert its power system considerable increase in share of renewable energies in energy sector.
With this agreement both India and Germany will work on improving market mechanisms and regulation for integration of Renewable energies,
It also helps in advancing technical and institutional conditions in target states and also adding human capacities to handle renewable energies integration in an efficient and effective way.
This agreement will also help in India’s Green Energy corridors scheme to achieve the 175 GW target of renewable energy generation capacity by 2022, because it requires large scale of grid integration of renewable energy.

Geological stresses along Indo-Australian tectonic plate boundary.

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TNPSC Current Attairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

N. Purnachandra Rao, Director, National Centre for Earth Science Studies said that Geological stress building along Indo-Australian tectonic plate boundary in Indian Ocean. The stress will cause a powerful earthquake and trigger a tsunami across south India.

About Indo-Australia Plate stress.

Indo-Australia plate is a major tectonic plate which contains Indian subcontinent and Australian continent.
Recent study said that Indo-Australia plate will broke into 3 or more pieces due to collision into Eurasian Plate.
North Eastern side of the plate moves at the rate of 5.6 cm per year and North Eastern side plate moves at 3.7 cm per year due to obstruction of Himalayas which cause difference in movement.
The difference in movement cause stress in middle of plate near Sumatra and cause many Earthquake and chance of breaking up.

Monday, August 28

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 27 & 28 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru.

1.Indian Statistical Institute found oldest fossil remains of horned reptiles.

Researches from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata has found oldest fossil remain of horned reptiles about 245 m years old. It was found near the Satpura Gondwana basin in Madhya Pradesh. It was named as Shringasaurus indicus.

2.CSIR-NIIST produced ethanol from discarded cotton-stalks.

Researches from CSIR-NIIST( CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology), Trivandrum, has found a new method to produce ethanol from discarded cotton-stalks. It will lead to proper waste management.

About 2 million tonnes of cotton stalk wastes generates from every hectare and India is producing 9.4 Million hectares under cotton cultivation. The new method will help to turn the waste into wealth.

3.Imported planes from 2019 should have GAGAN

All the Imported planes from 2019 should equipped with indigenously developed navigation system GAGAN ( GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation).

More about GAGAN.

Imported planes from 2019 should have GAGAN

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru.

All the Imported planes from 2019 should equipped with indigenously developed navigation system GAGAN ( GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation).

About GAGAN.

GAGAN is a satellite based Navigation system to improve the accuracy and reliability of the navigation system which is jointly developed by Airports Authority of India and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
It is launched on July 2015 and joined with other navigation systems of world like GPS of US, Glonass of Russia, Galileo of Europoe.
It will help to increase the GPS signals over India, South East Asia, Middle East, Arabian Sea and up to Africa.
In Simple, it helps to improve efficiency of Navigation system, reduce work load, improve safety and more important in rescue operations.

Commission to examine the Sub-Categorization within OBCs.

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru.

Union Cabinet has approved for setting up a commission to examine the sub-categorizaion within Other Backward classes (OBCs). The commission was set up under the article 340.

About the commission:

The commission shall submit its report within 12 weeks of its appointment.
It will examine the unequal distribution of benefits of reservation among the castes included in OBCs as per the central list.
It also identify the respective caste,communities, sub-castes, synonyms in the central OBC list and classify then in respective sub-categories.
Already Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Puducherry, Haryana, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra Nadu have carried out sub-categorization of Other Backward Classes.

About Article 340.

Article 340 of constitution is to investigate the condition of socially and educationally backward classes and suggest measures for their advancement.

President will appoint the commission to investigate the condition of backward classes.

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 24-26, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru.

1.Union Cabinet approves MoU between India and Nepal on Drug matters.

Union Cabinet has approved Memorandum of Understanding on Drug demand reduction and prevention of illicit trafficking in Narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and other with Nepal.

2.India and Nepal to start constructing Bridge over Mechi River.

Union Cabinet has approves Memorandum of understanding for India and Bangladesh jointly laying a new Bridge over Mechi River at Indo-Nepal Border.

3.Commission to examine the Sub-Categorization within OBCs.

Union Cabinet has approved for setting up a commission to examine the sub-categorizaion within Other Backward classes (OBCs). The commission was set up under the article 340.

About the commission and Article 340

4.New scheme "Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana"

Union Cabinet has approved the renaming the new central Sector scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and development of Agro-Processing clusters (SAMPADA) as Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY) with the aim to increase agriculture, modernize processing and reduce Agriculture waste.

Benefits and more

New scheme "Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana"

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru.

Union Cabinet has approved the renaming the new central Sector scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and development of Agro-Processing clusters (SAMPADA) as Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana (PMKSY) with the aim to increase agriculture, modernize processing and reduce Agriculture waste.

Benefits:

The scheme will modern infrastructure with efficient supply chain management.
It will help to increase the growth of food processing in Country, better prices, double the income of farmers and creating employment opportunities.
It also helps to decrease the agriculture waste , increasing the processing level, safe and convenient processed food with affordable rate to the consumer and also export of processed food.

Thursday, August 24

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 22 & 23, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

1.India’s right for exploring Polymetallic Nodules gets extension by 5 years.

India gets extension of 5 more years for exploring Polymetallic nodules from seabed in Central Indian Ocean Basin. International Seabed Authority has allocated the 75000 sq.km to India for development activities for polymetallic nodules.

The right was approved in 23^rd session of International Seabed Authority held at Kingston, Jamaica. The 75000sq.km which was allocated is located 2000 Km off Kanya Kumari shore .

About Polymetallic Nodules and ISA

2. Arun Jaitley chairs the 17th meeting of FSDC

Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has chaired the 17^th Meeting of “Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) “ held in New Delhi. It was attended by Governor of RBI, Dr. Urjit R. Patel , Ajay Tyagi, Chairman, SEBI, T.S. Vijayan, Chairman, IRDAI and other Financial sector regulators.

About FSDC and Why it is necessary?

3.Indian Navy commissioned Second Ship of Landing Craft Utility MK-IV.

Indian Navy Commissioned second ship of landing craft utility LCU Mk-IV class on Monday at Port Blair. It was indigenously designed and built by Garden Reach Shipbuilder and Engineers, Kolkata West Bengal.

India’s right for exploring Polymetallic Nodules gets extension by 5 years.

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

India gets extension of 5 more years for exploring Polymetallic nodules from seabed in Central Indian Ocean Basin. International Seabed Authority has allocated the 75000 sq.km to India for development activities for polymetallic nodules.

The right was approved in 23^rd session of International Seabed Authority held at Kingston, Jamaica. The 75000sq.km which was allocated is located 2000 Km off Kanya Kumari shore .

About Polymetallic Nodules:

Polymetallic Nodules are also called manganese nodules , found abundance in sea floor of deep sea which is made of concentric layers of iron and manganese hydroxide.
It also contains nickel, lead, copper, titanium, cobalt , cadmium and more, among this copper, cobalt and nickel has more demand in India and Abroad.
Currently India is depending on imports to meet its requirement of these metals. Once these exploration gets successful, it will help in developing Indian Economy.

About International Seabed Authority:

International Seabed Authority (ISA) is a United Nation Body formed in 16^th November 1994 with the headquarters is in Kingston, Jamaica.

It objective is to regulate the exploration and exploitation of marine non-living resources of Oceans in International waters (beyond the limit of country’s jurisdiction ).

Arun Jaitley chairs the 17th meeting of FSDC

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley has chaired the 17^th Meeting of “Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) “ held in New Delhi. It was attended by Governor of RBI, Dr. Urjit R. Patel , Ajay Tyagi, Chairman, SEBI, T.S. Vijayan, Chairman, IRDAI and other Financial sector regulators.

About FSDC.

Financial Stability and Development council is an autonomus body deals with financial regularities of financial sector across the Country.

It was set up in 2010, which was proposed by former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan. It is an apex body not the Statutory body.

Why FSDC?

In India there are different regulators for various sections of financial sectors like for Commercial banks - RBI is the regulator, for Capital market –SEBI NBFC are the regulator, IRDAI will look into life Insurance and more.
So for controlling the different financial regulators to ensure better efficiency and avoiding overlapping the function, government of India has formed Financial Stability and Development Council in 2010.
Union finance Minister is the chairman of FSDC. The first chairman was Pranab Mukherjee.

2017 National Sports Awards

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August 2017 by TNPSC Guru

Government has announced 2017 National awards, to recognize and reward excellence in sports.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2017 (Given to spectacular and most outstanding performance by sports person over a period of four years )

1. Shri Devendra- Para Athlete

2.Shri Sardar Singh- Hockey

Dronacharya Awards 2017 (Given to Coaches for producing medal winners in International arena)

1. Dr. R. Gandhi – Athletics,

2 Heera Nand Kataria- Kabaddi,

3. Mr. G.S.S.V. Prasad - Badminton

4 Brij Bhushan Mohanty - Boxing

5.Mr. P.A. Raphel-Hockey

6.Mr. Sanjoy Chakraverthy- Shooting

7. Mr. Roshan Lal – Wrestling

Arjuna awards given to sports person for consistency outstanding performance for four years and Dhyan chand awards given for sports person for life time contribution to sports development.

Tuesday, August 22

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 21, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current affairs August 2017 by TNPSC Guru.

1.Scientist discovered new state of Matter.

Scientist of Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered potential new state of matter which may help to explain the mechanism of superconductivity that is widely used in MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging, Particle accelerators, magnetic fusion devices, microwave filter and other uses

2.Indian White Shrimp to replace P.Vannamei a pacific white shrimp.

Aqua culturists of India are going to replace Penaeus Vannamei (a pacific white shrimp) with Indian White Shrimp which has proven more healthy and disease resistant.

3.Ghantasala of Andhra Pradesh to get 70 feet Buddha statue.

To develop tourism Andhra Pradesh Government is planning to construct 70 Fee Buddha Statue in Ghantasala with theme on the Mahaparinirvana of the Buddha.

4.Kalpit Veerwal from Udaipur set a Limca record for JEE Score

Kalpit Veerwal from Udaipur has scored 360 out of 360 in Joint Entrance Examination(JEE) mains , was the first to achieve and set a Limca record.

Monday, August 21

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - August 20, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.IN2017

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August by TNPSC Guru.

1.Government’s EESL becomes the world’s largest street light management company.

Government of India’s company Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has becomes the world’s largest street light management company that has illuminated 50,000 KM of Indian roads with 30 Lakh LED street lights under Street lighting National Programme (SLNP).

About SLNP and its benefits:

2.IISc scientist developed water filter membrane with copper ions for safe drinking water.

Scientist from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has developed water filter membrane with copper ions for safe drinking water. The invention was based on old age practise of storing drinking water in copper vessel for clearing bacteria.

Even there was scientific evidence which was published in journal of Health, population and Nutrition in March 2012, that water stored in copper vessel killed pathogenic bacteria like E.coli, Vibrio Cholerae O1, Salmonella species.

Government’s EESL becomes the world’s largest street light management company.

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TNPSC Current Affairs - August by TNPSC Guru.
Government of India’s company Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has becomes the world’s largest street light management company that has illuminated 50,000 KM of Indian roads with 30 Lakh LED street lights under Street lighting National Programme (SLNP).

About SLNP and its benefits:

Street lighting National Programme is launched on 5^th January 2015 to promote energy efficiency in the country by replacing 3.5crore conventional street lights with LED will result in saving of 9,000 Million units annually.
It was implemented with the help of Energy Efficiency services limited of Government of India and Electricity Distribution Company.
The main objective is to mitigate climate change by reducing release of carbon dioxide in atmosphere, energy savings. Also comparing with CFLs , LED lights do not contain Mercury so it will not harm the environment.
The 30 Lakh LED installation resulted in reduction of 39 Crore kWh of energy savings annually. It also resulted in reduction of 3.29 Lakh tonnes of carbon dioxide release annually.
Rajasthan leads with Installation of 7.85Lakh LED, followed by Andhra with 6.03Lakh and Gujarat with 5.4 Lakh LED Street lights

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