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Thursday, October 5

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 29 & 30, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.Scientist detected fourth Gravitational Waves. 
Scientist has detected another set of gravitational waves which is ripples in the fabric of space  and time. This is the fourth time such Gravitational waves have been detected. It was observed by Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave observatory (LIGO)  which is located at Hanford site, US. Jointly with Virgo observatory from Europe located at Italy.

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2.India signs agreement to train Afghan Police . 
India and Afghanistan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to train Afghan Police forces in India. This is the first time India going to train the Afghan Police force which also help to boost the bilateral relationship.

3.2015-16 Best Airports National Tourism Awards. 
Srinagar International Airport, Jammu & Kashmir and Swami Vivekananda Airport, Raipur, Chhattisgarh have been jointly awarded the National Tourism Awards for 2015-16

4.Yudh Abhyas – 2017 closing cermany. 
The 13th Edition of INDO-US joint exercise Yudh Abhyas-2017  has been concluded on 27th September at Joint Base Lewis McChord , Washington USA.
It is one of the largest joint running military training and defence cooperation between both countries.
  
5.190th Gunners Day Celebrated at Hyderabad.
The Indian Army’s Regiment of Artillery has celebrated its 190th Gunners Day on 28th September. Gunners day is also known as Raising Day. It was celebrated to mark the raising of the first Indian Artillery unit the then 5 Bombay Mountain Battery on 28th September 1827.

 6.3rd Edition of India International Science Festival 2017: ‘Science for New India’
The 3rd edition of India International Science Festival 2017 to be held in Chennai from October 13-16. IISF was celebrated since 2015 to encourage scientific temper among the people and showcasing India’s contribution towards Science and Technology.
  
7.India registers decline in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) 
India has registers significant decline in Infant Mortality Rate by 3 points from 37 per 1000 live birts in 2015 to 34 per 1000 live births in 2016. 

8.EESL to procure 10,000 Electric Vehicles 

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), under Ministry of Power will procure 10,000 electric vehicles from Tata Motors Limited. This could be the world’s largest single electric vehicle procurement.
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Scientist detected fourth Gravitational Waves

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Scientist has detected another set of gravitational waves which is ripples in the fabric of space  and time. This is the fourth time such Gravitational waves have been detected. 
It was observed by Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave observatory (LIGO)  which is located at Hanford site, US. Jointly with Virgo observatory from Europe located at Italy.

About Gravitational Wave:
  • It’s a ripple occurs in the fabric of space-time when two large masses(examples-black holes which has Mass more than 25 times of Sun) orbiting each other.
  • In simple term, if things move it creates waves like boat moves in river creates waves, same thing if two masses move in space-time creates waves which is called Gravitational waves.
  • The First Gravitational wave was detected on 14th September 2015, second was in Dec 26.2015 and third detection was on January 4,2017.
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Wednesday, October 4

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 28, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.Government approves signing important agreement under BRICS Interbank Cooperation mechanism
 Union Cabinet has given its nod for signing Interbank Local Currency credit Line Agreement and Cooperation Memorandum Relating to Credit Ratings by Exim Bank with the BRICS nation’s banks.
Benefits and about EXIM Bank
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2.New species of snake discovered in Western Ghats.
Researchers have discovered a new species of non-venomous endemic snake “Aquatic Rhabdops” from the northern western Ghats near Goa. All the Rhabdops are  endemic to India. 
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3.Union Cabinet given its nod on “Cooperation in the field of Information, Communication and Media” between India and Ethiopia 
Union cabinet has given its nod on agreement between India and Ethiopia on “Cooperation in the field of Information, Communication and Media”.
            
4.Union Cabinet approves MoU between India and Belarus in the oil and gas sector. 
Union Cabinet has given its ex-post approval for  signing Memorandum of Understanding between India and Belarus in the field of  Oil and Gas

5.Russia and US cooperate to build first lunar station. 
Russia and US has agreed to cooperate on NASA led project to build the first Lunar space station with the objective to send humans to Mars. 
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Government approves signing important agreement under BRICS Interbank Cooperation mechanism

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Union Cabinet has given its nod for signing Interbank Local Currency credit Line Agreement and Cooperation Memorandum Relating to Credit Ratings by Exim Bank with the BRICS nation’s banks.

Benefits:
  • The Agreement will further deepen political and economic relations with BRICS nations within the area of Mutual interest.
  • It helps to place EXIM Bank in the International platform along with other large development finance institutions like CDS,VEB and BNDES.
  • It also helps EXIM Bank to enter into bilateral agreement with any of member institution of BRICS to raise resources for its business

About EXIM bank
EXIM (Export and Import Bank) Bank of India is financial institution which provides financial assistance to exporters and importers that facilitates and promotes India’s Foreign trade, it was set up in 1982
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Tuesday, October 3

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 27, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.Tamil Nadu Government signed MoU for Solar Power. 
Tamil Nadu Government has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with four Companies to setup solar power plants and also signing MoUs with 12 companies with the aim of procuring 1,500 MWe of solar power.

Currently state has the capacity of 1,747 MWe solar power and it will increase to 700 MWe by end of this year. This will help to achieve State Government effort to achieve the target of 5,000 MWe of solar power by 2021. 

2.Fiji, Niger and Tuvalu Joins International Solar Alliance 
Fiji, Niger and Tuvalu have formally joined the International Solar Alliance. These 3 countries have deposited instrument of ratification of the Framework agreement of the International Solar Alliance during the 5th meeting International Steering Committee of the ISA held at New Delhi.

121 prospective member countries have participated in meeting, who either fully or partially lay between Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer
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3.Indian Navy Commissions INS Tarasa. 
INS Tarasa , Water Jet Fast Attack Craft has been commissioned into the Indian Navy at western Naval command at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai.
It is the last of the fourth water jet fast attack craft , first 2 ships are INS Tarmugli and Tihayu are based at Vishakhapatnam and third ship INS Tillanchang based at Karwar.

5.Kandla Port in Gujarat renamed as Deendayal Port.
Kandla Port located in Gulf of Kutchin Gujarat has been renamed as Deendayal Port Trust.

6.Lost city founded by Alexander  found in Iraq. 

The Lost city founded by Alexander the Great has been found in Iraq by Archaeologists. It is believed to have been founded in 331 BC.
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Tamil Nadu Government signed MoU for Solar Power.

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Tamil Nadu Government has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with four Companies to setup solar power plants and also signing MoUs with 12 companies with the aim of procuring 1,500 MWe of solar power.

Currently state has the capacity of 1,747 MWe solar power and it will increase to 700 MWe by end of this year. This will help to achieve State Government effort to achieve the target of 5,000 MWe of solar power by 2021.
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Fiji, Niger and Tuvalu Joins International Solar Alliance

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Fiji, Niger and Tuvalu have formally joined the International Solar Alliance. These 3 countries have deposited instrument of ratification of the Framework agreement of the International Solar Alliance during the 5th meeting International Steering Committee of the ISA held at New Delhi.

121 prospective member countries have participated in meeting, who either fully or partially lay between Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer
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About International Solar Alliance (ISA): 
  • ISA is an Indian Initiative jointly launched by India and France in sideline of COP-21 on November 30 2015 at Paris, France.
  • ISA aims at addressing obstacles on using solar energy efficiently and will help to utilise Solar energy efficiently in the solar energy rich countries. .
  • In simple, t is an association of countries with the aim to increase the production of Solar Energy.
  • As of now 40 countries have signed and 11countries ratified the framework agreement of the ISA.
  • Once it is ratified by 15 countries, it will become a treaty based inter-governmental international organization.
  • Most of the member countries are who either fully or partially lay between Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer.
  • India has taken leadership to share its technology and funds to some African Countries(don’t have fund and technology) to harness the solar energy.
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Wednesday, September 27

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 26, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.Prime Minister Launches Saubhagya Scheme 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Rs 6,320 crore Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijili Har Ghar Yojana or “Saubhagya Scheme” to ensure electrification to all the willing household of rural and urban in the country by December 2018.

About Soubhagya scheme and its benefits.

2.India and Republic of Korea review progress of CEPA
Suresh Prabhu, the minister for commerce and Industry has visited the Republic Korea to participate in 7th Asia-Europe Economic Ministers meeting and to 3rd Joint ministerial review of India-Korea Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA).

About CEPA:
Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) is an economic partnership between two countries which involves not only in reduction of tariff reduction but also covers the trade in Services and investment and other economic partnership. 

3.Government to review free movement pact with Myanmar 
Government of India is reviewing the impact of a bilateral agreement regarding to allow free movement of people with Myanmar, within 16 km of the Indo-Myanmar border.

4.Swiss professor Maryna viazovska to receive 2017 SASTRA Ramanujan prize. 
Professor Maryna Viazovska of Swiss Federal Institute of Technolgy, Lausanne, Switzerland , has been selected for  2017 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for her contribution to number theory.

5.Rajiv mehrishi takes over as CAG. 

Rajiv Mehrishi has been taken over as Comptroller and Audit General of India.
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Prime Minister Launches Saubhagya Scheme

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Rs 6,320 crore Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijili Har Ghar Yojana or “Saubhagya Scheme” to ensure electrification to all the willing household of rural and urban in the country by December 2018.

About Soubhagya scheme and its benefits.
  • It is a new scheme to provide fee electricity to all willing household in rural and Urban areas.
  • The beneficiaries for the scheme will identify using SECC (Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 data.
  • If the households not covered under SECC will be provided free electricity under scheme on payment of Rs 500 in 10 instalments which will be recovered by DISCOMs .
  • The main objective of the scheme is, it will be substitution to Kerosene which helps to meet India’s commitment towards global Climate change , helps in improvement in education services, health services, connectivity , economic activities and jobs, also improvement in quality of life especially women.
  • The Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC) is  the nodal agency for the operationalization of the scheme. 
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Monday, September 25

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 25, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi inaugurates “Hunar Haat” in Puducherry 
Hunar Haat inaugurated by Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in Puducherry to provide a platform to master artisans and craftsmen to display as well as to sell their products.

2.India to buy Uranium from Uzbekistan.
India is planning to buy Uranium from Uzbekistan to fulfil to create a strategic uranium reserve to ensure long-term security of Countries need.
Currently India imports uranium from Canada and Kazakhstan apart from its domestic production.

3.Angela Merkel wins 4th time as German Chancellor.
Angela Merkel has won 4th time as Chancellor of Germany

4.Wozniacki wins PanPpacific titile-2017 

Caroline Wozniacki won Pan Pacific Open title beating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova by 6-0 7-5 in Tokyo. It was her Third Pan Pacific Title.
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TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 23 & 24, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.Multi-Agency Exercise ‘Pralay Sahayam’ held in Hyderabad.
Multi Agency Exercise “Pralay Sahayam” of all Central and state agencies, National disaster Relief Force and Armed Forces towards jointly tackling an urban flooding scenario has been held in Hyderabad on the banks of Hussain Sagar Lake.

2.Japan to fund MRTS project in Gujarat and Haryana. 
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has extended a soft loan to develop 2 Mass Rapid transit Systems(MRTS) in Gujarat and Haryana.
Its main objective is to promote economic development and welfare in developing countries by providing interest rate of loan at very low at 0.1%.

3.Study says India Third in nuclear power installation in 2017  .
Latest Study Says India is Third in Nuclear Power installation in 2017 by installing 6 nuclear plants. China tops the list by installing 20 nuclear plants in 2017.

4.CEA, Aravind Subramanian to stay for another one year. 
Aravind Subramanian gets extends for another one year as Chief Economic Advisor.

5.Movie Newton is India’s official entry to OSCAR 
Hindi Movie Newton has chosen as India’s Official entry to OSCAR 2017.
  
6.Scientist Unearthed Big blue eggs.
Scientist have unearthed Blue colour fossil dinosaur egg shells in China.
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Sunday, September 24

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 22, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.India is likely to join the quantum computing race

Department of Science and Technology is likely to fund  a project to develop Quantum Computers. The Physics department at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Harish Chandra Research Institute , Allahabad as already pushed the theoretical aspects of Quantum computing, but now department of Science and Technology has come forward to fund to develop quantum Computers.

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2.NITI Aayog and IRF Geneva signs Statement of Intent.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and the International Road Federation Geneva (IRF) has signed a statement of Intent on cooperation in the field of intelligent transportation system (ITS)

Coopertion signed between are Traffic management, parking management, Electronic Enforcement of Traffic rules and regulations, Fleet management and monitoring , innovation in the field of of intelligent transportation system (ITS) and education in the field of intelligent transportation system (ITS)

3.Indian Railways Commissioned second  Vistadome Coach 
India Railways has commissioned the 2nd Vistadome Coach on the Jan Shatabdi Express which running on the Mumbai-Goa Route to provide a panoramic view of  western Ghats. It was funded by the Ministry of Trourism.

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4.First Scorpene submarine delivered to Indian Navy. 

INS Kalvari, the first of the six Scorpene class Submarines has been handed over to the Indian Navy by Mazagon Dock Limited, Mumbai.
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India is likely to join the quantum computing race

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Department of Science and Technology is likely to fund  a project to develop Quantum Computers. 
The Physics department at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Harish Chandra Research Institute , Allahabad as already pushed the theoretical aspects of Quantum computing, but now department of Science and Technology has come forward to fund to develop quantum Computers.

About Quantum Computers:
  • It works in the principle of quantum physics to increase the speed of the computer and store  information in a format known Quantum bit or Qubits.
  • Classical computer performs operations using bits either 1 or 0 and Quantum computer uses Quantum bits or  “Qubits” which can use both 1 and 0 at a same time which makes the quantum computers superior than the currently using Computers.
  • It requires 3.5 million fewer steps to sort a billion number comparing to classical computers(using today).
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Indian Railways Commissioned second Vistadome Coach

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India Railways has commissioned the 2nd Vistadome Coach on the Jan Shatabdi Express which running on the Mumbai-Goa Route to provide a panoramic view of  western Ghats. It was funded by the Ministry of Trourism. 
About Vistadome coach:
  • The Coach has a glass roof that can be made transparent at the turn of switch, the all the seats are rotable by 360 Degree and pushback , automatic sliding compartment doors, multiple TV screens and more facilities for the Tourist.
  • The first Vistadome Coach was commissioned on the Vishakhapatnam-Araku valley rout in April 2017.
  • The main objective of the Vistadome coach is to attaract large number of tourists.
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Friday, September 22

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 21, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.“Sagar Kavach” Exercise begins in Chennai. 
Sagar Kavach a coastal security exercise has been conducted by Marine Police wing of the coastal Security Group in Chennai. The exercise is to test the defence preparedness of the security agencies in event of any terrorists infiltrating into the state through Sea.

About Sagar Kavach Exercise: 
  • It is a Coastal security exercise conducted by coastal Security group annually involving various security agencies to check coastal security mechanism and validate standard operating procedures.
  • During the exercise security personnel will be divided into 2 teams like Attack and Defence.
  • Attack team will act like terrorists and  try to infiltrate, the Defence team will try to neutralise the infiltration. 

2.Cabinet approves Revamped Khelo India Programme to boost sports in India. 
Union Cabinet has given its nod for Revamped Khelo India programme to boost sports in India. As per the programme, 1000 selected athletes will get scholarship of 5 lakhs per annuam for 8 years with the total cost of Rs 1,756 crore for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20.

This programme will help in development of sports in India including infrastructure development, identifying talents, coaching for excellence, competition structure, economy of sports and more. 

3.First ‘BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017’ 
India’s National Disaster Response Force to conduct First BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017 in Delhi. The aim of the exercise is to share the practices on  Disaster Risk Reduction , strengthening regional response and coordination for Disaster Management among member countries.

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4.Indian Coast guard commissioned 2 high speed interceptor boats. 
Indian Coast Guard has commissioned 2 High speed interceptor C-433 and C434 boats at Dighi port in Mumbai, which help to boost the security on Maharashtra coastline  by preventing illicit activities like infiltration, smuggling, illegal fishing and more. 
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First ‘BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017’

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India’s National Disaster Response Force to conduct First BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise- 2017 in Delhi. The aim of the exercise is to share the practices on  Disaster Risk Reduction , strengthening regional response and coordination for Disaster Management among member countries.

India’s Efforts : 
  • India leads in front for taking effort on Disaster Risk Reduction in BIMSTEC regions by hosting South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise and the Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction.
  • India also provided South Asia Satellite (GSAT-9) (GIFT for SAARC nations), Tsunami Early warning centre to the South Asian Countries to help in Disaster Risk Reduction.
  • It is because most of the South Asian Region are situated ,prone to natural disasters like Earthquake, floods, cyclones , Tsunami and more. 

About BIMSTEC:
  • BIMSTEC is a Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation(BIMSTEC) , is a home 22 % of global population .
  • It comprising of 7 countries including Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka from South Asia and Myanmar and Thailand from South East Asia.
  • It was established in 1997 ,, headquarters is at Dhaka, Bangladesh and the Chairmanship will be in  rotational basis based on alphabetical order
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Thursday, September 21

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 20, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.India to Re-thinks joining Hague child custody pact. 
India will re-think joining the Hague child custody pact, which was signed by many countries. India has announced last year that it will not sign the convention and now it re-thinks its stand of joining and discussing the effects of joining the convention.

About Hague Abduction Convention: 
  • It is an International treaty on Child abduction and makes swift return of children wrongfully retained or removed from their habitual residence from one member country to another country.
  • The Main purpose of the convention is to protect children from wrongful international abduction by parents.
  • The convention is applicable for children under age 16 and 97 countries have been signed till now.

India’s Concern: 
  • Many Indian Women married to Indians settled in foreign countries and they were compelled to return India with their children after violence or conflict with their partners.
  • If India Ratify or signed The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980), which will make women to fly back to the foreign country for settlement of custody.
  • Also India should recognise the foreign judgment automatically irrespective of country’s own law on this issue. 

2.Vice President Releases  releases Commemorative Coin on Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi 
The Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu released a Commemorative Coin on Bharat Ratna Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi and inaugurated an exhibition entitled “Kurai Onrum Illai-MS: Life in Music”

3.Hurricane Maria thrashed  Dominican Republic. 
Hurricane “Maria” Thrashed Dominican Republic with heavy rain and high winds .

4.Justice Lodha to quit from Anna University VC Search Panel. 
Former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha, who headed the search committee to select the Vice Chancellor of Anna University has decided to quit and sent his resignation to Tamil Nadu Governor.

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India to Re-thinks joining Hague child custody pact.

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India will re-think joining the Hague child custody pact, which was signed by many countries. India has announced last year that it will not sign the convention and now it re-thinks its stand of joining and discussing the effects of joining the convention.

About Hague Abduction Convention: 
  • It is an International treaty on Child abduction and makes swift return of children wrongfully retained or removed from their habitual residence from one member country to another country.
  • The Main purpose of the convention is to protect children from wrongful international abduction by parents.
  • The convention is applicable for children under age 16 and 97 countries have been signed till now.

India’s Concern: 
  • Many Indian Women married to Indians settled in foreign countries and they were compelled to return India with their children after violence or conflict with their partners.
  • If India Ratify or signed The Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction (1980), which will make women to fly back to the foreign country for settlement of custody.
  • Also India should recognise the foreign judgment automatically irrespective of country’s own law on this issue.
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TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 18 & 19, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.Mission Mode to address Under-Nutrition to be held in New Delhi 
The National Conference on "Mission Mode to address Under-Nutrition” was organised by Ministry of Women & Child Development in cooperation  with Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, with the goal of “Mission Malnutrition Free India-2022” held at New Delhi.

2.Zannah Mustapha gets top UN Peace prize. 
Zannah Mustapha from Nigeria gets top United Nation’s Peace prize “Nansen Refugee Award” for helped to secure the release of more than 100 school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram (Islamic extremist terrorist group).

3.YC Modi appointed as new chief of NIA. 
YC Modi was appointed as the new Director-General of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) .

4.P.V. Sindhu Korea Open Super Series title. 
Indian Shuttler P.V Sindhu wins Women’s Korean Open Super Series title beating world champion Nozomi Okuhara of  Japan by 22-20, 11-21, 21-18.

5.Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust wins “Rajbhasha Kirti Award” 

Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) was awarded the “Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar” for the year 2016-17  and now it was the 11th consecutive time.
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Wednesday, September 20

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - September 16 & 17, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in2017

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1.DRDO- Indigenous Development of Trawl System

Defence Research and development Organisation(DRDO) has undertaken to develop a Trawl system that could help to locate the mines in the battlefield to meet the operational requirement of Indian Army.

The Trawl system will help to locate land mines and creating a vehicle safe lane through minefield for the advancing columns of mechanized forces in combat zone.

It consists of Trawl roller, track width mine plough and electro-magnetic devise , which could detect all types of mines usually encountered by the battle tank.

2.Astra Missile successfully completes its final Development Trials. 
Astra –Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile’s (BVRAAM) final development Flight trials were successfully conducted over Bay of Bengal, Odisha and met all its target .


3.PM ,dedicated Sardar Sarovar Dam to the nation, 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has dedicated Sardar Sarovar Dam built on the river Narmada to the Nations.

It will benefit the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. 

 The project will help to transport the waters of Narmada to the water-deficient regions of Gujarat that will benefit nearly 10 Lakh farmers and drinking water to  more than 4 crore people

4.Celebration of 30th Anniversary of Montreal protocol and 23rd World Ozone Day 
16th September 2017 is celebrated as 23rd World Ozone day and also marked the 30 the anniversary of the Montreal protocol with the theme “Caring for all life under the Sun”.

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5.INDO-USA Joint Exercise Yudh Abhyas – 2017
A Joint Military exercise between Indian and US Armies Yudh Abhyas – 2017 commenced at Joiont Base Lewis McChod, Washington USA.
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