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Ww W.Iyach a My.Com / Don,T Cop Y and Paste TNPSC GROUP I CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR PRELIMINARY January 2016 TO JANAURY 20, 2017 2017 - Contents 1 CONSTITUTIONAL/STATUTORY/OFFICIAL BODIES AFFAIRS AFFAIRS 2 INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AND THEIR HEADS 3 IMPORTANT STATE HEAD AROUND THE WORLD 4 IMPORTANT SUMMITS AND CONFERENCES 5 TAMILNADU OFFICIAL BODIES AND PERSONS 6 TAMILNADU GOVERNMENT AWARDS 7 IMPORTANT COMMITTEES CONSTITUTED IN 2016 GROUP 1 CURRENT 8 SPORTS RELATED NEWS 9 BOOKS AND AUTHOR 10 APPS AND PORTALS 11 IMPORTANT AWARDS 12 MONTHLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 13 IMPORTANT CONSTITUENT AMENDMENTS 14 LIST OF PRESIDENTS OF THE CONGRESS PARTY 15 INTERIM GOVERNMENT-1946 16 IMPORTANT YEARS ANNOUNCED BY UNO 17 STATES/UTS YEAR ESTABLISHED YEAR 18 FIRST IN INDIA AND WORLD 19 NATIONAL SYMBOLS RELATED FACTS 20 CLASSICAL AND FOLK DANCES OF INDIA 21 AWARDS AND RESPECTIVE FIELDS 22 SOME IMPORTANT SCHEMES UNION GOVT 23 TAMILNADU GOVERNMENT SCHEME 24 CENSUS 2011 25 INDIA FIVE YEAR PLANS AT A GLACNE www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 1 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 Hello my dear friends and aspirants I am prepared Current Affairs for TNPSC Group 1 Examination. Friends all are ―pound the pavement‖ for the exam. Hope this Compilation will help you in Score High marks in Exam. If 2017 - 10 questions come from this Compilation I will be happy and satisfied. This is compiled from various Newpaper, Magazines and Internet. AFFAIRS AFFAIRS Kindly share your feedback about the Compilation by whatsapp 9952521550 or [email protected]; please avoid enquiring about cut off Marks and results. If any wrong information kindly update with me. Best Wishes GROUP 1 CURRENT Iyachamy Murugan Keelakalngal, Tirunelveli 9952521550 CONSTITUTIONAL/STATUTORY/OFFICIAL BODIES Narendra Modi 15th PM of India Speaker Sumitra Mahajan <= Kamalnath Speaker Pro-tem (Congi) <= Meera Kumar (Congress). CAG Shashikant Sharma replaced Vinod Rai. Vinod Rai became UN Audit panel Chief. Election Nasim Zaidi is the current Chief Election commission Commissioner and other two Election Commissioners are Achal Kumar Jyoti and Om Prakash Rawat www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 2 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 CVC CVC is 3 members body. CVC= K V Chowdary is the first non-IAS to head the Central Vigilance Commission. 2017 - LokPal Nobody right now but 1 chairperson + max 8 members (50% judicial members), 50% reservation AFFAIRS AFFAIRS to SC/ST/OBC/Minorities/Women. selection panel: PM, Speaker, Leader Opposition Lok Sabha, CJI + Eminent jurist (nominated by Prez, on recommendation of first four). CIC R.K Mathur has been named the new chief GROUP 1 CURRENT information commissioner. panel: PM+ leader of opposition + Law minister Deepak Sandhu was the First lady CIC, and Sushma Singh was second lady. UPSC Professor David R.Syiemlieh Chief Justice of Justice Khehar is the 44th Chief Justice of India and India also the first Sikh to hold the office. Justice Tirath Singh Thakur –: 43rd CJI of India from December 23, 2015 . He replaced H.L Dattu. 40. Sathasivam – 41R.M Lodha., 42 .H.L Dattu Attorney General Mukul Rohtagi. Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar Children Stuti Narain Kacker from 2015 septemper Human rights Justice H.L. Dattu 7th chairman of NHRC. NHRC www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 3 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 established In 1993. Justice Ranganath Mishra is the First chairman of NHRC. D. Murugesan is one of the member of NHRC from Tamilnadu 2017 - Minorities Naseem Ahmed. National Commission for minorities Established in 1992 AFFAIRS AFFAIRS Backward class Justice V. Eswaraiah has recommended inclusion of Transgender in OBC List, after Supreme court order. SC P.L. Punia . National Commission For Scheduled Caste Established under 338 Article of the Constitution GROUP 1 CURRENT ST Rameshwar Uraon, National Commission For Scheduled tribe Established under 338-A Article of the Constitution Women Lalitha kumaramangalam Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha. boss of Central Secretariat Principle Nripendra Misra, former TRAI chief. Secretary boss of PMO Finance Ashok Lavasa NSA National security advisor. Ajit Dowal Ex IFS. Brajesh Mishra was the first NSA in Vajpayee Government. To Pakistan T.C.A Raghvan Foreign secretary S. Jaishankar. UN permanent SYED AKBARUDDIN from Jan 2016 www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 4 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 representative from India 21th law Dr Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan 2017 - commission SEBI U.K Sinha , SEBI Established in 1988 , got AFFAIRS AFFAIRS Constitutional status in 1992 CBI Alok Kumar Verma NITI Ayog ‗Dr Aravind Panagariya Deputy Chairman Chief Economic Arvind Subramanian GROUP 1 CURRENT Advisor to the Prime minister NITI Ayog CEO Amitabh Kanth Cometition Dk Sikri ( 2003 established) Commission of India International Organization and their Heads United Nation former Portuguese prime minister Antonio Guterres, 1945, New York, US(Assumed charge on 2017 janaury ,1 ) World bank Jim Young Kim, July, 1944, Washington DC, US www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 5 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, 27 December, 1945, Washington DC, US UNESCO Irina Bokova, 16 November, 1945, 2017 - Paris, France WHO Dr Margaret Chan, Founded AFFAIRS AFFAIRS on – 7 April, 1948, Geneva, Switzerland International Court Ronny Abraham , Dalveer Bhandari From India GROUP 1 CURRENT European Union Donald Tusk , November 1, 1993, Food and Agriculture Organization Jose Graziano da Silva, 16 October, 1945, Rome, Italy UNICEF Anthony Lake, New York, US, December, 1946 UN High Commissioner For Filippo Grandi is the 11th Refuges Commissioner United Nation Development Helen Clark Program Asian Development Bank Takehiko Nakao, established 1966, Philipins ,manila Common Wealth Patricia ,is the second Secretary- General from the Caribbean and the first woman to hold the post ICC Anil Kumble, Ex-Officio: Shashank Manohar, According to Hindu www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 6 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 paper WTO Roberto Azevedo,ounded on – 1 January, 1995, Geneva, 2017 - Switzerland International Labour Organization Guy Ryder, Geneva, Switzerland AFFAIRS AFFAIRS United Nations Conference on MukhisaKituyi, Founded on – Trade & Development (UNCTAD) 1964, Geneva, Switzerland Organisation for Economic Jose Angel Gurria, 30 September, Cooperation & Development 1961, Paris, France GROUP 1 CURRENT (OECD) International Atomic Energy Yukiya Amano, July 29, 1957 , Agency (IAEA) Vienna, Austria Organisation of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke, 1961-62, Exporting Countries (OPEC) Vienna, Austria; BRICS Bank K. V. Kamath, H.Q:headquarters in Shanghai IMPORTANT STATE HEAD AROUND THE WORLD Afghanistan President Asraf Ghani. Parliament called shoora. Australia The Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP. Malcolm Turnbull was sworn in as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 7 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid PM Sheikh Hasina (Awami league). 2017 - Opposition Khalida Zia (nationalist party) Parliament called Jatiya parliament. AFFAIRS AFFAIRS Bhutan King Jigme Wangchuck PM Tshering Tobgay parliament called Tasongadu GROUP 1 CURRENT China Capital - Beijing; President - Xi Jinping; Prime Minister - Li Cuba Capital - Havana; President - General Raul Modesto Castro Ruz; Prime minister: Raúl Castro Egypt Capital - Cairo - President - Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi; Prime Minister - Sherif Ismail - Fiji Capital - Suva; President - George Konrote; Prime Minister - Frank Bainimarama - (Fiji has largest Indian diaspora in Asia Pacific) Former president of Indian origin Mahindra Chaudhary (1999-2000) Ram Krishna Mission of Fiji has been awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman 2014 France President Francis Hollande; PM Manuel Valls. Anne Hidalg- first female mayor of Paris www.iyachamy.com / Don,t copy and paste / and copy Don,t / www.iyachamy.com 8 TNPSC Group I Mains Postal and Class Test Admission opens Call: 9952521550. Classes and Test batches will be held in Anna nagar, Chennai from March-2017 Germany President Joachim Gauck Chancellor Angela Markel 2017 - Lok Sabha: Bundestag Capital berlin AFFAIRS AFFAIRS Iran President Hussan Rouhani, - capital Tehran , parliament called Majlis Iraq PM Dr. Haider Al-Abadi, Israel President Reuven Rivlin (hardliner, he is against GROUP 1 CURRENT creation of Palestine.) PM Benjamin Netanyahu parliament called Knesset Italy Payola Gentilani Japan Emperor Akihito, PM Shinzo Abe. Parliament
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