LEGEND MAGAZINE (APRIL - 2019) Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue: 17 | Page : 48 | Topic : Legend of April | Price: Not for Sale APRIL MONTH CA the force after the K-9 Vajra and the M-777 ultra- political entity or any individual entity connected light howitzers. to it. NATIONAL ➢ Election Commission’s order under Article GRSE Becomes 1st Indian Shipyard to ‘Jashn-E-Ittihaad’ Was Held in New Delhi: 324 that prohibits display/exhibit any Deliver 100 Warships: ➢ A music and poetry festival titled ‘Jashn- biopic/publicity material when Model Code of ➢ Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers e-Ittihaad’ was held at the Jamia Milia Islamia Conduct is in force. (GRSE) became the first shipyard in the central university in New Delhi to spread country to deliver 100 warships. ➢ The ban was concerned with the biopic film awareness about unity amongst the youth. ➢ Its 100th warship Landing Craft Utility on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (LCU) L-56 was recently handed over to Indian ➢ It was organized by Delhi-based Navy. 100 warships built by GRSE so far range entertainment company Question IMO’s New Rule on Electronic Information from anti-submarine warfare corvettes to Associates Pvt Ltd. Exchange Between Ships And Ports Comes advanced frigates to fleet tankers, fast attack Into Force: crafts, etc for Indian Navy and Indian Coast Biannual Army Commanders’ Conference ➢ A new global rule mandated by the Guard. Began In New Delhi: International Maritime Organisation ➢ The biannual Army Commanders’ (IMO) for national governments to introduce Indian Army Builds Longest Suspension Conference will begin in New Delhi today. electronic information exchange between ships Bridge Over River Indus: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will and ports took effect. ➢ Indian Army builds the longest suspension deliver her opening address at the conference. ➢ The requirement, mandatory under IMO’s bridge over Indus river in Leh, Ladakh. Built in a ➢ During the conference, important issues that Convention on Facilitation of International record time of 40 days ‘Maitri Bridge’ (260- are likely to be discussed are the management of Maritime Traffic (FAL Convention), is part of feet) is longest Suspension Bridge over Indus the extant security dynamics, mitigation of a package of amendments under the revised River. future security threats and enhancement of Annex to the FAL Convention, adopted in ➢ The bridge was built by the combat engineers combat edge over potential adversaries. 2016. belonging to the Sahas aur Yogyata regiment of Indian Army’s Fire & Fury Corps. Prasar Bharati Chairman releases booklet of CMFRI joins hands with ISRO to protect 'Selected speeches of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar coastal wetlands: Govt has constituted a panel to review a ban in the Constituent Assembly': ➢ The Central Marine Fisheries Research imposed on Jamaat-e-Islami & JKLF: ➢ Prasar Bharati Chairman, A Surya Institute (CMFRI) and the Indian Space Prakash released a booklet of the 'Selected Research Organisation (ISRO) have joined ➢ The Ministry of Home Affairs has speeches of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in the hands to map, validate and protect smaller constituted Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Constituent Assembly', in New Delhi. The event wetlands in the coastal belt of the country. Tribunal, to determine the sufficient cause to was organized to commemorate the contributions ➢ And to develop a mobile app and a ban Jamaat-e-Islami, and Jammu and of Baba Saheb in the upliftment of centralised web portal with a complete Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) faction. It will underprivileged in the country. database of wetlands smaller than 2.25 hectares be headed by Justice Chander Shekhar of the in the country. Delhi High Court. RailTel turns 1600 railway stations into ➢ The collaborative move is part of a national ➢ The tribunal has been formed by Government RailWire Wi-Fi zone: framework for fisheries and wetlands recently after exercising its powers conferred by the sub- ➢ RailWire Wi-Fi by RailTel is now live at developed by the National Innovations in section (1) of section 5 of the Unlawful Activities 1600 railway stations across the country, with Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) (Prevention) Act, 1967. Santacruz railway station in Mumbai project of CMFRI. becoming the 1600th station to become a India’s First Indigenously Built Dhanush RailWire Wi-Fi zone, the Western Railway. India successfully test fires subsonic cruise Howitzer Inducted in Army: ➢ RailTel Corporation, a "Mini Ratna missile ‘Nirbhay’ off Odisha coast: ➢ In a major boost to India’s (category-I)" PSU, is one of the largest neutral ➢ India successfully test fired ‘Nirbhay’, the firepower, country’s first telecom infrastructure providers in the country 1,000 km strike range sub-sonic cruise indigenously designed and developed Dhanush owning a pan-India optic fibre network on missile, off the coast of Odisha. artillery gun was inducted in the Indian Army exclusive Right of Way (ROW) along Railway ➢ Nirbhay cruise missile is the country's first during a ceremony held at Ordnance Factory in track. indigenously designed and developed long- Jabalpur, MP. Release of PM Modi Biopic Deferred Till range cruise missile by the India's Aeronautical ➢ Dhanush 155mm/45 calibre towed Further Orders From EC: Development Establishment (ADE), a lab gun system can be deployed in all types of ➢ India’s Electoral Commission has issued under Defence Research and Development terrains. The Dhanush gun system is based on an order to ban display of any biopic or Organisation (DRDO). The missile is nuclear the designs of the Bofors howitzer would be publicity material during Manual Code of Conduct, capable, can be equipped with 300kg warhead. the third type of artillery gun to be inducted into which could sub serve the purposes of any RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 2 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | APRIL - 2019| Venkaiah Naidu at 4th Resilient Cities Asia- Central Educational Institutions (CEIs) across Committee of National Mission for Transformative Pacific Congress 2019: the country. Mobility headed by Amitabh Kant, (Chief ➢ The 4th Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific ➢ With the approval of the Cabinet, a total of executive Officer) CEO of NITI Aayog. Congress 2019 organised by the International 2,14,766 additional seats will be created. Council for Local Environmental Initiatives While 1,19,983 additional seats will be created Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman (ICLEI) and co-hosted by South Delhi Municipal during 2019-20 academic session, 95,783 seats addresses Naval Commanders Conference: Corporation started in New Delhi. will be added in 2020-21. ➢ Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ➢ It was launched in 2010. The first three addressed the Naval Commanders Conference editions conducted in Bangkok, Thailand in Election Commission launches Voter in New Delhi. The three-day Conference is the February 2015, Malaysia in March 2016 and in Turnout app on Google Play Store: apex forum within the Service for interaction Vietnam in December 2017. ➢ The Election Commission of India (ECI) between the Naval Commanders has launched a new mobile app “Voter Turnout” ➢ It will provide the higher naval leadership a Ministry of External Affairs sets up Indo- for the voters across the country to see the real forum to discuss the emerging challenges in the Pacific Wing: time availability of voter turnout during the maritime domain. The conference also serves as ➢ The Ministry of External Affairs has set up election season in the country. a platform for interaction of Naval Commanders an Indo-Pacific division in the foreign office. ➢ The beta version of the ECI's Voter with senior Government Officials. The Indo-pacific division is intended to give a Turnout app is available for download on the coherent architecture to the Indo-Pacific policy. Google Play Store and as of now it has been AYUSH Ministry inks MoU with CSIR: ➢ The Indo-Pacific Wing will integrate the downloaded over 5,000 times. ➢ The Ministry of AYUSH inked a Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ASEAN region and the Quad. The Indo-Pacific 20 states join pan-India single emergency Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Wing is currently headed by joint secretary helpline number 112: (CSIR), New Delhi for cooperation in research Vikram Doraiswami ➢ Twenty states and Union territories have and education in areas of traditional systems of ➢ The policy was articulated by PM Narendra so far joined a pan-India network of single medicine and its integration with modern science. Modi at the Shangri-La Dialogue in 2018. In emergency helpline number '112' on which ➢ The MoU was signed by AYUSH Secretary India, the policy will be run by the MEA. immediate assistance can be sought by anyone in Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha and CSIR Director distress. General Dr Shekhar C Mande and Secretary, Coast Guard patrol ship Veera ➢ The Emergency Response Support DSIR. commissioned: System (ERSS) envisages a single pan-India ➢ Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat emergency number '112', which is an New Coast Guard vessel to be inducted: commissioned the Indian Coast Guard Ship internationally recognised number, to target all ICGS C-441 Veera at a ceremony held at Naval Jetty at the types of emergencies. ➢ The newly built Coast Guard vessel ICGS C- dockyard in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. ➢ The '112' helpline is an integration of police 441 will be commissioned into the service at ➢ Veera, third in the series of offshore patrol (100), fire (101) and women (1090) helpline Vizhinjam Harbour, Kerala. ICGS C-441 is vessels of the Coast Guard, was built by L&T at numbers and the project is being implemented seventh interceptor vessel amongst the series its shipbuilding facility at Kattupalli in Chennai. under the central government's Nirbhaya designed and built indigenously by L & T Surat. Fund. ➢ Chief Secretary Tom Jose will commission Suspension of LoC Trade between J&K and ➢ The 20 states and Union Territories the ship in a ceremonial function.