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Tnpsc Current Affairs – September -2017 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS – SEPTEMBER -2017 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY Vellore TNPSC GROUP – I & II Prelims & Mains MONTHLY CURRENT AFFAIRS SEPTEMBER - 2017 # 5, old by-Pass Road, National Theatre ( Near - opp - Benzz Park ) Vellore- 4 Website : WWW.Chennaiiasacademy.com Facebook chennaiiasacademy – vellore CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – Vellore / 9043 211 311 / 411 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS – SEPTEMBER -2017 STATES Reserved: 20 awards are reserved for Sanskrit, Vice President releases commemorative coin on Persian, Arabic teachers Dr. M.S. Subbulakshmi Award carries: A Medal,Certificate and INR 50,000 as award money. Honoured by: president (or vice president in absent of president) Ministry:Human Resource and Development The National Award for Teachers is presented by the president to teachers, who have rendered exemplary service to the nation by exhibiting meritorious performance. The awards cover teachers working in primary, middle and secondary schools in the country. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday unveiled commemorative coins of Rs 100 and Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu honoured the Rs 10 coins on the birth centenary of noted 374 teachers. The award ceremony was also musician M S Subbulakshmi A nearly two- presided over by Union HRD Minister Prakash week-long exhibition, titled ‘Kurai Ondrum Javadekar and the newly-inducted Minister of Illai’, is being held in the honour of Bharat State for HRD Satyapal Singh. Ratna awardee Subbulakshami. India was once known as ‘Vishwa Guru’ with Maryna Viazovska to receive 2017 SASTRA people from across the globe flocking to our Ramanujan Prize ancient seats of learning like Nalanda and Takshashila. The vice-president also launched DIKSHA, a national digital infrastructure for teachers. DIKSHA is a customisable national digital infrastructure that states, Teacher Education Institutions (TEI) and private entities can use for their respective teacher-centric initiatives. Ayyamittu Unn: Good response to ‘community Maryna Viazovska of Swiss Federal Institute of fridge’ Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland, will Under the banner of The Public Foundation, Dr receive 2017 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for her Issa Fathima Jasmine called the community contribution to number theory. Viazovska is fridge, ‘Ayyamittu Unn’ it is a one-line poem awarded the 2017 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize from the collection Āathichoodi, written by for her stunning and elegant resolution of the Avvaiyar in Tamil. In English, it translates to celebrated sphere packing problem in dimension “share the food with the needy before you 8. eat”. Tamilnadu bags 22 national award for teachers As part of this initiative, a community fridge has day: been placed near the tennis court at Besant Constituted in:1958 Nagar,chennai. The idea behind this is: People Presented on: National Teachers Day 5 september. can place items in the fridge for the benefit of the Total awards:374 (this year) underprivileged. There is also a charity counter Tamilnadu:22 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – Vellore / 9043 211 311 / 411 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS – SEPTEMBER -2017 along with the fridge where books, toys and other such items can be donated 125th anniversary of Madras HC heritage building: It has inscription of Ramachandran in The 125th anniversary of the Madras High Devnagari on upper periphery and Dr MG Court Heritage building will be celebrated here Ramachandran birth centenary in English on tomorrow. the lower periphery of the coin. The Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra will The Reserve Bank of India will soon issue two inaugurate he renovated old Light House in the series of 100 coins to mark the birth centenary High Court campus on the occassion. of AIADMK founder MG Ramachandran and BACKGROUND: Carnatic music maestro MS Subbulakshmi. The court is one of the three High Courts in Both are Bharat Ratnas. India established in the three Presidency Towns The Finance Ministry has notified the new 100 of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras by Letters coins along with special 5 coins to patent granted by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, “commemorate the occasion of MG bearing date 26 June 1862. Ramachandran’s Birth Centenary”. Tamil Nadu govt begins distribution of free Set Top Boxes: NATIONAL Business and Climate Change Summit 2017 in New Delhi Chief Minister Edapaddi K Palaniswami launched the service through government- owned Tamil Nadu Arasu Cable TV Corporation (Arasu Cable). He distributed STBs and also inaugurated MPEG-4 upgraded control room for digital signal transmission. 100 commemorative coin to mark birth centenaries of MGR The reverse of the Rs 100 coin shall bear the portrait of MG Ramachandran in the centre. Dr. Harsh Vardhan, addressed the Business and Climate Summit (BCS) 2017 Summit has brought the world came together in 2015 and agreed upon the Paris CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – Vellore / 9043 211 311 / 411 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS – SEPTEMBER -2017 Agreement under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It came into force in Rajiv Mehrishi is the Next CAG of India November 2016 and till date, 160 Parties have ratified the agreement. India as a party to the Paris Agreement is committed towards its successful implementation. PM Modi inaugurates annual conference 'Rajaswa Gyan Sangam' 2017 in New Delhi. He will replace the present incumbent Shashi Kant Sharma. Ashwini Attri, Anita Pattanayak and Ranjan Kumar Ghose, three senior bureaucrats were appointed as Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General. Sunil Arora appointed Election Commissioner The conference, jointly organized by the Central Board of Direct Taxes and the Central Board of Excise and Customs. Issues arising in implementation of policies and strategies to achieve targets in core functional areas will also be discussed. The main objective of the conference is to enable a two-way communication between the policy-makers and senior officers in the field offices with a view to Mr. Arora had been the Information and increase revenue collection and facilitate effective Broadcasting Secretary, and Secretary in the implementation of law and policies in key result Ministry of Skill Development and areas Entrepreneurship. Eight core sectors growth slips to 2.4% in July After Nasim Zaidi retired as Chief Election The country's eight infrastructure sectors Commissioner in July, there was a vacancy in the grew 2.4 per cent in July this year. The poll panel. While Achal Kumar Joti is the Chief infrastructure sector had expanded 3.1 per cent in Election Commissioner of India, Om Prakash July last year, and had grown 0.8 per cent in June Rawat is the other Election Commissioner. this year. 5.7 percent GDP growth rate in first quarter India, China jointly oppose trade-distorting agri The rate has come down predominantly due subsidies to pre-GST effect as manufacturers were focusing India and China have jointly submitted a more on clearing the existing stock. proposal to the WTO, which has been called for Service sector and investment have ending the agricultural subsidies given by improved in this quarter but the down trend in developed countries. manufacturing is essentially due to GST. CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – Vellore / 9043 211 311 / 411 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS – SEPTEMBER -2017 In this proposal, subsidy has been described as "the most distorted form of agricultural subsidy". This kind of subsidy is called 'Aggregate Measurement of Support (AMS)' or 'Amber Box' subsidy in the WTO language. Union Minister launches scheme for senior citizens belonging to BPL category Thaawarchand Gehlot has launched a scheme that provides for physical aids and assisted-living devices for senior citizens belonging to the BPL category in Gujarat It has begun operating at a facility where The centrally-sponsored scheme, `Rashtriya scientists will attempt to recreate the conditions Vayoshri Yojana', was unveiled on April 1 this deep inside the sun and produce film-like year. sequences of viruses and cells. The machine, called the European X-ray Environment Ministry to Launch ‘Prakriti Khoj’ Free Electron Laser (XFEL), acts as a high-speed - Environment quiz camera that can capture images of individual atoms in a few millionths of a billionth of a second. Reliance Foundation Awarded Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar The quiz is being launched on September 5 on the occasion of Teachers’ Day. The objective of the quiz is to generate interest among school children about the science related to environment, interactions within it and the problems therein. Gujarat chief minister has launched “Gyankunj e-class project” on the occasion of Teachers Day on Sept5. The Reliance Foundation was rewarded with the prestigious Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Award at Europe unveils world's most powerful X-ray laser Rashtrapati Bhawan. Chairperson of the foundation, Nita Ambani collected the award from President Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi. Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) also received the Rashtriya Khel Protsahana Purushkar this year for its ‘Identification and Nurturing of Budding and Young Talent’ (IDCO) program. Important Points to remember- Nita Ambani is the chairperson and founder of Reliance Foundation and a non- executive director of Reliance Industries. CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – Vellore / 9043 211 311 / 411 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS – SEPTEMBER -2017 Sri Ram Nath Kovind is the 14th President of India. Cabinet Reshuffle: Nirmala Sitharaman Gets Defence, Piyush Goyal Gets Railways Karnataka to merge health schemes, launch 'Arogya Bhagya' The Universal Health Coverage scheme would help the card holder get treatment in all the empanelled private
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