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LEGEND MAGAZINE (DECEMBER - 2018) Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue: 15 | Page : 48 | Topic : Legend of December | Price: Not for Sale NATIONAL has imposed an environmental compensation the robustness of the entire coastal security ranging from Rs.1 crore to Rs.5 crore on apparatus. NGT Forms Committee to Prepare them. The amount will be dependent on Scrapping Of Banned Diesel, Petrol “Theatre level operational readiness respective capacities of the thermal power Vehicles: exercise” or ‘Tropex’ will begin from January plants. and culminate in March, next year. The National Green Tribunal forms a The thermal power plants have been asked committee for dealing with scrapping of banned to deposit the compensation with the apex ISRO’s heaviest satellite GSAT-11 petrol and diesel vehicles. pollution control board by December 20. successfully launched from French Guiana: The green panel directed the Delhi chief India’s most-advanced high-throughput secretary to take steps and prepare an action Empathy Campaign Launched To Spread communication satellite GSAT-11 was plan for shifting the scrap yards from busy Pan-India Awareness About Hepatitis successfully launched from Spaceport in French localities of the city to other appropriate Disease: Guiana. The satellite weighs 5854-kg GSAT- locations, within three months. Institute of Liver and Biliary 11 and is the heaviest satellite ever built by The committee will consist of the Sciences has launched the Indian Space Research secretary, Ministry of Road Transport, an Empathy campaign to spread a pan-India Organization (ISRO). It has a mission life of central government with representatives from awareness about hepatitis disease. The 15 years. the Central Pollution Control Board initiative will help generate awareness about (CPCB), Environment Ministry and the Delhi Hepatitis B and C. Delhi Government Launches ‘One’ Card For government. It was launched at Metro Bhawan, New Commute On Metro, Buses: NGTChairman: Swatanter Kumar Delhi in presence of Managing Director of The Delhi government has launched a DMRC. Dr. Mangu Singh, and Director common mobility card with a tagline IIT Kharagpur, University of Auckland Ink ILBS. Shiv Kumar Sarin. of ‘One Delhi One Ride’ which would enable Pact For Research Tie-Up: city commuters to access Metro and bus IIT Kharagpur and the University of FSSAI launches new campaign to eliminate services with a single card at a 10 per cent Auckland signed a pact to foster academic trans fats by 2022: discount. exchange and research collaboration. The Food Safety and Standards Known as ‘One’, the newly designed card As per the Memorandum of Understanding – Authority of India (FSSAI) launched a will be available for sale on all Delhi Metro the first strategic partnership of University media campaign calling for the elimination stations and DTC pass counters. of Auckland with a higher education in of industrially produced trans-fat in the The process of recharging these cards at India – the two educational establishments food supply. metro stations will also remain the same would explore opportunities for research Named "Heart Attack Rewind", the 30- with Rs.200 as the minimum recharge value in healthcare technologies, new materials, second public service announcement the and Rs.50 as the security fee on the card. cyber security and artificial Intelligence. first mass media campaign of its kind will support FSSAI's global target of eliminating EX SHINYUU Maitri-2018 with JASDF 2.75 Lakh People Avails CLSS Under PMAY trans-fat in India by 2022, a year ahead of Commences: (U): the global target by the World Health The Japanese Air Self Defence Nearly 2.75 lakh beneficiaries have Organization. Force (JASDF) is in India for a bilateral air availed a subsidy scheme under the Pradhan exercise SHINYUU Maitri-18 with Indian Air Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), with Gujarat International experts participate in Force from 03-07 Dec 18 at A F Station Agra. (88,000) topping the chart. workshop for setting up Ganga Museum: The theme of the exercise is Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh had The National Mission for Clean joint Mobility/Humanitarian Assistance & the most number of beneficiaries under the Ganga (NMCG) is planning to set up a Ganga Disaster Relief (HADR) on Transport aircraft. Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) after Exhibition and a Ganga Museum for public The JASDF C2 aircraft along with Gujarat. outreach in New Delhi. aircrew/observers are part of this first air The PMAY (U), launched by Prime Minister NMCG is planning to set up a Ganga exercise between the two Air Forces. IAF is Narendra Modi in June 2015, aims to Exhibition and a Ganga Museum for public participating with An-32 and C-17 ensure “Housing for all by 2022” by providing outreach, portraying river Ganga’s history aircraft with aircrew & observers. The focus of financial assistance to beneficiaries. and mythology, its importance for the the exercise is set for the IAF and JASDF livelihood of a huge population, and efforts for crews to undertake Joint Mobility/ HADR EDrishti Software Launched to Help Ganga Rejuvenation. operations. Railways Minister Keep Track Of Punctuality Of Trains: PM To Inaugurate Bogibeel Bridge, India’s Railway Ministry, Madame Tussauds Indian Railways launched a software Longest Rail-Road Bridge, On December 25: Museum Join Hands To Bolster Tourism In named- ‘eDrishti’, that will enable the Union Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Delhi: Railway Minister Shri. Piyush Goyal to keep inaugurate on December 25 the Bogibeel The Ministry of Railways signed a track of punctuality of trains as well as freight Bridge, India’s longest rail-road bridge, Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the and passenger earnings from anywhere in the connecting the north and south banks of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum for country. Brahmaputra, falling in the eastern part of providing discounts to tourists at the National It has been developed by the Centre for Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Rail Museum (NRM) and the wax museum in Railway Information System (CRIS). The Bogibeel is part of infrastructure projects Delhi. software has also been connected with the base planned by India to improve logistics along The MoU aims at bolstering the footfall at kitchens of the Indian Rail Catering and the border in Arunachal Pradesh. The bridge both the tourist attractions in the national Tourism Corp (IRCTC). is 4.94 km long. capital. A 35 per cent discount will be given to NRM visitors who go to the Madame Tussauds Up To Rs.5 Crore Green Compensation Indian Navy To Conduct ‘Exercise Sea Vigil’ Wax Museum, while 30 per cent discount will Imposed On Thermal Power Plants: Next Month To Test Robustness Of Coastal be given to the wax museum visitors on NRM Thermal power plants across the country Security Apparatus: combos. have not prepared plans for 100% utilisation The Indian Navy will conduct a large-scale of fly ash, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) coastal defence exercise next month to test Chennai | Puducherry | Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Erode | Namakkal |Tanjore| Tirunelveli | Trivandrum | Ernakulam|Bengaluru | Chandigarh |LEGEND MAGAZINE | DECEMBER - 2018| 2 Tuhin Satarkar, First Indian To Scale Ravi Shankar Prasad launches National FAO Council Approves India’s Proposal to Sahayadri Mountain Range In 12 Days: Challenge ‘Ideate for India - creative Observe International Year of Millets In Bouldering sensation Tuhin solutions using technology' for school 2023: Satarkar pushed his limits as he scaled three students: Food and Agriculture organisation, FAO routes in the treacherous Sahayadri mountain Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi Council has approved India’s proposal to range in 12 days, from November 16 to 28, to Shankar Prasad has launched National observe an International Year of Millets in become the first Indian to ever achieve the feat. Challenge - ‘Ideate for India - creative 2023. About Sahyadri Mountain: solutions using technology' for school Millets consists of Jowar, Bajra, Ragi and Western Ghats also known as Sahyadri is a students in New Delhi. The challenge will minor millets together termed as nutri-cereals. mountain range that runs parallel to the western help empower the youth to become the next In addition, the FAO Council has also approved coast of the Indian peninsula, located entirely generation of innovators and technology India’s membership to the Executive Board of in India. creators. Over 10 lakh students will the United Nations World Food Program for participate in the challenge. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is 2020 and 2021. 'Ideate For India' national challenge is one of the eight “hottest hot-spots” of biological a joint collaboration between National e- diversity in the world. It is sometimes called Centre Empowers Lt Governors, governance Division and Intel India, the Great Escarpment of India. Administrators To Set Up Special Courts: supported by the Department of School Lieutenant governors (LGs) The range starts near the Songadh town Education and Literacy of Ministry of Human and administrators of Union territories have of Gujarat, south of the Tapti River, and runs Resources Development. been empowered by the central government to approximately 1,600 km (990 mi) through the designate civil courts as special courts to states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala Gehlot inaugurates website of media school adjudicate contracts relating to and Tamil Nadu ending at Marunthuvazh for Dalit and tribal youth: infrastructure projects. Malai, at Swamithope, near the southern tip of On the 62nd death anniversary of BR India Under Section 20B of the Specific Relief Ambedkar, Union minister Thaawarchand Act, 1963 (47 of 1963), the state Gehlot launched the website of a first-of-its- EPFO approves re-constitution of three key government, in consultation with the chief kind media school to train Dalit and tribal committees: justice of the high court, can designate one or youth in journalism.