Current Affairs Capsule 3 Months (Nov-Dec-Jan) FOR MANIPAL UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue : 27 | Page : 16 | Topic : Current Affairs - Capsule | Price : Not for Sale CURRENT AFFAIRS Andhra Pradesh to highlight the welfare • The Internet Corporation of (Joint Advanced Technology Center) which and developmental initiatives of the Assigned Names and Numbers will be located in the IIT Delhi campus. NATIONAL: government. (ICANN) runs the World Wide Web and Chandrabhaga, a lost Ancient NOVEMBER: Google has associated with has begun its 7days annual general River, found in Odisha. The river is believed The 5 Day ‗National Conference Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) meeting in Hyderabad. to have existed during the 13th century near on Tropical Parasitology‟ held in for 360 degree virtual tour of 280-odd • The 10th Command Level Navy the Sun Temple at Konark, a Unesco World Puducherry. Over 200 representatives monuments across the country. Coast Guard (COMNAVGUARD) meeting Heritage Site in Odisha. from India and abroad will attend a meet The Indian government and three was held in Vizag to discuss inter- External Affairs Minister Sushma to improve the perspective on the drug state-run firms would jointly prepared an operatability issues between Navy and Swaraj and Sri Lankan Foreign Minister resistance scenario in parasitic diseases. equity fund of up to $2 billion for Coast Guard. Mangala Samaraweera held talks for the The 3 day Indian Languages renewable energy companies to help PM Modi will inaugurate the first JWG in New Delhi. A Joint Working Group Festival (ILF) Samanvay, focusing on New Delhi to meet its clean energy goals. ever International Agro-biodiversity on Fisheries and a hotline between their the themes of ‗Language as Public action‘ The Delhi govt has launched the Congress in New Delhi. Coast Guards has been set up jointly by commenced with the noted Gandhian Ela Yamuna river front Project at the second National Security Advisors of India India and Sri Lanka, to address the long- Bhat in New Delhi. annual ‗Yamuna Aarti‟ event aarti at the and Japan, Mr. Ajit Doval and Mr. Shotaro standing issue of fishermen from Tamil Andhra tops World Bank‟s Dhai Pusta, in Sonia Vihar in the presence Yachi held bilateral consultations in New Nadu being arrested. energy-saving rankings. The ranking of of CM Arvind Kejriwal to beautify the Delhi. The Central Govt effort to improve the states were released in the World riverfront in the next one-and-a-half years. Odisha Govt has signed an MoU sanitation has found resonance in Dharwad Bank‘s study report titled – ―India‘s State PM Narendra Modi launched with the Software Technology Parks of India Zilla Panchayat in North Karnataka. It has Level Energy Efficiency Implementation Haryana‟s year-long golden jubilee (STPI) for setting up of four more centres in joined the national campaign to achieve Readiness‖ with an overall score of 42.01. celebrations of Haryana in Gurugram and the State. The new centres would come up Open Defecation Free norm by October West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee kicked-off Haryana‘s ‗Swarna Jayanti‟ at Angul, Jajpur, Koraput and Sambalpur. 2018 under Swatch Bharat Abhiyan. th distributed 43,000 bicycles to class 11 celebrations from Tau Devi Lal stadium. Army launched operation School The Haryana govt has allocated a students of state- run, aided and The Income Tax department Chalo, under which it identifies areas and budget of 12 cr to the Kurukshetra sponsored schools under ‗Sabuj Sathi‟ at announced that the Benami Transactions provides students with free coaching and Development Board for the International Jamboni in West Midnapore. (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 make them participate in extra-curricular Gita Mahotsav will be inaugurated by Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal (BTP Amendment Act), came into force activities. President Mukherjee. implemented the state government‘s from 1st Nov 2016 in order to give more The 3 day Buddha Mahotsava The Union Ministry of Health and programme of „Aware and Care‟ by teeth to the authorities to curb benami celebration kicked off in Arunachal Family Welfare J P Nadda, GoI, will be flagging off 100 Information Education transactions. Pradesh. hosting the Seventh Session of the Communication (IEC) mobile vans. Govt has decided to fix the National Green Tribunal (NGT) given Conference of Parties (COP7) in The National Food Security Act minimum wage at Rs 350 per day for its approval for the week-long annual Greater Noida. (NFSA), which implemented an act to unskilled agricultural labour in C- class Baliyatra festival in cuttack, odisha. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh subsidise food grain for about 810 million towns announced by Labour Minister 12th International Oil and Gas launched „e-Court Software‗to enable people, now covers the whole country, Bandaru Dattatreya will be effective from Conference and Exhibition PETROTECH- speedy disposal of Appeals/Complaints by more than three years after it was formally Nov 1, 2016. 2016 inaugurated by PM Modi in New using digital technology at 11th Annual notified. International Forum on Delhi with the theme of ‗Hydrocarbons to Convention of Central Information The GST Council approved a four- Adopting an ICT Perspective to Education fuel the future: Choices and Challenges‘. Commission (CIC) in New Delhi. tier GST tax structure of 5%, 12%, and Learning held in New Delhi. 5th International Energy Forum The Ministry of Environment, Forest 18% and 28%, with lower rates for • Kerala became the 3rd state (IEF) and the International Gas Union and Climate Change constituted a four- essential items and the highest for luxury overall and the largest state so far to be (IGU) Ministerial Gas Forum to be held in member team for conservation and and de-merits goods that would also declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) New Delhi with the theme of ―Gas for management of Loktak Lake in Manipur. attract an additional cess. The lowest rate under the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM- Growth; improving economic prosperity and The Meghalaya Govt has decided of 5% would be for common use items Gramin). living standards‖. to amend its existing Information while there would be two standard rates of • Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu Consulate General of India, Dubai, Technology Policy. It focus on several issues 12% and 18% under the Goods and has inaugurated the International installed the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, pertaining to Information Technology Services Tax (GST) regime targetted to be Conference on Decarbonisation of the Father of the Nation, at its premises, besides improving the internet and mobile rolled out from April 1, 2017. Indian Railways – Mission Electrification in and celebrated the 141st Birth Anniversary connectivity in the state. Maharashtra becomes First state New Delhi. It was organised by of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, popularly known Union Shipping Minister Nitin to launch Cyber Police Stations in each Institution of Railways Electrical as the Iron Man of India. Gadkari laid the foundation stone of three district. Engineer (IREE) in partnership with The Indian Institute of technology major initiatives at the Mumbai Port trust. The ruling Telugu Desam Party ASSOCHAM India. and Defence Research & Development The initiatives include India‘s biggest Oil (TDP) president N. Chandrababu Naidu Organisation have inked the MoU for JATC handling Jetty at Jawahar Dweep, the fifth launched „Jana Chaitanya Yatra‟ in 7601808080 / 9043303030 |Is Now In CHENNAI | MADURAI | TRICHY | SALEM | COIMBATORE| www.RACEInstitute.in |CURRENT AFFAIRS Capsule |3 months (Nov - Dec - Jan) | 2 oil berth at the island, first bunkering facility women govt employees from 6 to 9 member of the steering group member of In Himachal Pradesh, as many as and Eastern Mumbai Water Transport months. the ICN for a period of 3 years. 107 pilots from 15 countries took part in the Facility. Ministry of state for External affairs The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet has first Indian National Open Accuracy The Asian Ministerial Conference MJ Akbar will co-chair the first joint approved "Mukhya Mantri Shikshak Paragliding Championship at Bir-Billing. on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) commission meeting (JCM) between Samman Yojana," which provides a one- President of India Mukherjee 2016 came to an end with the adoption of India and Palestine held in Palestine. year extension in service and cash incentive inaugurates the meeting of American the New Delhi Declaration and the Asian Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of to teachers who would give 100% results Association of Thoracic Surgeons and Regional Plan for Implementation of the State (Independent Charge) for Labor and consistently for five years. International Coronary Congress in New Sendai Framework. Employment launched the ‗Kahin-Bhi- A five-judge Constitution Bench led Delhi. The Janwaar Skating Park, India's Kabhi-Bhi‟ medical facilities for The by Justice Anil R. Dave ruled that Punjab The Maharashtra govt's 'Vision first rural skate park, is a not-for-profit Employees‘ StateInsurance Corporation Termination of Agreements Act 2004 was 2030 document' has proposed to project that teaches village children (ESIC) beneficiaries of Delhi. invalid and that Punjab was bound to share implement 'e-eye surveillance' project to skateboarding for free in Bundlekhand. The Ministry of AYUSH has the water of Ravi-Beas river with Haryana track the movement of wild animals 24x7. The Union Health minister launched organized the 9th Annual Meeting of and complete the construction of the Sutlej- The Maharashtra govt has drawn Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva International Regulatory Cooperation Yamuna Link (SYL) canal for water sharing. up a scheme to ensure power supply to the Abhiyan to provide free health check-ups for Herbal Medicines (IRCH) was The govt of Kerala launched four agriculture sector for 12 hours a day to pregnant women at government health inaugurated by Sripad Yesso Naik in Delhi. projects under ‗Nava Kerala Mission‗for through feeder-based solar energy.