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9043 211 311 / 411 Chennai Ias Academy – 9043 211 311 / 411 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS - 2017 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY TNPSC CCSE - IV 6 MONTH CURRENT AFFAIRS 2017 - 2018 # 5, old by-Pass Road, National Theatre ( Near - opp - Benzz Park ) Vellore- 4 website : www.chennaiiasacademy.com Facebook / chennaiiasacademy / Youtube CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY 9043 211 311 / 411 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 JULY MONTH CURRENT AFFAIRS 6. The new Ambassador of India to the Republic of Indonesia __Pradeep Kumar Rawat. New Appointments Note: He will succeed Nengcha Lhouvum 1. India‘s 14th President replacing ‗Pranab Mukhopadhaya. Mukherjee‘ -- Ram Nath Kovind. Note: He was administered the oath of office by 7. Who has been appointed as the Goodwill Chief Ambassador forAutism-- Saima Wazed Justice of India ‗JS Khehar‘ at a special function Hossain. in the central hall of Parliament. Kovind was elected as the President on 20 July 2017 after he Note: Saima is a globally renowned champion defeated the Opposition parties' nominee Meira for the cause of Autism spectrum disorder. She Kumar. will serve as the goodwill ambassador for autism in the South-East Asia region for a 2. The new Chief Election Commissioner of period of 2 years. India – Achal Kumar Jyoti. 8. The new Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Note: Currently, Achal Kumar Jyoti is the Complaints Council (BCCC) -- Vikramajit Election Commissioner of India along with O P Sen. Rawat. Note: Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Vikramajit Sen has been appointed as the new 3. The Attorney General of India --K K Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Venugopal. Complaints Council (BCCC) for three years. Note: Attorney General appointed by the President of India under Article 76(1) of the 9. The president of the National Rifle Association Constitution and holds office during the of India (NRAI) -- Raninder Singh. pleasure of the President. Note: The NRAI is associated with International Shooting Sports Federation, Asian Shooting 4. The new Chairman of Indian Institute of Confederation, Commonwealth Shooting Management (IIM) Amritsar -- Sanjay Gupta. Federation, South Asian Shooting Note: Sanjay Gupta is the Editor in Chief of Confederation, and Indian Olympic Association. Dainik Jagran since 2014 and has been associated with the Jagran Group for more than 10. The new Director General (DG)of Goods and two decades. Services Tax Intelligence (GSTI)-- John Joseph. 5. The new chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) -- Sanjay Kumar 11. New secretary of the Department of Economic Note: He will succeed R K Pachnanda, who was Affairs (DEA) in the finance ministry-- has taken charge as DG the Indo-Tibetan Border Subhash Garg. Police (ITBP). Note:He will oversee capital markets, Budget preparation as well as infrastructure financing CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY 9043 211 311 / 411 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 Note: Currently, Mr. Kothari is the Chairman of and decide on borrowing, along with RBI. Public Enterprises Selection Board. 12. Indian-origin personality appointed as the 20. India‘s alternate Governor on the Board of UNICEF‘s Global Goodwill Ambassador -- Governors of the Asian Development Bank Lilly Singh. (ADB) -- Subhash Chandra Garg. Note: She will use her channel to showcase the Note: The secretary of Department of Economic organisation‘s work and urge millions of her Affairs (DEA) Subhash Chandra Garg has been followers to work for children‘s rights. appointed as India‘s Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of the Asian Development 13. The governing body of Ramakrishna Mission Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines. unanimously elected the 16th president of Ramakrishna Math and Mission -- Swami Smarananandaji Maharaj. Important News – India Note: He succeed ‗Swami Atmasthanandaji 1. The Union Minister has launched "National Maharaj‘ who passed away in June this year. Biopharma Mission" to accelerate biopharmaceutical development in India -- 14. Who has been appointed as the Chief Minister Harsh Vardhan. of Nagaland -- TR Zeliang. Note: Under the Mission, the ministry launched Note: Zeliang staked claim to form government a programme named Innovate in India (i3) to in Nagaland with a majority support of 47 create an enabling ecosystem to promote members of the Legislative Assembly. entrepreneurship and indigenous manufacturing in the sector. 15. Who has taken additional charge of Ministry of 2. India‘s tallest Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower Information and Broadcasting (I&B) -- Textiles has installed at --Indira Gandhi International minister Smriti Irani. Airport (IGIA), Delhi. Note: It will be the 7th tallest ATC tower in the 16. The govt. has announced that Union Minister world. for Rural Development Narendra Singh 3. Who has launched a month-long plantation Tomar will serve as the new -- Urban drive to mark Van Mahotsav -- Dr. Harsh Development Minister. Vardhan. Note: Van Mahotsav is an annual tree- 17. The state‘s chief minister handed over the offer planting movement in India, which began in letter to the Rio Olympics silver medallist ‗P V 1950. The purpose of the festival Sindhu‘ as a Group-I officer -- Andhra is to raise the awareness of trees among people Pradesh. and to highlight the need for planting and Note: In Olympics history, Sindhu has become tending of trees as one of the best ways to the fifth Indian woman (Karnam Malleswari, prevent global warming and reduce pollution. Mary Kom, Saina Nehwal and Sakshi Malik) to clinch a medal. 4. India‘s first university only for Dalit students will come up in -- Hyderabad. 19. New Secretary to President elect Ram Nath Kovind --Sanjay Kothari. CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY 9043 211 311 / 411 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 Note: The purpose of establishing an exclusive storage resulting in accommodation of bigger university for Dalit students is to provide them a data and more applications within same server comprehensive education, so that they would space. come out as complete and knowledgeable citizens. 9. The two programmes to take education to the remotest corners of the country with the help of 5. Western Railways have changed the name of technology --Swayam and Swayam Prabha. ‗Elphinstone Road station as -- Prabhadevi. Note: Under Swayam, courses would be offered Note: Prabhadevi is a local deity, whose temple through digital classrooms with online study is located in the vicinity of the railway station. material available free of cost in videos. In December 2016, the Maharashtra Assembly Swayam Prabha would tap into the potential of had unanimously adopted a resolution to rename Direct to Home Service wherein a person can these railway stations which were subsequently install a dish antenna for about Rs 1,500 & have followed by a nod from the Central access to 32 digital educational channels run by Government. the HRD Ministry. 10. The union Cabinet has approved the 6. The Power Ministry has launched the app and establishment of the International Rice Research the portal for providing e-Bidding solution to Institute, South Asia Regional Center at the states to select Independent Power Producers campus of National Seed Research and Training (IPPs) -- MERIT. Center in -- Varanasi. Note: The objective of is to increase Note: This Center will be the first international transparency and accountability and transfer maximum benefit to the consumer reflects Center in eastern India and it will play a major a 360-degree approach of a ‗government in role in harnessing and sustaining rice production action‘.The app also gives information in the region. The Centre will also undertake regarding reasons for deviation from merit order capacity building exercises for stakeholders such as must run conditions, transmission across the rice value chain. constraints etc. 7. The first government hospital in the country to 11. Indian scientists have discovered an extremely perform a lung transplant -- PGIMER, large supercluster of galaxies, which is as big as Chandigarh. 20 million billion suns-- Saraswati. Note: The institute has been successfully Note: Inter University Centre for Astronomy performing heart, kidney, pancreas, liver, and and Astrophysics (IUCAA) team of astronomers Cornea transplants. has named it ‗Saraswati‘.This is one of the largest known structures in the neighborhood of 8. Indian Railways has launched virtual server to the universe, 4,000 million light-yearsaway optimize server usage and faster connectivity -- from Earth and roughly more than 10 billion RailCloud. years old. Note: The technology is developed by rail PSU RailTel at an estimated cost of approx Rs 53 12. The union minister ‗Arun Jaitley‘ has launched crore. The RailCloud technology enables a new pension scheme for the senior citizens in maximising the usage of available server and CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY 9043 211 311 / 411 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 new Delhi --Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana India and South-East Asia. The 4th North East Yojana. Connectivity Summit will be held in Nagaland Note: The scheme provides an assured return of in September 2017. 8% per annum payable monthly for 10 years and exempted from Service Tax or GST. The 17. The Unique Identification Authority of India scheme can be purchased offline as well as (UIDAI) has launched the mobile app for online through Life Insurance Corporation of syncing Aadhaar data on the mobile phone-- India(LIC). The PMVVY scheme will be mAadhaar app. available till 3rd May,2018. Note: Once you register in mAadhar app, your Aadhaar card profile including phone number, address and other details get stored on the app. 13. The first solar-powered 1600 HP DEMU train in India has launched from the station -- Safdarjung railway station. 18. The railway station has become the India‘s first station to run by all women staff -- Matunga railway station. 14. The ministry will launch a new sub- scheme ‗Aajeevika Grameen Express Yojana‘ (AGEY) under the Deendayal 19. The science & technology ministry has launched Antyodaya Yojana -- The Union Rural a low-cost indigenously developed hearing Development ministry. screening device for newborns -- Sohum. Note: The AGEY aims to provide an alternative Note: The Sohum uses brain-stem auditory evoked response technology which is source of livelihoods to members of Self Help recommended as best screening choice.
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