CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS NOVEMBER - 2018 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY Vellore & Tiruvannamalai ENGLISH MEDIUM www.chennaiiasacademy.com chennaiiasacademy Contact : 9043 211 311 / 411 1 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 Current Affairs for TNPSC Examination November – 2018 SI.NO CONTENT PAGE NO 1. TAMIL NADU 03 – 04 2. NATIONAL NEWS 04 – 10 3. INTERNATIONAL NEWS 10 – 13 4. SUMMITS AND MEETINGS 14 – 15 5. DEFENCE IN NEWS 15 – 16 6. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 16 – 18 7. SPORTS 18 – 20 8. REPORTS 21 – 21 9. BOOKS 21 – 21 10. IMPORTANT DAYS IN NEWS 22 – 22 11. NOTABLE THEMES 22 – 22 12. APPOINTMENTS 23 – 24 13. AWARDS 25 - 27 14. GOVERNMENT POLICIES 28 - 28 2 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 TAMILNADU CHENNAI METRO-OTP SYSTEM BEST STATE IN ORGAN DONATION LAUNCHED On 27th of November, Tamil Nadu has been Chennai metro introduced one time adjudged the Best State in Organ Donation password system to avoid diverting of the at the 9th Indian Organ Donation Day in water in meant for residential purposes to New Delhi by the Union Minister of Health commercial establishment. and Family Welfare. Chennai metro have introduced OTP system It‘s fourth time in a row, the state has for ―dial for water‖ and ―dial for septic tank received the best-performing state award for clearance‖. organ donation. Tamil Nadu is also the first State in India to BIOMETRIC ATTENDANCE FOR have initiated mandatory certification of TEACHERS IN TAMILNADU brain stem death, streamlining organ Government order has been passed by distribution and setting up green corridors. tamilnadu government. Apart from this, the State of Maharashtra Tamilnadu government will introduce the government received an award for being the biometric attendance system soon for best State for promoting awareness on organ government schools and government aided donations. schools. Pilot project for this project is going in PERMANENT JUDGES FOR MADRAS porur girls government school. HIGH COURT Centre appointed three additional judges of INDIA‟S FIRST OPEN AIR LIBRARY madras high court as permanent IN TRICHY Namely: TRICHY city corporation will soon open 1. Teekha raman ―little free library‖, India‘s first open air 2. Sathish kumar library. 3. Seshasayee AIM: nurturing reading habit and exchange of books among locals. SEBI APPROVAL TO LAUNCH STATE SHELTER FUND. GAJA CYCLONE State shelter fund for attracting investment Severe Cyclonic Storm Gaja was the fifth in tamilnadu housing board. cyclone in the 2018 North Indian Ocean In this regard tamilnadu government cyclone season. established tamilnadu infrastructure fund Forming on November 5 as a low pressure which is category 1 alternative funds. system over the Gulf of Thailand, The system crossed through Southern Thailand and the Malay Peninsula and eventually crossed into the Andaman Sea 3 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 NATIONAL NEWS The weak system intensified into a depression over the Bay of Bengal on “Soura Jalanidhi” scheme November 10 and further intensified to a Naveen Patnaik, the Chief Minister of cyclonic storm on November 11, being Odisha, has recently launched ‗Soura classified 'Gaja'. Jalanidhi‘ scheme which aims at increasing After tracking west-southwestward for a use of solar energy for helping farmers in number of days in the Bay of Bengal, Gaja irrigation. made landfall in South India, shifted ‗Soura Jalanidhi‘ is a dug well based solar through Vedaranyam, Voimedu, Muthupet, pump irrigation system in convergence and Adirampattinam. mode. The storm survived it's crossing into Under the scheme, 5,000 solar pumps will the Arabian Sea; however, it dissipated in be provided to farmers at a subsidy of 90 per hostile conditions only a few days later. cent to irrigate 2,500 acres of land. The solar As of November 22, 63 people were killed pumps will be given to the beneficiary by the storm. farmers at a subsidy of 90%. A total of Rs 27 crore will be spent for the programme. CENTRAL COMMITTEE-GAJA CYCLONE India‟s rank in the World Bank‟s Ease of INTER MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE Doing Business Index 2018 HEAD BY MR.DANIEL RICHARD. India has been ranked 77th in the World Central team consist of seven members to Bank‘s Ease of Doing Business Index 2018. check cyclone effect in tamilnadu and With this,India has jumped 23 places from puducherry. 2017 in which it was ranked at 100th. In its annual ‗Doing Business‘ 2019 report, World Bank stated that India improved its rank on six out of the 10 parameters relating to starting and doing business in a country. BBC‟s 100 best foreign language films list Satyajit Ray‘s epic masterpiece ‗Pather Panchali‘ has been included in BBC‘s 100 best foreign language films list of the 21st century. world‟s „tallest statue‟Statue of Unity‟ On October 31, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the ‗Statue of Unity‘ in Narmada district of Gujarat on the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 4 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 Sardar Patel – who served as the first Home Mizoram‘s Vairengte with a focus on Minister of independent India – is credited strengthening counter-terror cooperation. with uniting all 562 princely states in pre- The focus of the two-week-long exercise independent India to build the Republic of will be to enhance tactical skills against India. That is why it is called the ‗Statue of global terrorism and increase inter- Unity‘. operability between the two forces. It is the world‘s tallest statue, with a height The Japanese contingent is represented by of 182m. 32nd Infantry Battalion, while the Indian It located around 3.5 km downstream from side by 6/1 Gorkha Rifles. the Sardar Sarovar Dam, on islet Sadhu Bet on the bed of the river Narmada. Jharsuguda Airport of Odisha The statue was designed by 93-year-old On November 1, the Union Cabinet has acclaimed sculptor Ram V. Sutar, who is approved a proposal to rename the Padma Bhushan awardee. Jharsuguda airport of Odisha after eminent freedom fighter Veer Surendra Sai. India‟s first-ever moored maritime Renaming of the Jharsuguda airport in his museum-cum-marine adventure centre name will fulfill long-pending demand of The Maharashtra Cabinet has recently the Odisha Government, which reflects the approved the conversion of decommissioned sentiments of the local public of the aircraft carrier INS Viraat into a floating respective area. museum. It will be India‘s first-ever moored maritime Partial Credit Enhancement museum-cum- marine adventure centre. As The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has per primary estimates, the project worth Rs recently permitted banks to grant Partial 852 crore will be implemented through Credit Enhancement (PCE), or a partial Public-Private-Partnership. guarantee, to bonds issued by systematically important non-deposit taking Non-Banking Krivak III-class stealth frigates Financial Companies (NBFC-ND-SIs) India has officially signed a $950 million registered with the Reserve Bank of India contract with Russia for the purchase of two and Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) upgraded Krivak III-class stealth frigates for registered with National Housing Bank. the Indian Navy. The two frigates of the Project 11356 class Turga Pumped Storage in West Bengal will be bought directly from Russia and a India and Japan has recently a Loan contract to build two more at an Indian yard Agreement worth Rs. 1817 crore for the is likely to be signed at a later stage. ‗Project for the Construction of Turga Pumped Storage (I)‘ in the State of West „Dharma Guardian-2018‟ Bengal. The first-ever Indo-Japan joint military The purpose of the Project is to strengthen exercise ―Dharma Guardian- 2018‖ has the capability to respond to fluctuation in started at a jungle warfare school in supply and demand of power and to 5 CHENNAI IAS ACADEMY – 9043 211 311 / 411 improve stability of the power supply by The PCR will also include data from entities constructing the pumped storage facilities, like market regulator SEBI, the Ministry of thereby contributing to the Industrial Corporate Affairs, Goods and Service Tax Development and Living Standard Network (GSTN) and the Insolvency and Improvement in the State of West Bengal. Bankruptcy Board of India to enable the banks and financial institutions to get 360 India-US Dialogue on Intellectual degree profile of existing and prospective Property (IP) borrowers on a real-time basis. Recently, the first-ever India-US Dialogue on Intellectual Property was launched in All-India „Unreserved Mobile Ticketing‟ New Delhi to deepen bilateral strategic facility (UTS on Mobile) cooperation on IP policy. On November 1, the Ministry of Railways The dialogue was launched by US Chamber has officially rolled out All-India of Commerce‘s Global Innovation Policy Unreserved Mobile Ticketing facility (UTS Center (GIPC) and FICCI in partnership on Mobile) with a view to promote three with the US-India Business Council. C‘s- Cashless transactions (Digital payment), Contact less ticketing (no need to National Seminar on Entrepreneurship physically visit the point of sale) and and Business Development in Ayurveda Customer convenience and experience. The 2-day seminar is being organised by Now, the facility of booking unreserved Ministry of AYUSH in association with tickets, including season tickets and also NITI Aayog with the aim of encouraging platform ticketsis available through the entrepreneurs and Ayurveda stakeholders ‗UTSONMOBILE‘ app available for towards businesses opportunities in the Android, IOS and Windows phones. sector. The ‗UTS on Mobile‘ application has been The seminar is expected to develop developed by Centre for Railway awareness among stakeholders about Information Systems (CRIS). business opportunities, encouraging young entrepreneurs to use modern technologies India‟s first asymmetrical cable-stayed and highlight opportunities at global level.