Daily Current affairs for 7th Jan 2018 ( English)
1. The three-day annual Flamingo Festival
was held at Pulicat lake and Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary in Sullurpet mandal. Flamingo
Festival is held every year to promote tourism in Pulicat and Nellapattu.
Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary is one of the biggest habitats for some hundreds of
pelicans and other birds. It is located about 20 km north of the Pulicat Lake
on the Andhra Pradesh-Tamil Nadu border.
2. Parliamentary
Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar after inaugurating 18th All India Whips’
Conference in Udaipur, Rajasthan has proposed rolling out of e-Sansad
in Parliament and e-Vidhan in State Legislatures to digitize and make their
functioning paperless. They are mission mode projects of Union Government
under Digital India to make the functioning of Parliament and State
Legislatures paperless. They aim to digitise and make available Parliament and
state legislature documents, including debates, speeches, committee reports and
questions on internet.
3. Mankidia tribe in
Odisha as denied habitat rights inside core area of Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR)
in Odisha under historic Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest
Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006. State Forest Department had
objected their habitat rights on grounds that tribals could be attacked by wild
animals, especially tigers.
4. Haryana become first state in
the country to launch High-Risk Pregnancy (HRP) portal. The portal will
help in early identification of high-risk pregnant cases up to grass-roots
level and ensures their timely referral to civil hospitals. It will help in
increasing pace of decline in Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR), Infant Mortality
Rate (IMR) and Still Birth Incidence as morbidity and mortality is quite high
in high risk pregnant cases if not managed timely.
5. Union Minister of
State for Development of North Eastern Region, Dr Jitendra Singh announced
that Central Government will set up second Film and
Television Institute of Indian (FTII) in Arunachal Pradesh.The first Film and
Television Institute of India (FTII) is located in Pune.
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7. Central Government
has sanctioned the construction of 14460 individual and
community bunkers at a cost of Rs 415.73 crore for people living along the
Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB) in Jammu & Kashmir.
8. ‘TrackChild’ and ‘Khoya-Paya’
web portals have been launched by Ministry of Women and Child
Development to track missing and found children. Apart from
these portals the Ministry of Women and Child Development also provides support
for children in trouble through the dedicated toll free number – 1098.
9. The
International Kite Festival started at Sabarmati River Front in Ahmedabad,
Gujarat on 7th Jan 2017. Nearly 149 foreign kite fliers from 44
countries are taking part in this festival. From India, around 96 kite fliers
from 18 states and 290 kite fliers from Gujarat participate in this kite festival.
10. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda
Sonowal has launched nearly 249 skill development centres throughout
Assam. These skill development centres aim to improve skilled manpower
in Assam. These centres provide vocational training to the youth of Assam and
help them to be financially independent. Assam government has signed a MoU with
the Government of Singapore already under which a skill development centre of
international standards will be set up in Mangaldoi.
11. Jammu and Kashmir
(J&K) Government has announced to launch ‘Muhafiz’ scheme, a major welfare
initiative for providing institutionalized socio-economic security
to workers in the unorganised sector of the state. ‘Muhafiz’ means
‘Guardian’ in English. Under this scheme, 3 lakh workers registered with Jammu
and Kashmir Building and Other Construction Workers’ Welfare Board
(JKBOCWWB),will be provided accidental, life and disability insurance cover.
The premium for the same will be borne by JKBOCWWB.
12. Indian Navy has
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Cochin Port Trust (CPT) for
increasing the berthing capacity of naval ships in Kochi. Under the
MoU, Cochin Port Trust has leased 228 metres of berths at Mattancherry Wharf to
Indian Navy for a period of five years( for lease of Rs. 10 crore per
annum)
13. Bihar Chief
Minister Nitish Kumar inaugurated and laid foundation stones of around 750
projects, worth more than Rs 500 crore, in Begusarai and
Khagaria districts. These projects were launched during Nitish Kumar’s
state-wide “Vikas Samiksha Yatra”which began on December 28, 2017.
14. Pratyush-India’s
fastest and first multi-petaflops (PF) supercomputer was unveiled at Pune-based
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). ‘Pratyush’
meaning Sun. Pratyush is fourth fastest supercomputer in world dedicated for
weather and climate research. It follows supercomputing machines in Japan, US
and United Kingdom.
15. To make the
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 more effective and minimise hardship faced
by companies going in for insolvency resolution the Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT) has announced to relax norms around levy of minimum
alternate tax (MAT) for insolvent companies from financial year 2017-18.
Its aim is to bring Zero Tax Companies” into tax realm who do not pay any tax.
16. China-led Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) is planning to issue its first US
dollar-denominated bond with minimum worth of $1 billion by June 2018. The maturity of
the bond will be between three and five years depending on investor demand at
the time.
17. Julia Goerges won
the WTA Auckland Open Tennis title, in Auckland, New Zealand by defeating
Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki. Julia Goerges has won the Auckland singles title for the
first time. This was her ninth attempt to win the title.
18. Roger Federer and
Belinda Bencic won the Hopman Cup title for Switzerland, in Perth, Australia. This is the
third Hopman Cup title for Switzerland.
19. Vibrant Khelo India
logo at
the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi was launched by Union Minister of
State ( I/C)Youth Affairs and Sports Col Rajyavardhan Rathore.Three-stroke
Khelo India logo has been designed by Ogilvy India. The logo
design has been crowd sourced. It bears the colours of the national flag.The
inaugural Khelo India School Games under the revamped Khelo
India Programme will begin on January 31, 2018.
20. Philippe Coutinho
has moved from Liverpool to Barcelona team for 160 million Euros ($192 million) making this the second most
expensive transfer in the world soccer history.
21. The 75th Annual
Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and American television of 2017. This year The
Shape of Water had received most overall nominations of show with seven.
22. Winners of various
awards are as follows: Best Motion Picture Drama: Three
Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Best Motion Picture
Musical/Comedy: Lady Bird. Best Director in Motion
Picture-Drama: Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water). Best
Actor in Motion Picture-Drama: Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) as Winston
Churchill. Best Actress in Motion Picture-Drama: Frances
McDormand (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) as Mildred Hayes. Best
Actor in Motion Picture or Musical or Comedy: James Franco (The Disaster
Artist) as Tommy Wiseau. Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical/Comedy: Saoirse
Ronan (Lady Bird) as Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson. Best Actor in a
Supporting role in Motion Picture: Sam Rockwell (Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri) as Officer Jason Dixon. Best Actress in a
Supporting role in Motion Picture: Allison Janney (I, Tonya) as LaVona
Golden. Best Original Score Motion Picture: Alexandre Desplat
(The Shape of Water). Best Original Song: “This Is Me” (Benj
Pasek and Justin Paul) – The Greatest Showman. Best Animated Feature
Film: Coco. Best Foreign Language Film: In the Fade
(Germany/France). Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Oprah
Winfrey.
23. John Young –the
moon walker ,NASA’s only astronaut to go into space as part of Gemini, Apollo
and space shuttle program, and the first to fly into space six times passed
away in Houston, US. He was 9th man to walk on moon and later commanded the first
space shuttle flight.
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