Daily Current Affairs from Jan 22-28,2018 ( English)
1.
Jan 25- The Election Commission
of India (ECI) celebrated 8th National
Voters’ Day across nation for enhanced participation of citizens in
electoral process with the theme
‘Accessible Elections’.
2.
Jan 28 - This year the World Leprosy Day is observed on 28. It is observed internationally every year on last Sunday of
January month to raise global awareness of Leprosy. Observance of the day
focuses on target of zero cases of leprosy-related disabilities in children.
3. Jan 29- World
Puzzles Day
4. Jan 30- Martyr’s day.
5. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanichamy received UNESCO
Award of Merit awarded to the iconic
Srirangam Ranganathaswamy temple in Tiruchirapalli. The award of merit was
awarded by UNESCO Asia Pacific region for the reconstruction activities
undertaken in temple without in least affecting its traditional splendour and
Vedic rituals.
6.
Tamil Nadu Awards 2018:
Thiruvalluvar Award – Ko. Periyannan ;Ambedkar Award – Dr.George
;BharathiyarAward – Su. Balasubramanian; Bharathidasan award –Jeeva Bharathi ;
Thiru V. Ka award – Vai. Balakumaran; Periyar Award –P.Valarmathy; Anna Award –
A. Subramanian; Kamarajar Award – Dinakaran; Ki.Aa. Pe. Viswanathan Award –
Maruthanayagam.
7. “Stree Swabhiman
Initiative” launched by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY) with an aim to create
sustainable model for providing adolescent girls and women an access to
affordable sanitary products by leveraging Common Service Centres (CSC’s).
8. Kolkata became first metro
city in India to get floating market which was
inaugurated by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The floating market
is located on lake at Patuli in South Kolkata which is 400 metres long and 60
metres wide. The aim of floating market is to rehabilitate over 200 shopkeepers
from nearby market that was demolished for the widening of Eastern Metropolitan
Byp ass (EMB) — an important road that connects the northern parts of Kolkata o
the eastern and southern tips. The lake has been transformed into the floating
market similar to the one in Thailand.
9. Pulse Polio Immunization (PPI) Programme for
year 2018 have launched by President Ram Nath Kovind. The event was organised on the eve of the National Immunisation
Day (NID), observed on 28 January. Polio (Poliomyelitis) is a highly infectious
viral disease, which mainly affects young children below age of 5.
10. Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat
Vikas Yojna (MGSVY) for the welfare of the downtrodden citizen across the state
was launched by the Punjab Government. The
objective of scheme is to identify poor and distressed households which have
been deprived of the benefits of the various welfare schemes .It will be on the
line of Antyodaya principles (Antyodaya’ means rise of the last person) and
will be implemented in the state’s rural areas.
11. World Trade Organization
(WTO) ministerial meeting will be hosted by India in March 2018 in New Delhi. The objective of meeting is to discuss ways to revitalise WTO to
ensure predictable and transparent system of rule-making in the area of
international trade. The meeting will be taking place after collapse of the WTO
11th Ministerial Conference (MC 11) held in Buenos Aires in December 2017.
12. The norms of Atal Pension
Yojana (APY) were relaxed by the Union finance ministry to allow small finance banks and payment banks to offer APY
distribution. The move is expected to help expand coverage of the scheme and
strengthen existing channels of APY distribution.
13. Alpha Design Technologies
Ltd. has signed Rs. 45-crore deal with Ministry of Defence to supply indigenous simulators for gunnery and missile firing
from BMP II vehicles to Indian Army.
14. The Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has inked
MoU with IL&FS Transportation Networks Ltd for construction of the 14.150
km long, 2-lane bi -directional Zojila
Tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir. This would be India’s longest road tunnel and longest bi-directional tunnel in Asia.
On completion, the tunnel will provide all weather connectivity between
Srinagar, Kargil and Leh.
15. India has been ranked 177
among 180 countries in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) – 2018.
16. India and Cambodia have
signed four agreements to boost bilateral cooperation between both countries after comprehensive talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi
and his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Hun Sen in New Delhi.
17. India and Lao PDR have signed civil aviation
cooperation agreement for providing SkyRev360, a
comprehensive e-data gathering, invoicing and collection system. The agreement
was signed between Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Lao Air Traffic
Management, Department of Civil Aviation under the Government’s Make in India
initiative. It helps to eliminate inaccuracies errors and delays for better
revenue management with less manual processing.
18. Prime Minister Narendra
Modi will embark on four-day official state visit to Palestine, Oman and UAE in
February 2018. This will be the first ever
visit by Indian Prime Minister to Palestine and PM Modi’s second visit to UAE
and first to Oman.
19. India-Japan Smart Grid
Pilot Project was inaugurated in Panipat, Haryana by State Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in the presence of
Japanese Minister Keniko Sen to solve the various complications faced by the
power distribution sector. The project aims to make electricity distribution
network smarter and disseminate Japanese technologies in India.
20. A new Global Centre for
Cyber security headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland was launched by the World
economic forum (WEF) in a bid to safeguard world
from hackers and growing data breaches — especially from nation-states. The
centre will become operational from March 2018.
21. The ASEAN-India
Commemorative Summit was held in New Delhi to
celebrate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of sectoral dialogue
between two sides under the theme of “Shared Values, Common Destiny”.
22. India and Vietnam have signed two MoUs to enhance cooperation in field of
information and broadcasting and space co-operation following bilateral
meeting between PM Narendra Modi and his visiting counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc
ahead of the India-Asean Commemorative Summit in New Delhi.
23. Senior scientist Dr V
Narayanan has assumed charge as Director
of ISRO’s Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC).
24. S Somanath was appointed as Director
of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
25. For the first time
China have successfully cloned two
identical long-tailed macaques (monkeys), named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua using
same technique that produced Dolly sheep two decades ago. These two
identical long-tailed macaques were cloned using process called somatic cell
nuclear transfer (SCNT), which involves transferring the nucleus of cell, which
includes its DNA, into egg whose nucleus is removed. This development makes
them world’s first primates – the order of mammals that includes monkeys, apes
and humans – to be cloned from non-embryonic cell.
26.
Rotavac became first Indigenously developed vaccine from India
to be pre-qualified by World Health Organisation (WHO). Rotavac conceived and developed by the Hyderabad-based Bharat
Biotech Limited. It protects against childhood diarrhoea caused by the
rotavirus. It was developed under the joint collaboration between India and
United States in area of medical research.
27.
Asha Bhosle, the legendary playback
singer was chosen for fifth edition of Yash
Chopra Memorial Award for her outstanding contribution to the Hindi film
industry.
28.
Mehul Garg (10), an Indian origin boy in United Kingdom became youngest applicant
in decade to achieve highest score in Mensa IQ test, beating geniuses like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. He
scored maximum score of 162 to become a member of Mensa. His score is two
points higher than Einstein and Hawking.
29.
Prime Minister’s Shram Awards for the year 2016 was announced by the Ministry
of Labour & Employment to 50 workers including 3 women employed in
Departmental Undertakings & Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) of Central/
State Governments and Private Sector Units employing 500 or more workers. 2016 Shram Awards : Shram Ratna Award: No nomination was
found suitable for it. Shram Bhushan:
12 workers from SAIL, BHEL and TATA Steel Ltd. were selected. Shram Vir/Shram Veerangana Award: 18
workers from Naval Dockyard, Ordinance Factory, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam, TATA
Steel, Hindalco Industries, Paradeep Phosphates Ltd., Brahmos Aerospace were
selected. Shram Shree/Shram Devi Award:
20 workers from Cement Corporation of India, Naval Ship Repair Yard, TATA
Motors, Surat Lignite Power Plant, Larsen & Toubro Ltd. etc were selected.
30.
President Ram Nath Kovind has announced names of recipients of
year 2018 Padma awards viz. Padma Vibhushan, Padma
Bhushan and Padma Shri. Padma Vibushan:
It is the second highest civilian award.This award goes to1. Illaiyaraja
Art-Music Tamil Nadu 2 Ghulam Mustafa Khan Art-Music Maharashtra 3
Parameswaran Parameswaran Literature and Education Kerala. Padma Bhushan It is the third highest
civilian award.1. Pankaj Advani Sports- Billiards/Snooker Karnataka 2 Philipose
Mar Chrysostom Others-Spiritualism Kerala 3 Mahendra Singh Dhoni Sports-Cricket
Jharkhand 4 Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner) Public Affairs Russia 5 Ramachandran
Nagaswamy Others-Archaeology Tamil Nadu 6 Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI) Literature
and Education US 7 Laxman Pai Art-Painting Goa 8. Arvind Parikh Art-Music
Maharashtra 9 Sharda Sinha Art-Music Bihar. Padma Shri: It is the fourth highest civilian award. This award is
given to 74 recepients. Among those from
TamilNadu : V Nanammal Others-Yoga ,
Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan Art-Folk Music . Rajagopalan Vasudevan Science
and Engineering. Romulus Whitaker Others-Wildlife Conservation.
31.
India’s highest peacetime
military decoration Ashok Chakra
posthumously awarded to Indian Air Force (IAF) Garud commando Corporal Jyoti
Prakash Nirala by President Ram Nath kovind. He had laid down his life
after gunning down two terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. He is the third Ashok
Chakra for the IAF and its first for ground combat. Other two IAF officers are
Rakesh Sharma (first and still only Indian citizen to go to space) and Flying
Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon posthumously decorated with the Param Vir Chakra
in 1972.
32. Gurcharan Singh Kalkat
(92), noted agricultural scientist and pioneer
of India’s Green Revolution, passed away in Chandigarh after a brief
illness.
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