TNPSC Current Affairs January 07, 2020

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs January 07, 2020 (07/01/2020)

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Topic: Profile of States, Latest Diary of Events

‘Zo Kutpui’ festival

Mizoram govt to organise ‘Zo Kutpui’ globally to unify Mizo tribes.

The first festival would be held at Vanghmun, a hub town of Mizos in neighbouring Tripura. The event will see the presence of many important dignitaries from various Mizoram tribes and also witness cultural programmes and traditional songs from various Mizo tribes from Mizoram and other northeastern states. The event aims at re-unifying and strengthening brotherhood among different tribes of Mizo.

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Topic: Awareness in Space, Latest Diary of Events

Indian Data Relay Satellite System

India plans to ring in its own era of space-to-space tracking and communication of its space assets this year by putting up a new satellite series called the Indian Data Relay Satellite System.

What is IDRSS? Why it is vital?

The IDRSS is planned to track and be constantly in touch with Indian satellites, in particular those in low-earth orbits which have limited coverage of earth.

It will be a set of satellites that will track, send and receive information from other Indian Satellites.

IDRSS satellites of the 2,000 kg class would be launched on the GSLV launcher to geostationary orbits around 36,000 km away.

A satellite in GEO covers a third of the earth below and three of them can provide total coverage.

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Topic: Indian Army, Defence Activities

Exercise “Naseem Al-Bahr”

Two Oman ships arrived in Goa to participate in “Naseem-Al-Bahr”, the Indo-Oman bilateral naval exercise. The Indo-Oman Naval Exercises are being conducted since 1993.

Other exercises between the countries:

The countries conduct regular biennial exercises between all three services namely army, navy and air force. “Al Najah” is the army exercise conducted between the countries. “Ex Eastern Bridge” is the Air Force exercise that is held between the countries.