TNPSC Current Affairs July 04, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs July 04, 2018 (04/07/2018)

Download as PDF

Topic : India’s Cultural Panorama, Latest Diary of Events, Profile of States

Meghalaya Celebrates Behdienkhlam Festival

Behdienkhlam, one of the most colourful festivals of the State, was recently celebrated in the Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya.

About the festival:

Behdienkhlam is a major festival of the people in the Jaintia Hills. It is celebrated to invoke the gods for a bumper harvest and drive away plague.

It is the ritualistic expression of the relentless struggle of mankind to overcome the destructive forces of nature, including diseases, since the dawn of civilization.

_

Topic : General Administration, Profile of States

Global Mobility Summit

NITI Aayog, in collaboration with various ministries and industry partners, is organising ‘MOVE: Global Mobility Summit’ in New Delhi.

Significance:

It will be the first Global Mobility Summit of its kind, with over 1,200 expected participants from across the world including Government leadership, Industry leaders, Research Organizations, Academia, Think Tanks and Civil Society Organisations.

Objectives of the summit:

To help drive Government’s goals for vehicle electrification, renewable energy integration and job growth and also speed up India’s transition to a clean energy economy.

_

Topic : Mass Communication, Latest Inventions Science and Health, Information and Technology

Cvigil Mobile App

It is a mobile app launched by the Election Commission of India to enable citizens to report on violation of election code of conduct. It will be operational only where elections are announced.

_

Topic : Awards and Honours, Persons in News

M.S.Ashraf won State IMA award

M.S.Ashraf, senior physician from the city and past national vice-president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA), was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the State IMA during its Doctors Day celebration held in Chennai recently.

C.Vijaya Baskar, Minister for Health, presented the award to Dr.Ashraf at the State IMA’s Doctors Day awards function.

City-based senior gynaecologist Rameswari Nallusamy was presented with Woman Doctors Award.

_

Topic : Science and Technology, Latest Diary of Events

SpaceX delivers AI robot to space station

The International Space Station got its first robot with artificial intelligence today, along with some berries, ice cream and identical brown mice.

The nearly 6,000-pound (2,700-kilogram) delivery includes the round robot Cimon, pronounced Simon. Slightly bigger than a basketball, the AI robot from the German Space Agency is meant to assist German astronaut Alexander Gerst with science experiments.

Cimon’s brain will constantly be updated by IBM so its intelligence – and role – keep growing.

There are also genetically identical mice for a study of gut bacteria, and super-caffeinated coffee aboard the Dragon to go with the fresh blueberries and ice cream.

_

Topic : Latest Diary of Events, Sports

More goals in the World Cup: Brazil record

Brazil’s team has scored a record high goals in World Cup football matches.

World Cup football tournament is currently taking place in Russia. Brazil won 2-0 against Brazil in a match against Mexico in yesterday’s Samarra Maidan.