TNPSC Current Affairs July 10, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs July 10, 2018 (10/07/2018)

 

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Topic: Population and associated issues, poverty and developmental issues

Gujarat government grants religious minority status to Jews

Gujarat Government has granted religious minority status to Jews living in the state.

Now, Jews living in Gujarat will get religious minority rights envisaged in Constitution of India and various acts and rules of the state government.

Key facts:

Gujarat is third state in India to grant religious minority status to Jews after West Bengal and Maharashtra.

The Synagogue Judah Hyam Hall is the only place of worship in Delhi for Jews.

Constitution of India has not defined word ‘Minority’ and only refers to ‘Minorities’ but it speaks of those ‘based on religion or language’ and rights of minorities have been spelt out in Constitution in detail.

Six religious communities, viz. Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Zoroastrians (Parsis) and Jains have been notified in Gazette of India as minority communities by Union Government all over India.

Jews in India:

The Jewish community in India is one among a large number of groups who had come from outside the country’s modern territorial borders and made India their home.

Main Jews groups in India:

Cochin Jews.

Chennai/Madras Jews.

Bene Israel.

Baghdadi Jews.

Delhi Jews.

Bnei Menashe.

Bene Ephraim (Telugu Jews).

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Topic: Awareness in space

Pak Spy Satellites Launched By China

China successfully launched two remote sensing satellites PRSS-1 and PakTes-1A of Pakistan on board of Long March-2C rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre.

It was overall 279th mission for the Long March rocket series (mainly used to send satellites into low Earth or Sun-synchronous orbits) and first international commercial launch in nearly two decades after it carried Motorola’s Iridium satellites into orbit in 1999.

PRSS-1:

It is China’s first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan. It can carry out day and night monitoring. It also has viewing capacity even in clouded conditions.

It will be used for land and resources surveying, agriculture research, urban construction, monitoring of natural disasters and to provide remote sensing information for (CPEC) under China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

It is China’s first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan and overall 17th satellite developed by China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) for an overseas buyer.

PakTES-1A:

It is Pakistan’s indigenously developed scientific experiment satellite developed by engineers from its space agency SUPARCO (Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission).

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Topic : General Administration, Latest Diary of Events

First ever ‘India Tourism Mart’

First ever ‘India Tourism Mart’ will be hosted in New Delhi from 16th to 18th September.

The objective of the event is to  create  an annual Global  Tourism  Mart  for  India  in line with  major  international  travel  marts  being  held  in  countries   across  the world.

ITM will be the best platform for the States to showcase their products to international buyers, opinion makers and bloggers and attract more tourists to their respective states.

The Mart will provide a  platform  for  all stakeholders  in the  tourism  and   hospitality industries  to  interact  and   transact  business

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Topic : New Inventions on Science and Technology, Latest Diary of Events

World’s Oldest Color Discovered in Sahara Desert

Scientists have discovered the oldest color in the geological record- the bright pink pigment aged 1.1 billion years old.

The bright pink pigments are the molecular fossils of chlorophyll that were produced by ancient photosynthetic organisms inhabiting an ancient ocean that has long since vanished.

Where?

The ancient pigment was extracted from marine black shales of the Taoudeni Basin in Mauritania, West Africa.

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Topic : India’s Foreign Policy, General Administration, Latest Diary of Events

Large mobile manufacturing facility in Noida

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, and the President of the Republic of Korea, Mr. Moon Jae-in, jointly inaugurated a large mobile manufacturing facility of Samsung India Electronics Pvt. Ltd, at Noida.

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Topic : Profile of States, General Administration, Latest Diary of Events

Tamil Nadu – set to get Lokayukta

A day before the expiry of the Supreme Court-set deadline of July 10 for establishing the Lokayukta in the State, the Tamil Nadu Assembly adopted a legislation for constituting the anti-corruption panel.

About Lok Ayukta:

The Lokayukta (appointed by the people) is an anti-corruption ombudsman organization in the Indian states.

Once appointed, Lokayukta cannot be dismissed nor transferred by the government, and can only be removed by passing an impeachment motion by the state assembly.