TNPSC Current Affairs November 15, 2019

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs Nov 15, 2019 (15/11/2019)

Topic: Welfare Oriented Govt., Schemes and their Utilities

Nadu Nedu programme

‘Nadu-Nedu’ programme has been launched in Andhra Pradesh. The programme seeks to transform government schools into vibrant and competitive institutions.

Key features of the programme:

Aim: to transform all government schools with required infrastructure and up- gradation of skills besides setting up English labs.

It also seeks to provide basic amenities such as clean water, furniture, compound wall, toilets etc. Teachers would be imparted training to effectively implement the decision to introduce English medium from Classes 1 to 6 in government schools from the next academic year.

The parent committees and locals would be involved to make it an inclusive system.

Topic: Latest Diary of events

UNESCO World Heritage week

World Heritage Week is celebrated by UNESCO between November 19, 2019 and November 25, 2019.

The Objective of celebrating World Heritage Week is to increase awareness among people about safety and preservation of cultural heritages and monuments.

There are 38 World Heritage Sites located in India. These include 30 cultural sites, seven natural sites and one mixed site. India has the sixth largest number of sites in the world.

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Topic: Awards and Honours, Latest Diary of Events

Golden Leaf Award

Tobacco Board Receives the 2019 Golden Leaf Award in the category of ‘Most Impressive Public Service Initiative’.

The award was given in recognition of the Board’s efforts to initiate various sustainability (green) initiatives in Flue-Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco cultivation in India.

About the Golden Leaf Award:

The Golden Leaf Awards were created to recognize professional excellence and dedication in the tobacco industry by Tobacco Reporter, an international magazine in the year 2006.

Topic: Awareness in Space, International Organizations

NASA renames Ultima Thule to ‘Arrokoth’

The US Space Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has recently renamed farthest cosmic body, earlier known as ‘Ultima Thule’ to ‘Arrokoth’ or Sky. NASA has renamed the distant space rock after it was criticized over the old name’s Nazi connections.

Key facts:

The rock which was studied in the farthest flyby ever conducted by a spacecraft was previously named as Ultima Thule to mean something like “farthest place”, but immediately attracted controversy because the word ‘Thule’has been associated with Nazis in the past. Therefore, the object will now be known as Arrokoth, a Native American term meaning ‘Sky’.

The new name Arrokoth symbolizes ‘icy-object’ which was undisturbed since the solar system was formed about 4.5 billion years ago. The name also reflects the wondering about the stars and looking at the sky and was given because of its natural position.

The name was proposed by members of New Horizons team, who led the mission to study the object. They presented the new name to International Astronomical Union (IAU) and Minor Planet Center (MPC) which officially names and categorises Kuiper Belt objects.