TNPSC Current Affairs October 07, 2019

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs Oct 07, 2019 (07/10/2019)

Topic: Latest inventions in Science and Technology

Geotail

An instrument on Chandrayaan-2, CLASS, designed to detect signatures of elements in the Moon’s soil, had detected charged particles during the mission. This happened in September, during the orbiter’s passage through the “geotail”.

What is Geotail?

A region in space that allows the best observations. The region exists as a result of the interactions between the Sun and Earth.

How is it formed?

The Sun emits the solar wind, which is a continuous stream of charged particles. These particles are embedded in the extended magnetic field of the Sun. Since the Earth has a magnetic field, it obstructs the solar wind plasma.

This interaction results in the formation of a magnetic envelope around Earth. On the Earth side facing the Sun, the envelope is compressed into a region that is approximately three to four times the Earth radius.

On the opposite side, the envelope is stretched into a long tail, which extends beyond the orbit of the Moon.It is this tail that is called the geotail. Once every 29 days, the Moon traverses the geotail for about six days.

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

World Congress of Poets 2019

39th edition of WCP is being held at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KIIT & KISS) in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

This is the third time WCP is being hosted in India. Previously, it was held in Chennai in 1986 and 2007.

Theme: “Compassion through Poetry”.

The eligibility criteria for poets to be participating in the Congress are as follows:

The poet should have minimum of one book published with an ISBN. The poet should have a recommendation letter from a poetry society that is legally established and has a legal existence.

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Topic: Welfare Oriented Govt Schemes and their Utilities, Profile of States

Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogy Yojana

According to the data of one-year completion of PMJAY, the treatment of 90,000 cancer patients was funded through 1.8Lakh hospital admissions.

In this Tamil Nadu ranked the first where the most cancer patients availed treatment under PMJAY with 40,056 cases. It was followed by Kerala (22,000), Madhya Pradesh (19,455), Chhattisgarh (15,997) and Gujarat (14,380).

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Topic : Latest Inventions on Science and Technology

India’s first plastic to diesel conversion plant in Mathura

India’s first plastic to diesel conversion plant in Mathura is likely to become operational from October 11.

The plant will eliminate five metric tonnes of plastic every day from the city, including non-valuable plastic of less than 50 micron thickness such as carry bags or packing material.

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Topic: Books and Authors

New book documents Gandhi’s legacy launched in South Africa – Fakir Hassen

A new book on Mahatma Gandhi launched here documents how attempts to remember his sojourn in South Africa were stifled by the apartheid-era minority white government and revived after former president Nelson Mandela acknowledged his role in starting off democracy in the country.

The book was launched on Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.

‘150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma the South African Legacy’, by author and journalist Fakir Hassen, is a 160-page coffee table that records how commemorations of Gandhi’s activities, including his birth and death anniversaries, were confined to the local Indian community only.