Current Affairs Nov 30, 2018

Goa's Health Minister, Vishwajit Rane said that the state government will establish a Center of Excellence for HIV care till December 2019.

• The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly passed a bill proposed by the 16 percent reservation for the Marathas under unanimous social, educational and economically backward classes.
• The UK Government has confirmed an amendment in a new weapon bill going through Parliament to ensure that it does not affect the rights of the British Sikh community to keep the rays or religious swords possessed and supplied Will do
• Fifty-one pilot whale stranded in New Zealand died, 145 pilot whales and nine piggy killer whales died in one place after another week.
• World Health Organization, WHO said that Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the disastrous West Africa outbreak, which had died thousands of years ago.
• Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) was organized in full 2018, Brussels, Belgium from 12th to 16th November 2018.
• In the government 100 future leaders in the world - the UK-based global policy platform Apolitical for public jobs has shown Andhra Pradesh IT and Panchayat Raj minister Nara Lokesh as one of the government's most influential young people in the world.
• President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the Second International Ambedkar Conference (November 30, 2018) in New Delhi as part of the memory of the Constitution Day.
• The Policy Commission organizes a dialogue on the health system for new India.
• Ajay Bhushan Pandey - Revenue Secretary
• To connect with the farmers, the Karnataka government will start the 'Rayaar Miyalli State Government' program from December.

Current Affairs November 29, 2018

Current Affairs November 29, 2018 - One Line

• On November 29, the United Kingdom is celebrated as a Memorial Day, in which the martyrdom of Imirati is recognized for the sacrifice and dedication, who gave their lives in civil, military and humanitarian services.
• University Grants Commission, UGC has decided to set up a union of academic and research ethics (Carey), which will prepare a new list of reliable quality magazines in non-science subjects.
• In Uttar Pradesh, the first training center for the environment friendly Ganga friends started to measure pollution level in the Ganga in Banaras Hindu University and helped the government in many ways to keep the holy river clean.
• The European Union has urged the government, businesses, citizens and areas to cut emissions and join an ambitious plan to make the block carbon neutral by 2050.
• South Korea launches a rocket engine test to decide the path for the development of its space launch vehicle.
• Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C43) successfully launched 31 Satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Center (SDSC) in Sriharikota.
• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the interim budget for the year 2019-20 on February 1 next year.
• The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) renewed appeal for better policies and technologies to reach zero hunger around the world.
• In Gandhi Darshan New Delhi, the great granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Shri Krishna G. Kulkarni inaugurated the three-day 'South Asia Regional Youth Peace Conference'.
• The Dutch Government provides help for the Dockyard redevelopment and digital technology projects in the Second Indo-Dutch Port Forum organized by the Indian Merchants Chamber in Mumbai in Mumbai Port Trust.
• Arvind Saxena - President of Union Public Service Commission
• 8 states have achieved 100% saturation in small electrification between Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana and West Bengal.
• The government has started a unique initiative called Linga Sangam to introduce students in 22 Indian languages.
• India and China have signed a protocol on sanitation and inspection requirements for export in New Delhi.
• In Uttar Pradesh, a joint military exercise of 11 days between India and Russia ended in Babina Military Station, Jhansi.

Current Affairs Nov 28, 2018

Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh launches emergency response support system (ERSS) for Himachal Pradesh in Mandi.

• Maharashtra Legislative Assembly to get Deputy Speaker after the longest interval of four years. The elections will be held on November 30.
• Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri, Minister of State (I / C) Housing and Urban Affairs will review the progress of urban mission in eight states of North-Eastern region on December 1, 2018.
• Indian Railways announced that it will transport relief material free of cost to the cyclone affected districts of Tamil Nadu by December 10.
• Countdown began for the launch of PSLV-C43, the national space agency ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
• With the aim of creating a profile of India's startup sector, the Reserve Bank has started a survey to measure its scope of business, profitability and workforce.
• In the ICC Women's T20 International Player Rankings, Indian captain Harmanpreet Kaur entered the top five and reached number three position.
• To participate in the 13th G-20 Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires.
• 2018 Topics - Building Consensus for a Fair and Sustainable Development
• Shri Nitin Gadkari, Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Conservation, was addressed in the continuous Blue Economy Conference in Nairobi.
• The Saudi-India trade meeting was organized with the Saudi Chamber's Council during the visit of the Indian Saudi and Housing delegation to Saudi Arabia.
• Dr. Anand Gupta is organizing the second bi-annual National Conference of Smriti Lectures and Heads of Investigation Agencies in Police Research and Development Bureau (BPR & D) New Delhi.
• Sunil Arora - Chief Election Commissioner
• M. Nike - President of National Skill Development Corporation
• A five-day exhibition was inaugurated on "Our vote-our future" organized by the Regional Outreach Bureau of Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Telangana, Hyderabad.
• Asian Development Bank ADB will provide a loan of 75 million dollars for the water supply project in four coastal towns of Karnataka.
• Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has approved the construction of more than two lakh affordable houses for the benefit of the urban poor under the Prime Minister's Accommodation Scheme (Urban).
• The title of the Chess World Championship will be decided by fast tiebreaker games in London, which will be decided between Norway's world champion Magnus Carlsen and the American challenger Fabiano Caruana.
• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has doubled the restriction for age fraud.
• Men's Hockey World Cup, India will fight with South Africa in Bhubaneswar

Current Affairs November 27, 2018

In Arunachal Pradesh, on November 28 and 29th, a multi-cultural social program "Friendship Diwa" will be organized in Tawang.

• In Arunachal Pradesh, the first Arunachal literature festival will be held from November 28 to November 30 at the Dorjee Khandu Convention Center of Itanagar.
• Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar unveiled a 70-feet tall statue of Lord Buddha in Rajgir of Nalanda district.
• India's premier National Research Laboratory, Scientific and Industrial Research Council - Micro-Institute of Technology (CSIR-Imtech) announced that it will set up a high skill development center in Chandigarh with Merck, a leading science and technology company in Germany.
• Nagaland Chief Minister Nifu Rio introduced state tourism police in police headquarters in Kohima. To present the tourist police, Nagaland became the second state in the North East.
• Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Shri Suresh Prabhu has issued a brochure along with the logo (logos) of Logics India 2019 in New Delhi.
• The Nepal Government has launched a social security scheme for the workers of the formal sector of the country.
• British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the last vote on the Treaty of the European Union (EU) will be on December 11.
• Romania strongly supports India's proposal to the United Nations for a comprehensive conference on International Terrorism (CCIT).
• National Project Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC) has been awarded category of category: Category-1 of the Miniratna by the Government of India.
• The United Nations has chosen Noida and Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh to participate in its Global Sustainable Cities 2025 initiative.
• A five-day exhibition was inaugurated on "Our vote-our future" organized by the Regional Outreach Bureau of Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Telangana, Hyderabad.
• Government of India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) sign $ 75 million loan to improve urban services in 4 Karnataka cities.
• Harmanpreet Kaur named the captain of ICC Women's World Twenty20 XI, including openers Smriti Mandana and leg-spinner Poonam Yadav.

Current Affairs Nov 26

Voters in Taiwan passed a referendum asking whether marriage is limited to one person and one woman, LGBT is a jolt for couples, hoping that their island will be the first place in Asia, so that same sex couples will be detained by the child and Can be able to share insurance benefits.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) said that it would extend its support for India's wind power projects by expanding existing loan programs with SBI.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Indian government signed a loan of 200 million US dollars in Bihar for the expansion and upgradation of all weather parameters with road safety facilities.

Under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana, "PAISA - Portal for Cheap Credit and Interest Subvention Access" was launched, called the National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAE-NULM) - a centralized electronic platform for interest subvention processing on bank loan to the beneficiaries.

Ms. Preeti Sudan, Union Health Secretary launched the Integrated Pathological Surveillance Program (IDSP) segment of Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) in seven states.

The portal is playing an important role in connecting farmers, breeders and other agencies for doing business in disease free germplasm, i.e. live animals, frozen semen and embryos.

Anirban Lahiri and Gaganjeet Bhullar are at the 10th place in the Melbourne World Cup of Golf.

Pakistan team arrived in India to play in 2018 hockey World Cup to be held in Bhubaneswar.

Sameer Verma defeated Lu Guangzhou of China in men's singles final to maintain the title in Syed Modi International World Tour Super 300 in Lucknow.

India defeated Australia by six wickets in the third T20 to beat T-20 Series 1-1.

Australia won the fourth Women's World Twenty20 championship in Australia after finishing with eight wickets in the final.

Indian gymnast Deepa Karakarkar won a bronze medal at the Valt Event of Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in Cottbus, Germany.

India's CA Bhavani Devi made history by becoming the first Indian to win the gold medal in the Senior Commonwealth Fencing Championships held in Canberra.

Current Affairs Nov 25

The United Nations General Assembly has nominated the International Day on November 25 to end violence against women.

• 2018 Theme - "Orange the World: # HigherMatu"
• The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the Constitution Day celebrations organized by the Supreme Court on November 26, 1949 (November 26, 2018) to celebrate the anniversary of adopting our Constitution in New Delhi.
• Union Minister of State for Home, Kiren Rijju, will inaugurate the 14th Formation Day of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). 2018 Theme - "Initial Warnings for Disasters"
• National Ritual for Children of Child Care Institutions (CCI) - Secretary, New Delhi, Shri Rakesh Srivastava inaugurated the "Hausla 2018" of the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD). 2018 topics - "Child safety".
• To keep the tribal languages ​​disappear in circulation, the Odisha government came out with lectures such as 21 such languages.
• Vice President Venkaiah Naidu laid the foundation stone for the construction of the foundation stone of Darbar Sahib for construction of a visa-free corridor from the Indian side in Kartarpur on 26 November.
• 27 leaders of other EU members approved the conditions for a historic breakfix deal with Britain at a special summit in Brussels on Sunday.
• On the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, the award for the State Department's award (RFJ) program for the year 2008 was $ 5 million for information due to the arrest or conviction of any person involved in making or facilitating the facility. New Rewards Mumbai Attack

NASA has announced end of its historic DAWN mission.

Context

NASA has announced end of its historic DAWN mission.

About

• Dawn was a space probe launched by NASA in September 2007 to study two of the three known proto planets of the asteroid belt, Vesta and Ceres.
• It was the first and only mission to visit both Vesta and Ceres.
• It was also NASA's first deep space mission to use ion propulsion.
• It used three xenon-fueled ion engines for its main source of propulsion beside its maneuvering thrusters which depend on hydrazine.
• DAWN mission was extended 11 years more than its expected life span.
  
  

  PROTO-PLANET: Proto-planets are small celestial objects that are the size of a moon or a bit bigger. They are small planets, like an even smaller version of a dwarf planet. Astronomers believe that these objects form during the creation of a solar system. CRYOVOLCANO: A Cryovolcano (as known as ice volcano) is a type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane, instead of molten rock.

Significance

• Dawn mission gave deep insight on understanding about protoplanets of Asteroid belt. It revealed the irregular relief of Vesta in dramatic detail, mapping it from pole to pole while probing it from core to surface.
• It also gave key insights into the cryovolcanic activity erupting on the surface of Ceres and a look at an active dwarf planet. Between Ceres and Vesta, Dawn explored about 45% (nearly half) of the mass of the main asteroid belt.