TNPSC Current Affairs April 04, 2018

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

 

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Topic : India’s Foreign Policy, General administration

India-Japan-US Trilateral Meeting

India, Japan and the United States held the 9th Trilateral Meeting at Joint Secretary/Director General/Assistant Secretary level in New Delhi on 4 April 2018 to hold consultations on regional and global issues of mutual interest.

All sides agreed to remain engaged and strengthen cooperation in support for a free, open, prosperous, peaceful and inclusive Indo-Pacific region through partnership with countries in the region.

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Topic : Science and Technology, Latest Diary of Geographical Events

Icarus- farthest star

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the farthest individual star ever seen — an enormous blue stellar body nicknamed Icarus located over halfway across the universe.

Key facts:

The star, harboured in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken nine billion years to reach Earth.

It appears to us as it did when the universe was about 30% of its current age.

The star, located in a distant spiral galaxy, is at least 100 times further away than any other star previously observed, with the exception of things like the huge supernova explosions that mark the death of certain stars.

Significance of this discovery:

These observations by astronomers from NASA provide a rare and detailed look at how stars evolve, especially the most luminous stars.

Detecting the amplification of a single and pinpoint background star has provided a unique opportunity to test the nature of dark matter in the cluster.

About the Hubble Space Telescope:

The Hubble Space Telescope is a large telescope in space. NASA launched Hubble in 1990.

It was built by the United States space agency NASA, with contributions from the European Space Agency.

Hubble is the only telescope designed to be serviced in space by astronauts.

Expanding the frontiers of the visible Universe, the Hubble Space Telescope looks deep into space with cameras that can see across the entire optical spectrum from infrared to ultraviolet.

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Topic : New Appointments, Persons in News

Julius Maada Bio is sworn in as President of Sierra Leone

Julius Maada Wonie Bio is a Sierra Leonean politician, and the 5th and current president of Sierra Leone since April 4, 2018.

Bio was the presidential candidate of the main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party.

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Topic : Games and Medals

2018 Commonwealth Games

The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Gold Coast 2018, were an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018.

It was the fifth time Australia had hosted the Commonwealth Games and the first time a major multi-sport event achieved gender equality by having an equal number of events for males and female athletes.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events, Reports and Summits

NIRF Ranking 2018

The National Institution Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2018 rankings for higher education institutes was announced by the Union Human Resource Development Ministry.

The rankings, according to the report was released under nine categories: Overall, universities, engineering, colleges, management, pharmacy, medical, architecture, and law.

Under the overall category (Top 3):

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai

Top Three Engineering Colleges:

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Top Three Colleges:

Miranda House, Delhi

St Stephen’s College, Delhi

Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli

Top Three Medical Colleges:

All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh

Christian Medical College, Vellore