TNPSC Current Affairs April 26, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs April 26, 2018 (26/04/2018)

 

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Topic : India’s Foreign Policy, Latest Diary of Events, Indian Army and Defense Operations

Harimau Shakti 2018

A joint training exercise between India and Malaysia, HARIMAU SHAKTI is being conducted in Malaysia.

The exercise is aimed at bolstering cooperation & coordination between armed forces of both the nations and to share the expertise of both the contingents in conduct of counter insurgency operations in jungle terrain.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

Bhabha Kavach

It is an armour panel developed by BARC which gives personal protection against bullets of different threat levels.

Key features:

Bhabha Kavach made up of BARC Nano-Sheets are lighter in weight with reduced trauma level with respect to the existing jackets.

The jacket is made using extremely hard boron carbide ceramics that is hot-pressed with carbon nano-tubes and composite polymer.

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Topic : New Appointments, Persons in News

Rajiv Kumar Nagpal appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Shri Rajiv Kumar Nagpal, has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

He is presently served as the Ambassador of India to Iceland.

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Topic : New Appointments, Persons in News

Krishan Kumar appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Norway

Shri Krishan Kumar (IFS: 1984), has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Norway. He is presently working as the Ambassador of India to the Czech Republic.

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Topic : New Appointments, Persons in News

Narinder Chauhan appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Czech Republic

Ms. Narinder Chauhan (IFS: 1985), has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Czech Republic.

He is presently serving as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Serbia.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

Inuka, first polar bear born in the tropics, is dead

Inuka, the first polar bear born in the tropics, was put down after a rapid decline in health.

About Inuka:

Inuka was a male polar bear and one of the mascots of the Singapore Zoo. Born and housed in a climate-controlled enclosure, he was the world’s only “tropical polar bear”.

Inuka was born in the Singapore Zoo in 1990, the result of an extensive breeding programme run by the zoo.

He was the first and only polar bear to be born in the tropics There have been four polar bears at Singapore Zoo altogether—Nanook, Sheba and their offspring Inuka, as well as another female, Anana.

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Topic : Awards and Honours, Persons in News

Arabic fiction prize

Jordanian-Palestinian writer Ibrahim Nasrallah has won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction with a novel about humanity’s capacity for savagery.

He won the prize for his book “The Second War of the Dog”.

International Prize for Arabic Fiction:

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction is a literary prize managed in association with the Booker Prize Foundation in London, and supported by the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi.

The prize is specifically for prose fiction by Arabic authors, along the lines of the Man Booker Prize.

Ibrahim Al Saafin, who chaired the judging panel, said the book used “humour and insight” to expose society’s tendency toward brutality. The book was chosen from among 124 entries from 14 countries.

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Topic : New Inventions on Science and Health, Geographical Events

Planet darker than charcoal discovered

Scientists have discovered a ‘pitch black’ planet 470 light-years away that absorbs 99% of light.

It is one of the darkest planets ever found.

The planet, named WASP-104b, was discovered by researchers from Keele University in the U.K., who used NASA’s Kepler telescope to show that it is ‘darker than charcoal.’

The planet was discovered orbiting a yellow dwarf star some 470 light-years away from us in the constellation Leo, and is categorised as a ‘hot Jupiter’ planet.

Hot Jupiters are gas giant planets of a similar mass to Jupiter, but are located much closer to their host stars – making them very hot.