TNPSC Current Affairs July 23, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs July 23, 2018 (23/07/2018)

 

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Topic : Latest Reports and News

Public Affairs Index 2018

Public Affairs Index (PAI) 2018 has been released by the think tank Public Affairs Centre (PAC).

What is Public Affairs Index (PAI)?

The index is released since in 2016 by Bengaluru base Public Affairs Centre (PAC), a not for profit think tank which aims to improve governance in India.

2018 PAI also included separate index on children of India, giving measure of how child-friendly each of the states are.

Key features:

Larger states:

Kerala tops the list as best-governed state in the country. Kerala has topped PAI as the best-governed state for the third consecutive year.

Kerala is followed by Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat.

Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar ranked the lowest, indicating higher social and economic inequalities in the states.

Smaller states (with population less than two crore):

Himachal Pradesh topped the list followed by Goa, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura. Nagaland, Manipur and Meghalaya were ranked at bottom of the index among small states.

Index on children of India:

In the index on children of India, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Mizoram topped the index.

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Topic : Space Technology, Latest Diary of Events

NASA’s Remote Sensing Toolkit

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has launched the ‘Remote Sensing Toolkit’ to promote commercial use of satellite data.

Remote Sensing Toolkit?

It is an online toolkit launched with an aim to make it easier for users to find, analyse and utilise the relevant satellite data for their research, business projects or conservation efforts.

The toolkit provides a simple system that quickly identifies relevant sources based on user input.

Background:

Through its constellation of Earth observation satellites, NASA collects petabytes of data each year. The variety of open source tools created to access, analyse and utilise the data from these satellites is familiar to millions of science users, but accessing and utilising this data remains daunting for many potential commercial users.

This prompted the US space agency to introduce the Remote Sensing Toolkit. The Toolkit will help grow the number of users who put NASA”s free and open data archive to work for people.

NASA’s Technology Transfer program:

It is managed by the NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. The program ensures technologies developed for missions in exploration and discovery are broadly available to the public, maximising the benefit to the nation.

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Topic : General Administration, India and its Neighbourhood countries

India-assisted ambulance service launched in Sri Lanka

PM Modi recently launched India-assisted emergency ambulance service in Sri Lanka through video conferencing from New Delhi.

Key facts:

The service was earlier introduced in two provinces of Sri Lanka with grant assistance from India and it will now be expanded to the remaining seven provinces.

In total, India has given a grant of $22.8 million- $7.6 million for the first phase and $15.2 million for the country-wide expansion.

This is the largest Indian grant project in Sri Lanka after Indian housing project.

Besides providing ambulances, the grant covers training of manpower in India and meeting operational costs for one year.

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Topic : Sports and Medals, Persons in News, Latest Diary of Events

Archery World Cup 2018

The Archery World Cup is a competition, started in 2006, organized by the World Archery Federation, where the archers compete in four different stages in four different countries and the best eight archers of each category (from 2010, four archers from 2006-09) advance to an additional stage to contest the Archery World Cup Final.

2018 Winners:

The India women’s compound team won a silver medal at the 2018 Archery World Cup – Stage 4 in Berlin.

The team of Tisha Deb, Muskan Kirar and Jyothi Surekha defeated by the France.

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Topic : Awards and Honours, Persons in News

Bharathanatyam dancer wins Dance World Cup 2018

Kamaleshwari M.S., an alumni of Bharathiar Palkalai Koodam, won the first prize in solo dance at the Dance World Cup 2018 held in Montreal, Canada.

She completing her Bachelors in Performing Arts (Dance) in Bharathiar Palkalai Koodam and went to Chennai for pursuing Master of Arts in Dance at the Madras University.

Nearly 8,000 dancers from various countries participated in the competition held at the Fairmont Tremblant.

The event was organised by International Dance Council (CID), a registered non-profit organisation.

The Dance World Cup celebrated its 11th anniversary and hosted the competition from July 1 to 8.