TNPSC Current Affairs June 01, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs June 01, 2018 (01/06/2018)

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

Multiple Sclerosis Day

Since May 2009, MSIF has organised a World Multiple Sclerosis Day, which is now supported by MS organisations in at least 47 countries.

The purpose of the day is to “raise awareness of MS as a global issue and raise funds to support the work of the global MS movement including MS research”.

World MS Day is officially marked on the last Wednesday of May every year, though events and campaigns take place throughout the month of May.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

World Tamil Internet meet in July

The 17th World Tamil Internet Conference will be held from July 6 to 8 under the theme ‘Intellectual Tamil Search Engines’.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

World No Tobacco Day

World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is observed around the world every year on 31 May. It is intended to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption around the globe.

The day is further intended to draw attention to the widespread prevalence of tobacco use and to negative health effects, which currently lead to nearly 6 million deaths each year worldwide, including 600,000 of which are the result of non-smokers being exposed to second-hand smoke.

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Topic : New Inventions on Science and Health

Mother of all lizards found in Italian Alps

Scientists had discovered the oldest known lizard, a tiny creature that lived about 240 million years ago.

Scans of the fossilised skeleton of Megachirella revealed the chameleon-sized reptile was an ancestor of today’s lizards and snakes, which belong to a group called squamates, an international team wrote in the science journal Nature.

This finding dragged the group back in time by 75 million years, and means that “lizards inhabited the planet since at least 240 million years ago”.