www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs April 18, 2019

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs April 18, 2019 (18/04/2019)

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Topic: Indian Army and Defence, International Policy of India, Places in News

Exercise ‘SEA VIGIL’

The maiden national level Coastal Defence Exercise SEA VIGIL was conducted recently by the Indian Navy.

The exercise witnessed the simultaneous activation of the coastal security apparatus across the country involving maritime stakeholders at the Centre and all the 13 Coastal States and Union Territories.

Key takeaways from the exercise debrief were deliberated and disseminated to all for further action/ follow-up. The feedback from the exercise and the deliberations would be presented at the next meeting of the National Committee for Strengthening Maritime and Coastal Security (NCSMCS).

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Topic: Latest Diary of Events

World heritage day

Every year, 18th April is celebrated Worldwide as World Heritage Day to create awareness about Heritage among communities.

Theme: The theme for this year’s celebrations is ‘Rural Landscapes’, which is related to the theme of the 2019 ICOMOS Scientific Symposium on Rural heritage that will take place in Marrakesh, Morocco in October.

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Topic: Awareness in Space, India and its Neighbouring Countries

Raavana-1 satellite

Sri Lanka has launched its first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ into space from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s East Shore. ‘Raavana 1’ weights around 1.05 kg. The lifespan of the satellite is around one and a half years.

It is designed to orbit the Earth 15 times a day at a speed of 7.6 km per second.

‘Raavana 1’ was designed to accomplish five missions: Its camera mission is to take pictures of Sri Lanka and its neighbouring countries. Its Lora Demonstration Mission is to validate the module to be used to data download next satellites. The Attitude Determination and Control Mission of ‘Ravaana 1’ involves the team trying to reduce the angular velocity of the satellite using magnetic torquers.

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Topic: World Organizations, Reports and Summits

World Press Freedom Index 2019

Recently, Reporters Without Borders released World Press Freedom Index 2019 in which Norway topped the index in third consecutive year and India drops down by two positions (138th rank in 2018) to be ranked 140th out of 180 countries in 2019.

The reason for decrease in India’s rank is because of at least six Indian journalists being killed in last one year.

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Topic: Awareness in Space, Latest Diary of Events

Nepal carried out its first satellite “NepaliSat-1” into space

Nepal has launched its first satellite “NepaliSat-1″ into space from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s East Shore.

It was bordered to the Antares rocket carrying Cygnus cargo spacecraft. The outlay of the satellite is 20 million Nepalese rupees. It was launched under the ‘Birds-3 satellite launch to International Space Station project’.

Key Facts:

NepaliSat-1 satellite was developed by two Nepalis engineers namely Abhas Maskey and Hariram Shrestha at Japan’s Kyushu Institute of Technology.

The satellite is equipped with a five megapixel camera to capture Nepal’s topography and a magnetometer to collect data related to the earth’s magnetic field.