TNPSC Current Affairs February 27, 2018

www.tnpsc.academy – TNPSC Current Affairs February 27, 2018 (27/02/2018)

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Topic : Welfare Oriented Govt., Schemes and their Utilities, General Administration, Latest Diary of Events

GOBAR-Dhan Yojana

The government is planning to create an online platform for trading cow dung and agricultural waste under its recently announced waste to wealth scheme, GOBAR-DHAN (Galvanising Organic Bio Agro Resources) scheme.

What is the GOBAR-Dhan Yojana?

The Galvanizing Organic Bio-Agro Resources Dhan (GOBAR-DHAN) scheme was first announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his budget speech on February 1.

The scheme would focus on managing and converting cattle dung and solid waste in farms to compost, biogas and bio-CNG.

It will help in keeping the village clean while increasing the income of farmers and cattle herders.

Benefits of the scheme:

This is hugely helpful for the country as India is home to the highest cattle population in the world, close to 300 million in number, with a daily output of 3 million tonnes of dung.

The Scheme will encourage the farmers to consider dung and other waste not just as a waste but as a source of income.

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Topic : Latest Diary of Events

September 22 as Rhino Day

The Assam government will be observing September 22 as Rhino Day to generate public awareness on protection of the one-horned pachyderm.

Key facts:

The greater one-horned rhinoceros is the largest of the three Asian rhinos and, together with African white rhinos, is the largest of all rhino species.

It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. With at least half of the total population, India’s Kaziranga National Park remains the key reserve for this species.

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Topic : Books and Authors, Persons in News

Michelle Obama – “Becoming” book to be out in November

Michelle Obama’s memoir Becoming will be released on November 13.

Michelle Obama and her husband, former President Barack Obama, last year reached a joint agreement with Penguin Random House for their respective books.

Becoming will be released in the U.S. through the Crown Publishing Group, a Penguin Random House division that has published works by both Obamas.

The book will be published in 24 languages.

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Topic : Mass Communication, Information and Technology

Email address available in Indian language

Microsoft Company announced support for email addresses in 15 Indian languages across its email apps and services.

For the first time, users will be able to use local language email addresses for Outlook accounts on PCs.

The languages supported are: Tamil, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Konkani, Maithili, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Sindhi, Telugu and Urdu.

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Topic : Sports and Medals

India at the 2018 Winter Olympics

India competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from 9 to 25 February 2018.

The Indian team consisted of two male athletes competing in two sports. They are Jagdish Singh and Shiva Keshavan.

India qualified one male cross-country skier, Jagdish Singh.

Keshavan qualified for his sixth Winter Olympics in the sport.

This will be Keshavan’s final Olympics appearance as an athlete. He finished 34th out of 40 athletes in the men’s singles event.