TNPSC –CURRENT AFFAIRS 29 NOVEMBER 2020

                 

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                                                                                              29 November 2020

TNPSC – CURRENT AFFAIRS ENGLISH

• Union Shipping Ministry issues draft Merchant Shipping Bill
• UAE emerges as the First Arab Gulf Country to Generate Electricity from Coal
• Union Road Transport Minister Gadkari inaugurates Highway projects worth over Rs 7400 Cr in Uttar Pradesh
• West Bengal State Government Expands the ‘Swasthya Sathi’ Health Scheme from December 01
• Largest solar project set up at Leh Indian Air Force station, Ladakh
• SCO Heads of Government Meet – India to host on November 30
• Mercedes-Benz partnered with SBI to target HNI customers
• MoU signed between India and Finland in the field of environmental protection and biodiversity conservation
• Fit India Mission 200 Kilometers walkathon organized in New Delhi

·         Prakash Javadeker launches India Climate Change Knowledge Portal

 

·         Nitin Gadkari inaugurates Highway projects in Uttar Pradesh

·         Russia test-fired Tsirkon hypersonic missile in the Arctic

 

·         India’s GDP Contracts 7.5% in September Quarter

 

·          Indian Army launches cycling expedition in Gujarat & Rajasthan

 

·          India rise four spots to 104th in latest FIFA rankings

 

·         SpiceJet launches dedicated freighter services to Leh in Ladakh

 

·         L&T bags Rs 7,000-cr order to construct part of Bullet Train project

 

·         Bengaluru’s Bowring Medical College named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee

 

·         Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami has launched this App.

 

·          It has been designed for the benefit of the general public to reach out to the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services.

 

·         The Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad launched the International version of the UMANG application.

 

·         It was launched in UK, US, Australia, Canada, Netherlands, UAE, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand.

 

·          UMANG is Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance.

 

·          It was launched under the Digital India initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

 

·          It mainly helps to avail several government services.

 

·         Cyclone Nivar made a late-night landfall near Puducherry.

 

·          The tropical storm has weakened from a "very severe cyclonic storm" to a "severe cyclonic storm".

 

·         Nivar was given the name by Iran.

 

·           Nivar is the third name after Nisarga (by Bangladesh) and Gati (by India).

 

·          It is to be used from the new list of names for North Indian Ocean Cyclones, released in 2020.

 

·          It has 169 names of cyclones, a compilation of 13 suggestions each from 13 countries.

 

·          Amphan, proposed by Thailand, was the last name in the 2004 series.