Current affairs notes on 09/07/2018

1.Michael Ondaatje's best selling novel 'The English Patient' has been crowned as the winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize at the Southbank Centre in London. 

2.NASA's Parker Solar Probe will be launched in August 2018.Parker Solar Probe will travel to the Sun's corona, a region of the solar atmosphere. The spacecraft's orbit will carry it to within 4 million miles of the Sun's surface with the help of its heat shield. There the spacecraft will collect data about the inner workings of the corona.

3.India's first biofortified sorghum (jowar) that containing higher iron and zinc than regular sorghum named as  'Parbhani Shakti' .It has been introduced as a sustainable solution to rectify micronutrient deficiency.

4.Integral Coach Factory (ICF) of Chennai announced the launch of indigenously manufactured semi high-speed train, the train is named as 'Train 18'.Train 18 doesn't require an engine to run as it will be self-propelled on electric traction like the metro trains.

5.Dipa Karmakar clinched the gold medal at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup in Mersin, Turkey.Dipa has created a history and she is now the first Indian gymnast to win a gold in a world level event.

6.The 6th edition of biennial World Cities Summit (WCS-2018) has started in Singapore with theme “Liveable & Sustainable Cities: Embracing the Future through Innovation and Collaboration” from July 8. 

7.Gujarat Government has granted religious minority status to Jews living in the state. Gujarat is third state in India to grant religious minority status to Jews after West Bengal and Maharashtra. 


8.The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs is set to launch the Global Housing Construction Technology Challenge as part of the technology sub-mission of PMAY-U.The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) Programme launched by the  Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MoHUPA), in Mission mode envisions provision of Housing for All by 2022.


9.First ever ‘India Tourism Mart’ will be hosted in New Delhi from 16th to 18th September by the Ministry of Tourism in partnership with the Federation of Associations in Indian Tourism and Hospitality (FAITH).It  is to  create  an annual Global  Tourism  Mart  for  India  in line with  major  international  travel  marts  being  held  in  countries   across  the world.




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