Current affairs notes on 11/12/2018-15/12/2018

1.The Indian Air Force (IAF) conducted combined guided weapons firing of Surface-to-Air Missiles from the Air Force Station located at Suryalanka, Andhra Pradesh. The first-of-its-kind exercise for the Air Force was code-named 'CROSS BOW-18'.

2.International Mountain Day is held every year on 11 December, which was established by the UN General Assembly in 2003 to encourage sustainable development in mountains. The theme for 2018 IMD is "Mountains Matter".

3.Khelo India Youth Games-2019 will be held in Pune of Maharashtra in January.Under Khelo India programme, the government is providing scholarships to 1500 students from across the country. 

4.The indigenously built Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Agni-5 has been test-fired successfully from Abdul Kalam island under Chandipur Interim Test Range. It can carry both nuclear and traditional weapons.It has a strike range of 5,000 km.

5.After the approval of the Supreme Court and the Bombay High Court, a pilot project for e-payments service will be started at the Pune District Court on December 15 to bring transparency to cash transactions.

6.India is expected to retain its position as the world’s top recipient of remittances with $80 million in 2018, as per latest World Bank’s report 'Migration and Development Brief’.

7.Congress party has chosen MP statue unit president Kamal Nath as the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh. He will replace outgoing Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

8.The International Human Rights Day (IHRD) is observed every year on December 10,The 2018 theme is ‘Stand up for the human rights’. This year marks the 70th anniversary.

9.Ashok Gehlot was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Rajastan.

10.On 10th December 2018, the Kaiga Atomic Power Station (KAPS) Karnataka has created a world record for the longest uninterrupted operation for 941 days.

11.The Union government has told the Karnataka High Court that it has rejected the recommendation of the State government to grant religious minority status to Lingayat and Veerashaiva community.

12.With the inauguration of the Kannur airport, Kerala has now become the first state in India to have four international airports.

13.Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare launched a portal ENSURE – National Livestock Mission-EDEG developed by NABARD and operated under the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries.

14.Nine States have achieved complete household electrification under the Saubhagya scheme. They are Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana and West Bengal.

15.NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has discovered traces of hydrogen and oxygen molecules — part of the recipe for water and thus the potential for life — embedded in the asteroid Bennu’s rocky surface.

16.An Indian private project, HelpUsGreen is one of 15 ground-breaking projects from around the world that has won this year’s UN climate action award.

17.Akademik Lomonosov is the world’s first “floating” nuclear power plant (FNPP). It is coming up in Russia.

18.The Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission (SPMRM) is under implementation across the country (launched in 2016).
It is a unique programme, designed to deliver catalytic interventions to rural areas on the threshold of growth.
19.NASA’s ICESat-2 — launched less than three months ago — has mapped melting ice sheets in Antarctica and the resulting sea level rise across the globe, which could help improve climate forecasts.
20.ISRO is gearing up for the launch of its latest communication satellite, GSAT-7A aboard Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-F11) on December 19.
21.Ministry of Power has launched the ECO Niwas Samhita 2018, an Energy Conservation Building Code for Residential Buildings (ECBC-R).The code was launched on National Energy Conservation Day 2018 on dec 14.

22.Renowned English fiction writer Amitav Ghosh has been selected for Jnanpith award, 2018.

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