Current Affairs Notes Daily

1. India, Afghanistan and Iran recently met  to discuss the issues in the implementation of Chabahar port in Iran. Chabahar port is  Located on  the Gulf of Oman  and is  the only oceanic port of the country.  The three countries have decided  to open Mormugoa and New Mangalore Port in addition to JNPT, Mundra, Kandla and Cochin as part of designated route under the Chabahar Agreement. 2. Winter Solstice   this year falls on  December 22.  The Sun is directly overhead of the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere. 3. National Mathematics Day is  celebrated every year on December 22.It's  to honor the birth anniversary of the famous mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.    1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number. 4. Hunar Haats are  organised by Ministry of Minority Affairs under USTTAD (Upgrading the Skills & Training in Traditional Arts/Crafts for Development) scheme.  H...

1. Maternal mortality ratio is measured as the number of maternal deaths per lakh live births. There is a 26.9% decrease since 2013.  Assam, which recorded  the highest maternal mortality ratio,  Kerala has the lowest MMR, at 42. 2. Rashtriya Vayoshri Yojana:  Senior Citizens, belonging to BPL category and suffering from any of the age-related disability/infirmity Low vision, Hearing impairment, Loss of teeth and Locomotor disability. They are  free-of cost.  This is a Central Sector Scheme, fully funded by the Central Government. The expenditure for implementation of the scheme will be met from the “Senior Citizens’ Welfare Fund “. 3. Dec 11  is the birth anniversary of Subramanian Bharati. He was a poet, freedom fighter and social reformer from Tamil Nadu.He became  the first poet whose works were nationalised by the state government. 4.ISRO  has successfully  launched RISAT-2BR1 ...

1. Six Countries – Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden have recently joined  INSTEX . It is  a payment mechanism being setup by the European Union  to secure trade with Iran.  2.Malayalam poet  Akkitham  has been chosen for  55th Jnanpith Award for the year 2019. Award Instituted  in 1961.  3.Union Government is planning to set up a new rocket launch pad in  Kulasekarapattinam in Tamil Nadu. At present, the Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) has two launch pads at Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDCC) in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.  4. Operation ‘Clean Art’  It is first pan India operation to crackdown on the smuggling of mongoose hair. Mongoose is listed in Schedule II Part 2 of the Wildlife Protection Act 1972. 5. Government to set up  National Company Law Appellate Tribunal Bench in Chennai. It  was  constituted under Section 410...

1. The central government is planning to expand the reach of the Smart Safety Surveillance, or 3S, programme. The 3S project was recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), considering the limited safety data on vaccines introduced in India.  2.Avian botulism is said to be the reason behind the deaths of 18,000 birds in and around Rajasthan’s Sambhar lake.  3. The Convention on Cybercrime, also known as the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime or the Budapest Convention,  is the first international treaty seeking to address Internet and computer crime by harmonizing national laws. 4. Prithvi-II missile: I t is a surface-to-surface tactical missile with a strike range of 350 km. It is India’s first missile indigenously developed by DRDO under prestigious Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP). 5.The Government of India is implementing One Stop Centre (OSC) scheme for ...