Important Current Affairs Daily Updates 14th July 2017 - Specially for Upcoming Exams 2017

Important Current Affairs Daily Updates 14th July 2017 - Specially for Upcoming Exams 2017:

Dear Readers, Daily Current affairs News Updates about the National and International events were listed here. Candidates those who are preparing for IBPS/SBI/PO/Clerk exam and all other competitive exams can use this.

India is set to get its first high-speed rail training center at Gandhinagar, Gujarat

The country is set to get its first high-speed rail training center at Gandhinagar. The center will provide for advanced training modules on cutting edge technologies. While India’s first bullet train is proposed to hit the track in 2023, the training center is supposed to start operating by 2020

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Managing director of National High-Speed Rail Corporation - Achal Khare

State – Gujarat

Capital – Gandhinagar

CM – Vijay Rupani

Governor – Om Prakash Kohli

Delhi Police will be the first state police in India who will get ‘super cop belt'

National capital police will be the first state police in India who will get ‘super cop belt', a specially designed belt, widely used by Police in UK, USA, Russia and para-military forces like CRPF, CISF, NSG etc. This belt will help cops to keep things like Gun, Mobile Pouch, Security Batten, Wireless Set Pouch & ammunition pouch.

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State/Union Territory – New Delhi

CM –Arvind Kejriwal

Governor –Anil Baijal

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) to set up India’s first TISC in Punjab

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry has signed an Institutional agreement with the Punjab State Council of Science and Technology in New Delhi to establish India’s first Technology and Innovation Support Center (TISC) at Patent Information Centre, Punjab, under the World Intellectual Property Organization’s (WIPO) TISC program. The objective of the TISC is to stimulate a dynamic, vibrant and balanced Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) system in India to foster creativity and innovation.

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State – Punjab

Capital – Chandigarh

CM – Captain Amarinder Singh

Governor - V. P. Singh Badnore

Minister of State (I/C) for Commerce & Industry - Nirmala Sitharaman

Constituency – Karnataka, Rajya Sabha

Maharashtra has become the first state to make social boycott

Maharashtra has become the first state to make social boycott a crime after President Pranab Mukherjee cleared the legislation. The Maharashtra Prohibition of People from Social Boycott (Prevention Prohibition and Redressal) Act prescribes a maximum punishment of three years in jail and a fine of Rs1lakh. It aims to prevent atrocities carried out by extra-judicial courts and caste panchayats. The Act also provides for compensation to victims. The fines imposed on violators will be used to compensate them.

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State – Maharashtra

Capital – Mumbai

CM - Devendra Fadnavis

Governor - Vidyasagar Rao

Union cabinet has approved to set up ISARC in varansi

The union cabinet has approved the establishment of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), South Asia Regional Center (ISARC) at campus of National Seed Research and Training Center (NSRTC) in Varanasi.

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NSRTC - National Seed Research and Training Center is located at Varanasi

Maharashtra government has launched a medical insurance scheme up to 10 lakh rupees

The Maharashtra government has launched a scheme to cover medical insurance of up to Rs10 lakh for legislators and their families. This scheme is aimed at curbing the use of fake bills in the medical reimbursement scheme the legislators were covered under earlier.

Railways Ministry launches RailCloud Project, NIVARAN-Grievance Portal and CTSE Scheme

Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu launched the following Initiatives:-

1. Rail Cloud Project.

2. NIVARAN-Grievance Portal (First IT Application on Rail Cloud).

3. Cashless treatment Scheme in Emergency (CTSE) Scheme.

About the Schemes in Brief-

1. RailCloud

RailCloud is another step towards Digitization of Railways. Rail Cloud works on popular Cloud Computing system. It aims to improve customer satisfaction, improve revenue and effective, efficient and safe operations.

2. NIVARAN

‘NIVARAN-Grievance Portal’ is the first IT application to be launched on the RailCloud. It is the platform for resolution of service related grievances of serving and former railway employees.

3. Cashless treatment Scheme in Emergency (CTSE)

With an aim to provide immediate care to its retired employees in Golden Hour, the Railway Board has rolled out a Cashless treatment Scheme in Emergency (CTSE) in empanelled hospitals for retired employees and their dependent family members.

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Union Railway Minister – Suresh Prabhu

Constituency – Andhra Pradesh, Rajya Sabha

J P Nadda launched the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination (2017-22)

Shri J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination (2017-22). The Strategic Plan gives year wise elimination targets in various parts of the country depending upon the endemicity of malaria in the next 5 years. This plan focuses on the states such as Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. The strategies involve strengthening malaria surveillance, establishing a mechanism for early detection and prevention of outbreaks of malaria, effective indoor residual spray and augmenting the manpower and capacities for effective implementation for the next five years.

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Union Health & Family Minister –J P Nadda

Constituency – Himachal Pradesh, Rajya Sabha

INTERNATIONAL

22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) International Conference held in Istanbul, Turkey

The 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) International Conference was held recently in Istanbul, Turkey. Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan visited Istanbul to represent India at the Conference. The theme for 22nd World Petroleum Congress was ‘Bridges To Our Energy Future’. WPC was first organized in year 1993. Currently, it is being held at the interval of three years.

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Country – Turkey

Capital – Ankara

Currency – Turkish Lira

Malta became the 24^th country to legalise same-sex marriage

The Roman Catholic Mediterranean island Malta today became the 24th country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage.

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Country – Malta

Capital – Valletta

Currency - Euro

Chinese troops are headed to Djibouti to set up China's first overseas military base

Ships carrying Chinese troops are headed to Djibouti to set up China's first overseas military base in an effort to enhance its global reach. The base will be used for peacekeeping and humanitarian aid in Africa and West Asia, China said. However, India believes the base would become another of China's "string of pearls" of military alliances and assets.

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Country – Djibouti

Capital – Djibouti city

Currency – Djiboutian franc

China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel laureate and democracy icon Liu Xiaobo, has died

China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel laureate and democracy icon Liu Xiaobo, has died at the age of 61. Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. The Chinese intellectual and activist is the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in custody since German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, the 1935 recipient, who died under surveillance after years confined to Nazi concentration camps.

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Country – China

Capital – Beijing

Currency – Renminbi – Yuan

President – Xi Jinping

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