General Awareness Series: Updated News Jan Week 2 - Part 1

General awareness is really important for everyone and specially for defense aspirant. Week two of this new year saw lot of up down in UP politics while many ammunitions are being purchased for increasing the power of our defense forces. Lets see other updates.

1. President Pranab Mukherjee has approve human resource development ministry’s proposal for appointment of directors of two five new IIT’s- Tirupathi, palakkad, Bhilai, Durg, Goa and Dharwad

2. FRESH SUMMONS ISSUED IN VVIP COPTER SCAM

·         Fresh summons against 3 accused in a money laundering case related to the 3600cr VVIP chopper deal in which it had earlier issued an non bailable warrant.

3. TANKER BOMB KILLS 43 IN SYRIA

·         In which dozen were wounded in the town of azaz near the turkey border.

4. WORLDS HIGHEST ALTITUDE TELESCOPES

·         China is setting up altitude gravitational wave telescopes in Tibet.

5. RAHEEL JOINS SAUDI MILLATERY ALLIANCE

·         Former Pakistan army chief raheel sharif, will now head the Saudi Arabia lead 39 national military coalition.

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6. WOMENS CAN CARRY SMALL KNIVES ON DELHI METRO.

7. DESPITE DEMONETISATION INDIA TO GROW FASTER THAN CHINA.

·         Former Singapore diplomat DEAN KISHORE MAHBUBAIN said that even if the demonetisation created a slow down, it is not going to change the long term momentum of where India is going with its economic growth.

8. NARENDER GOUD NAMED HYDERABAD CRICKET ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT.

9. IIT HYDERABAD SCORES ON JOBS.

·         Companies based Malaysia, Singapore; Japan seems to be interested in IIT Hyderabad students.

·         45 percent of under graduate and post graduate students got job offers from both national and international companies

·         The maximum packages ranges from 30 to 38 lakhs per annum

10. GOVT TO LAUNCH EXCLUSIVE SCHEME FOR WOMEN ENTERPRENEURS

·         Minister of small, micro and medium enterprises anil kumar said MSME sector contributes 8% to the country’s GDP, 40% of manufacturing inputs and 45% of exports based on survey reports of 2007

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11. 20 WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITIES SOON, SAYS PRAKASH JAVADEKAR

·         He said private universities to be among the top 10 in the world

·         Govt has released the funds under the PM scholarship program for 150 students, of which 50 are reserved for children of Indian parents residing in gulf countries.

·         The govt will give 2000 for boys and 2250 for girls per month. But there are very few takers for the gulf scholar ship.

12. 500 TELENGANA YOUTH STANDERD IN IRAQ SEEK GOVERNEMENT’S HELP

·         A few gulf agents cheated the pretext of providing suitable jobs in Iraq. These unfortunate victims, who found themselves stranded in Iraq without valid papers, can be arrested soon.

·         Iraq authorities have warned the illegal immigrants to leave the country by paying $2000 penalty to get their exit pass. Earlier, $400 was the penalty for the illegal immigrants but recently they hiked the penalty

13. NOTE BAN IS FOR LONG-TERM STASH FIGHT, SAYS NARENDRA MODI

·         BJP hailed as historic the decisions of surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC in September and demonetisation on November. Union ministers Arun jaitley and Nirmala seetaraman sad demonetisation had curbed black money and would boots Indian’s economy

14. FROM APRIL 1 AADHAR WILL BE MANADATORY FOR CENTER’S RURAL EMPLOYMENT WORK

·         People living in rural areas  need have aadhar under mahatma Gandhi national rural employment guarantee scheme

·         People register under the scheme will be required to give  proof of possessions of aadhar or undergo the enrolment process till march 31,2017

15. RS 4807 CRORES BLACK MONEY SEIZED POST NOTE BAN, RS112 CRORES IN NEW CURRENCY

·         Income tax department said that the value of seized jewellery in the total is rs97.8 crores

·         Total undisclosed income admitted or detected as part of this action, till January 5, is Rs 4807.45 cr.

16. US DEPLOY 300 SOLIDERS IN HELMAND PROVINCE TO FIGHT TALIBAN

·         US will deploy around 300 soldiers in southern helmand province of Afganisthan

·         Troops will reportedly deployed by the US marine to train, advise and assist the leaders of the afghan national army, reports the khamma Press

17. CSIR LAB DEVELOPS ADVANCE READING MACHINE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED

·         Good news for visually challenged persons this New year- tens of thousands of them can get the most advanced reading, machine, at an affordable cost

·         Chandigarh based central scientific instruments organisation(CISO) under the council of scientific and industrial research(CISR) has developed a reading machine for visually challenged

18. NEW ZELAND THRASH BANGLADESH TO SWEEP T20 SERIES

·         Corey Anderson made an unbeaten 94 from 41 balls and shared a 124 run partnership with the captain kane Williamson which guided New Zealand to 27 run win over Bangladesh Sunday and a 3-0 sweep on their T-20 cricket series

19. THOUSANDS EVACUATED AS STROM HITS SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES

·         6000 people were evacuated from their homes as a tropical storm hit the southern Philippines on Sunday, raising the risk floods and landslide with maximum gusts of 70 km per hour

20. INDIAN ARMY ORDERS 200 ROBOTS TTO DEFUSE EXPLOSIVES

·         Robotics scientists and IIT-delhi professor Dr subir kumar saha, speaking at 104 Indiana science congress said that India has progressed a lot in robotics

·         Dr saha said DRDO has developed Daksh, a robot that can defuse bombs.

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About the Author: Dinesh is from Vizianagaram and  am pursuing Btech in Mvgr college of engineering in the stream of electrical engineering. He is passionate towards the armed forces and want to become an officer in forces. He is interested in playing games and also wants to spend some time in social work. He believes in NO PAIN NO GAIN and wants to see himself in respectable position.