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ISRO @ 100India sends its 100th satellite into the space: India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its forty second flight (PSLV-C40),

successfully launched the 710 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite for earth observation and 30 co-passenger satellites together th

weighing about 613 kg at lift-off on 12 January. PSLV-C40 was launched from the First Launch Pad (FLP) of Satish

Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota.

The co-passenger satellites comprise one Microsatellite and

one Nanosatellite from India as well as 3 Microsatellites

and 25 Nanosatellites from six countries, namely,

Canada, Finland, France, the Republic of Korea, the UK

and the USA. The total weight of all the 31 satellites

carried onboard PSLV-C40 is about 1323 kg.

The 28 International customer satellites were launched

as part of the commercial arrangements between Antrix

Corporation Limited (Antrix), a Government of India

company under Department of Space (DOS), the commercial

arm of ISRO and the International customers. So far, PSLV has

successfully launched 51 Indian satellites and 237 customers s a t e l l i t e s f ro m

abroad.

Cartosat-2 Series Satellite

is the remote sensing satellite and it is similar in

configuration to earlier satellites in the series and is intended to augment

data services to the users.

The imagery sent by satellite will be useful for cartographic applications, urban and rural applications, coastal land use and

regulation, utility management like road network monitoring, water

distribution, creation of land use maps.

Cartosat

This year exciting launches coming up including

Chandrayaan 2, GSLV MKIII and GSLV MKII".

For the communication satellite -- GSLV Mark II -- first

stage is already assembled. It is targeted for February

2018, which will be followed by Mark III, then a PSLV

carrying IRNSS I9.

Another very important satellite this year is the GSAT 11.

ISRO is also launching Chandrayan-2 soon.

2018 Pipeline


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NationalNationalFunctioning of CJI questioned:Discontent simmering for some time

came out in the open on the 12th of

January when four of the most senior

judges of the Supreme Court held a

press conference and assailed the

functioning of the Chief Justice of

India (CJI), Dipak Misra.

The main allegations related to the

opaque workings of the collegium,

which selects judges, and flouting of

conventions regarding the assigning

of cases. Justice J. Chelameswar,

second in the Supreme Court

hierarchy, flanked by three other

Judges Kurian Joseph, Ranjan Gogoi,

and Madan Lokur released a letter

sent by them to Chief Justice Misra

two months ago. The seven-page

letter said rules regarding the

composition of Benches and their

strength had of late not been strictly

adhered to.

India registers significant declinein under-five child mortality rate:India has registered a significant

decline in Infant Mortality Rate

(IMR). IMR of India has declined by

three points (8% decline), from 37 per

1000 live births in 2015 to 34 per 1000

live births in 2016, compared to two

points decline last year. India has

registered 90000 fewer infant deaths

in 2016 as compared to 2015.

The total number of estimated infant

deaths have come down from 930000

(9.3 Lakhs) in 2015 to 840000 (8.4

lakhs) in 2016. The gender gap

in India for child survival is reducing

steadily.

Playing of national anthem incinema halls optional: SupremeCourt: The Supreme Court on the 9th

of January made the playing of

national anthem in cinema halls before

screening of movies optional, modifying

its earlier order. The apex court

modified its November 30th, 2016, order

by which it had made the playing of the

anthem mandatory in cinema halls

before the screening of a film.

Matunga Rly station enters LimcaBook of Records: The Matunga

suburban station on the Central

Railway of Mumbai division has

figured in the Limca Book of Records

2018 for having an all-woman

staff. The achievement comes six

months after Matunga became the

first railway station in the country to

be run by an all-woman staff. A team

of 41 women staffers at the station

includes personnel from the

RPF, commercial and operating

departments.

Indias Second FTII to be Set up inArunachal Pradesh: Minister of

State ( I/C) of the Ministry of

Development of North Eastern

Region Jitendra Singh announced

that Arunachal Pradesh would get its

first Film and Television Institute,

being set up by the Union

Government as part of tapping the

potential of the Northeastern region.

This would be the second such one

in the country. The first Film and

Television Institute of India (FTII)

was set up in Pune. FTII is an

autonomous institute operating

under the Information and

Broadcasting Ministry.

InternationalInternationalChina objects to Vietnam’s call forIndian investment in South ChinaSea: China on the 11 th Januaryobjected to Vietnam’s invitation toIndia to invest in oil and natural gassector in the disputed South China Sea, saying it is firmly opposed toinfringement of its rights usingdevelopment of bilateral ties as an“excuse”. Vietnam’s Ambassador toIndia Ton Sinh Thanh had told thathis country would welcome Indian

investments in the South China Sea.India has been asserting that theONGC’s exploration is a commercialoperation and not connected with thedispute. China claims almost all ofthe SCS while Vietnam, thePhilippines, Malaysia, Brunei andTaiwan have counter claims.

Ecuador Gives AssangeCitizenship: Ecuador announced onthe 11th January that it had grantedcitizenship to Julian Assange, theWikiLeaks co-founder who has beenliving in a tiny room in the SouthAmerican country’s London embassysince seeking political asylum in 2012.Mr. Assange sought refuge in theembassy in June 2012 after Swedensought to have him arrested inconnection with allegations of rapeand assault in that country.

Trump admin introduces bill toincrease Green Cards allotment by45%: A legislation backed by the Trumpadministration pushing for merit-basedimmigration and increasing theallotment of Green Cards by a hefty 45per cent annually has been introducedin the House of Representatives, amove that could benefit Indian techiesif signed into law.

The legislation ‘Securing America’sFuture Act’ if passed by Congress andsigned into law by US President

Donald Trump will end the diversityvisa programme and reduce the overallimmigration levels from currentlyaveraging 1.05 million to 260,000 ayear.

It seeks to increase the allotmentof Green Cards by an impressive 45per cent from the current 120,000 to175,000 per annum.

Worlds Largest Ice Festival Held inChina: World’s largest Ice Festival‘International Ice and Snow

Festival’ was held in Harbin, China.This is one of China’s coldest citiesin the winter. It is the 34th annual IceFestival in Harbin, north-east China.

China provides internet in Nepal:The Hong Kong and Beijingbased China Telecom Global (CTG) acompany formed in 2012 has teamedup with Nepal Telecom to providealternate cyber-connectivity to Nepal.So far, Nepal had been linked to theglobal internet network throughIndian te lecom operators, usingoptical f iber connections inBiratnagar, Bhairahawa and Birgunj,

among others.


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EconomyEconomy100% FDI in retail sector: TheUnion Cabinet has relaxed rules forattracting foreign investments acrosssectors such as aviation, retail, andconstruction. This is the fourth timein the past three years that theGovernment is tweaking the foreigndirect investment (FDI) rulebook.

In asignificantstep, theCabine ton the10th of

January permitted FDI in state-owned carrier Air India, which is upfor disinvestment. Foreign airlines orany other foreign investor can now putin up to 49 per cent in Air India,thereby making it easier for thegovernment to divest its holding inthe airline.

The Cabinet has also made it simplerfor international single-brand retailcompanies keen to set up businessin India. While 100 per cent FDI wasallowed way back in 2011 in single-brand retail, from now on they canenter India through the automaticroute rather than going throughvarious administrative ministries.

Till now, automatic approval for FDI insingle-brand retail was given only upto 49 per cent of the paid-up capital,beyond which government permissionwas required.

National logistics index: Gujarat,Punjab, Andhra best performingstates: Gujarat, Punjab and AndhraPradesh are the best performingstates in terms of mobility of goodsand eff iciency of logistics chain,according to a new ranking of statesbrought out by the government.

Launched on the 8th of January, thenew Logistics Ease Across DifferentStates (LEADS) index developed bythe Commerce and Industry Ministryand Deloitte ranked states in termsof the logistical support they providedto promote goods trade.

The ranking is based on parameterssuch as the competitiveness ofpricing, timeliness and availability ofinfrastructure and that of services,among others. It aims to encouragestates to provide the policy pushtowards improving their logistics-related infrastructure.

Karnataka, Maharashtra, Haryana,Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telanganaand Chhattisgarh made up theremaining top 10. Assam, Bihar andJammu & Kashmir featured on thebottom of the list, owing to the lackof good transport facilities, scarcityof logistics services and bad trackrecord in timeliness.

On the global front, India’s positionin the annual World Bank’s Logistics Performance Index hadimproved to 35 in 2016, the last timethe report was published. This was ajump from the 54th spot India hadoccupied in the previous report.

World Bank pegs India’s GDPgrowth higher than FY18 AdvanceEstimates: The World Bank haspegged India’s economic growth at 6.7per cent in 2017-18, slightly higherthan 6.5 per cent estimated by thestatistics office.

For the next financial year, thegrowth would accelerate to 7.3 percent, overtaking China’s at 6.4 percent in 2018, the multi-lateral agencysaid.

In its 2018 Global Economics Prospect,the World Bank projected India’seconomic growth to be 7.5 per cent inthe two years each after 2018-19.

In these two years, China’s growthrate will drop to 6.3 and 6.2 per cent,respectively.

The Central Statistics Office hasrecently come out with Advance

Estimates which showed that India’sgross domestic product (GDP) growthwould fall to 6.5 per cent in 2017-18,the lowest in the Modi government’sfirst four years.

The World Bank said the country has“enormous growth potential”compared to other emergingeconomies with the implementationof comprehensive reforms.

BilateralBilateralPravasa Bharatiya Divas held inSingaporePlace: SingaporeDates: January 7th and 8th

Theme: ‘Ancient Route, New Journey:Diaspora in the Dynamic ASEAN-IndiaPartnership.

The two-day ASEAN-India PravasiBharatiya Divas (PBD) conference inSingapore saw an intermingling ofculture of India and Southeast Asia,whose ties go back centuries. India’sExternal Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj cheered the role of the Indian

diaspora in Singapore in bringing thetwo regions closer to each other.

ASEAN countries are home to around6 million overseas Indians, a fifth ofthe 31 million-strong Indian diaspora,comprising both Indian cit izensabroad and Persons of Indian origin.With India’s dialogue partnershipwith ASEAN now upgraded to astrategic partnership, the diasporabecomes a crucial link.

This year marks the 25 years ofASEAN-Indian Partnership which isbased on centuries-old cultural,religious and human links, forged onan ancient route of commerce.

Modi inaugurated first PIOParliamentary Conference: IndianPrime Minister Narendra Modiinaugurated the first Persons ofIndian Origin (PIO) ParliamentaryConference in the ‘Pravasi BharatiyaKendra’ at Chanakyapuri Delhi. Asmany as 124 Members of Parliamentand 17 mayors from 23 countriesparticipated.

Saudi Arabia gives nod for Hajpilgrimage by sea route: SaudiArabia has agreed to India’s proposalto revive the option of Haj pilgrimagethrough sea route, Minority AffairsMinister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi saidon the 8th of January adding that theservice will begin soon. The ministermade the announcement shortly aftersigning the bilateral annual Haj 2018agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Hajand Umrah Minister, MohammadBenten at Makkah.As per reports, the journey via seafrom cities like Mumbai, Kolkata andCochi will cut down travel expensesby almost half as compared to airtravel. The minister further informedthat the practice of ferrying Hajpilgrims between Mumbai and Jeddahby waterways was stopped in 1995.


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GeometryLines and Angles:

A

B

O acuteAcute angle 0AOB 90 Right angle 0AOB 90 Obtuse angle 0AOB 90 Straight angle 0AOB 180 Reflex angle 0AOB 180 Complete angle about a point 0360

Angle on a straight line is 1800

Angle around a point is 3600

Pair of angles:

A and B are two angles,

If 0A B 90 , then A , B arecalled complementary angles.

If 0A B 180 , then A , B arecalled supplementary angles.

Intersecting lines:Two lines are either parallel orintersecting in a plane.Two lines intersecting at a point:

12

34

The pair of angles 1 and 3 , 2 and4 are called vertically opposite angles

(or simply vertical angles)01 2 180 (angle on a straight

line)

Similarly, 02 3 180 From the above 2 equations we canwrite 1 3 similarly, 2 4 Vertically opposite angles are equal.

Transversal:A line intersecting two or more lines atdifferent points is called a transversalof the given lines.

4

8

1

5

2

6

3

7

l

m

nFigure A

4

8

1

5

2

6

3

7

ln

Figure B

n is a transversal of lines l, m• Pair of angles 1, 5 , 2, 6 ,

3, 7 , 4, 8 are calledcorresponding angles.

• Pair of angles 3, 6 , 4, 5 arecalled interior alternate angles. (orsimply alternate angles).

• Pair of angles 2, 7 , 1, 8 arecalled exterior alternate angles.

• Parallel lines: In the above Figure A if m l then, corresponding angles are

equal and alternate angles are equal i.e.1 5 , 2 6 , 3 7 ,

4 8 (corresponding angles)3 6 , 4 5 , 2 7 ,1 8 (Alternate angles)

If corresponding angles are equal thenwe can say m l .

m l corresponding angles areequal.

m l Alternate angles are equal

• Any transversal is divided in the sameratio by a set of parallel lines.

xm

n

m

y

p

q

If m n l x py q

If x py q m n l , i .e. if two

transversals are divided in the sameratio by 3 lines then the lines areparallel.

m n l x py q

Example 1 :

ABC is a triangle , D&E points on ABand AC, respectively, such thatDE BC. AD 2 cm, BD 3cm,CE 6cm. Find the length of AE?

Solution :

CB

A

D E

F2

3 6

Draw a line parallel to BC passingthrough A & F . Now have 3 parallellines AF, DE, BC .Any transversal is divided in the sameratio by 3 parallel lines.

AD AEBD CE

6 2AE 4cm3

Triangles:

da

c

B

A

C

b

a, b, c lengths of the sides of atriangle.

A, B, C interior anglesd Exterior angle at C

1. Sum of interior angles is equal to 1800

0A B C 180 2. Exterior angle is equal to sum of interior

opposite angles.d A B

3. Sum of any two sides is always greaterthan the third side.a b c, b c a, c a b

4. Area:Given 3 sides of a triangle,

S S a S b S c

a b cS2

(Semi perimeter)

Given base and height of a triangle,

base

heig

ht

1 base height2

5.

CB

Dm

l Ep

q

A

1 psin AArea of ADE 21Area of ABC m p q sin A2

l

l

p

m p q

l

lTypes of triangles:Based on sides:1. Scalene triangle: No two sides are equal.2. Isosceles triangle:Two sides are equal.3. Equilateral triangle: All sides are equal.Based on Angles:1. Acute angled triangle: All angles are

less than 900

2. Right-angled triangle: One angle is 900

3. Obtuse-angled triangle: One angle isgreater than 900

Definitions:1. Median: Line segment joining a vertex

and mid point of side opposite to thevertex.

A

B CD

median

2. Altitude: Line segment joining a vertexand perpendicular to side opposite tothe vertex.

A

B CD

altitude

3. Angle bisector: Line segment joininga vertex and bisecting the interior angleat the vertex.

A

B C

angle bisector

4. Perpendicular bisector: Line passingthrough the mid point of a side andperpendicular to the side.

CB

A

Congruency of triangles:Two figures are said be congruent ifthey are of the same shape and samesize.If two triangles are congruent, thenthey are of same shape and same size.The corresponding properties of thetriangles will be the same.

BA

C

ED

F

ABC DEF correspondingsides and angles are equal.Corresponding medians, altitudes,angle bisectors are also equal.

Congruency Axioms:To check whether two triangles arecongruent, we have 4 axioms.

1. Side-Side-Side (SSS) Axiom: If 3 sidesof one tr iangle are equal to 3corresponding sides of an anothertr iangle, then the tr iangles arecongruent.

2. Side-Angle-Side (SAS) Axiom: If 2sides and the included angle of onetriangle are equal to the correspondingsides and the included angle of anothertr iangle, then the tr iangles arecongruent.

3. Angle-Side-Angle(ASA) Axiom: If twoangles and a side of the triangle areequal to the corresponding two anglesand the side of another triangle, thenthe triangles are congruent.

4. Righ t Angle-Hypon tenuse-Side(RHS): If the hypontenuse and oneside of a right angled triangle areequal to the hypontenuse and oneside of another right angled trianglerespectively, then the triangles arecongruent.

Similarity:Two figures are said to be similar if theyare of the same shape.If two triangles are similar, then theyare of the same shape and theircorresponding properties will be in thesame ratio.

BA

C

ED

Fb a e d

fc

ABC DEF 1 1 1 1

2 2 2 2

h p sa b cd e f h p s

areap perimeter, s semiperimeterIf two trianlges are similar

Corresponding angles are equal.Corresponding sides are in the sameratio.Corresponding medians, altitudes, andangle bisectors are in the same ratio.

Tests for similarity:1. If two corresponding angles of two

triangles are equal then the trianglesare similar.

2. If three corresponding sides of twotriangles are in the same ratio, then thetriangles are similar.

3. If two corresponding sides of twotriangles are in the same ratio and theangles included between them areequal, then the triangles are similar.

Mid point theorem:Line segment joining the mid points oftwo sides is parallel to third side andequal to half of the third side.

CB

A

D E

DE BC & 1DE BC2

D, E are midpoints of AB, ACrespectively.

Example 2:

CB

A

D E2

3

10In ABC, DE BC AD = 2 cm, BD = 3 cm, BC = 10 cmFind DE ?

Solution :Consider ADE, ABC since DE BC ,

ADE ABC (corresponding angles)


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AED ACB (corresponding angles)If 2 corresponding angles of twotriangles are equal, then the trianglesare similar.

ADE ABC AD AE DEAB AC BC

AD BC 2 10DE 4cmAB 5

Example 3:In the above example, if area of

ADE . Find the area of ABCSolution :

If two triangles are similar, then the ratioof areas will be equal to square of ratiosof sides.

2ar ADE ADar ABC AB

22ar ABC 5

25ar ABC

4

Properties of Medians, Centroid:Three medians of a triangle intersect atcentroid.

CB

A

G

ma

mb

mc

F Ec b

Da

1. Centroid divides median in the ratio2 : 1 . [ AG : GD 2 :1 ]

2. Centroid always lies inside the triangle3. Median divides a triangle into 2 equal

areas.4. Sum of sides of triangle > sum of

lengths of medians

a b ca b c m m m 5. Length of a median

2 2 2a

1m 2b 2c a2

Example 4 :

D

A

B C

EF

G

O

D,E, F are mid points of sides inABC, EF meets median AD at point

O. Find AO : OG : GD where G is thecentroid?

Solution :Since AD is the median, centroiddivides a median in the ratio 2 :1

AG : GD 2:1 Since, E & F are midpoints of sides

AC & AB, 1EF BC & EF BC2

(mid point theorem) O is the mid point of AD

AO : OD 1:1

Now, assume the length of AD to beK units.

K KAO , OD2 2

Since KAG : GD 2 :1, GD3

K K KOG OD GD2 3 6

K K KAO : OG : GD : : 3:1: 22 6 3

Properties of Altitude, Orthocentre:Three Altitudes of a triangle intersectat orthocentre.

1. Sum of sides > Sum of three altitudes.

1 2 3a b c h h h

2. Orthocentre lies inside for an acuteangled triangle, at right angular vertexfor a right triangle and outside for anobtuse angled triangle.

3. In ABC , if O is the orthocentre

CB

A

F E

D

O

BOC 180 A Example 5 :

ABC has sides 5cm, 12 cm, 14 cm.Orthocentre of ABC :(a) lies inside the triangle(b) lies on the triangle(c) lies outside the triangle

Solution :Let a,b,c are sides of a triangle, wherea is the largest among a,b,c .If 2 2 2a b c , then the triangle isObtuse-angled.If 2 2 2a b c , then the triangle isRight angled.If 2 2 2a b c , then the triangle isAcute angled.

Since, 2 2 214 5 12 , the triangle isobtuse angled. For an obtuse angledtriangle, orthocentre lies outside thetriangle.

Properties of Angle Bisectors, Incentre,Excentre:

Three interior angle bisectors meet atIncentre. Two exterior angle bisectorsand the third interior angle bisectormeet at excentre.

1.

D

EF

A

B C

I

Triangle has 3 excenters

B C

I1

r1

A

I Incentre & I1 = One of threeexcentres

ABIC 902

; 1ABI C 90

2

2. Incentre and 3 excentres areequidistant from sides of a triangle.Since, Incentre is equidistant from all 3sides of a triangle, taking centre as I, wecan draw a circle touching all 3 sides ofthe triangle. This circle is called Incircle.

3. Incentre always lies inside a triangle.Excentres always lie outside a triangle.

4. A

B D C E

ADAngle bisector

(i)AB BD BEAC CD CE

(ii) 2AB AC BD DC AD Example 6 :

ABC is an isosceles tr iangle(AB = AC). Exterior angle at C is 1400.Find BIC , where I is the Incentre ?

Solution :

400

A

B

1000

400 1400

C

Exterior angle at 0C 140 0 0C 180 140 40

Since, triangle is isosceles triangle,0B C 40

0 0A 180 B C 100

0

0 010090ABIC 90 1422

0

Properties of Perpendicular Bisector,Circumcentre:1. Three perpendicular bisectors of a

triangle intersect at circumcentre (S)2. Circumcentre is equidistant from 3

vertices of a tr iangle. Takingcircumcentre as centre, we can draw acircle passing through all 3 vertices ofthe triangle. This circle is calledcircumcircle.Radius of this circle is circumradius(R)

CB

A

SR

SA SB SC Circumradius 3. Circumcentre of a triangle:

Lies inside of a triangleAcute angledtriangle.Lies at the midpoint of hypotenuseRight triangle.Lies outside of a triangleObtuseangled triangle.

4. BSC 2 A Note:

In any non equilateral triangle , centroiddivides the line segment joiningorthocentre and circumcentre in theratio 2 :1OG : GS 2 : 1

Example 7 :In ABC , AC BC, BC is extendedto point D, such that BC CD . Find

BAD ?Solution :

A

B C D

Consider ABDPoint C is equidistant from 3 verticesof the ABD . C is the circumcentreof ABD .Circumcentre lies on the triangle.The triangle is right angled triangle. BD is hypontenuse (circumcentreis at mid point of hypontenuse for aright triangle). 0BAD 90

Right angled triangle:

b

ac

A

B

C

Pythagoras theorem:2 2 2a b c

Circum radius, cR2

Inradius, a b cr2

b

A BD

h

x y

a

C

c

• Area, 1 ab2

; • 2h xy

• abhc

• 2 2 2

1 1 1h a b

• 2 2x : y b : c

• Mid point of AB is circumcentre• Corthocentre• ACB ADC CDB • Pythagorean triplets:

a b c a + b = c2 2 2

3 4 5 3 + 4 = 52 2 2

5 1 2 1 3 5 + 12 = 132 2 2

7 2 4 2 5 7 + 24 = 252 2 2

8 1 5 1 7 8 + 15 = 172 2 2

9 40 4 1 9 + 40 = 412 2 2

11 6 0 6 1 11 + 60 = 612 2 2

•x

zy

1 1 1z x y

•

dy

x c2 2 2 2x y d c

Example 8 :A triangle has sides 35cm, 29 cm, 21cm. The triangle is(A) Acute-angled (B) Right angled(C) Obtuse angled

Solution : (A)In the given case, 2 2 235 29 21 So, the triangle is acute-angled

Example 9:

b

A BD

h

x y

a

C

cABC is a right angled triangle, right

angled at C. CD is an altitude.

BC a, AC b. FindBDAD ?

Solution :Let BD y, AD x, CD h

Let B A 90 ( ABC isright triangle)

0DCB 90 ( DCB is r ighttriangle)

0ACD DCB ACD C 90

In DCB,h ysin , cosa a

In ACD,x hsin ,cosb b

h x axsin ha b b

y h ybcos ha b a

From above two equations,2

2ax yb y ab a x b

yx is

2

2BD aAD b


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TELANGANATELANGANAKRMB allots 50 tmc to Telangana:The Krishna River ManagementBoard (KRMB) on the 10th of Januaryallotted 50 tmc of water to Telangana and 60 tmc to Andhra Pradesh fromthe available water in Srisailamand Nagarjuna Sagar reservoirs.

KRMB Chairman SK Srivastava helda key meeting with Telangana and APirrigation officials and finalised theallocation for the rabi season. KRMB,while accepting the sharing ratio of66:34 between AP and Telangana ofthe available water, asked the two

states to make better use of the waterin two reservoirs. Out of 130 tmc ofwater available in the two commonreservoirs in Krishna basin, the boardhas decided allocation of 110 tmc andleft 20 tmc for future allocation.

Cabinet Sub-Committees submitreports to CM KCR: The two CabinetSub-Committees on new PanchayatRaj Act and Agriculture Investment

Support Scheme submitted itsrecommendations to Chief MinisterK Chandrashekhar Rao at Pragathi

The State Government constitutedone committee to suggest bestprovisions, including giving morepowers to local body representativesbesides making them accountableand involving people in thedevelopment of gram panchayats andanother to look into the best methodof disbursement of investmentsupport to farmers.

Members of both the committeesPocharam Srinivas Reddy, JupallyKrishna Rao, Etela Rajender,G. Jagadish Reddy, Tummala NageshwarRao, KT Rama Rao, Indrakarn Reddy andHarish Rao approved the draft PanchayatRaj Bill and submitted it to Chief MinisterK. Chandrashekhar Rao.

Telangana ranks top in executingDirect Benefit Transfer: Telanganashared with Tamil Nadu the first rankin implementation of Direct BenefitTransfer (DBT) in fertilizer supply andre-initiation of stocks in Point of Sale(PoS) machines.

After the Centre directed theauthorities to implement DBTprogramme in the entire State fromthe January 1st, agriculture officialsconducted several rounds of meetingswith fertilizer companies andsuccessfully went l ive with theimplementation of DBT in fertilizerswith 6,830 retail dealers.

Chakrapani re-elected as StandingCommittee chairman: TelanganaState Public Service Commission(TSPSC), Chairman Prof. GhantaChakrapani has been unanimouslyre-elected as the Chairman of theStanding Committee of NationalConference of State Public ServiceCommissions. He was re-electedduring 20th National Conference ofChairpersons of State PSCs at Goaon the 12th January for the period oftwo years. This is for the first timethat a chairman has been re-electedagain.

ANDHRA PRADESHANDHRA PRADESHTirupati poised to be an ‘IT Hub’:Predicting a dominant ‘knowledgeeconomy’ in near future, ChiefMinister N. Chandrababu Naiduasserted that temple city Tirupati,owing to its proximity to metropolitancities such as Chennai, Bengaluruand presence of several institutes ofhigher education, would become an‘IT and Knowledge Hub’. ChiefMinister unve iled the ZohoCorporation’s first facility in AndhraPradesh and Telangana on the 13th

January.

The Zoho Corporation’s temporaryfacility will house 150 softwareprofessionals and would soon work

towards building a permanent base forthe Tirupati operations. Mr. Naidulater inaugurated seven IT companiesAGS Health (medical coding and dataintegration services), ExafluenceIndia, Parikar Consulting, Naes TechServices, YIIT Consulting, ANS andInGenisis Inc., at the Designated ITHub (Tech Hub-APEITA) on theKarakambadi road.

Vizianagaram enters Limca Bookof Records: Vizianagaram districthas found a place in Limca Book ofRecords for its achievement inconstruction of 10,000 toilets in 100hours in March last. The feat wasentered in the latest records of LimcaBook, which was released on the 8th

of January 2018.

This is the first instance wherein thedistrict constructed as many as 10,449toilets in 71 villages, of which 44 weredeclared as open defecation free. Thefeat was observed by Limca Book ofRecords representatives. Over 78 percent of the individuals in Vizianagaramhave toilets and Vizianagaram wouldbe declared ODF by the February 15th

of 2018, as constructions of toilets forthe remaining individuals will becompleted soon.

Foundation for Coffer Dam: AndhraPradesh Chief MinisterN. Chandrababu Naidu laid stone forPolavaram project’s cofferdam on the11th of January. The Chief Ministerreviewed the designs of the iconicbridge across the spill channel of theproject and discussed the upcomingworks with the concerned officials.

Andhra Pradesh CM N. ChandrababuNaidu meets PM Narendra Modi:Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterN. Chandrababu Naidu met PrimeMinister Narendra Modi. The ChiefMinister requested to implement theprovisions of the Bifurcation Act.Chief Minister also said that…..

The contribution of the services sectorto Andhra Pradesh’s Gross StateDomestic Product (GSDP) in 2016-2017stood at 46 per cent, whereas it was64.64 per cent in Karnataka, 62.56 percent in Telangana, and 56.88 per centin Tamil Nadu.

It was way behind the all India averageof 53.66 per cent, Naidu said, blaminglack of urbanisation for the poorperformance of the services sector.

The agriculture sector to AndhraPradesh’s GSDP was 31.77 per cent,while it was just 15.34 per cent inTelangana, 11.39 per cent in TamilNadu, and 11.68 per cent in Karnataka.


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Science & TechnologyScience & TechnologyIndia’s Fastest Supercomputer,Pratyush: Union Minister for Science

and Technology Harsh Vardhan 8th

January dedicated India’s fastest and

first “multi-petaflops” supercomputer

to the nation in Pune. Petaflops is a

measure of a computer’s processing

speed.

Christened “Pratyush”, meaning the

sun, the High Performance Computing

(HPC) facility has been established

at the Indian Institute of Tropical

Meteorology (IITM), Pune, and will be

a national facility for improving

weather and climate forecasts.

The IITM release added that the

facility would help the country with

better forecasts in terms of monsoon,

extreme events, tsunamis, cyclones,

earthquakes, air quality, lightning,

fishing, hot and cold waves, flood and

drought among others.

Defence Innovation Centre to beset up in Coimbatore : Defence

Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has

announced the release of 20 crore

to the Coimbatore District Small

Industries Association (Codissia)

for setting up a defence innovation

centre. The proposed centre will

help the micro, small and medium

enterprises and start-ups engaged

in the manufacture of components

for the defence sector and conduct

tests and trials of the components.

She said India is the third biggest

armaments procurement country in

the world.

EnvironmentEnvironmentUN and WHO Collaboration onEnvironmental Health Risks: UNEnvironment and the World HealthOrganization have agreed to a new,wide-ranging collaboration to accelerateaction to curb environmental healthrisks that cause an estimated 12.6million deaths a year.

Mr. Erik Solheim, head of UNEnvironment, and Dr. TedrosAdhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO signed an agreementto step up joint actions to combat airpollution, climate change andantimicrobial resistance, waterquality, and food and nutrition issues,in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.

SportsSportsGilles Simon victory: GillesSimon won his first major ATP Tour titlesince 2015 when the Frenchmandefeated second-seeded KevinAnderson in the final of theMaharashtra Open on the 6th of January.

BCCI bans all-rounder YusufPathan : Indian all-rounder YusufPathan was on the 9 th of Januaryhanded a five-month retrospectivesuspension for failing a dope test. TheBoard of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) said in a statement that Pathanhas been suspended after heinadvertently ingested a prohibitedsubstance, commonly found in coughsyrups. The BCCI said, terbutaline, aspecified substance, is prohibited bothIn and Out of Competition in the WorldAnti-Doping Agency’s Prohibited List

of Substances.

Sarjubala, Sonia, Sarita Win gold,RSPB Claim Team Title: Formerworld silver-medallist Sarjubala Devi(48kg), representing Manipur, claimed

the gold as well as the best boxertrophy even as the Railways SportsPromotion Board emerged overallchampions in the National Women’sBoxing Championships.

Former world and Asian championL. Sarita Devi (60kg), representing theAll India Police (AIP), also picked up

a gold medal.

Sivan: K. Sivan, Director of theVikram Sarabhai Space Centre, willbe the new Chairman of the IndianSpace Research Organisation (ISRO).The Appointments Committee of theCabinet on 10th of January approved

Sivan’s appointment, who contributedimmensely to the development ofPSLV and GSLV rockets, asDepartment of Space Secretary andChairman of Space Commission.Sivan, who would replace currentISRO chief AS Kiran Kumar, will havea tenure of three years.

Sunny Verghese: Singapore-basedIndian-origin businessman SunnyVerghese has been appointed as theChairman of the Geneva-based WorldBusiness Council for SustainableDevelopment.

Verghese, Co-Founder and the CEOof Singapore’s agri-business groupOlam International Limited, is thefirst World Business Council forSustainable Development (WBCSD) aChair from the agri-sector.

He succeeded Paul Polman, the CEOof Unilever, on January 1st and willserve a two-year term. WBCSD is aglobal network of more than 200CEOs who are responsible for acombined revenue of more than 8.5trillion US Dollars and 19 millionemployees.

Indu Malhotra: Senior Advocate InduMalhotra will be the first woman lawyer

to be directly elevated from the Bar tothe Supreme Court as a judge. Hername was cleared unanimously by theSupreme Court Collegium. Malhotrawill be the seventh woman judge sinceIndependence to make it to theSupreme Court. At present, Justice R.Banumathi, appointed in August 2014,is the lone woman judge in the apexcourt and will retire in July 2020.

Harjinder Singh: The Indian OlympicAssociation (IOA) appointed Harjinder Singh as the Chef DeMission for the 23rd Winter OlympicGames to be held in Pyeongchang,South Korea in February 2018.Harjinder Singh is at present theGeneral Secretary in the Ice Hockey

Association of India.


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1. Context: North and South Koreas haveagreed to hold military talks to defuseborder tension, after their first high-level meeting in two years. The Northwill also send a delegation to the 2018Winter Olympic Games taking placein South Korea in February.

The 2018 Winter Olympics are set forFebruary 9-25. The host city this time isPyeongChang, South Korea. This willbe the second Olympic Games held inSouth Korea. (Seoul hosted the SummerOlympics in 1988.). Opening andclosing ceremonies will be housed atPyeongChang Olympic Stadium, atemporary structure with a capacity for35,000 spectators. There are four eventsadded by the International OlympicCommittee for 2018. On the slopes,athletes will now be able to compete inbig air snowboarding and freestyleskiing. On the ice, get ready for massstart speed skating and mixed doublescurling. Overall, the athletes atPyeongChang will compete in sevensports biathlon, bobsleigh, curling, icehockey, luge, skating and skiing with15 varied disciplines across all sports.

2. Context: The Supreme Court on the 9th

of January made the playing of nationalanthem in cinema halls beforescreening of movies optional,modifying its earlier order.

The national anthem of India is “JanaGana Mana”. It was written by theRabindranath Tagore. The music wascomposed and scored by Rabindranath

January 7: The Government has proposed rolling out of e-Sansad in Parliament and e-Vidhan in State Legislatures to digitize and make their functioning paperless. The proposalcame into discussion in the 18th All India Whips’ Conference in Udaipur, Rajasthan.January 8: Saudi Arabia has agreed to India’s proposal to revive the option of Haj pilgrimagethrough sea route, Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said adding that theservice will begin soon.January 9: North and South Korea have agreed to hold military talks to defuse bordertension, after their first high-level meeting in two years.January 10: The Supreme Court said it would constitute a fresh three-member SIT, to beheaded by a former high court judge, to monitor probe into anti-Sikh riot cases.January 11: Ecuador announced that it had granted citizenship to Julian Assange, theWikiLeaks co-founder who has been living in Ecuador’s London embassy since seekingpolitical asylum in 2012.January 12: Isro’s PSLV-C40 successfully places 31 satellites in two different orbits. Theflight, designated as PSLV-C40, successfully lifted off from the First Launch Pad of Sriharkotaspace port.January 13: The Hong Kong and Beijing based China Telecom Global (CTG) - a companyformed in 2012 - has teamed up with Nepal Telecom to provide alternate cyber-connectivityto Nepal.

Tagore himself. The Anthem was firstsung on the 27th of December, 1911 inthe Calcutta Session of the IndianNational Congress and was officiallyaccepted as the Indian NationalAnthem by the Constituent Assemblyon the 24th of January 1950. Thenational anthem takes around fifty-twoseconds to be played. Nearly all thenouns in the song are used in all majorlanguages of India.

3. Context: The Union Cabinet hasrelaxed rules for attracting foreigninvestments across sectors such asaviation, retail, and construction.This is the fourth time in the past threeyears that the government is tweakingthe foreign direct investment (FDI)rulebook.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is aninvestment in a business by an investorfrom another country for which theforeign investor has control over thecompany purchased. Foreign direct investments are distinguished fromportfolio investments in which aninvestor merely purchases equities offoreign-based companies. The keyfeature of foreign direct investment isthat it is an investment made thatestablishes either effective control of, orat least substantial influence over, thedecision making of a foreign business.

4. The Union Cabinet made allowing of100 per cent FDI in single-brand retailin 2011 itself, but from now on they

can enter India through the automaticroute rather than going throughvarious administrative ministries.

Foreign Investment is allowed under theautomatic route without prior approvalof the Government or the Reserve Bankof India. Government Route: Foreigninvestment in activities not coveredunder the automatic route requiresprior approval of the Government.

5. As it looks to address concernsregarding privacy of Aadhaar data,the Unique Identification Authority ofIndia (UIDAI) has introduced a conceptof ‘Virtual ID’, which is a temporarynumber that can be generated by usersfor the purpose of verification andauthentication.

Unique Identification Authority ofIndia (UIDAI) is a government agencyin New Delhi that serves as the issuingauthority for Aadhaar uniqueidentification numbers (UIDs) andcards. The agency has been mandatedby the Government to develop,identify and set up the necessaryinfrastructure for issuing Aadhaarcards. The UIDAI was established in2009 and functions as part of thePlanning Commission of India. Theagency issues cards with the help ofseveral registrar agencies composedof state-owned entit ies anddepartments as well as public sectorbanks and entities such as the LifeInsurance Corporation of India. As of

this writing, UIDAI has issued 20 croreAadhaar UID numbers and cardsacross the country in the past twoyears. It expects to cover another 40crore individuals by 2018.

6. Appointments Committee of the UnionCabinet on the 10th of January approvedSivan’s appointment, as Chairman ofISRO, who contributed immensely to thedevelopment of PSLV and GSLV rockets

The PSLV (Polar Satellite LaunchVehicle) and GSLV (GeosynchronousSatellite Launch Vehicle) are tworocket launch systems developed bythe Indian Space ResearchOrganization, or ISRO, to launchsatellites into orbit. The PSLV is theolder of the two and the GSLV eveninherits some of the technologies ofthe former in its design. The mainreason behind the advent of the GSLVis the capability to lift greater loadsinto space. While the PSLV can onlylift slightly over a ton of payload toGTO (Geostationary Transfer Orbit),the GSLV is capable of lifting more thandouble that with a rated capacity of 2to 2.5 tons. One of the main reasonswhy the GSLV has such an increasedload is its utilization of a cryogenicrocket engine for its last stage. Thecryogenic rocket engine provides morethrust than conventional liquid rocketengines but the fuel and oxidizer needsto be super cooled in order to keepthem in a liquid state.

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