10th February 2018 Current Affairs-Daily Update (General Awareness, Static Awareness)

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1. NITI Aayog Releases Nation-Wide Healthy State Report

•‘Healthy States, Progressive India Report’.

>>Overall performance.

Larger states-Kerala, Punjab and Tamil Nadu

Smaller states-

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>>Annual incremental performance.

Larger States- Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh

Smaller states- Mizoram, Manipur and Goa.

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•The report was released by NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.

•Dr Rajiv Kumar is the present Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog.

Chairman- Narender Modi

2.  Integrated Automatic Aviation Meteorological Systems inaugurated at INS Garuda

•naval air station located in Kochi, Kerala

3.  National Meet on Grassroot Informatics- VIVID 2018

•three-day National Meet on Grassroot Informatics- VIVID 2018 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. 

•Theme for VIVID 2018 is “Cyber Security and Innovation”.

• inaugurated by Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology and Law & Justice.

•Neeta Verma is the Director General of NIC.

4.  India, Palestine ink six agreements in different areas.

•including health and education.

•The MoUs were signed after bilateral talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at Ramallah

5.  Modi Conferred 'Grand Collar of the State of Palestine‘recognising his key contribution to promote relations between India and Palestine.

•by President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas,

•Modi is the first Indian Prime Minister to make an official visit to Palestine.

•Palestine Capital- East Jerusalem, Currency- Israeli new shekel 

6. India Retains Top Spot as Source Market for Dubai in 2017

•Dubai witnessed 15% growth in tourist arrivals from India in 2017, hosting 2.1 million visitors, retaining top spot as the source market.

•became the first country to cross the 2 million mark in a single year, 

•UAE Capital- Abu Dhabi, Currency- United Arab Emirates dirham.

Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism).

7.  NPCI Appoints Biswamohan Mahapatra as Non-Executive Chairman

•two years term

•He succeeds B Sambamurthy who was the interim chairman.

•NPCI's Registered Office is in Mumbai.

•NPCI had recently appointed Dilip Asbe as its Managing Director and CEO.

8. 23rd Winter Olympic Games Starts in Pyeongchang, South Korea

•Ninety-two countries are participating

•102 medals up for grabs

•covering seven sports and 15 disciplines.

•South Korea President- Moon Jae-in, Capital- Seoul.

9.  Noted Litterateur Chandrasekhar Rath Passes Away

•died of old age ailments.

•recently nominated for Padma Shri by the Union government this year for his contribution towards Odia literature.

10.  Government launches National Deworming initiative

•Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) launched National Deworming Initiative on the occasion of National Deworming Day (observed on 10 Feb)

•Aims to reach more than 32.2 crore children aged between 1 to 19 years to combat parasitic worm infections.

11.  Abhilasha Kumari sworn in as first women Chief Justice of Manipur HC.

•administered oath of office by Governor Najma Heptulla at the Raj Bhavan.

•Manipur CM- N. Biren singh

•Capital-Imphal