17th April 2018 Current Affairs GK in English | Daily Current GK News
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1. PM Modi reaches Stockholm on his first leg of visit
Major Highlights:
- PM Narendra Modi who is on a two nation European tour has reached to Sweden at Stockholm.
- Here the Prime Minister will be holding bilateral talks with the heads of India-Nordic Summit.
- During the bilateral ties, PM Modi and his counterpart Stefan Lofven will have the opportunity to interact with top business leaders to bring the layout of future cooperation.
- PM Modi is also expected to meet with King of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf.
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2.Dharmendra to get Maharashtra government’s Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award
Major Highlights:
- The Maharashtra government has decided to honor veteran actor Dharmendra with Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Whereas director Rajkumar Hirani, has been decided to confer Special Contributions Award.
- Dharmendra has been entitled with the award because he has given 103 hits in his entire career among others.
3. ISRO carries out final orbit raising operation of IRNSS-1I
Major Highlights:
- In the complete series of four orbit-raising operations, the satellite IRNSS-II is close to geosynchronous orbit as planned.
- The IRNSS-1I is the eighth satellite in the constellation which is part of Indian Constellation system originally known as Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (NavIC) or IRNSS.
- The satellite was the 43rd flight of ISRO’s workhorse launcher Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle.
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4. NASA to launch washing machine size space craft, aims searching 20,000 exoplanets
Major Highlights:
- NASA has scheduled to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to scan more than 2000000 brightest stars.
- The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is aimed at releasing the space craft for search of planets beyond solar system in search for life.
- The design of Space craft is follow-on the US space agency’s Kepler spacecraft (launched back in 2009).
- The Kepler space craft was first of its kind which is now low on fuel.
5. India ranks 10th on new Commonwealth innovation index
Major Highlights:
- In the Index launched as a part of Commonwealth Innovation Hub, India was marked 10th.
- The index was launched as a part of partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) of United Nations and its annual Global Innovation Index (GII).
- From all the 53 countries, the list has been topped by UK, Singapore and Canada.
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