Important Current Affairs 17th January 2018

Important Current Affairs 17th January 2018

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Current Affairs 17th January 2018: NATIONAL NEWS

Government To Announce 10 More Smart Cities

●    10 more cities will be added in Centre's flagship Smart City Mission.
●    Till now 90 cities have been named under the scheme.
●    Under the scheme, each city will get Rs. 500 crore.

Inauguration of oil refinery in Barmer

●    Narendra Modi will inaugurate the oil refinery in Rajasthan's Barmer district.
●    This project is a Joint Venture of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. and Rajasthan government.
●    It is worth over Rs 43,000 crore.

Current Affairs 17th January 2018: ECONOMY

3.36% rural youth can’t name India’s capital, finds survey

●    Fourteen per cent of rural youth in the age group of 14-18 failed to identify the map of India.
●    36% did not know that Delhi is the capital of India.
●    This data was given by Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), brought out by Pratham.

Current Affairs 17th January 2018: SCHEMES 

Lt Governor Approves "Quality Health For All" Scheme

●    Lt Governor Anil Baijal approved a Delhi government scheme.
●    This scheme is for quality healthcare service for people without any income criteria. 
●    The scheme was passed by the AAP cabinet on December 12.

Current Affairs 17th January 2018: GLOBAL NEWS

America's Fastest Spy Plane Could Be Back

●    Lockheed Martin has been developing a successor to the SR-71 Blackbird.
●    Lockheed officials are calling the new upcoming invention as "Son of Blackbird" .
●    It could be fly by 2030.
●    Hypersonic applies to speeds above Mach 5.
●    It is five times the speed of sound. 

UK gets world's first-ever 'Minister for Loneliness'

●    Britain appointed its first-ever minister to combat loneliness.
●    Government said that this affects more than 9 million people in the country.
●    The new minister is Tracey Crouch.
●    She will build on the legacy of the late Jo Cox who was murdered in 2016.

World's coldest village records temperature of -62°C

●    The thermometer in a remote Siberian village has broken all records.
●    It is known as the coldest inhabited place on earth.
●    Temperature has gone down to -67C.
●    Last time such temperature was recorded in 1933.

World's longest underwater cave system discovered in Mexico

●    A group of divers has connected two underwater caverns in eastern Mexico.
●    It is now the biggest flooded cave on the planet.
●    The discovery can help understanding the ancient Maya civilization.

Ferrari will be the first to build an electric supercar

●    Ferrari is going to build a battery-electric supercar.
●    It is being planned to challenge Tesla.
●    It wants to create high-end, eco-conscious luxury market. 
●    Ferrari CEO is Sergio Marchionne.
●    He also heads Fiat Chrysler.

Current Affairs 17th January 2018: SPORTS

Assam wins 8th Sub-junior Hockey Champ

●    Hosts Assam Hockey beat Hockey Rajasthan in the final of the 8th Hockey India Sub Junior Men National Championship 2018.
●    Match took place in Hojai Hockey stadium.
●    Their first breakthrough came in as Manish Sahani scored off a penalty stroke.

North, South Korea to march under 1 flag at Winter Olympics

●    North and South Korean athletes will march together at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
●    It will happen under a unified flag.
●    The nations have also agreed to form a joint North and South Korean women's ice hockey team.

15-yr-old girl youngest in Grand Slams 3rd round in 20 yrs

●    Ukraine's 15-year-old player Marta Kostyuk became the youngest to enter the third round of a Grand Slam.
●    It happened for the first time after Croatia's Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in the 1997 US Open. 
●    38-year-old Ivo Karlovic became the oldest man to reach the Australian Open third round in 40 years.

India lose their first Test series in 3 years

●    South Africa defeated India by 135 runs.
●    Match was held in the Centurion. 
●    The last time India lost a Test series was when Australia defeated them in 2014-15. 
●    The last Test will start from January 24 in Johannesburg.

Pujara first Indian to be run-out twice in a Test

●    Cheteshwar Pujara is the first Indian cricketer to be run out twice in the same match.
●    Pujara was run out in the first innings of the 2nd Test with South Africa.
●    He again got run out on the 5th day.
●    Former Australian skipper Mark Taylor and former Australian wicket-keeper Ian Healy have both been run-out in both innings of a Test on two occasions.

Current Affairs 17th January 2018: AWARDS

Sudhir gets Janakavi Sawlaram award

●    Actor Sudhir Dalvi was honoured with the Janakavi P Sawlaram award.
●    Thane Mayor Meenakshi Shinde gave the 79-year-old artist a citation, shawl and 'shreefal'.
●    The award is jointly given by the Thane Municipal Corporation and the Janakavi P Savlaram Kala Samiti. 
●    Well-known dancer Jaishree T was given the Ganga Jamuna award.
 

seventh South African to win a Man of the Match award

●    Pacer Lungi Ngidi became the seventh South African to win a Man of the Match award on Test debut.
●    Ngidi took six wickets in the second innings.
●    Lungi had replaced injured Dale Steyn for the Test.

Current Affairs 17th January 2018: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists study elasticity of cells using their vibrations

●    Canada-based scientists have developed a technique to map the elasticity of cell components.
●    It is similar to how seismologists study Earth's vibrations.
●    The technology is called "cell quake elastography".
●    It uses a high-speed camera to study cells. 

Harvard team makes 'heart-on-a-chip' for faster drug testing

●    Harvard University researchers have developed a 'heart-on-a-chip'.
●    This can be used to test the reaction of heart tissue to external stimuli. 
●    The team replicated cardiac muscles using hydrogel.
●    The hydrogel-making process is 60% faster than the older one.

NASA image shows cluster with mass of 3 million billion Suns

●    NASA has shared an image of a galaxy cluster containing the mass of three million billion Suns. 
●    Image was shared from the Hubble Space Telescope.
●    It has been Nicknamed as "El Gordo".
●    It is the largest, hottest, and brightest X-ray cluster discovered.