GK and Current Affairs Updates

 The Defense Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar introduced the Raksha Mantri's Trophy and reference generally advantageous and Second Best Service Hospital in the Armed Forces Medical Services (A.F.M.S.).

The trophy for the Best Service Hospital went to Command Hospital (Eastern Command), Kolkata, which was gotten by its Commandant Major General TS Ahluwalia.

The trophy for the Second Best Hospital was introduced to INHS Asvini, Mumbai, which was gotten by its Commandant Surgeon Rear Admiral AA Pawar.

 Ishaan Patel a 13 year- old  Indian origin wizard has been felicitated in the US for his philanthropy work.
* He attempted endeavors to enhance access to instruction for special understudies in America and around the globe.
* He is the originator and CEO of Planting Pencils.
* He has been regarded by the Milan Cultural Organization in the Legislative Office Hartford, Connecticut.
* He is the understudy of Kingswood-Oxford School in West Hartford.

The plan was propelled by the Chief Minister of Kolkata and honors were given to the national and state level victors for fabulousness in aptitude advancement. Mamata Banerjee introduces Utkarsh Bangla plan.

Key Highlights of inauguration:

* The plan each adolescent will get preparing running from 400 to 1200 hours.
* Free professional preparing will be given to the school dropouts to customizing, driving, repairing TV and other electronic gear and excellence courses and so forth. Mechanical preparing foundation structures were likewise initiated on the grounds of Amity University in Kolkata.

* Online Single-Window Clearance System entrance for modern activities was additionally operationalised.

About Utkarsh Bangla Scheme:

* The topic of the plan is "nothing is unthinkable", Be sure and progress with an uplifting state of mind. Courses gave under the plan are free of expense.
* Through the plan, the govt is going to give aides to 41,000 understudies from 1300 schools.
* Utkarsh Bangla Scheme additionally guarantees that the understudies get the chance of grounds positions after their preparation.

* Polytechnic and ITI preparing to 6 lakh understudies each year will be given under the plan.

A portion of the organizations that will give occupation under the plan is Samsung, Raymond, Berger Paints, Maruti Suzuki, ASSOCHAM (diamonds and adornments), and CREDAI.

Key Point:
Chief Minister of West Bengal – Mamata Banerjee.

 In an offer to handle plunge that has battered countries, markets, and organizations, world's biggest makers of oil, Saudi Arabia and Russia assented to stop oil yield at close record levels however maker Iran and Iraq emerged from this understanding.

This understanding is first of its kind in composed collaboration between OPEC (13 part cartel that controls more than 33% of the world's oil) and non-OPEC makers in 15 years as oil makers try to support diligently low oil costs which have sunk by around 70%.

Opposite, Iran and Iraq is wanting to expand yield by no less than 500,000 barrels a day.

Four oil creating Nations agreed to stop oil output members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries which incorporates Qatar, Kuwait and Venezuela likewise held hands with Saudi Arabia and nonmember Russia in the generation solidify.

By Energy Agency, regardless of the possibility that all oil makers consented to a worldwide creation solidify at January levels, the world would, in any case, have around 300 million a bigger number of barrels a year than required.

Why has Iran a complaint?

At the point when Iran was under assents, a few nations raised their yield and they created the drop in oil costs and now Iran says how its rivals can anticipate that Iran will participate.

It will focus on a creation solidify if an arrangement will reach among different makers.

 On sidelines of Vice-President Hamid Ansari visit to Thailand, India has taken an interest in the 35th version of "Cobra Gold" multilateral activity as an onlooker in addition to the nation, being facilitated by Thailand. 

Indian has been concurred as the spectator in addition to the nation in view of its expanding territorial operability. 

Subject of activity – “Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief”

Participating Members – 35 Nations.

Alongside partners from China and Pakistan, a 12-part group of the Indian Army has taken an interest in the "Cobra Gold" multilateral activity, which is viewed as Asia's biggest multinational drill.

For the current year, 8,564 staff from Thailand, the United States, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea and other 28 countries had taken an interest in different parts in the activities. 

About Cobra Gold: 

Set up in 1982, it served as military preparing activity to enhance coordination between the military of the United States and Thailand in both unfriendly military and compassionate endeavors.

Cobra Gold has 3 Distinct exercises: 

* The first is the Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise (CALFEX), in which live ammo is gone for foreordained areas.
* The second movement is a Command Post Exercise (CPX), in which military officers take part in mechanized war amusements, catastrophe help or compassionate missions more than a few days.
* The last movement is helping the neighborhood Thai population.

 Noted Malayalam author and short story writer Akbar Kakkattil passed away. He was 62.

About Akbar Kakkattil:

* He has 54 books shockingly which incorporates, four books, 27 short stories, six accumulations of expositions, seven novelettes, a play, among others.
* He was the Vice-President of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi and Member of Malayalam Advisory Panel of National Book Trust and Malayalam Advisory Board of Kerala Government.
* He had filled in as an individual from the representing group of South Zone Cultural Center of the Union government and Kerala State Institute of Children's writing.

* He was likewise an individual from Malayalam Advisory Board of Kendra Sahitya Akademi and Convener of Publication Committee, Kerala Sahitya Akademi.

Recompenses:

A two-time victor of the prestigious Kerala Sahitiya Akademi honor.

He was likewise beneficiary of the first-ever honor in diversion segment in 1992 for his 'School Diary' a compilation of short expositions.

In the year 2004 his 'Vadakkuninnoru Kudumba Vrithantham' was granted as the best novel.

 The Samej town in Kullu locale of Himachal Pradesh gets to be smokeless by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) under the Union Government's crusade.

* Indian Oil Corporation powers dispersed 130 gas associations with the villagers before these villagers were utilizing kindling as a part of their homes.
* The Indian Oil Corporation activity made this town hundred percent smokeless.
* In Himachal, 83 percent individuals are utilizing the LPG.

* Such activities will make the state completely smoke free and will counteract deforestation.

 Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian representative, passed away at the ripe old age of 93.

About Boutros-Ghali:

* Egyptian negotiator served one term as secretary general from 1992-96 and was first African to hold position
* Boutros-Ghali, the scion of an unmistakable Egyptian Christian political gang.
* He ventured into the post in 1992 during an era of emotional world changes, with the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and the start of a unipolar time ruled by the United States.

About UN:

* The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental association to advance global cooperation. The central command of the United Nations is in Manhattan, New York City.
* A substitution for the ineffective League of Nations, the association was set up on 24 October 1945 after World War II.

* The UN had 51 part states, there are presently 193.

 Sri Srinivasan turns into the first Indian-American to be on the seat of the US Supreme Court after moderate symbol Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death. He was designated by President Barack Obama. 

About Sri Srinivasan:

* Chandigarh-conceived Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan, 48, tops the rundown of imminent equity to the nation's most noteworthy legal body.Sri Srinivasan First Indian-American Judge Of US Supreme Court
* He started his legitimate vocation by serving as a law representative for Judge J Harvie Wilkinson on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996.
* He then put in a year as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General before clerking for O'Connor amid the Supreme Court's 1997-98 term.
* He was a partner at the law office of O'Melveny and Myers LLP in Washington DC from 1998 until 2002. 

Recompenses and Honors:

He got the Attorney General's Award for Excellence in Furthering US National Security in 2003 and the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence in 2005.

  Participated countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Mascot – Tikhor (Baby Rhino): Tikhor conveys the message of Peace, Progress, and Prosperity in the South Asian locale.

Motto – "Play for Peace, Progress and Prosperity".

Anthem – An acclaimed Assamese tune, "Ei Prithibi Ek Krirangan" (The world is a play area) by Bhupen Hazarika. 

An aggregate of 2,672 competitors was taken an interest in 226 occasions that were held in 22 sports. The occasion offered 758 decorations (226 Gold, 226 Silver and 306 Bronze awards). 

About South Asian Games:

* Begun in 1984, The South Asian Games otherwise known as SAF Games, SAG SA amusements or South Asian Federation Games are a biennial multi-sport occasion held among the competitors from South Asia with a perspective to support up the solidarity and, in addition, relationship between the South Asian nations.
* The overseeing body of these diversions is South Asian Sports Council (SASC), shaped in 1983.
* The venue for 2019 South Asian Games will be in Kathmandu, Nepal.