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TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS IN ENGLISH JANUARY – 4 – 8

• P. Balasubrahmanyamwill on January 12 receive the LV Lifetime Achievement award to mark the 75th birth anniversary of music director and violin artist L. Vaidyanathan 

• World Atheist Conference held in Tiruchy

• Tamil Naduwhich has the highest Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in higher education in the country.

• The RS Puram police stationin the covai won the ministry of home affairs’ trophy for the best police station in the country

• Congress MLA Paresh Dhanani is set to become the Leader of Opposition(LoP) in the Gujarat Assembly

• The Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has launched online portal NARI(nari.nic.in) for the empowerment of women. It has been developed by the Ministry to provide easy access to information on government schemes and initiatives for women.

• ASEAN-India Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held in Singapore on 6-7 January, 2018 to celebrate the 25 years of strategic partnership between India and ASEAN. 

• The Government of West Bengal. launched the official emblem Biswa Bangla” logo with Ashoka Pillar of the national emblem

• Shri Ananthkumar to inaugurate 18th All India Whips’ Conference, to be held at Udaipur in rajasthan on 8th – 9th January,  rolling out eSansad and eVidhan is part of the agenda.

• India’s first park for persons with disabilities to open in Hyderabad , Telengana

• Only six out of 36 states and Union Territories of the country have dedicated departments and district social welfare officers to look into issues of disabled persons, a parliamentary panel report has said. The panel urged to amend the Persons with disabled act 2016 to establish commission separately.

• Track Child and Khoya-Paya portals launched by Union Government to track missing children across india

• JohnYoung, who walked on the moon, commanded the first space shuttle mission and became the first person to fly in space six times, died

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