Current Affair - 24/December/2018 !

National Consumer Day: 24 December –

·       National Consumer Day is observed in India every year on 24 December.

·       The theme for 2018 National Consumer Day is ‘Timely Disposal of Consumers Complaints’.

·       On this Day Consumer Protection Act, 1986 has received the assent of the President.

·       The Consumer Protection Act is aim to provide consumers with protective safeguards against different types of exploitation.

PM announces Sardar Patel Award –

·       Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced annual ‘Sardar Patel Award for National Integration’ on 22 December 2018.

·       The award was announced by him while addressing the conference of DGP’s/IGP’s in Gujarat’s Kevadia.

·       The award will be given every year for ‘outstanding effort’ in the field of furthering national integration.

Vedangi: Fastest Asian to cycle the globe –

·       Indian women Vedangi Kulkarni has became the fastest Asian to cycle the globe.

·       She completed the 29,000 Km’ distance required to qualify as bicycling across the globe.

·       She spent 159 days peddling up to 300 km’s a day in 14 countries.

·       British adventurer Jenny Graham is the fastest women to have cycled the globe in 124 days in 2018.

RBI shortlists Wipro, TCS, 4 others for PCR –

·       The  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shortlisted six major IT companies to set up a digital Public Credit Registry (PCR).

·       The IT companies are TCS, WIPRO, IBM India, Capgemini Technology Services in India, Dun and Bradstreet Information Services in Indi, and Mindtree Limited.

·       PCR will be capturing details of all borrowers and willful defaulters.

·       It will strengthen the credit culture in the economy.

PM to open Buddhist site open at Lalitgiri –

·       The ‘Buddhist site’ museum was inaugurated at Lalitgiri in Odisha on 24 December 2018.

·       The site is one of the earliest Buddhist settlements in Lalitgiri, where excavations have yielded ancient seals and inscriptions and have been converted into the museum.

·       It is the third site museum of the Bhubaneswar circle of the Archaeological Survey of India after Ratnagiri and Konark.

India’s first music museum to e set up in TN –

·       India’s fist music museum will be set up with assistance from the Central Government in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu.

·       Thiruvaiyaru is he birthplace of the Tyagaraja, one of the Trinities of Carnatic Music.

·       This was announced by the State Minister for Culture and Tamil Development, K Pandiarajan in Madurai on 23 December 2018.

Project worth 15000 crore inaugurated by PM –

·       Prime Minister Modi inaugurated projects worth 15000 crore rupees in Odisha on 24 December 2018.

·       The project are related to health, road and highways, higher education and culture.

·       He also laid foundation stone for new campus of IIT-Bhubaneswar at Aragul.

·       He also released a commemorative coin and a postage stamp in the memory of Paika Rebellion.

World smallest tic-tac-toe game board made –

·       Researches from the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s smallest tic-tac-toe game board by using dynamic DNA origami tiles.

·       DNA origami tiles are microscopic organic structure that can be programmed to transform into predesigned patterns.

·       Earlier, scientist have developed the world’s smallest version of the iconic Mona Lisa using the same technique.

Real Madrid won the ‘Club World Cup 2018’ –

·       Real Madrid won the ‘FIFA Club World Cup 2018’ in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 23 December 2018.

·       They defeated AI Ain in the final match.

·       With this win, Real Madrid becomes the first ever to claim three Straight Club World Cup or Intercontinental Cup.

·       They also became the first to win four club World Club titles.

·       It won the World Cup in 2014,2016 and 2017.

Railways bags Energy Conservation Award’s –

·       The Railway has bagged 17 awards at the ‘National Energy Conservation Awards 2018’ on 14 December 2018.

·       It participated in thee categories: Railway stations, hospitals, and institutions.

·       Under ‘transport’ category, railways obtained 10 awards for the Sub-Sector railway station.

·       Under ‘building’ category, it bagged three awards for sub-sector Railway hospitals.

Tsunami strucked Indonesia’s Sunda Strait –

·       Tsunami strucked coastal towns of Indonesia’s Sunda Strait on 22 December 2018.

·       It is thought undersea landslides from the Anak Krakatau volcano caused them.

·       The Sunda Strait, between the Island of Java and Sumatra, connects the Java sea to the Indian Ocean.

·       Indonesia is prone to tsunamis because it lies on the Ring of Fire, the line of frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

India lost $86 billion due to power distortion –

·       World bank published the new report titled ‘In the Dark: How Much do Power Sector Distortions Cause South Asia’.

·       As per the report, distortions in the power sectors annually cost India around $86.1 billion or 4.1% of GDP due to power distortions in 2016.

·       It also said that India achieved 100% village electrification in 2018 and 178 million Indians still remain unconnected to the grid.

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