TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - March 19, 2017 - TNPSC Current Affairs - TNPSCGURU.IN

TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - March 19, 2017 - TNPSCGURU.IN for TNPSC Exams

• New UP CM
• Yogi Adityanath - he was appointed as the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• Two Deputy Chief Minister were also appointed
1. Keshav Prasad Maurya
2. Dinesh Sharma
• Governor of UP - Ram Naik

• Ashwin Sundar
• He is an Indian Car racer from Tamil nadu who died in a car accident recently.

• Cloud seeding
• It is an artificial way of inducing moisture in the cloud to produce precipitation.
• Silver iodide is used for cloud seeding.

• Dev Raj Sikka
• He is a famous Indian meteorologist who passed away recently.
• He was the first one to link the El Nino effect with the indian Monsoon.

• National Health Policy 2017 - Features
• To raise the public health expenditure as a % GDP.
• From current 1.15% of GDP to 2.5% of GDP by 2025.
• To reduce household health expenditure to 25% by 2025.
• Utilization of public health facilities by 50% by 2025.
• Introduction of E-Health Card for individuals.
• Safe water for all by 2020.

• West Bengal
• WB State has the highest number of Arsenic affected people in India.

• Book
• A Gift of Goddess Lakshmi: A Candid Biography of the first transgender Principle - written by Manobi Bandyopadhyay.

• G20 Finance Minister meeting 2017
• It was held at Baden-Baden in Germany.