TNPSC Daily Current Affairs - February 6, 2018 - TNPSC Current Affairs - www.TNPSCGURU.in 2018

TNPSC Current Affairs - February 2018 by TNPSC Guru

1.India contributed additional $1 mn for UNOSSC. 

• India has contributed additional $1 Million to United Nation Office of South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC).
• Last year India agreed to contribute $100 Million to UNOSSC , which will focus on least developed countries and small Island developing Nation.

2.Union Government launches new tools to  rank startups. 

• Union Government has launched the new tools to Rank State and Union territories for ranking Startups.
• New tools are in the State and UT Startup Ranking Framework, the Compendium of Good Practices for Promoting Startups and the Startup India Kit.
• The main objective of ranking is state and UT’s to take proactive steps towards strengthening startup ecosystems. 

3.Fifth South Asia Region Public Procurement Conference

• Fifth South Asia region Public procurement conference held in New Delhi.
• The theme of the 5^th conference is “Public Procurement and Service Delivery”.
• It was hosted by Public Procurement Division (PPD) of the Ministry of Finance and All India Management Association
• The objective of conference is to improve their public procurement to ensure timely and quality delivery of public services.
• The 1^st conference held at  Kathmandu (NEPAL) in 2010, 2^nd in Islamabad (Pakistan) in 2014, 3rd in Dhaka (Bangladesh) 2015 and 4^th  Sri Lanka 2017. 

4.SC refers new constitution bench to examine citizenship act.     

• Supreme Court has refers a new constitution bench to various aspects of Citizenship Act 1951, including Assam Accord.
• Section 6A of citizenship act deals with the citizen covered under Assam Accord. 

5.Pelican Bird Festival-2018

Pelican Bird Festival 2018 held at Atapaka Bird Sanctuary in lake Kolleru ,Andhra Pradesh. 

6.Amitabh Kant to continue as  NITI Ayog CEO . 

Union Government has extended the term of NITI Ayog CEO Amitabh Kant till 2019.

7.Sweden to aid record $307M to UN World Food Programme. 

• Sweden has signed Strategic Partnership Agreement with United Nations World Food Programme for aiding $370M to World Food Programme
• This will become the largest donor of flexible funds to World Food Programme.