{"id":1020,"date":"2018-06-09T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T04:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2018-06-09T10:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T04:43:49","slug":"current-affairs-plus-9th-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/current-affairs-plus-9th-june-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Affairs Plus-(9th June 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Defense<\/strong> <strong>Acquisition Council (DAC)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was set up on August 29, 2001,This was done to counter corruption and speed up decision-making in military procurements.<\/li>\n<li>Council is headed by\u00a0 Defence Minister<\/li>\n<li>Functions of DAC is to \u00a0give policy guidelines to acquisitions, based on long-term procurement plans and to clear all acquisitions, including imported equipment and those produced ingeniously or under a foreign license<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Operation NISTAR<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1528452156_466_operation-nistar-indian-navy-successfully-evacuates-38-indian-nationals-from-yemen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1021\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1528452156_466_operation-nistar-indian-navy-successfully-evacuates-38-indian-nationals-from-yemen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1528452156_466_operation-nistar-indian-navy-successfully-evacuates-38-indian-nationals-from-yemen.jpg 267w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/1528452156_466_operation-nistar-indian-navy-successfully-evacuates-38-indian-nationals-from-yemen-150x106.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0Indians were stranded in Socotra island after a cyclone hit the area and INS Sunayna on Sunday had evacuated them in an operation christened \u201cNistar\u201d. The cyclone Mekunu had badly hit various parts of Oman and the Socotra island.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Socotra also called Soqotra is located between the Guardafui Channel and the Arabian Sea.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It is the largest of four islands of the Socotra archipelago.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The territory is located near major shipping routes and is officially part of Yemen, and had long been a subdivision of the Aden Governorate.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Consortium for Women Entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The UN India Business Forum and the Women Entrepreneurial Platform of NITI Aayog formed a consortium to reduce gender disparities in start-up investments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">It will provide mentor-ship and networking opportunities and accelerating financial and market linkages for women entrepreneurs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The consortium aims to strengthen women\u2019s entrepreneurship by creating an enabling ecosystem for investments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Women entrepreneurs will be identified through key partners, including WEP, UN Women, and UNDP. The consortium secretariat will then connect entrepreneurs with relevant member.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">In full potential scenario when women participate in the economy, equally to men, it could add $2.9 trillion to India\u2019s GDP by 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"title\">Uranium Contamination<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vbk-uranium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1022\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vbk-uranium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vbk-uranium.jpg 960w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vbk-uranium-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vbk-uranium-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vbk-uranium-768x690.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"firstHeading\" class=\"firstHeading\" lang=\"en\">Hori Habba<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/300px-Simhadriya_Simha.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1023\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/300px-Simhadriya_Simha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/300px-Simhadriya_Simha.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/300px-Simhadriya_Simha-109x150.jpg 109w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/300px-Simhadriya_Simha-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Hori Habba, also known as Hatti Habba, Kobbari Hori Competition is a spectacular rural sport in which hundreds of trained and decorated drought cattle and bulls are made to run through huge crowds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Catchers try to subdue the cattle and snatch away prizes such as copra, cash, gift items tied to them. The sports is practiced mainly in Shivamogga, Haveri and Uttara Kannada districts of the Indian state of Karnataka during the Deepavali festival.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Jallikattu is a similar sport practiced in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Google-Rail Tel<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1024\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Google-RailTel completed its 400th high-speed Internet project at Dibrugarh Railway station.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">8 million people actively use the public Wi-Fi service on a monthly basis provided under \u201cRailWire\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">Railwire is a joint project by Google and State-owned telecom infrastructure provider RailTel Corporation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">As part of the Next Billion Users initiative, Google is now building on the success of RailTel project to expand the public Wi-Fi outside train stations, into Indian cities and around the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\">The company has already launched a pilot of its Google Station &#8211; the public Wi-Fi platform &#8211; in Pune under the Smart City project.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) It was set up on August 29, 2001,This was done to counter corruption and speed up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[566,136,568,562,563,567,564,565],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-consortium-for-women-entrepreneurs","tag-current-affairs","tag-google-rail-tel","tag-hori-habba","tag-jallikattu","tag-operation-nistar","tag-tamil-nadu","tag-uranium-contamination"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}