Current Affairs 2017

NASA has launched world’s lightest satellite weighing only 64 grams designed by 18-year-old boy Rifath Sharook from Tamil Nadu.

Union Minister for Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, M. Venkaiah Naidu has announced a new batch of 30 smart cities under Smart City Mission, which was launched on June 25, 2015.

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• Uttarakhand and Haryana Declared Open Defecation Free States
• India and Russia Celebrates 10 Years of Partnership in Science and Technology
• 23 June: United Nations Public Service Day

The United States has cleared the sale of the state-of-the-art Guardian 22 unmanned Guardian drones to India.

Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu has launched India’s largest municipal bond programme.

Under the Swachh Bharat Mission Gramin (SBM-G), rural Uttarakhand and rural Haryana have been declared as the 4th and 5th Open Defecation Free (ODF) States of India. Already, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, have been declared ODF.

According to the World population Prospectus: The Revision released by the United Nations, India with 1.3 billion inhabitants would surpass China’s population of 1.4 billion by 2024, to become the World’s populous country.

China has launched a research project aimed at compiling historical data obtained during earlier expeditions conducted by its teams to the disputed South China Sea since the late 1950s.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appointed Russian diplomat Vladimir Voronkov to head the newly established UN Counter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), despite growing tensions between the US and Russia.

This year, India and Russia are celebrating 70 years of establishment of diplomatic relations between them. Joint cooperation in science and technology was one of the important pillars of the bilateral relationship between both the countries.

• NASA’s Kepler Telescope finds 10 Earth-Like Planets
• NASA tests ROSA on Space Station for First Time
• Saudi Arabia: King names Son as new Crown Prince