Current Affairs 28th December 2016 | General Awareness 28th December 2016

Prime Minister lays the foundation stone of all-weather roads in Uttarakhand;

The project is a tribute to Kedarnath flash flood victims.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of Char Dham highway development project in Dehradun. Addressing a parivartan rally in Dehradun after laying foundation stone of the project, Mr Modi said the Char Dham project is a tribute to Kedarnath flash flood victims.

Four Himalayan shrines

• Kedarnath
• Badrinath
• Gangotri
• Yamunotri

  NITI Aayog to meet in New Delhi today to discuss post-demonetisation;

   

   

  Prime Minister initiatives to promote digital transactions
  

The governing council of the NITI Aayog will meet to take stock of the economy and other important issues post-demonetisation.

Governing council

All Chief Ministers and Lieutenant Governors of States and Union Territories.

Central team to assess the damage caused by Cyclone Vardah in Tamil Nadu

Inter-Ministerial team, deputed by the Centre to assess the damage

• The nine member team is drawn from the Ministries of Finance, Agriculture, Water Resources, Health, Power, Highways and Rural Development.
• The team members are scheduled to make their field visits

Cyclone affected areas

Chennai, Tiruvallur and Kanchipuram.

Bio-toilets to be installed in trains running in Kerala.

It is been declared open defecation free.

Thiruvananthapuram: Railways minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu Monday assured the Kerala government that efforts would be made to install bio toilets in trains running in the state as it has been declared open defecation free.

Pinarayi Vijayan.

Chief Minister of Kerala.

Huge ‘dead zone’ found in Bay of Bengal

Dead zones are well known off the western coasts of North and South America.

The Bay of Bengal hosts a ‘dead zone’ of an estimated 60,000 square kilometers – an area that contains little or no oxygen and supports microbial processes that remove vast amounts of nitrogen from the ocean, scientists including those from India have found.

Dead zones

The coast of Namibia and off the west coast of India in the Arabian Sea.

Sri Lanka claims world’s tallest artificial Christmas tree

The 73-meter (238-foot) tree

Sri Lanka unveiled a towering Christmas tree, claiming to have surpassed the world record for an artificial Christmas tree despite constructions delays and a shorter-than-planned finished product.

Previous record

Chinese firm that put up a 55-meter (180-foot) tree.

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