Current Affairs 11th April 2016

Current Affairs 11th April 2016

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Current Affairs 11th April 2016

Sri Lanka reports resumption of Chinese Colombo Port City venture

• Sri Lankan Government has formally reported the resumption of work on the slowed down Chinese Colombo Port City venture.
• The declaration was put forth in the Joint Expression by China and Sri Lanka at the finish of the official state visit of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to Beijing.

Chinese analysts present Graphene based all-climate sun powered cell

• Chinese analysts have created Graphene based all-climate sun powered cell that can produce power notwithstanding amid downpours.
• The new approach for making an all-climate sun powered cell by utilizing the ‘marvel material’ graphene was produced by the group of scientists from the Ocean University of China and Yunnan Normal University.

NASA’s Kepler shuttle goes into crisis mode

• The least operational mode EM of the rocket was found amid a planned contact for undertaking microlensing watching effort. Introductory signs demonstrates that Kepler had entered EM before mission operations started the move to arrange the shuttle to point towards the focal point of the Milky Way.
• Kepler shuttle chases for Earth-like planets circling different stars. It was propelled in March 2009. Since its dispatch, the mission has been fantastically effective and has prompted finding of more than 1,000 outsider planets of which half are exoplanets to be ever found.

Lee Chong Wei wins 2016 Malaysian Open title of Badminton

• Malaysia’s badminton star Lee Chong Wei has won2016 Malaysian Open title in the men’s single class. In the last held at Kuala Lumpur, Lee vanquished Chen Long (world number 1) of China in straight diversions 21-13, 21-8 in a match that endured 42 minutes.
• It was Chong Wei’s general eleventh Malaysia Open title in the wake of having won in 2004, 2005, 2006 and continuously from 2008-2014.

Pakistan, China dispatch joint aviation based armed forces preparing exercise Shaheen 5

• Pakistan and China have propelled a joint respective flying corps exercise named Shaheen (Eagle) 5 in Pakistan. This is the fifth release of such penetrate between the two nations that will happen from April 9 to 30, 2016.
• This version of activity looks to support two-sided relations between every single climate companion China and Pakistan.
• As far as concerns its Pakistan needs to redesign its aviation based armed forces, now subject to a for the most part antiquated armada of US, French and Chinese warrior planes.

Pakistan effectively test-fires hostile to deliver Zarb rocket

• Pakistan has test terminated hostile to ship surface to ocean “Zarb” rocket from the seaside regions effectively. It hit its objective in the Arabian Sea after it was let go from a key point situated at a beach front zone.
• The rocket was formally accepted into Pakistan Navy’s protection framework not long after the test.

IIT-Kharagpur wins National IP Award

• The IIT (Indian Institute of Technology)- Kharagpur has won the National Intellectual Property (IP) Award in the scholastic foundations class.
• The establishment will be recompensed the prize Top Academic Institute for Patents 2016 by the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry on the event of World IP Day i.e. 26 April 2016. IIT-Kharagpur’s ‘100 licenses drive’ activity had assumed critical part to win this recompense.
• Under it IP Portal was propelled to improve the procedure of patent documenting by understudies and also educators who have done some significant exploration inside of the organization.

UN to watch 125th birth commemoration of Ambedkar

• Interestingly, United Nations (UN) will watch the birth commemoration of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, father of the Indian Constitution on April 13, 2016, a day prior to his date of birth. The primary center of this recognition will be on battling imbalances to accomplish Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• The 125th birth commemoration Dr. Ambedkar will be remembered at the UN home office in New York by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN, in relationship with the Kalpana Saroj Foundation and Foundation For Human Horizon.