23rd July 2018 Current Affairs

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Environment Minister inaugurates advanced System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting, SAFAR

Environment Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has inaugurated the most advanced System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting (SAFAR) at Chandni Chowk in Delhi.
The system will give out real-time air quality index on 24×7 basis with colour coding, along with a 72-hour advance forecast.
SAFAR will be implemented in four cities: Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.
The system was developed indigenously by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, and made operational by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

According to the Public Affairs Index 2018, Kerala is the best-governed state in the country. Bihar came up the worst.
Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Karnataka and Gujarat are the other states in the top five states delivering good governance.
Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha ranked the lowest on the index.
Among the small states – with the population less than two crore – Himachal Pradesh topped the list of states with good governance, followed by Goa, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has developed an online tool, called TreadWill, to help people cope with issues related to mental health.
The online tool has been developed by the Computer Science and Engineering and Humanities and Social Sciences, HSS (Psychology) departments.
TreadWill is a website designed to help people deal with stress, low mood, lethargy and other depressive symptoms.
The system consists of different online exercises, questionnaires and games, to help people deal with mental health issues.

NASA’s Technology Transfer program has created an online resource to promote commercial use of its satellite data.
With the Remote Sensing Toolkit, users will now be able to find, analyze and utilize the most relevant data for their projects.
Through its constellation of Earth observation satellites, NASA collects petabytes of data each year.

India’s Sajan claimed the gold in the 77kg wrestling category as India won 4 medals in total, including two silver and a bronze, on the first day of the Junior Asian Championships.
Vijay and Aryan Pawar had to settle for silver medals in the 130kg category.
Kumar Sunil won a bronze in the 87kg, rounding off India’s medal tally.