27th FEBRUARY 2023 ENGLISH TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF TNPSC SHOUTERS
Prime Minister Modi inaugurated Shimoga Airport
- A new lotus-shaped airport has been constructed at a cost of Rs 450 crore at Shimoga in Karnataka. The passenger terminal building is designed to handle 300 passengers per hour. Built on an area of 775 acres, the airport is named after the Kannada national poet Kwembu.
- Prime Minister Modi and former Chief Minister Yeddyurappa attended the inauguration ceremony of the airport yesterday under the chairmanship of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Pommy. Then Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the airport.
- Subsequently, Prime Minister Modi laid the foundation stone for the Rs 990 crore Shimoga-Ranipennur new railway line and the Rs 100 crore Kotekanguru Railway Coaching Centre. He also launched 44 smart city projects worth Rs 895 crore in Shimoga.
- Modi then went to Belagavi and laid the foundation stone for more than 315 villages to get drinking water facilities at a cost of Rs 1,585 crore under the Jal Jeevan scheme.
- In February 2015, the central government announced the construction of an AIIMS hospital in Madurai. For this a place was chosen at Dhopur. On January 27, 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for AIIMS Madurai Hospital, which will be built on 200 acres at a cost of Rs.1,264 crore.
- Senior neurologist Nagarajan Venkataraman was appointed as the head of AIIMS in September last year. He passed away recently due to ill health.
- In this case, the central government has appointed Dr. Prashant Lavania as the new head of AIIMS Madurai Hospital. He is working as a professor at Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Uttar Pradesh.
- The FIFA Organization Award has been announced for the best performers in the ongoing Football World Cup. Argentina's Lionel Messi and France's Kylian Mbappe battled it out for the World Cup finals, with Lionel Messi winning the award.
- England's Bette Mead, America's Alex Morgan and Spain's Alexia Pulas were in the running for the Women's Footballer of the Year award. Alexia Butellas was eventually chosen for the award.
- Yassin Bouno of Morocco, Emiliano Martinez of Argentina and Thibaut Courtois of Belgium were in the running for the Best Goalkeeper award.
- FIFA Women's Player of the Year: Alexia Butellas
- Best FIFA Men's Player: Lionel Messi
- FIFA Women's Coach of the Year: Sarina Wiegmann
- FIFA Men's Coach of the Year: Lionel Scaloni
- FIFA Women's Goalkeeper of the Year: Mary Earps
- Best FIFA Men's Goalkeeper: Emiliano Martinez
- M.Venkatesan from Tamil Nadu is the Chairman of National Sanitation Workers Commission. He has been in this position since February 2021. Venkatesan has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Sanitation Staff Commission for the second time.
- An MoU between Indian Maritime University, IIT Chennai on maritime education and research development was signed today (27.02.2023) at Uthandi, Chennai.
- Its main objective is to participate in initiatives related to Indian Ocean Policy/Vision 2030, faculty-student integration, working on research-based activities, integrated PhD courses, online MTech courses, seminars courses, coordination of academic meetings, introduction of short and long courses, courses for academic component and necessary structures. Creation etc.
